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From the turbulent life of the late Shane Warne to the skill, mentality and character behind Pat Cummins' new-look captaincy, and through the decades to the wit, wisdom and genius of Sir Donald Bradman, Great Australian Cricket Achievers and Characters examines the career highs and lows of many of the game's big names.
The chapters cover the elegance and style of Ellyse Perry and Neil Harvey; the drive of Ian Chappell, Steve Waugh and Bill Lawry; the dry humour of Lindsay Hassett and the guile of Richie Benaud; the speed and chivalry of Dennis Lillee and the bullyboy tactics of Kerry Packer, who changed the game forever. It also includes fresh insights into the first truly Australian tour of England in 1858, made exclusively by Aboriginal players, and the torch-passing that led to the sensational performance of Indigenous bowler Scott Boland in the 2021-22 Ashes.
Bestselling cricket author and historian Roland Perry shines a light on the game's biggest players and dramas through the ages in Great Australian Cricket Achievers and Characters.
Wyatt needs a job.
A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn't have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That's the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time.
So he contacts a man who in the past put him on the right kind of heist. And finds himself in Noosa, stealing a painting for Hannah Sten.
He knows how it's done: case the premises, set up escape routes and failsafes, get in and get out with the goods unrecognised. Make a good plan; back it up with another. And be very, very careful.
But who is his client? Who else wants that painting?
Sometimes, being very careful is not enough.
‘For the connoisseur of crime the Wyatt series represents Disher at his stylish best…wicked and wonderful. Welcome back, Wyatt.' – Sydney Morning Herald
Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht, but nothing can stop him from returning to his life of crime. He drugs his lover, police officer Liz Redding, and escapes into the night only to discover the gems he lifted are fakes. With his luck and his resources rapidly running out, Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with Raymond, his estranged nephew and an established criminal himself, to lift some expensive artwork.
It should be an easy job — the gallery is under construction and Wyatt has performed similar heists before. But it isn't long before things go south, leaving Wyatt with some tough choices. Will the young and eager Raymond prove to be a worthy pupil or is he nothing but deadweight? For Wyatt, putting faith in other people has never been as tempting... or as dangerous.
“Disher continues to show an impressive knack for planning capers that go like clockwork..” Kirkus Reviews
Praise for the Wyatt series
“Like an Australian Bob le Flambeur, Disher's titular robber is smooth, calm and planning a big heist.” Entertainment Weekly
'There's real technique on show here.... it's so fast and hard-written that it becomes a blur, a flurry of activity that dazzles the senses.... Wyatt is a thrill-laden pleasure.' ABC Radio
'Outstanding.... The spare, economical prose perfectly suits this tale of mad love and crimes gone wrong, which will remind many of Westlake's better Parker novels.' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
'Endlessly cool, enormously competent.... a banquet for those who like it uncut and unsparing.' Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
'Brilliant.... The similarities with another fictional thief--Richard Stark's antihero Parker--are many.' Seattle Times
'Disher takes us back to the golden age of thrillers, a time when they were fast, taut and dependably suspenseful.' Kirkus Reviews
WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK.
The job's a classic jewel heist: quick, clean and simple. Except for one thing. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this job belongs to Eddie Oberin and his very smart ex-wife Lydia. She has the inside information; Wyatt has the planning genius and meticulous preparation. What could possibly go wrong?
Plenty. But when you cross Wyatt, you don't walk away.
Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable cast, including the ever-elusive Wyatt himself: these are the hallmarks of Garry Disher's Wyatt series.
'Disher at his stylish best…Wicked and wonderful. Welcome back, Wyatt.' Sydney Morning Herald
‘I hope we don't have to wait another decade for the next instalment.' Age
‘Lean, cold and spare—right to the point and never a word too many.' Herald Sun
‘Australian noir writ large across Melbourne suburbia.' GQ
‘Disher's writing is short, dry and fast-paced.' West Australian
Wyatt steals $ 50,000 and a sought-after piece of jewelry in a burglary of a politician's house. Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch - and perhaps the girl - that brings him undone. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules - even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home.
Port Vila Blues is Wyatt's fifth heist. It's faster than ever, racing towards the inevitable confrontation on a clifftop above the deceptively calm waters of Port Vila Bay.
'In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style crim Wyatt positively shines. Clear taut writing - not a word wasted.' MARELE DAY, author of Lambs of God
'Tough, violent, relentless and thoroughly convincing.' STUART COUPE, author of The Roadies
'To Disher's usual brisk pacing, add heaps of noir...a banquet for those who like it uncut and unsparing.' KIRKUS REVIEWS
Studies have shown it takes only 21 days for a new habit to take root. If there's a spiritual skill you've always wanted to take advantage of, the answer is only 21 days away with the 21 Days Series.
