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  • The Changing Migrant Composition of Australia’s Population

    Past, Present and Future

    by Tom Wilson, Jeromey Temple, Peter McDonald, Ariane Utomo, Bianca Brijnath ...
    series SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
    This book looks at how Australia's migrant population composition is likely to change over coming decades. The book divides Australia's population into 48 countries of birth groupings and projects the birthplace populations out to 2066 according to the range of scenarios. These projections indicate a massive shift in Australia’s migrant composition from a European to an Asian-dominated population ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Shooting Star

    Text Classics

    by Peter Temple ...
    series Text Classics
    Pat Carson’s old eyes were on me, looking for something.‘Man is born unto trouble,’ he said.I said, ‘As the sparks fly upwards.’Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. ‘Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven’t been a bloody priest too, have you?’Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Red Hand

    Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish

    by Peter Temple ...
    ‘One of the world’s finest crime writers.’ The Times‘He was to terse blokes with hard jobs and wounded souls what Proust was to memory. He made every sentence count and shot the stragglers.’ Shane MaloneyPeter Temple didn’t start publishing novels until he was fifty, but then he got cracking, writing nine of them in thirteen years. When he died, in March 2018, there was an unfinished Jack Irish ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Bad Debts

    Jack Irish book 1

    by Peter Temple ...
    series Jack Irish Novels #1
    Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder.A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long and he’s still cooking for one.But then Danny turns up dead and Jack has to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Broken Shore

    A Novel

    by Peter Temple ...
    Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is—one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification.The Broken Shore, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ithaca in My Mind

    Allen & Unwin shorts

    by Peter Temple ...
    On a lazy summer morning, ageing author Vincent Duncan takes an unsettling phone call from his literary agent. Peter Temple indulges his humorous side in this scathingly brilliant portrayal of a writer past his peak. ... Read more

    $1.39 USD

  • Dead Point

    Jack Irish book 3

    by Peter Temple ...
    series Jack Irish Novels #3
    Winner, Ned Kelly Award, Best Crime Novel, 2000It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old flame. He has gambled and lost massively and seen a champion horse put down. It's not surprising that Jack's mind is not fully on the job he's being paid to do: find Robbie ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Iron Rose: Text Classics

    by Peter Temple ...
    series Text Classics
    The classic thriller by the five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award. Introduction by Les Carlyon.When Mac Faraday's best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac is far from convinced, and he's a man who knows not to accept things at face value.A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac is living the quiet life of a country blacksmith - a life connected to a ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Wake In Fright: Text Classics

    by Kenneth Cook, David Stratton ...
    series Text Classics
    Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.This edition includes an introduction by Peter Temple and an afterword by David Stratton.Wake in Fright was made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Black Tide

    Jack Irish book 2

    by Peter Temple ...
    series Jack Irish Novels #2
    Black Tide is the second of Peter Temple's Jack Irish thrillers.Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people - is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the son of an old workmate of his father's. It's an offer he soon has cause to regret, as the trail of Gary Connors leads him into the world of Steven Levesque, millionaire ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • CFDs Made Simple

    A straightforward guide to contracts for difference

    by Peter Temple ...
    CFDs, or contracts for difference, have experienced a surge in popularity with private investors and traders. They are extremely flexible trading instruments that offer high degrees of leverage, the opportunity to go long and short and to hedge open positions in other tradable instruments. Similar to spread betting, traders can take advantage of price movements without having to buy the underlying ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • White Dog

    Jack Irish book 4

    by Peter Temple ...
    series Jack Irish Novels #4
    This is the fourth Jack Irish thriller, and the third one in the series to win a Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction.Jack Irish-gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found-has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap. Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about Mickey Franklin's death, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD