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  • Amaze Your Friends

    by Peter Doyle ...
    SYDNEY, 1959. Billy Glasheen is flogging mailorder schemes out of a seedy back room in Chinatown. Want to play guitar in 14 days? Learn Italian in your spare time? Win big with an infallible betting system? Master the love secrets of the ancients? Bill’s your man.But there are unsettled accounts in Billy’s past, and they’re coming due. As shadowy factions line up around him, he can’t be sure if he ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Get Rich Quick

    by Peter Doyle ...
    Meet Billy Glasheen, a fresh voice in crime fiction. It’s Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy’s trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he’s a likeable guy, with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarios-whether it’s a gambling scam, transporting a fortune in stolen jewels, or keeping the wheels greased during a hair-raising tour by Little Richard and his rock n’ roll entourage.But trouble ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Battle of Bellewaarde, June 1915

    by Carole McEntee-Taylor ...
    It was 2am on the 16th June 1915 and dawn was slowly breaking over Bellewaarde. It was exceptionally quiet, the troops of 3rd Division were situated on the western edge of Railway Wood and shrouded in a thick mist which reduced visibility and gave the illusion of safety. Across the few yards of no man's land, the German troops of Reserve Infantry Regiments (RIR) 248 and 246, and Unter-Elsssisches ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First World War in 100 Objects

    by Peter Doyle ...
    Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can understand the experience of men and women during the First World War. They bear witness to the stories of men whose only morning comfort in the trenches was the rum ration, children who grew up with only one photograph of the father that they would never get to know, women who would ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suburban Noir

    Crime and mishap in the 1950s and 1960s Sydney

    by Peter Doyle ...
    Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian life the way police records do. Small time heists. Failed robberies. Runs of bad luck. Payback. Love gone wrong. Drink, drugs, and late-night assignations. Cops doing their job well. And badly. Plausible lies, unlikely truths. Murder and misadventure. In Suburban Noir Peter Doyle— author of City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us— ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disputed Earth

    Geology and Trench Warfare on the Western Front 1914–18

    by Peter Doyle ...
    Geology controls the outcome of battle and no more so than during the trench warfare of the Great War; this new book by expert Peter Doyle takes us through the details. An understanding of terrain has been the mark of a great commander from at least the time of Sun Tzu, and most campaigns can be interpreted and understood from this standpoint. It is the Great War, a war of trenches and dug-outs, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats

    Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980

    Edited by Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette ...
    Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. From the juvenile delinquent gangs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil's Jump

    by Peter Doyle ...
    August 1945: the Japanese have surrendered and there's dancing in the streets of Sydney. But Billy Glasheen has little time to celebrate; his black marketeer boss has disappeared, leaving Billy high and dry. Soon he s on the run from the criminals and the cops, not to mention a shady private army. They all think he has the thing they want, and they'll kill to get hold of it. Unfortunately for ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Echo and Reverb

    Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960

    by Peter Doyle ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (2006)Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. The book documents how acoustic effects—reverberation, room ambience, and echo—have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual sonic architectures and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Redcoats to Tommies

    The Experience of the British Soldier from the Eighteenth Century

    by Kevin Linch, Dr Michael Reeve, Dr Edward Gosling, Timothy Bowman, Adam Prime, Dr Eleanor O'Keeffe, Professor Ian Beckett, Dr Christina Welsch, Matthew Lord0, Dr Jacqueline Reiter1, Dr George Hay2, Professor Peter Doyle3, Robert Tildesley4, Dr Gavin Daly5 ...
    This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's soldiers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It focuses on the lifecycle of a soldier, including enlistment and experience, and on identity, representations and place in society. It covers the diverse military forces of the British crown - the regular army, home defence forces, part-time soldiers, auxiliaries, officers, non ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Big Whatever

    by Peter Doyle ...
    When Billy Glasheen picks up a trashy paperback he finds in his cab, its plot seems weirdly familiar. One of the main characters is based on him . . . Only one person knows enough about his past to have written it-Max, his double-crossing ex-partner in crime. But Max is dead. He famously went up in flames, along with a fortune in cash, after a bank heist. If Max is somehow still alive, Billy has a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats

    Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980

    Edited by Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette ...
    Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. From the juvenile delinquent gangs ... Read more

    $7.99 USD