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  Night Ship The: Book summary &...

  Margot Langley

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  Based on real historical events and brought to life through dual timelines, The Night Ship is a haunting, emotionally rich tale of survival, legacy, and the invisible threads that connect lives across centuries.
   
  The story follows Mayken, a spirited girl aboard the doomed Batavia ship in 1629, who must navigate a voyage that turns into a nightmarish descent into chaos and violence. Three hundred years later, Gil, a grieving boy sent to live on a remote island off Australia, begins to uncover the island’s buried past—and with it, a connection to Mayken that transcends time.

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  Death of the Soccer God - A Novel

  Dimitry Elias Léger

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  A global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death. This program is read by actor Jamie Hector, who played Marlo Stanfield in the HBO series The Wire.Gilbert Chevalier’s life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets, and blessed with incomparable talents on the soccer field. And it’s all about to end. . . Gil’s father makes him swear off the sport, to focus on his studies. When he leaves the bourgeois comforts of Port-au-Prince high society and moves to the dizzying, jazz-soaked streets of Harlem to attend Columbia University, the promise is broken. Scrimmaging in Central Park, he’s spotted by the U.S. National Team’s coach and is recruited to play for the Americans in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil. And then he flies too close to the sun. Gil’s unraveling is the wild stuff of myth: a plea to God for salvation; secret messages smuggled across continents; lovers shuffled, scorned, and reclaimed; and journeys past the veil between our world and the afterlife. From the Caribbean to the States, to South America and back, Gil’s adventures are lush and lurid, and delivered with a breathless, breakneck pace synonymous with the world’s most popular sport. Death of the Soccer God by Dimitry Elias Legér is a passionate and improbable love story, and a roaring Pan-American tale about the price of fame. Inspired by the unbelievable yet true story of an intrepid young Haitian immigrant and energized with the high-voltage fervor of a packed stadium, Death of the Soccer God is a heady dance between life and death, an answer to the eternal question: can love save us?A Macmillan Audio production from MCD Books

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  The Attack on the Mill

  Émile Zola

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  The Attack on the Mill is a powerful tale of love, loyalty, and devastation set against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War. On the eve of a joyous wedding at Father Merlier's idyllic mill in the Lorraine countryside, the drums of war grow louder. As Prussian forces descend upon the village of Rocreuse, peace is shattered in a single day. What begins as a celebration quickly becomes a siege, and young lovers Françoise and Dominique are thrust into a fight for survival, honor, and one another. 
  With vivid natural imagery and emotional depth, Émile Zola paints a haunting picture of the personal cost of war. This tragic novella is brought to life by the rich, immersive narration of Etombè Edembe, capturing both the pastoral beauty and the horrifying intensity of a nation torn apart. 
  Perfect for fans of classic European literature, war stories, and emotional dramas.

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  A Scattering

  Emma Cameron

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  In Highland Scotland in 1850, Catrìona lives life to the rhythm of seasons and Gaelic songs, until a dramatic change of circumstances forces her to fight for everyone and everything she loves.  
  Years later Rose, an artist, who's trying to make sense of her fractured family and her own restlessness, searches among ruins in a deserted landscape.

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  The faraway land of the house...

  Dr Monika Schott

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  Sewerage ghost towns. They exist. Just ask Sorrowing Father, Dear Daughter and Blackened boy, and Yankee doodle dandy that smiles with the eyes and his shadowy mate. They and other characters tell the untold story of the community once living on Melbourne’s Metropolitan Sewerage Farm through a timeless reality. 
  The faraway land of the house and two cows is a story like no other. Unique because it’s the story of a community once living beside land filtration and grass filtration paddocks being watered 24 hours a day with Melbourne’s sewage. And it’s told in a way that combines fact, memories and legendary tales, by characters with their own connection to the place. 
  The faraway land of the house and two cows is a must read story about the families that built and maintained the Metropolitan Sewerage Farm: from early workers and their families arriving in the 1890s to camp on the foreshore, living and working through the great Depression, both world wars and boom times of the 1950s, to ultimately move away from four main settlements on the sewerage farm to leave an abandoned town in the 1970s. The community was behind the making of one of Australia’s most important civic works projects from the 1890s into the 1900s, providing job security during the 1890s economic crash and the 1930s depression. 
  To find out more, visit https://www.monikaschott.com/publications-books

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  River of Destiny: An...

  Barbara Erskine

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  From the bestselling author of Time’s Legacy and Lady of Hay comes a thrilling new novel, River of Destiny, an epic story that spans Anglo Saxon Britain, Victorian Suffolk and the present day. 
  Perfect for fans of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth. 
  On the banks of the River Deben in Suffolk are ancient barns dating back to Anglo Saxon times – within these walls lie secrets that have been buried for centuries. 
  New arrivals Zoe and Ken move into one of the converted barns, ready to start a life away from the hustle and bustle of the city. To the outside world they seem happy, but they are growing further apart by the day. Meanwhile the strange presence Zoe feels within their home and the ghostly shapes she sees through the cloying mists on the river are getting harder to ignore. 
  Nearby, farmers are ploughing the land beside the river and human bones are found. Are they linked to the Victorian tragedy the locals whisper about? The secret of the grassy mound has remained untouched through history, but now that it’s been disturbed, will there be devastating consequences? 
  Readers LOVE Barbara Erskine: 
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  ‘A joy to read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Captivating and engrossing’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  Barbara Erskine's River of Destiny is a Sunday Times bestselling book that masterfully intertwines historical and supernatural elements, making it a top pick for fans of fantasy thrillers. This captivating and engrossing novel is a testament to Erskine's storytelling skill. 
  For fans of Elena Collins (The Wicked Lady), Paula Brackston (The Cathedral of Lost Souls), Susanna Kearsley (The Vanished Days), Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters), and Christina Courtenay (Legacy of the Runes).

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