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An English girl becomes governess to a young French boy and discovers his life is threatened.

In the middle of the Indian Ocean the biggest, most ambitious engineering project in history is under way.

This is a delightful, wry and amusing collection of columns by Keith Dunstan, who for thirty years has been one of Australia's most-read and loved columnists.

Orphans Carrie and Adele must leave Singapore for an uncertain future in England. Rescued from servitude by their father's former colleague, Sanderson, they are groomed for marriage.

Tom Carter, a young Englishman with a taste for adventure and ornithology, stepped ashore at Carnarvon in 1887 to begin work as a jackeroo.

A romantic novel set in Sorrento, Spain, in the early 20th Century.

Disturbing, moving and eloquently written, this book contains a personal account of an autistic woman's struggle to come to terms with her condition, and gives a unique insight into the workin

La notissima scrittrice porta, con questo suo racconto, il lettore fra le mura di una scuola e presenta a lui tre ragazze che sono fra loro differenti per carattere, condizione sociale e mentalita`

Covers the predictions by Nostradamus that have proven correct, what he said about war and disaster, the prophecies of a Golden Age and Nostradamus in context, his times and ours.

After nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer returned to America.

A contemporary, action-packed Western romance set in the wild ranch country of northern Nevada.

TV presenter Mallory Malone is approached by Boston detective Harry Jordan to help track down a serial killer.

The Duke of Selchester wanted a wife and he knew precisely the type of woman he was looking for, so a list of candidates was drawn up and he proposed to visit each in turn.

The story continues in describing the pitfalls of the business world involving a prawn fishing disaster in the Gulf of Carpentaria and experiences in Karratha at the onset of the gas project.

When Barnes Todd is killed in a car smash south of Sydney, people are lining up to say how sorry they are. But Cliff Hardy, private investigator, soon discovers the accident was really murder.