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A debut novel which has already attracted interest from Liam Neeson, who is producing a film version. Johnny Donnelly is a young man in love with books, his country and the beautiful Cora Flannery. And in his spare time he shoots British soldiers as an IRA sniper.

In a society obsessed with looking younger, yet with the expectation of living longer, what exactly does it mean to be middle aged? Benjamin offers a subtle but scintillating look at life in your 50s, when roles change as children grow up and parents grow old.

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SCIENCE / General

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

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FICTION / General

An exploration of the amazing ways dogs perceive the world, and their extraordinary abilities. Tells the stories of cadaver dogs, drug and bomb detecting K9s, tracking and apprehension dogs, and more, revealing the science, the training and the skilled handling that lie behind those abilities.

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At a private East Coast college, two young women meet in art class. Sharon Kisse, quietly ambitious but self-doubting, arrives from rural Kentucky. Mel Vaught, brash, unapologetic, wildly gifted, brings her ow brand of hellfire from the backwaters of Florida. Both outsiders, Sharon and Mel become best friends. This is a beutifully written coming of age story by an exciting young US writer about two girls whose journey from white trash teenager...

The sequel to "Girl Waits With Gun", this is another adventure featuring the unforgettable Kopp sisters. Set in New York and New Jersey in the early 20th century, as Constance Kopp carries out her duties as one of the nation's first deputy sheriffs, cheered on and goaded by her sisters Norma and Fleurette.

FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense

Thomas Rid's revelatory history of cybernetics pulls together disparate threads in the history of technology, from the invention of radar and pilotless flying bombs in World War Two to today's age of CCTV, cryptocurrencies and Oculus Rift, to make plain that our current anxieties about privacy and security will be emphatically at the crux of the new digital future that we have been steadily, sometimes inadvertently, creating for ourselves. R...

FICTION / General

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How we're all being robbed. This explains how transfer pricing developed and describes the strategies and tactics that the Big Four accounting firms use on the behalf of their voracious clients, from tax dodging.

HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality

As a lad in the high country of eastern Victoria, Tag Wardell shows an extraordinary gift with animals: he is followed to school by his pets, his rapport with his horse becomes the talk of the district, and he even manages to befriend a mob of brumbies during an adventure with his schoolmates in the Dargo high plains.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

This is the largely unknown story of another Anzac force, which fought not at Gallipoli, but in Greece, during World War II. Desperately outnumbered and fighting in deeply inhospitable conditions, these Anzacs found themselves engaging in a long retreat through Greece, under constant air attack. Most of the Anzac Corps was evacuated by the end of April 1941, but many men got only as far as Crete. Fighting a German paratroop invasion there in ...