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  • AFTER CARE
    Alastair Rudra Sharp
    A novelSequel to 'Taking Care'In the preceding novel 'Taking Care', Arnold Adams, a retired country accountant in rural New South Wales, enjoys a quiet life with his wife May until abruptly everything shifts.. On an otherwise ordinary day she asks him to take care of everyone and without giving it much thought he promises that he will. When he returns from shopping however, she...
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    9,99 €

  • Saint Livraque
    Alastair Rudra Sharp
    The covid pandemic changed a lot of things. Lives were turned upside down and many people found themselves in new and challenging circumstances. For Australians Greg and Sally that meant crossing the world to live in France with Sally’s eccentric Uncle Kurt who had just bought a five storey derelict hotel in a small hilltop village in the rural South West. They find themselves ...
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  • Ocean House
    Alastair Sharp
    A small Moroccan girl from a large but impoverished family receives a quest from a barefoot holy man on a bridge in Casablanca. Find the Bird with Crooked Wings. Shaafia grows up never forgetting her quest. She journeys to Bordeaux for her studies as a translator and there the quest is fulfilled. A tiny physically handicapped Australian child named Pia is the deeply gifted rein...
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    10,93 €

  • Crooked Wings
    Alastair Sharp
    The spiritual search is an unfolding mystery that takes as many forms as there are seekers on the path. Whatever it is that compels a person to search for that mysterious and gripping missing link in our being has a narrative of its own, no two are ever the same.A barefoot holy man blesses a Moroccan child in the marketplace in Casablanca, Find the bird with crooked wings, he t...
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    11,71 €

  • Alone
    Alastair Sharp
    As the global pandemic strikes, communities all over the world face lockdowns. Simon Teague is an Australian who with his French girlfriend, decides to enjoy the confinement by holing up in a thirteenth century château in rural France. He leave Toulouse early to set it up, but she never makes it. He finds himself isolated, alone.He faces the uncertainty of his predicament by w...
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    14,35 €

  • Taking Care
    Alastair Sharp
    When the comfortable routine life of a retired country accountant and his wife abruptly shifts, he finds himself in a new rôle. On an otherwise ordinary day, she asks him to take care of everyone and without giving it much thought he promises that he will.When he returns from shopping, however, she has had a stroke and has gone into a coma.Her command stays with him and ev...
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    19,38 €

  • The Book of Consequences
    Alastair Sharp
    Mektoub, they say in Arabic. It is written. Whatever you think, whatever you say, whatever you do, it has a consequence. And although we may not be aware of them, perhaps there is someone witnessing the whole thing. Not just witnessing but taking note to be entered into the Book of Consequences, the record of everything that has ever taken place. To be a witness, according to s...
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    16,59 €

  • Spreading Wings
    Alastair Sharp
    In Lourdes, on the holy feast day of Assumption, the body of a dead child lies in a pool of blood in front of the statue of the Virgin. Around her stand those who have come to love her, not just as a child, but as a gifted soul, trapped in a disabled body. Their grief at her loss merges with the love that she has awoken in them. Though she is gone, the love that they feel in he...
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    17,78 €

  • Devil Whisperer
    Alastair Sharp
    In the remote Esk Valley of Northern Tasmania, a lost feral child finds shelter and comfort with an old farmer and a young french tourist and slowly begins to find himself. Will is turning seven, and despite his parentless, haphazard beginnings, he has been welcomed with affection and nurtured by Hoppy and Ariette. They have been amazed to discover that Will has an affinity wit...
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    16,28 €

  • Crooked Wings
    Alastair Sharp
    The spiritual search is an unfolding mystery that takes as many forms as there are seekers on the path. Whatever it is that compels a person to search for that mysterious and gripping missing link in our being, has a narrative of its own, no two are ever the same.A barefoot holy man blesses a Moroccan child in the marketplace in Casablanca, « Find the bird with crooked wings »,...
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    16,19 €

  • Up From The Bottom
    Alastair Sharp
    No one would ever regard the insignificant muddy watercourse that wanders through the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, as iconic, or mystical. There is nothing of the Ganges, or the Thames or the Mississippi about the Yarra. Most people barely notice it’s there and those who do tend to disparage its effluence. Yet, for the two men who have spent most of their lives keep...
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    12,62 €

  • There’s a Way
    Alastair Sharp
    Living the rough nomadic life of the Tasmanian fruit pickers, his young mother careless in her role, Will has survived almost by accident. What sustains him is an intuitive inner resource that nurtures him when there is no other. His deep affinity with animals compensates for the lack of human warmth.At six, parent-less, almost feral, he survives in the haphazard custody of old...
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    14,81 €