The Girl in the Band: Bardot – a cautionary tale

Belinda Chapple

For millions of girls, being in a band is the ultimate dream. For Belinda, it turned into a nightmare. The Girl in the Band takes us behind the scenes of the early days of reality TV, and reveals, for the first time, what really happened to Bardot.Belinda Chapple spent her childhood dreaming of travelli...

The Teacher's Pet

Hedley Thomas

Lynette Dawson (nee Simms) disappeared from Sydney's idyllic northern beaches in 1982 and was never seen again. The Teacher's Pet, the book, tells the extraordinary story of the crime, the podcast investigation, the sexual exploitation of female teenage students, the failure for four decades of the crim...