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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, Games and Recreation
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: Sport, Games and Recreation
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
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way by Gideon Haigh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sport, Games and Recreation
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
End of the Road?: Australia's love affair with the car industry, its current difficulties, and why we shouldn't rush into a divorce by Gideon Haigh
$10.00 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Penguin Specials
Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom - a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends, and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all. In this eng ...Show more
Indian Summers: Australia versus India - Cricket's Battle of the Titans by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport, Games and Recreation
The master cricket writer on the battle between two cricket superpowers: Australia and India. FEATURES A PREVIEW TO THE 2024-25 BORDER-GAVASKAR TROPHY 'This rivalry has got bigger and bigger. It's not just Australia and India. The entire cricketing world is watching.' - Ravi Shastri Cricket superpowers ...Show more
My Brother Jaz by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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 Warne by Gideon Haigh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sport, Games and Recreation
More than a plain life story, in On Warne Haigh offers a brilliant portrait of 'Warnie's' craft, an analysis of his career through the lens of his key relationships and biggest misdemeanours, and a personalised portrait of the man as he evolved from the pizza-scoffing prodigy
On the Ashes by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport, Games and Recreation
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, Games and Recreation
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 Language and Writing
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