AustLit

'ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S TOP TRUE CRIME WRITERS AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING UNDERBELLY SERIES. Rule on Crime is a carefully curated and updated collection of 10 of Andrew Rule’s best Australian true crime and corruption stories. Compelling, unsettling, and 100 per cent true, Rule’s stories take the reader inside cases that gripped and shocked the nation. Dying on Easey Street The 1977 murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett in Collingwood, Melbourne have gone unsolved to the present day. Billy ‘The Texan’ Longley One of few to survive the Melbourne dock wars that inflicted more casualties than the Eureka Rebellion — around 40 men dead and many more wounded during a decade that spawned the now-notorious saying, "We catch and kill our own." Girls who like bad boys Sylvia Radev, Roberta Williams, Judy Moran ... women married to the mob. Still looking for the Beaumont Children In 2017 Jim and Nancy Beaumont turned 91 and 89. For more than 50 years they have woken every day to face the nightmare that their three children vanished from a crowded beach on Australia Day, 1966.' (Publication summary)

'Man & Beast features some of the greats of Australian literature, writing about the particular kinships they have with animals: the loves, the losses and the surprising turns those relationships can take.

'Les Carlyon writes about those strange beings, horse people. Robert Drewe's curious eye falls on everything from bull sharks to bull ants. Don Watson is a secret racehorse fancier. Shaun Micallef remembers the dog that might never have been and Paul Toohey laments the passing of the 'roo dog.

'Plus, Andrew Rule, Phillip Adams, Greg Baum, Tony Birch, John Birmingham, Anson Cameron, John Clarke, Greg Combet, Trent Dalton, John Elder, Jonathan Green, John Harms, Malcolm Knox, Garry Linnell, William McInnes, Bruce Pascoe, Liam Pieper, Frank Robson, Andrew Rule, John Silvester, Jeff Sparrow, Tony Wilson, Tony Wright share their memorable stories of the animals in their lives.' (Publication summary)

'The compelling and inspirational story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes, a remarkable Australian. Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of this country's wealthiest and most powerful people but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't. He is the last mogul. His rise has intrigued the business world for decades but there is so much more to him than takeover targets and balance sheets. Behind the laconic front is a human story as tough and touching as a Dickens tale: Oliver Twist with great self-expectations. It is the story of a poor boy who stared down poverty, ignorance and the stigma of his birth to achieve great wealth and fulfilment. A compelling story that, until now, he has not told. Now he oversees a multi-billion dollar media, machinery and property empire. He is renowned for his art collection and for philanthropy, spending millions of dollars to buy Victoria Crosses from soldiers' families to donate to the Australian War Memorial. But he's a private man. A man apart. He made his name in the West but kept his distance from the buccaneering band of entrepreneurs who forged fabulous fortunes in Perth from the 1960s until the 1987 crash. Bond went to jail, Holmes a Court died; Connell did both. Lesser lights flickered and faded but Stokes grew stronger, becoming a player alongside Murdoch, Packer and Lowy. His story fascinates all the more because he has spent most of his life guarding it. But now he's telling it, to one of Australia's great storytellers. This book will tell his story, scars and all.' (Publication summary)

'Adapted from John Dixon's original screenplay for the television mini-series, this is the story of legendary boxer Lionel Rose. With photographs from the series, the book charts his rise to fame during the 1960s and his decline into alcoholism and drugs at the age of just 21. Includes a foreword by Bob Hawke and an introduction by Ron Casey.' (Source: Goodreads website)