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Fact is never more strange than fiction than when it comes to crime, and the crimes described here are so bizarre it's inconceivable that they could have been made up. In this all-new collection of truly unusual crimes, a sequel to the bestselling Mammoth Book of...
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Robinson
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2016-02-04
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Mammoth Books
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‘Main Shakeel Bhai bol raha hoon. Farmaiyen, Sheelaji!’
Among the first female journalists in India to investigate crime and
the underworld, Sheela Raval has had an eventful three-decade-long
career in print media and television that has seen her track India’s
most...
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Hachette India
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2015-12-07
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London, 1888: Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel; national strikes and social unrest threaten the status quo; a grave economic crisis is spreading across the Atlantic . . . Yet Her Majesty's government is preoccupied with "a mere book" - or rather, a...
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Maclehose Press
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2015-11-12
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Book 2 in the gripping Oswald de Lacy series, , which can be read as a standalone, from 'the medieval CJ Sansom' (Jeffery Deaver)The Black Death killed his father and brothers , making Oswald de Lacy Lord of Somershill Manor. It also killed many of his villagers,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-10-22
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The Oswald de Lacy Medieval Murders
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The colourful and exciting story of the larger-than-life characters who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports from the First Fleet to today - and the crime, violence and corruption that has always been present.Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor,...
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Hachette Australia
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2015-07-28
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'Luke Waters had more than 20 years on the job. What he saw, what he heard and what he did will make you sit up, stay up and keep reading - and that's only what he can tell you.' - Ed Conlon, Bestselling Author of Blue Blood.Finglas native Luke Waters dreamed of...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2015-04-16
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It was the perfect crime ... until they got away with it. Now available for the first time in English, the prize-winning bestseller that inspired the film starring Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Kwanten and Sam Worthington.The year is 1983. Ronald Reagan is president, Michael...
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Hachette Australia
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2015-03-06
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An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-29
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A compelling collection of tales from Australia's dark heart - of catastrophe and misfortune, intrigue and passion, betrayal and tragedy.AUSTRALIAN TRAGIC ranges across our past and our present: the heartbreaking story of the fire at Luna Park; the unstoppable...
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Hachette Australia
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2014-12-23
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The romanticised American gangster of the Prohibition era has proved an enduringly popular figure. Even today, names like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano still resonate. Robb explores the histories of key figures, from gangs in the Old West, through Prohibition and the...
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Robinson
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2014-11-20
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Brief Histories
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In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark...
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Corsair
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2014-11-06
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ON Friday 27th June 1975 a young Venezuelan burst from a Paris apartment straight into the world's headlines.He left for dead four men. He had previously blithely lobbed a grenade into a crowded cafe, attempted to assassinate the president of the Zionist Federation of...
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Constable
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2014-10-23
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The Murder Case that Shook a GenerationOn 2nd November 1952, two teenagers were trapped by police on a warehouse roof. In the course of what the national press were to describe as 'a Chicago-style gun battle', P.C. Sidney Miles was shot between the eyes and...
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Constable
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2014-10-23
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The murders, the arrest, the trial. First world publication of the full story.David Yallop is the investigative writer whose previous books, including the bestselling To Encourage the Others and Beyond Reasonable Doubt?, have solved four murder mysteries. In this, his...
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Constable
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2014-10-23
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On 17th June, 1970, in a small farming district, south of Auckland, New Zealand, Harvey and Jeanette Crewe were shot and killed in the lounge of their home. Five months later, a neighbour, Arthur Allan Thomas, was arrested, charged and found guilty of their murder. He...
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Constable
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2014-10-23
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The true story behind the 'Fatty Arbuckle' ScandalDavid Yallop is no stranger to controversy.The impact of his investigations in such bestsellers as In God's Name, Beyond Reasonable Doubt and To Encourage the Others has reverberated around the world. InThe Day the...
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Constable
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2014-10-23
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Imagine a company so big and so powerful that its annual turnover is equal in size to China's entire GDP. A company whose gross turnover for just one financial year is sufficient to buy at current market value the world's three largest public companies: General...
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Constable
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2014-10-23
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LOOKING FOR MADELEINE is the must-read account that the online haters tried to silence. Its award-winning authors, Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, are featured in the NETFLIX series 'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann'."EXPLOSIVE" Sun ...
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Headline
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2014-09-11
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Personal Security: Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe is a video presentation. Length: 26 minutes.InPersonal Security: Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe, presenter Rosalind W. Jackson provides personal security guidelines for securing your workplace, home, and...
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Elsevier
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2014-09-02
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Bavaria, Germany, 1947. At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents' cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father's shame, her mother's fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to...
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Riverrun
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2014-07-31
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