by Rachel Franks | Sep 5, 2018 | Book Reviews
Adam Courtenay, The Ship That Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History HarperCollins Publishers (ABC Books), 323 pp., ISBN: 978073333857, p/bk, AUS$29.99 In a genuine example of fact is stranger than fiction, journalist Adam...
by Rachel Franks | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog
This morning on 2SER Breakfast, Dr Rachel Franks talked to Tess Connery about Australia’s oldest cold case, the murder of Constable Joseph Luker, who was the first police officer killed in the line of duty in New South Wales. Listen to Rachel and Tess on 2SER...
by Rachel Franks | Jun 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
Gideon Haigh, A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death of Mollie Dean Penguin / Hamish Hamilton, 310 pp., ISBN: 9780143789574, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Journalist Gideon Haigh is well-known for his engaging full-length works on cricket, business histories and, more recently,...
by Rachel Franks | Jun 12, 2018 | Book Reviews
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, edited by Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan NewSouth Books, 215 pp., ISBN: 9781742235752, p/bk, RRP AUS$34.99 On 10 June 1838 twelve men, “in an unprovoked act of violent terror” (p. xi), committed an atrocity known today as the Myall...
by Rachel Franks | May 30, 2018 | Book Reviews
Hazel Baron and Janet Fife-Yeomans, My Mother, A Serial Killer HarperCollins Australia Publishers, 239 pp., ISBN: 9781460754528, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Hazel Baron, the daughter of convicted murderer Dulcie Bodsworth, collaborated with journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans to tell...
