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&quot;<i>Alan Collins' memoir successfully straddles both history and literature. It is a memoir that has wry appeal to the seasoned Jewish historical reader and the novice alike with its keen observations and its pacey narrative, detailing the life of a young Jewish boy growing up in Bondi in the 30s and 40s. Collins, who died in March 2008 aged 79, leaves a compelling story about part of Australia's rich journey of immigration, particularly its Jewish roots.</i>&quot; – Reviewed by <b>Sally Spalding</b>, Moorabbin Glen Eira Leader, January 2009<br /> <br />&quot;<i>Collins' memoir is an illuminating look at Sydney's lively Jewish community in the 1930s and 1940s. It is also a testament of courage and resilience. Collins somehow survived his childhood and went on to become a successful businessman, writer, husband and father.</i>&quot; – <b>Dianne Dempsey</b>, The Age November 2008

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A biography of Arthur Upfield as told to Jessica Hawke with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.<br /> <br />Here is Arthur Upfield's own story, the author of those remarkable murder mysteries set in odd corners of Australia and featuring the Aboriginal sleuth named 'Bony'. A detailed dossier compiled with the cheerful candour of the subject himself.<br /> <br />An Englishman by birth, Arthur Upfield tried his luck in Australia. After a short spell as a waiter in Adelaide, Upfield felt drawn towards the Interior where he became a boundary-rider, offside-driver, cattle-drover, opal-gouger, rabbit-trapper, vermin fence patroller and manager of a camel station, drifting through the strange terrains and unusual company which were later to become the subject of his novels. He also tells how he unwittingly provided a real outback murderer with a 'fool-proof' method of disposing of a body, and who was the original on whom the character of 'Bony' was based.

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Growing up on a farm, June Alexander was a happy, energetic child. At age 11, she became consumed by thoughts of losing weight, and spent the next 40 years struggling with an inner 'tormentor' which threatened to ruin her health, her family and her relationships.<br /> <br /><b><i>A Girl Called Tim</i></b> is the shocking, painful story of living with an eating disorder and reveals how triumph over this crippling disease is possible.

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Wild encounters with crocodiles, mad Territorians, Asian crab poachers, Cyclone Tracy, petty-crooks, the NT police, magistrates, judges and murderers, family members, Fred Brophy and his boxing troupe and all levels of authority.<br /> <br />Meet Roy Wright, an old-style villain and barramundi poacher extraordinaire who, after a lifetime of dodging police, unbelievably goes straight(ish) in a legitimate mud crab business.<br /> <br />Author, Bob Magor, paints a warts-and-all true-life portrait of a bloke with a strong sense of an Aussie fair go, a bit-of-class larrikinism, and a stuff 'em attitude towards authority.<br /> <br />And as for the leopard-skin jocks? A man needs a trademark!

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Manfred Jurgensen was born between Denmark and Germany in the coastal border town of Flensburg in 1940, a 'midnight child'. He has always been sensitive to boundaries and what's beyond the borders, emotionally and physically. He has chosen to reveal his life history – to a very large extent dominated by World War II and its aftermath – in a highly original and unusual form.<br /> <br />The protagonist and his lifetime experiences are wrapped within a semi-fictional presentation that he suggests might be called 'autofiction', or perhaps a 'bio-novel'. Throughout the narrative he philosophises about the nature of 'coincidence' as a life-force.<br /> <br />Switzerland, formerly known as the excessively clean and prosperous 'neutral' country of war-torn Europe, is the symbolic present-day setting for this imaginative narrative. It begins just after he suffers a nervous breakdown while delivering a doctoral seminar at the University of Basle. In a luxurious sanatorium for mentally disturbed patients called Humanitas, he is asked to write about his life experiences, including his own awareness of the Nazi era and what it meant to be one of 'Hitler's children'; he is regularly interviewed by a Board of distinguished psychiatrists based on these accounts. An involuntary prisoner, he longs to achieve his freedom and be reunited with his wife.

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It took an extraordinary effort by police task forces in Australia and America to take down an international child pornography ring.<br /> <br />But Rescuing Tara is so much more than bringing some truly reprehensible men – one of whom was &quot;Tara's&quot; own father – to justice.<br /> <br />Rescuing Tara is the story of how dedicated police officers on opposite sides of the world used the paedophile ring's own playroom – cyberspace itself – along with good old-fashioned investigative work in their search for a young girl whose real name they didn't know; whose location was a mystery; and whose fate was unknown.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.

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Forensic evidence is known as the 'silent witness'. Crime scene examiners make the silent witness speak.<br /> <br />Sergeant Trevor Evans has been a crime scene examiner for 17 years, and worked the notorious case of murdered baby Jaidyn Leskie in Moe. He also examined the scene of the intriguing, still-unsolved murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove, a mother gunned down in the driveway of her home in Niddrie.<br /> <br />Evans also used his wealth of experience when he was called to join the international team shifting through the debris after the Bali bombings, in order to identify those who lost their lives.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.

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In 1996 a neighbour spies three Asian men running out of a court in Glen Waverley. It looks like two chasing one. But when they head towards a nearby car with an open boot, and suddenly the boot closes and there are only two men standing there, the chase takes on a more sinister aspect.<br /> <br />Young Steve Tragardh joined the police force when he was 18 and a half; he'd tried uni for a while, but it wasn't for him. He had come through the private school system and while his parents might have harboured secret hopes of a career in medicine, or law like his twin brother, they offered their full support when their son chose policing. The kidnapping of this young Asian boy would go onto be a defining moment in his career.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.

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In the early 1950s, Rod Braybon's father died, leaving his mother with eight children she couldn't care for.<br /> <br />As a ward of the state, Rod ended up at the notorious Bayswater Boys' Home, run by the Salvation Army, near Melbourne.<br /> <br />Rod endured years of ill-treatment at the hands of the Salvation Army, then spent a life-time repressing the memories that haunted him.<br /> <br />Finally, after seeing an article in a newspaper, Rod decided to speak out.<br /> <br />His story created a nation-wide sensation and won a prestigious award for the journalist who broke it.<br /> <br />That Rod was willing to speak out to try and ease the suffering of others like him, is incredible.<br /> <br />That he survived at all, is nothing short of a miracle.<br /> <br />This short story is expanded in Vikki's full-length book Salvation.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.

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In 1986 a bomb went off outside the main police headquarters in Russell Street Melbourne.<br /> <br />The Russell Street Bombing looks at the consequences of this shocking act of violence from the point of view of an entire city, the police force that was targeted, and in particular one 19-year-old victim.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.

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