The Day Parliament Burned Down


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The thrilling but largely unknown story of the day in 1834 that the 800 year-old Houses of Parliament burned down - an event that was as shocking and significant to contemporaries as the death of Princess Diana was to us at the end of the 20th century.




Exposed


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Uncover the truth or end up six feet under NO ONE KNOWS CRIME LIKE KRAY 'A cracking good read!' Jessie Keane 'Martina Cole territory' Independent 'Gripping' Daily Express Cut from the same cloth as Kimberley Chambers, Martina Cole and Casey Kelleher. ***DECEIVED is available to pre-order now in hardback and ebook*** Eden Chase is head over heels in love with her husband Tom. He's the sort of man who doesn't give much away but Eden doesn't mind that - Tom is worth the effort. So when he's accused of a years-old robbery and murder, Eden won't believe it. No, not her Tom - he's not capable of the things they're saying he did. With Tom in prison, it's up to Eden to clear his name. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she uncovers about her husband's past. Does she really know him, after all? As Eden goes deeper into the ugly underworld that holds the answers, the more danger she's exposed to and she's not sure she can save her husband in time. And is he even worth saving? Praise for Roberta Kray: 'A cracking good read' Jessie Keane 'Well into Martina Cole territory' Independent 'Action, intrigue and a character-driven plot . . . sure to please any crime fiction fans' Woman 'Gripping' Daily Express




The Singing Kiwi


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Across the line - All bound to go - At the Mataura - Ballad of Captain Cook - Ballad of Davy Gray - Ballad of Stan Graham - Ballad of Kaitawa - Ballad of the kiwi - Banks of the Waikato - Black Billy blues - Black Billy tea - Blow boys blow - The bold and saucy china - The boys of the track - Canterbury jig - The Charleston drum - Cheer boys cheer - Cherry stones - Concertina Joe - Corned beef and cabbage - The day the pub burned down - Death song of the Huntly miners - Down a country road - Driftwood - The drover's dream - The dying bushman 1 - The dying bushman 2 - The dying bushman 3 - Faded pictures - Farewell to Geraldine - Farewell to New Zealand - Farewell to the gold - Farewell to the Grey - The final track - Full and plenty - Glenmore jig - Gone to Maoriland - The good old way - The green new chum - Greenstone Billy - Hands across the sea - Hillsides of Bendigo - The Hokonui Hills - Homeless drifter - How are you, mate? - Hunger in the air - I'm a young man - I've packed my traps - Gabriel's gold - In the morning - Kawarau gold - The KB cannonball - Land ahoy - Land of the west - Last drop of whisky - The latter end of spring - Leatherman - The life of the high country shepherd - Long and friendly road - Long time ago - Man upon the track - Molesworth - Mother Nature's children - A musterer's lament - A new chum out from England - No regrets - Off to the diggings - The old Dunstan track - The old Forty Niner - The old gumdigger's bar - The old identity - Old Jimmy Possum - The old mud hut - The old scrub bull - The old station gate - Pelorus Jack - Poll the grogseller - The ringer's stand - Rocking the cradle - Rose of Red Conroy - A sailor's lament - Shantyman - The shearing's coming round - The shepherd's dream - The shepherd's song - The ships sail in - Shore cry - Smoko - Snowed in - So long mate - Song for Captain Cook - Song of the drover - Southward bound - The springtime brings on the shearing - Springtime in the mountains - The stable lad - The star hotel - Tangiwai disaster - Three blackbirds - Tuapeka gold - The voyage of the buffalo - Walking of the land - Wheels of arrow - When I was a young man - When the tui calls - While the billy boils - Wind in the tussock - Wool away Jack - Wool commandeer - Yorky's run.




The Cocoanut Grove


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Provides a minute-by-minute account of the fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub in 1942.




New Zealand Folksongs


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The Nation


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Charlie's Book


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A work of local history chronicling the life and death of the rural township of Lyonville, a sawmilling settlement in the Wombat Forest region of Victoria’s Central Highlands, Charlie’s Book explores the struggle to forge a community in the face of almost unendurable hardship an desolation.




On Days Like These


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'Emotional, insightful, beautifully written. A story of making saves and being saved. The best football book I have read this year.' Henry Winter Sir Alex Ferguson looked at Joe Sealey: 'You know your dad saved my career?' Joe replied: 'And you saved his.' More than three decades before, in 1990, Ferguson's managerial career stood at its lowest ebb. After three barren years at Old Trafford, he was facing dismissal. There was just the FA Cup final left. Manchester United were lucky to escape with a 3-3 draw at Wembley. For the replay, Ferguson took the gamble of his life, replacing his long-standing keeper, Jim Leighton, with Les Sealey, on loan from Luton. United won. Ferguson remained, winning another 24 major trophies. Les Sealey would play in another three finals for United. When he died suddenly, aged 43, Les left behind a warm, witty, and detailed autobiography in the form of a Tupperware box full of cassette tapes. His death, however, threw his son, Joe, into a tormented spiral of alcoholism and drug abuse before he was dragged from the brink. On Days Like These, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, is the story of a remarkable double rescue. Of a football club and of a man. 'Brings alive early 90s #MUFC & the mad genius of Ferguson' Sam Wallace




A World Without Jews


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This penetrating new assessment of the burning of the Hebrew Bible by the Nazis on November 9, 1938 explores how the Germans came to conceive of the idea of Germany without the Jews, which required that both Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history.