Smack Express

RRP: £7.99

Corruption, drugs and organised crime in Australia.From Robert Trimbole’s dominance of the cannabis trade in the 70s and Sydney’s gang wars in the 80s, to the rise of Cabramatta as the heroin capital …

The Good Soldiers

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In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the mo …

London Calling

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London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture – creative, …

Where Men Win Glory

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Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a million dollar contract when, in 2001, al-Qaeda launc …

Blood, Iron and Gold

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The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and G …

Dubai

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Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai’s population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or saili …

A Stout Pair of Boots

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More and more Australians are visiting battlefields around the world, from Gallipoli and France to Vietnam. But what do you do when you get there? This essential guide to the Australian battlefields t …

American Gangster

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The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York’s most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.In 1970s New …

The Subterranean Railway

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Since the Victorian era, London’s Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determi …

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in a then peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Fleeing across the border to Pakistan, Masood entered a …

Too Many Mothers

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‘I was born in a sideboard.’ So begins Roberta Taylor’s bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It’s Boxing Day, 1956 in E …

Peace Kills

In this latest collection of adventures, P. J. O’Rourke casts his mordant eye on America’s recent forays into warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. O’Rourke first travels to Kosovo, where he m …

Peace Kills

‘A hilarious, no-holds-barred tour of the new world order, from ‘America’s greatest prose comedian’ – Sunday TimesPeace Kills is an eye-opening look at a world much changed since O’Rourke wrote his be …

Playing the Enemy

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Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of …

The Bible

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The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years …

John Stuart Mill

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A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and on …