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Western Europe, Europe, ;
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8 y separately published work icon The Summer of the Spanish Woman Catherine Gaskin , ( trans. Susanne Lepsius with title Das Erbe der Marquesa : Roman ) Zurich : Neue Schweizer Bibliothek , 1981 Z1118641 1977 single work novel
9 y separately published work icon A Falcon for a Queen Catherine Gaskin , ( trans. Susanne Lepsius with title Ein Falke für die Königin : Roman ) Zurich : Neue Schweizer Bibliothek , 1976 Z1104418 1972 single work novel mystery Kirsty Howard returns to Scotland after the death of her parents. Living with her grandfather, she soon becomes involved with her new neighbours, and begins to perceive the real threat to the life she might easily inherit. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
25 15 y separately published work icon A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute , ( trans. Rudolf Frank with title Eine Stadt wie Alice ) Zurich : Neue Schweizer Bibliothek , 1962 Z564787 1950 single work novel

'Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

'Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.' (Publication summary)
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