Australian
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1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia
James Boyce
Blac Inc. ISBN 9781863954754
2011
Hardback
Price $AU 44.95
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In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in Londin and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait -- and so changed the course of Australian history.
This new work from James Boyce (Van Diemen's Land) has been described by Tim Flannery as a 'brilliant book' and by Richard Flanagan as the 'most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore'.
Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank Killings
Peter Corris
NewSouth ISBN 9781742232867
2011
Hardback
Price $AU 29.95
Peter Corris has published more than 60 works of fiction (including the Cliff Hardy series), as well as non-fiction on topics such as Pacific history and a social history of boxing in Australia. Here, he examines the life William Cyril Moxley, who was hanged at Sydney's Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years. His crime was the brutal rape and murder of 21-year-old Dorothy Ruth Denzel and the vicious beating and killing of her boyfriend, Frank Barnby Wilkinson. How did this World War I army deserter, small-time thief, conman and police informer come to be the infamous murderer Mad Dog Moxley? Was it simply a robbery gone wrong? Did his blackouts and migraines stem from a head injury as he claimed, or was he the monstrous sociopath described by the prosecution lawyers and the tabloids? Why did he leave such an obvious trail? Would he be found guilty today?