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Dark heart (Jed Walker #4)
By James Phelan. 2017
Jed Walker is ex-CIA - he thought he was out of the game. An ominous global threat brought him back…
into play. But just when Walker thinks he is winning, the bad guys change it up a gear and the odds get stacked higher against him. In the global theatre of war, winning is the only option if you want to stay alive. Discovering a terror outfit is running people smuggling out of the Middle East, Walker thinks they are driven purely by profit and greed. But it is much worse than that. He must work against time and powerful adversaries to uncover the truth behind the operation and prevent a global catastrophe being unleashed. If he lives, Jed Walker will learn the true cost of life - and the knowledge will change him forever.The frozen circle
By Peter Watt. 2009
In 1918, after the Great War, two Australian soldiers join the British army to help fight the Bolshevik forces in…
northern Russia. Almost a century later, two bodies are unearthed in the small Australian country town of Valley View. Following the Armistice, Sergeant Joshua Larkin is sent on a special mission deep into enemy territory in Russia. But when he is ordered to do the unthinkable, he must flee across Europe in order to protect a young woman, Maria, whose family has been executed. With Maria’s life under threat due to her imperial connections, nowhere is safe. Decades later, the discovery of the two skeletons in Valley View poses problems for local policeman Morgan McLean. Who are the victims and why were they killed? Could the rumours of an heir to the Russian throne be true? And what explosive secret is Britain’s MI6 desperate to keep hidden by any means necessary?The dossier
By Leonard Gross, Pierre Salinger. 1985
An American news-man in Europe learns of the existence of a dossier that would topple a former French Resistance hero,…
now running for the Presidency of France. The old documents consist of captured Gestapo files, now buried in KGB vaults in Moscow.Dead and kicking (Alby Murdoch #3)
By Geoffrey McGeachin. 2009
When a move about an Australian war hero takes Alby Murdoch to Vietnam, he discovers that some old soldiers never…
die and that it's not just the cameras doing the shooting. A job as a stills photographer and some top-notch nosh were two good reasons fro Alby to be in Saigon. The third was that he had to clear out od Sydney and the spy game for a while. But when Alby snaps a photo of the wrong passing cyclo, suddenly more action is taking place off camera than on. Alby is thrust into the murky, watch-your-back world of casino crime lords, bent politicians, rogue expats, killer fish and ruthless celebrity chefs.Brothers
By William Goldman. 1988
Autumn tiger
By Bob Langley. 1981
Five days from retirement, CIA desk man Jack Tully is sent to Paris because a high-up East German intelligence officer,…
"Stapius,'' wants to defect but will meet only with Tully, who has no idea who he is. A token sent to Tully triggers his memory back to 1945 when he was undercover in Berlin and then was smuggled back to the States posing as a German POW. Top Nazi agent Graebner is also disguised as a POW, with a secret plan, "SSG 300,'' which may be a last-minute ploy by the Germans to stem the Allied tide.10,000 days
By Kenneth Royce. 1982
Dateline 1984. The middle east control of oil supplies tightens by the day. In London and in Washington plans are…
laid for the most risky operation ever mounted - the invasion of Iran.The gift of the gab
By Barry Dickins. 1981
Night letters: a journey through Switzerland and Italy
By Robert Dessaix. 1996
Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man who has recently been diagnosed with…
an incurable disease, writes a letter home to a friend. In these twenty letters he describes his kaleidoscopic journey from Switzerland to Venice, reflects on questions of morality, seduction and the search for paradise. Interweaving incidents from an actual journey with stories of enchantment and passion, the letters leap from 12th century India to Lygon Street to a meditation on Dante's heaven.Over my dead body
By Dave Warner. 2020
Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson has mastered the art of bringing frozen hamsters back to life. Now what she really needs…
is a body to confirm her technique can save human lives. Meanwhile, in New York City, winter is closing in, and there's a killer on the loose, slaying strangers who seem to have nothing in common. Is it simple good fortune that Georgette, who freelances for the NYPD, suddenly finds herself in the company of the greatest detective of all time? And will Sherlock Holmes be able to save Dr Watson in a world that has changed drastically in 200 years, even if human nature has not?Organic fruit growing: your complete guide to producing beautiful fruit all year round
By Annette McFarlane. 2011
In this practical, no-fail guide, the author makes fruit growing easy with advice on: soil preparation, drainage, waterwise design, nutrition,…
coping with climatic variations (including drought tolerance), propagation, purchasing and planting, pruning and training, pollination, pest and diseases and how to control them organically.On Radji Beach
By Ian W Shaw. 2012
On 12 February 1942, Singapore was just days away from its fall to the Japanese. As the city burned, hundreds…
of desperate people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst them were 65 Australian Army nurses, who boarded a coastal freighter, the Vyner Brooke. But theirs was a doomed voyage. Japanese bombers attacked and sank the vessel off Sumatra. Those who survived drifted for up to three days before making landfall on one of the many beaches on Banka Island. A group of survivors, including 22 nurses, gathered at Radji Beach. They voted to surrender, but the Japanese patrol that found them divided them into three groups and the executions began. In the last group were the Australian nurses, who died in a hail of bullets as they walked, abreast, into the sea. Miraculously, there was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, who in spite of a bullet wound endured 13 days in the jungle before surrendering to another Japanese patrol. She was reunited with the other surviving Vyner Brooke nurses in a makeshift camp on the island. Three-and-a-half years later, only 24 made it home. Meticulously researched from the diaries and papers of some of the nurses who survived, this is a moving account of the fate of every nurse who boarded the Vyner Brooke that day.One more slip
By Marion Von Adlerstein. 2013
David Jones, Dior and Marimekko ... Sixties Sydney was swingingly stylish! It is the sixties and times are changing. Hemlines…
are getting shorter, stockings are being discarded and women are doing it for themselves. At the advertising agency of Bofinger, Adams, Rawson & Keane, three women Desi, Bea and Isabel are making their way in a man's world. For them jingles and catchphrases are easy - having a life outside the office is so much harder. Adulterous affairs, pining for an overseas love and being used to exact revenge on a former fiance all take their toll on these three fashionable women. But the changing social landscape means there are surprises in store and that love can be found in the most unexpected places.Patrick White: a life (Quick Fix Ser.)
