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  • Lovers for Today
    Peter Rimmer
    Is fame truly the dazzling prize it appears to be?Randall is already ensnared in the clutches of celebrity, while Jane, on the cusp, craves her own literary place. But all Randall yearns for is to flee, hand in hand with his lover.Despite leaving it all behind, she sails for Africa alongside Randall. The fear of losing her partner is at the forefront, haunted by her past choice...
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    14,09 €

  • When Friends Become Lovers
    Peter Rimmer
    Randall Crookshank has a lifestyle most would envy. A celebrity with a young wife, child, and pots of money. But he’s desperately unhappy... Living on the thirty-first floor of a New York apartment, Randall is bored stiff. And also, he cannot write and longs for the peace of his African roots. But Meredith is perfectly content, enjoying the company of her artist friends, includ...
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  • Scattered to the Wind
    Peter Rimmer
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    14,03 €

  • The Game of Life
    Peter Rimmer
    Is it a deliberate trap or just the game of life?He’s lived all his adult life on the banks of the Zambezi River. A safari camp operator but destined to live alone. Despondently returning to Zimbabwe after his brother’s wedding, Phillip Crookshank is left ruminating about his future. Until he meets the American...Falling for the seductive woman’s charms, Phillip knows it will o...
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    13,94 €

  • Look Before You Leap
    Peter Rimmer
    Will the lure of fame and fortune be his nemesis?His life has collapsed, his marriage over, and his son is lost to him. Randall is broke, but with the aid of his two best friends, Randall flies home. Home to Africa. Africa where he can seek solace and a place to heal.Heading for the Zambezi River with only a vehicle and supplies to last several months, Randall starts to find hi...
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    13,71 €

  • Leopards Never Change Their Spots
    Peter Rimmer
    One single bullet was all it took...Terrified and heartbroken, Randall Crookshank packs his bags, a plane ticket purchased. Naïve as to where he’s going, Randall is greeted with buzzing cars and hordes of people. It’s Piccadilly Circus. Not the tranquillity of the African bush where the lions roar, the elusive leopard hides, or the fish eagle that haunts the skies. It’s not Rho...
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    15,16 €

  • Full Circle
    Peter Rimmer
    If you hope well in life, everything turns out fine. But hope for Rhodesia is fading...Granted a Crown Land farm, all Bobby Preston wants is a life of happiness. With a woman by his side. His estate to flourish. A family. With that, he proposes marriage. To a girl he barely knows...Full of optimism and excitement, Katie accepts and begins her voyage to Africa. Spending her firs...
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    15,25 €

  • Carregan’s Catch
    Peter Rimmer
    Is gold worth gambling for when death is at stake?A fragile peace is broken and James Carregan is called to action. All thoughts of finding a suitable wife evaporates. Months later, the Shona rebellion quelled, James finds himself crossing paths with power-hungry Gavin Morgan, the son of his old friend, Rhys.With an irresistible proposition, James and his new acquaintance leave...
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    11,70 €

  • The Best of Times
    Peter Rimmer
    They chanted. ’Release Mandela’. But for three young individuals, their motives are their own... During a London Anti-Apartheid march, Daily Mirror reporter, Harry, meets the impassioned Petronella, a communist activist. Alongside her is Josiah Makoni, a man spearheading his own cause to free his people from colonial Rhodesia.  A country threatening to declare unilateral indepe...
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    15,87 €

  • Morgandale
    Peter Rimmer
    A young man’s search for adventure, the birth of a new nation, and a war that would change southern Africa forever... The year is 1890, and the sun never sets on the British Empire. James Carregan is eager to find fortune and excitement, far away from his protective father’s influence. Setting off for Cape Town, he joins a pioneer column advancing its way into disputed territor...
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    10,93 €

  • Each to His Own
    Peter Rimmer
    The war is over. But some wounds take time to heal...The 1950’s are in full swing, and for some, World War II is just a grim memory. Young Adam Beaumont, the son of a wealthy aristocratic family, is a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force. With Adam’s uncle wielding considerable influence, he is next in line for the Baronetcy. But Adam cares little for family politics, an...
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    13,22 €

  • Lady Come Home
    Peter - Rimmer
    She left home for a husband. But she fell in love with Africa... With a fiancé waiting in Africa, and a one-way ticket in hand, artist Livy Johnston boards a steamer ship at the port of London. A tantalising future awaits, and Livy is exuberant with a lust for life. So much so, that when she catches the eye of a fellow passenger, she embarks on a shipboard romance. Surely one l...
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    15,94 €

  • Vultures in the Wind
    Peter Rimmer
    Luke was close to death. He had been beaten mercilessly and was unrecognisable. Just for names, names of his ANC accomplices.Matt and Luke are born on the same day, spending an idyllic childhood in the heart of Southern Africa’s Transkei, blissfully unaware of the differences between them. But, when they are forced to leave their home, both young boys struggle to find their pla...
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    15,91 €

