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  Benang - From the Heart

  Kim Scott

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  Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Winner of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, Winner of the Kate Challis RAKA Award. 
   
  Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather’s enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the ‘first white man born’, he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told? 
   
  Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilised from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. 
   
  ‘Benang is brilliant. It is a mature, complex, sweeping historical novel which will remind people of Rushdie, Carey and Grenville at their best. This is an absolute page turner and in the end we are left with a sense of joy and gratitude that such stories are still possible – that the silence has been broken.’ Sydney Morning Herald 
  ‘… Benang soars to the level of superb storytelling with an emotional punch to the guts, not unlike Toni Morrison’s Beloved.’ Weekend Australian 
  ‘Haunting and poignant, Benang pierces the heart even as it seeks to lance the savage bleeding of the wounds of white settlement in Australia.’ Canberra Times

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  The Confession of Hilary Durwood

  Euron Griffith

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  Hilary Durwood writes his father a letter of confession from the London gaol in which he awaits execution. Eager for glory as an explorer in the further reaches of the Empire he is duped into undertaking a semi-mythical mission, in semi-mythical lands. After many adventures and setbacks he returns to London destitute, dismayed at having killed someone, and seeking revenge against the Gentleman Explorer who set him up. Meanwhile a serial killer, The Slasher, stalks the streets and inevitably their paths will cross…
  Hilary has survived dangerous islanders who are intent on eating human flesh, a huge cat with a wooden leg, a giant centipede, and a man who is determined to taste every animal on the planet. He has been fed by birds bringing hallucinogenic berries and held up the crumbling Tower of Ectha. And now Hilary must write his final letter and contemplate the nature of murder and of guilt.
  This dark comedy thriller is a page-turning and riotous engagement with the notions and myths of Empire, the nature of reality, the power of narrative and the gullibility of those who wish to believe, even in the face of the truth.
  'Crisp and memorable language' – Sheenagh Pugh, LIVEJOURNAL

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  Scottish Dreams Trilogy

  May McGoldrick, Jan Coffey

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  Scottish Dreams Trilogy
  Three Complete Novels: Borrowed Dreams, Captured Dreams, Dreams of Destiny
  Pennington Family Novels
  Three women. Three Pennington men. One unforgettable journey through danger, desire, and the wilds of Scotland.
  Borrowed Dreams
  Recently widowed Millicent Wentworth is determined to right the wrongs of her late husband and save the people and estate he left behind. Her only chance is a marriage of convenience to Lyon Pennington, the reclusive and brooding Earl of Aytoun. What begins as a practical arrangement soon becomes a tender and passionate bond that neither expected—and both will fight to protect.
  Captured Dreams
  Portia Edwards is desperate to uncover the truth about the family she's never known. When she meets the enigmatic Pierce Pennington, a successful merchant and secret Son of Liberty, she finds herself drawn into a world of intrigue and forbidden attraction. But Pierce's alter ego—Captain MacHeath, a smuggler with a price on his head—may be the key to both her past and her future.
  Dreams of Destiny
  Haunted by scandal and tragedy, David Pennington has become a hardened man—until his childhood friend Gwyneth Douglas calls on him for help. Charged with protecting the spirited Scottish heiress from a web of fortune hunters, David accompanies her to Scotland. But danger shadows their every step, and as old feelings reignite, they'll risk everything for a chance at lasting love.
  From windswept estates to rebel strongholds, the Scottish Dreams Trilogy is a sweeping saga of second chances, enduring passion, and the unbreakable bonds of family.

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  Gandamak's Fury: The Road from...

  Gaurav Garg

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The year is 1842. The British Empire’s bold venture into Afghanistan has dissolved into a horrific nightmare. After installing the unpopular Shah Shuja Durrani on the throne in Kabul, the occupying forces under the inept command of General Elphinstone find themselves besieged, their political envoy Sir William Macnaghten brutally murdered by Wazir Akbar Khan, leader of the Afghan resistance. 
  Forced into a humiliating capitulation, the sixteen thousand souls of the British column – soldiers, sepoys, and a vast multitude of civilian camp followers – begin their infamous winter retreat. "Gandamak's Fury: The Road from Kabul" charts this catastrophic journey, a ninety-mile exodus from the Afghan capital towards the distant hope of Jalalabad, a path that would become a byword for military disaster. 
  "Gandamak's Fury: The Road from Kabul" is an unflinching, epic portrayal of one of history’s most harrowing military retreats. It explores the catastrophic consequences of imperial hubris, the brutal realities o

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  Girl with a Pearl Earring

  Tracy Chevalier

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  An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. 
   
  17th-century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy  
  spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond. 
   
  Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic.

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  Sharpe's Fury

  Anónimo

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  From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the eleventh installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam.  
  In the winter of 1811, the war seems lost. Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz, now the Spanish capital and itself under siege. Inside the city walls an intricate diplomatic dance is taking place and Richard Sharpe faces more than one enemy. 
  The small British force is trapped by a French army, and their only hope lies with the outnumbered redcoats outside refusing to admit defeat. There, in the sweltering horror of Barrosa, Sharpe will meet his old enemy Colonel Vandal once again.

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