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Peter Allison Biography & Facts
Peter Allison is an Australian writer whose books have focused on his time as an African safari guide, as well as his time in South America. He currently lives in the United Kingdom with his wife Pru, and their two children. He works for Natural Selection as a salesman and safari guide for private groups. Peter hosts a less than serious podcast about animals and conservation called Deep In The Bush, a production of the Be The Uproar network. Allison grew up in Sydney but at the age of 16 won a scholarship for study in Japan. At 19 he travelled to Africa and became a guide for Idube Game Reserve and then Wilderness Safaris. His books have been compared to campfire tales relating stories of silly antics or perilous situations. Whatever You Do, Don't Run achieved best seller status. Bibliography Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Lyons Press (Guilford, CT), 2008 Don't Look behind You: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos, Lyons Press (Guilford, CT), 2009 Chasing the Jaguar forthcoming from Globe Pequot (North America) and Allen & Unwin (Australia/NZ) How To Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America, Lyons Press (Guilford, CT), 2012 References. Discover the Peter Allison popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Peter Allison books.
Best Seller Peter Allison Books of 2024
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Swim Speed Secrets for Swimmers and Triathletes
Sheila TaorminaIn Swim Speed Secrets, 4time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina reveals the swim technique used by the world’s fastest swimmers. Over the course ...
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Death on the Canal
Anja de Jager'. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday TimesWhere do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your collea...
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The Search for Anne Perry
Joanne DraytonA New York Times Best Seller!In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls ...
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Silenced
Anne RandallHe buried his victim alive. And now he's escaped from prison and is on the run in the city.Fiona Henderson, the daughter of the victim, has descended into a world of silence follow...
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Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper JonesFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or AutobiographyA New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time,...
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The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Arthur Conan DoyleThere is no braver officer in Napoleon’s cavalry than étienne Gerard – especially in his own opinion. Whether kidnapped by gangs of brigands or outnumbered by enemy troops, the plu...
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Star Bright
Alison McGheeThis perfectly angelicand perfectly charmingChristmas story offers a creative twist on the classic tale of the nativity, from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of Someday....
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Cemetery Lake
Paul CleaveA heartthumping, noholdsbarred murdermystery that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Some secrets won't stay buried . . . A standard exhumation becomes anything but f...
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Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes
Sheila TaorminaIn her bestselling book Swim Speed Secrets, 4time Olympian and gold medalist Sheila Taormina revealed the freestyle swimming technique used by the world's fastest swimmers. Now in...
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The Story of the Amulet
Edith NesbitAt the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. T...
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Deceived
Anne RandallSecrets.What secrets are hidden at the heart of family life?Deceit.The lies we tell ourselves are often more dangerous than the truth.When fortyoneyearold Sarah Price is reported m...
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Death at the Orange Locks
Anja de Jager'A novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday Times Keeping it in the family...After her painful divorce four years ago,...
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The Penguin Social History of Britain
Roy PorterA portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals...
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Torn
Anne RandallA fastpaced, gripping thriller with a shocking twist.2004The court case had been harrowing. The fifteen jurors sat in silence while the prosecution produced evidence of how a man w...
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Riven
Anne RandallA gripping debut psychological novel you won't want to put down.'Assured and clever' The SunFirst he kills.A psychologist is found brutally murdered, an addict jumps to his death a...
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The Hollow Crown
Miri RubinThere is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and He...
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Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11
Maxim JakubowskiThis superb annual anthology of the year’s most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in une...
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James II
David WomersleyThe short, actionpacked reign of James II (168588) is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history. James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserve...
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Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
Paul DohertyThe story of a queen known as 'the shewolf' and a fresh view of an infamous murder...In a colourful nonfiction narrative, which provides an evocative setting for a scramble for wea...
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A Cold Case in Amsterdam Central
Anja de JagerHaving been shot in the shoulder in the line of duty, Dutch police detective Lotte Meerman returns to work after four months of painful recovery yet not all her colleagues are hap...
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I Never Knew That About Royal Britain
Christopher WinnWith the royal wedding around the corner, there no better time than the present to get acquainted with Royal BritainBestselling author Christopher Winn explores Britain's royal pa...
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Possible Minds
John BrockmanScience world luminary John Brockman assembles twentyfive of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of ...
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The Death of a King
Paul DohertyThe fate of a king is not always glorious...The dramatic events of Edward II's death are told with masterful skill by acclaimed writer, Paul Doherty, in The Death of a King. Perfec...
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The Safeguard of the Sea
N A M RodgerThroughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social...
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Love Without End
Melvyn BraggThe Timeless Romance of Heloise and Abelard Is Given New Life in this Poignant Novel by an AwardWinning Author, for Fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick The tale He...
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Viking Age Iceland
Jesse ByockMedieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its ...
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A Cold Death in Amsterdam
Anja de JagerThe first Lotte Meerman mystery Amsterdambased Lotte Meerman is a cold case detective recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. She is angry and ment...
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The First Bohemians
Vic GatrellThe colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden the creative heart of Georgian London from Wolfson Prizewinning author Vic GatrellSHORTLISTED FOR THE ...
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The New Corporate Facts of Life
Diana RivenburghThe obstacles facing all companies today were relatively nonexistent not too long agoincreasingly rapid and disruptive innovation, economic instability as we’ve never experienced b...
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Deadly Anniversaries
Marcia Muller & Bill PronziniA Best Book of 2020 from Suspense Magazine Deadly Anniversaries celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America with a collection of stories from some of the top ...
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Blood and Silk
Michael VatikiotisWhy are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do de...
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A Death in Rembrandt Square
Anja de JagerGuilty until proven innocent . . .It's hard for anyone to have their work scrutinised in public. For Amsterdambased detective Lotte Meerman, listening to the Right to Justice podc...
