Most Popular Books by James Aldridge

The sea was a Mediterranean emerald, and all around us the heavy stillness of the summer''s hot day was always there, as if everything about us in that beautiful bay would remain as it was forever. And there too, in front of me the creature from the sea, so perfect that I didn''t want anything in my life ever to change. Beau, crippled and almost blinded by a terrible accident, is sent to recover in the South of France. Here, it is hoped, the clear blue sea and the influence of his indomitable Aunt Mimi will heal his damaged body and revive his spirit. When Lelee, the wild daughter of a Provencal smuggler, bursts from the sea, it becomes a summer of diving, glorious food, hidden treasure, smuggling and Jacques Cousteau. The summer of the girl from the sea. James Aldridge is a master storyteller and winner of many literary awards. In The Girl from the Sea he brings us a perfect jewel of a book for readers young and old.

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

"The early, crisis-ridden days of President Gamal Nasser''s Egyptian Republic are the background for this fascinating, fast-moving novel of modern political intrigue. The time is just before the terrible Suez Canal fiasco in which Israeli-French-British forces nearly regain Egypt, breaking the back of the new nation''s military power in their ferocious attacks. Against this violent and volatile setting, the author creates a web of dozens of characters whose lives touch upon, or directly affect, each other''s. Col. Peacock, a popular M.P., has come back to Egypt because of the threatened international "incident". There he encounters Capt. Scott, a brave English officer once court martialled, who now works for Nasser. Both men become involved in an attempt to gain the release of Sam Hassoon, a half Jew, who has been arrested without reason as a plotter against Nasser. Quartermain, a journalist, watches the intrigues and plots against Nasser''s life while reporting for foreign publications. Interjected in a story line which moves swiftly toward the Canal crisis are fascinating flashbacks to the revolt against Farouk, the 1942 war against the Afrikakorps, and the old colonial Cairo days. The book ends, violently, with vivid descriptions of the Allied attacks, arrests, and the death of Col. Peacock by sniper fire. Although the narrative, even journalistic, style of the book leaves little room for deep character study, its people are alive, believable, and will draw sympathy and interest from a large audience. Dramatic history of recent times is made into very worthwhile fiction."--Kirkus

Romance of an Australian Romeo and Juliet is blighted by their stiff-necked fathers.

Mongolia - horses - fiction.

When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen fear for his future. Fyfe MacPhee is a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit has to fend for himself along the riverbank where they live. While some people feel that Spit can look after himself, others believe he would be better cared for in a boys home - and when old Fyfe dies after one of his ''turns'' a fierce battle to decide Spit''s destiny begins. Featuring a new introduction from Phillip Gwynne in this Text Classics edition, The True Story of Spit MacPhee is a much-loved, quintessentially Australian novel for readers of all ages. James Aldridge is a multi-award winning Australian author and journalist. Aldridge was born in Bendigo and his family moved to Swan Hill in the mid-1920s. His novels based on the real living conditions of Swan Hill include his 1985 Children''s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year The True Story of Lilli Stubeck and the Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize-winning The True Story of Spit MacPhee. James Aldridge now lives in London.

Story of the R.A.F. in Greece and Lybia and of the love of a Greek officer and his English wife.

When Lilli Stubeck, a gypsy girl, is sold to Miss Dagleish, a wealthy spinster, she resists the woman''s efforts to tame her.

Kitty St Clair adores her nomadic life, travelling from town to town with her parents and their aerobatic circus. A youthful copy of her spirited mother, Kitty is on the way to becoming an accomplished pilot when tragedy brings an end to her golden existence . . . Will she ever know again where she is going and who is going with her? Who can help her turn once more to the skies? And how?

Summary: Ignorance & bigotry in a small Australian town during the Depression lead to tragedy for a boy whose strange ways are rejected by the townspeople.

Baryut, un jeune Mongol, a découvert un étalon sauvage, d''une espèce très rare, qu''on va lui arracher pour le transporter dans une réserve en Angleterre. À l''arrivée, c''est Peep, la jument de Kittyn une petite Anglaise, qui sera chargée d''apprivoiser le sauvage Tachi. Les deux chevaux et les deux enfants vont alors vivre en parallèle la plus fantastique, la plus émouvante des aventures.

A young Mongolian wild mountain stallion goes to Wales to mate with a gentle Shetland pony. The two embark on an incredible journey.

Paperback edition of a novel, first published in 1992, in the ''St Helen'' series for 12 to 16 year olds. The award-winning author has written over 20 novels, including the related titles, ''The True Story of Lilli Stubeck'', which won the Children''s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers in 1985, and ''The True Story of Spit MacPhee'', winner of the New South Wales State Literary Awards Children''s Book Award in 1986.

Roman - enfant - adoption - grands-parents - affectivité.