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Mrs Partidge was desperate for the return of her husband. His kidnappers were threatening to kill him unless she paid them $10,000.

It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children.

Bill 'Swampy' Marsh began collecting shearing stories several years ago.

Two abridged true stories for children.

A humorous ecological disaster novel. A young scientist invents a clean, hydrogen-powered engine which could revolutionise the world's transport.

"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 lon

John Gulliver, fly-by-night publisher, leaves Britain for Australia with his family, in 1910. Aboard ship catastrophe strikes and they are scattered with a famous painting their only link.

The Allied Navy and Airforce have failed to silence the German's big guns on the island of Navarone. A small team of saboteurs is sent for one last desperate effort.

The Governor of California has received a terrorist threat, signed by the radical offshoot of a legitimate environmental pressure group demanding a freeze on the building of a new power plant on th

Det. Insp. Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal.

Hannah Massey is the matriarch of her family but her daughter, the apple of her eye, creates an explosive situation.

It's seven years after the doctor's escape and Clarice Starling is drawn back into his web when a surviving victim of Hannibal goes for revenge.

Bishop Blackie Ryan returns to investigate a case of family sins and secrets. Each generation of the Cardins, a wealthy Chicago family, has mourned unexplained family deaths.

An account of a pre-war girlhood in a little English village, the migration of a family to Australia and the joys and sorrows attendant upon such a move.

Cressida had no one in the world to turn to for help so she was grateful when Aldrick van der Linus fixed her up with a job in Holland.