John Prebble

• 1959
• / Historical
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• Mar-1980
• / General Fiction
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On the night of Sunday, December 28th 1897, in a high gale, the central span on the bridge over the estuary of the River Tay collapsed, taking with it an engine, six coaches and seventy-five passengers....

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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The enthralling story of a London office cleaner who learns that his Russian wife has been kidnapped in Moscow. Jimmy Yeo is concerned only with his love for dark-haired Nadia, but as events unfurl with mounting suspense, he learns that where the Col...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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The final offensives of the Second World War - Arnhem, the Rhine crossing and the invasion of Germany - provide war-shattered settings for John Prebble's novel, The Edge of Darkness. In this, the most intimately experience of all his books, he record...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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A German bomber crash-lands on a small Scottish island and the Nazi pilot, with his crew of three, seizes control of the place. Two guns are stripped from the wreckage; an inquisitive collie-dog is killed; a young man is shot dead beside his radio . ...