On holiday in Portugal to take their daughter's mind off a troubled love affair, the Channings are `befriended' by the Baronesa Narvo - with unexpected results.
General Fiction
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Author:CADELL, ElizabethSummary: - Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
It's 1963 and Sally Mitchell, the well-bred daughter of a wealthy New Zealand sheep farmer, is on her way to England with her friend Pru. When the young women stop over in Sydney their plans go awry. Sally impulsively takes a job...
- Author:DAISH, ElizabethSummary:
Antonia Lambert is in an unhappy marriage. Her husband leaves for South America assuming she will follow. She goes to France to pursue her art career where she meets an old lover, but her husband is never far away, spoiling her idyll...
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
Aunt Effie has six gigantic pig dogs, twenty six nieces and nephews and a never-ending supply of stories. She also has the ability to transport her nieces and nephews into her stories, which are all set in New Zealand.
- Author:HAWKE, EthanSummary:
Jimmy Heartsock is so afraid of losing his love Christy, he is going AWOL from the army and chasing after her in order to propose marriage. How does anyone, ever, make it down the aisle? Can Jimmy stop taking recreational drugs, or...
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
This is a true and passionate account of the life of Bryce and Benita Courtenay's son Damon and the story of his tragic death from medically acquired AIDS at the age of 24. It is also a love story between Damon and his partner...
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
Novel about family and friendship, about one woman's struggle to break free from the past - and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in... answered prayers.
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Author:NEALE, KittySummary:Sally Jones has a happy family life - that is until her Grandmother has a stroke and the family must move in to look after her. Stressed by the lack of privacy, Sally soon starts to have doubts about the strength of her marriage. An...
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Author:JENKINS, JanetteSummary:In January 1914, Jonathan Crane returns home to his village in the north of England with a rare thing - a beautiful, glamorous American bride. Beatrice struggles to adapt to this cold, grey place and tries to befriend the young women...
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Author:MCCULLOUGH, ColleenSummary:For twenty-one-year-old Harriet Purcell life irrevocably changes the moment she steps out the door of her respectable suburban home for the very last time. Ignoring her father's protests that 'only fools, Bohemians and tarts...
- Author:ASTLEY, TheaSummary:
Chilling story of a misfit's clash with parochial values in a small and decaying mining town in Queensland.
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Author:BRINK, AndreSummary:The story of the trek back to Capetown, of a young white widow and a black man who had rescued her when she was stranded in the hinterland wilderness.
- Author:Fine, AnneSummary:
Colin is an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job in the Social Services, visits his aged mother regularly and keeps in touch with his sister Dilys. But neither his mother, Dilys or his friends in Social Services know about his...
- Author:Bradshaw, GillianSummary:
In seventh-century Constantinople, Anna, former concubine of the emperor's disgraced brother, lives with her daughter. Then handsome alchemist Kallinokos arrives in Constantinople, working on a secret weapon that could save the city...
- Author:ORR, N DSummary:
A primal sense of justice motivated Kenneth Foster, a clansman of immense physique and strength, to exact fierce retribution on supporters of the House of Hanover who murdered innocents in the brutal aftermath of the Battle of Culloden...
- Author:WALTERS, MinetteSummary:
Acid Row is the name the inhabitants give to the place they live. A no-man's-land of single mothers and fatherless children, where angry, alienated teenagers control the streets. Sophie Morrison, a young doctor enters the house of...
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Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:The lives of 5 families are altered forever when Page's daughter and her friends are involved in a head-on collision. Page is forced to confront the fact that her daughter may not live, and if she does she may never be the same....
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Author:SHREVE, AnitaSummary:Gathering to attend a wedding in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, seven former classmates find the reunion marked by the death of a spouse, a traumatic past event, a shocking secret, and health issues.
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Author:TROLLOPE, JoannaSummary:Deals with the relationship that develops between two women as they fall in love, and the effect this has on their lives in a small rural English village.
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Author:SHUTE, NevilSummary:An English girl and an Australian soldier meet when they are POW's of the Japanese. The events which take place then and after the war make an interesting and heartwarming story.
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