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Secrecy by Rupert Thomson
Secrecy by Rupert Thomson is a tale of intrigue love and murder set in seventeenth century Florence where knowledge is the property of few who guard it fiercely
The obsessions of the top people are with art, sex and power. The city itself is a dark repressive place following the bonfires of the vanities.
The once enlightened city where humanism was reborn, has been replaced with one that is dark, sinister and repressive where a man can feel as if he’s being pursued by his past.
The protagonist Gaetano Zummo who lives in fear of criminal charges. At the age of 20 he was forced to flee Siracuse, but has now changed his life.
Cosimo III, head of the famous family of the Medici of Florence is the leader who gives him his most challenging commission ever. Can he carry it out?
This is a novel of ideas; a love story, a murder mystery, the portrait of a man and a place where in an age of austerity, just surviving on a daily basis is the penultimate challenge. Ingenious adn unsettling, this has a heartbeat pounding loudly with the pace of puzzle and surprise.
Twist after twist distorts and disorientates until finally in snow covered hills surrounding Florence a showdown reveals secrets the city has kept hidden, which have become far more explosive than his own.
About the Author
Rupert Thomson is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels: Dreams of Leaving, The Five Gates of Hell, Air & Fire, The Insult, Soft, The Book of Revelation, Divided Kingdom and most recently, Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award and by World Book Day for the Book to Talk About 2008. His memoir, This Party’s Got to Stop, also published by Granta, won him the Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Award. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
Secrecy
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Keep Calm and Pedal On by Ebury Press is a pocket sized guide providing inspiration for why each and everyone of us should cycle daily, or on a regular basis
After all, in the words of John F. Kennedy, ‘Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.’
Today never ending streams of traffic and choking fumes of pollution impact on our world and cause us to have far more difficulty moving about, which is not helpful to our health or wellbeing.
This book is all about giving the average cycle enthusiast or, indeed novice, a collection of quotes, sayings and proverbs on even more reasons why we should ll get on our bike and take a hike, across hill and dale, cycling to save our lives.
The perfect gift for keen bikers, cyclists will gain a great deal of comfort in the knowledge that their passion for bikes is shared with some of world’s greatest leaders, personalities and authors.
Keep Calm and Pedal On
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo is a canvas for its author to produce a portrait larger than life, an extravagant spectacle dazzling senses and captivating hearts
This is a dramatic story about crime and punishment, persecution and desperation, amorality and the universal desire to escape the prisons of our own minds.
Victor Hugo immersed his readers in the Parisian underworld of his time, where the battle for good and evil carries them forward to the barricades during the uprising of 1832 where they stood shoulder to shoulder shouting “Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité, Creátivité?
It’s the story of the French peasant Jean Valjean and his quest for redemption and his journey in life after spending years in gaol for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving child. It’s a story that touched hearts and minds worldwide when it was first published in 1862, and still continues to do so today.
Two editions, the first containing Norman Denny’s introduction to his lively English translation.
It discusses Hugo’s political and artistic aims in writing Les Misérables over a ten year period.
Les Miserables
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About the Author
Victor Hugo (1802–85) was the most forceful, prolific and versatile of French nineteenth-century writers.
He wrote Romantic costume dramas, many volumes of lyrical and satirical verse, political and other journalism, criticism and several novels, the best known of which are Les misérables (1862) and the youthful Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).
A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. He returned to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until his death: his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthéon.
Read About Victor Hugo Exhibition Now On in Melbourne
Les Miserables Film tie-in
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Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons...
Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner is a portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach from a musician combining musical analysis with performance insights
Johann Sebastian Bach was a Court Composer at Weimar for two ruling Grand Dukes 1708 – 1717 and then, at Cöthen for a youthful Prince Leopold.
He wrote works for small court orchestra, including toccatas, capriccios, fantasias, fugues, variations, suites, sonatas, and miscellaneous shorter pieces for teaching.
His six acclaimed Brandenburg Concertos were dedicated to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721.
Bach is undoubtedly is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music.
Scholars of music marvel about how such sublime works were produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque – and occasionally so intemperate?
