Australia's Most Infamous Jail

Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison

James Phelps

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HARPER360
04 October 2023

Biography; True crime; True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; Australasian & Pacific history; Penology & punishment; Prisons

Welcome to Pentridge, Australia's most infamous prison.

In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps turns his attention to HM Prison Pentridge - the bluestone behemoth that was home to Victoria's worst criminals for more than a century.

Beginning with a gang of guards and a handful of convicts, for more than 145 years Pentridge housed a who's who of Australian criminals and Melbourne's underworld, including Ned Kelly and Mark 'Chopper' Read.

From solving the mystery of Ned Kelly's missing skull to the shocking truth about who really cut off Chopper's ears, Australia's Most Infamous Jail includes true and uncensored accounts of inmates (including a convicted serial killer, a mass murderer and the real Romper Stomper), guards, archaeologists and even a former governor-general.

This is gritty, true crime storytelling on steroids, exploring what life was really like behind the bluestone walls of Pentridge.

By: James Phelps
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 389g
ISBN: 9781460764138
ISBN 10: 1460764137
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Phelps is an award-winning senior reporter for Sydney's The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He began as an overnight police-rounds reporter before moving into sport, where he became one of Australia's best news-breaking rugby league journalists. James was then appointed News Corp Australia's Chief National Motorsports Writer and travelled the world chasing Formula 1 stories, as well as covering Australia's V8 Supercar races. As well as writing bestselling and critically acclaimed biographies of Dick Johnson and Johnathan Thurston, James established himself as Australia's number-one true crime writer with his bestselling prison series, including Australia's Hardest Prison, Australia's Most Murderous Prison, and Australia's Toughest Prisons. His most recent books are Australian Heist (2018), a dramatic retelling of the true story behind Australia's largest gold robbery, and Australian Code Breakers (2020), a gripping account of how Australian cryptographers helped bring about the most vital Allied naval victory of World War I.