By David Marr. 1991
Authorised biography of the famous Australian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize. The central fact of White's life as an…
artist, his homosexuality, which formed the view of himself as an outcast, a stranger, is explored in detail.The killer koala
By Kenneth Cook, Jacqueline Kent. 1986
In "the killer koala" the author has gathered a selection of hilarious stories culled from his various experiences while travelling…
all over Australia, from the red deserts, to the jungles, to remote parts of the Great Barrier Reef.The little red yellow black book: an introduction to Indigenous Australia
By Bruce Pascoe. 2008
An invaluable introduction to Australia's rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. If you're an adult wanting to…
learn what you weren't taught at school, or a student or teacher who wants to hear from and about Indigenous Australians, or if you're a migrant or tourist, or an institution or department with cross-cultural training needs, then The Little Red Yellow Black Book is a very useful and enjoyable resource. The book takes a non-chronological approach, and is written from an Indigenous viewpoint. The themes that emerge are the importance of identity, and adaptation and continuity. The four sections are: Who Are We?; Culture and Sport; Participation and Governance, and Resistance and Reconciliation. Here are stories the media don't tell you, mini-essays on famous as well as everyday individuals and organisations will provide insights into a range of Australian Indigenous experiences.My mate Gidgee: an outback story of hard yakka and humour
By Sandy Thorne. 2022
Tom and Gidgee, best mates, toil and laugh together for decades, in the shearing sheds and stockyards of the challenging,…
semi-arid Western Division. Constantly tested by extremes of Nature, their huge capacity for both work and laughter helps them cope with everything that's thrown at them. They support each other through personal tragedies. When Gidgee is wrongly imprisoned, Tom saves his soul and his future. When Tom, tough and funny, is driven to become a homicidal madman, through treachery from within his family, Gidgee will sacrifice himself to save his mate from going to jail. The humour features the coarse, often ribald yarns and jokes of the stockyards and shearing sheds, in an era when that was a man's world, and the chauvinistic attitudes were balanced by chivalry.Big things grow: a memoir of teaching on Country in Wilcannia
By Sarah Donnelley. 2022
This red dirt, it takes a hold of you. The blue skies, the sunsets, the starry nights, the river... Country…
holds onto you. Then you meet the people. Within one week of living in Wilcannia, I had signed up to stay until the end of the year. When Sarah Donnelley left Sydney to take up a teaching post in Wilcannia, a small town two hours east of Broken Hill, she had no idea what to expect. Determined to shrug off Wilcannia's rumoured reputation for danger and dysfunction, she threw herself into her new role. Four fulfilling years later, Sarah is an active member of a rich, complex school community that is transforming the idea of a conventional classroom experience. Making deep connections with Indigenous elders and local families, Sarah has focused her teaching practice on empowering, listening and creating space for respectful conversations. She takes her students out on Country as often as she can, enlisting aunties and uncles in the community to share their wisdom - everything from hunting for emu eggs and cutting canoes from trees to working with local artists and learning the history of the river. Big Things Grow is a powerful memoir about community, music and passion, laying bare the beauty and challenges of living in a part of Australia that is often overlooked.Enclave
By Claire G Coleman. 2022
'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to…
assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly safe.' Christine could not sleep, she could not wake, she could not think. She stared, half-blind, at the cold screen of her smartphone. She was told the Agency was keeping them safe from the dangers outside, an outside world she would never see. She never imagined questioning what she was told, what she was allowed to know, what she was permitted to think. She never even thought there were questions to ask. The enclave was the only world she knew, the world outside was not safe. Staying or leaving was not a choice she had the power to make. But then Christine dared start thinking-- and from that moment, danger was everywhere.Samurais and circumcisions
By Leslie Poidevin. 1985