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Making News from Tony Wilson is a darkly hilarious story about celebrity culture, the media and what really goes on behind the smutty front pages that everyone loves to read.

‘The photo was clearly sexual, all skin and limbs. It was a CCTV image, which looked to be from security footage. Lucas leaned forward to read the accompanying paragraph. Within half a sentence it was as though a foot had crashed through the monitor and kicked his teeth in. He closed his eyes and willed himself to wake up. He checked again. The image was still there. My god, look at the goofy smiles. No wonder the world was laughing. Under normal circumstances, he’d be laughing too. If the face that was front-and-centre didn’t belong to a member of his family.’ Lucas Dekker is celebrity offspring, twice over.

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His Australian father, Charlie, has recently retired from a stellar football career in the Premier League. His English mother, Monica, is a self-help guru, who has sold millions of books with her pro-family message. But when Charlie’s involvement in a bizarre sex scandal hits the tabloids, the Dekkers’ own family dynamic will never be the same again.

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The War Scientists by Thomas J. Craughwell looks at the individuals through history who have invented military technologies – the human faces behind life-saving and death-dealing science.

It examines their motivations, loyalties and passions, and sets out to investigate why they used their intellect in the service of war, for reasons variously noble, patriotic, corrupt, self-serving or cynical. The War Scientists discusses the scientists’ personalities, their education and their ethics. It examines their inventions, the use of these technologies in combat, their impact at the time and, as appropriate, their place in scientific progress and their incorporation into mainstream technology. Each story will also include contextual information about the conflict/s in which the scientists were involved. Approximately 25 scientists (including groups of scientists) from around the globe and through history are featured. The men and women whose stories are told here represent the paradox of science, with all its potential for good and for evil. Key points: provides insight into the individuals and personalities behind the technologies of war; stories range from ancient times through to the present day; will appeal to military buffs and general readers alike.

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Bad Characters, by Peter Stanley, travels from the outbreak of the war through the agonizing course of the conflict, which has survived in folklore and anecdote to this day.

The term ‘bad characters’ was used by the army to refer to those who caused unrest or were disobedient: their crimes ranged from avoiding battle, absenteeism, desertion, disobedience and self-inflicting wounds and contracting venereal disease, to the more extreme charges of murder and mutiny. Australia’s long-standing love affair with the ‘Australian Digger’ has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. Bad Characters is a book that will do something no other book has tried to do. It will tell the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes: soldiers who committed offences and crimes; those who malingered, deserted, robbed and murdered their comrades; those who took part in riots, strikes and mutiny.

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The AIF’s first and greatest historian Charles Bean thought that the finest tribute we could pay to the men that he knew was to tell their story straight. Based on extensive research, Peter Stanley’s honest, unflinching, humane and respectful book recounts dramatic, and often tragic, stories of the AIF’s dark side, many for the first time, and in doing blends ‘true crime’ with ‘war history’. More importantly, it fosters a truer understanding of who these men were, what they did in the war, and what this terrible war did to them.

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Looking for Australia by John Hirst is a fascinating collection of essays. They form a multi-faceted portrait of Australia as a distinctive nation, with its own political culture, character and style, and particular ways of seeing itself.

What are the qualities at the heart of Australian culture? How did they arise? What distinguishes us from other nations beyond a fondness for calling each other ‘mate’? And what do such national quirks reveal about our society, our past and our attitudes towards it? Among other subjects, Hirst considers the effects of convict origins on national character, what drove the bushrangers to their daring deeds, and why Australia has compulsory voting. He examines whether Aborigines played a part in the origins of Australian Rules football, and asks whether Curtin was indeed our greatest prime minister. He discusses how best to tell Australia’s history, and, after reflecting on our past as a British dependency, makes a stirring case for a future, fully independent republic.

In these enthralling essays, John Hirst considers whether Curtin was indeed Australia’s greatest prime minister, examines the origins of Aussie Rules, tells the story of how Australia introduced the secret ballot, selects the best Australian history books, and much more.

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Dr John Hirst teaches European history and researches and teaches Australian social and political history. He is interested as historian and citizen in the movement to create an Australian republic and to improve civic education.

