Islands of Mercy 9th May 2020
She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned...
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Four Fires 6th February 2020
Four fires: passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. Along with love – perhaps the brightest flame of all – these four fires drive the human spirit. In a small town much like any other around Australia live the Maloneys....
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot across Borneo 27th January 2020
Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath...
Three Came Home 27th January 2020
When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith’s...
Land Below the Wind 27th January 2020
This book was written during an era when Sabah was known as North Borneo, and when life was very much different from today s. Reprinted many times, this classic, of Agnes Keith s observations and reflections of the time,...
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