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    The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal In Australia

    Gideon Haigh,Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    On Warne

    Gideon Haigh

    Shane Warne dominated cricket on the field and off for almost thirty years - his skill, his fame, his personality, his misadventures. His death in March 2022 rocked Australians, even…

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    The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

    Gideon Haigh

    H. V. ‘Doc’ Evatt has long been obscured by Menzies’s broad shadow, as the Labor Opposition Leader through the prosperous and complacent 1950s. In this book, one of our finest…

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    The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    Ashes 2023: A Cricket Classic

    Gideon Haigh

    A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer.

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    On the Ashes

    Gideon Haigh

    The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of all.

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    My Brother Jaz

    Gideon Haigh

    A profoundly moving memoir on grief and resilience

    In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother…

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    An Unfinished Masterpiece

    Gideon Haigh, Peter Elliott

    Architect Peter Elliott joined forces with journalist Gideon Haigh to produce a 'captivating chronicle' of the intriguing (and ongoing) development of Victoria’s Parliament House.

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    Sultan: A Memoir

    Wasim Akram, Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    The Deserted Newsroom: Penguin Special

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    End of the Road?: Penguin Special

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    Ashes to Ashes: How Australia Came Back and England Came Unstuck, 2013-14

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    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…

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    Uncertain Corridors: Writings on modern cricket

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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

    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…

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    The Uncyclopedia

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    The Tencyclopedia

    Gideon Haigh

    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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    Asbestos House

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO: Quarterly Essay 10

    Gideon Haigh

    In Bad Company 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…

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    The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    Stroke of Genius

    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…

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

    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…

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    On Warne

    Gideon Haigh

    Australia’s greatest cricketer by one of the world’s most celebrated cricket journalists

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    On the Ashes

    Gideon Haigh

    The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of all. 'Australians love nothing more than beating the Poms at their own game' Shane Warne 'Nothing compares to an Ashes…

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    Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket

    Gideon Haigh

    The brilliant new book from acclaimed writer Gideon Haigh about Australia’s iconic cricketer Victor Trumper

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    Stroke of Genius

    Gideon Haigh

    Australia’s favourite cricket writer on how one player - and his photograph - changed a sport and a nation.

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    Crossing The Line: How Australian Cricket Lost its Way

    Gideon Haigh

    ‘I’m not proud of what’s happened. Y'know, it’s not within the spirit of the game.‘ Steve Smith was not to know it at Cape Town on 24 March 2018, but…

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    Inside Out: Writings On Australian Cricket Culture

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    A Scandal in Bohemia

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    On the Ashes

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    The Office: A Hardworking History

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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    Stroke of Genius

    Gideon Haigh

    Australia’s favourite cricket writer on how one player - and his photograph - changed a sport and a nation.

    Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend - revered for deeds…

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    The Cricket War: The Story of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket

    Gideon Haigh

    One of The Times’ 50 Greatest Sports Books

    In 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…

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    The Momentous, Uneventful Day

    Gideon Haigh

    Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph? 

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    Summer Game: Cricket and Australia in the 50s and 60s

    Gideon Haigh

    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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    Mystery Spinner: Text Classics

    Russell Jackson,Gideon Haigh

    In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, ‘tall, shy, shambling’ Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, ‘bowled like no man before’ and became a national sensation, then faded…

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    The All-Rounder: The inside story of big time cricket

    Dan Christian and Gideon Haigh

    What is it like to follow the sun as a T20 gun for hire? Dan Christian is one of the world's most sought after cricketers, not only a star for…

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    A Field of Tents and Waving Colours: Neville Cardus Writing on Cricket

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    A new selection of the cricket writings of Neville Cardus.

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    Ashes 2023

    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…

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    The All-Rounder: the Inside Story of Big Time Cricket

    Dan Christian

    What is it like to follow the sun as a T20 gun for hire?

    Dan Christian is one of the world’s most sought after cricketers, not only a star for…

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    Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear: Sydney Pen Voices The 3 Writers project

    Christos Tsiolkas,Gideon Haigh,Alexis Wright

    Three acclaimed writers explore the crucial issues facing contemporary Australia: fear, prejudice and tolerance.

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    Beyond The Pavilion: Reflections on a Life in Cricket

    Barry Knight

    Exploring seventy years of social, regional and cultural history through the eyes of one of cricket’s earliest Test match wayfarers, Barry Knight.

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    Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021

    Jo Anne Normile and Lawrence Lindner

    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…

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    Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021

    Gideon Haigh

    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…

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