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A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown kill ...Show more
An Eye on Cricket (PB) by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Gideon Haigh has trained an unblinking eye on cricket for nearly thirty years. An Eye on Cricket selects the best of his work since 2013, a period of unprecedented change in the summer game in Australia and overseas, encompassing the recapture and loss of the Ashes, the triumph of the World Cup, the ris ...Show more
Ashes 2023: A Cricket Classic by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cricket
A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer. High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling Australia, finally shared two-all. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controver ...Show more
Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way by Gideon Haigh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sport
I'm not proud of what's happened. Yknow, it's not within the spirit of the game. Steve Smith was not to know it at Cape Town on 24 March 2018, but he was addressing his last press conference as captain of the Australian cricket team. By the next day morning he would be swept from office by a tsunami of ...Show more
My Brother Jaz by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it fe ...Show more
On the Ashes by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cricket
The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of them all. Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished. In On The Ashes, Gid ...Show more
Shadows On The Pitch - the long summer of 2017-18 by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
This collection of Gideon Haighs previously published articles distils from his daily reporting the essence of the 2017-18 cricket season, from victories and celebrations to the controversy that captured the worlds attention. The Australian mens cricket team arrived in Bangladesh in mid-August 2017 and ...Show more
Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Few journalists exemplify the creed 'without fear or favour'; like Gideon Haigh. Shelf Life selects from twenty-one years of writing on myriad subjects by one of our clearest thinkers, sharpest stylists and most curious journalists. Architecture and airline food. Depression and doodling. Goya and Gross ...Show more
Stroke of Genius by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend - revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records.In life, Trumper was Australia's first world beater - at his peak just after Federation, he was not just ...Show more
Sultan: A Memoir by Wasim Akram, Gideon Haigh
$49.99 AUD
Category: Cricket
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive left-handed striking, his leadership and his inspiration. For ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
H. V. Doc Evatt has long been obscured by Menzie's broad shadow, as the Labor Opposition Leader through the prosperous and complacent 1950s. In this book, one of our finest writers and sharpest minds shows Evatt in his true light: the most brilliant Australian of his day. Inspiring, cosmopolitan and hu ...Show more
The Cricket War: The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket by Gideon Haigh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised `World Series'. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on th ...Show more