Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arose mixed emotions. Was she, as Edmund Burke thought, a misused heroine? Or would there have been no French...
Talking books
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Author:FRASER, AntoniaSummary: - Author:LANE, ElizabethSummary:
An idyllic and rollickingly humorous story of a girl growing up in a large family on a farm in the Victorian Wimmera.
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Author:TEMPLETON, AlineSummary:The community of Drumbreck - a tranquil weekend playground for rich Glaswegians - is small and close-knit. But the veneer of contented prosperity conceals nasty secrets and daily betrayals. In an atmosphere of distrust, DI Fleming...
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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 endeavour to reach the source of her...
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Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:Story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken. It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free...
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Author:PATTERSON, JamesSummary:Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets the call. A city in Nevada has been annihilated and the Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf is claiming responsibility. Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction....
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SHORT STORIES. A girl with a crippling pea-phobia, a woman driven to murderous rage in an Anger Management Workshop, a wife torn between her dashing artist-lover and her uptight accountant-husband - these are some of the characters in...
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Author:LILLEE, DennisSummary:Fast bowlers do not come any better, quicker or more competitive than Australia's finest. This puny, shy boy from the outskirts of Perth became the scourge of batsmen all over the world.
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Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems...
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Author:PATTERSON, JamesSummary:Everything is going right for lifeguard Ned Kelly. He is involved with Tess, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and what's more, a million dollars is within touching distance; his share of the score for the robbery of some...
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With a horrifying anthrax murder and the brutal, ritualistic killing of a nun, forensic examiner Jack McCain takes on two baffling new cases. Does the anthrax killing signify a frightening new wave of terrorism?
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Author:FITZSIMONS, PeterSummary:Authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in military history.
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Jonah Dereham is a bloodstock agent, buying and selling horses for a living. But when someone starts sabotaging his business, and colleagues are leaning on him to join kickback schemes, he starts investigating who and why, and begins to...
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Author:Jordan, RobertSummary:As the very fabric of reality wears thin all portents indicate that Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, is imminent - and Rand al'Thor must ready himself to confront the Dark One. But Rand must first negotiate a truce with the Seanchan...
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Author:WILDING, LynneSummary:A compelling family saga that sweeps from India and southern Africa to the cane fields of north Queensland.
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Author:ISON, GrahamSummary:When a woman's body is found by the Thames river police floating opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, it doesn't take DCI Brock long to work out that she's been murdered.
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Author:PICOULT, JodiSummary:In the aftermath of her mother's divorce, seven-year-old Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend. Her mother Mariah puts it down to Faith's imagination, but when Faith develops stigmata and performs miraculous healings...
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Author:COOK, JudithSummary:Recovering form a bad bout of flu and the humiliating failure of his second marriage, former policeman John Latymer is feeling distinctly low. When a regular customer of the bookshop in which he is now a partner suggests that Latymer...
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Author:MILLER, JohnSummary:The author examines her life through her own words and diaries and through those of her contemporaries and critics. A picture emerges of a private woman admired and loved by her peers for her wicked sense of humour, her talent and...
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When Rona Parish embarks on a new assignment, she is not expecting another brush with murder. She is to write a series of articles to coincide with the 800th anniversary of the county town of Buckford, looking at the history of its...
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