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  • The Perfume of War
    Garrick Jones
    'Please donate generously to Mrs. Roosevelt’s charity. Every penny raised from this series of concerts along the eastern coast of the United States will help with the resettlement and care of child refugees from war-torn continental Europe.'Over dinner with J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, Tommy Haupner is shocked to learn that his forgotten and empty Swiss bank account has been ...
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  • The Perfume of War
    Garrick Jones
    'Please donate generously to Mrs. Roosevelt’s charity. Every penny raised from this series of concerts along the eastern coast of the United States will help with the resettlement and care of child refugees from war-torn continental Europe.'Over dinner with J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, Tommy Haupner is shocked to learn that his forgotten and empty Swiss bank account has been ...
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    22,34 €

  • Bridge at the Beach
    Garrick Jones
    Clyde’s idyllic afternoon in the surf with his mates is interrupted by the news that there’s been a quadruple suicide in an apartment overlooking the beach.Two of the deceased are the parents of Barry Wilkinson, one of Clyde’s childhood friends, a man he hasn’t seen since Clyde donned the khaki and left for war. Wilkinson engages Clyde to discover the identity of a mysterious w...
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  • Bridge at the Beach
    Garrick Jones
    Clyde’s idyllic afternoon in the surf with his mates is interrupted by the news that there’s been a quadruple suicide in an apartment overlooking the beach.Two of the deceased are the parents of Barry Wilkinson, one of Clyde’s childhood friends, a man he hasn’t seen since Clyde donned the khaki and left for war. Wilkinson engages Clyde to discover the identity of a mysterious w...
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    21,60 €

  • The Road to Montepulciano
    Garrick Jones
    Two years after finishing his tour of duty in the Occupational Forces in Japan, Damson O’Reilly arrives in Siena, Italy. Sight-unseen at a local auction, he buys an abandoned Tuscan farmhouse in which he aims to write, paint, and start a new life.The house, passed over at auction, becomes an impulse buy when it’s put up for a final time. He’s prepared for a semi-ruin, happy to ...
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  • Farewell, My Boy
    Garrick Jones
    From the deserts of North Africa to the dark forests in the Third Reich, Tommy Haupner, together with his American lover, Henry 'Shorty' Reiter, lead their team in a daring mission to rescue a gifted young savant from Nazi Germany’s T4 euthanasia program. They are forced to flee in a stolen bus in the dead of night across enemy territory with a precious cargo of 24 handicapped ...
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  • The Grocers’ Son
    Garrick Jones
    'I swear to God it was Willoughby. My brother stood not two feet away from me, called me Lina to my face, and pulled Harley into his arms, saying he was sorry, sobbing, and calling him his boy.'An apparition in Sydney’s fruit and vegetable market leaves the mother of one of Clyde’s best friends believing that her brother, hanged for murder twenty-four years beforehand, has some...
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    17,13 €

  • Servants of the Crown
    Garrick Jones
    Intelligencers: men and women from all walks of life and from all sections of society, servants of the Crown who work for the Home Office gathering information vital to the security of the nation.London, 1855. While Great Britain is at war with the Russians in the Crimea, a cadre of disaffected seditionists and insurrectionists, made up of members of the aristocracy and wealthy...
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  • X for Extortion
    Garrick Jones
    'There’s no deal unless you tell me who killed Lucretia, Thomas! For the love of God, I have to know-''She was shot by an assassin.''But who was this assassin? Who shot her?' he demanded again angrily, leaning forward over the table.'I did,' I said, after a suitably dramatic pause.He threw his head back and laughed loudly, his arms crossed on his chest. 'You?' he said once he’d...
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    17,05 €

  • The Gilded Madonna
    Garrick Jones
    Halloran pulled the sheet down to the man’s waist. What I saw made me take a deep breath: the man’s throat was cut so deeply his head looked like it had almost been severed. 'If you tell me this man was found in the public toilet behind the grandstand of Coogee Oval opposite where I live, I might just need a chair,' I said.Clyde Smith’s quiet, happy life, in love for the first ...
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  • The Seventh of December
    Garrick Jones
    As bombs rain down over London during the Blitz, Major Tommy Haupner negotiates the rubble-filled streets of Bloomsbury on his way to perform at a socialite party. The explosive event of the evening is not his virtuosic violin playing, but the ’almost-blond’ American who not only insults him, but then steals his heart.The Seventh of December follows a few months in the lives of...
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  • Wheelchair
    Garrick Jones
    You can never judge an academic book by its cover. Simon Dyson, a quiet assistant professor, is a man of hidden depths. To the world he presents as a harmless, innocuous, shy and retiring intellectual. However, the man who lurks behind that public persona is far more interesting … and dangerous … and driven.Wheelchair is a slow-burn contemporary psychological crime thriller abo...
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    18,26 €

  • The Curious Advantage
    Garrick Jones / Paul Ashcroft / Simon Brown
    The Curious Advantage is an exploration of the behaviour of curiosity and its central role in the digital age, taking the widest possible exploration of all things curious-historical, contemporary, neuro-scientific, anthropological, behavioural and business.Curiosity has profound implications for organisations, leaders and individuals inhabiting the digital reality. The Curious...
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    27,76 €

  • The Curious Advantage
    Garrick Jones / Paul Ashcroft / Simon Brown
    The Curious Advantage is an exploration of the behaviour of curiosity and its central role in the digital age, taking the widest possible exploration of all things curious-historical, contemporary, neuro-scientific, anthropological, behavioural and business.Curiosity has profound implications for organisations, leaders and individuals inhabiting the digital reality. The Curious...
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    23,73 €

  • The House with a Thousand Stairs
    Garrick Jones
    The House With a Thousand StairsWarrambool.In Gamilaraay, the language of the Kamilaroi peoples of north-western New South Wales, it's the word for The Milky Way. It's also the name of Peter Dixon's homestead and sheep station, situated in the lee of the Liverpool Ranges.In 1947, Peter returns from war, his parents and younger brother dead, the property de-stocked a...
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    15,46 €

  • Australia’s Son
    Garrick Jones
    "Six deaths, if we include his, my father's, and Fabrice's, Andy," I whispered. "All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement—Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman."A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day.It is 1902, and...
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  • Australia’s Son
    Garrick Jones
    "Six deaths, if we include his, my father's, and Fabrice's, Andy," I whispered. "All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement--Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman."A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day.It is 1902, an...
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    23,52 €

  • The Cricketer’s Arms
    Garrick Jones
    "I'm sorry I have to tell you this, Harry, but Daley Morrison was murdered. It was no heart attack. He was stabbed through the heart and then staked out, naked, in the middle of the Sydney Cricket Ground as some sort of warning to someone." Harry Jones almost fell into his chair, such was his shock.Clyde Smith is brought into the investigation by his former colleague, Sam T...
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    16,15 €

  • The Boys of Bullaroo
    Garrick Jones
    The Boys of BullarooThe Boys of Bullaroo is a collection of six short stories, each set a decade apart, spanning the period from the Great War to the Vietnam conflict.Linked by an outback Australian town, Bullaroo, the narratives follow the loves, the losses, and the sexual awakenings of men over the course of sixty years.From the deserts of Egypt and the Light Horse, to prison...
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