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Peter Watt
Two men, sworn enemies, come face to face on the battlefields of France.When Jack Kelly, a captain in the Australian army, shows compassion towards his prisoner Paul Mann, a brave…
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In 1916, the Duffys and Macintoshes are entangled in the horrors of World War I. From the deserts of the Middle East to the trenches of Europe, the hand of…
In 1914, the storm clouds of war are gathering. Matthew Duffy and his cousin Alexander Macintosh are sent by Colonel Patrick Duffy to conduct reconnaissance on German-controlled New Guinea. Alexander’s…
Peter Watts
When civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometres below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits…
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Two months after the Earth is taken over by an alien species, a space probe detects a faint signal from the edge of the solar system and attempts to make…
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Confronting, graphic and erotic, this is riveting novel of Australia’s brutal past from master storyteller Peter Watt. It is the tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffy’s, who…
It is a time of sudden wealth for a fortunate few who grub gold from the Palmer River in the harsh and unforgiving Queensland Outback. A land, where the fierce…
The official adaptation of Crysis 2 –P . 1 of cover.
On the eve of the 22nd century, under the watchful eye of an alien presence, mankind faces the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought.
Combining complex science with prose, these edgy tales explore the shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of…
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No-one is left untouched by the dreadful curse which haunts two families, inextricably linking them together in love, death and revenge. From the battlefields of Sudan to colonial Sydney and…
The price of war, the power of love and an inescapable feud: master storyteller Peter Watt brings his bestselling saga to a stunning conclusion.
The first instalment of a brand new series from Peter Watt, author of the beloved Duffy & Macintosh saga, a young colonial encounters love and war in foreign lands.
From Persia to India, The second instalment of a brand new series from Peter Watt author of the beloved Duffy and Macintosh saga.
Danger, passion and bravery in nineteenth-century Australia, Europe and onto the battlefi eld of Kandahar.
As the son of ‘the Colonial’, legendary Queen’s Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big…
It is 1885. After a decade spent fighting for Queen and Country across the globe, Colonel Ian Steele is enjoying the quiet life in the colony of New South Wales…
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In October 1863, Ian Steele, having taken on the identity of Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting the Pashtun on the north-west frontier in…
Denmark Street has been at the heart of the UK music industry for over a century. This book tells the story of the sheet music publishers, bands, recording studios, live…
After an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence no further contact has been made for twenty-five years. But all this is about to change. For a man hiding…
Peter Smith,Peter Watts Jones
This is the third edition of a popular UK textbook on stochastic processes. It has been updated with a new chapter on diffusion processes and Brownian motion, has extended material…
Private Patrick Duffy was left orphaned when his mother died in Changi prison. Now, returning to fight a fearless enemy, he must confront the ghosts of his past if he…
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When Major Patrick Duffy’s beautiful wife Catherine leaves him for another, he is propelled out of his Sydney Macintosh home and into yet another bloody war. However, the battlefields of…
August Strindberg
Contains three plays such as Miss Julie , The Father , and Easter that focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother…
‘They had all forgotten the curse… Except one… Until it touched them. I will tell you of those times when the whitefella touched the clouds and lightning came down on…
War. Betrayal. Divided love. It is 1916, and war rages across Europe and the Middle East. Patrick Duffy is fighting in the fields of France, his cousin Matthew in the…
It is 1918, a year when the War will end, but an even greater killer will arise.On the bloody fields of the Western Front and the battle - scarred desert…
Against the backdrop of impending war and the rise of the Nazi Party, the epic saga of the Macintosh and Duffy families continues. It’s 1936. While Europe is starting to…
In Sydney, siblings Donald and Sarah Macintosh battle for their father's approval, and control of his empire, while their cousin David fights the enemy across the continents.
US Marine Pilot…
As the Allied forces fight to repel invaders in the Pacific, the Duffy and Macintosh clans face their greatest challenges at home.
Sergeant Jessica Duffy relishes her work as a…
After fighting in two world wars, Tom Duffy's purchase of his ancestral property Glen View means a home for the next generation of Duffys. But the Macintosh family won't easily…
The story of two feuding families - the Mackintoshes, wealthy Scottish landowners, and the Duffys, poor Irish labourers, and their attempts to tame the wilds of Northern Australia.
Sometimes the fate to which you are destined is not your own…