Rupert Degas
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Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march after enduring the horrors of imprisonment at Auschwitz. Despite their individual backgrounds and nationalities, they form their own family caught between the euphoria of freedom and the terror of their circumstances. This is a tale of exploding joy within a hothouse of fear, of human beings erupting into life after breaking free of death's embrace – an unusual and moving...
2) Eschaton
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Time is running out.
The Eschaton crises are converging.
Josh may be the only one who can save them, but he's trapped in the future.
The third book in the original Infinity Engines series, Eschaton continues this action-packed, dystopian time travel adventure.
The Oblivion Order is falling apart, and the timeline is beginning to unravel. Dalton's obsession with the Djinn threatens to bring down the continuum and the only way to stop him is to resolve...
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Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. It is no surprise then that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety; one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps going… Until the day we meet him; middle aged and in the boot of a car, and everything pointing towards a shallow grave…
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Handsome teacher Ashley Dean is brutally murdered at Hope Academy. It's known as a rough place, but gossip blames the violence on a deranged intruder. DI Markham's instincts say otherwise. Could this brutality have been the work of a student? Could there even be a connection with the staff? It seems unthinkable. After all, DI Gilbert Markham's girlfriend Olivia teaches English at the school. Markham's team probes deeper, and the local community begins...
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On October 6, 1973 Ted Simon knew there was no going back. He loaded up his 500cc Triumph Tiger in the pouring rain and said goodbye to London. Over four years he rode 64,000 miles round the world. Breakdowns, revolutions, war, a spell in prison and a Californian commune were all part of his experience, which was colored variously by utter despair and unimaginable joy. He was treated as a spy, a god, a welcome stranger and a curiosity.
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In fear for his life, American millionaire Daniel Cartwright changes his will, appointing his old friend Rowland Sinclair as his executor.
Soon murder proves that fear well founded.
When Rowland receives word of Cartwright's death, he sets out immediately for Boston, Massachusetts, to bury his friend and honour his last wishes. He is met with the outrage and anguish of Cartwright's family, who have been spurned in favour of a man they claim does...
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Shanghai in 1935 is a twentieth-century Babylon, an expatriate playground where fortunes are made and lost, where East and West collide, and the stakes include life itself.
Into this, Rowland Sinclair arrives from Sydney to represent his brother at international wool negotiations. Rowland is under strict instructions to commit to nothing... but a brutal murder makes that impossible.
As suspicion falls on him, Rowland enters a desperate bid to find...
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When Ted Simon rode 64,000 miles round the world on his 500c Triumph Tiger, he inspired thousands of motorcyclists to begin their own adventures, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who chronicled their travels in Long Way Round. Nearly thirty years later, Ted Simon took to the road again to retrace the epic journey he made in his 40s. He meets up with old friends and acquaintances, revisits old landmarks and locations, and rediscovers himself,...
9) Breaking Ice
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THEY'VE KILLED HER FRIEND, DESTROYED HER HOME AND MURDERED HER LOVE. NOW THEY'RE AFTER HER FAMILY
Imogen Truman has survived the carnage unleashed by Strickenstein. But for how long? Found wandering the barren volcanic landscape of Iceland, she searches for Gryla - a child eating giantess who may be the key to saving someone beloved to her. Her pendant now glowing neon pink, warns her of mythical beasts and The Order of Dark. This glow is a welcomed...
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Take a tour through your body and the many ways it can fail in What's Wrong with You? An Insider's Guide to Your Insides. Everybody has a body, and everybody gets sick. But unless you go to medical school, the mechanisms behind your medical symptoms remain a mystery. Why do you get diarrhea when you're stressed? Why do both teenagers and bodybuilders get acne? Why do you feel like yawning when you're tired, nervous, or when you think about yawning...
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A.J.A. Symons discovered Frederick Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh in 1925 and became consumed with fascination for its eccentric author, aka 'Baron Corvo'. His 'quest' takes the form of an irresistible detective story, the twists and turns of his investigation into Rolfe's unfortunate life resulting in a groundbreaking form of biography that reveals much about both men. It paints a tragi-comic portrait of a prickly, paranoid, talented Englishman who...
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A charming, quirky memoir from British author Arthur Calder-Marshall, recalling his youth in 1920s England. The title needs to be taken quite literally as much of the narrative revolves around the shadowy figure of occultist Aleister Crowley, at the height of his dubious powers during this era.
As boys growing up in a small country town Arthur and his brother befriend an eccentric poet, whom they dub Vicky Bird — in fact a fairly well-known literary...