Mercury Index-Relay · Catalogue
Top-level kind 30040 publication indexes on this relay. Multi-section books are listed first.
| Title | Author | Year | Summary | Sub-indexes | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under the orange grove | Eilis Dillon | 1968 | A conflict arises for an Italian boy and his family when ruins of a Roman villa are discovered beneath their orange grove. | 0 | 0 |
| The Filthy Beast (Apprentices #11) | Leon Garfield, Faith Jaques | 1978 | The story of Shag, the housepainter’s apprentice, and his tightrope-walking contest with Piper, the young dandy apprenticed in the silk trade, at Bartholomew’s… | 0 | 0 |
| North-west by south | Nancy Cato | 1980 | Based on the life of Sir John Franklin. | 0 | 0 |
| Women and ghosts | Alison Lurie | 1995 | The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story. In nine spooky tales,… | 0 | 0 |
| The House of Cards | Leon Garfield | 1983 | In 1847, an orphaned baby is rescued as the sole survivor of a massacre in a Polish village. Many years later a mysterious and disturbed Russian lady turns up u… | 0 | 0 |
| The empty sleeve | Leon Garfield | 1988 | Though he dreams of going to sea, fourteen-year-old Peter is not entirely displeased to be apprenticed to a locksmith, especially as it means getting away from… | 0 | 0 |
| Black flamingo | Victor Canning | 1973 | A pilot who has just lost his licence comes across another who is dying after a crash. He takes on the identity of the dead pilot, little knowing that he is wal… | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Finchley discovers his England | Victor Canning | 1935 | This is a whimsical episodic novel. Mr. Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor's clerk aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He books… | 0 | 0 |
| The Apprentices (Apprentices #1-12) | Leon Garfield | 1988 | *In the year 1764, a London newspaper reported the case of a Cheapside haberdasher’s apprentice who had embezzled ten thousand pounds of his master’s money. The… | 0 | 0 |
| Labour in Vain (Apprentices #6) | Leon Garfield | 1977 | A young bucklmaker's apprentice falls in love with a girl who is seen as below his station by his prideful mother. | 0 | 0 |
| The Tunnel | Eric Williams | 1985 | This book is a prequel to Eric Williams' *The Wooden Horse*. It describes his last mission, his being shot down, his capture, and his experience at his first pr… | 0 | 0 |
| Fountain inn | Victor Canning | 1939 | This is a mixture of simple love story and detective story. The social observation and love story elements are rather good. The crime and detection are totally… | 0 | 0 |
| The Wooden Horse | Eric Williams | 1983 | Eric Williams wrote this book as a novel, re-naming the main characters: he is Peter Howard; Michael Codner is John Clinton; and Oliver Philpot is Philip Rowe.… | 0 | 0 |
| The Cloak (Apprentices #4) | Leon Garfield | 1976 | This installment follows pawn-broker apprentices, and a gypsy woman and her baby, driven to poverty. (The word "gypsy" was used in the text, and that is why it'… | 0 | 0 |
| The Cardinal | Henry Morton Robinson | 1969 | The book tells a story that captured the nation's attention: a working-class American's rise to become a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The daily trials and t… | 0 | 0 |
| Polycarp's progress | Victor Canning | 1937 | Picaresque novel about a young man who is fired from his clerical job, tries bus driving, running a flying circus and a dog kennels and eventually edits a magaz… | 0 | 0 |
| Guilt and Gingerbread | Leon Garfield, Fritz Wegner | 1987 | Giorgio is a poor student in search of a fortune. All he has in the world are his good looks. So one day he sets off on his horse to try to win the hand of a ri… | 0 | 0 |
| Lonelyheart 4122 | Colin Watson | 1983 | From Maurice Prior's review in The Spectator, 17 March 1967: "A fine example of an oblique murder mystery is Lonely Heart 4122 by Colin Watson. In provincial Fl… | 0 | 0 |
| The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris (Harris and Bostock #1) | Leon Garfield | 1974 | An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the chi… | 0 | 0 |
