Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleepout. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eage

What if you saved a man's life and he went on to play a leading role in one of the bloodiest revolutions of modern times?Ted Whittlemore, a radical Australian journalist, does just that. In the late '60s, he saves Nhem Kiry, soon to become known as 'Pol Pot's mouthpiece'. The consequences haunt him for the rest of his days. When the Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia, Whittlemore watches, fascinat

At the close of a long day, 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. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece,nbsp;The Broken Shore, winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel.nbsp; Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his tou

THE PEOPLE'S TRAIN is firmly based in the truth. From the Russian uprising of 1905 to the early 1910s, a number of Russian victims of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, came to Queensland. They were socialists and revolutionaries.. In 1911 Artem (F.A.) Sergeiev, about 34 years of age, an educated peasant and a veteran agent of Lenin's, a man of considerable charisma, arrived with his friend S