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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 drawn two-all. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controversy over a stumping at Lord¿s that followed in the tradition of Bodyline as a clash of cultures and of stereotypes. With a foot in both camps, Gi...

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.

For many of us, it's where we spend more time and expend greater effort than anywhere else. Yet how many of us have stopped to think about why? In The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, th...

Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph?

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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 sh...

Celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth, ponders the quintessence of the 'Don', dissects the Australian way of cricket across demography, politics and the politics of race, attempts to unravel the mystery that is cricket administration. This title explains the finer points of cricket technique from taking guard to the leave.

One of The Times' 50 Greatest Sports BooksIn 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 Ia...

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports

A compelling collection of journalism on cricket from one of the sport's best award-winning writers

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, legal intrigue, medical breakthrough, and human frailty. Focusing on James Hardie Industries and the disastrous effects of asbestos in the Australian workplace, this study provides an insightful commentary on modern business ethics.

Mystery Spinner is a truly compelling study of how, at the highest level of sport, skill is only half the battle.

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From suicide notes of the famous to the names of all the animals sent into space, this compendium of insightful oddities and illuminating knowledge is the first encyclopedia for the curious. Neither trivial nor essential, yet always engaging and intriguing, "The Uncyclopedia" is the reference book used purely for the purpose of amusement. 1-40130-153-3$14.95 / Time Warner Book Group