We've all experienced dreams that have given us pause for thought, or wondered what deeper insight these nighttime visitations have. Dreams can unlock the deepest parts of our minds, reveal solutions that the waking mind could not comprehend and provide important guidelines for our future. However, all of these valuable insights are useless to us without a simple, easy to refer to guide to the symbols and messages submerged into our dreams. 21 Days to Decode Your Dreams is the package all dreamers need.
Your sleeping life holds the solutions to your waking life, and this new audiobook offers a comprehensive day-by-day guide to the most familiar themes, symbols and messages that our dreams transmit. In 21 days, you'll learn how to keep a dream journal, understanding recurring dreams, break troubling patterns that your dreams warn you about and create an incredible dream life to enrich your conscious time. You'll soon see that though it only takes 21 days to learn to decode them, your dreams are a treasure for the rest of your life.
Wyatt made some powerful enemies in his first three outings, and the time has come to confront them. But we know by now that Wyatt's revenge won't be showy, impetuous and futile; it will be pragmatic, elaborate—and still possibly futile. He holes up in Sydney, preparing to return home to Melbourne to play his enemies against each other in a dangerous double-cross that will tear down the notions of loyalty and obligation. Wyatt is meticulous, demanding and implacable, and this may be the toughest, coolest and most uncompromising series in Australian literature. ‘Violent, gripping, realistic.' SUNDAY AGE ‘As hard as it gets and very entertaining.' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Patient, exacting and not particularly lucky, Wyatt is a criminal's criminal and this series is one of the most compelling in Australian fiction. After the heists gone wrong in Kickback and Paydirt, Wyatt is further down on his luck and deeper in with the Outfit, a network of organised criminals whose attention he's tried hard to avoid. A risky job in a Brisbane bank and the return of a femme fatale add further complications to Wyatt's increasingly desperate situation and force him to decide who he is and who he cares about. 'Disher writes with all the compassion of a well-placed bullet in the back of the head.' J.R. Carroll 'Real books, not junk fiction.' Booklist 'Wyatt's as hard-boiled as a hubcap.' Weekend Australian
Careful, exacting and ruthless, Wyatt is a consummate criminal and a solitary giant in Australian crime writing. This time it's a payroll and bank run in the north of South Australia, an outpost town suddenly transformed by a pipeline construction project that brings petty crime, prostitution-and opportunity. It's a town with its own secrets and Wyatt isn't quick to trust at the best of times. But he's on the run and he can't afford to be choosy. This is another masterpiece of orchestration and unravelling, anchored by an unforgettable ticking-clock sequence that will keep you listening. Fans of noir and hard-boiled fiction will find a fascinating extension of the genre. 'Different, fantastic and the series just gets better and better.' AUSTCRIME
The first book in the acclaimed Wyatt series, by one of Australia's most revered crime writers. Wyatt robs banks and payroll vans. Most men like him are dead or in jail, but Wyatt stamps a cold, pitiless style on his heists and has never been caught. Now his funds are low and his luck is running out - until the day Anna Reid explains about the kickback in her partner's safe. But other players are involved. In Wyatt's world, there is no yielding, no redemption, and when he's crossed, the outcome is inevitable. 'Tough, realistic, crime-from-the-inside...' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know little about Dayaks, other than that they were once headhunters who might kill them on arrival. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face.
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on two of Borneo's great rivers - the Baram and Rejang - the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II's and Semut III's brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation.
But this is no ordinary history. Helliwell captures vividly the terrors of the jungle environment into which the operatives are plunged. And she takes us into the lives and cavernous longhouses of the Dayaks on whom their survival depends. The result is a truly unique account of the meeting of two very different cultures amidst the savagery of the Pacific War.
In this epic and haunting series a young man's life is forever changed as, enveloped in the bohemian art world of the 1930s, he embarks on a journey of love, loss and restoration.
Jack has been praised all his life for his extraordinary artistic talent and is rarely seen without his sketchpad. However, in Jack's world art is considered a hobby - men are expected to have jobs that offer security and advancement.
Future responsibilities are far from Jack's thoughts when he travels to London to visit relatives. On the crossing, Jack's artistic skills astonish fellow artist, Margaret and convinced of his potential, she introduces him to the Bloomsbury set, exposing him to a world where peoples lives are dictated by passions rather than social conventions and art is central to their existence.
Accepting a thrilling opportunity to study modern art in Paris, Jack's life is forever changed as he forms a deep friendship with fellow student, Andrés and his sister, Sofia, whose dark eyes and sweet smile captivate his heart. Together, the trio explore Paris at the height of its golden age. Mentoring from Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso affirm Jack's talent, and he has never felt so happy.
Despite experiencing the richness and freedom of life of an artist, accompanied by the wonder and turmoil of perfect love, Jack is plagued by the responsibilities that call him home.
When tragedy threatens, Jack is torn: should he follow the well-laid plans for his future or pursue a path set to disappoint his family and which offers only uncertainty?
