Café Puccini
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Café Puccini
Café Puccini
You’ll fall in love with every single character — Hayley Mills
What happens when a quirky Australian town faces the imminent arrival of a huge fiery comet? Do the residents embrace all possibilities or run like hell?
WARNING, WARNING, WARNING
Cactus Bob, a grizzled pensioner in a red beanie, thought surviving a death-roll by a monster saltwater crocodile was tough. But now he faces an even more devastating challenge: strange messages are arriving via his clapped-out black-and-white TV, warning of a fiery comet hurtling toward his tiny cottage on the outskirts of Wellsprings.
Café Puccini, the social hub of the colourful community, is abuzz. Is the comet real or just another zany publicity stunt dreamt up by Ah Sow, the town’s crafty trader? Will Angelo, the café owner, reunite with the wife he had somehow 'misplaced' thirteen years earlier? How did a lucky Zulu millionaire and his mysteriously 'top-secret' Norwegian wife become tied to all the comet chaos, and why is a crusty old Scottish boat-builder crafting a unique monument to the stars?
As the comet draws closer, secrets unravel, alliances form, and tensions rise. Join Wellsprings’ oddball residents as they navigate love, cosmic calamities, and outrageous adventures.
Prepare for a wild ride filled with colourful characters, unexpected twists, and a mystery that will keep you guessing in this outlandish tale of resilience, eccentricity, and the sheer magic of the bush.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781923144798
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 December 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Big Sky Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 3886.0mm
Height: 5842.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Tony Matthews is a Welsh-Australian author and historian who has dedicated almost his entire adult life to writing and researching Australian and world history. He also writes extensively on military and espionage history with a specific emphasis on both world wars. He is the author of almost forty books, including several novels. While still at school, Tony became distressed for a considerable period when he first learned about the Holocaust. He subsequently discovered that his father, Emrys Matthews, had been one of the British troops who had liberated the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945, where thousands of starving survivors, many of them riddled with typhus, were being held after the death-marches from other camps such as Auschwitz. When Tony later discovered that significant Jewish migration from Germany and Austria could have taken place successfully in 1938 and 1939, therefore, mitigating the Holocaust to a considerable degree, he became determined to write a book clearly describing the failure of the international community to prevent, or alleviate, the Nazi genocide.
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