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    Indian Summers
    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...
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    On the Ashes
    'As a cricket writer Gideon Haigh has few peers, past or present. This cameo history of the Ashes (drawn from years of writing) confirms his standing as a class act.' - Sydney Morning Herald' Haigh's books are prized, and his latest, , would surely make a fine gift for a cricket tragic' - The Austra...
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    The Uncyclopedia
    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 reference book referred to purely for the purposes of delight. Highly acclaimed sports writer Gideon Haigh has turned his ...
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    My Brother Jaz
    A profoundly moving memoir on grief and resilienceIn January 2024, during 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 stop...
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    Sultan
    the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket.For two decades, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – his electrifying left-arm pace, explosive left-handed striking, inspirational leadership and magnetic presence on t...
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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—a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all.In this e...
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    The Momentous, Uneventful Day
    Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph?For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to...
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    The Tencyclopedia
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    Mystery Spinner: Text Classics
    The biography of one of the most original and elusive characters in Australian sporting history, by renowned cricket writer 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 n...
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    On Warne
    Now that the cricketer who dominated airwaves and headlines for twenty years has turned full-time celebrity, his sporting conquests and controversies are receding into the past. But what was it like to watch Warne at his long peak, the man of a thousand international wickets, the incarnation of Aust...
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    The Brilliant Boy
    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 ...
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    The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain
    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 that ties back to the origin of the Ashes …On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of B...
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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' world.As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to ...
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    Bad Company
    In , 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 system? Haigh argues that the attempt to create great entrepreneurs of the new caste of CEOs by giving them shares i...
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    Ashes 2023
    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 shared two-all. captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controversy over ...
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