Mike Richards has a unique problem: He’s always right. (He’s also incredibly handsome and modest, but these are separate issues.) Rather than suffer in silence, something he could never do, he’s decided to share his wisdom and correct some of the many things everyone is wrong about, such as 1. Everyone enjoys a vegan 2. If it qualifies as an Olympic sport, it’s a good sport 3. There is a “code” in the NHL 4. Vancouver is a great city 5. Cheerleaders aren’t necessary Also, sorry, tennis isn’t really a sport. You know what else? Men can’t have cats. They just can’t. If you think they can, you are unfortunately quite wrong. On the other hand, if you think guys don’t need to know about wine, well, you’re wrong again. Mike Richards, host of TSN’s marquee morning-drive program, could go on about all the things people are wrong about. And he does. 100 Things Everyone Else Is Wrong About is guaranteed to start arguments. King of one-liners and always willing to say the unexpected, Mike Richards speaks his mind and dares you to tell him he’s wrong.

100 Things Everyone Else Is Wrong About

Humor & Entertainment

Richards, Mike

Humor

Penguin Canada

Ronald Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on February 3, 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during his daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison. Following Ryan's death, date governments moved to abolish the death penalty, and he became the last man to be hanged in Australia. Today, more than 30 years later, the Ryan case still prompts spirited debate about the guilty finding against the condemned man, the merits of capital punishment in general, and the politics behind the execution. Mike Richards' original, comprehensive research and persuasive insights have produced a definitive account of the life and death of the man whose execution stopped a nation.

The Hanged Man: The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Scribe Publications Pty Ltd.

Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during a daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison thirteen months before. The decision of the Victorian government in December 1966 to proceed with Ryan’s death sentence sparked immediate media condemnation and angry political protests, and put the Liberal premier, Sir Henry Bolte, under siege for the duration of the case. State governments around the country moved to abolish the death penalty in the 1970s and 1980s, and Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in Australia. Today, many years later, the Ryan case still prompts spirited debate about the guilty finding against Ryan, the merits of capital punishment, and the politics behind his execution. But who was Ronald Ryan, and how did he come to be the focus of such dramatic political events? Drawing on previously unpublished documents and personal accounts ― including details of Ryan’s childhood and his early turn to crime ― this book reveals the truth about Ryan’s guilt. It also goes behind the scenes to tell for the first time of the life-long anguish of the judge who pronounced the death sentence, the inner workings of the secret cabinet meeting that decided Ryan’s fate, and the dramatic political process that resulted in the rejection of eleventh-hour appeals to save Ryan. Mike Richards first became involved in the case as the leader of student protests against Ryan’s execution. Now he has written a masterly, compelling account that retrieves the individual and the drama at the centre of the most divisive capital case in Australia’s history. Through the depth of its original research and the persuasiveness of its insights, Mike Richards’ award-winning biography of Ronald Ryan provides a definitive account of the life and death of the man whose execution stopped a nation.

The Hanged Man: the life and death of Ronald Ryan

Historical

Scribe US

In November 1916, just a few years after Federation and while Australia was at war in Europe, Hazel Hood, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of a Riverina grazier, went to a local dance and never came home. Her mysterious disappearance caused a sensation in the district around the pioneer settlement of Wakool Crossing, near the Victoria–New South Wales border. The mystery further intensified when, a week later, Hazel’s body ― still clothed in her white party dress ― was recovered from the Wakool river with a mark of violence upon her head, and her silk scarf tied tightly around her neck. Her disappearance was reported in major daily newspapers as far afield as Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, but the mystery of what happened to her was never fully explained. As a child in the Mallee in the 1950s, Mike Richards was told the story of Hazel Hood’s tragic disappearance by his grandmother, Hazel’s elder sister, who firmly believed she had been murdered. Now, almost 100 years after her death, the author takes us with him as he seeks to unravel the mystery and reveal the truth about what happened to Hazel Hood ― an unassuming, fun-loving, and caring girl, and a favourite in the district.

Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916

History

Australia & Oceania

Gonz Moss

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Independently published

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