30 posts tagged unwin

ISBN 9781741148176 Blurb from the Book She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock . . . heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came.

In 1829 at the Supreme Court in Sydney, the bewitching Jane New was sentenced to death. Her crime: shoplifting a bolt of printed French silk. But was she guilty? Many had their doubts. read more

It was the largest bank robbery in Australian history. read more

Carol Baxter is a Fellow of the Society of Australian Genealogists and one of the country's leading genealogical researchers. read more

When the sun lowers itself into the bay and leaves the sky over St Kilda a dark crimson, it's beautiful and threatening at the same time. But the tourists don't see it that way.

This is one of them, courtesy of a link from Stormy Davis on ILM — it’s a 1968 performance of the Small Faces on a British TV show, Colour Me Pop, of “Song of a Baker”: Too good not to share, for sure — it’s a classic live mime of a performance, as the fade out and the wonderfully awkward transition

Having read his first book way late (which I loved) I've now started on the second in a new series featuring local (to Melbourne) detective Rubens McCauley. read more

All is not as it seems in the calm, well-ordered streets of the nation's capital.

In this new collection of short stories, Cliff Hardy has his hands full with murder, blackmail, embezzlement and more.

Having finished Still Waters by Camilla Noli last night I'm off for a palate freshner in this collection of Short Stories by Peter Corris. A great little collection in which Cliff takes the p read more