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Peter Temple
Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a…
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Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created.
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When an old friend of Jack’s late father asks for his help, Jack’s happy to oblige. But sometimes people go missing for good reason.
The unpublished, unfinished and unmissable writings of the unforgettable Peter Temple
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Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. Villani’s…
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The Cold War is long dead buyt the rade in deceit and lies is still running hot. Cleverly plotted and pettered with dark irony and lean prose, In the Evil…
Another addictive crime thriller from the author of Truth and The Broken Shore.
Shooting Star is classic Peter Temple, and now a Text Classic.
Peter Hauge
Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work. 'The Temple of Music' (1617-18) is one section of his work, and deals with…
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Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet’s ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.
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A race for life as a girl’s kidnapping reveals her family’s tainted past and a disreputable ex-police negotiator becomes her only hope for survival.
The third novel in the iconic Jack Irish series, featuring Australia’s favorite crime protagonist. Tie-in jacket featuring Guy Pearce.
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The third Jack Irish thriller from internationally acclaimed author Peter Temple
The second Jack Irish thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Broken Shore
A simple and practical guide to how you can use some of the newer investment products like spread betting, binary betting, contracts for difference, covered warrants and exchange-traded funds, as…
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A practical guide to CFDs, or contracts for difference, which are extremely flexible trading instruments that offer high degrees of leverage, the opportunity to go long and short and to…
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THE AWARD-WINNING DEBUT NOVEL, AND FIRST JACK IRISH THRILLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE AND TRUTH.
The fourth novel in the Jack Irish series, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Broken Shore
Jack’s been hired to find a missing man. But some powerful and dangerous people also seem to have an interest in his whereabouts.
The first standalone crime novel from the author of The Broken Shore and the Jack Irish thrillers
Jack’s trying to save a beautiful sculptress from a murder rap. He soon falls into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks
Originally published in Australia by the Text Publishing Company; First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux –T.p. verso.
This title looks at the workings of hedge funds showing their successes and failures. Well known hedge funds are scrutinized through research and interviews with fund managers, consultants, regulators, and…
Private Equity Examining the New Conglomerates of European Business a This is the authoritative work on private equity, giving the business manager a genuine insight into how this relatively new…
The Sunday Times bestseller, from Australia’s most acclaimed crime and thriller writer.
The sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller The Broken Shore, and winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Award.
Liam Peter Temple (Author)
Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism…
Peter Schutes
Written like a biblical text, this imaginary myth of Priapus, god of the phallus, includes instructions for creating your own local chapter of the Temple of Priapic Worship.
Peter Temple-Morris
Political memoir of a dissenting voice in British politics.
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Edwin F Gay
From The Huntington Library Quarterly V2, No. 4, July, 1939.
A classic thriller by the Miles Franklin Award winner Peter Temple. When Mac Faraday’s best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac is far from convinced. And…
When Mac Faraday’s best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac is far from convinced, and he’s a man who has learnt never to accept things at…
Jack Irish returns in the fast-paced sequel to Bad Debts, where blood is not always thicker than water
The British debut of Peter Temple’s series character, Jack Irish - some-time lawyer, part-time cabinet maker, full-time lover of strong coffee, swift horses and spirited women, and three-time winner of…
A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team continues…
Jack Irish has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the sculptor Sarah Longmore from going down for murder. Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about Mickey…
The British debut of Peter Temple’s series character, Jack Irish some-time lawyer, part-time cabinet maker, full-time lover of strong coffee, swift horses and spirited women - and three-time winner of…
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction. Anne Carson is fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder. This is not the…
Jack is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colbourne. But…