Tom Gilling: 13 books
The Dark Side
The explosive story of corruption, greed and murder in the Australian drug trade
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
'Each year at least 10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'
Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and...
Grog
A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how it all began.
Even before James Squire set sail as a convict aboard the First Fleet, liquor was playing its part in shaping the colony-to-be. Who was entitled to it and who wasn't; who could make and sell it and who couldn't; and how...
Blood Money
Bikies, terrorists and Middle Eastern gangs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power?
There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business...
Smack Express
How organised crime got hooked on drugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Organised crime in Australia doesn't just exist on our television screens. The real world of serious crime operates every day and in every state of the country. It is a multi-billion dollar business and at its core are the drug trade and a world of secrecy and self-protection where intimidation and...
Milat
Inside Australia's biggest manhunt - a detective's story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil.
It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind...
I'm Talking
My Life, My Words, My Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
For the first time, Kate Ceberano, one of Australia's best-loved entertainers, shares her story.
In her own unmistakeable voice, Kate Ceberano takes us on a very personal journey from her suburban childhood, her immersion in the Melbourne club scene of the eighties and her rise to stardom at...
Code of Silence
How one honest police officer took on Australia's most corrupt police force
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
'Wherever there is power and money, there is always the risk of corruption. But everyone has a choice: to become involved or to take a stand against it.'
Colin Dillon is an extraordinary man. He was the first Indigenous policeman in Australia. But that is actually a very small part of his story.
He...
Things I Carry Around
The bestselling memoir from the ARIA Award-winning country music star
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A born storyteller, Troy Cassar-Daley has at last turned his talent to sharing his own inspiring life.
`Troy?s achievements are many, and perhaps the finest may be his ability to make us listen to his heart.? Joy McKean
For the first time, Troy talks about his early life - how his parent?s...
Betrayed
The shocking story of two undercover cops
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
'I've cheated, lied and deceived people. I've ruined marriages, ruined lives, ruined relationships, ruined the health of others, not to mention my own.'
What is it really like to live as an undercover cop? Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could make a difference, but their...
Evil Life
The true story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks.
Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have...
The Griffith Wars
The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder.
Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry...
The Lost Battalions
A battle that could not be won. An island that could not be defended. An ally that could not be trusted.
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'.
Until...
by Tom Gilling
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
From one of Australia’s most acclaimed novelists—a “taut, suspenseful” psychological thriller about white lies, dark deeds, and the mysteries of self (Publishers Weekly).
It was just a harmless lie—to say he was driving Danny Grogan’s car when it was caught speeding down the Sydney...