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Lesley Pearse (Author)

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Lesley Pearse was told as a child that she had too much imagination for her own good. When she grew up she worked her way through a number of jobs, including nanny, bunny girl, dressmaker and full-time mother before, at the age of forty-nine, settling upon a career that would allow her gifts to blossom: she became a published writer. Lesley now lives just outside Bristol. She has three daughters and two grandchildren.

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Book Cover: Belle
Belle
By Lesley Pearse
Belle is a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.
Belle is a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.
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Published: 27/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950364
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: Belle
Belle
By Lesley Pearse
Belle is a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.
Belle is a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.
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Published: 31/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718157036
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: Faith
Faith
By Lesley Pearse
1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder.

For two years she's been battling for justice – insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ...

Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd escaped an abusive home...

1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder.

For two years she's been battling for justice – insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with...

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Published: 07/04/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141030487
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: Gypsy
Gypsy
By Lesley Pearse

Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home . . .

Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned.   Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives.



Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home . . .

Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned.   Sam...

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Published: 05/06/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141040660
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: Secrets
Secrets
By Lesley Pearse
Twelve-year-old Adele Talbot's unhappy mother Rose succumbs to madness after a family tragedy and Adele is placed in a bleak children's home. But when her trust is betrayed she runs away – hoping to find her grandmother in Sussex.

By the time she does so, Adele is desperately ill and has to be nursed back to health among the beautiful Rye Marshes. And then she meets the wonderful Michael Bailey...

Twelve-year-old Adele Talbot's unhappy mother Rose succumbs to madness after a family tragedy and Adele is placed in a bleak children's home. But when her trust is betrayed she runs away – hoping...
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Published: 01/06/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141016962
RRP: $19.95
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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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