Background
Tom Gilling was born in 1961, in England, United Kingdom.
Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
Gilling studied English and German literature at the University of York.
Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
Gilling studied English and German literature at the University of York.
(One squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer g...)
One squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Hobart, a thing more seal than a human. When a well-dressed stranger arrives, with a proposal for its future, no-one foresees the trouble ahead.
https://www.amazon.com/Sooterkin-Tom-Gilling/dp/0670891525/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=The+Sooterkin&qid=1606383829&sr=8-2
2000
(Born on the same day in 1856 under unusual circumstances,...)
Born on the same day in 1856 under unusual circumstances, Miles and Isabel independently grow up, he on the stage, she despite her mother's efforts to marry her to a rich boor, and fall in love as Miles prepares to risk his life by testing his new flying machine.
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Miles-Isabel-Tom-Gilling/dp/0871138611/ref=sr_1_18?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-18
2001
(From one of Australia's most acclaimed novelists - a "tau...)
From one of Australia's most acclaimed novelists - a "taut, suspenseful" psychological thriller about white lies, dark deeds, and the mysteries of self (Publishers Weekly). It was just a harmless lie - to say he was driving Danny Grogan’s car when it was caught speeding down the Sydney streets on New Year's Eve - and Danny's father, a billionaire real estate tycoon, has promised to make it worth his while. But only after former reporter Nick Carmody stands up in court to profess his guilt does he realize what he's admitting to. And it’s too late. Nick's "good deed" hurls him into a world of corruption, drugs, and murder. To save his life, he has no choice but to disappear and become someone else. But a new identity can be even more dangerous than the one left behind. As his new life in Melbourne veers out of control, Nick has to question whether chance alone is responsible, or whether more sinister forces are at work.
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Mile-Beach-Tom-Gilling-ebook/dp/B008UX31P0/ref=sr_1_16?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-16
2008
(A gripping and horribly convincing novel about how one li...)
A gripping and horribly convincing novel about how one little lie can turn a whole life upside down. Nick Carmody, an ex-crime reporter, is an ordinary man. The most glamorous thing about him is his childhood friendship with the rich, troubled, Danny Grogan. However, there is much more trouble to come. When Danny's wealthy father offers Nick money to cover for Danny's latest minor crime, there seems no reason to refuse. But the lie soon spirals, and when Nick finds himself caught in a nightmare of perjury, threatening policemen, and increasing danger, he decides that he had better disappear. But how do you disappear? Nick finds himself lying harder, and stealing, and worse. He has to stay missing or pretend to be someone else. And changing his identity, even temporarily, changes everything...
https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-Tom-Gilling/dp/0755302133/ref=sr_1_33?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606383224&sr=8-33
2008
(Former Assistant Police Commissioner exposes the truth ab...)
Former Assistant Police Commissioner exposes the truth about the multi-million dollar heroin trafficking business and reveals the raw insides of the industry in a way only a policeman could.
https://www.amazon.com/Smack-Express-Clive-Small-ebook/dp/B00UZKOH2M/ref=sr_1_17?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-17
2009
(Organized crime in Australia is more reckless and more vi...)
Organized crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power? There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, the sale and stockpiling of dangerous weapons, extortion, and large-scale fraud; the outlaw motorcycle gangs with their fortified clubhouses and amphetamine labs; and the Calabrian Mafia, always dangerous and opportunistic. Even more frightening, through the influence of radical Islam, organized crime and terrorism have begun to merge. The jails are turning drug dealers and car thieves into holy warriors willing to kill indiscriminately for their cause. With the same meticulous research that made Smack Express required reading for anyone interested in organized crime, Clive Small and Tom Gilling take us deep into this new, dark, and violent Australian underworld.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Money-Bikies-Terrorists-Eastern-ebook/dp/B00C5J6ZBW/ref=sr_1_21?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-21
2010
(Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could...)
Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could make a difference, but their whole life became a lie. They were cops pretending to be crooked. And their targets? Drug dealers, criminal gangs, and, worst of all, bent police. Surviving on deceit and gut instinct, Joe and Jessie lived in a world of drugs, violence, and corruption. To all but their parents, they were exactly what they seemed - a drug-dealing junkie and his girlfriend. When they could no longer endure the pressure, the danger, and the terrible isolation they quickly discovered just how alone they really were. This is more than a riveting true story of loyalty abused and courage betrayed. It is also a searing exposé; of a police system out of control; of senior officers who, by putting secrecy above all else, destroyed the careers and nearly the lives of two honest cops.
https://www.amazon.com/Betrayed-shocking-story-undercover-cops-ebook/dp/B00TY2Y920/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606383609&sr=8-1
2010
(A true insider's story of the backpacker murders from the...)
A true insider's story of the backpacker murders from the detective who led the team that arrested Ivan Milat. Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil. It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many false leads and dead ends, precious clues emerged that pointed to one man. This is the story of how Ivan Milat was caught. Clive Small takes us inside the operation he led as his team painstakingly pieced together the evidence that put Milat behind bars. But questions remain. Did he act alone? Were there other victims? How much did his family know? And what of his great-nephew, who brutally killed a young man in 2010? Chilling, forensic, compassionate - this is the definitive story that could only be told by someone at the center of the police operation. It is also a powerful argument for the investigation of more than 100 unsolved murders.
https://www.amazon.com/Milat-Clive-Small-Tom-Gilling-audiobook/dp/B01ITOPS50/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-13
2014
(The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This ...)
The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This is the first time its real story in this country has ever been told. The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest, and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders in Australia since the mid-1970s and many more before that. Mafia families in Australia report directly to bosses in Calabria and profits are funneled back to the mother organization. Yet despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Federal and State law enforcement agencies have long assured the public that there is no Calabrian mafia in Australia. With powerful and uncompromising clarity, Evil Life shatters this myth. Drawing on court documents and unreleased intelligence reports, as well as interviews with well-informed sources, the authors reveal how the Calabrian mafia evolved from its beginnings on the north Queensland cane fields in the 1920s to establish cells in every major capital city, making Australia a key outpost in the world of global organized crime.
https://www.amazon.com/Evil-Life-Story-Calabrian-Australia/dp/B01G6270OO/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-14
2016
(The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how ...)
The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how it all began. Even before James Squire set sail as a convict aboard the First Fleet, liquor was playing its part in shaping the colony-to-be. Who was entitled to it and who wasn't; who could make and sell it and who couldn't; and how the young and thirsty colony could make itself self-sufficient in booze. As the colony grew, rum became both a currency and a source of political strength and instability, culminating in the Rum Rebellion in 1808, and what one observer said was a society of 'drunkenness, gaming, and debaucheries.' Now, with Grog, writer Tom Gilling presents a compelling bottled history of the first three decades of European settlement: how the men and women of New South Wales transformed the colony from a squalid and starving convict settlement into a prosperous trading town with fashionable Georgian street names and a monumental two-story hospital built by private contractors in exchange for a monopoly on rum. Grog is a colorful account of the unique beginnings of a new nation, and a unique insight into the history of Australia's long love affair with the hard stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/Grog-Bottled-History-Australias-First-ebook/dp/B01NBJ9E76/ref=sr_1_25?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-25
2016
('Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and throu...)
'Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.' Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organized crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and Tom Gilling show how Australian crime gangs, in partnership with violent international syndicates, have exploited lax law enforcement and corruption on the nation's waterfront to import narcotics on a vast scale from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The authors reveal for the first time the corrupt history of Mark Standen, the senior investigator at the New South Wales Crime Commission whose conviction on drug importation charges sparked Australia's biggest law-enforcement crisis since the Wood royal commission. In the process, they expose the cover-ups, strategic blunders, and missed opportunities that continue to make Australia a soft target for international drug traffickers. The Dark Side is a fierce and compelling expose of organized crime in Australia and Australia's multi-billion-dollar drug trade.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-explosive-corruption-Australian-ebook/dp/B06Y191FX2/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-6
2017
(The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a p...)
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead, it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - who, as the editor of the local newspaper, knew everyone and heard everything - The Griffith Wars reveals startling new evidence about one of Australia's most notorious unsolved murders. It also powerfully recounts the struggle for the soul of a country town still battling to shake off its criminal past.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Wars-Tom-Gilling-ebook/dp/B077H62HBW/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-9
2017
(They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhe...)
