Man of action, naval officer, able administrator, skilled diplomat - James Stirling's distinguished and multi-faceted career carried him to the four corners of the nineteenth century world.
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Author: STATHAM-DREW, PamelaSummary: -
Author: CROUCH, MichaelSummary:The colourful life story of T.A.G. Hungerford, the last grand old man of Australian literature. The author of four major novels, a short-story writer par excellence and a poet, Hungerford has...
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Author: McLAREN, DuncanSummary:If you are willing to acknowledge that Enid Blyton once mattered enormously to you, you are warmly invited to accompany the author on an adventure that will investigate what made Enid Enid and...
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Author: HARRIS, A.M.Summary:This is a dramatic suspenseful and splendidly written story of Australians at war. The author tells the story of his early years on the Buronga Ridge near Mildura, of his army service with the...
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Author: HARRIS, A.M.Summary:
After three years of war, the tall man knew the shell-pocked ground in Korea as well as he knew the Blue Mountains of his home outside Sydney. The tall man had to organize more missions, to send...
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Author: CROUCH, MichaelSummary:
A deadly struggle between an Arab killer and his British enemy. The theme of the Brotherhood of Man runs through this tale.
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Author: NEGUS, GeorgeSummary:In the words of the author, this book or journal is a series of personal experiences, opinions, observations, interviews, conversations, research and reactions noted and recorded in the course of...
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Author: SILVER, Lynette RamsaySummary:
Story of WWII Sandakan Prisoner of war camp from which only 6 Australians survived. Also details a bungled rescue attempt, where almost all the men died because of mistakes made within the senior...
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Author: ALLBEURY, TedSummary:John Rennie is an uncomprimising, principled man. When his Intelligence superiors order him to lie, to pervert, to execute he does it because his country's security demands it. That is,...
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Author: Clarke, BrendaSummary:
The Reads are respectable Nonconformist shopkeepers; the Hunnicutts dark and stormy High Church landowners. But love and greed constantly cross the battle lines, adding new disputes to the old...
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Author: Nix, GarthSummary:A short story collection from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix, including an Old Kingdom novella, a short story set in the same world as Shade's Children, and another story set in the world of...
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Author: Statovci, PajtimSummary:
April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile...
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Author: Eliopulos, AndrewSummary:
A magic-infused YA novel about friendship, first love, and feeling out of place that will bewitch fans of Rainbow Rowell and Maggie Stiefvater. Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon,...
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Author: Henry, KatieSummary:
Put an atheist in a strict Catholic school? Expect comedy, chaos, and an Inquisition. The Breakfast Club meets Saved! in debut author Katie Henry's hilarious novel about a band of misfits who...
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Author: Szablowski, WitoldSummary:
Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuscinski in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of...