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Bastard Behind the Lines: The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese by Tom Gilling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters. 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like ...Show more
Dreamland by Tom Gilling
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It was just a little lie. But it has landed Nick Carmody in serious trouble. It didn't seem much, to say he was the one driving Danny Grogan's car when it was caught by a speed camera. And Danny's billionaire father has promised to make the lie worth his while. First published 2008.
Evil Life : The True Story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia by Clive Small and Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks.Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been respon ...Show more
Griffith Wars TPB by Tom Gilling; Terry Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - wh ...Show more
Grog A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years by Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolution, made fortunes and ruined lives. In a society with few luxuries, liquor was power. It played a crucial role, not just in the lives of individuals like ...Show more
Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Pine Gap is a top secret American spy base on Australian soil, but how much do we really know about it?
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
The Griffith Wars - The Powerful True Story of Donald Mackay's Murder and the Town That Stood up to the Mafia by Tom Gilling; Terry Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - wh ...Show more
The Lost Battalions - A Battle That Could Not Be Won an Island That Could Not Be Defended. an Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'. Until n ...Show more
The Sooterkin by Gilling, Tom
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a squally afternoon in the winter of 1821 Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Van Diemen's Land, a thing more seal than human. The Reverend Mr Kidney at first suspects a virgin birth. Mr Sculley, an anatomist and man of science, hails it as the antipodean answer to the elusive ...Show more
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