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As soon as Hans-Albert Ritter arrives in Bundaberg to take on his role as pastor for a settlement of German emigrants, it's not long before trouble starts brewing in the community.

Ex-jockey Freddie Croft runs a fleet of horse boxes, and one of the rules for his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker.

An Irish prisoner has, with the help of the Mafia, escaped from a high security prison and is thought to be en route to Ireland. His plans could blow the peace process out of the water.

Another zoological narrative from this well-known naturalist writer. In this book the author and his wife are collecting animals in Ecuador.

In a University of the 22nd century, a maths professor gets telepathic messages urging him to commit suicide, but love triumphs.

The story of the author's ancestors, from the deplorable Mary Anne Clarke in the early 19th century, to the successes of her grandson.

Betrothed against her wishes to an elderly Duke, Katarina falls in love with her neighbour Prince Michael.

Follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

"Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa.

The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught journalists

The setting is South Africa, during the Boer war.

This work was authored in the colonial period and contains terms, descriptions and accounts of aboriginal peoples which may be offensive to modern readers.

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits; Come buy; come by…' -Excerpt from Goblin Market.