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On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political. If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence.

This is a historical novel, based on the true story of a young English convict named William Buckley who, on Boxing Day 1803, escaped from Victoria’s abortive first settlement at Sorrento and then survived in the wilderness for thirty-two years, mainly because he was adopted and helped by local aboriginal tribes. In 1835 Buckley emerged with his tribal friends to meet Melbourne’s founders, and quickly became an important guide and interpreter in the crucial first years of the European conquest of the Port Phillip region.

When Muster Dogs first hit screens in 2022, viewers were enchanted. Five lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia on an intensive training program became instant stars. Could they learn to herd and muster within a year? Could they show that working with dogs was a better way to farm? Among those who lost their hearts to these amazing puppies was narrator Lisa Millar. In this companion book to the show, Lisa takes us behind the scenes to meet the cast, the crew and the star dogs themselves.

Lisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up, getting things done and making things happen. Despite the risks, despite the fear, despite life getting in the way. As a child growing up in country Queensland, she had dreamed of a big life. Working as a foreign correspondent gave her that. But it also meant confronting the worst of what humanity can bring - the dead children at Sandy Hook, the sorrow of grieving relatives after the Bataclan theatre terrorist attack and the aftermath of Manchester. Three decades as a journalist witnessing grief and unspeakable tragedy had a cost. 

In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk — it was a pilgrimage. From Granada, in the southeast, to Santiago de Compostela, in the far northwest, Tony followed the Via Mozarabe and the Via de la Plata, two of the many pilgrim trails that crisscross Spain and Portugal and that all lead to a single destination.

From prize - winning short - story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In Laminex and Mirrors, a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor's orders. In Cross - Country, a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex's new life.

Living Better is Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life-affirming account of his lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical, psychological and psychiatric study, which explores his own childhood, family and other relationships and examines the impact of his professional and political life on himself and those around him. But it also lays bare his relentless quest to understand depression not just through his own life but through different treatments.

«En Madrid se mata poco», le decía al joven subinspector Ángel Zárate su mentor en la policía; «pero cuando se mata, no tiene nada que envidiarle a ninguna ciudad del mundo», podría añadir la inspectora Elena Blanco, jefa de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos, un departamento creado para resolver los crímenes más complicados y abyectos.

A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language. We live in a torrent of words — from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this new edition of the bestselling Wordwatching, words are a source both of pleasure and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill.

The thinking woman's erotica: Quiver's 12 interlinked short stories explore desire in all its complexity, and transport us into a world of love, power, pain, pleasure and obsession. Experience the excitement of the new, sexual friction at its most primal, and the lingering fingers of a past that refuses to let go. Tobsha Learner's passionate short story collections, Quiver, Tremble, and Yearn, will consume you - and have you begging for more.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of “thinspiration” websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally, she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong.

It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the end is close, and Satan is like a roaring lion, seeking to devour us. Ali Millar is waiting for Armageddon. Born into the Jehovah's Witnesses in a town in the Scottish Borders, her childhood revolves around regular meetings in the Kingdom Hall, where she is haunted by vivid images of the Second Coming, her mind populated by the bodies that will litter the earth upon Jehovah's return. In this frightening, cloistered world, Ali grows older.

The Thinking Woman's Erotica; A movie star longs for anonymity. A Sydney sculptor wonders whether a lover can be summoned by the act of artistic creation. A London weatherman inspires both obsessive lust and devastating storms. An eighteenth-century biographer discovers a magic, erotic ritual which will change his life forever.

The thinking woman's erotica. In Wales, a young woman's sensuality is awakened by an outrageous inheritance. In Oklahoma, a rainmaker offers a drought-stricken town salvation at a controversial price. In Sydney, a record producer struggles to balance wife and mistress - until one of them takes matters into her own hands.... Tobsha Learner's passionate short story collections, Quiver, Tremble, and Yearn, will consume you - and have you begging for more.

Your salespeople are your lifeblood. You may not like it, but that’s the way it is, and they are also a breed unto themselves. They don’t function like the rest of us, and aren’t we glad about that! They have to be tough, negotiating, conciliatory, patient, driven, results-oriented, and bloody minded. If they were not so, they wouldn’t get the results we need. But are you getting the best out of them? We tend to respond to our sales staff in one of two ways.

Ella les arruinó la vida. Ahora quieren destruir la suya. "Alguien está recreando cada punto traumático de tu vida. Lo hace para provocarte sufrimiento, para hacerte daño, y el único final posible es la muerte. Tu muerte". En la cuarta planta del edificio Chaucer, dos adolescentes aparecen encadenados a un radiador. El chico está muerto, pero la chica está viva. Para la detective Kim Stone, cada detalle de la escena es un reflejo de su propia experiencia aterradora con su hermano Mikey, cuando vivían en el mismo edificio, treinta años atrás.

Él la dio por muerta. Pero ella sigue aquí. Cuando la detective de homicidios de Boston Jane Rizzoli y la médica forense Maura Isles llegan a la escena de un crimen brutal, se encuentran con una matanza digna de la bestia más feroz; incluso hay marcas de garras en el cadáver. Allí, el renombrado cazador y taxidermista Leon Gott ha sido grotescamente exhibido como si fuera uno de los magníficos animales cuyas cabezas adornan las paredes de su propia casa.

Un día tórrido de verano la inspectora Elena Blanco, al frente de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos, irrumpe en la vivienda de una familia de clase media y llega hasta la habitación del hijo adolescente. En la pantalla de su ordenador se confirma lo que temían: el chico está viendo una sesión snuff en directo en la que dos encapuchados torturan a una chica. Impotentes, presencian cómo el sádico espectáculo continúa hasta la muerte de la víctima de la que, de momento, no conocen el nombre. ¿Cuántas antes que ella habrán caído en manos de la Red Púrpura?

Es la noche del fin de año chino, empieza el año del cerdo. Chesca, al mando de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos desde hace un año, ha quedado con Ángel Zárate, pero en el último momento este le da plantón. Aun así, ella sale a divertirse, conoce a un hombre y pasa la noche con él. A la mañana siguiente, tres hombres rodean su cama, a la espera de unirse al festín. Y un repulsivo olor a cerdo impregna la estancia.

ÉL VIGILA. ESPERA. ELLOS DESAPARECEN. Estás justo donde el asesino quiere que estés... La médica forense de Boston, Maura Isles, viaja a Wyoming para una conferencia médica y se une a un grupo de amigos para un viaje de esquí de último momento. Pero cuando la camioneta todoterreno se encaja en un camino de montaña nevado, quedan varados sin ayuda a la vista. Cuando cae la noche, el grupo se refugia de la tormenta de nieve en el remoto poblado de El Reino Celestial, donde doce casas idénticas aguardan, oscuras y abandonadas.