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This is a unique anthology of the stories our history teachers didn't tell us

45 Riveting True Stories Every Australian Should Know

This unique anthology of the stories our history teachers didn't tell us includes:

• The fugitive whose favourite food was takeaway - his fellow escapers
• The granny who giggled while her victims died in agony
• The coral island awash with blood a lifetime's nightmares in one gory day - for 105 successive days
• The oaf who - almost - conned England's ninth richest family from its fortune
• The lady-killing cad who rivalled Jack the Ripper
• The monster of Norfolk Island
• Our first Australian idol, hanged for his sins, voluptuous Lola Montez, the gun molls whose kiss meant death, the gangsters who tried to kill our greatest sporting legend and the musical genius who sang of the joys of flagellation.

Author Paul Taylor has written for the London Daily Mail, the London Sunday Telegraph, the London Observer, Vogue, Sunday, the Age, the Sunday Age and the Sunday Herald Sun.