They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible.' Until now, the story of the 2000 diggers marooned on Java in February 1942 has been a footnote to the fall of Singapore and the bloody campaign in New Guinea. Led by an Adelaide lawyer, Brigadier Arthur Blackburn VC, and fighting with scrounged weapons, two Australian battalions - plus an assortment of cooks, laundrymen, and deserters from Singapore - held up the might of the Imperial Japanese Army until ordered by their Dutch allies to surrender. Drawing on personal diaries, official records, and interviews with two of the last living survivors, this book tells the extraordinary story of the 'lads from Java', who laid down their weapons but refused to give in.
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Battalions-battle-defended-trusted/dp/176087616X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606379954&sr=8-2
2018
(At the height of the Cold War, the chief of one of Austra...)
At the height of the Cold War, the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in central Australia to toast the success of a top-secret project known in US intelligence circles as RAINFALL. The CIA listening station at Pine Gap was officially called the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, but it had nothing to do with research and was joint in name only: Australians were hired as cooks and janitors but the first spies were all American. The job of the satellites controlled from the Pine Gap was to eavesdrop on Soviet missile tests. While government ministers denied that Australia was a nuclear target, bureaucrats in Canberra secretly planned for Armageddon in the suburbs of Alice Springs. No longer just a listening station, Pine Gap has metamorphosed into a key weapon in the Pentagon's war on terror, with Australians in frontline roles. Drawing on declassified documents in Australian and US archives, Tom Gilling's explosive new book tells, for the first time, the uncensored story of Australia's most secret place.
https://www.amazon.com/Project-RAINFALL-Secret-History-Pine-ebook/dp/B07X1Z7W3W/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=Tom+Gilling&qid=1606380060&sr=8-11
2019
Tom Gilling was born in 1961, in England, United Kingdom.
Gilling studied English and German literature at the University of York.
Tom Gilling moved to Tasmania in 1983. The move made him wonder about the lives of the early European settlers there. His first novel, The Sooterkin (2000), has been published in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands. In The Sooterkin, he examines the lives of various settlers in the penal colony of Van Dieman's Land in Tasmania in the early 1800s; they include a chaplain, a midwife, and a family that includes a "sooterkin," a strange child who looks like a seal pup. When the child is born, the village is thrown into crisis as the authorities try to determine whether the birth is a hoax or not. The child's mother, convict Sarah Dyer, names the baby Arthur and treats him just like his older brother, Ned. Ned takes on the job of taking Arthur to the seashore each day so that he can swim in the waves. The sooterkin's father, William, spends most of his time in the local pub, trying to figure out how he can profit from the situation. However, when someone kidnaps Arthur, the entire village is roused to find him before he is killed for his furry pelt or sold to a circus.
Gilling's second novel, Miles McGinty (2001), set in Sydney, Australia, in 1856, also begins with the delivery of a child: Miles McGinty. An actress goes into labor on stage, giving birth to illegitimate son Miles. At the same time, so does Louisa Dowling, a woman in the theater audience; her daughter, Isabel, is her fifth child. The two children grow up in very different worlds, but they are bound by a sort of mystical or psychic connection throughout their lives. Miles, who grows up in the world of vaudeville, meets a hypnotist who finds that he can put Miles in a trance and cause him to levitate. Miles understandably becomes obsessed with the idea of flight. The book has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
He is co-author with Clive Small of the highly successful Smack Express, Blood Money, Evil Life, and The Dark Side. His most recent books are The Lost Battalions (2018) and Project RAINFALL: The Secret History of Pine Gap (2019).
Tom works as a writer and journalist. He writes for amongst others the Sydney Morning Herald and Rolling Stone Australia.
(Born on the same day in 1856 under unusual circumstances,...)
2001(At the height of the Cold War, the chief of one of Austra...)
2019(Former Assistant Police Commissioner exposes the truth ab...)
2009(From one of Australia's most acclaimed novelists - a "tau...)
2008(One squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer g...)
2000(Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could...)
2010(A true insider's story of the backpacker murders from the...)
2014(A gripping and horribly convincing novel about how one li...)
2008(Organized crime in Australia is more reckless and more vi...)
2010(The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a p...)
2017('Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and throu...)
2017(They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhe...)
2018(The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This ...)
2016(The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how ...)
2016Tom Gilling is married to Rosemary Neill. They have a son, Ciaran.
