An irresistable book for cricket fans, Australia's leading cricket writer on the tour of a lifetime. The 2006-2007 is the most eagerly anticipated in many years....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781921215704
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: asbestos. Asbestos House ...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781920769635
No other contest in Australian sport evokes the tradition, history and fierce national rivalry of the Ashes and the 2005 Ashes series was one of the most eagerly anticipated in over a decade...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781877008849
Warwick Armstrong dominated Australian cricket in the early 20th century. This is the definitive biography of a literally giant figure in the history of cricket....more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781876485986
Warwick Armstrong was the W.G. Grace of the Antipodes, and Australia's most significant all-round cricketer of the 20th century. This is the definitive account...more details Format:Hardback Pages:440
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 his own televised World Series Cricket...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781876485689
Gideon Haigh's definitive and bestselling account of the controversial split that changed the game of cricket, now in a new collectors' edition. On the field...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
Explains how Wisden has distantly but diligently followed and featured Australian cricket over the last 140 years. It also contains subtler traces of another story...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781740660099
Explains how Wisden has, distantly but diligently, followed and features Australian cricket over the last 140 years. It also contains more subtle traces of another story - of how the coverage of Australian cricket has both reflected and contributed to Wisden's fortunes in that time....more details Format:Hardback
Much of this volume has been published previous in England and India, but not in Australia. It surveys the game's greatest heroes, from Bradman and Sobers to Warne and Waugh...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781863954167
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781854108715
Every summer weekend, in every village and local park, thousands of amateur cricketers don their whites and turn out for their club. The weather may be threatening rain...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:138
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781876485511
In the early 1950s, when Jack Iverson, at the age of thirty-five, burst into the Australian Test cricket team as a spin bowler, he was practically unplayable. With his frank grip and unerring accuracy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
Jack Iverson is one of the most enigmatic sportsmen in Australian history. When, at the age of thirty-five, he burst into the Australian Test cricket team in the early 1950s as a spin bowler...more details Format:Hardback
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781876485122
An intimate portrait of an extraordinary company which rapidly grew from modest beginnings into a market leader at a time of unprecedented change in Australian society. In Gideon Haigh's lively history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:520
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9780143005285
A collection of hundreds of the best stories from more than 260 publications to create the fullest, fieriest and funny account of these two nations divided by a common game....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:396
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 influence...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:245
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781845132262
A collection of cricket writing that ranges from tributes on the death of great players like Bradman and Miller, essays on perennial cause celebres like Bodyline...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781863953108
Australia's leading cricket writer ranges over 250 years of cricket history, picking out those events, characters and even objects that have mattered....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9780857206848
An insightful collection from leading cricket writer Gideon Haigh about the struggle to save cricket's soul...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:416
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781876485344
The Summer Game is a fascinating history of Australia in international cricket between 1949 and 1971. Gideon Haigh describes its triumphs and failures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781920885359
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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:160
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781845962579
The Ashes, the symbol of cricket supremacy between England and Australia, is the game's oldest rivalry This work collects hundreds of the best stories to create an account of these two nations divided by a common game. It features the giants of the game...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9780733320033
'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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781401301538
The first ever encyclopedia for the curious, The Uncyclopedia is a compendium of illuminating knowledge and a delight for all inquisitive readers. As proved by Schott's Original Miscellany and the enormous rise in popularity of quiz and trivia nights...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:176
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781877008870
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 languages...more details Format:Hardback Pages:154
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781863951678
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 crew of doctors prepared to perform terminations...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781877008351
A funny and endearing book about a local cricket team that exceeded even their own expectations to play off for the premiership. As they content with waterlogged fields and poor light...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781864980622
This is the second Australian edition of the famous Wisden Cricketer's Almanack. It contains a full record of the 1998/1999 Australian season...more details Format:Hardback
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Gideon Haigh
ISBN:9781876719333
This year's Almanack continues in the tradition as the most comprehensive record of Australian cricket in the 1999/00 season. Richie Benaud chronicles the remarkable career of Shane Warne...more details Format:Hardback
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Haigh Gideon
ISBN:9781920769628
Reconstructed from hundreds of hours of interviews and thousands of pages of documentation, this multi-award-winning saga of high finance is a clear depiction of industrial history...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
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Gideon et al Haigh
ISBN:9781921116001
Cricket Australia has never before opened its Board minutes to scrutiny. This is the first full, frank and fearless account of 100 years of the Board's control of Australian cricket. A collection of Australia's finest cricket writers delve into the issues that shaped the game in this country...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368
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Haigh Gideon
ISBN:9780522857870
In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20...more details Format:Paperback / softback