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The Valley [used book]

By: Di Morrissey

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, MacMillan: 2006

Seller ID: 001237

ISBN: 1405037601

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

FROM AUSTRALIA'S QUEEN OF FICTION COMES A PAGE-TURNING STORY OF FAMILY SECRETS AND LIES... The valley is nestled between rugged peaks, divided by a magnificent river. Within its peaceful green contours are held the secrets of generations of tribes, families and loners who have come under its spell. But some secrets are never shared, never told. Until one woman returns and begins asking questions... and discovers the story of a forgotten valley pioneer whose life becomes entwined with hers. But in looking into her own family's history she uncovers more than she ever expected - and what her moth...
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The Islands [used book]

By: Di Morrissey

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, MacMillan: 2008

Seller ID: 002100

ISBN: 140503856X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

It's the psychedelic 70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live in beautiful, romantic Hawaii with her new husband. At first, the magic and loveliness of the Islands lead Catherine to believe she is living in paradise. She befriends Kiann'e, a traditional dancer; Eleanor, the owner of the legendary Palm Grove Hotel; Lester, a reclusive old surfer; and royal Beatrice, leading the fight to maintain Hawaii's heritage and culture. However,...
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Scatter the Stars [used book]

By: Di Morrissey

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Pan: 1999

Seller ID: 003210

ISBN: 0330361589

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

A mesmerising novel of the film industry and one man's life that charts a path for all of us. Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s he had the looks, charm and talent to take on the world. But by the 1990s he's forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess. When producer Michael Matthews meets the once great Randy Storm, he is surprised to find a man who is at peace with himself. Both he and researcher Janie Callendar set out to discover the source of this inner peace. Meanwhile his agent Ariel Margoles finds out that Australia's world a...
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An Echo In The Bone #7 Outlander

By: Diana Gabaldon

Price: $19.95

Publisher: UK, Orion: 2010

Seller ID: 004092

ISBN: 0752883992

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The triumphant seventh novel in the bestselling phenomenon that is the Outlander series. In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his English wife, Claire, find themselves homeless and without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution. And thanks to his time-travelling wife's information, he knows what the coming spring of 1778 will bring. But then Jamie's illegitimate son, William, arrives in North Carolina, a young officer in King George's army. Jamie has sworn two things to himself: his son will never know his true p...
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Crossing Paths [used book]

By: Dianne Blacklock

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, MacMillan: 2008

Seller ID: 001342

ISBN: 1405038535

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Jo had learned the hard way that life was not mystical, or magical; it was hard and grey and cold most of the time. Much better to see it for what it is than to be perennially disappointed. With a hefty new mortgage, a frustrating career as a newspaper columnist and a flailing relationship with a married co-worker, Jo Liddell is resigned to living a less-than-perfect life. That is, until she crosses paths with Joe Bannister - a celebrated foreign correspondent returning home to care for his dying father. Against all her natural instincts, Jo finds herself falling for Joe, and with his help b...
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Mermaids Singing [used book]

By: Dilly Court

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Arrow Books: 2006

Seller ID: 001272

ISBN: 0099490978

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

A desperate childhood. An uncertain past. One chance at happiness ...Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a women's dress shop in the West End - a million miles away from the reality of her life as a mud-lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames. Fate soon intervenes and Kitty finds herself working as a skivvy for Sir Desmond and Lady Arabella Mableton in Mayfair. Bullied by the kitchen maids, Kitty is soon taken under Lady Arabella's wing and for the first time in her life Kitty dares to hope. But Lady 'B...
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Girls' Night in 2: Gentlemen by Invitation [used book]

By: Edited by Jessica Adams and Chris Manby and Fiona Walker

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin: 2001

Seller ID: 000938

ISBN: 0143000047

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Following the phenomenal success of Girls' Night In, you're invited to spend another night with the hottest women authors in town . . . and some fellas as well (under strict supervision, of course). Over forty of your favourite writers have written stories specially for Girls' Night In, Gentlemen by Invitation, making it the chunkiest and funkiest book around. And since all of the proceeds go to the charity War Child, by buying this book you've made a difference to the lives of children devastated by conflict. Guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and . . . blush, Girls' Night In, Gentlemen by I...
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Big Night Out 3 [used book]

By: Edited by Jessica Adams and Maggie Alderson and Nick Earls and Imogen Edwards-Jones

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin: 2002

Seller ID: 001665

ISBN: 0143000233

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Welcome to your Big Night Out - and the drinks are on us. inside you'll find cocktail recipes to get you in the party mood, song lists to create the perfect atmosphere, short stories to transport you on a night out to remember . . . and, just to make sure you do remember, there are even hangover cures for when the party ends.
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The Flight of Flamingo [used book]

By: Elizabeth Darrell

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Rowan: 1990

Seller ID: 004286

ISBN: 0099599309

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Leone hopes she has found a friend in the orphan boy brought home by her father in 1929. Three years later the orphan, now a record-breaking flyer, is on trial for robbing her father, but Leone needs him for the family aviation firm. The author's other books include "At the Going Down of the Sun".
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Turn Left at the Daffodils [used book]

By: Elizabeth Elgin

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Harper: 2007

Seller ID: 003024

ISBN: 000721054X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

A stirring Second World War tale of love and loss set in Yorkshire from the author of The Linden Walk and A Scent of Lavender. Set during World War 2, TURN LEFT AT THE DAFFODILS tells two love stories - those of Nan and Carrie. Nan meets Charles, a gauche, young airman at a dance. Despite his stammer and inability to dance, Nan is captivated by her first romance, and takes him under her wing. When Nan learns that Charles is from the landed gentry, she refuses his offer of marriage fearing that their difference in social status will ruin their chances of happiness. But it is the war itself whic...
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Desert Rain [used book]

