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Bumper: The Life and Legend of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell by Larry Writer
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Based on never-before-published family, police and court records, photographs, interviews with people who knew him, including criminals, football colleagues and police officers, this is the biography of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell. He was a gambler, a hard drinker, a devoted husband and father, a devout Cath ...Show more
Bumper: The Life and times of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell by Larry Writer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history. Frank 'Bumper' Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and vice-squad leader Australia has ever seen. Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered ears and fists like hams, Bumper' ...Show more
Dangerous Games: Australia at the 1936 Nazi Olympics by Larry Writer
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
'Larry Writer has delivered a gem in Dangerous Games.' - Roland Perry, author of Bill the Bastard..'Writer has faithfully recreated the 1936 Olympics - the most controversial in history.' - Harry Gordon, author of Australia and the Olympic Games..This is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes ...Show more
Never Before, Never Again by Larry Writer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Larry Writer tells the remarkable and timeless story of how St George - one of Australia's most famous rugby league clubs - accomplished a sporting miracle from 1956 to 1966. Delving into those 11 seasons and the lives of the men who achieved the impossible, Writer produces a remarkable study of sportin ...Show more
Pitched Battle: In the Frontline of the 1971 Springbok Tour of Australia by Larry Writer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
"In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby team toured Australia, we became a nation at war with ourselves. There was bloodshed as tens of thousands of anti-apartheid campaigners clashed with governments, police, and rugby fans : who were given free reign to assault protestors. Queen ...Show more
The Australian Book of Disasters by Larry Writer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The recent floods that ravaged Queensland saw three-quarters of the state declared a disaster zone - from the capital city on the Brisbane River to remote rural communities - and caused billions of dollars worth of damage, forcing thousands to abandon their homes. This latest assault by nature reminds u ...Show more
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit by Larry Writer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of The Dunbar. At the top of The Gap, the haunted cliffs that front the coast of Sydney's Watsons Bay, sits a massive, battered anchor. It belonged to the Dunbar, an 1186-tonne three-masted clipped en route to Sydney from Plymou ...Show more
Underbelly - Razor by Larry Writer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crime
This Underbelly TV tie-in edition is the acclaimed, award-winning history of the Razor gangs. In the 1920s and '30s in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia's history waged war with razor and gun. As gang fought gang, the streets echoed with the sound of violence and ran with ...Show more
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