The Last Outlaws
The crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the birth of modern Australia
$24.00
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2025
Summary
Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, The Last Outlaws is both a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith meets Killing for Country.
In the winter of 1900, Wiradjuri man Jimmy Governor and his brother Joe murdered nine people across New South Wales, in a rampage that caused panic in the colony on the cusp of nationhood. Triggered, it seems, by a raci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761631665 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761631667 |
| Author: | Katherine Biber |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Scribner Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 434g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 179mm x 316mm |
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Critics Review
‘an absorbing account of the crimes of Jimmy Governor’ * The Age *
‘Biber’s ability to slip seamlessly from past to present, from open wound to aching scar, gives The Last Outlaws a rare immediacy few writers of legal history can sustain’ * Readings *
‘I was lucky enough to read early Katherine Biber’s The Last Outlaws … It’s a story that encapsulates our complex national origins.’ * The Weekend Australian *
Katherine Biber
Katherine Biber is Distinguished Professor of Law at UTS. Her podcast The Last Outlaws won the NSW Premier’s History Award (2022, Digital History); Australian Podcast Awards (2022, Podcast of the Year, overall winner; 2022 History Podcast of the Year); Australian Legal Research Award (2022, non-traditional research award); and was a finalist in the Webby Awards (2023, Best Limited Series).
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