Peter Temple

First cattle drive in California occurs with the help of Andrew Sinnickson.

"There's been a murder. Allegedly." "William de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist. He didn't mean to be - it was just an accident." "But, as William fills his pages with reports of local club meetings and pictures of humorously-shaped vegetables, dark forces high up in Ankh-Morpork's society are plotting to overthrow the city's ruler, Lord Vetinari. They've employed two Tarantino-esque thugs, Mr Tulip and Mr Pin. They mean business.". "Luckily, William has an informant. He can't be a talking dog because dogs can't talk. He's known only as...Deep Bone."--BOOK JACKET.

Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the Homicide Squad to a quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local is attacked and left for dead in his own home, Cashin is thrust into a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community; whom everyone wants to blame. But Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a simple robbery gone wrong.--From publisher description.

It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old flame. He has gambled and lost massively and seen a champion horse put down. Worst of all, hijackers have robbed and brutally beaten one of the gambling team. So it's not surprising that Jack's mind is not fully on the job he's being paid to do: find Robbie Colburne, occasional barman. But when Jack does get serious, he finds that the freelance drink-dispenser is of great interest to some powerful people, people with very bad habits and a distinct lack of respect for the criminal justice system ... Any lapse in concentration could prove fatal.

A regular at the local pub, and mainstay of the footy team, Mac Faraday is a man with a past living the quiet life of a country blacksmith. But when his best friend Ned is found hanged, Mac isn't convinced he committed suicide and starts asking questions. As Mac's search for answers pushes deeper into the past, it resurrects the terrifying spectre of what he calls his 'old life', forcing him to turn to long-discarded skills not only to discover why his best friend died, but also to save his own life.

'Her name was Sarah Longmore and she was charged with murdering her former lover.' When Jack Irish is asked to look into Sarah Longmore's defence, he's more than happy to oblige. After all, whenever somebody seems as guilty as Sarah does, it's usually for a good reason. But her case will prove far from straightforward, and Jack's investigation far from swift and painless.

CFDs Made Simple' is a short, straightforward, no-nonsense, practical guide to this exciting product written in Peter Temple's accessible style.

John Anselm is a struggling intelligence dealer whose business is information, Con Niemand is a tough ex-mercenary whose business is surviving, and Caroline Wishart is an expose journalist whose business until now has been the sex lives of British politicians. Their paths collide when they all stumble across a secret terrible enough to destroy lives and topple governments. Against his will, Anselm is plunged into a world of violence, betrayal, and death. He must break out of his anesthetized life and pit himself against forces that he does not understand, forces determined to rebury an atrocity that threatens reputations and lives across the globe, while Niemand is hunted across two continents by people he doesn't know. Identity Theory, cleverly plotted and peppered with dark irony and lean prose, delivers a world of political intrigue where information is more dangerous than explosives and secrets are worth more than human life.

"This book is about hedge funds, their influence on the global financial markets and how they affect us all. Hedge funds have come a long way since Alfred Winslow Jones first used them in the 1950s and '60s to reduce risk. Hedge funds today can wield immense power capable of disrupting the financial markets." "More alarming still is the hedge fund in your bank, epitomised by so-called 'proprietary trading': Banks trade with, lend to, and mimic hedge funds in their own trading - generating fat bonuses for their managers. Customers rarely know, let alone are consulted about it. As with many other 'enthusiasms' to which banks have been prone, it may end in tears." "The book's controversial conclusion is that it is banks' exposure to hedge funds and their sometimes inept proprietary trading that needs to be regulated more closely. It is in the urgent interests of the global banking system as a whole, and concerns all of us."--Jacket.