A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh - ISBN: 9780143789574
Paperback
A young artist’s murder unlocks secrets in 1930s Bohemian Melbourne.

A Scandal in Bohemia

  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    2 April 2018

Summary

An unsolved murder takes one of Australia’s foremost writers of non-fiction into the 1930s Bohemian demi-monde, exploring the fate of a talented young woman trying to make her way in that artistic, sexualised, ‘liberated’ world.

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 19…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143789574
ISBN-10:0143789570
Author:Gideon Haigh
Publisher:Random House Australia
Imprint:Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:2 April 2018
Weight:460g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
About The Author

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades, has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, and published thirty-five books. The Office- A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime; and Stroke of Genius- Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.

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