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  • VALUE ADDED
    Hettie Ashwin
    How to get ahead in your chosen field is a matter of talent, tact and tenacity.Jack Renfrew-newly minted architectural apprentice-hopes are high.Mr and Mrs Brown want a house. Their small piece of paradise with modern conveniences at affordable prices.Mr Renfrew might be the man to make Bill and Enid Brown’s dreams come true. It’s just a matter of juggling a builder, a planning...
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    15,29 €

  • A Fate Worse than Death
    Hettie Ashwin
    If someone tells you to drop dead ~ would you oblige?Crispin Stitt, once the darling of the literati-glitterati is now on the cusp of becoming a nobody.How to triumph in the face of obscurity?Well, if he was dead, then it would boost his backlist, and to be honest,everybody loves you when you’re dead. When serendipity steps in and Crispin goes missing, presumed dead, it is the ...
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    15,49 €

  • Nowhere near Anywhere
    Hettie Ashwin
    The way to make a railway pay is to close it.Closing 6 miles of unproductive railway should be easy.All the Government needs to do is try not to spend money to save money. It’s that simple. Or is it?With a village united in indignation and a man who knows a thing or two about ancient Rights of Way, nothing is going to be easy.Add the civil service into the mix and anything coul...
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    15,09 €

  • A STRANGE KIND OF PARADISE. A life worth living
    Hettie Ashwin
    Can you navigate life when you don’t have a reference point?As a mother fades away through dementia, a daughter is caught in the emotional whirlpool.They don’t have a relationship that is close, but when there is no-one else what do you do?As the daughter steers her way through her mother’s gradual decline, there are times when she wonders who the woman really is and if she eve...
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    9,84 €

  • A STRANGE KIND OF PARADISE.
    Hettie Ashwin
    Is a mother’s love an unbreakable bond?June Bannernever wants to find out. June came to motherhood later in life, and the one thing she wants is to be the motherher own mother could never be. That silent promise to be better will lead herthrough her son’s tumultuous young life until one of them must break. June andher husband hear about their son’s life through others, the hear...
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    9,56 €

  • Living it up in France
    Hettie Ashwin
    With a bucket list, a motorbike and a map, two Aussie adventurers, live it up in France.Between renovating their house in a Breton village, they travel on Roman Roads, see Gothic Cathedrals, drink delicious coffee and discover a love of France with  le joie de vivre.We just won’t mention the speeding ticket ... or getting lost ... or being mistaken for a crocodile hunter. Well,...
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    15,57 €

  • The Crowing of the Beast
    Hettie Ashwin
    In a world where justice is often denied, two Jewish lawyers defend therights of one man, but is justice worth the danger this brings to them and theirfamilies.Set in Paris, The Crowing of the Beast follows the course set by GeorgeNozette and Bernard Simeoni as they are thrust into a high profile case todefend Heinz Tag, a Neo-Nazi supporter, of the murder of a Jewishprotester....
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    11,73 €

  • Pi
    Hettie Ashwin
    Is it the end of the world? A warning? A message?At the vernal equinox there will be an eclipse. A once in a lifetime event. But at totality, instead of darkness every screen on the planet is taken over by Pi. . Rourke, a mathematical genius finds the answer, but with the knowledge comes the responsibility of telling the world. Is it a risk she is prepared to take? At the next ...
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    14,84 €

  • The Mask of Deceit
    Hettie Ashwin
    Imagine a world after carbon trading, after conglomerate GM food production, after the virus. This is Anton’s world.When his partner Buloké disappears,  Anton sets out in search of her. Leaving the city and the only life he has ever known, Anton embarks on a journey to a place, that is only legend. Fighting for his life against a controlling government, hordes of rapacious arth...
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    15,84 €

  • After the Rains & other Stories
    Hettie Ashwin
    This collection leads the reader on a scintillating roller coaster ride of emotions. With a generous serving of laughter, a hint of pepper and spices, and a back taste of deception. Distinctive and captivating voices, give the stories give layers of wit and wisdom, and can be enjoyed on their own, or with company. ...
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    12,34 €

  • The Truffle War
    Hettie Ashwin
    Who would have thought a sink hole in Tasmania could cause so much trouble. When Mona's land is under threat from a developer it seems her pig, Marmalade has all the answers. How Mona Blyte, a cranky old woman, manages a dodgy developer, a 300 kg pig and a french chef plus a Professor of early Australian history, well... it all depends on Marmalade's truffle hunting exp...
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    14,70 €

