This gripping anthology of the stories our history teachers didn't tell us includes: the fugutive whose favoruite food was his fellow escapers, the granny who giggled while her victims died in agony; the coral island awash with the blood of the Batavia killings; the lady-killing cad who rivalled Jack the Ripper; the monster of Norfolk Island; voluptuous Lola Montez; the gun molls whose kiss meant death; thegangsters who tried to kill our greatest sporting legend; and the musical genius who sang of the joys of flagellation.
A Heart-breaking Account of Love and LossWhen newly separated mum, Cindy Gambino, dropped her boys off to spend Father's Day 2005 with her estranged husband, she had no idea she would never see them alive again.
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life.
This is the story of Denis Tanner, a Victorian detective who hit the headlines in 1996 when a newspaper accused him of murdering two women - his sister-in-law Jennifer, whose death in 1984 was treated as suicide, and Adele Bailey, a transsexual prostitute who disappeared in 1978.
