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An Unfinished Masterpiece by Gideon Haigh; Peter Elliott
$140.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Victoria's Parliament House is widely regarded as one of Australia's most significant public buildings. Planning for it began in the early 1850s and today, some 170 years later, the building remains a grand but unfinished masterpiece. Peter Kerr is the architect whose inspired design has come to represe ...Show more
Ashes 2023: A Cricket Classic by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
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. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controver ...Show more
On the Ashes by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of them all. 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 is permanently burnished. In On The Ashes, Gid ...Show more
Stroke of Genius by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
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 and Bradman reset the records.In life, Trumper was Australia's first world beater - at his peak just after Federation, he was not just ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards 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 a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council wo ...Show more
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
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 t ...Show more
The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder by Gideon Haigh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
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 Brisbane ...Show more
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