Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer by The Secret Barrister
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
<b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week‘</b> Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir <i>Nothing But The Truth</i> tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, ...Show more
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY' Alan Rusbridger The British tradition of "free speech" is a myth. From the middl ...Show more
The Hanged Man: The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan by Mike Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
This biography of Ronald Ryan, the last man to be executed by the state in Australia, provides a definitive account of the life and death of the man whose sentence stopped a nation. Drawing on previously unpublished documents and personal accounts, this book includes details of Ryan's childhood and his ...Show more
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by Misha Glenny
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
"In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, ...Show more
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of misbehavior and skullduggery by one of the most decorated journalists of our time."I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an artic ...Show more
Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice by Julian Burnside
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
True crime writing at its finest, from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of In My Skin.Winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twiligh ...Show more
We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'John le Carré demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times'Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$14.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment | Series: Popular Penguins
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
$36.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more