Collection: Adult Non Fiction - True Crime

A heartfelt, brave and inspiring memoir about the power of speaking out. A brave nun. Her twin brother. The secrets and lies that would tear them apart. There is a special bond that twins share, an ethereal connection that can't be put into words. Margaret Harrod shared that unique bond with her ...

"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi bo...

The Boxing Butterfly is a career chronicle of Margaret Cunneen SC - the boxing butterfly who turned the tables on ICAC, amidst prosecuting murderers, paedophiles and rapists - as she launches into her new chapter as a defence barrister. In her rear view mirror, Cunneen sees her trial successes - ...

Buru Island was the site of Indonesia's most remote and infamous prison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between 1969 and 1979, approximately 12,000 men were held on Buru without formal charge or trial. During their detention prisoners suffered torture, forced labou...

Whether you know it as the 'succulent Chinese meal' video (as it appears on T-shirts) or 'democracy manifest' (as it's taught in schools), chances are you're one of the millions of Australians who've seen Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1990. The Guardian ha...

Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden's long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. In The Case of the Vanishing Blonde, the veteran reporter revisits some of his most riveting stories and examines the effects of modern tec...