Books by Mike Marqusee

  • If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew, published by Verso in March 2008. Paperback edition in February 2010.

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  • Saved by a wandering mind: poems by Mike Marqusee published by Level Playing Field, 2009

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  • Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the Sixties, revised and expanded edition of Chimes of Freedom, published in October 2005 by Seven Stories Press. Korean and Norwegian translations published in 2006.

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  • Chimes of Freedom: the Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art, The New Press, October 2003. A special Indian edition was published by Seagull in April 2005.

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  • Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, most recent edition published by Verso in 2005. An Indian edition was published by Seagull in 2000. Redemption Song has also been translated into Japanese, Korean and Norwegian.

    Redemption Song was short-listed for the William Hills Sports Book of the Year award and voted one of twenty-five ‘Books to Remember’ from 1999 by the New York Public Library. It was also included in the SportsPages Bookshop list of the thirty best sports books ever published.

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  • War Minus the Shooting: a journey through South Asia during cricket’s World Cup, Heinemann, 1996; Mandarin paperback 1997.

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  • Anyone But England

    Anyone But England is now widely recognised as one of the few indispensable anatomies of the game. Short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Anyone But England was awarded the annual Aberdare literary prize from the British Society of Sports History and was included in the SportsPages Bookshop list of the thirty best sports books ever published and in The Observer’s list of fifty best sports books ever published.

    Third edition with new afterword published in 2005 by Aurum Press as Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket. First published as Anyone But England: Cricket and the National Malaise by Verso in 1994. Penguin India edition 1996. An updated and extended version was published by Two Heads in 1998 as Anyone But England: Cricket, Race and Class.

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  • Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock’s Labour Party, Verso 1992 (co-author with Richard Heffernan).

  • Slow Turn, a novel, Michael Joseph 1986. Sphere paperback 1987. Penguin India paperback 1996.

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