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Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsors by Tom Bower

Hardback: Meghan Markle's trajectory from unknown actress to world icon is remarkable. After a childhood spent on Hollywood film sets, she fought hard for stardom. But even when she landed her breakthrough role, her lifelong dream of celebrity remained elusive. 

In 2016, she created the ultimate fairy-tale ending: she captivated her very own prince. Finally, the world was her stage.

The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebrated around the world, was the beginning of a new era for the Windsors. Yet, within one tumultuous year, the dream became a nightmare. 

In the aftermath of the infamous Megxit split and the Oprah Winfrey interview, the Royal Family's fate seems persistently threatened.

The public remains puzzled. Meghan's success has alternatively won praise, bewildered and outraged. Confused by the Sussexes' slick publicity, few understand the real Meghan Markle. 

What lies ahead for Meghan? And what has happened to the family she married into? Can the Windsors restore their reputation?

With extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews from insiders who have never spoken before, Tom Bower, Britain's leading investigative biographer, unpicks the tangled web of courtroom drama, courtier politics and thwarted childhood dreams to uncover an astonishing story of love, betrayal, secrets and revenge in Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsors (2022).

Revenge (2022) is currently available on Amazon UK and USA, Kindle, Audible, Book Depository, Wordery, and most UK bookshops. Book Depository ships worldwide (Europe, USA, UAE, Far East) should bookworms require it urgently. It will be available in Dymocks Booksellers in Australia from 4 August 2022: pre-orders are open now. 

About the author: Tom Bower's 25 bestselling books encompass a remarkably wide range of subjects. His most recent books include the most authoritative and bestselling account of Tony Blair's decade as prime minister and the definitive biographies of Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Gordon Brown and Geoffrey Robinson MP. His book, The Rebel Prince (2018), the story of Prince Charles' scandal-ridden bid to rehabilitate himself after Princess Diana's death, was a number one bestseller.

Bower is probably best known for his unvarnished and unauthorised biographies of Britain's most controversial tycoons including Robert Maxwell, Richard Branson, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Tiny Rowland, Bernie Ecclestone and Simon Cowell. His previous books about the failure to denazify post-war Germany and the hunt for Nazi war criminals, Anglo American intelligence operations against Russia during the Cold War, and corruption in the Premier League won great acclaim. 

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Destination Buchenwald: The Astonishing Survival Story of Australian and New Zealand Airmen in a Nazi Death Camp by Colin Burgess

Paperback: "Only those who have been prisoners have any conception of the horrors of being a prisoner, or of the ineffable joy of release; of the terrible rise and fall of the spirit, the fluctuations between the delirium of happiness and madness of despair, attendant upon the fluctuating hopes and fears as the possibility of release advances and retreats." - Percival Christopher Wren, Beggars' Horses

Destination Buchenwald: The Astonishing Survival Story of Australian and New Zealand Airmen in a Nazi Death Camp (7 June 2022) is the harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It is dedicated to the two airmen who never left Buchenwald: 

Flying Officer Philip Derek Hemmens, RAF

First Lieutenant Levitt Clinton Beck Jr, USAAF

It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city’s infamous Fresnes Prison, they were about to face evacuation into the blackest, bloody heart of Germany and experience the most acute evil of the war. 

Amid great secrecy, those 168 airmen – including several from Australia and New Zealand – were transported on a filthy, overcrowded nightmare train journey which ended at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, accompanied by orders for their execution. At Buchenwald they witnessed extreme depravity that would haunt them to the end of their days. 

Yet, on returning home, they were confronted by decades of denials from their own governments that they had ever been held in one of Hitler’s most vile concentration camps.

In conducting his original deep research for this book – now completely expanded and updated – Colin Burgess personally interviewed or corresponded with dozens of the surviving airmen from a number of nations, including their valorous leader, New Zealand Squadron Leader Phil Lamason. 

