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Peter Temple
The unpublished, unfinished and unmissable writings of the unforgettable Peter Temple
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Jack’s trying to save a beautiful sculptress from a murder rap. He soon falls into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks
When an old friend of Jack’s late father asks for his help, Jack’s happy to oblige. But sometimes people go missing for good reason.
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Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. Villani’s…
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Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a…
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Another addictive crime thriller from the author of Truth and The Broken Shore.
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Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created.
Jack’s been hired to find a missing man. But some powerful and dangerous people also seem to have an interest in his whereabouts.
Peter Temple,Peter Temple
The Cold War is long dead buyt the rade in deceit and lies is still running hot. Cleverly plotted and pettered with dark irony and lean prose, In the Evil…
Prof. or Dr. Mark Pizzato
Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are reflected historically and affected today as "inner theatre"…
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The third novel in the iconic Jack Irish series, featuring Australia’s favorite crime protagonist. Tie-in jacket featuring Guy Pearce.
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A simple and practical guide to how you can use some of the newer investment products like spread betting, binary betting, contracts for difference, covered warrants and exchange-traded funds, as…
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The third Jack Irish thriller from internationally acclaimed author Peter Temple
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A race for life as a girl’s kidnapping reveals her family’s tainted past and a disreputable ex-police negotiator becomes her only hope for survival.
A practical guide to CFDs, or contracts for difference, which are extremely flexible trading instruments that offer high degrees of leverage, the opportunity to go long and short and to…
The fourth novel in the Jack Irish series, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Broken Shore
Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet’s ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.
Shooting Star is classic Peter Temple, and now a Text Classic.
This title looks at the workings of hedge funds showing their successes and failures. Well known hedge funds are scrutinized through research and interviews with fund managers, consultants, regulators, and…
Private Equity Examining the New Conglomerates of European Business a This is the authoritative work on private equity, giving the business manager a genuine insight into how this relatively new…
THE AWARD-WINNING DEBUT NOVEL, AND FIRST JACK IRISH THRILLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE AND TRUTH.
The second Jack Irish thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Broken Shore
The sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller The Broken Shore, and winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Award.
The Sunday Times bestseller, from Australia’s most acclaimed crime and thriller writer.
The first standalone crime novel from the author of The Broken Shore and the Jack Irish thrillers
Originally published in Australia by the Text Publishing Company; First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux –T.p. verso.
Nancy Temple Rodrigue
A FAMILY DAY AT DISNEYLAND Following a clue in a treasure hunt SOMEONE ELSE WANTS THE TREASURE The quest takes a serious turn WILL LONG-HELD SECRETS BE REVEALED? At stake…
Peter Gelfan
Monkey Temple is a coming-of-old-age adventure about two longtime best friends and rivals who, determined to not go gentle into that good night, set off on a final road trip…
THINGS SEEM FAMILIAR-BUT HORRIBLY WRONG Alone in front of a hauntingly-familiar mansion. PETER’S VISIT TAKES A DEADLY TURN The inhabitants aren’t as he thought. CAN WOLF RESCUE HIM? Is the…
Scott Peters
Twelve year old Zet and his best friend travel up the Nile to solve the mystery of the disappearing princess. Ancient Egypt adventure awaits!
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Liam Peter Temple (Author)
Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism…
Dr. Andrew M. Mbuvi (Shaw University Divinity School, USA)
Explores the temple imagery in the epistle of 1 Peter and focuses on the use of cultic language in constituting the fresh identity of the Petrine community. This work contends…
Peter Levenda (Peter Levenda)
This book illustrates the history of Tantrism in Java with more than a hundred photographs of temples, statues and iconography dedicated to the system – some rarely seen before, including…
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Peter Temple-Morris
Political memoir of a dissenting voice in British politics.
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Peter Hauge
Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work, The Metaphysical, Physical and Technical History of both Major and Minor Worlds . The…
Hiley H Ward (Temple University)
Ward tells the story of the Apostle Peter and the rise of the church in the turbulent first century through the eyes of one who witnessed it all–Peter’s wife.
Peter Bedford
An investigation of issues surrounding the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple of Yahweh in the early Achaemenid Persian period. It reflects on Ezra 1-6, Haggai, and Zechariah 1-8; early Achaemenid…
A classic thriller by the Miles Franklin Award winner Peter Temple. When Mac Faraday’s best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac is far from convinced. And…
Jack Irish returns in the fast-paced sequel to Bad Debts, where blood is not always thicker than water
The British debut of Peter Temple’s series character, Jack Irish - some-time lawyer, part-time cabinet maker, full-time lover of strong coffee, swift horses and spirited women, and three-time winner of…
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 has learnt never to accept things at…
