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Leigh Straw, Angel of Death Dulcie Markham, Australia’s most beautiful bad woman

Leigh Straw, Angel of Death Dulcie Markham, Australia’s most beautiful bad woman HarperCollins, 2019, ISBN 978073333966 (p/bk), pp1-312, RRP $32.99 Angel of Death is the third book by writer and historian Leigh Straw that focus on Australian women and crime. It follows…

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Adam Courtenay, The Ship That Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History

Adam Courtenay, The Ship That Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History HarperCollins Publishers (ABC Books), 323 pp., ISBN: 978073333857, p/bk, AUS$29.99 In a genuine example of fact is stranger than fiction,  journalist Adam Courtenay's book The Ship That…