Woodslane | Search

Add to Cart

The Wieambilla Shootings
The True Story of a long-prepared ambush by religiously motivetedconspiracy theorists
Grappling with a dangerous conspiratorial worldview, Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train carry out one of Australia’s most horrific ambush attacks. Disillusion, paranoia, isolation collides violently with distrust of government and the outside world in Central Queensland.
ISBN-13: 9781922810847 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
John Kerr
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 121 in stock
Local release date: 01/01/2024
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: True crime [BTC]

Add to Cart

The Boxing Butterfly
A Life of Conviction
The career chronicle of a Senior Crown Prosecutor who helped convict murderers, rapists and child sex offenders, then turned 180 degrees and became a defence barrister. In her wake, a failed attempt by ICAC to undo her career, and a conga line of professional admirers.
ISBN-13: 9781925927924 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Margaret Cunneen, Andrew L. Urban
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 774 in stock
Local release date: 04/05/2022
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]Memoirs [BM]True crime [BTC]Reportage & collected journalism [DNJ]

Add to Cart

Double Trouble
The Amazing True Story of the After Dark Bandit
It was a crime spree like no other. One of the great double acts in Australian criminal history led police on a merry chase for more than two years. And all the time police thought they were chasing one man. There were two, maybe three stickups a month but only in the colder months.
ISBN-13: 9781922810670 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Geoff Wilkinson, Ross Brundrett
Price:
AUD $34.99
Stock: 144 in stock
Local release date: 07/09/2023
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: True crime [BTC]

Add to Cart

The Australian Gamble
Organized Crime Down Under
The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyns, the Bally gambling organization managing director, role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history.
ISBN-13: 9781538177082 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Paul Bleakley
Price:
AUD $39.99
Stock: 21 in stock
Local release date: 15/07/2023
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: True crime [BTC]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Organized crime [JKVM]Australasia [1MB]

Add to Cart

Hello, Norma Jeane
The Marilyn Monroe You Didn't Know
This accessible and comprehensive guide reveals the human being behind the legend of cinemas brightest star.
ISBN-13: 9781493053957 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: APPLAUSE
Elisa Jordan
Price:
AUD $49.99
Stock: 5 in stock
Local release date: 16/11/2023
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: Biography: arts & entertainment [BGF]True crime [BTC]

Add to Cart

Day 9 at Wooreen
Kidnapped on his ninth day of teaching, Rob Hunter retells the story of how Edwin John Eastwood, the Faraday kidnapper, having escaped from prison, burst into his remote South Gippsland school and at gun point took Rob and his nine students hostage.
ISBN-13: 9781925642766 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Rob Hunter
Price:
AUD $24.99
Stock: 126 in stock
Local release date: 01/05/2019
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True crime [BTC]

Add to Cart

Breaking Ranks
An Amazing True Story of a Cop on the Line
The inside story of the Walsh Street Task Force and how a young policeman advanced through Victoria Police in the turbulent 1980s.
ISBN-13: 9781925927481 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Joe Noonan
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 48 in stock
Local release date: 03/02/2021
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True crime [BTC]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]True stories of heroism, endurance & survival [BTP]Society & social sciences [J]Social services & welfare, criminology [JK]Crime & criminology [JKV]Criminal investigation & detection [JKVF]

Add to Cart

Escape
The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton
“This is one of the world’s most notorious—and remarkable—heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. Despite still being on the run, McMillan has written a book, Escape, about … his amazing breakout in Bangkok” The Australian.
ISBN-13: 9781912049967 (Paperback)
Publisher: MONSOON BOOKS
Imprint: MONSOON BOOKS
David McMillan
Price:
AUD $22.99
Stock: 8 in stock
Local release date: 13/10/2021
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True crime [BTC]Society & social sciences [J]Social services & welfare, criminology [JK]Crime & criminology [JKV]Penology & punishment [JKVP]

Add to Cart

Tinseltown Gangsters
The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Hollywood
Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses.
ISBN-13: 9781538173565 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Jeffrey Sussman
Price:
AUD $64.99
Stock: 4 in stock
Local release date: 19/02/2024
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Categories: True crime [BTC]20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]Organized crime [JKVM]USA [1KBB]