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Australia's Vietnam - Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myt ...Show more
Carnage: A succulent Chinese meal, Mr Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson murders by Mark Dapin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. But when out of the blue this Falstaff figure called author Mark Dapin thirty years later, it emerged his story went to the heart of the Australian underworld over decades, connecting a celebrated ...Show more
From the Trenches by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Others have written the myth, but the Anzacs themselves wrote their stories. Around the country, bronze soldiers in slouch hats stand silently at attention. It is the Anzacs' remarkable writing that reveals the lives behind the national legend. In the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspirin ...Show more
From the Trenches: The Best ANZAC Writing of World War I by Mark Dapin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
In the centenary of World War One, here are the Anzacs in their own words. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, ...Show more
Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home by Mark Dapin (Contribution by); Diane Armstrong (Contribution by); Chris Flynn (Contribution by); Kent MacCarter; Maria Tumarkin (Contribution by); Meg Mundell (Contribution by); Paola Totaro (Contribution by); Catherine Rey (Contribution by); Ali Lemerm; Alison Lemer (Editor); Arnold Zable (Foreword by); Alice Pung (Contribution by); Danny Katz (Contribution by); Amy Espeseth (Contribution by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
These are stories about what they found, who they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians.Contributors ...Show more
King of the Cross by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Explores the criminal world of Jacob Mendoza, legendary Godfather of Kings Cross who for more than four decades was Australia's most notorious crime figure. He employs a young reporter to record his life and as Mendoza's story unfolds it emerges he is not the only one with a past as other terrifying cri ...Show more
King of the Cross by Mark Dapin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
King of the Cross is a dazzling novel that explores the criminal world of Jacob Mendoza, legendary Godfather of Kings Cross and for more than four decades, Australia's most powerful and notorious crime figure. To record his epic life story he employs a hapless young reporter from the Australian Jewish T ...Show more
Prison Break: Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton, The World's Most Wanted Australians by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The real stories behind Gregory Roberts, John Killick and Australia's most daring prison escapes. In his global bestselling novel Shantaram, Gregory Roberts based his fiction on fact. He was once Australia's most wanted man - a prison escapee who went on to live an extraordinary life in India and beyond ...Show more
R&R by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
John 'Nashville' Grant is an American military policeman in the RR town of Vung Tau, tucked safely behind the front lines of the Vietnam War. Nashville knows how everything works: the army, the enemy, bars, secrets, men and women. He's keeping the peace by keeping his head down and making the most of it ...Show more
Spirit House by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD David is thirteen and confused. His mum has left with her lover and dumped David on his grandparents. David's grandfather, Jimmy, is seventy. He spends his days at the social cl ...Show more
Strange Country : Travels in a Very Different Australia by Mark Dapin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains ...Show more