John Eliot Gardiner by distilling the fruits of a lifetime’s immersion as one of Bach’s greatest living interpreters addresses the issues. He explains in detail how Bach worked and how his music achieves its effects.
Gardiner also takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and attempts to understand what ran through his mind when composing.]
He has produced unique work, about one of the greatest of all enlightened composers.
About the Author
There could be no better-qualified guide to the mysteries behind Bach’s music than John Eliot Gardiner the conductor who has breathed new life into performances of Bach’s music.
As an exploration of Bach’s labyrinthine thought-processes, and as an analysis of his music’s overwhelming power, this book will be required reading for both listeners and performers alike
Sir John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world’s leading conductors, not only of Baroque music but across the whole repertoire. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique.
Music in the Castle of Heaven
John Eliot Gardiner
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree who is the only person Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story
Through his friendship with Neil and his dedicated research, Barbree brings us the most accurate account of his friend’s life, the book he and the fame astronaut planned together for twenty years.
Working from years of notes, and with the Armstrong family, Jay Barbree has written the definitive biography of America’s most famous astronaut.
Armstrong is one of our greatest modern heroes and he entrusted Barbree with details of his two marriages and the sad death of his baby daughter.
There is the inside story of an extraordinary career.
From the time Armstrong flew combat missions in the Korean War and then flew a rocket plane called the X-15 to the edge of the atmosphere, to when he saved his Gemini 8 by flying the first emergency return from Earth orbit and then flew Apollo-11 to the moon’s Sea of Tranquillity.
About the Author
Jay Barbree is the only reporter to have covered all 166 American astronaut flights and moon landings. He received an Emmy for his coverage of Neil Armstrong’s first walk on the moon, broke the cause of the Challenger accident, and he still covers space for NBC’s TV networks and NBCnews.com. Barbree was also the lead writer for the New York Times bestseller Moon Shot with astronauts Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, and Neil Armstrong.
Neil Armstrong (Paperback)
Jay Barbree
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Stoner by John Williams is a classic, considered one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer. Have you read it?
Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deserves.
During 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe.
It tells the tale of William Stoner, who enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture.
A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm.
Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.
Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value.
Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life.
A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.
‘It’s the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature’ Ian McEwan, BBC Radio 4
Stoner (Paperback)
John Williams
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Deadly Heat by Richard Castle, is a thrilling new novel ‘written by’ charismatic bestselling author Richard Castle co-star of the hit ABC television show Castle
It follows on from a successful group of novels, all inspired by his work for the NYPD and his liason with his partner in solving crimes, Kate Beckett (Stana Katic)
Picking up where Frozen Heat” left off, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago.
For the hunt, Nikki teams once again with her romantic partner, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Jameson Rook, and their quest for the old spy and the motive behind the past murder unearths an alarming terror plot-which is anything but ancient history. It is lethal. It is now. And it has already entered its countdown phase.
Complicating Heat’s mission to bring the rogue spy to justice and thwart the looming terror event, a serial killer begins menacing the Twentieth Precinct and her homicide squad is under pressure to stop him, and soon. The frightening murderer, known for his chilling stealth, not only has singled out Nikki as the exclusive recipient of his taunting messages, he then boldly names his next victim: Detective Heat.
About the Author
Richard Castle is the author of numerous bestsellers, including the critically acclaimed Derrick Storm series. His first novel, In a Hail of Bullets, published while he was still in college, received the Nom DePlume Society’s prestigious Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature. Castle currently lives in Manhattan with his daughter and mother, both of whom infuse his life with humour and inspiration.
Deadly Heat Format: Hardcover
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Other novels in the series include
Frozen Heat 2012
NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery. Heat’s passionate quest takes her and Rook from the alleys of Manhattan to the avenues of Paris, trying to catch a ruthless killer. A thrilling chase ensues; can Nikki solve this dark mystery?
Frozen Heat International Edition
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Heat Rises 2011
Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads on of New York City’s top homicide squads. She’s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns a superstar journalist to ride along with her for his research on an article on New York’s finest. But as she works to unravel the secrets of a murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between herself and the journo.
