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The Harvest of Betrayal
When Diana Lewis and her husband, Simon, go to view a small chateau on an estate in France, Diana feels she has come home. The renovated chateau is charming and the other residents are pleasant and friendly.The chateau, however, has a tragic WWII history and the story of the chateau's wartime owner, Philippe de Lusignac, touches Diana's heart. After buying the chateau, she discovers evidence of a long-hidden secret which leads her to the truth of those dreadful events - a murder and a murderer.Gradually, Diana learns of the loves, betrayals, lies and secrets that are interwoven among the residents of the chateau's gated community, and their links to the estate's terrible history. Past and present, changing the future - even her own, when Simon wants to drag everything into the daylight. What is left, when all of the truths come out?
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The Green Gates Story
There are certainly many historical accounts of wars, military experiences, and cultural reactions to politics, but many of these works lack a personal and sentimental touch to what it really feels like to endure a battle. In The Green Gates Story, Bernard Fredericks presents a historically accurate, delightfully moving, and honest tale of a British boy who is evacuated from his Liverpool home in WWII. Told from the perspective of a child, Fredericks narrates his memories of an eight-year-old boy who is snatched from the city and transplanted to the country. He shares the triumphs and struggles of a child required to acquaint himself in a new setting and lifestyle. While he manages the heartache of missing his family and friends, the boy is also thrilled and challenged with new adventures as he acclimates to the pace of country-life. From the beginning of his evacuation to his return to home, the boy relates his feelings and doubts about so many events that crop up not only in wartime, but every child's time of coming of age.
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The Divinity Inquiry
Found floating in the Straits of Bosporus, Constantinople, is the body of a woman, Euphemia Bray, alleged Theosophist and wealthy friend of Madame Blavatsky, a controversial Victorian mystic. Thus begins a British mystery and an investigation by Church and Queen to discover whether Blavatsky is a true mystic or an imposter, an adventure which moves from England to India.Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a real person, known as ‘the most remarkable woman of the century’ and the ‘yogini of the West’.Cambridge Professor of Divinity Paul Hartley and graduate student Giles Bluecastle face a host of dangers, inquiring into Bray’s death and the authenticity of Blavatsky’s reported occult powers. They visit sacred sites and institutions to interview clergy, savants, monks, yogis, and kabbalists on their sojourn to India via Ireland, Greece, and the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Interwoven within the adventure are the machinations of British and Church rule, conflicts between authority and religion, and debates over the realities of mystical experience.
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The Divinity Crystal
After a heart-wrenching break-up from his girlfriend, Andy Rawlins’ life is altered in a series of ways. First, he wins the lottery, allowing him the chance to spend his time leisurely at his new home in Lincolnshire. Secondly, he happens to discover a sunken plane at the bottom of the lake on his property. After a successful dive, he collects an unusual console, something unlike anything he’d ever seen before, something extraordinary for a WWII fighter aircraft. In the bleak danger of the 1940s, several men plot around and against each other. A top-level SS Officer seeks to obtain a strange ‘weapon’ from an enigmatic associate. Unable to remain in their agreement with the Nazis, the unusual men in charge of the otherworldly ammunition attempt to salvage their own mission. Meanwhile, one lone plane with the strange weapon on board is hit and lands in an English countryside lake, hiding a puzzle piece to the power of the Divinity Crystal. Sixty-eight years later, the mystery is opened once again as Rawlins struggles with the weight of what to do with such power.
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The Diaries Of A Gifted Edwardian Boy
Clarence Smyth is a psychically gifted little boy born in London at the dawn of the 20th Century. He has an extraordinary life meeting and influencing many famous and some infamous people of that era. This book is a rewrite of the classic The Boy Who Saw True, which were actual diaries of a Victorian boy (author unknown).Anyone familiar with that book will remember being frustrated at only reading a part of his story. Although this is set in a slightly later period, it completes the story and weaves in other intrigues as well as Clarence being “watched” because of some of the accurate predictions he makes. There is a dark element to Clarence’s story, but it is told with insight and humour on his part, as we see Clarence go from being a young boy to a man.The Diaries of a Gifted Edwardian Boy is for all ages from young adult to the mature.It is an interesting, amusing and enjoyable read.
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The Citizen Soldier
In 1944, Portsmouth, the formidable Davey Dwyer, known as ‘Moose' to his friends, is working as an engineer in the Navy and dating Sally, the love of his life. The build-up of army and navy servicemen from Canada and America does not sit comfortably with Davey, who considers anyone north of Port Creek to be an ‘outsider'. When Dwyer finds himself caught up in a fight with four American soldiers, he wakes up in a police cell to face a life-changing decision. After being torn away from Sally, Davey is enlisted in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne, working closely alongside Major Carter. Dwyer becomes good friends with Private Danny Brooks and when the two later find themselves united on the dark lonely battlefields of Normandy, Dwyer realises that his life is about to change forever, in a war of unprecedented bloodshed and tears that would change the course of history.
