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by Theodor Fontane
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor Fontane.
Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love, yet know they have only a short time...
All The King's Men
The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.
Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace,...
Between Us
Women of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Writing a letter can be an act of confession or celebration, while receiving one can bring joy, insight and vivid memories. Ambassadors for correspondence Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire have lured some of our best and brightest to the literary afternoons of Women of Letters to write and read missives...
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps
A Penguin Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
First issued in 1941, when the national crisis made it essential for every scrap of kitchen waste and spare time to be used for increasing the nation's food resources, this book enabled the meagre official wartime rations to be supplemented in thousands of homes by a regular supply of eggs and meat,...
by David W. Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
In Holding the Line, David Cameron tells the extraordinary story of Australian troops at Villers-Bretonneux in World War I. The Anzacs had one of their greatest victories at Villers-Bretonneux, defeating the Germans there in an attack later described by a British general as 'perhaps the greatest individual...
The Chinese Labour Corps
China Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
As the young men of Europe were fighting in the trenches, a little known contingent of Chinese labourers crossed the world to provide support vital to the Allied war effort. Largely illiterate farmers from northern China, these men were simply attempting to make a better life for themselves, ignorant...
Inside Villawood
Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
When ordinary bloke Peter Mitchell took what he hoped would be a quiet public service job in the Department of Immigration in 1990, he couldn't imagine he would end up as manager of the infamous Villawood Detention Centre. The detention of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants remains one of the nation's...
Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong
Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Where have all the fishballs gone? From a journalist deeply attuned to the subtleties of Hong Kong life comes Borrowed Spaces, a chronicle of the ways in which the grassroots citizens of Hong Kong reshape their city to make up for the shortcomings of their bureaucratic government. Mango trees sprouting...
Being Sam Frears
A Life Less Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
This is Sam Frears' story.
This is also the story of an actor, a rock-climber and a man born with an extremely rare genetic disorder only affecting Ashkenazi Jews. Sam was supposed to live to the age of 5. In February, he celebrated his 40th birthday.
Challenged by blindness and a body...
Follow the Money
A History of the Audit Commission
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Most books on politics and government take a view from the top down. They focus on the individuals and institutions that set policies in place and make the laws. But how are these policies and laws translated into action on the ground, where their success or failure helps determine the day to day...
The Pursuit of Perfection
The Life, Death and Legacy of Cormac McAnallen
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
In 2001, Cormac McAnallen was voted Young Footballer of the Year. In 2003, he helped Tyrone to its first-ever All-Ireland championship win, and was named an All-Star. He was, by any measure, one of the best and most promising young footballers in Ireland.
But in March 2004, Cormac McAnallen...
Compose Yourself
and write good English
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
This book has a simple thesis: to write well you need to think clearly about what you want to say.Blamires brings the reader's common sense into play to illustrate how by thinking through what you want to say and how you say it, you can communicate both effectively and elegantly. There are a lot of...
The Pacific War 1941-1943
Book 6 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2019
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Pacific: 1941-43 is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the Allied counter-offensive against the Empire of Japan and Axis forces in the South Pacific.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the latest research...
The Adolescent Country
A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond...