The fascinating story of the first ever railway murder

One man. One bike. A whole lotta trouble. Slim's first-hand account shows us the thrills and perils of riding on the highway and reveals life inside some of Australia's toughest jails where he learnt how not to do an armed hold-up and a lifetime's worth of human behaviour.

Sentenced to death in 1965 at age twenty for an unpremeditated murder during the bungled holdup of a convenience store, Billy Wayne spent his first seven prison years on death row. When the death penalty was abolished, his sentence was life. This title presents his memoir.

It is one of Australia's worst unsolved crimes. On a Friday afternoon as the wind down to the weekend begins, two women are held hostage in a hairdressing salon. They scream and fight for their lives, but they face a killer's frenzied rage. Two unlikely victims and an unlikely crime scene at an unlikely time of day.

Detective Nicholas Troy's mentor Father Luke Corelli has been accused of abusing a young boy years before. To Troy's dismay he's not denying the charge. Leila Scott's mother has bone cancer. She asks for help to die and Leila seeks the advice of a voluntary euthanasia group. But Troy suspects voluntary euthanasia is being used for something darker.

This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public life, "The Preacher and the Presidents" reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together.

Young detective Nicholas Troy is basically a good man, for whom working in homicide is the highest form of police work. But when a woman falls from the construction site for the world's tallest skyscraper, the tortured course of the murder investigation that follows threatens his vocation.