A group of people have elected ambiguous & fascinating Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, & Rosa Keepe, a high-minded bluestocking under Mischa's spell (who also loves two Polish brothers) is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense & dangerous enchantment. ...

This moving story is recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher & goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed & almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making & the intricacies of their emotional responses to one another. But in the end family ties prove too strong for an ambiguous relationship which begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness & bitterness. ...

From the battlefields of Sudan to colonial Sydney & the Queensland outback, a dreadful curse still inextricably links the lives of the Macintoshes & Duffys.

Captain Patrick Duffy is a man torn between the family of his father, Irish Catholic soldier-of-fortune Michael Duffy & his adoring, scheming maternal grandmother, Enid Mackintosh. Visiting the village of his Irish forbears on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, Patrick is beguiled by the beautiful, mysterious Catherine Fitzgerald.

On the rugged Queensland frontier Native Mounted Police trooper Peter Duffy is torn between his duty, the blood of his mother's people
- the Nerambura tribe
- & a predestined deadly duel with Gordon James, the love of his sister Sarah.

Flight of the Eagle is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy featuring the bestselling Cry of the Curlew & Shadow of the Osprey, & shows master storyteller Peter Watt at the height of his powers.







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The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied & broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; & Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell.. .

That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge.. .

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The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied & broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; & Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell.. .

That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge.. .

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Did you know that Barnacle geese were once classified as fish? That both the Cherokees & the ancient Greeks were convinced that cranes regularly fought battles with pygmies? That the Swiss believed that any cuckoo that managed to survive for a year would turn into an eagle?

Throughout history, birds have fascinated & intrigued mankind, so it is hardly surprising that an astonishingly rich body of myth, legend & superstition has grown up around them. Flights of Fancy explores the stories told about 30 of the world's best-known species, from the blackbird to the wryneck, drawing on traditions from every quarter of the globe. Some of the stories included clearly arose as a result of faulty observation, such as the widely held belief that nightjars sucked milk from cows. Others stemmed from attempts to explain unusual aspects of appearance or behaviour. But the vast majority seem to have their origins in people's delight in inventing stories

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Did you know that Barnacle geese were once classified as fish? That both the Cherokees & the ancient Greeks were convinced that cranes regularly fought battles with pygmies? That the Swiss believed that any cuckoo that managed to survive for a year would turn into an eagle?

Throughout history, birds have fascinated & intrigued mankind, so it is hardly surprising that an astonishingly rich body of myth, legend & superstition has grown up around them. Flights of Fancy explores the stories told about 30 of the world's best-known species, from the blackbird to the wryneck, drawing on traditions from every quarter of the globe. Some of the stories included clearly arose as a result of faulty observation, such as the widely held belief that nightjars sucked milk from cows. Others stemmed from attempts to explain unusual aspects of appearance or behaviour. But the vast majority seem to have their origins in people's delight in inventing stories

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Did you know that Barnacle geese were once classified as fish? That both the Cherokees & the ancient Greeks were convinced that cranes regularly fought battles with pygmies? That the Swiss believed that any cuckoo that managed to survive for a year would turn into an eagle?

Throughout history, birds have fascinated & intrigued mankind, so it is hardly surprising that an astonishingly rich body of myth, legend & superstition has grown up around them. Flights of Fancy explores the stories told about 30 of the world's best-known species, from the blackbird to the wryneck, drawing on traditions from every quarter of the globe. Some of the stories included clearly arose as a result of faulty observation, such as the widely held belief that nightjars sucked milk from cows. Others stemmed from attempts to explain unusual aspects of appearance or behaviour. But the vast majority seem to have their origins in people's delight in inventing stories

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