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

A comprehensive history of the office that references all popular culture, this book traces its origins from 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, and e-mail among others—this account discovers a world teeming with dramas great and small. It also explores the array of archetypes, including the Whitehall mandarin, the Wall Street banker, the Dickensian clerk, the Japanese salaryman, the French bureaucrat, and the Soviet official. Far from simply being a place where people earn a living, the office emerges as a way of seeing the entire world.

The Office: A Hardworking History (Miegunyah Volumes)

Business & Money

Business Culture

Melbourne University Press

Chronicling the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, this account documents the events that culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal in Australia and caused a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and glamorous police force. With forensic skill and psychological subtlety, this is a story of corruption, suffering, murder, suicide, courtroom drama, and political machinations. Artfully combining cultural history, investigative journalism, and true crime, this analysis examines the full spectrum of people involved, from the women themselves to the lawmakers, police, campaigners, and abortionists—who included a multimillionaire philanthropist, a communist bush poet, a timid aesthete, and a bankrupt slaughterman. A fascinating and disturbing backstory to an issue that remains ever divisive, this compelling narrative is an important contribution to the ongoing abortion debate.

The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia

History

Australia & Oceania

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.

The Ashes 2009

Sports & Outdoors

Other Team Sports

Melbourne University

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

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