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The Ashes 2009: Good Enough
In 2005, it was England's summer. In 2006-07, Australia had its revenge. And 2009 loomed as the tightest of contests in Test cricket's longest-running rivalry. Compiled day by day to capture the season's whipsawing fortunes, The...
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The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal In Australia
Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and...
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This is How I Will Strangle You
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The Standard Bearers: Australia V India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka 2018-19
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Crossing The Line: How Australian Cricket Lost its Way
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Inside Out: Writings On Australian Cricket Culture
Celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth; ponders the quintessence of the 'Don'; dissects the Australian way of cricket across demography, politics and the politics of race; attempts to unravel the mystery that is cricket...
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An Eye on Cricket
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The Cricket War: The Story of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket
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The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A requiem for the office
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On Warne
More than a plain life story, in On Warne Haigh offers a brilliant portrait of 'Warnie's' craft, an analysis of his career through the lens of his key relationships and biggest misdemeanours, and a personalised portrait of the man...
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Moral Hazard: Text Classics
1990s Wall Street--ego and hypocrisy run rife. An ex-radical feminist works as a corporate speechwriter to support her dying husband.
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Father And Daughter
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Stroke of Genius
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Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO: Quarterly Essay 10
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Stroke of Genius
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Asbestos House
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is an Australian corporation, whose fortunes were based on what proved to be on of the worst industrial poisons of the 20th century: asbestos. This book is a saga of high finance,...
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Uncertain Corridors: Writings on modern cricket
Gideon Haigh's great cricket writing is great writing that happens to be about cricket. This collection brings together some of his peerless observation of the state of the modern game, here and abroad, including his Bradman...
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Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
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...
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A Scandal in Bohemia
An unsolved murder takes one of Australia's foremost writers of non-fiction into the 1930s Bohemian demi-monde, exploring the fate of a talented young woman trying to make her way in that artistic, sexualised, ‘liberated'...
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The Uncyclopedia
A most extraordinary book of miscellaneous fact. In one convenient volume you can find: lists of Norse gods, phobias, poets laureate, suicide notes of the famous and all anyone needs to know about Pi. Learn how to say toast in ten...
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The Tencyclopedia
The Tencyclopedia: a tribute to the thrill of the decimal. Here, grouped as never before, Ten Affairs, Aunts, Masses, Mice, Methods, Plans, Principles and Penises... and much more.
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Stroke of Genius
Australia's favourite cricket writer on how one player - and his photograph - changed a sport and a nation.
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Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
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...
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Summer Game: Cricket and Australia in the 50s and 60s
A fascinating history of Australia in international cricket between 1949 and 1971. Describes the triumphs and failures of Australia on the international cricket circuit.
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Spheres Of Influence: Writings on cricket and its discontents
In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20, and a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. Gideon Haigh has...
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Ashes to Ashes: How Australia Came Back and England Came Unstuck, 2013-14
Gideon Haigh, Australia's best cricket writer, analyses and captures the drama of every day's play in the historic double Ashes series of 2013-14. Between July 2013 and January 2014 Test cricket's original rivals, Australia and...
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The Office: A Hardworking History
This book traces the office from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding a legacy of invention and ingenuity - the telephone, the...
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End of the Road?: Penguin Special
Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom -- an achievement not to be let go of lightly. As Gideon Haigh shows in this engaging analysis for the...
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The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket
Warwick Armstrong was the W.G. Grace of the antipodes.
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The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season
A funny and endearing book about a local cricket team that exceeded even their own expectations to play off for the premiership. As they contend with waterlogged fields and poor light, they move inexorably towards a climax worthy...
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The Deserted Newsroom: Penguin Special
Veteran journalist Gideon Haigh assesses the future of news media in light of the internet's effects on traditional forms of publishing and broadcasting. In the last decade, customary news media have crumbled before the effects of...
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Mystery Spinner: Text Classics
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Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear: Sydney Pen Voices the 3 Writers Project
In early 2007, Sydney PEN commissioned the 3 Writers Project, a series of essays and public lectures in which three of our leading and acclaimed writers - Alexis Wright, Gideon Haigh and Christos Tsiolkas - tackled topics of vital...
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Second XI: Cricket in its Outposts
As the world's second most popular sport, cricket is much richer and more diverse than many realise. Globally, passionate players make sacrifices to play for their country. These extraordinary tales of cricket in Afghanistan and...
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