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High School Musical 2. (2007) (The second book in the High School Musical series) A novel by N B Grace.

Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press Limited, 1967. Hard Cover. Used. Hardcover 1967 edition. NO DUST JACKET. The Sunday Times, July 2003: The biggest problem facing any biographer of Amy Johnson is that Constance Babington Smith got there first. Her seminal life, written in 1966, told most of what there is to tell about Amy in elegant prose. In May, 1930, Amy Johnson, a typist from Hull, took off from Croydon Airport with a thermos flask and a packet of sandwiches to try and beat the world solo record to Australia. She arrived, sun-blistered and with grease on her face, after weeks of flying a second-hand, open-cockpit biplane with no radio communication and the most basic of maps. Her adventures, including a forced landing in the Iraqi desert and on a football pitch near Rangoon, inspired the nation following the Great War. Her career was followed by millions, until her plane disappeared over the Thames Estuary, sparking rumours which are still being investigated today. Her body has never been found.

Pan Macmillan, 1993. Used. They say we fall in love. But really we fall in sickness. I lost appetite for food in those two nights with Tilda. My stomach was sunken in its wishbone cavity. Me, I was never sick, but I was sick now, the strangest sickness that made my eyes gleam green with excellent health. They had shiny white edges. My cheeks were glossed in a fresh oil of pink. Colin dreams of escaping his parents' New Zealand farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda???beautiful Tilda, older, an artist???who brings his future with her. A heady romance leads to a new home in a decaying former bank in a small town hours from Melbourne. They are building a life together???but there are cracks in the foundation. This is a love story, told from passionate beginning to spectacular end. It is intimate and honest, blackly funny and emotionally devastating.

London: Little, Brown, 2004. Used. Isaac and Lulu Fabian, refugees from Konigsberg in Nazi Germany, find that their 'freedom' in Cambridge has its shackles. Lulu struggles with not being allowed to speak her native language in public, even to their baby daughter. Isaac, burdened with the unholy trinity of being German, Jewish and a communist, finds his movements severely circumscribed. He's not allowed a bicycle, a radio or a map. Nor, ultimately, his liberty. During the nationwide alien internment of 1940, he is incarcerated in Camp Douglas on the Isle of Man, along with thousands of his countrymen. Nazis and Jews alike. As far as the British government is concerned, atrocities against the Jewish people are not high on the Nazi list of crime. June Hunter, translator for the Ministry of Information thinks otherwise and is determined to prove it. Side-stepping authority she goes to the Isle of Man to interview the prisoners. But instead of stories of hardship and horror, she encounters mechanisms for… Read More

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 1998. Used. The wildly funny novel-never published before in the United States-that put Murray Bail on the literary map. Thirteen men and women on a package tour travel the world, visiting museums, hotels, and shops. They are like tourists anywhere, except that wherever they go-Africa, England, South America, New York, or Russia-they find nothing is as it seems. Challenged by unexpected propositions, differences, and subtleties of life and history, Murray Bail's tourists are in turn repelled, attracted, altered. As the Nobel laureate Patrick White put it, Homesickness, with its "tourists permanently traipsing through the museums of their own obsessions," is the work of "a visual writer with great understanding of sensual man." It is surely one of the most distinctive, original Australian novels of recent times.

Melbourne, Vic: Text Publishing, 2012. Hardcover. Used. A major book from one of Australia's most acclaimed and award-winning writersThe Voyage is an extraordinary achievement from one of the giants of the Australian literary worldA piano maker travels from Sydney to Vienna hoping to find an opening in the European market with his revolutionary instrument. Upon meeting the beguiling Amalia von Schalla and her daughter Elisabeth, a complicated love story unfolds.Author is the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary AwardMajor press interview on publication Beautiful hardcover edition makes it the perfect Christmas gift for lovers of fine literatureSales of Eucalyptus and The Pages are close to 150,000 Author lives in Sydney

London: Penguin Books, 1988. Used. Holden's Performance" is the story of Holden Shadbolt, a guileless and matter-of-fact innocent as he passes through the cities and landscape of Australia. His reassuring silent presence and photographic memory make him useful to men of power and women who appear to need his protection. He is surrounded by larger than life figures whose exploits and adventures Holden follows--ex-Corporal Frank 'Bloodnut' McBee, the scrap dealer who woos his mother; his uncle Vern, a shortsighted proofreader who likes facts and eating newspaper with is breakfast cereal; and the crippled artist Harriet, whose twists and curves appeal to Holden as he holds to his own unswervingly straight lines.

Melbourne: Text Pub., 2008. Hardcover. Used. On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing a philosophy. Now he has died.Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his work. Accompanying her is Sophie who needs a distraction from a string of failed relationships. Her field is psychoanalysis. These two women, each with a different view of the world, meet a situation they have not experienced before ? with surprising results.

