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Every Secret Thing is a nothing-is-sacred misadventure that crackles with Marie Munkara’s famous acerbic humour. Set in the early days of missionary activity in far northern Australia,Every Secret Thing follows the Bush Mob as they try to evade the Mission Mob, who,...
Editeur :
Magabala Books
Parution :
2021-07-01
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A Most Peculiar Act casts a sardonic eye at the protectionist policies of the early 20th century from the perspective of an Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller by the name of Sugar. Against the background of the Aboriginal Ordinances Act and the "White Australia" policy,...
Editeur :
Magabala Books
Parution :
2020-11-11
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'A major talent' George R. R. MartinI am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim.But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening. Our time has come. A new age is dawning.Set in...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2016-12-06
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Alchemy War
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A brilliant "what if" novel of the years after WW2 for fans of SS-GB and The Man in the High Castle.1953. Britain and her Empire are diminished. Nazi Germany controls Europe and a vast African territory. There has been no Holocaust. Instead, the Jews have been exiled to...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-07-16
ePub
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As the war which consumes Dervelai drags on, Algarve's reserves become more and more stretched. King Mezentio undertakes war on many fronts, and his main armies become sucked in to the huge landmass of Unkerlant, their main enemy.As conquered races are inducted into the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2014-07-31
ePub
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In his previous 'Darkness' books - Into the Darkness, Darkness Descending, and Through the Darkness - bestselling author Harry Turtledove has been telling an epic tale of a world at war; a dark mirror of the terrible wars of our own twentieth century, set in a world...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2014-06-30
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The master of alternative history asks the question, 'What would have happened if World War II had started in 1938?'. The results are thrilling.The two sides of the Spanish civil war are still locked in a blood-soaked stalemate. Stalin's purge of the Red Army is barely...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-02-06
ePub
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As the sun gleamed off the gilded domes of Videssos the city, Abivard, marshal of Makuran and son of Godarz, pondered the impossible. How could he carry out the command of Sharbaraz, King of Kings, to destroy the invincible Empire of Videssos? Then, against all...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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The death of a duke leads to a bloody war, as the King of Algarve moves swiftly to reclaim the duchy which was lost during a previous conflict. But country after country is pulled into war, as alliances reassert themselves and a hatred of difference escalates into rabid...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-11-28
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The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain.The citizenry live under an enforced curfew - and in fear of the Inquisition's agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-10-31
ePub
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Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her legal skills but weary of childcare, of senior law partners who put the moves on her, and of her deadbeat ex-husband. Following a ghastly day of dealing with all three, she falls into bed asleep - and...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-10-02
ePub
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With the arrival of spring, the Emperor Maniakes vows to unleash his battle-hardened troops against the enemy capital, where a hated despot sits arrogantly upon the throne.But from the moment Maniakes reaches the land of the Thousand Cities, he is plagued by a question...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Heinrich Gimpel is a respected officer with the Oberkommando Wehrmachts office in Berlin. His wife is a common hausfrau, raising his three precious daughters the same way he was raised - to be loyal, unquestioning citizens of the Third Reich, obedient to the will of the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-08-29
ePub
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Harry Turtledove is the master of alternate history, and now with Reincarnations he explores worlds that might have been.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-08-29
ePub
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1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge...Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-08-29
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What if history had taken a different path, made a detour, and deviated just a little bit from the road it chose? Here, Harry Turtledove explores such "what ifs" in twenty alternate-history stories ranging from ancient times to the far, far-different future.Persia has...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-07-25
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As the Derlavaian War rages into its last and greatest battles, allied nations manoeuvre for positions against each other in a postwar world. But before that time can come, the forces of Algarve, Unkerlant and their allies must clash a final time, countering army with...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-07-25
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In the real world, the Mediterranean basin dried up several times, only to refill again. If it hadn't, what's really sea bottom would have become the most savage desert in the world. Mild-mannered Radnal vez Krobir likes it that way. When his kingdom's enemies try to...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-06-24
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For hundreds of years, the rulers of Avornis sought to reclaim the Scepter of Mercy, their only protection from the fallen god known as the Banished One. They all failed. Now the burden rests on the shoulders of two kings divided by pride, but united in duty...King...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-06-24
ePub
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Young Sharur is the scion of a merchant family in the city o Gibil, loyal - he thinks - to his city's god, Engibil, and to that god's human deputies. But like his fellows in Gibil, Sharur is less interested in gods than in invention and trade. Then, on a routine trading...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-04-23
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