Destination Buchenwald: The Astonishing Survival Story of Australian and New Zealand Airmen in a Nazi Death Camp tells a compelling story of extraordinary bravery, comradeship and endurance, when a group of otherwise ordinary servicemen were thrust into an unimaginable Nazi hell.

"This was the first book to provide an insight into our experiences as a group of captured allied airmen, betrayed to the Gestapo, tortured and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. I consider it to be one of the best interpretations of the events as it reflects the voices of the survivors and their challenges to stay alive in such dehumanising circumstances." - Sqn Ldr Stanley Booker, RAF (Rtd), MBE, Légion D'Honneur: Last surviving member of the Buchenwald airmen

Destination Buchenwald: The Astonishing Survival Story of Australian and New Zealand Airmen in a Nazi Death Camp is first published in Australia in 1995 by Kangaroo Press. This revised edition published in 2022 by Simon & Schuster (Australia) is currently available from Dymocks Booksellers in Australia, Barnes and Noble, and in e-book/audio forms on Kindle and Audible on amazon.com.

About the author: Colin Burgess was born in suburban Sydney in 1947. In 2002, after 32 years of in-flight service with Qantas Airways in a variety of roles, Colin took an early retirement in order to concentrate on his writing career.

His first published book was The Diggers of Colditz in 1985, co-authored with Colditz veteran Jack Champ. Since then, he has had numerous non-fiction books published on a wide variety of subjects. In recent years, he has not only turned his attention to writing books on the history of human space exploration, but was appointed series editor for the Outward Odyssey series of books on that subject, published by the University of Nebraska Press in the United States. 

To date, he has written or co-authored nearly forty books, and is currently working on a biography of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM, the Australian nurse who was interned in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Colin still lives near Sydney with his wife Pat. They have two adult sons and three grandchildren.  

The Widow Of Walcha (True Crime) by Emma Partridge

Paperback: The Widow of Walcha (4 May 2022) is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Walcha.

 

All farmer Mathew Dunbar ever wanted was to find love and have a family of his own. That is why, just months after meeting Natasha Darcy, the much-loved grazier did not hesitate to sign over his multi-million-dollar estate to her.

 

When Mathew died in an apparent suicide soon afterwards, in a stranger-than-fiction twist, Natasha's estranged husband – who she was once charged with trying to kill – was the first paramedic on the scene after the murder.

 

Journalist and author Emma Partridge travelled to the cool and misty town of Walcha in the Northern Tablelands of NSW in the months after Mathew Dunbar's death, drawn by the town's collective worry that Natasha was going to get away with murder. Partridge spent months researching the case, interviewing Mathew’s friends, family and Natasha herself in an attempt to uncover her sickening web of lies and crimes.

 

The Widow of Walcha is about one of the most extraordinary criminal trials in Australia’s history and reveals Natasha’s sickening crimes against those she claimed to love, fuelled by her obsession with money.

The Widow of Walcha is currently available from Dymocks Booksellers in Australia; and in e-book/audio forms on Kindle and Audible on amazon.com.

About the author: Emma Partridge is an award-winning journalist who has covered crime in Australia for more than a decade. After working for regional and local newspapers across New South Wales, in 2013 she joined The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2017, she became chief court reporter for The Daily Telegraph, where she covered court cases and crime investigations. It was here she first reported on the death of farmer Mathew Dunbar, publishing the front-page article, 'The grazier and the widow of Walcha', on 17 November 2017. 

Emma moved from print to television journalism in 2019, taking the role of Senior Crime Editor for Nine News Sydney, where she works today. She lives in Sydney with her partner Luke. The Widow of Walcha is her first book.

The War On Informed Consent: The Persecution Of Dr Paul Thomas By the Oregon Medical Board (Children's Health Defense) by Jeremy R Hammond

Hardback: To preserve public vaccine policy, Dr Paul Thomas was disbarred and discredited - discover how he was punished for pursuing the truth for his patients.

On 3 December 2020, the Oregon Medical Board issued an emergency order to suspend the license of renowned physician Paul Thomas, MD. The ostensible reason was that Dr Thomas posed a threat to public health by failing to vaccinate his paediatric patients according to the CDC's schedule. 

