A forty-year saga of 120,000 words conveying the story of a Melbourne crime family, Family of Lies traces the corrosive effects of succession, power, deceit, and the consequences of choices made across generations. Set against personal and business conflicts, the story builds toward a devastating act of sabotage that may prove the family's undoing.On his twenty-first birthday, Giovanni Puglisi is forced by his father, Nino, to commit a shocking act of betrayal. Nino views it as the...

Sociopath or revenge seeker?A life of suffering and abuse shaped David Carter as a child. Two tours of Afghanistan honed him into a cold-blooded killer.Following his discharge from the Army, David re-starts his life, establishing a thriving drug operation on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula.What does he do when challenged by rival drug operatives? He coldly eliminates them as he did the Taliban.His relatives vanish. Three at first, th...

The Chinese DollWhat happens when your matchmaker turns out to be the Chinese Communist Party?Australian artificial intelligence expert, Daniel Petersen, is tricked into a relationship with Mei Wong, a member of the local Chinese diaspora.Mei is an innocent and reluctant participant in a plot planned over many years and driven by China's insatiable need for intelligence.By accident, the plot is revealed and the Australian Federal Police, and...

The eighteenth century is in many ways the most problematic era in Irish history. Traditionally, the years from 1700 to 1775 have been short-changed by historians, who have concentrated overwhelmingly on the last quarter of the period. Professor Ian McBride's survey, the fourth in the New Gill History of Ireland series, seeks to correct that balance. At the same time it provides an accessible and fresh account of the bloody rebellion of 1798, the subject of so much controversy. The eightee...

An accessible and innovative look at Irish history by some of today's most exciting historians of IrelandThis book brings together some of today's most exciting scholars of Irish history to chart the pivotal events in the history of modern Ireland while providing fresh perspectives on topics ranging from colonialism and nationalism to political violence, famine, emigration, and feminism.The Princeton History of Modern Ireland takes readers from the...

The depths of human darkness are probed in an epic battle of good versus evil as a father attempts to overcome the ultimate betrayal.

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural contexts. It thus seeks to integrate what most other surveys pull apart. It gives a graphic account of the effects of a century-long period during which population was growing inexorably and faster than both the food supply and the empl...

Ireland's History provides an introduction to Irish history that blends a scholarly approach to the subject, based on recent research and current historiographical perspectives, with a clear and accessible writing style. All the major themes in Irish history are covered, from prehistoric times right through to present day, from the emergence of Celtic Christianity after the fall of the Roman Empire, to Ireland and the European Union, secularism and rapprochement with the United Ki...

John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English Revolution as "the last of the European Wars of Religion''; its British dimension; and its politica...

In Uniting the Kingdom? a group of the most distinguished historians from Britain and Ireland assemble to consider the question of British identity spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the present.Traditional chronological and regional frontiers are broken down as medievalists, early modernists and modernists debate the key issues of the British state: the conflicting historiographies, the nature of political tensions and the themes of expansion and contraction.

This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017A History of the British Isles is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural and religious history of the British Isles in all its complexity, exploring the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present.A wide range of topics and questions are addressed for each period and territory discussed, including England's Wars of the Roses of the 15th century and thei...