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A powerful novel from master storyteller Jackie French The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. The patients she treated in secret called her Auntie Love. She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon's daughter, a survivor of the Napoleonic Wars. But now the battlefield is just a blood-soaked memory, and Hen dreams of peace, a home, and a society that allows women to practise medicine. On...

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The final and thrilling conclusion to the popular and bestselling Miss Lily series A mysterious telegram that says, 'Lily needs you' arrives just before a plane from war-ravaged England lands in one of Sophie Greenman's paddocks. Sophie, Countess of Shillings, has been living a quiet life on her property in Australia, until love and loyalty draw her back to England where she once trained to become one of Miss Lily's 'Lovely Ladies'. Now, in 19...

As the King of England wavers between duty and love, Sophie knows that she must choose duty. The year is 1936 and the new King Edward VIII wishes to marry American divorcee, and suspected German agent, Wallis Simpson. Top-secret documents that the king must read and sign are being neglected for weeks, and some are even turning up in Berlin. And as Germany grows its military might with many thousands of new fighter planes every year, Britain an...

The world is at war, and women are working, often behind the scenes, in areas from nursing to espionage. And despite their many successes, these are the women the men don't see. Unimaginable danger creeps ever closer to Miss Lily and her loved ones . . . Amid the decadence and instability of Berlin in the 1920s, a band of women must unite to save all that is precious to them. With her dangerous past behind her, Australian heiress Sophie Higgs ...

Pamela the cow loves pears - and will do just about anything to get them. But will anyone else ever get to eat a pear again? Certainly not until she's had her fill...and moved on to something else! Selected for 2004 edition of The Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education. Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist. This item is Returnable

The story is equal parts Downton Abbey and wartime action, with enough romance and intrigue to make it 100% not-put-down-able.'- Australian Women's Weekly on Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies Australian heiress Sophie Higgs was 'a rose of no-man's land', founding hospitals across war-torn Europe during the horror that was WW1.Now, in the 1920s, Sophie's wartime work must be erased so that the men who returned can find some kind of 'normality'.Sophie i...

Sie schläft gern. Sie schläft gern lange. Sie liebt Karotten und Haferflocken. Sie ist fest davon überzeugt, dass sie aus Menschen passable Haustiere machen kann. Sie ist ein Wombat mit Stil - und dem gemütlichsten Hinterteil der Welt.Seit über 15 Jahren begeistert Jackie Frenchs Liebeserklärung an einen Wombat Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen. Erstmals erscheinen die amüsanten Tagebucheintragungen des australischen Tieres jetzt als Pappbil...

THE STORY IS EQUAL PARTS DOWNTOWN ABBEY AND WARTIME ACTION, WITH ENOUGH ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE TO MAKE IT 100% NOT- PUT- DOWN-ABLE. Australian Woman's WeeklyA tale of espionage, love and passionate heroism. Inspired by true events, this is the story of how society's 'lovely ladies' won a war.Each year at secluded Shillings Hall, in the snow-crisped English countryside, the mysterious Miss Lily draws around her young women selected from Europe's ...

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A wonderful read for anyone whether they are discovering A Midsummer Night's Dream for the first time or revisiting the classic tale.' - Books+Publishing, four stars Titania rose to her feet. 'What is going on here, Peaseblossom?' she demanded.I bowed to her. 'I apologise, Your Majesty. But I'd rather be known as Pete.''Pete?' She frowned. 'That's no name for a fairy.''No, it isn't, ' I said, meeting her eyes.At court, he's known as Peasebloss...

A COMPELLING, BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED NOVEL FOR YOUNG READERS' - Daily Telegraph This is the story of Johannes, and Frau Timmins, and the strange girl now known as 'Helga'. It is also the story of how they survived the death camps, the vast wilderness faced by refugees in World War II, and eventually found happiness in Australia. This moving and compelling book follows on the award-winning and bestselling Hitler's Daughter and Pennies for Hitler, ...

This is a cheeky story for grandparents to share with their grandkids' - Reading Time She eats. She sleeps. She scratches.And like all grandmas, she thinks her grandson is the best-behaved baby ever.But this baby wombat has other ideas ...Created by author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, this delightfully funny book celebrates the love and joy that being a grandma can bring.

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