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Matthew Condon
The Three Crooked Kings story ends here … In Three Crooked Kings we read about the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half…
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The much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling Three Crooked Kings. Here we read about the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century…
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Retirement can be murder!The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on…
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“I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me…
The Night Dragon is the fifth volume in Matthew Condon’s chronicle of Queensland crime and corruption in the 20th Century.
One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis.
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The gripping story of Luke, an easy-going deep-sea diver who likes to please everyone, and the strong-willed, beautiful Charlotte with whom he falls in love. On their wedding night she…
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After almost a century of foraging and fishing alone in the outback, Wilfred Lampe is finally marked out for greatness when he is picked to represent Australia’s everyman at the…
There was no funeral for my son. I remember it was just a small service in the chapel at the back of the hospital. The chapel wasn’t even as big…
Writer Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of his childhood. He takes the reader on a unique personal journey, unearthing the city’s history - sometimes literally - and painting a portrait…
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Three Crooked Kings is not just a social history over half a century, but a grand narrative teeming with murder, pay-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting and…
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Icarus is a penthouse salesman on the Gold Coast. In his early thirties and at the top of his profession, he revels in the trappings of his success: the luxury…
In this book, the third in a series on Australian cities in which leading Australian authors write about their home city, novelist and journalist Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of…
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How a famous cold case, a deadly fire and a quest for justice finally brought down one of Australia’s worst killers
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‘It was the genius of the systema| From day to day you didn’t know who was on the take or not. You didn’t know who you could trust.’ most half…
John Shobbrook
In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain-top airdrop. In a story that is stranger…
Matthew Raiford
More than 100 heirloom recipes from a dynamic chef and farmer working the lands of his great-great-great grandfather.
