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For the history-fanatic, don’t go past SAS Insider, the brand-new true story of Australia’s SAS and the soldier who was there from the start. Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS.
Who really paid the price for the British nuclear tests in the Australian outback? Investigative journalist Frank Walker’s Maralingais a must-read true story of the abuse of our servicemen, scientists treating the Australian population as lab rats and politicians sacrificing their own people in the pursuit of power.
Named the grand master of the dark genre, Michael Robotham has penned an addictive page-turner with Life or Death that’s sure to thrill Dad. Why would a man escape from prison the day before he’s due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is.
Looking for a gift your dad won’t be able to put down? Try The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid, an atmospheric, spine-chilling thriller brimming with intrigue and suspense. When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is faced with the unenviable task of identifying the bones.
Put Dad to the test with Karl Stefanovic’s easy-to-follow recipe book Karl Cooks. The recipes within are simple, filling, tasty – and he can make them any day of the week without too much effort.
If your Dad’s a little on the wild side, why not try out Boris Mihailovic’s At the Altar of the Road Gods. It’s about fines, feuds and fractures, high-sides, tank-slappers, angry police, even angrier young men, crashing, getting up, cranky girlfriends, riding faster, outlaws, and partaking in copious amounts of alcohol. Be warned: may cause laughter, sleeplessness and the desire to buy a Lucifer-black Katana.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize of 2014, David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks is a metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, that crackles with the invention and wit that have made David Mitchell one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. Here is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable best.
For more information about these titles and for more gift ideas your Dad will love, visit hachette.com.au
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