As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne’s bohemian salons – until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown killer in a laneway while walking home. Her family was implicated. Those in her circle, including her acclaimed artist lover Colin Colahan, were shamed. Her memory was anxiously suppressed. Yet the mystery of her death rendered more mysterious her life and Mollie’s story lingered, incorporated into memoir, literature, television, theatre and song, most notably in George Johnston’s classic My Brother Jack. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Gideon Haigh explodes the true crime genre with a murder story about life as well as death. Armed with only a single photograph and echoes of Mollie’s voice, he has reassembled the precarious life of a talented woman without a room of her own – a true outsider, excluded by the very world that celebrated her in its art. In this work of restorative justice, Mollie Dean emerges as a tenacious, charismatic, independent woman for whom society had no place, and whom everybody tried to forget – but nobody could.

A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death of Mollie Dean

Biographies & Memoirs

Haigh, Gideon

Arts & Literature

Hamish Hamilton AU

Compiled by one of Australia's most respected cricket writers, this is a readable and informative collection of anecdotes covering the highlights, evolution, and legends of Australian cricket at home and abroad. Ranging from the game's evolution in Australia in the mid-19th century to the 1995/96 season. The 350 anecdotes cover all the great figures of Australian cricket: Victor Trumper, "Demon" Spofforth, Clarrie Grimmett, Stan McCabe, Donald Bradman, Richie Benaud, the Chappells, Allan Border, Merv Hughes, and Shane Warne. Every Test series in which Australia competed anywhere in the world is touched on - including the remarkable Aboriginal tour of 1862 that preceded the inaugural Ashes contest by 14 years.

Australian Cricket Anecdotes

Oxford University Press

In 2005, it was England's summer. In 2006-07, Australia had its revenge. And 2009 loomed as the tightest of contests in Test cricket's longest-running rivalry, both countries in a race to rebuild in the first rematch since the end of the era of Warne, McGrath, Gilchrist and Hayden. Test cricket faced its own challenge: to demonstrate the game's potential for drama and dash over five days in an era increasingly accustomed to cricket in three-hour instalments, after the successful Indian Premier League and World Twenty20. Compiled day by day to capture the season's whipsawing fortunes, The Ashes 2009 is the only essential account of the head-to-head duel that stopped both nations, and the story of its defining battles: the pace of Johnson versus the power of Pietersen, the swing of Anderson against the spunk of Hughes, and the generalships of Ponting and Strauss, ready for readers while the embers of the Ashes are still warm.

Ashes 2009

Sports & Outdoors

Victory Books

The Battle for BHP

Information Australia/Allen & Unwin

Make way for this defiantly idiosyncratic, hilariously illuminating compendium of curiosities you never knew you wanted to know! How do you flirt in Turkish? How do you dump someone in Japanese? What are the names of all the animals ever sent into space? These are just some of the fun and insightful oddities that made Gideon Haigh's The Uncyclopedia a hit overseas. 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, arcane knowledge and non-essential facts have never been so popular. 
At last in one convenient volume, everything for knowledge-hungry readers: 
--Lists of Norse gods --Suicide notes of the famous --All anyone needs to know about --How to toast in 10 languages? --A list of all the men to walk on the moon --Twenty Latin mottoes --Fortune-telling techniques 
Neither trivial nor essential, yet always engaging and illuminating, The Uncyclopedia is the reference book referred to purely for the purposes of amusement -- and readers just can't put it down!

The Uncyclopedia

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Hyperion

Shane Warne is one of the most fascinating sports people on the planet. You might not follow cricket, you may never have even seen Warne on the cricket field, yet you know who he is. How has Warne shaped sport and how has sport has shaped him? Who is the real man behind the back page and front page headlines?

On Warne

Simon Schuster(uk)

Ashes to Ashes: The Story of the Back-to-Back Series of 2013-14

A Stroke of Genius

Simon Schuster Ltd

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 players for his own televised 'World Series'. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen.
In helmets, under lights, with white balls, and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves.
A compelling account of the top-class sporting life, The Cricket War also gives a unique insight into the motives and methods of the man who became Australia's richest, and remained so, until the day he died. It was the end of cricket as we knew it – and the beginning of cricket as we know it.
Gideon Haigh has published over thirty books, over twenty of them about cricket. This edition of The Cricket War, Gideon Haigh's first book about cricket originally published in 1993, has been updated with new photographs and a new introduction by the author.

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

Other Team Sports

Wisden

Paid a fortune, lavished with lucrative share options, pension schemes, and huge bonuses, the chief executive officer, better known as the CEO, is a modern phenomenon. Shareholders, the media, and even the government are now questioning the charmed existence of these Olympian figures. Gideon Haigh investigates the whole cult that has grown up around the CEO, questioning why we need him, why a man almost always holds the position, what the CEO’s actual duties are, and why he is paid so much more than the rest of the workforce. In a tough-minded, vigorous demolition job on the culture that produced the cult of the CEO, Haigh writes a mini history of business and shows how the traditions of capitalism are mocked by the managerial system of the present. This humorous and incisive essay demystifies the world of big business. The cult of the CEO has never been exposed so entertainingly or irreverently.

Fat Cats: The Strange Cult of the CEO

Business & Money

Biography & History

Thunder's Mouth Press

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