This is a celebration of the "fast men" of cricket, each with his own depth of craft and guile. The book deals not only with the fastest, those blessed with express speed, but the pacemen who relied more on swing and cut, taking the reader through a century of pace bowling from every major cricket playing nation - the West Indies, India, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, England, Australia and even a bowler from the USA.

Fast and Furious: A Celebration of Cricket's Pace Bowlers

Sports & Outdoors

Grantlee Kieza

Other Team Sports

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrate

Bert Hinkler : The Most Daring Man in the World

Biographies & Memoirs

ABC Books

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.\n\nStunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest general \n\nIt's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash attends a glittering banquet to dine with the King of England and the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. Just four months earlier, the commander of the Australian Corps had been knighted in a battlefield, a long way from the streets of Melbourne where this son of a long line of Polish rabbis had grown up. Field Marshal Montgomery would declare decades later that Monash was the best general to serve on the Western Front. How had this notorious ladies' man, who harboured private thoughts about the futility of war and had never fired a shot in anger, come to be feted by the British establishment as well as his countrymen back home? In this essential biography of a most unlikely folk hero, Grantlee Kieza paints a lively portrait of an outsider who shaped modern Australia through his energy, drive and ambition, his military brilliance and his vision.

Monash

Historical

Harper Colins

Banjo

HARPER/COLLINS

Macquarie: The fascinating true colonial history & story of the lover, fighter, egalitarian, & autocrat who envisaged the nation we call Australia, from the author of SISTER VIV, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH

Macquarie

Leaders & Notable People

Lawson: The compelling true story of the extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of celebrated writer & Australian icon, from the bestselling author of BANJO, BANKS and SISTER VIV

<p>The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon\nHenry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent women, foreign fathers and larrikin mates.\nLawson wrote from the heart, documenting what he saw from his earliest days as a poor, lonely, handicapped boy with warring parents on a worthless farm, to his years as a literary lion, then as a hopeless addict cadging for drinks on the streets, and eventually as a prison inmate, locked up in a tiny cell beside murderers. A controversial figure today, he was one of the first writers to shine a light on the hardships faced by Australia's hard-toiling wives and mothers, and among the first to portray, with sympathy, the despair of Indigenous Australians at the ever-encroaching European tide. His heroic figures such as The Drover's Wife and the fearless unionists striking out for a better deal helped define Australia's character, and while still a young man, his storytelling drew comparisons on the world stage with Tolstoy, Gorky and Kipling.\nBut Henry Lawson's own life may have been the most compelling saga of all, a heart-breaking tale of brilliance, lost love, self-destruction and madness. Grantlee Kieza, the author of critically acclaimed bestselling biographies of such important figures as Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and John Monash, reveals the extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon.</p>

Lawson

ABC Books AU

The Remarkable Mrs Reibey

History

Australia & Oceania

Hudson Fysh

Flinders

Travelers & Explorers

Sister Viv

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