It's just weeks from the outbreak of the First World War, a conflict few expect to erupt. If it does, Russia is pivotal. But Russia, having survived one abortive revolution, seethes with unrest. Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin plot a...
Talking books
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Auteur:Do, Anh.Sommaire:Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of...
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Auteur:PARKER, Una-MarySommaire:When the Second World War is declared, rich banker Henry Granville moves his family away from London. Even so, life for them remains turbulent.
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Auteur:JACOBS, KateSommaire:It starts almost by accident : the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia's store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. As the needles clack...
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Auteur:CUTLER, JudithSommaire:When Josie Welford settles in the idyllic West Country village of Kings Duncombe, she honestly believes she can bury her past. She is the widow of one of Britain's most wanted criminals and she knows what it's like to be an...
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Auteur:Jordan, RobertSommaire:The Chosen are free and already planning for the Great Day of Return, when the Dark One will walk the Earth again. And their thoughts and plots turn inevitably to the capture of the Dragon Reborn.
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When English doctor Elizabeth Blakeny-Smith accepts a six-month job in the Outback, she's hoping to take control of her life. But a kiss from her colleague Dr Mitch O'Neill sets her pulse racing and control is the last thing...
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A first class detective mystery murder. Thrilling to the last page and full of humour.
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Auteur:BOWDEN, TimSommaire:On a mission to rediscover his home state, Tim Bowden and his wife Ros, travel to some of the quirkier outposts of island civilisation.
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Auteur:BRETT, Simon (Ed.)Sommaire:This anthology includes eleven new stories by the best of British: Robert Barnard, Lindsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Clare Francis, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Michael Ridpath, Margaret Yorke and...
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Auteur:PATTERSON, JamesSommaire:Fifteen-year-old alien hunter Daniel X is on a mission to finish the job that killed his parents - to wipe out the world's most bloodthirsty aliens on The List. At the number-one spot, The Prayer is Daniel's ultimate target....
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Auteur:BROWN, DanSommaire:A murder in the silent, late night halls of the Louvre reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ.
- Auteur:NOAKES, MannySommaire:
How many diets have you tried that haven't worked for you? The Total Wellbeing Diet, developed by Australia's CSIRO, is not just another diet, it's a long-term healthy eating plan that can make you feel great.
- Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:
Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose? As...
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Auteur:PEARLMAN, AnnSommaire:Every year on the first Monday in December twelve friends gather with batches of homemade cookies wrapped in beautiful packages. They drink wine, they eat and take turns telling the story of the cookies they have baked. Somehow these...
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Auteur:CORRIS, PeterSommaire:Wealthy Frederick Farmer died when his weekender burned to the ground. Death by accident, the police found. But his daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Farmer, hires Cliff Hardy to investigate. Is her only motive jealousy of her father's...
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Skeeta Anderson wakes up one Summer morning to find that part of him is gone, something he thought he'd never miss - his bum!
- Auteur:TROLLOPE, JoannaSommaire:
Alice is thirty-eight. She has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy. But she isn't. Instead, she feels she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the back...
- Auteur:HAPPELL, CharlesSommaire:
The story of Kokichi Nishimura - a former Japanese soldier who went back to Papua New Guinea after the war to look for the remains of his comrades.
- Auteur:CADELL, ElizabethSommaire:
Second book in trilogy of "The lark shall sing" and "Six impossible things". A story of family life.
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