A pirate capture, a castaway island...In 1722, a young fisherman named Philip Ashton became the central figure in what became ...

Oh Errol, sang Australian Crawl in their hymn to Tasmania’s gift to swashbuckling, I would give everything just to be like him. Such was the strength of the Flynn legend that the band named its second ...

Josiah Harlow checked out a Robin Hood novel from the Cheyenne Central High School library 31 years ago, and never returned ...

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Mark McKenna explores Australia’s history of violence, dispossession and deception through one tragic incident ...

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I’m frightened by how much I enjoy the fiction of Gillian Flynn. “Gone Girl” — both the novel and its filmed adaptation ... I saw “Gone Girl” before I read “Gone Girl,” so I had some biases going into ...