London: Macmillan Australia, 2006. large size paperback. Used. On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges. The Australian continent stretched for another 2,000 kilometres to the north and 2,500 to the west and no white man had the slightest idea of what was there. It was to be the first of six expeditions mounted by Stuart, then aged 42, as he sought to uncover the mysteries of the interior and forge a path to the north. Ultimately he was to become part of a race across the continent, his rivals being the Burke and Wills expedition. In the end Stuart was to be the first European to cross Australia from south to north and return again, as the cumbersome expedition of Burke and Wills turned from farce to tragedy. Yet his hero's homecoming was to be shortlived. MR STUART'S TRACK is a fascinating study of a loner, an explorer of no fixed abode, who battled alcoholism and… Read More

Pan Macmillan Australia, 2001. Used. Recounts the true story of the 1912 attempt by the Australian government to train white men to master the art of pearl-shell diving and thus overcome the Asian stranglehold on the industry. Underlying theme is the racial tension between whites, Asians and Aborigines in Broome during this period. Describes a world of noodle stalls, opium dens, slum dwellings, hawkers and prostitutes, more redolent of Asia than Australia. Includes illustrations, maps and note about terminology.

London: Random House, 2013. large size paperback. Used. A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants' hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended

London: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division), 1995. Used. WELL READ PAPERBACK. CREASES TO FRONT COVER AND SPINEDiana Lloyd-Fauvere is a classic European beauty, still devastated by the loss of her father. David Nazareth is an American power broker, desperate to ensure the survival of a proud lineage. When their worlds collide in the social whirl of 1980s America, an ancient prophecy is fulfilled.

SYDNEY: WELDON, 1992. Hardcover.. Used. Hardcover book in excellent condition.Cities of the World -Sydney. With words and pictures

London: Gallery Books, 1989. Hardcover.. Used. A lavishly illustrated book about film icon Bette Davis, entitled Bette Davis: A Tribute 1908 to 1989. It covers her career from her arrival in Hollywood in 1931 until her death in 1989. Lots of photos, glossy pages, and beautiful font written by Roger Baker. The book is pristine, has clean dust jacket with a 1" straight tear along the top shown in photos. A must for lovers of classic film

London: Scribe Publications, 2008. Used. When Henk?s twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother?s role and spending the rest of his days ?with his head under a cow?.After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. ?A double bed and a duvet?, advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm?

London: Scribe Publications, 2012. Used. 'He had never seen her like that before.?? Awesomely beautiful, like a tree or bush that produces as much blossom or as many flowers as possible the year before it dies.' A woman abandons her home in Holland without a word, leaving behind an impervious husband, mystified parents, and an unfinished thesis on reclusive poet Emily Dickinson.?? Across the sea in Britain, she arrives at an isolated cottage in the shadow of a mountain.?? She settles there, alone in the ancient landscape, her only contact coming from animals she encounters, a handful of wary locals, and her poetry books.?? But what is she fleeting??? And will her new home provide redemption, or lead her further into darkness? On a foggy afternoon, her solitude is shattered when an elusive young man jumps over her fence.?? Perhaps his vitality can deter the shadows, but in this uncanny place the line between kindness and betrayal is never clear.?? Meanwhile, the woman's husband is coming, and time is… Read More

London: Read Books Design, 2000. Used. Trained originally as an industrial psychologist, in which capacity he helped Rowntree?s to successfully launch Black Magic chocolates in 1933, Nigel Balchin first received critical acclaim as a novelist during the Second World War when he wrote Darkness Falls From the Air. It was the first of three evocative novels (including the smash-hit The Small Back Room) that made good use of his wartime employment experiences at the Ministry of Food and later in the army.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Hardcover/First Edition/Collec. Used. A 1951 Hardcover Collins edition. Book is in ecellent condition. Dust Jacket has two small tears and pages slightly discoloured due to age. Further pictures can be providedWay Through the Wood is a 1951 novel by the British writer Nigel Balchin. A car accident exposes a family's deep-buried secret

London: Reprint Society, 1954. Hardcover/Vintage. Used. HARDCOVER 1954 EDITION. NO DUST JACKET. NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS HOWEVER PAGES ARE SLIGHTLY DISCOLOURED DUE TO AGEIn Sundry Creditors we are presented with a Midlands engineering firm in transition. The firm?s Chairman, Gustavus Lang, a paternal, Quaker-style employer, keen on Works Councils and treating his staff like human beings, dies early on in the story and the reins are passed to his younger brother, Walter.

London: London & Glasgow, 1958. Vintage. Used. PAPERBACK. SMALL TEAR ON FRONT COVER WHERE PRICE TAG WAS REMOVED.SOME PAGE DISCOLOURATION DUE TO AGEThis is the life story of Jason Pellew, or at least the story of that part of his life bounded by childhood at one end and early middle age at the other. The narrator is Henry Payne, who first encounters Jason when they are both young children and then meets him repeatedly thereafter: they both attend the same public school and are up at Cambridge at the same time, they both help to break up Blackshirts rallies in the East End in the 1930s and their paths cross repeatedly during World War Two.