  • A Shilling on the Bar
    Hettie Ashwin
    If you put a shilling on the bar for a beer, which cost 8 pence, then your change might be a story of the outback. A Shilling on the Bar is a collection of stories that have been gathered by Trododniak Weatherness, Senior Magistrate as he travelled his circuit in far North Queensland in 1944.Murder, mystery, strange ghost stories and mistaken identity. 16 yarns of outback Austr...
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    8,66 €

  • A strange kind of paradise
    Hettie Ashwin
    Derek Trimble is 100. When he is found hanging in his shed and saved, he wishes he was dead. He is a man who loves his wife and doesn't want to live without her. He loved her so much he gave her what she begged for with her last dying breath, and that guilt is something Derek doesn't want to live with, not for one minute more.If you love me is about a decision. A decisi...
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    9,55 €

  • Literary Licence
    Hettie Ashwin
    Imagine an author in her prime and she wants to retire. Easy it seems. Except writing is in her blood. Literary licence follows the fortunes of Ursula Drewsbury as she discovers retirement is more than gardening and cups of tea. She creates a pseudonym only to discover he is larger than life and her ego is piqued. So what to do? Killing him off would be easy for the best crime ...
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    15,23 €

  • Barney’s Test
    Hettie Ashwin
    When Barney Vokes, the hopeless romantic comes up to bat in the game of love he finds that there are a few googlies coming his way. Humility, hubris and hand/eye co-ordination all play a part in being the man of the match. When his old flame re-appears he is sure he can rekindle the feeling of love. Joan has her eye set on the outfield and it looks like Barney is the way to get...
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    15,29 €

  • Mr Tripp buys a lifestyle
    Hettie Ashwin
    Colin and Vivian Tripp buy a 'bargain' cement boat called Moonlighting with only the vaguest notion of boating. They envisage plain sailing, easy living and plenty of it. What they get is a bucket load of troubles, a myriad of mishaps - plus some fun. From the intricacies of anchoring to taming sea sickness, they weather the storms to eventually find a joie de vivre, al...
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    15,52 €

  • Murder! Mayhem! and lesser cuts of meat
    Hettie Ashwin
    When you want to make your mark, an occasion with all the trimmings is just the ticket. The village of Beeting Down has a centenarian in its midst, but when she shuffles off this mortal coil before they can wish her happy birthday, it is bound to be a bit of bother. It will be a close run thing if the villagers can pull a the whole thing off without the Police Inspector getting...
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    14,25 €

  • I’d rather glue me nut sack to a bullet train
    Hettie Ashwin
    Bluey gets a phone call and it's a trip to the Big Smoke. With only his faithful friend and dog, Ralph for company he sets out on the drive and along the way picks up a hitchhiker, Hakim from Iran.Over the trip Blue introduces Hakim to the real Australia. It's a lesson in everything Ocker, never mind the language barrier. A footy match, a night under the Southern Cross,...
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    15,48 €

  • Boat to Baguette
    Hettie Ashwin
    Be careful what you wish for... When two Aussie adventurers decide to buy a house in France they get more than baguettes and stinky cheese. Wonderful neighbours, horrible drains, fabulous wines and French taxes.After living on a boat in the tropics of Northern Australia for 11 years, Hettie and Boomie have a bright idea. How hard can it be to buy a house in another country? And...
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    15,38 €

  • A Strange kind of Paradise
    Hettie Ashwin
    Courtney Fields is happily married, but when her husband of 6 years is felled by a hit and run accident his and her life will never be the same. As she comes to terms with the accident,  her duty collides with her doubts and fears for her future, their future. She must make the decision of life or death. She doesn't think she is capable, so she makes another decision equall...
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    9,61 €

  • FAT BITS
    Hettie Ashwin
    Evelyn Wright is 29, works in a hospital sterilizing unit, and her biological clock is a time bomb, according to her sister, Joy.When Joy discovers, via the internet, that on average a woman has 8 sexual partners before finding Mr Right, it triggers Evelyn to go fishing, because as her father often says,“There are plenty of fish in the sea.”As 8 different men entice, tantalise ...
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    14,99 €

  • The Reluctant Messiah
    Hettie Ashwin
    What can one man do in the face of mounting evidence. Despite James Caldercotts being just the man next door, he is thrown into the spotlight when his precocious 9 year old neighbour Roger proclaims a miracle in the revival of the family's seemingly dead cat Tum-Tums.News travels fast and the miracle travels all the way to the Vatican. Three Red Hated Cardinals travel to th...
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    15,75 €

  • A strange kind of paradise
    Hettie Ashwin
    Toby is the centre of the McDonald family and everything they do revolves around his special needs as a child with Cerebral Palsy. He brings out the best and the worst in his father as Neil tries to come to terms with his hatred of his child and his fierce love of his family and his wife. How to protect one at the expense of the other will bring him to the brink of throwing awa...
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    9,45 €