The national bestseller: John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita.On 4 February 1986, John Cobby’s life imploded.He was driving up the coast looking for his missing wife, Anita, when over the radio he heard: ‘The body of a naked woman has been found in a paddock in western Sydney.’ As details emerged of the rape and murder of the gentle nurse and former beauty queen, outrage engulfed Australia. Five me...

They call her 'the gangbuster'.The police force can be a tough place for a woman, but Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace rose to the top with grace, humour and an iconic sense of style. In her incredible 36-year career with NSW Police, Wallace took on murderers and drug suppliers, and dismantled the state's most nefarious gangs.Tenacious, perceptive and sharp, Wallace commanded a range of police crime squads, bringing order to the wild west of 1990s C...

WINNER OF THE 2018 BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY. Includes Josh Malerman's 'House of the Head' as seen in Creepshow. An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by award-winning masters of the genre, including Josh Malerman, Ramsey Campbell, Alison Littlewood and Christopher Golden. FEAR COMES IN MANY FORMS The horror genre's greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears kicking and screaming into the light in this collection of nineteen brand-new stories. In ...

An action-packed prequel to the new IllFonic video game PREDATOR: HUNTING GROUNDS – revealing deeply buried secrets in the battle between the ultimate hunters and their human prey.This official prequel novel leads into the new PlayStation®4 video game from IllFonic. PREDATOR: STALKING SHADOWS is the bridge between Predator 2 and the current day continuity. U.S. Marine Scott Devlin takes on a new assignment that begins with the clean-up of a Los An...

The official novelization of the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black's new movie with a screenplay by Shane Black and Fred Dekker.For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankind's finest warriors. Their goals unknown, these deadly hunters kill their prey and depart as invisibly as they arrived, leaving no trace other than a trail of bodies.When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal Hunters' return to earth, only a ragtag crew of ...

Welcome to the Horror Club: a world of werewolves and poltergeists, psychopaths and shape changers, the unquiet and the living dead...A fantasy world, of course, for Richard, Robin, and Nigel, the club's members are ordinary boys from ordinary families, who just happen to share a taste for the macabre in films and videos, books, and comics. And then they admit a fourth member to their club — Toady, a far-from-ordinary boy with a taste for the macabre in real life. From the moment h...

Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It’s addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly disfigured and lucky to be alive. Who was behind such a violent and calculated attack? What did they want? And why was the parcel addressed to his girlfriend?Suspicion immediately falls...

A gripping story of bikies, feuds and a deadly clash of clansSydney has been the scene of the bloodiest gang war in living memory. There have been at least 20 people murdered, including innocent bystanders, women and a number of high-profile crime figures.The Daily Telegraph crime writers Mark Morri and Josh Hanrahan have been at the forefront of every one of the hits, documenting the carnage in their newspaper columns, podcasts, Foxtel documentary, video series an...

Half of all new teachers quit. This book is your lifeline.You survived student teaching. You landed the job. And now you're staring down a classroom full of teenagers, wondering how on earth you're supposed to connect with them, teach your subject, manage the chaos, and still feel like yourself at the end of the day. The education courses prepared you in theory. But nobody told you what to actually do on Day One, or Day Two, or the hundred days after that.Teaching Matters i...

The Mediterranean. Sun-bleached ruins, azure seas, foaming wine. But history’s cruellest tyrants reigned here, delighting in blood and torture. Myths tell of snake-haired harridans and one-eyed giants, of humans cooked on spits, of curses, scourges, and devious deities who played with men’s souls like pawns in chess …The poison apples of AegleThe human sacrifice on CreteThe beautiful predator of PalermoThe damned souls on PovegliaThe evil artefact at Koy...

An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by award-winning masters of the genre.Twenty-one brand-new stories of the ominous and terrifying from some of the horror genre's most talented writers. In 'The Dead Thing' Paul Tremblay draws us into the world of a neglected teenage girl and her younger brother and the evil that lurks at the heart of their family. In Gemma Files' 'Bulb' a woman calls in to a podcast to tell the terrifying story of why she has escaped o...

David Fox, fast approaching his fortieth birthday, is in the throes of a mid-life crisis—going nowhere, no purpose in life... Until one day, whilst walking on the beach, he comes across a message in a bottle, washed up at his feet.The message, written in 1953, is from a boy called John Marshall who claims his father is trying to kill him. David feels compelled to find out what happened to the boy all those years ago—and so he sets off to discover the truth. But the truth is more bi...