his title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old & working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women & children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle
- an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit & ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners & many end up owing their lives to her indomitable spirit. While on the march, the group run into some Australian prisoners, one of whom, Joe Harman, helps them steal some food, & is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a result. After the war, Jean tracks Joe down in Australia & together they begin to dream of surmounting the past & transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community like Alice Springs.
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Jean Paget is just twenty years old & working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women & children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle -- an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit & ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners & many end up owing their lives to her indomitable spirit. While on the march, the group run into some Australian prisoners, one of whom, Joe Harman, helps them steal some food, & is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a result. After the war, Jean tracks Joe down in Australia & together they begin to dream of surmounting the past & transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community like Alice Springs. ...

Fleeing London, in search of adventure & determined to sample some of the famed delights of the City of Light, our hero arrives in Paris with only a suitcase & a determination to have the time of his life. He launches himself into la vie parisienne, throws himself at the local female population & quickly discovers his down-home Aussie charm has no currency in France. Like the monotonous series of rejections he receives from Parisian women, our hero s attempts at assimilation are similarly rebuffed. Undeterred, he teams up with a bunch of like-minded ex-pats & the ensuing years pass in a blur of bachelor-inspired hedonism. Paris is their playground & they discover, to their delight it is a city with a seedy underbelly. As a detached observer who is nevertheless thrust into the daily business of getting by in France, the author is exposed to some of the more unfathomable idiosyncrasies of the French. & just when he thinks Paris has offered him all she has to give, he meets a Paris showgirl an Australian beauty whose sequin-clad high-kicks are the toast of the Champs Elysees. Before he knows it, he is in love & discovering that what he had come to Paris looking for was a lot closer to home than he ever imagined. ...

On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps & sent on a train to Auschwitz
- the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15, the eldest a farmer's wife of 68; there were among them teachers, biochemists, sales girls, secretaries, housewives & university lecturers. The women turned to one another, finding solace & strength in friendship & shared experience. They supported & cared for one another, worked together, & faced the horror together. Friendship, almost as much as luck, dictated survival. Forty-nine of them came home. Caroline Moorehead's breathtaking new book is the story of these women
- the first time it has been told. It is about who they were, how & why they joined the resistance, how they were captured by the French police & the Gestapo, their journey to Auschwitz & their daily life in the death camps
- & about what it was like for the survivors when they returned to France.A Train in Winter covers a harrowing part of our history but is, ultimately, a portrait of ordinary people, of bravery & endurance, & of friendship.


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` While her husband prepared to murder a young man he had never met, Bridget O` Neill completed her packing for Christmas with her in-laws.` Francis O` Neill is a terrorist, trained to kill for his cause. Bridget is his wife, expected to be loyal & stand by her husb&. She has learned not to hope for much more, until the day she glimpses, for the first time, the chance of a new life. A life without violence, without secrets, & without knocks on the door in the dead of night. A life without her husb&. But what if freedom for Bridget means grave danger for Francis? In A Traitor in the Family, bestselling author, Nicholas Searle, tells a story of shocking, intimate betrayal. Can a treacherous act of the most personal kind ever be, in this darkly violent world, an act of mercy? ...

This book is a celebration of the culture & spirit of tramping in New Zeal&. Heading into the hills has been a long tradition in this country, & Mark Pickering takes both a serious & humorous look at tramping from a personal perspective, covering his early experiences of the Wellington tramping club scene of the 1970s to the unique rigmarole & rituals of Christmas tramps in the Southern Alps. A Tramper's Journey is not a guide book, but is one of the few books about tramping which attempts to explain the appeal of an activity which can be strenuous, uncomfortable & often dangerous, but brings its own unique rewards as a result of the effort. It is divided into sections which look at various features of the tramping experience, such as high-country routes & back-country huts; tramping club outings & solo travel; the influence of the elements & the tracks themselves. The book is a fascinating & entertaining mix of personal anecdote, friends' stories & historical information, enlivened with hut logbook entries & illustrated with the author's own photographs. ...

Bustling cities, ancient wonders & snow-peaked mountain ranges; the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros are an attractive destination for travellers (there`s a reason why so many invaders have crossed the Narrow Sea over the centuries). This guidebook will escort you through a realm rich in culture, jaw-dropping natural beauty & Lannister gold; helping you to navigate a continent where the landscape shifts almost as often as the balance of political power. Whether you`re looking to don your furs & follow in the footsteps of the First Men, spend an evening sharing summerwine (and a lot more besides) in Dorne, or simply root out the best ` Bowl o` Brown` in King`s Landing; this travel companion has you covered. Created with you in mind, this book (based entirely on George R. R Martin`s smash hit fantasy series)
Includes:: ` Must See` best sights in the Seven Kingdoms (and beyond). Practical advice on getting around, where to stay & how to ensure you keep your head attached to your shoulders for the duration of your visit. An amusing & informative look at the history of the region for those wanting to learn more about their surroundings. No spoilers for those who are fans of the HBO show.
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What would it be like to walk on a Martian plain? Watch wild volcanoes on Jupiter? All it takes to find out is a touch of imagination & this entertaining guide to the solar system, illustrated with NASA's most up-to-date color photos. So get ready to blast off, & fly through the skies from Mercury to Pluto, stopping to visit planets, asteroids, & moons along the way. Feel Venus's intense pressure & heat, thanks to a thick blanket of carbon dioxide. Alight on Saturn & gaze at its beautiful & mysterious rings. See greenish-blue Uranus, which takes 84 Earth-years to travel round the sun. There's lots of fun information, related in a simple, appealing style kids will easily understand & enjoy. ...

In October 1945 at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been bewitched by Homer & the lands of Homer`s epics ever since. As the culmination of a life spent exploring both these lands & the stories by, & connected to, Homer, Freely has created a captivating traveller`s guide to Homer`s lost world & to his epics, the Iliad & the Odyssey, investigating where such places as the Land of the Lotus Eaters are & what it was about the landscapes of Greece & Turkey that so inspired Homer
- the greatest classical epic poet. With unparalleled knowledge & passion, John Freely guides the traveller through all of those places linked to Homer that can be identified & brings Homer & his world vividly to life, revealing how the Homeric epics continue to echo through the ages in literatuture, art, legend & folklore.
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A Traveller`s History of South Africa is intended as a comprehensive single volume survey of one of today`s most popular & exciting destinations. Lifting the lid on this most multi-cultural of societies
- & its chequered past
- the book will begin by tracing the evolution of South Africa from prehistoric times, taking into account the most recent archaeological & anthropological findings. It will then chart the penetration of the region by European explorers & traders; the political, social & economic developments that follow on from this, & finally, the complicated descent into state repression of the majority black population after the Second World War. Bringing the story up to date, the book will also include practical information for the visitor, as well as a full compendium of historical facts & data.

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