Heat Rises
Castle, Richard
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Naked Heat 2010
When New York’s most vicious gossip columnist is found dead, NYPD detective Nikki Heat uncovers a gallery of high-profile suspects. Her investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook.
Naked Heat (Nikki Heat)
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Heat Wave 2009
Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads on of New York City’s top homicide squads. She’s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns a superstar journalist to ride along with her for his research on an article on New York’s finest. But as she works to unravel the secrets of a murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between herself and the journo.
Heat Wave (Nikki Heat)
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All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld is Winner 2014 Miles Franklin Award set between Australia and a remote English island where one woman’s past has to be faced
Ms Wyld’s novel has been judged as being ‘of the highest literary merit’ and presents ‘Australian Life in any of its phases’ in accordance with Miles Franklin’s guidelines for the Award. The trust will grant Ms Wyld $60,000 in prize money. A Must Read.
Evie Wyld’s wonderfully and beautifully crafted prose has deceptive sparseness, which combines powerfully with an ingenious structure to create a compelling narrative of alienation, decline and finally, perhaps, some form of redemption.’
Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods?
Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It’s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep.
Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep – every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags.
It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast.
And there is Jake’s unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back.
About the Author
Evie Wyld grew up in Australia and the UK. She now runs Review, a small independent bookshop in London. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 she was listed as one of the Culture Show’s Best New British Novelists. She was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2013 she was listed as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Evie’s second novel, All the Birds, Singing, was published in 2013. It was longlisted for the 2014 Stella Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She is the winner of the 2013 Encore Award, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and the 2014 Miles Franklin Award.
All the Birds, Singing (Paperback)
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One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore is based on a true story, a heart-breaking, addictively readable love story set in Stalin’s Russia
It is a heartbreaking novel of passion, intrigue and betrayal, which takes you inside 1940s Russia with such thrilling authenticity that you will know you’re in the hands of a master storyteller.
This is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia’s most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow.
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal?
Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead.
Is it murder? A suicide pact? Or a conspiracy against the state?
Directed by Stalin himself, an investigation begins as children are arrested and forced to testify against their friends – and their parents. This terrifying witch-hunt soon unveils illicit love affairs and family secrets in a hidden world where the smallest mistakes will be punished with death.
About the Author
Simon Montefiore’s ancestors escaped from the Tsarist Empire at the turn of the century, and sparked his lifelong interest in Russia.
As a correspondent in the early 1990s, he covered the wars and turbulence of the fall of the Soviet Union – from Georgia and Chechnya to Moscow and St Petersburg. As a historian, he has spent the last ten years researching the Russian archives. The personal stories he found there and his interviews with families continue to inspire his fiction and non-fiction.
Born in 1965, Simon Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.
One Night in Winter
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Goddess by Kelly Gardiner is based on an extraordinary true story; it is an original, dazzling and witty novel – a compelling portrait of an unforgettable woman
This is the story of the remarkable Julie d’Aubigny, known as Mademoiselle de Maupin – swordswoman, opera singer, occasional nun and seventeenth century superstar.
A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d’Aubigny (also known as La Maupin), a woman whose story is too remarkable to be true – and yet it is. Versailles, 1686: Julie d’Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King’s Master of Horse.
Tempestuous, swashbuckling and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing master, fallen in love with a nun and is hiding from the authorities, sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Within another year, she has become a beloved star at the famed Paris Opera.
Her lovers include some of Europe’s most powerful men and France’s most beautiful women. Yet Julie is destined to die alone in a convent at the age of 33. For all those readers who love Sarah Dunant, Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel.
About the Author
Kelly Gardiner is the author of the Swashbuckler series (HCNZ) for younger readers and has also published a number of picture books. Her poetry has been published in journals including Going Down Swinging and Southerly, and she has also worked on ninemsn.com.au, and in magazines and newspapers. Kelly is currently combining working at the State Library of Victoria with doing a PhD.
Goddess (Paperback)
Kelly Gardiner
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