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Outback Heart  by Joanne van Os

A powerful true story about life with Rod Ansell, known by many as the ‘original Crocodile Dundee’.

Outback Heart captures the dust, the heat, the struggle and the larger-than-life characters of the Territory. But itsw also a moving and powerful story of a love affair and a marriage and the pain when it all falls apart.

The Orpheus Deception by David Stone

CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns for another go-around of the international espionage, government cover-ups, and high intensity pursuit that have cemented this series in the best of spy fiction.

This heart-pounding follow-up to “The Echelon Vendetta” opens with an assassination attempt setting Dalton onto the path of a Serbian warlord. He seeks to unlock binding secrets and tries ti uncover links among piracy, the disappearance of a CIA agent and an elusive ship known only as Orpheus.

Dawn French The Unauthorised Biography by Alison Bower

Alison Bower tells the remarkable story of Dawn’s rise to fame and how she has overcome many challenges along the way. These include her unhappy days at boarding school and her father’s suicide when she was nineteen. Also her partnership with Jennifer Saunders, how the two who started out on seven pounds a night at comedy clubs, to their own TV show. Bower describes French’s long lasting marriage to Lenny Henry, a union that endured racially motivated attacks in early days.

Dawn French is a loved comic actress delighting audiences in her role in The Vicar of Dibley.

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