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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
ASBESTOS HOUSE by HAIGH GIDEON
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century- asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself ...Show more
Ashes to Ashes by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cricket
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: Cricket
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: Political / Economic | 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
Mystery Spinner: Text Classics by Russell Jackson, Gideon Haigh
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, 'tall, shy, shambling' Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, 'bowled like no man before' and became a national sensation, then faded from view almost as swiftly. He died in obscurity, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner, ...Show more
On Warne by Gideon Haigh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Cricket
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
Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
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
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
"Victor Trumper (1877-1915) was our first internationally recognised cricketing genius, acclaimed by the legendary W.G Grace and others, who died at 36 in 1915. He has entered Australian sporting folklore and is still one of the great names in sport, with a stand named after him at the SCG. Trumper is ...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 & Memoir
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