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Pan: 2003

Seller ID: 001411

ISBN: 0330426265

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

She is a contradiction, one woman with two lives. She is Shannon, one of the world's great beauties, her face and figure gracing the fashion pages of the world's most elegant magazines. She is also Holly, a fragile innocent, haunted by painful memories of her past-and by dreams of the man who once shared her secrets. She is assured yet vulnerable, irresistible yet untouched. Destiny has brought Holly Shannon North back to Hidden Springs, where she can be one person, where romance once touched her tender young heart. Here Lincoln McKenzie waits-the proud California rancher, long since hardened...
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Summer Frost [used book]

By: Elizabeth Walker

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Knight: 2003

Seller ID: 001105

ISBN: 1840671890

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

When her husband dies tragically and unexpectedly, Mary Squires is left homeless and destitute with two young children to support. At first it looks as though she will have to leave her beloved Yorshire and go back home to mother - not a prospect she relishes. Then Irish showjumper Patrick Brogan makes Mary an unconventional proposition - that she should move in, lock, stock and barrel, with him. Despite the raised eyebrows of her straitlaced neighbours, Mary accepts, drawn to Brogan by an attraction that frightens her with its power; but the two soon find their strange, tempestuous relatio...
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Cuban Heels @ Cuba [used book]

By: Emily Barr

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Headline Review: 2003

Seller ID: 002407

ISBN: 0755301919

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Maggie moves to Brighton after splitting up with her long-term boyfriend, and, unable to find a job, starts work as a lapdancer. Failing to make any new friends, she writes letters compulsively, and the highlight of her day is the sound of the morning post being delivered. Maggie gradually becomes obsessed with the married couple, Jessica and David, living next door. Jessica has given up work after having a baby, and is finding life as a full-time mother very difficult. Just as she persuades David that she should return to work, he is asked to take a sabbatical from his management-consultant j...
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The Queen of New Beginnings [used book]

By: Erica James

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Orion: 2010

Seller ID: 003049

ISBN: 1409101851

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Clayton Miller's life is a mess. His career as one of the country's best comedy script writers has stalled and his long term girlfriend has left him for his ex best friend and ex writing partner. Just when he thinks his life couldn't get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace and with the press hounding him, his agent banishes him to the middle of nowhere until the dust has settled. At a remote country house he meets Alice... Alice Shoemaker is a voiceover artist who habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth and after agreeing to help out a friend, by s...
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Only Love [used book]

By: Erich Segal

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Piatkus: 1998

Seller ID: 002330

ISBN: 0749930764

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Dr Matthew Hiller is a world class neurosurgeon intent on saving the life of Silvia, the wife of super-rich Nico Rinaldi. But she is also his former lover. Will he operate successfully only to lose her again, as he did back in Eritrea in 1979?
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Clancy's Crossing [used book][hard to get]

By: Evan Green

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Australia, MacMillan: 1995

Seller ID: 0732908345

ISBN: 0732908345

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

From Australia's master storyteller Evan Green, author of such bestselling novels as Alice to Nowhere, Adam's Empire and Kalinda, comes an unforgettable epic - a story which will endure for all time. They say no one from the convict settlement of Sydney Town crossed the steep ranges of the Blue Mountains until 1813. But the quick-witted convict Clancy Fitzgerald did it in 1798, dragging with him the proud, but reluctant, Eliza Phillips. Failure meant the noose, so their only hope was to push forward, into the unknown. Faced with constant danger and wrenching isolation, Clancy and Eliza fin...
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The Ragged School [used book]

By: F. K. Salwood

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Knight: 2003

Seller ID: 004071

ISBN: 184186031X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

A saga based in Essex, powerfully evoking the day to day lives of those living in the shadow cast by the Second World War.
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Australia's Birdwatching Megaspots: The 55 Best Birdwatching Sites in Australia

By: Farrell, Chris and Peter Rowland

Price: $35.00

Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing: 2019

Seller ID: 14914

ISBN: 1912081660

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

This lavishly illustrated guide describes 55 of the best sites for viewing both common and rare species in Australia. Alongside a map of the area, detailed descriptions of each site cover the type of terrain, climate and specific spots at which certain species are likely to be encountered. A fact file for each site lists road and rail access; entry fees and permits, facilities, nearby services, accommodation and GPS co-ordinates. Key species for each site are also listed.
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Indelible Ink [used book]

By: Fiona McGregor

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Scribe Publications: 2010

Seller ID: 003232

ISBN: 1921215968

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Marie King is a 59-year-old divorcÃ©e from Sydney's affluent north shore. Having devoted her rather conventional life to looking after her husband and three children - who have now all departed the family home - she is experiencing something of an identity crisis, especially as she must now sell the family home and thus lose her beloved garden. On a folly she gets a tattoo. Marie forges a friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys, who introduces her to an alternative side of Sydney from that to which Marie is accustomed. Through their burgeoning connection, Marie's two worlds collide causing ...
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Return of the Swallow [used book]

By: Frances Anne Bond

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Knight: 2003

Seller ID: 004080

ISBN: 1860196683

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

It is 1945 and Hull is celebrating the end of the war in Europe. But for two young people attending one of the many street parties the future looks grim. Sixteen-year-old Dorrie Bellows, at odds with her parents, dissatisfied with her physical appearance and frustrated with her job at the metal box factory, dreams of a better life. Rob Steyart, forced to live with his grandmother when his father is lost at sea and his mother contracts TB, is lonely and afraid of what tomorrow might bring. Rob gives all his affection to his only friend - Dorrie, and her rascally pet mongrel, Jake. Dorrie d...
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Category: General Fiction