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  • Indian Summers

    Australia versus India - Cricket's Battle of the Titans

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    The master cricket writer on the battle between two cricket superpowers: Australia and India.FEATURES A PREVIEW TO THE 2024-25 BORDER-GAVASKAR TROPHY*'*This rivalry has got bigger and bigger. It's not just Australia and India. The entire cricketing world is watching.' Ravi ShastriCricket superpowers Australia and India share a unique rivalry that has produced some of the greatest and most heated ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • The Cricket War

    The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    One of The Times' 50 Greatest Sports BooksIn 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 the screen.In helmets, under lights, with white balls, ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • The Uncyclopedia

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    Make way for this defiantly idiosyncratic, hilariously illuminating compendium of curiosities you never knew you wanted to know!How do you flirt in Turkish? How do you dump someone in Japanese? What are the names of all the animals ever sent into space? These are just some of the fun and insightful oddities that made Gideon Haigh's The Uncyclopedia a hit overseas. The first ever encyclopedia for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • My Brother Jaz

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it feels to lose someone, and yourself, even as the rest of the world turns, and you struggle to keep ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Brilliant Boy

    Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards.Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award.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 workers. How the law should deal ... Read more

    $12.27 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Uncertain Corridors: Writings on modern cricket

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    Gideon Haigh has had a front-row seat during that decline and Uncertain Corridors collects the best of his despatches, narrating the collapse of cricket's traditional structures and the uneasy and troubled evolution of its new order, through the stories of Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Shane Warne and others.As the game grows richer and crazier worldwide, thanks to the financial ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    Certain Admissions is Australian true crime at its best, and stranger than any crime fiction. It is real-life police procedural, courtroom drama, family saga, investigative journalism, social history, archival treasure hunt - a meditation, too, on how the past shapes the present, and the present the past.On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • On the Ashes

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    A captivating journey through the heart of cricket's most enduring rivalry.Gideon Haigh, hailed as the 'finest cricket writer alive,' masterfully captures over a century and a half of Anglo-Australian cricket in On The Ashes. From W.G. Grace to Ben Stokes, explore the iconic moments, legendary players, and the cultural significance of this timeless contest. This anthology is perfect for those ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stroke of Genius

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    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 a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a new era, a symbol of what Australia could ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ashes 2023

    a cricket classic

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    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 drawn two-all. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controversy over a stumping at Lord’s that followed in the tradition of Bodyline as a clash of cultures and ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Office

    A Hardworking History

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    For many of us, it's where we spend more time and expend greater effort than anywhere else. Yet how many of us have stopped to think about why?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 ... Read more

    $18.77 USD

  • Vincibles

    A Suburban Cricket Season

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    Meet Moof, Womble, Castaway, Churchyard and One Dad, a dog called Six Bits 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 memorable season, told by the vice-president, chairman of selectors, newsletter editor, trivia ... Read more

    $10.10 USD