Alan Furst again proves himself the master of his proven terrain - behind the lines of Nazi occupation in France during WWII. Leading on from the successful The world at night, this thrilling tale...
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Author: FURST, AlanSummary:
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Author: BISHOP, PatrickSummary:
A novel of wartime Britain, as the lives of two men are intertwined like good luck and bad, love and loss, life and death, from the ruins of Poland to the rolling English countryside.
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Author: ESDAILE, CharlesSummary:
No other soldier has provoked as much anger or as much fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military adventure - or was he a social and...
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Author: Richards, ChristopherSummary:
Reference to sightings of and violent conflict with the Aboriginal people of the Kimberleys; use of Aborigines as police constables; from primary sources.
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Author: Hunter, SethSummary:
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Author: DURACK, NoniSummary:
A dramatic family saga, where the human passions are as savage as the wilderness of the Kimberley. A fiction based on the lives and work in the early 1940s of two brothers, Kimberley and Bill...
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Author: Parton, AllenSummary:
The remarkable story of Endal, voted 'Dog of the Millennium', and how, through his remarkable skills, companionship and unstinting devotion, he gave Allen Parton a reason to live again...
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Author: Mcgregor, RafeSummary:
Major Alec Marshall VC, newly back in London, is enlisted to make inquiries into the will of the late Cecil John Rhodes, the wealthiest man in the British Empire. That same night one of the...
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Author: Falkiner, SuzanneSummary:
Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his...
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Author: Repcheck, JackSummary:
Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of modern era: the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. He was also the first to...
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Author: Baldacci, DavidSummary:
A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from a prestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate...
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Author: ANTHONY, Hubert LawrenceSummary:
"An extraordinary insight into the war experiences of a very young man, and the relationship between a son and his mother, during the horrors of Galipoli and its aftermath ... Sapper Hubert...
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Author: ANGEL, NicholasSummary:
With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Milvern and his wife Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming community, struggle with drought,...
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Author: BOVA, BenSummary:
Ten thousand men and women, exiled by the restrictive governments of Earth, are riding a man-made habitat to the planet Saturn. They form a volatile community - one needs only a spark to set off...
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Author: RHEA, NicholasSummary:
When Matthew Taylor exchanged his job as a butcher for a career as a local insurance agent he never anticipated that on his first day he would deliver a stallion foal and kill seven pigs - all...
Genre: Historical fiction