Bush Tragedies

<p>Award-winning journalist Bill Poulos delves deep into Australia's turbulent and lawless past with this collection of stories recalling crimes murders and tragedies that once made headlines around the nation.</p><p>His detailed research takes the reader into townships settlements and the wide-open spaces of the outback where there is no escape from the shocking and often brutal events he vividly recreates.</p><p>Bush Tragedies throws a light on shocking events that occurred far from the big cities - tragedies that disrupted and divided tight knit communities in obscure towns and settlements.</p><p>The author takes us well beyond the bare facts of crime and punishment. Postscripts add fascinating backgrounds and outcomes to those involved - the cause and effect of the brutal deeds he describes.</p><p>Readers become observers at inquests and trials even joining the witnesses at the gallows. </p><p>We are introduced to rogues and villains their unfortunate victims and the lawyers and judges who decide their fate. </p><p>This rollicking time capsule brings to life the truly appalling crimes and tragedies that horrified a nation all those years ago.</p><p>They are retold in graphic detail from start to finish complete with the cut and thrust of cross-examinations by police and lawyers.</p><p>It can be a tragic world out there in the bush . . . </p>