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AUSTRALIA’S FUNNIEST YARNS – OUT NOW!

December 10, 2019 By Graham Seal in REVIEWS, NOTICES AND THE LIKE

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Chunks

  • A LETTER FROM YOUR ROBBER – JAMES MACLAINE TO HORACE WALPOLE, 1749
  • CONDEMNED is now released
  • JACK – A TRUE TALE
  • BANDIT LANDS 11 – The Little Angel
  • KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS
  • CONDEMNED: THE TRANSPORTED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO BUILT BRITAIN’S EMPIRE
  • BANDIT LANDS 10 – The Hassanpoulia of Cyprus
  • MORE ON THE PORTUGUESE PLATYPUS
  • THE APPEARANCE OF TRUTH – Why People Believe Lies
  • BLOOD CURDLING OATHS AND DIABOLIC RITUALS – FOLK SECRET SOCIETIES
  • The Big Book of Great Australian Bush Yarns
  • THE BLACK BOOK – Dealing With Demons
  • BANDIT LANDS 9 – The Scarlet Rose
  • THE COMING OF MEN – AN INUIT CREATION STORY
  • BANDIT LANDS 8 – Vassilis Palaiokostas, ‘The Phantom’
  • BANDIT LANDS 7 – INDIA’S BANDIT QUEEN
  • The Grace Darling of New Zealand
  • BANDIT LANDS 6: JURO JANOSIK
  • THE EROS CODE
  • BANDIT LANDS 5 – ‘PIGEON’
  • BANDIT LANDS 4 -‘THE LAMP’
  • LOST TREASURE IN THE CAVE OF DEATH – Part 2
  • LOST TREASURE IN THE CAVE OF DEATH – Part 1
  • BANDIT LANDS 3 – CAPTAIN SILVINO –
  • REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS
  • UNPLEASANT LETTERS FROM NED LUDD AND CAPTAIN SWING
  • BANDIT LANDS 2 – WITH HIS PISTOL IN HIS HAND: GREGORIO CORTEZ
  • THYLACINE FLICKS, NEWLY UNEARTHED
  • BANDIT LANDS 1 – CORTINAS
  • MYTH-MAKING IN THE TIME OF THE VIRUS
  • CACKLING FARTS, TALLYWAGS AND OTHER GROSE WORDS
  • A TIME FOR HEROES Anzac Day 2020
  • IN PRAISE OF SMALL THINGS
  • THE WORLD FAIR IN THE DESERT
  • THE RETURN OF TYPHOID MARY
  • FACT AND FAKE – THE FIRST ANZAC DAY
  • HOW DID LINNAEUS KNOW THAT?
  • KITTY GRAVY WORKS THE SYSTEM, 1825
  • NUMSKULLS, NINCOMPOOPS AND THE AGE OF FOOLS
  • TRACKING MATILDA – A CONTINUING CONUNDRUM
  • HELLHOUNDS – FROM CONAN DOYLE TO ROBERT JOHNSON
  • THE MYSTERY OF MICHAEL ROCKEFELLER’S DISAPPEARANCE ON THE CANNIBAL COAST
  • AUSTRALIA’S FUNNIEST YARNS – OUT NOW!
  • THE GREATEST MONSTER WHO EVER CURSED THE EARTH
  • THYLACINE UPDATES
  • THE PORTUGUESE PLATYPUS
  • FOGLE-HUNTERS, WIRE-TOOLERS AND BUZZERS
  • HOW NOT TO FIND TREASURE
  • WAYS AND LAYS – THE SPEECH OF BEGGARS
  • THE DEVIL RODE OUT – THE SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE (SRA) SCARE
  • FLIGHT OF THE LOST DIAMONDS
  • A BUSHRANGER IN AMERICA
  • HOW MEN TOOK OVER
  • Moral Ecologies and Crimes Against Nature – just out
  • A MAGICAL WAR
  • THE SECRET SPEECH FROM THE DEVIL’S ARSE
  • THE BATTLE OF BOW STREET
  • Friedl Dicker’s art
  • LEGENDS OF THE SPECTRAL HORDE
  • ANZAC: THE BIRTH OF A NATION
  • RIVERS OF GOLD
  • BRITAIN REVOKES USA INDEPENDENCE
  • PARLARI – THE SPEECH OF FAIRGROUND FOLK
  • THE LOST RED RUBY OF BURMA
  • WIVES FOR SALE
  • BURYING THE DEAD HORSE
  • A RHYMING SLANG LETTER FROM THE IRON WRENCHES OF WORLD WAR ONE
  • Follow-up to ‘Stealing the Past’
  • HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A THYLACINE?
  • BOILING DOWN THE BODIES AND OTHER TRENCH MYTHS OF THE GREAT WAR
  • RAGTIME ARMIES: TRENCH SONGS OF THE GREAT WAR
  • FBI TURN TREASURE HUNTERS
  • MASSACRE AT CHILCOT ISLAND
  • STEALING THE PAST
  • PRIMAL EVIL
  • THE ROBIN HOOD FACTOR
  • THE VITUPERATIVE TONGUE – Insults Through the Centuries
  • GREAT CONVICT STORIES
  • LINES OF LIGHT – How Jewish children’s art survived the darkness of the Prague ghetto and Nazi death camps.
  • A couple of follow-ups to ‘The Bullshit Detection Bureau’:
  • THE BULLSHIT DETECTION BUREAU
  • WRAITH OF THE COPENHAGEN
  • YES! THERE IS A MAP
  • More on proverbs in action today
  • OLD WISDOM
  • HISTORY’S FIRST GRUMPY OLD MAN
  • FRUMMAGEMMED, NOOZED AND SCRAGGED – THE LANGUAGE OF DEATH
  • THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE
  • THE LAST GREAT ACT OF DEFIANCE – A BRIEF HISTORY OF WORKPLACE HUMOUR
  • BUT THE TOWN STRIKES IT RICH …
  • NO NAZI GOLD …
  • PIED PIPER STILL PIPING
  • NAZI GOLD TRAIN – THE QUEST CONTINUES!
  • ON THE CASTAWAY CONTINENT, 1727
  • And on and on …
  • THE QUEST FOR TREASURE CONTINUES
  • MYTHS THAT MAKE HISTORY
  • HUNTING FOR TREASURE
  • BONA PARLARE – MR PUNCH SPEAKS
  • CONSENTING TO DIE IN THE GREAT WAR

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