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  • Napoleon’S History of Australia

    by D. Y. Gilbert ...
    A foray into historical faction starting with a real-life English emigrant, Napoleon Gilbert, ancestor of Ms Gilbert, born in 1799 who immigrated with his family to Tasmania in the late 1820s.This family saga spans five generations, rags to riches and back again, farming and convict labour in Tasmania, butchering meat for Victorian goldminers, Darling Downs squattocracy, Ballarat and Melbourne ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    Further Extraordinary Tales of the Famous Sleuth

    by Maxim Jakubowski ...
    Fifteen brand-new stories about the British super sleuth by an assortment of talented tale-tellers!Sherlock Holmes and Watson have been household names for generations. In this new anthology from Maxim Jakubowski, you can read all about the dynamic duo in a new light and revisit the legacy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From brand new stories to deeper looks into famous Sherlock Holmes cases, fans ... Read more

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  • Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The inspiration for the iconic musical Cats, T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats.These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world since they were gathered for publication in 1939.As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Papers: Book 1 (1821–1848)

    Flashman’S Secret

    by Christopher Joll ...
    The Speedicut Papers recounts in very frank detail the life, loves, and adventures of Jasper Speedicutcharmer, sexual libertine, reluctant hero, and friend of the self-styled brigadier general Sir Harry Flashman, VC. Comprising a nine-volume series of linked adventures and anecdotes in memoir format, The Speedicut Papers lifts the lid from a veritable cesspit of Victorian and Edwardian upper-class ... Read more

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  • Only Remembered

    by Michael Morpurgo ...
    Illustrated by Ian Beck ...
    Published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this beautiful anthology collects favourite extracts, poems and images from some of the UK’s leading cultural, political and literary figures.Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts, photographs and paintings are just some of the elements of this astonishing collection, with cover and artwork by ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Dead Image

    A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 1

    by Joan Lock ...
    The explosion was heard twenty miles away. It killed boatmen and wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the fashionable St John's Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regent's Park explosion? Fenian bombs? Sabotage by rival railways or other firms? Or was it something personal? And whose was the other body found in the canal? An artist's model? The missing King's Cross barmaid? Or ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nightingale Affair

    A Novel

    by Tim Mason ...
    In this twisty Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale’s nurses in Crimea and women in London.Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it the legendary Beast of the Crimean, or someone closer to home? In 1855, Britain and France are fighting to keep the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ghost Stories: Intermediate, CEFR level B1 (ELT Graded Reader)

    by Karen Kovacs ...
    Series series Read Stories - Learn English
    Improve your English and have fun at the same time with Read Stories - Learn English.“'I’m sure you are very lonely in this place,' I said. As I talked, I watched him but he stayed silent. There was something strange about him and he made me nervous.I suddenly had a horrible thought: Is he a man or a ghost?"Here are four ghost stories by the famous British writer Charles Dickens, adapted for ... Read more

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  • Pianos and Flowers

    Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind

    by Alexander McCall Smith ...
    From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, a charming collection of stories about life and romanceIn these fourteen delightful tales, Alexander McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves behind some of the everyday people featured in pictures from the London Sunday Times photographic archive. A young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Condition of Muzak

    The Cornelius Quartet 4

    by Michael Moorcock ...
    Series series The Eternal Champion
    Civilization as we know it has been annihilated. The decay and chaos of the multiverse have left Europe in a surreal, yet ever-fashionable, mess. Jerry Cornelius finds himself in an increasingly futile series of guises, part of a cast of characters dancing the Entropy Tango towards oblivion. Will the legendary Cornelius ever be united with his true beloved, his sister Catherine? And will balance ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Private Diaries of Alison Uttley

    Author of Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig

    Edited by Denis Judd ...
    Popular childrens author, Alison Uttley (Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig) spent over 40 years writing diaries. Professor Denis Judd, who knew Alison and has previously written her biography, reveals a different side to the writer whose husband committed suicide and whose close relationship with her son is recorded in detail. But the magic of the author rings through on every page as she writes ... Read more

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  • The Shadow of the Guns

    by Joan Harvey, James Harvey, Keith Harvey ...
    In The SHADOW OF THE GUNS Joan Harvey recounts a unique life as an independent-minded girl growing up in the late 1800s. Although born in Bangalore, India, her early childhood was spent in Hobart, Tasmania. Left in the care of relatives in Hobart at a young age when her parents returned to India where her father was serving in the Indian Army, Joan penned these memories partly to record for her ... Read more

    $1.42 USD