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Mystery Spinner The Life and Death of an Extraordinary Cricketer by Gideon Haigh
$5.00 AUD
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Sports Classics Ser.
It is no mystery that today Jack Iverson is virtually unknown. An unexceptional estate agent who died in obscurity, by his own hand, he was a clumsy fielder and a hopeless batsman. But for four years he was the best spin bowler in the world. Iverson took up cricket, at the advanced age of 31, as capr ...Show more
On the Ashes by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sports and Hobbies
The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of them all. Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished. In On The Ashes, Gid ...Show more
Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
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
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sports and Hobbies
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
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
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Finance
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
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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