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  • The Seven Dawns
    Julia Blackburn
    The Seven Dawns singing competition has begun. And Rube the robin is hiding a secret that could help him win.Rube has taken in an injured nightingale - a bird in hiding from a deadly owl. But when her voice could win the competition, the temptation to let her sing is too great.One small dishonesty becomes many. The owl is closing in. And a silent illness is stealing voices acro...
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    10,41 €

  • The May Day Chorus
    Julia Blackburn
    Every garden needs a song. But what happens when singing is forbidden?Rube the robin has always led The Songbird Choir. But when Flint and his gang arrive searching for buried treasure, they tear up the garden, scatter the singers, and make one thing brutally clear: no singing allowed.Forced to flee with his battered choir, Rube faces the dangerous Farmlands, a hungry fox, and ...
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    10,33 €

  • The Songbird Army
    Blackburn / Julia Blackburn
    May Day should be a songbird celebration. But the magpies are coming for their chicks.Rube the robin would rather sing than lead-but when a gang of bullying magpies threatens the nests of his peaceful choir, he must find the courage to stand up for them. Alongside a blind bullfinch, a brave song thrush, and a scatterbrained blue tit, Rube discovers that even the smallest birds ...
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    10,36 €

  • The Book Of Colour
    Julia Blackburn
    ’Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears cursed by racial prejudice sexual inhibition and recurrent mental illness. This first novel is a powerfully and cleverly written expurgation of personal feelings drawing the reader into a landscape like that of a Dali painti...
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    19,36 €

  • The Leper’s Companions
    Julia Blackburn
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    16,13 €

  • The Lepers Companions
    Julia Blackburn
    To escape from her own sadness a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she watches the lives of the inhabitants unfold around her. But the year is now 1410 and this is a world of devils and miracles a world in which there are no clear boundaries between reality and the power of the imagination. A man’s discovery of a mermaid washed up on the sand starts a...
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    23,96 €

  • The Emperors Last Island
    Julia Blackburn
    The Emperor’s Last Stand is a book about St Helena an island with a sad strange history and about the tangle of stories and myths absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him who guarded him who managed only to catch a brief glimpse of him alive or dead. It is also a p...
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    23,84 €

  • Daisy Bates in the Desert
    Julia Blackburn
    In 1913 when she was 54 years old Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed with occasional interruptions for almost 30 years. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. She fuses her own imagination and experience with that of Daisy Bates unitl she ...
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    23,90 €

  • Charles Waterton 1782-1865
    Julia Blackburn
    Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals and birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in t...
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    22,59 €

  • The Book of Color
    Julia Blackburn
    In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man’s guilty fascination with an alien new world? 'A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of...
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    14,25 €

  • Daisy Bates in the Desert
    Blackburn / Julia Blackburn
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    14,04 €

  • The Emperor’s Last Island
    Julia Blackburn
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    14,85 €