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Australia's Most Murderous Prison
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Australia's Most Murderous Prison Softcover - 2016

by James Phelps

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Penguin Random House Australia, 2016. Softcover. Very Good. An unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s – seven in just three years – earned Goulburn Jail the ominous name of ‘The Killing Fields’. Inmates who were sentenced or transferred to the 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been given a death sentence. pp. 255 illusts #1119 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.
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  • Title Australia's Most Murderous Prison
  • Author James Phelps
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition New
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Random House Australia
  • Date 2016
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 46425
  • ISBN 9780857987518 / 0857987518
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Australian
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Dewey Decimal Code 365.9

About the author

James Phelps is an award-winning senior reporter for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph in Sydney. He began as on overnight police rounds reporter before moving into sport, where he became one of Australia's best news-breaking rugby league reporters. James became News Corp Australia's Chief National Motorsports Writer. He is also a senior feature writer for the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of Dick Johnson: The Autobiography of a True-Blue Aussie Sporting Legend; Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail; and Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates. James is a twice V8 Supercar media award winner and a former News Awards Young Journalist of the Year and Sport Reporter of the Year.

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