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The Ashes 2009: Good Enough
Gideon Haigh

$27.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press

Ashes 09 is the only essential account of the head-to-head duel that stopped both nations.

In 2005, it was England's summer. In 2006-7, Australia had its revenge. 2009 loomed as the tightest of contests in Test cricket's... Buy or find out more 


The Racket
Gideon Haigh

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan

A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets.

The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of in... Buy or find out more 



Cricket War
Gideon Haigh

$34.95 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press

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 elite international players for h... Buy or find out more 


Asbestos House: The Secret Of James Hardie Industries
Gideon Haigh

$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications

Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asb... Buy or find out more 



Peter The Lord's Cat
Gideon Haigh

$19.95 – Hardcover book / Aurum Press

In 2005, Aurum republished with success, J.L. Carr's miniature and classic "Dictionary of Extra-Ordinary Cricketers" - the book reprinted within a few months. Now, in its first collaboration with John Wisden & Co., p... Buy or find out more 


Quarterly Essay 10: Bad Company, The Cult Of The CEO
Gideon Haigh

$12.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc

In the second Quarterly Essay of 2003, Gideon Haigh scrutinises the way we have turned CEOs into tin gods. Is moral outrage the appropriate response to the collapses of Enron or HIH or are we all implicated in a crazy sy... Buy or find out more 



The Green And Golden Age: Writings On Australian Cricket Today
Gideon Haigh

$32.00 – Trade paperback / Black Inc

An irresistible book for cricket fans - Australia's leading cricket writer on the national team, its stars and successes, opponents and adventures. In his latest collection of cricket writing, Gideon Haigh explores the G... Buy or find out more 


Inside Story: Unlocking 100 Years Of Australia's Official Cricket Archives
Gideon Haigh And David Frith

$69.95 – Paperback book /

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All Out: The Ashes 2006 - 2007
Gideon Haigh

$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc

An irresistible book for cricket fans - Australia's leading cricket writer on the tour of a lifetime.

The 2006-07 Ashes tour is the most feverishly anticipated in many years. An English team will meet an Australian one d... Buy or find out more 


Summer Game: Australian Test Cricket 1949 - 1971
Gideon Haigh

$35.00 – Paperback book / Abc Books

Outstanding This book ought to change the writing of cricket history by setting new standards The affect is evocative and powerful. Buy his book. It's brilliant. -Matthew Engel, Wisden Cricket Monthly



The Summer Game is... Buy or find out more 



Game For Anything: Writings On Cricket
Gideon Haigh

$32.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc

Cricket is serious fun. And no-one writes about cricket with deeper knowledge or greater flair that Gideon Haigh. Game for Anything collects his best work of the last decade: from probing the Bradman myth and evaluating ... Buy or find out more 


Uncyclopedia
Gideon Haigh

$26.00 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing

Neither trivial nor essential, yet always illuminating, it is antipathetic to a world of relevance. Away with dull care, farewell to vocational learning, viva epistemophilia! The Uncyclopedia is the reference book referr... Buy or find out more 



Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season
Gideon Haigh

$23.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Gideon Haigh is not just an acclaimed cricket historian, the biographer of Jack Iverson and Warwick Armstrong. He is also a devoted club cricketer, chairman of selectors of the Yarras Cricket Club Fourth Eleven. In this ... Buy or find out more 


Big Ship Warwick Armstrong And The Making Of Modern Cricket
Gideon Haigh

$32.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Warwick Armstrong is the most significant Australian all-round cricketer of the twentieth century, routinely described as the country's W. G. Grace. He was a dour batsman, a slow bowler so successful at restricting runs ... Buy or find out more 



Endless Summer One Hundred And Forty Years Of Wisden
Gideon Haigh

$19.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant

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Inside Out: Writings On Cricket Culture
Gideon Haigh

$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press

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... Buy or find out more 



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