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Best on Ground: Great Writers on the Greatest Game is a footie fest in one publication, for all those whose passion for the game only exceeded for their passion for more.

Nothing unites or divides people as much as the tribal loyalty of AFL supporters. Combining passion for the game with a talent for words, seventeen writers explore the full range of supporters’ emotions, from the fervour of a convert to the weariness of the long-term sufferer, the guilt of the turncoat to the joy of the flag-winner. These writers know what it’s like to barrack and can always find a good story and the game itself offers scenarios that are sometimes stranger than fiction. Jean Bedford’s return to football might have been prompted by a life-size papier-mache model of Plugger; Sean Gorman remembers only too well when a field umpire unexpectedly took a neat chest mark; and Tony Wilson tried in vain to prolong his playing career with the Hawks by tutoring Shane Crawford in maths.

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From the Dockers to the Doggies, every club gets a Guernsey but beyond the team allegiances, this is a book for those who love footy. You’ll find more than a little of yourself in the true appreciation these writers have for our national game.

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In A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football Geoffrey Blainey documents the birth of our great national game. Who were the characters and champions of the early days of Australian football? How was the VFL formed? Why was the umpire’s job so difficult?

Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera. The game has changed beyond recognition or has it?  Blainey takes a sceptical look at the idea that the game had its origins in Ireland or in Aboriginal pastimes. Instead he demonstrates that footy was a series of inventions. The game played in 1880 was very different to that of 1860, just as the game played today is different again. Journey back to an era when the ground was not oval, when captains acted as umpires, when players wore caps and jerseys bearing forgotten colours and kicked a round ball that soon lost its shape. A Game of Our Own is a fascinating social history and a compulsory read for all true fans of the game.

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“Australians are not only very good at playing sport – we invent it as well. Fans of the game will love this book; it is a great read about a great game and how it all began.”—Ron Barassi

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This superb illustrated edition of the award-winning Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham sets this extraordinary visual legacy in its proper context by sharing the stories behind the photographs.

Not only are the big Australian battles – at Long Tan, Coral and Balmoral – bought to light, but also the struggle at home and how politicians of all stripes utterly failed the troops, almost half of who were conscripted on the throw of a dice. Thousands of servicemen returned to Australia to be met with hostility or indifference. Having voted overwhelmingly to send the soldier to war, the Australian people then turned and condemned him for going. Whatever one’s view of the war, the Australian soldiers, sailors and airmen did their duty – with courage and, in the main, restraint. Indeed, as this classic account shows, the Australian people shared responsibility for this tragic episode that sealed the fate of 50,000 servicemen and women. This is their story – told for the first time using some of the finest photographs of the longest major war of the 20th century.

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Vietnam: The Australian War brings together for the first time some of the most memorable, shocking and rare images of the war with the the award-winning text.

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A jaw dropping story Some Girls: My Life in a Harem – Jillian Lauren is the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-in a prince’s harem and emerged with the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.

At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The ‘casting director’ told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold, and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.

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In Buried Secrets New York Times Bestselling author Joseph Finder brings back his hero Nick Heller (Vanished), who finds himself in the middle of a life or death situation, that is both high profile and intensely personal.

When private investigator Nick Heller returns home to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case closer to home than expected. Alexandra Marcus — teenage daughter of hedge fund titan and Heller family friend Marshall Marcus — has been kidnapped. But it’s no ordinary kidnapping — she has been abducted by professionals, buried alive in an underground casket, a video camera streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With a limited supply of food and water, time is quickly running out. Nick is determined to catch the perpetrators but when Marcus is arrested by the FBI for fraud, accused of operating a Ponzi scheme, Nick realises that he has some powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Nick must play a dangerous game if he hopes to flush out those responsible before Alexa is buried for good…

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Just in time for Father’s Day Being Dad: For Dads-to-Be and the Women Who Love Them is all about helping men become better dads sooner.

Written for both women and men, this straight talking, funny and direct book will give women a very useful insight into how their man is thinking, and for men it will be the opportunity to confront the struggles of what it means to be a parent in the 21st century. This is about men coming to grips with fatherhood, from preconception to birth and beyond .

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