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  • Midnight and Blue

    The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Series Book 1 - A Rebus Novel
    The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year.'Rebus in jail and better than ever ... Surprising, gripping and witty. Rankin has taken the police procedural and transformed into an epic character study of a man and his city ... Nobody does it better.'THE TIMES* * * * *JOHN REBUS SPENT HIS LIFE AS A DETECTIVE PUTTIN... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • FRAMED

    John Grisham's Astonishing True Crime Stories of Wrongful Convictions

    by John Grisham, Jim McCloskey ...
    TEN STORIES MORE SHOCKING THAN FICTION.For fans of John Grisham's page-turning legal thrillers, Framed is told with all the conviction of an edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama.John Grisham's first work of non-fiction since The Innocent Man, Framed uncovers stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. Written with Jim McCloskey, all the cases in this book are simply ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Welcome to Weaver Street

    The first in a heartbreaking and heartwarming new WW1 series

    by Chrissie Walsh ...
    Series Book 1 - Weaver Street
    If you love Katie Flynn and Pam Howes, you'll love Chrissie Walsh's WWI story of love, loss and triumph!July, 1916Kitty and Tom Conlon arrive in Liverpool in July 1916 to claim the house Tom’s great-uncle has bequeathed him in his will. The move to England couldn’t have come at a better time. Dublin is in turmoil following the Easter Uprising and Kitty’s brother is now in prison.The house in ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bali 9

    The Untold Story

    by Madonna King, Cindy Wockner ...
    When a plan goes badly wrong, nine Australians pay a heavy priceOn 17 April 2005, nine young Australians were arrested in Bali on charges of drug trafficking. Known as the 'Bali 9', some members received the death penalty for their crimes; others are serving lengthy jail sentences. Journalists Cindy Wockner and Madonna King, who were present at the trials and sentencing, have used their ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Last Woman Hanged

    by Caroline Overington ...
    Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) -- the terrible true story of Louisa Collins.In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD $9.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Life

    An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace

    by Michael Morton ...
    “A devastating and infuriating book, more astonishing than any legal thriller by John Grisham” (The New York Times) about a young father who spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit…and his eventual exoneration and return to life as a free man.On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

    A Dragon Tattoo story

    by David Lagercrantz ...
    Translated by George Goulding ...
    Series Book 5 - Millennium
    Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide."Salander remains, in Lagercrantz's hands, the enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction" Financial Times"Salander and Blomkvist have survived the authorship transition intact and are just as compelling as ever" New York TimesLISBETH SALANDER IS AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCESentenced to two months in a ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Reckoning

    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

    by John Grisham ...
    'I couldn't help thinking of Harper Lee's great American novel To Kill a Mockingbird while reading The Reckoning . . . [Grisham] knows how to spin a yarn' - Chicago Sun-Times'May be his greatest work yet' - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon?Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family; a farmer, fath. ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Traitors of the Tower

    by Alison Weir ...
    A short, sharp shot of royal revenge.More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death?Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • The Fatal Shore

    by Robert Hughes ...
    The authoritative, epic history of the British colonisation of Australia.In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia, The Fatal ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail

    by James Phelps ...
    Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls.Opened in 1909 Long Bay Jail, originally a women's reformatory, has a dark and extraordinary history.From ghosts to legendary prisoners, there has been an infamous collection of Long Bay 'guests', including the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Australia's Most Infamous Jail

    Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison

    by James Phelps ...
    'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew Kirby, former inmateWelcome to Pentridge, Australia's most infamous prison.In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps has finally turned his attention to HM Prison Pentridge - the bluestone behemoth that was home to Victoria's worst ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD $11.99 AUD

  • Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    by Henri Charrière ...
    Translated by Patrick O’Brian ...
    Series series Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960sCondemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, he went into solitary confinement and was sent eventually ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • The Cocaine Diaries

    A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

    by Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell ...
    'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.'Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Just Mercy

    a story of justice and redemption

    by Bryan Stevenson ...
    WINNER OF THE 2015 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZEWINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTIONNow a major motion-picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson.#1 New York Times bestseller, and a widely acclaimed and multi-award–winning book, this is a powerful, true story about the pot... ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Mr Nice

    The Incredible Story of an Unconventional Life

    by Howard Marks ...
    This is the true story of Howard Marks. He was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles for his main concern: dope ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Chain-Gang All-Stars

    The dystopian novel of the year, shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards

    by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ...
    **FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND.Enter a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.**'America's new Hunger Games' SUNDAY TIMES'So good. This one is from the heart' STEPHEN KING**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD****SHORTLISTED FOR THE TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS**Fan-favourite ... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole

    Our Fight to Survive South America's Deadliest Jail

    by James Miles, Paul Loseby ...
    'There are 3,000 drugged-up psychopaths, armed to the teeth with blades, shooters and bombs. That's the only way I can describe Yare. It's a murderous viper's nest of assassins, cut throats and killers.'When James Miles and his best friend Paul Loseby were caught smuggling ten kilos of cocaine out of Caracas, Venezuela, they couldn't deny their guilt. Young and naive, the lads had thought the one ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Beg For Mercy: Dead Wrong Book 1 (A gripping serial killer thriller)

    by Jami Alden ...
    Series Book 1 - Dead Wrong
    Jami Alden's Beg For Mercy is a sizzling, suspenseful tale, perfect for fans of Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot, Karen Rose and Laura Griffin.Megan Flynn thought she was falling in love with Cole Williams. That is until he arrested her brother - the only family she has left - for a murder she knows he couldn't have possibly committed. Now, with her heart broken and her brother's life hanging in the ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • Killing Time

    Surviving Dubai's Most Notorious Prisons

    by Karl Williams, Karl Williams ...
    "Killing Time is a cracking prison tale that exposes the corrupt, violent underbelly of one of the world's most 'glamorous' cities." Rusty Young, author of Marching PowderKarl Williams was on holiday in Dubai, living it large with two English friends, when they were accused of drug dealing, arrested, and tortured by police. They were innocent, but the authorities didn't care. And so began their ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Prisoner

    How One Woman's Jail Term Was The Making Of Her

    by Kerry Tucker, Craig Henderson ...
    Kerry Tucker seemed to be a typical suburban mother of two, but she was harbouring a terrible secret: over the years she had stolen $2 million from her employers.When her crime was discovered she was sentenced to seven years at a maximum-security prison, alongside some of Victoria’s most notorious criminals. Being incarcerated with murderers and drug dealers was not nearly as daunting, however, as ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Wife

    An absolutely gripping crime thriller from John Nicholl that will have you hooked

    by John Nicholl ...
    Series Book 2 - The Galbraith Series
    An absolutely gripping crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from UK Top 50 bestseller John Nicholl.What drives a woman to murder?Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars.When the prison counsellor suggests Cynthia write a personal journal exploring the events that drove her to ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Shadow of Papillon

    Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System

    by Frank Kane, John Tilsley ...
    Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In desperation, he agreed to smuggle cocaine out of Venezuela. Almost inevitably, he and his girlfriend, Sam, were caught.The price they paid was a ten-year sentence in the hell of the overcrowded Venezuelan prison system, notorious for corruption and abuse, and rife with weapons and gangs. At ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • A Fair Cop

    by Michael Bunting ...
    The true story of a young police officer’s imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.It was Michael Bunting's life ambition to follow in his father's footsteps and become a police officer. But six years after his family watch him pass out and begin his life's dream, he is serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit. This is his story.Beaten almost senseless as he tried to arrest a violent ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD