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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
Ashes: 2013 by Gideon Haigh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Fitness
This summer's Ashes was another unforgettable instalment in the oldest and greatest rivalry in international sport. From the thrilling denouement at Trent Bridge, when Australia came within 19 runs of an incredible victory, to the stunning spell of hostile fast bowling from Stuart Broad in Durham and En ...Show more
Ashes 2023: A Cricket Classic by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport & Fitness
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
Ashes to Ashes by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Fitness
Gideon Haigh, Australia's best cricket writer, analyses and captures the drama of every day's play in the historic double Ashes series of 20130-14. Between July 2013 and January 2014 Test cricket's original rivals, Australia and England, played out their ultimate showdown: ten Test matches, five on each ...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 & Fitness
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
$9.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse | 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 & Fitness
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
On Warne by Gideon Haigh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Fitness
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 & Fitness
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 & Fitness
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
Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Fitness
In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20, and a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. How did India come to run world cricket, and privately-owned clubs owned by billionaires and Bollyw ...Show more