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November 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the North African coast.

Proud and powerful, the Hardigree family was as unyielding as the Carolina marble that had made them rich.

A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired the adoration of millions, an artist whose name was a byword for genius, sex, and excess.

Jessie's not so sure about moving to an Outback Australian town, but her Dad and her therapist think it might be good for her.

The sequel to "Across the Nightingale Floor" follows the separate fates of young lovers Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, as they fight for survival in a violent time of war, famine and tr

Wife, mother, backer, lover... no wonder she feels spread thin.

In the Irish Country town of Kinvarra, the Miller girls are generally perceived to have it all.

Travelling with his elderly mother to England, Peter Calder reflects on his childhood, growing up in New Zealand and being Pakeha despite being brought up in a very English way.

Riding the Bus With my Sister chronicles the amazing year Rachel spent riding the buses with Beth, her mentally retarded sister.

It wasn't until he was in his early twenties that doctors discovered that Jim Knipfel's nearsightedness was the result of an untreatable rare genetic eye disease known as retinitis pigmen

Stroppy teenager Skylark O'Shea is on holiday with her mother at a town on the coast. But all is not what it seems. What is the threat facing the town and the birds of the forest?

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncover

It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee.

THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an o

In the sultry summer of 1936, the lives of these men converged around a bad-legged, floundering racehorse named Seabiscuit.