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After an Allied General, with secret knowledge of the D-Day invasion plans, is captured and imprisoned by the Germans on the island of Jersey, a small group of commandos is sent to rescue, or silen

At the end of The day of the Triffids, the hero, Bill Mason, his wife and baby son joins a new colony on the Isle of Wight. The night of the Triffids takes up the story thirty years later.

Two days after war is declared a group of desperate people board a flight bound for New York.

Two young people meet by chance in Berkeley Square. After a few enchanted moments they part. This story recounts the events of the next two years and their eventual reunion.

In 2002 the Nimitz class carrier USS Thomas Jefferson and her crew of 6000, disappear from radar screens.

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.