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Australian author Tea Cooper, Nov 2024. Credit: Gary Musgrove
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Mystery of a hidden, bloodstained dress

The discovery of a bloodstained silk dress in Australia’s oldest surviving public building was the start of an historical mystery in need of an origin story – now it has one.

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Jo Appleby, a lecturer in Human Bioarchaeology, at University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, who led the exhumation of the remains, during a dig at Leicester's Greyfriars car park, speaking at the university, as tests have established that a skeleton found under the car park, is that of King Richard III.   (Photo by Rui Vieira/PA Images via Getty Images)

Inside the head of ‘killer king’

For centuries, the mystery of the Princes in the Tower has chilled and enthralled. Amid debate around a fascinating new theory, a book goes inside the mind of the boys’ alleged murderer.

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Australian author Mitch Jennings in 2024. , Photo: Sylvia Liber,

‘Taboo topic’ drove me to booze

Devastating loss in an area few people understand or talk about led Mitch Jennings to the realisation that people don’t always respond to life’s challenges the way we might hope.

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Pedro Pascal in The Last Of Us

One question: What would you do?

There’s a secret to creating plots that stand out in a world of high-octane drama and competing streaming services. It comes down to one key question, reveals Linwood Barclay.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 16, 2024: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price during the Cross-Portfolio Indigenous Matters Senate estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Major move for outspoken senator

A first term senator who rose through Liberal ranks to become the face of the anti-Voice campaign will pen a memoir set to be released early next year.

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Former Aust Prime Minister politician Bob Hawke with future wife Hazel Masterson on 1947 Panther motorbike in 1951.

Hawke, Hazel, seduction and beer

The true story of Bob Hawke’s beer-swilling record and his desperate appeal for distant fiancee Hazel to save him from temptation are among extraordinary accounts in a new book.

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