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  • Auricularis
    Jeff Hopkins
    Under the tutelage of Celeste Kendell, Garrick Aldridge and Corey Wakefield form Auricularis, a singing and songwriting duo. They travel to England as paid performers on a cruise liner. Initially struggling, a breakthrough comes at the BBC. A United Kingdom tour follows and they perform with success in New York and Los Angeles. Corey gets an offer to star in a biopic based on t...
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    39,48 €

  • The Twisted Ladder
    Jeff Hopkins
    Two young men, Kit Ganderton and Dougie Bourgore, born over one hundred and seven years apart, face the vicissitudes of life without knowing what connects them. Claris Feutrill tries to establish the relationship using DNA traces and genealogy research. Warwick Faulkner strives to get Kit out of trouble, while Detective Inspector Bethany Collins realises sometimes you have ’to ...
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    47,93 €

  • The Absconders
    Jeff Hopkins / Jeffrey Hopkins
    Allen Knight and Thomas Newman were eleven and ten years old respectively when they were convicted in England for larceny and given ten-year sentences. They spent a thousand days together in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight before being transported to the Swan River Colony in Western Australia aboard the transport ship ’Shepherd’. Assigned as apprentice coopers at the Frem...
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    42,01 €

  • John Gavin
    Jeff Hopkins
    On the sixth of April, 1844, John Gavin was the first European hanged in the Swan River Colony. He was fifteen years old. His crime, trial, and execution still stir controversy and passions almost one hundred and eighty years after the event.John Gavin was a convicted street thief in Birmingham and became incarcerated at Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. In 1843 he made th...
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    35,66 €

  • The Trafalgar Twins
    Jeff Hopkins
    Mick and Leda Daniels’ identical twin boys, Alex and Phillip, grow up on Trafalgar Downs Station in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Their older, musically gifted ’sunshine sister’, Helen, brings joy to everyone with her talents. Leda Daniels looks after the twins’ early childhood education, then teaches them in classroom situations when she makes an unplan...
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    26,98 €

  • Life’s Race Well Run
    Jeff Hopkins
    With recently discovered information coming to light, the author revisits and presents new stories and pictures illustrating his family’s complex genealogy in this reworked edition of the 1992 manuscript ’Life’s Race Well Run’. The original concept of ’A Diary of Discovery’ has been maintained and the book is now published for the first time.There is a dynasty established by a ...
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    24,93 €

  • Landor
    Jeff Hopkins
    Leonora Gaerth was a foster child, and her younger brother, Landor, was adopted. They grew up in the coalmining town of Collie in the southwest of Western Australia. Leonora showed exceptional talent and skills as a dressmaker before winning a scholarship to Modern School in Perth where she matriculated and went on to study law at the University of Western Australia. Landor was...
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    23,06 €

  • Adam & Benjamin
    Jeff Hopkins
    Rufus Enterprise chooses Seal Island in King George Sound in the Southern Ocean of Western Australia as the site for his sealing operation. He appoints Tom Elder as his leader with four ex-convicts, Bob Beater, Dick Dental, Harry Heeler, and Sam Scullion to assist him. A group of boys are shanghaied, press-ganged, and purchased to make up the unpaid workforce on Seal Island. Th...
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    18,99 €

  • Released & Regained
    Jeff Hopkins
    Jayden Harnett returns in this sequel to Directed by McCardle O’Hanlon. The young star, and emerging ballet dancer, who turned his back on a movie making career to study for a teaching degree, is lured back into the theatrical world. His story is a sprawling saga that covers four continents, two new films, and the revival of a classic play. For more than a year Jayden shoots fi...
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    21,23 €

  • Surviving the Silence
    Jeff Hopkins
    Convicted of stealing a coat in 1832, Benjamin Stanton was sentenced to seven years transportation to Van Diemen’s Land. He spent twelve months on the prison hulk, ’Euryalus’ and then another four months on the convict transport ship ’Isabella’ before arriving in Hobart Town on the 14th of November 1833.In January 1834 Benjamin was one of the first sixty-eight boys to be incarc...
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    16,58 €

  • Directed by McCardle O’Hanlon
    Jeff Hopkins
    Esteemed Irish film maker McCardle O’Hanlon turns his back on gritty films dealing with dysfunctional families, the drug culture, gun violence, and urban crime to accept an offer to direct a big budget period costume drama. The working title for this period film is ’The Prince’ and deals with the truncated life of Prince Henry Frederick Stuart the eldest son and heir of James I...
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    20,58 €

  • Resilience
    Jeff Hopkins
    On his sixteenth birthday, Cameron’s life changes irrevocably. Many people see the signs but ignore them. Dr. Penny Corrigan gives Cameron a lifeline, but it is fleeting and evaporates. Cameron’s mother, Genevieve, and his father, Jack, do their best, but succumb to a ’silver tongue’. Two teachers, Mr. Caledane and Mr. Johnston-Harper, inspire and challenge him. An Indigenous b...
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    18,35 €

  • Creatively
    Jeff Hopkins
    This is a memoir from the point of view of a working-class boy from East Fremantle, in Western Australia who, in his formative and teenage years, had a love of the theatre and performing. Later he went on to script and produce films. Then there are eleven original musicals involving both writing and performance, some under very ’odd’ circumstances. Along the journey, he develop...
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    18,67 €

  • The Headmaster
    Jeff Hopkins
    Frederick Charles Faulkner (1852 - 1924) was the longest serving Headmaster at the Perth High School (the present-day Hale School) from (1890-1914). Arriving to take up the Headmastership as a bachelor, he married into one of Perth’s most prominent families and then proceeded to revolutionise secondary education in Western Australia.Working in ramshackle buildings, that were ba...
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    37,22 €

  • The Gavin Johns Story
    Jeff Hopkins
    Gavin Maxwell Johns was born in Georgia, in the United States, orphaned in Hertfordshire in England and sent to the Fairbridge Farm School in Pinjarra, Western Australia as a child migrant in 1935. At Fairbridge, he meets his aggressive and undisciplined friend, Luke Fitzgerald and finds the only place he can control Luke is in the milking shed.In 1942, the United States army r...
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    19,77 €

  • Gnarl
    Jeff Hopkins
    There have been twenty years of peace and prosperity in the known world, but the bellicose Ali-Ali from the Caliphate in the south threatens all of that. He has formulated an audacious plan to turn the young King Louis of the Great Ocean City State against his father, Lord Gnarl, and conquer the City State in the north.Two decades of rule has seen Lord Gnarl consult less and tr...
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    18,60 €

  • Alaric Pinder Boor
    Jeff Hopkins
    Alaric Pinder Boor lived and died more than a century ago. His fascinating life has been reconstructed using historical sources including: certificates, documents, photographs, immigration, travel and shipping lists, electoral and rate book rolls, newspaper articles, letters, war records, and interpretative paintings.The literary device of ‘faction’ has been employed. The facts...
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    17,92 €