In a small town in country Australia, railway man George Bingham toils away, dreaming of adventure in far-off lands. When the call for Great War volunteers comes, he leaves behind his worn mattock and his first love, jumping the first...
Australia
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Author:Colin McClarenSummary: - Author:OLIVER, BillSummary:
Presents Bill Oliver's memoir, tracing his life from Bombay to Broadwater, Narrandera to North Queensland, Cuba to China, and places in between. He recounts hilarious stories of life in the sugar industry during a time of huge...
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Author:Irwin, TerriSummary:When Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation that changed her life. Leaving behind her wildlife rescue work in Oregon, Terri traveled to Australia, and there, at a small wildlife park, she met and fell in love with...
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Author:Button, JamesSummary:Working for Rudd, James paints a colourful picture of the machinations of government and shows how far the party has moved from the idealism and pragmatism of his father's generation. He ends on a note of hope for the Party's...
- Author:Morris, HeatherSummary:
This program is read by Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey. It also includes a dedication, author's note, and two afterwords, all read by the author, as well as two songs by the Sydney Women's...
- Author:Disher, GarrySummary:
A pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two bodies burned up in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry-newly minted head of her department's sex...
- Author:Mc Hugh, EvanSummary:
'The wind noise was screaming, howling . . . incredible, plus the rain and the sea spray, it was just like being hit by nails or stabbed in the face.' From the first wreck in 1622 off Western Australia to the tragedy of...
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Author:Clifford, AoifeSummary:When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of...
- Author:Hocking, AmandaSummary:
Pour son 18e anniversaire, Alice Bonham voit ses vacances en Australie prendre fin abruptement à cause d’un meurtre inexpliqué. Alors qu’Alice tente de comprendre ce qui s’est passé, elle remet en question certains choix qu’elle a faits...
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Author:Tan, ShaunSummary:Two boys explain the occasionally mysterious "rules" they learned over the summer, like never eat the last olive at a party, never ruin a perfect plan, and never give your keys to a stranger.
- Author:Lim, S.L.Summary:
'A coiled spring of a novel, Revenge hits you right between the eyes.' MALCOLM HARRIS, author of Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End Of History...
- Author:Roads, Michael J.Summary:
Après avoir passé les initiations proposées par le grand Esprit de la nature Pan, Michael Roads obtient le droit de pénétrer dans les univers non physiques. « Au moment où j’ai franchi ces portes, le temps linéaire et la réalité...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But Phryne's contentment at the Jewish Young Peoples Society Dance is cut short when Simon’s father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:St. Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the towns first Flower Parade. And who should be Queen of the Flowers but the...
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Author:Bedford, K. A.Summary:Spider Webb fixes time machines for a living, and hates it. The time machine biz has changed: machines are portable, less expensive and even disposable. But one machine, an illegal, radically overclocked, hotrod built by Spider's boss,...
- Author:Preston, DianaSummary:
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and...
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Author:Tachna, ArielSummary:Sequel to Chase the Stars Lang Downs: Book Three Office manager Sam Emery is unemployed and out of luck. When his emotionally abusive wife demands a divorce, he contacts the one person he has left, his brother, Neil. He doesn’t expect...
- Author:Tachna, ArielSummary:
Sequel to Chase the Stars Lang Downs: Book Three Office manager Sam Emery is unemployed and out of luck. When his emotionally abusive wife demands a divorce, he contacts the one person he has left, his brother, Neil. He doesn’t expect...
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Author:Baum, CarolineSummary:Caroline Baum's fascinating and moving memoir about being an only child in a very unusual family.
- Author:Bowden, TimSummary:
For over twenty years journalist Neil Davis covered the conflicts in South-East Asia.
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