Télécharger le livre :  An Old Captivity
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Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix.But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are...

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Télécharger le livre :  What Happened to the Corbetts
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Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond the Black Stump
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If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute's novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people's home lives. Stanton Laird is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ruined City
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Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and...

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Télécharger le livre :  In the Wet
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It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set...

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Télécharger le livre :  Round the Bend
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When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin possesses a religious power which inspires everyone he meets to a new faith and hope for humanity. As Cutter's...

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Télécharger le livre :  Pastoral
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During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase. However, when Peter falls in love with a young WAAF officer, his concentration begins to suffer and it looks as though his perfect run of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Rainbow and the Rose
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When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, endeavours to fly a doctor in to help but this proves more difficult than he imagined. As he waits...

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Télécharger le livre :  Stephen Morris
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INCLUDES THE NOVEL PILOTAGEStephen Morris has just called off his engagement to the girl of his dreams because he is a penniless graduate with no prospects. He finds a job working as an aircraft mechanic, hoping to make his fortune. In Pilotage, Stephen's navigator...

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Télécharger le livre :  Requiem for a Wren
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The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family crisis.Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. But his homecoming is marred...

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Télécharger le livre :  No Highway
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Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war. ...

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Télécharger le livre :  Marazan
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After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious saviour is an escaped convict, and his determination to help him leads Stenning into a tense and dramatic adventure of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Far Country
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A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their...

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Télécharger le livre :  On The Beach
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After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his...

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Télécharger le livre :  Trustee from the Toolroom
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Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task...When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his...

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Télécharger le livre :  Landfall
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Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. WhileJerry risks his life, his sweetheart Mona sets...

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Télécharger le livre :  Slide Rule
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Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Town Like Alice
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'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' GuardianJean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.When she is captured she...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Chequer Board
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John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: an snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G.I....

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Télécharger le livre :  Most Secret
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In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II. This is classic Shute: at once a thrilling adventure...

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