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The Cricket War: The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket by Gideon Haigh
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
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office by Gideon Haigh
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to t ...Show more
The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder by Gideon Haigh
Category: Australiana
Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime - now he's unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes ... On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of Brisbane ...Show more
The Office - A Hardworking History by Gideon Haigh
Category: Non-Fiction
In 'The Office: A Hardworking History', Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, t ...Show more
The Standard Bearers: Australia v India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka 2018-19 by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
The Standard Bearers collects some of Gideon Haigh's previously published writings over the course of 2018-19, mainly for The Australian, as well as for The Times, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and Wisden India. It's a real-time record where you'll read how Gideon narrowly favoured Australia coming into t ...Show more
The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
Meet Moof, Womble, Castaway, Churchyard and One Dad, a dog called Six Bitsm and a van known as the Bog Roll Express. Every summer weekend, the parks of Australia turn themselves over to countless thousands of club cricket matches. One of those clubs is the Yarras. This is the inside story of their most ...Show more
This is How I Will Strangle You by HAIGH GIDEON
Category: True Crime
'I'm just a prisoner of my past. I don't want to be a prisoner any more.'Natasa Christidou's earliest memory is of her father masturbating over her childhood bed. She was two. It was the start of a lifetime's physical abuse and psychological torture, which included long phases of sex slavery and sex wor ...Show more
Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear: Sydney Pen Voices The 3 Writers project by Christos Tsiolkas, Gideon Haigh, Alexis Wright
Category: Non-Fiction
Three acclaimed writers explore the crucial issues facing contemporary Australia: fear, prejudice and tolerance.
Uncertain Corridors by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
Five years ago, Australia's cricket team led the world, holding the World Cup, the Ashes, and the Border-Gavaskar and Sir Frank Worrell trophies. Today, it languishes in mid-table and cricket itself is regarded as in crisis. How did we go so wrong? Gideon Haigh has had a front row seat on that decline a ...Show more