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All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Three Kings part 3 | Reading Level: General Adult
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more
Brisbane by Matthew Condon
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: City series
In this book, the third in a series on Australian cities in which leading Australian authors write about their home city, novelist and journalist Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of his childhood, Brisbane. Having returned there after many years, Condon takes the reader on a unique and personal journ ...Show more
Brisbane : Updated Edition by Matthew Condon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City Ser.
Part of a series in which leading Australian authors write about their hometowns, this unique and evocative exploration is part memoir and part guide to Australia's Brisbane. Intertwining personal stories with the city's historical past, this account paints a portrait of the contemporary transformation ...Show more
Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Three Kings part 2 | Reading Level: General Adult
The gripping second instalment of the rise--and spectacular fall--of one man, an entire state, and generations of corruption. "The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke, you didn't last long." 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversia ...Show more
Little Fish are Sweet by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said 'Little fish are sweet." --Jack 'The Bagman' Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988. L ...Show more
The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...Show more
The Pillow Fight by Matthew Steven Condon
$19.70 AUD
Category: Fiction
No matter how dark it is out here, amongst the mangrove islands, I can still see my own blood sprayed across the white wall...I am fixed in my canvas chair, the same as every night, and I look across the white wall of the dining room in my house, a thousand kilometres away, a warm and thin constellation ...Show more
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, this is the story of simple rabbiter and farm hand Wilfred Lampe who, at the end of his long life, is unwittingly swept up into an international spectacle. On the ...Show more
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Trout Opera is a stunning epic novel that encompasses twentieth-century Australia. Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, it is the story of simple rabbiter and farmhand Wilfred Lampe who, at the e ...Show more
Three Crooked Kings: The first explosive true story behind the ABC podcast 'Dig: The Sirens are Coming' by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Three Kings part 1 | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
It was the genius of the system . . . From day to day you didn't know who was on the take or not. You didn't know who you could trust.' Three Crooked Kingsis the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. At its core is Terence Murray Lewis, de ...Show more
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