One of the first spy novels ever written, The Riddle of the Sands had an enormous impact upon its publication in 1903. Author Erskine Childers-a Boer War veteran and expert yachtsman-crafted a riveting tale of two men who sail close to...
Historical Fiction
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Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:For Tyrese, history class is the lowest point of his school day. This is, until his friend Levi reveals a secret - a secret that brings history alive, in the form of one Gabriel Dumont. Through Dumont, a great Metis leader of the...
- Author:Twain, MarkSummary:
he Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain
- Author:EVANS, JohnSummary:
When Spanish power declined in the West Indies, France and Britain schemed to fill the vacuum. A young English officer is sent to stir rebellion against France in her islands.
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Author:AUEL, Jean MSummary:This, the fourth novel in the "Earth's Children" series, tells of Ayla and Jondalar's epic journey across the windswept grasslands of Ice-Age Europe. Together they encounter savage enemies and brave friends and finally reach a place...
- Author:MASON, DanielSummary:
In 1886 piano tuner Edgar Drake leaves his wife and quiet business in London for the jungles of Burma. He has been asked to repair a rare grand piano belonging to a controversial British army officer who uses the piano and music to help...
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Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:When Cole's teacher catches him drawing rather than listening in class, he gives Cole a special assignment: an oral presentation on an important Aboriginal figure. Cole will do almost anything to avoid speaking in public -- even...
- Author:STUART, Vivian or LONG, William StuartSummary:
This is a continuation of the novelised series of early Australian history. Finely drawn characters and authentic events. Book 8 of the series "The Australians".
- Author:Gray, ClaudiaSummary:
A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham--one of literature's most notorious villains--meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen's...
- Author:BARCLAY, TessaSummary:
Novel set in the 1920s, following the fortunes of Ruth Barnett, a love-child brought up by grandparents after the death of her `flighty' mother.
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
This powerful and enthralling novel spans more than three decades, from the 1880's to the First World War, and tells the story of Ward Gibson, his family, and those whose destiny is influenced by his marriage to Stephanie McQueen...
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming totally deaf.
- Author:CARTLAND, BarbaraSummary:
Bettina, unwanted by her mother, is sent to a missionary aunt. There the dangers she faces are overcome with the help of a tall dark stranger.
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
From turn of the century India to contemporary Sydney. This is a spellbinding saga of love...of two women connected across the decades by the men who love them... and the magic of Zanana.
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Author:Barbara CleverlySummary:India 1922. The wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. The only link between the deaths is the small red roses that mysteriously appear on the women's graves on the...
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Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an ederly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay's land was...
- Author:Schwab, V. E.Summary:
"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners...
- Author:BINGHAM, CharlotteSummary:
It is 1941, and England is at its lowest ebb, undernourished, under-informed and terrified of imminent invasion. Even at Eden Park, the lovely country estate where Poppy, Kate, Lily, Marjorie and her adopted brother Billy have all...
- Author:BURGH, AnitaSummary:
It is 1859. At age three, Eliza Forester is left motherless when her father orders his wife from the house. He keeps the child not out of love, but to spite his wife. Here is a woman who loses everything and very nearly her sanity.
- Author:GRAHAM, WinstonSummary:
"Maughan Killigrew, illegitimate son of John Kiligrew, of Cornwell", tells the story of his adventurous life, his service under Sir Walter Raleigh, his capture by the Spanish, and, at long last, his marriage to his boyhood...
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