  • Cry of the Fish Eagle
    Peter - Rimmer
    'There’s a saying. Hear the cry of the fish eagle and you’ll always come back. Bush fever. Call it what you will. That sound is the most beautiful sound on earth. It’s worse than booze or drugs. Addictive. Totally addictive.'Flying Officer Rupert Pengelly briefly escapes war to the British colony of Rhodesia. His mission not just duty-driven but a promise to look for an orphane...
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    15,98 €

  • All Our Yesterdays
    Peter Rimmer
    This is not a true story; I hope it never becomes one. In the summer of 1956, sixteen-year-old Marguerite Stearle, daughter of a housekeeper, falls in love with the squire of Mirelton’s nephew, Myles Featherstone. A delightful romance ensues, but in a class-conscious society, Myles has no choice but to end the liaison. With few prospects, a wretched Marguerite embarks on a new ...
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    10,91 €

  • Just the Memory of Love
    Peter Rimmer
    The war is finally over and for the young and naïve Will Langton, his future is full of exciting adventure and happy dreams. Captivated by a brief, but innocent love affair on the rocks of Dancing Ledge, the romance is shattered in one single moment and she is lost to him. For Will, it's an unbearable pain that he cannot hope to escape from and the only means to assuage his...
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    17,53 €

  • Bend with the Wind
    Peter Rimmer
    Nobility. Garden parties. Luxury. Prestige.War breaks out. Merry Hall and its male heirs are now at stake.From the time of William the Conqueror, the Beaumonts have enjoyed the privileges of wealth and position. Their pleasure is to be nothing more than farmers and knights of the realm.Nevertheless, with the dawn of the twentieth century, a stray artillery shell slays the curre...
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    16,08 €

  • Horns of Dilemma
    Peter Rimmer
    With rumours swirling of his parentage, Frank Brigandshaw wants answers: Who put horns on his father’s head?Returning to England, Frank is heading down two paths. One to make them, the ménage à trois a trifle uncomfortable and admit the truth. The other, to make money and lots of it. And so like father like son, it seems Frank will succeed until he meets Connie Whitaker.Meantim...
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    15,25 €

  • Treason If You Lose
    Peter Rimmer
    What the older generation of Brigandshaws feared has returned. The world is no longer on the brink of tears. Having joined the Air Ministry, Harry Brigandshaw is itching to fly but deemed too old. He has no alternative but to stay in London, working to keep his fevered mind at rest and running for shelter as the chilling air-raid sirens sound. To keep his wife and children out ...
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    16,66 €

  • To the Manor Born
    Peter Rimmer
    The roaring twenties are now in full swing. But the clock is ticking!High up in an eyrie overlooking the Zambezi escarpment, a biplane appears out of the blue, dropping an invitation to visit Elephant Walk, the home of Harry Brigandshaw. With such an irresistible summons, two young English prospectors abandon camp and make their way. On arrival, they are welcomed and introduced...
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    15,22 €

  • On the Brink of Tears
    Peter Rimmer
    Can bitter enemies ever be friends?Harry Brigandshaw is presumed dead, missing in the wilds of Africa. And Colonial Shipping is stolen.Tina is miserable on Elephant Walk whilst the new generation of Brigandshaws and St Clairs are on the threshold of new beginnings. Young, carefree, full of excitement and eager for success. The Great War is behind them, the world has licked thei...
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    17,40 €

  • Trade Theory in Computable General Equilibrium Models
    Maureen T. Rimmer / Michael Jerie / Peter B. Dixon
    Chapter 1. Introduction: What’s in the Book and How to Read It.- Chapter 2. Armington, Krugman and Melitz as Special Cases of an Encompassing Model.- Chapter 3. Optimality in the Armington, Krugman and Melitz Models.- Chapter 4. Calibration and Parameter Estimation for a Melitz Sector in a CGE Model.- Chapter 5. Melitz equals Armington Plus Endogenous Productivity and Preferenc...
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    159,35 €

  • Mad Dogs and Englishmen
    Peter Rimmer
    Two men: one broken, the other, a vicious drunk. Can either man let go of their past without self-destructing?The insanity of the Great War is finally over. But for Harry Brigandshaw raw grief and anger consumes his every waking hour. Mostly to run away from himself, Harry journeys with Barend Oosthuizen deep into the African bush and on to the Skeleton Coast in search of diamo...
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    14,45 €

  • Elephant Walk
    Peter Rimmer
    War is inevitable, with two enemies finding themselves fighting on the same side.  But one wants peace, the other intent on murder!With his Oxford days over, Harry Brigandshaw spends an idyllic summer at Purbeck Manor in the heart of the Dorset countryside and home to his friend Robert St Clair. Harry meets the young and impressionable Lucinda who falls madly in love with him b...
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    15,23 €

  • Echoes from the Past
    Peter Rimmer
    A sweeping African saga of family, conflict, and the land that shapes them.England, 1887. When seventeen-year-old Sebastian Brigandshaw is cast out by his domineering father, he is exiled to southern Africa-an untamed land on the edge of change.Under the mentorship of Tinus, a seasoned Boer hunter, Sebastian learns to survive the bush, navigate a divided society, and carve out ...
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    15,51 €