Uncover the truth of Australia's hidden wars.In 1838-1844, a coordinated Indigenous uprising challenged British rule in New South Wales. Historian Stephen Gapps reveals this untold story of resistance along the Murray-Darling river system.Uprising exposes the fierce battles, strategic alliances, and unyielding courage of First Nations warriors defending their River Country. Explore the comp...

'In May 1824, what can only be described as a period of all-out, total gudyarra ('war' in the Wiradyuri language) had begun west of the Blue Mountains. Relations between Wiradyuri people and the colonists in the country around Bathurst had completely broken down, and the number of raids and killings occurring across isolated stock stations in the district had intensified.' In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps—award-winning author of The Sydney Wars—unearths what led to this furious...

The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians—described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist—around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 18...

For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these first, domestic wars.The Australian...

The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish a nationFor the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these fi...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." —Stephen KingTwo brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane HarperBrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.Their third brother...

THE GRIPPING SUMMER 2021 RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK, FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLER AND MASTER OF SUSPENSEA secret room. A silent girl. A shocking truth.Evie Cormac was found at a murder scene six years ago, hiding in a secret room. She has never revealed her real name, why she was in that house, or what she saw.Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven wants to help the traumatised teenager. He thinks unravelling Evie's secrets will free her ...

A gem-fossicking discovery echoes through time and leads to a dangerous journey through the red dust outback. A gripping mystery from Australian author Annie Seaton.Gemma Hayden has returned to her hometown of Alice Springs for a new job as a primary school teacher. It's been six years since her family broke apart following the disappearance of her twin brother. And the scars still run deep.Hard on the heels of her homecoming, Saul Pearce, the man she once ...

Run. Don’t look back.When a young teenager is stabbed to death at a busy fairground, Detective Mark Turpin is assigned the task of finding the boy’s killer.But this was no random murder.Mark knows the victim, and the man who ordered his death.As he sifts through the young victim’s final days, he uncovers a powerful crime syndicate that will do anything to protect its interests.Then tragedy strikes, a...

The frozen body of a man is discovered in a used car yard on the hottest day of the year, his face contorted by fear and pain.Detective Kay Hunter and her team are assigned the case, but when they find out who their victim is, their worst fears are realised.There is another man missing – but is he a victim, or a killer?With time running out and witnesses afraid to talk, Kay is thrust into one of the most challenging investigations of her career to d...

'A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping' GUARDIANS. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDSOne outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects.In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart - their bodies elaborately arranged like angels.With no witnesses...

From the Walkley Award winning journalist, social commentator and author comes a gripping domestic thriller with a moral dilemma at its core.'A timely, tense and important story that takes you to the heart of a toxic relationship, fighting to get free.' Michael RobothamJust like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just something else she'd now have to take care of herself.Recently widowed, Miriam D...