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  • Lake Eternity
    John Trethewey
    In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, historians Adrian Coombe and Tulpe Vellum are cruising down the Rhine in search of medieval artefacts for their university. Eccentric Carolingian Judge von Metzenburg persuades them to take him immediately to the Black Forest Frankenrichter Courthouse in exchange for valuable antiques. In the village of Ewigkeit, Adrian and Tulpe find a c...
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  • The Zeppelin Girl
    John Trethewey
    While air accident expert Tim Kendall is being wrongly arrested in London for stealing his own car, in the scorching heat of the Pilbara, in the Australian outback, a prototype airship on a test flight, Zepp 1, is found parked in a remote region, intact, doors sealed, engines running and with no-one aboard. It is truly a “Marie Celeste” of the skies. Kendall is called from Lond...
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  • Albatross I
    John Trethewey
    Deputy commissioner Paul de Savigny of Geneva Airport Police is intent on destroying the pseudo-religious sect Albatross, which his teenage daughter joined and whom he has never seen since. Coordinating the similar plight of families around the world, he receives a dossier recounting the experience of a group subjected to Exegesis - “instant enlightenment” - under the leadershi...
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    61,68 €

  • Albatross II
    John Trethewey
    eputy Commissioner Paul de Savigny of Geneva Airport Police is intent on destroying the pseudoreligious sect Albatross, which his teenage daughter joined and whom he has never seen since. A flight from Moscow, diverted from Zürich to Geneva, seems routine. But one of the passengers, Ben Lakey, is not. His girlfriend, Sigrid Sorensen, has apparently joined the Suri-sect Albatros...
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    25,88 €

  • The Water Mill
    John Trethewey
    A West Indian baby is discovered mid-Atlantic on the banana boat Il Mondo bound for the United Kingdom. Adopted in Lancashire and christened Dominique Alston, she grows up in 1950s Britain, a United Kingdom riddled with social, regional, and racial divides. Scarred in a racist attack at prep school, she moves to a boarding school in Sussex. But here, far from finding equality, ...
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    21,43 €

  • Last Train to Polmouth
    John Trethewey
    In 1964, British Railways closed numerous loss-making branch lines. The coastal Cornish village of Polmouth is cut off from the outside world and faces slow extinction. The village’s only asset, Polmine Estate, potentially valuable building land, loses all value overnight. Historian and Latin teacher Felix Ingram has an audacious plan to buy the estate to save his beloved villa...
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    22,53 €

  • Natavallia in the Maldives
    John Trethewey
    Recently married musicians Judi and Zav Baines are assigned from Marbella to the Maldives. During the voyage from Gibraltar, they are joined by five strangers, seemingly with intertwined pasts long ago. Almost daily it gradually becomes clear that each of the five also knew Judi and Zav in their youth. But how? There are strange forces at work. Cosmic coincidences start to crow...
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    21,34 €

  • Voices from the Cosmos
    John Trethewey
    In Book 3 of the trilogy 'The Baines Saga,' hotel magnate Graf von Lemke finances the wedding of his adopted protégés Zav Baines and Judi Peake in Australia before flying with them to his hotel in Bavaria. Employed as hotel musicians under the names Giuseppe and Giulia Cantatore and acting as undercover ambassadors for the von Lemke empire, they discover a Neo-Nazi plot to fire...
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    22,85 €

  • Helvetia, the Voyage of 100 Days
    John Trethewey
    In this second novel of the Baines Saga trilogy, Baines and Judi Peake are now cruise ship musicians. As a scintillating, dazzling love affair develops, they encounter numerous eccentric and often bizarre passengers and events: a woman carrying a Koala bear, the 'own goal' footballer who self-destructs in interview, a divorce announced during a wedding vow renewal ceremony, the...
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    22,79 €

  • A King Among Pawns
    John Trethewey
    Orchestral violinist Sebastian Martin is sacked by his orchestra for publicly ignoring the incompetent conductor, thus providing a brilliant solo. His life is invaded by a psychotic fabulist young actress who thrives on a diet of mendacity. 'Pyromaniacs like fire, kleptomaniacs like thieving . . . I live on lies. I can’t live without acting. I simply can’t. I’d die if I didn’t ...
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    28,11 €

  • The Price of Enlightenment
    John Trethewey
    After an appalling education at Euterpe School (The House of Lunacy), Charles Baines moves to California, a successful director of television adverts. In 1974, at the height of its meteoric rise, The Temple of Sufferers and Joseph Priest arrive in San Francisco on their mission of converting souls. Baines is engaged to promote the Temple with a docu-publicity film of life and r...
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    22,83 €