Gideon Haigh
The Racket
$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... More »
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Cricket War
$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... More »
Asbestos House: The Secret Of James Hardie Industries
$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... More »
Peter The Lord's Cat
$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... More »
Quarterly Essay 10: Bad Company, The Cult Of The CEO
$12.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
No extra details available for this item.This essay is a mini-history of business and shows how the classic traditions of capitalism by the managerialism of the present. More »
The Green And Golden Age: Writings On Australian Cricket Today
$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... More »
Inside Story: Unlocking 100 Years Of Australia's Official Cricket Archives
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Parachutist At Fine Leg
$19.95 (Hardcover book / Aurum Press )
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All Out: The Ashes 2006 - 2007
$24.95 (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... More »
Summer Game: Australian Test Cricket 1949 - 1971
$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... More »
Silent Revolutions: Writings On Cricket
$32.00 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
The game we play today is scarcely like that of my boyhood ' mused Dr W.G. Grace a century ago. 'There have been silent revolutions transforming cricket in many directions, improving it in some ways and in others robbing... More »
Unspeakable Crime
$27.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
This is the enthralling story, written by a master journalist and the award-winning author of Asbestos House, of how abortion became legal in Australia.
It begins with the many young women who found their way to a motley... More »
Game For Anything: Writings On Cricket
$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 ... More »
Uncyclopedia
$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... More »
Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season
$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 ... More »
Mystery Spinner The Story Of Jack Iverson
$26.00 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
An estate agent's son, Jack Iverson went to boarding school, became a jackaroo, fought in World War II. Then, in 1946 when he was thirty-one, he took up cricket. Four years later he was the best spin bowler in the world.... More »
Big Ship Warwick Armstrong And The Making Of Modern Cricket
$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 ... More »
Endless Summer One Hundred And Forty Years Of Wisden
$19.95 (Paperback book / Hardie Grant )
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Inside Out: Writings On Cricket Culture
$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... More »