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A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh
Category: Crime Fiction
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
Category: Sport
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
An Unfinished Masterpiece by Gideon Haigh; Peter Elliott
Category: Architecture
Victoria's Parliament House is widely regarded as one of Australia's most significant public buildings. Planning for it began in the early 1850s and today, some 170 years later, the building remains a grand but unfinished masterpiece. Peter Kerr is the architect whose inspired design has come to represe ...Show more
Ashes: 2013 by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
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
Category: Sport
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
Category: Sport
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
Cricket War, The by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
It was the end of cricket as we knew it - and the beginning of cricket as we know it. In May 1977, the cricket world woke to discover that a businessman called Kerry Packer had signed 35 international players for his own televised World Series Cricket. This title is an account of the split that changed ...Show more
Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
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
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Inside Out by HAIGH Gideon
Category: Sport
From one of the finest writers on the game comes "Inside Out", Gideon Haigh's latest despatches from the crease.In 2008, he celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth and 75 years of Bodyline; ponders the quintessence of the 'Don', even as he looks at cricket's other knights; dissects the Australian wa ...Show more
Mystery Spinner: Text Classics by Russell Jackson, Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport | 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
Category: Sport
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