In the company of the gyptians, Lyra travels to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies. Bearing a rare truth-telling compass, she goes in search of Roger and...

This short book is about the earliest years of the group that ultimately became the Association for the Blind of WA.The book covers the years from just before the First World War until the emergence of the Association in its current...

An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV.

As a young woman Nikki Gemmell wanted to travel and see the world; adventure lay in running away from Australia, where she had grown up. But at 40, after 12 wonderful years in London with her husband and 3 children, she longs to connect...

It is Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal, the bullying Hitler loyalists, the...

Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the...

Part memoir, part observation. As a young woman Nikki Gemmell wanted to travel and see the world; adventure lay in running away from Australia, where she had grown up. But at 40, after 12 wonderful years in London with her husband and 3...

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "...

Italian reading of classic Hounds of the Baskerville Lettura del classico Il mastino dei Baskerville