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  • Sex and Money

    How I lived, breathed, read, wrote, loved, hated, slept, dreamed &drank men's magazines

    by Mark Dapin ...
    Sex + Money: growing up in the men's magazines is the story of Mark Dapin's rise from the gutter (where he found himself one sad morning with no money and no shoes) to editor-in-chief of Ralph magazine. Along the way, he has his ribs broken by world welterweight boxing champion Kostya Tszyu and his heart broken by supermodel Claudia Schiffer. He visits a lap-dancing club with confessed killer ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Murderer I Ever Met

    Hanging out with criminals and cops

    by Mark Dapin ...
    For more than thirty years, Mark Dapin has been hanging out with crooks, and both types of cop. In this gripping, often funny and always surprising book, he sorts the tall stories from the truth about true crime, showing us what some of Australia’s most famous felons are really like.Mark Dapin was still in school when he met his first murderer – a boy called Ian. In reporting the murder Ian ... Read more

    $11.41 USD

  • Public Enemies

    Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox, Ray Denning and the Golden Age of Armed Robbery

    by Mark Dapin ...
    The gripping and revealing inside story of Australia's most notorious armed robbers.In the Australia of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, armed robbers were the top of the criminal food chain. Their dash and violence were celebrated, and men like Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox and Ray Denning were household names long before Underbelly established Melbourne's gangland thugs as celebrities.Cox and Denning were once ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Carnage

    A succulent Chinese meal, Mr Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson murders

    by Mark Dapin ...
    Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. But when Mark Dapin investigated, it emerged that this man's story went to the heart of the Australian underworld. A true crime cult classic in the making.Whether you know it as the ‘succulent Chinese meal’ video, or ‘democracy manifest’, chances are you have seen the video of baritone ... Read more

    $11.41 USD

  • Australia's Vietnam

    Myth vs history

    by Mark Dapin ...
    When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myth. From army claims that every national serviceman was a volunteer; and the level of atrocities ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Anzacs

    Jews in the Australian Military

    by Mark Dapin ...
    A landmark history of Australian Jews in the military, from the First Fleet to the recent war in Afghanistan. Over 7000 Jews have fought in Australia's military conflicts, including more than 330 who gave their lives. While Sir John Monash is the best known, in Jewish Anzacs acclaimed writer and historian Mark Dapin reveals the personal, often extraordinary, stories of many other Jewish servicemen ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lest

    Australian War Myths

    by Mark Dapin ...
    From Simpson’s donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn’t happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia has many stories and statues ‘lest we forget’ our military past. But from Simpson’s donkey to Ben Roberts-Smith, our history is fullof ... Read more

    $11.41 USD

  • Spirit House

    by Mark Dapin ...
    Witty, wise, and deeply moving, this is a remarkable novel, a story of the fall of Singapore and life as a POW, and of a young boy making sense of his future while old men try to live with their pastDavid is 13 and confused. His mother has left with her lover and dumped David on his grandparents. David's grandfather, Jimmy, is 70. He spends his days at the social club grumbling with his three best ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Country

    by Mark Dapin ...
    "This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains who ought to be locked up."As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • From the Trenches

    The Best Anzac Writing of World War One

    by Mark Dapin ...
    Others have written the myth, but the Anzacs themselves wrote their stories.Around the country, bronze soldiers in slouch hats stand silently at attention. It is the Anzacs' remarkable writing that reveals the lives behind the national legend. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lest

    Australian War Myths

    by Mark Dapin ...
    Narrated by Henry Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    From Simpson’s donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn’t happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia has many stories and statues ‘lest we forget’ our military past. But from Simpson’s donkey to Ben Roberts-Smith, our history is full of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The First Murderer I Ever Met

    Hanging out with criminals and cops

    by Mark Dapin ...
    Narrated by Henry Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    For more than thirty years, Mark Dapin has been hanging out with crooks, and both types of cop. In this gripping, often funny and always surprising book, he sorts the tall stories from the truth about true crime, showing us what some of Australia’s most famous felons are really like.Mark Dapin was still in school when he met his first murderer – a boy called Ian. In reporting the murder Ian ... Read more

    $26.99 USD