However, the order came just days after Thomas published a peer-reviewed study indicating that his unvaccinated patients were the healthiest children in his practice. 

The medical board ignored this data despite having requested Thomas to produce peer-reviewed evidence to support his alternative approach.

"Dr. Paul" started out practicing medicine the way he was trained to, which meant vaccinating according to the CDC's routine childhood vaccine schedule. But then he went on a journey of awakening, becoming what he calls "vaccine risk aware," and arrived at a place where no longer in good conscience could he continue "business as usual" with this one-size-fits-all approach. He left a private group practice to open his own clinic with the foundational principles of individualized care and respect for the right to informed consent. He wrote the Vaccine-Friendly Plan with Jennifer Margulis, PhD, to help parents navigate the decision-making process. Then the accusations from the medical board started coming.

The War on Informed Consent: The Persecution Of Dr Paul Thomas By the Oregon Medical Board (2021) exposes how the medical board suspended Dr Thomas's license on false pretexts, illuminating how the true reason for the order was that, by practicing informed consent, he posed a threat to public vaccine policy, which is itself the true threat to public health.

The War on Informed Consent is available in most bookshops and online platforms.

About the author: Jeremy R Hammond is an independent journalist, political analyst, and author. Topics he has covered include US foreign policy, economic policy, vaccine policy, and the lockdown responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. His work focuses on exposing state and media propaganda serving to manufacture consent for harmful government policies.

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Missing, Presumed Dead: The Double Murder Case That Shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi QC

Paperback: It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details.

Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families. Such women are hardly ever among the ranks of the missing. They were not hitchhikers, or associates of drug dealers, or unhappy with their family relationships, or suffering from mental health issues. In fact, they fell well outside any of the conventional categories of people at risk of permanently disappearing. 

Dorothy Davis was a 74-year-old widow who lived in the quiet, upmarket seaside suburb of Lurline Bay in south-eastern Sydney. She was financially comfortable and led a peaceful, predictable life centred around her children, grandchildren and many friends. She suffered from a few of the usual physical ailments of people of her age, including arthritis. Kerry Whelan was an active and healthy 39-year-old with an affluent, family-based lifestyle. She lived with her husband, Bernard Whelan, the CEO of the Australian arm of Crown Equipment, a large multinational company that made forklifts and their three children on an expansive rural property at Kurrajong on the north-western outskirts of Sydney, where they ran horses and enjoyed country life.

Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan came from different parts of Sydney, mixed in quite different circles, and led completely different lives. They had never met each other, and if they had, they would have had little in common. In fact, Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan had one thing in common – they both knew Bruce Allan Burrell.

The disappearance without trace of these two women caused massive police investigations and resulted in sensational trials that gripped the nation of Australia. 

Missing, Presumed Dead: The Double Murder Case That Shocked Australia (30 March 2022) explores the intricacies of those investigations and delves into the twisted, tortuous processes of the legal proceedings, while exploring the dark recesses of the mind of Bruce Burrell.

Missing, Presumed Dead is currently available from Dymocks Booksellers in Australia; and in e-book/audio forms on Kindle and Audible.

The author's proceeds from the publication of this book will be donated to Australian charities that assist and support victims of crime, the families of deceased victims and the relatives of those who have gone missing. 

About the author: Mark Tedeschi AM QC was until 2018 the Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales and the President of the Australian Association of Crown Prosecutors in this state. He is now a private barrister practising at Wardell Chambers in Sydney. He is a Councillor of the NSW State Library and a Trustee of Sydney Grammar School. For more than 40 years, he has prosecuted many of the most significant and high-profile trials in Australia. Mark is also a keen photographer who has had his work shown in 15 solo exhibitions and 20 joint exhibitions in Australia, Italy, France and the USA. Mark is the author of critically acclaimed non-fiction titles Eugenia, Kidnapped and Massacre at Myall Creek. Missing, Presumed Dead is his fourth true-crime book.

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