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The Broadsword and the Englishman
Growing up in a devout, middle-class English family in China during the Sino–Japanese war leaves its mark on Bill and sets in place a series of events that leads him to join the war effort as a teenager, go down the coal mines of Wales and to eventually migrate to Australia to start afresh. But Bill is tortured by his past. A story set against the backdrop of war, the growth of a nation, the betrayal of a father and the influence of good friends, Bill traverses adulthood as a flawed man. With the support of his loving Welsh wife, Myfanwy, and the influence of his Chinese friends, Bill is forced to face his fears by revisiting the place of his childhood, Shanghai, China. Here, he eventually faces his demons and farewells a good friend, who leaves him with a symbol of peace and strength, his Chinese broadsword.R. G. Harmon has also written The Missionary’s Son and The Prequel to The Broadsword and the Englishman.
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The Bed That I Lie On
In early 19th century Durham, Clara finds herself on unfamiliar grounds in her own city. She is engaged to be married to a man she barely knows and is overcome by ominous feelings and bad dreams.Her new life as Nathaniel Chark's wife should be a comfortable one - Nathaniel is a kindly, well-off gentleman who owns several local mines and is besotted with her - but somehow, Clara just cannot shake the bad feelings she is having.But unease becomes disquiet when the miners start to voice their fury over their work conditions. When a female miner is tragically killed by an unexpected explosion in one of the mines, Nathaniel and his household become the targets of several of the townspeople, and Nathaniel seems unwilling to change the way he runs his mines. Clara struggles to find normality in these hostile circumstances, which are quickly becoming more and more intrusive...
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Spitfire Spies
Summer 1940 - Great Britain is in grave peril. With the ‘phoney' war turning into a very real war on the ground and in the air, Hitler's troops storm across an unprepared Europe towards the English Channel. Invasion looms. But the British have a weapon in their arsenal that may be a game changer and bring victory against all odds: the mighty Spitfire.So severe is the threat posed by this remarkable fighter plane that Germany sends two operatives - one a reluctant Englishman, the other a loyal Nazi - on an audacious mission to infiltrate and destroy. Will they achieve their goal or can MI5, with the aid of double agents and a brilliant female pilot, turn the tide of espionage to their advantage? With a literary adroitness reminiscent of an aviator in battle, author John Hughes weaves a tale of intrigue, love and betrayal in a fast-paced thriller of a debut novel which wends its way from the Fatherland via the beaches of Dunkirk to the skies over Southern England.
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Saving Sydney
High stakes, indeed! Dr Peter St Claire, academic and expert in time-slip phenomenon, had no idea of the dire consequences when he allowed his idealistic postgraduate student, Harriet Barsden, to convince him to explore the secrets of the contents of a mysterious container of Aboriginal nineteenth-century artifacts and a diary from a Barsden ancestor in the Barsden homestead archives. Attempting to save the HMAS Sydney becomes less important now for Harriet and Peter as this time-slip adventure assumes a dreadful reality, as they are pulled into the web of Nazi penetration into wartime Sydney. Where would these inexplicable secrets from Australia’s ancient First Peoples take them?
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Saveock Water - A Swan's Empty Nest
In the small village of Saveock Water in Cornwall live the Burnett siblings. Parentless, they keep to themselves and make their own way. For some reason, though, the older girls keep the younger two under close watch, locking their door at night. The youngest, Lillian, thinks they're plotting against her. Lillian's mind is already unstable when she meets Davy Polglaze. Committed to St Lawrence's Mental Asylum, she plans her escape, but with rapid cultural change and industrialisation, Cornwall may not be a place where she can survive.As Lillian struggles, May is also drawn into her own turmoil. Their elder sisters, regarded by the villagers as spiritual healers, are far from being benevolent; their use of folk medicine sets a disturbing tone.Loneliness and isolation threaten to engulf them as they try to survive. When the opportunity arises for them both to leave Saveock Water, it seems that their troubles, imagined or otherwise, might have travelled with them.With Lillian seemingly losing her grip on reality and May subject to her own horrors, it would appear that a return to Saveock Water for both of them is inevitable. But what awaits the sisters there?In Victorian Cornwall, superstition and madness are close acquaintances.
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Operation Orangutan
November, 1962. Lieutenant Commander Ed Douglas has only six months of his seven years' national service left to serve when suddenly he is whisked from his position manning the Royal Navy Marines Careers office and into an exciting new operation: Operation Orangutan. Together with a group of Army Royal Marines and Royal Navy, and an eccentric civilian interpreter and guide, Poopalu Negri, Ed must enter the depths of the Malaysian jungle and try to capture a console panel from the Russians and face his most dangerous mission yet.
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