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Racket: How Abortion Became Legal by HAIGH Gideon
Category: Australiana
A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a pub ...Show more
Shadows On The Pitch - the long summer of 2017-18 by Gideon Haigh
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
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
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
Stroke of Genius by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
"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
Stroke of Genius by Gideon Haigh
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
Category: Sport
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 Ashes 2009 by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
Compiled day-by-day to capture the season's whipsawing fortunes, The Ashes 2009 is the only essential account of the head-to-head duel that stopped both nations, and the story of its defining battles.
The Big Ship - Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
Warwick Armstrong is the most significant Australian all-round cricketer of the twentieth century, routinely described as the country's W. G. Grace. He was a dour batsman, a slow bowler so successful at restricting runs that some critics wished to ban him, an uncompromising captain who unleashed on Engl ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
Category: Australiana
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review.In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council wo ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
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