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By: Angela Kamper

ISBN: 9781741146035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The story of a powerful surf brotherhood and the chilling and bloody killing of a brutal underworld figure.


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By: Julie Gregory

ISBN: 9780007268801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father, who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life, gluttonous personality and found logical explanations for the most bizarre ways of thinking.


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By: Sandra Harvey

ISBN: 9781865085029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Now a major television movie, this is the gripping, true-life story of the murder of Megan Kalajzich.


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By: Julie Shaw

ISBN: 9780007542284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or determined to escape from it, the third instalment of this gritty series recounts the incredible stories of the unflinching women behind the legendary Hudson family.


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By: Julie Shaw

ISBN: 9780007542260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the 40s and 50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson. A solitary man, feared and respected by the gangsters of the time, Charlie was a boxer who never lost a fight, in or out of the ring the most infamous of The Canterbury Warriors.


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By: Kylie Ladd

ISBN: 9781741754001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Go on, you know you've been tempted . a collection of compelling, honest and intriguing anonymous confessions of infidelity and adultery, exploring all sides of the equation and from a variety of perspectives.


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By: Peter Kilby

ISBN: 9781405909297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Peter Kilby was just a toddler when his mother tragically died, trying to abort a child they simply couldn't support. When his father swiftly replaced her with his mistress, Peter made the mistake of calling her 'Mummy'. Dragged outside, trampled on and shouted at, Peter never made that mistake again. This book tells his affecting true story.


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By: Paul B Kidd

ISBN: 9780732269630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Each year in Australia crimes are committed so evil, that their perpetrators are sentenced to the maximum punishment that the law allows. In his third book of case studies on the subject, the author examines some of these cases.


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By: Bill Marsh

ISBN: 9780733325519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: ABC Books
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From the pilots, doctors and nurses who spread their 'mantle of safety' throughout the remote inland of Australia, as well as the men and women they treat on the ground, comes a brand-new collection of Flying Doctor yarns as told to master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.


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By: Ted Conover

ISBN: 9780091940959
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. It's a thrillingly told account of how the gruelling world of the prison system brutalizes all who enter it - prison guards and prisoners alike.


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By: Matthew Lysiak

ISBN: 9781476753751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Leonard Read

ISBN: 9780751531756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Following the deaths of The Krays, Nipper Read, the man who arrested them, can now tell the true story of the leaders of London's Gangland.


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By: Nick Richardson

ISBN: 9780751531022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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On 16th April 1994, Nick Richardson was shot down over the besieged Bosnian Muslim town of Gorazde. This the story of Richardson's journey to the Bosnian theatre of war and his descent into the hell of the war-torn Balkans.


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By: Derek Pedley

ISBN: 9780732266646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Respected journalist Derek Pedley delves into the mind and modus operandi of Brendan James Abbott, aka The Postcard Bandit. Escaping from jail and on the run, Abbot traversed the nation with regularity and breadth previously unheard of in the world of crime, sending, to police, postcards from the places he visited.


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By: Isobel Kerr

ISBN: 9780007272471
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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When Isobel and Alex came home from school to find their abusive father had brutally murdered their mother, their world was thrown into chaos. Plunged into a care system that neglected them, Isobel and Alex were expected to come to nothing, and had only each other to rely on.


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By: Sue Martin

ISBN: 9780091917371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Sue Martin began life at a children's home, behind the doors of which lay a world steeped in lies, cover-ups, victimisation and abuse. At its heart was Boagey, whose perverse bullying was targeted at Sue. Her attacks quickly progressed from the punishment of an innocent child to gratification of her sexual whims.


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By: Lindsey Rosa

ISBN: 9780007354344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Those who had not discovered our truth had Satan in their hearts. We lived amongst them, but not with them, 'in the world, but not of the world'. We were special.

We were the disciples of the Fellowship.


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By: Jim Leavesley

ISBN: 9781742373300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A fascinating collection of historical curiosities - doctors who achieved fame or notoriety for reasons other than their medical prowess.


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By: John Pearson

ISBN: 9780099505341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them.


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By: Sandy Thorne

ISBN: 9781743311820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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An earthy, entertaining collection of yarns about twenty larger-than-life outback characters.


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By: Jon E. Lewis

ISBN: 9781849010672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In the words of Malcolm Brown 'a rediscovered classic'. Sixty first-hand accounts of what life was really like in the Great War.


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By: Gina Hall

ISBN: 9781784759490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award winning true story behind Goodfellas

By the son and daughter of Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas - On The Run is the harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback.


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By: Miles Smeeton

ISBN: 9780007535101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This timeless classic is an exciting true story of survival against all odds.


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By: Liam Houlihan

ISBN: 9780522869378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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