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Australia's Vietnam - Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
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: True Crime
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
$50.00 (20% off)
Category: Military
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
$30.00 (23% off)
Category: Military
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
Jewish Anzacs Jews in the Australian Military by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
$47.99 (16% off)
Category: Military
Acclaimed journalist, novelist and military historian Mark Dapin tells the personal, often extraordinary stories of Australia's Jewish servicemen and women. Over 7000 Jews from Australia - and overseas - have fought in the nation's military conflicts. Sir John Monash may be the best known, but Dapin als ...Show more
King of the Cross by Mark Dapin
$24.99 AUD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: Classics
King of the Cross is crime fiction unlike any other. Mark Dapin's award-winning novel depicts the world of Jacob Mendoza: ruler of Kings Cross and, for more than forty years, Australia's most powerful and infamous crime figure. Now in his eighties, Mendoza decides to employ a hapless young journalist to ...Show more
King of the Cross by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
$39.99 (17% off)
Category: Fiction
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
$29.99 (23% off)
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: True Crime
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
Public Enemies: Ray Denning, Russell (Maddog) Cox an the Golden Age of Armed Robbery by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping and revealing inside story of Australia's most notorious armed robbers.
R&R by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
$38.00 (13% off)
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
$24.99 AUD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Thirteen-year-old David is confused and staying in Bondi with his grandparents. His mum seems to have abandoned him to run off with her lover, and his grandfather, Jimmy, spends his days at the local RSL grumbling ...Show more