Ian Jones

'The best Kelly biography by a country mile' - The Australian A bestseller since it was first published, Ned Kelly: A Short Life is acknowledged as being the definitive biography. Ian Jones combines years of research into all the records of the era and exhaustive interviews with living descendants of those involved, to present a vivid and gripping account of...

War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century, this new technology was harnessed to produce increasingly deadly and malicious types of explosives in the form of booby traps, mines, delayed-action devices, and mobile charges. Designed, constructed, or adopted to kill or injure, these lethal mechanisms function when a person disturbs or approaches a seemingly...

Tails of the Village by Ian Jones introduces Admiral Humphrey Beckingham-Smythe, who has returned from the Orient on sick leave after contracting malaria. While recuperating at home with his young wife and growing family, he becomes embroiled in a murder case in the village. Unable to resist his investigative instincts, particularly given his history with customs units, he delves into...