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Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray, Rachel Perkins, Henry Reynolds

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...

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Stephen Gapps

** Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022, NSW Regional and Community History Prize **** Shortlisted, Les Carlyon Literary Prize 2022 **‘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...

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Stephen Gapps

**Highly Commended, NSW History Awards 2026, NSW Community and Regional History Prize**The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare.The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers in the Bathurst region. From the 1830s, colonists began occupying more and more Aboriginal land across western New Sou...

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Dr Stephen Gapps

*Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize**Longlisted for the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize*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 acc...

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Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Henry Reynolds, Mina Murray

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Gregory Fryer, Sandy Greenwood, David Ball

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...

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Jane Harper

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...

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Patricia Wolf

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A DS Walker Thriller

The Number 1 Internationally Bestselling Ebook, perfect for fans of The Dry by Jane Harper.'Tense, gripping and atmospheric' - CHRIS WHITAKER'Gripped me from its shocking start' - SARAH YARWOOD-LOVETT'I highly recommend it' - LYNDA LA PLANTE CBETWO MISSING BACKPACKERS. ONE VAST OUTBACK.DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, taking care of his d...

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Patricia Wolf

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A DS Walker Thriller

Longlisted for the Australian Crime Fiction Award 2024'Wow... Non-stop action from the first pages... So suspenseful!... do yourself a favour and read it... one of my favourite books of 2023' Reader Review, 5 starsIn a beach paradise, an unspeakable crime is committed. The only witness lies in a coma, fighting for her life...Australia's Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a y...

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Michael Robotham

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Cyrus Haven

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 ...

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Annie Seaton

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 ...

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Rachel Amphlett

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Detective Mark Turpin

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...

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Rachel Amphlett

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Detective Kay Hunter

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...