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A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh
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 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
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
Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 by Gideon Haigh
Category: Essays
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
Sultan: A Memoir by Wasim Akram, Gideon Haigh
Category: Biography
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
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
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office by Gideon Haigh
Category: Society & Culture
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: True Crime
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
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