- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Pete's Loved Books, Luddenham, NSW, AustraliaPete's Loved Books
AbeBooks seller since September 18, 2024
Condition: Used - Good
£ 9.51
Quantity: 1 available
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Milsons Point,WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE ON POSTAGE.MID SIZE SOFT COVER .I NSW: Random House Australia, 2006 Used In London in 1865 Lydia Frankland finds a love letter written twenty years earlier by her late stepmother, Jane, to a natural historian at Port Arthur, Louis In the letter Jane confesses she is in love with Louis Lydia is horrified at her stepmother's apparent infidelity, and begins to read Jane's diaries In them she finds more details about the time the family spent in Van Diemen's Land all those years ago, when Lydia's father, Sir John, was governor there She reads an account of a macabre murder involving two convict boys; of horrible experiments conducted on prisoners held on the island; and of Jane's obsession with Darwin's theories of evolution Lydia realises there are secrets in her family's past, and she sails to Van Diemen's Land - now Tasmania - to unravel these mysteries There she finds out more about her stepmother's friendship with Lempri're, and is forced to confront the fact that her father, whom she had believed a hero, upheld a sadistic regime in the penal colony She is also transported back to a world where Charles Darwin's theories were emerging and threatening to take over long-held religious beliefs In this historical novel, Simpson intertwines real historical events and figures with her own Fictions, to 'map the silences' that traditional history leaves untouched She masterfully weaves the reality of the darkness of Van Diemen's Land with brilliantly realised imaginings of the past on this remote island at the end of the earth.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Curer of Souls
- Author
- Lindsay Simpson
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- www.peteslovedbooks.com
Pete's Loved Books
Luddenham, NSW, Australia
AbeBooks seller since September 18, 2024
Shipping rates from Australia to U.S.A.
| Item | 10 to 20 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 26.16 | £ 32.15 |
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Store description
At Pete's Loved Books, we provide a broad range of books both hardcover and paperbacks across all genres and most in excellent condition. We have a selection of vintage books and an array of programmes from the 1960 & 1970's not to mention hundreds of movie, actor and movie studio books........our commitment to you is efficent service. We will provide actual book pictures and a synopsis if requested. We are happy to assist you in finding the right item at the right price to fit your budget and needs. Contact us anytime…
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Mystery, Thrillers, Movie, Actors both Fact and Fiction. A variety across most genresSeller's business information
Pete's Loved Books
NSW, Australia
USED BOOKS
FACT OR FICTION - MOST GENRES - HARD OR SOFT COVER
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Terms of sale
At Pete's Loved Books, we provide a broad range of books. We offer both hardcover and paperbacks across all genres and all in excellent condition.....our commitment to you is personal service. We will provide actual book pictures and a synopsis if requested. We are happy to assist you in finding the right item at the right price to fit your budget and needs. Contact us for all of your reading needs!
Apart from thousands of fiction paperbacks we have hundreds of movie, actor and studio related books and do not add any margin for postage or any handling fees. We are always happy to combine books where possible to reduce postatage and will consider any reasonable offer
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Pete's Loved Books, Luddenham, New South Wales, Australia, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
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