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  Odd Fish - Being a Casual...

  Stacy Aumonier

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  Stacy Aumonier was described by John Galsworthy as "one of the best short-story writers of all time". Odd Fish gives a keen insight into why the Nobel Prize winner believed Aumonier would outlive the writers of his day. In this collection of sketches of London Characters, Aumonier amply exhibits his genius for characterisation, his keen wit and his ruthless ascerbity.From reluctant fishmongers to opulent ballad singers with a shameful secret, drunks and scoundrals to eccentrics and geniuses, Aumonier sketches his characters from life and portays them as real, credible, rounded individuals, gradually unmasking them as though peeling the layers from an onion. Superb!

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  Gather the Bones - A romantic...

  Alison Stuart

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  The Great War still casts a dark shadow over a grieving widow and a wounded soldier, thrown together in the search for answers to a mysterious disappearance.  
  In 1917 Helen’s husband, Charlie Morrow, vanished without a trace in the battle of Passchendaele and now his widow, Australian, Helen Morrow, has brought her daughter to England to meet her husband’s family and discover the truth about Charlie’s death. 
  The only person who can tell her what happened is Charlie’s cousin, the reclusive Paul Morrow but, haunted by his own ghosts and badly wounded in the same action, he cannot recall the events the events of that fateful night. 
  The discovery of a coded diary, leads Helen and Paul on a quest to solve the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, two hundred years earlier. Did she abscond with her lover or did she die on the night she vanished? 
  In their search to resolve the mystery of Suzanna’s disappearance, Paul’s memory of that night in 1917 begins to return bringing with it all the horror of the trenches that he has tried to put behind him. 
  As their search to find answers to the two deaths becomes entwined, Paul and Helen come up against forces from the past and present determined to keep them apart. 
  Will they find the strength to face their adversaries and find peace and happiness together? 
   

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  Once Upon a Summer - Seasons of...

  Janette Oke

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  Best-selling author of Too Long a Stranger and Julia’s Last Hope, Janette Oke is loved for her  inspirational novels. In Once Upon a Summer, Oke  weaves the tender tale of 12-year-old, Joshua, who has  been raised by his 18-year-old aunt and their grandparents.  He has grown accustomed to their close-knit family,  but that is all about to change when Joshua’s aunt considers  marriage. Johnny Heller touchingly narrates the  trials of faith this family must face.

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  Misérables Les: Volume One

  Victor Hugo

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  This is book one of five of Les Misérables audiobook. One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. 
  Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. 
  The listener is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean’s flight through the Paris sewers.

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  Death and the Devil - A Novel

  Frank Schatzing

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  In the year 1260, a great cathedral, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom, is rising high above the bustling city of Cologne under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart. Far below the soaring spires and flying buttresses, a bitter war rages between the archbishop and the city's ruling merchant families—a deadly conflict that claims Morart as the first of its many victims. But there is a witness to the murder of the unfortunate architect, pushed to his death from the cathedral's scaffolding. A cunning, street-smart, politically naive petty thief called "Jacob the Fox" has seen it all—and seeing has made him the target of a relentless and ruthlessly efficient assassin who's been stripped of his humanity by dark, hidden secrets. Ensnared in the strangling vines of a terrifying conspiracy, the Fox must now run for his life. But who—and what—is he running from?

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  The Exiles

  Vivian Stuart

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  VOYAGE TO THE LAST FRONTIER...
  The first book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country built on blood, passion, and dreams.
  They were transported from 1780s' England, packed like cattle in cargo compartments: scammers and prostitutes, thieves and murderers — doomed to build His Majesty's new colony in Captain Cook's anchorage in Botany Bay.
  It was a cruel fate even for the toughest of individuals but especially for 15-year-old Jenny Taggart, who was sentenced to lifelong exile for a crime she did not commit. Will there be a future for her in this unknown country, or will she succumb to a rough and brutal life?
  Rebels and outcasts, they fled halfway across the earth to settle the harsh Australian wastelands. Decades later — ennobled by love and strengthened by tragedy — they had transformed a wilderness into a fertile land. And themselves into The Australians.

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