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  • The Worst Country in the World
    Patsy Trench
    “Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the ’luckiest’ countries in the world.” Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow an...
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    14,92 €

  • The Humbling of Meredith Martin
    Patsy Trench
    What does a girl have to do to become a leading light on the London stage?Meredith has sacrificed everything - family and the comforts and security of home - to become an actress. She has done her time in the provinces, she’s toured the country from tip to toe, she’s set the West End alight with her ground-breaking performances. And yet here she is, in 1906, finding herself yet...
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    11,65 €

  • Mrs Morphett’s Macaroons
    Patsy Trench
    London, 1905. A show. A stuttering romance. Two squabbling actresses.Is it Shakespeare? Is it Vaudeville?Not quite. It is Mrs Morphett’s Macaroons, a satirical play about suffragettes which its creators - friends, colleagues and would-be lovers Robbie Robinson and Violet Graham - are preparing to mount in London’s West End.It is the play rival actresses Merry and Gaye would kil...
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    10,45 €

  • All We Need Is Love
    Patsy Trench
    A collection of stories about the thorny business of love. Love in adversity: love unrequited, or unwanted; love obsessive; love unexpected; the love that makes the world go around and turns people mad.If all we need for a peaceful and happy world is to love one another, why don’t we simply do so? If love conquers everything why don’t we just sit back and wallow in it?Why does ...
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    8,60 €

  • The Makings of Violet Frogg
    Patsy Trench
    It is the 1890s and Violet Frogg is on the run.First from her stifling family home in a village near London, then from a marriage in a swanky house in Bloomsbury and a brief dally with suffragists, lastly from a fulfilling position working for Herbert Beerbohm Tree, renowned actor-manager, in the heart of London’s West End.What is Violet running from? Or to?How many lives can a...
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    12,55 €

  • The Awakening of Claudia Faraday
    Patsy Trench
    1920s England. One conventional society lady’s life is about to change forever.Rattling around in the too-large family home, her daughters fled the nest and her archaeologist husband working overseas, Claudia faces an empty future.Then a surprise visit from a colleague of her husband’s shakes her out of her torpor in an unexpected way, and encourages her to venture into the wor...
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    12,13 €

  • The Purpose of Prudence de Vere
    Patsy Trench
    Prudence de Vere has a reputation (which she has not discouraged), as a good-time girl. Born in the mid-Victorian age to careless parents, she has from childhood taken full advantage of a life without rules or purpose. As an adult she dallies with famous actors and cavorts with the likes of Millicent Fawcett of the suffragists and Lady Ottoline Morrell of the Bloomsbury set. Sh...
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    10,61 €

  • A Country To Be Reckoned With
    Patsy Trench
    In the 19th century Australia went from a penal colony struggling to survive to a thriving, prosperous community with a glowing future.George Matcham Pitt's life spanned the best part of that century. A larger than life character with a booming voice and a fondness for quoting from classic poets, GM, as he was known, began as a working farmer on the Hawkesbury and went on t...
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    14,74 €