| The new home of tribals | Christopher Lakra | 1999 | Social transformation of Oraon, Indic people, in urban setting in Ranchi; case study. | 0 | 0 |
| The Dumb Cake (Apprentices #9) | Leon Garfield | 1977 | This story tells of Parrot, a scientific young apothecary's assitant, and the superstitious customs of the Midsummer celebration. | 0 | 0 |
| Brighter English | C. E. Eckersley | — | I wonder if you can e-mail the contents of this book which we used to study during our schooldays | 0 | 0 |
| No footprints in the bush | Arthur William Upfield | 1944 | Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the outback to investigate the murder of two aborigines and is witness to the murder of a senior police officer, whose c… | 0 | 0 |
| National Seminar on Developmental Biology and Commercialization of Orchids and Orchid Show, Forest Hall, Deorali and White Hall, Gangtok, April, 12-13, 1997 | National Seminar on Developmental Biology and Commercialization of Orchids and Orchid Show (1997 Deorali and Gangtok, India) | 1997 | In the Indian context; abstracts of papers. | 0 | 0 |
| Moss and Blister (Apprentices #3) | Leon Garfield | 1976 | The story of Blister, the skinny foundling girl apprenticed to a midwife, who hurries to a birth in a London stable on Christmas eve. | 0 | 0 |
| The mountains have a secret | Arthur William Upfield | 1991 | In October two young girls set out for a walk in the Grampian Mountains of Australia. They are never seen again, and the policeman who is sent to investigate is… | 0 | 0 |
| The Lamplighter's Funeral (Apprentices #1) | Leon Garfield, Antony Maitland | 1976 | Each day the lamplighter tends his lamps, fills them with oil, trims the wicks, and lights them as twilight falls. Each night he walks the streets of London wit… | 0 | 0 |
| The Enemy (Apprentices #12) | Leon Garfield | 1978 | The story of Hobby, apprenticed to the figurine-maker, and his enemy Larkins – rivals in love for the piemaker’s daughter – amidst the chaos of the apprentices'… | 0 | 0 |
| The Prisoners of September | Leon Garfield | 1975 | Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to Paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the… | 0 | 0 |
| Children of the Albatross | Anaïs Nin | 1959 | Djuna est l'héroïne principale de ce roman. Vouée d'une double personnalité, elle rêve dès l'enfance de celui qui viendra rompre sa solitude mais elle ne semble… | 0 | 0 |
| Elementary algebra for schools | H.S Hall, S.r. Knight | 1962 | This is a good book on Algebra.The first few chapters are devoted to Ratio,Proportion,Variation and the Progression. | 0 | 0 |
| Jack Holborn | Leon Garfield | 2000 | Abandoned as a baby and brought up on parish charity, Jack Holborn longs to leave cold-hearted England. So he stows away on a ship bound for Africa, but discove… | 0 | 0 |
| The seven sisters | Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson | 1988 | A beautiful book which describes how the oil business came about and how it impacted the world | 0 | 0 |
| Devil-in-the-Fog | Leon Garfield | 1991 | A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style. A fast-moving, exciting read! 14-year-o… | 0 | 0 |
| I'm not complaining | Ruth Adam | 1984 | Squalor did not frighten me...But somewhere beneath it all was a live, burning thread that ran through these human miseries that was not just mismanagement, nor… | 0 | 0 |
| Repair guide, Chrysler Hunter (Sunbeam Arrow - USA) | Peter Russek | 1974 | Repair Guide known as "Glovebox Series" 7 3/4" by 4" Orange colored vinyl cover Folded wiring diagram in back cover | 0 | 0 |
| The Valentine (Apprentices #5) | Leon Garfield | 1977 | An undertaker's apprentice falls for the daughter of a rival undertaker. | 0 | 0 |
| The Manasco road | Victor Canning | 1968 | The book combines a David-and-Goliath thriller with a sensitive description of a marriage under strain. | 0 | 0 |
| The dead father | Donald Barthelme | 1977 | The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragg… | 0 | 0 |
| Tom Titmarsh's Devil (Apprentices #10) | Leon Garfield | 1977 | The story of Tom, apprenticed to the bookseller, and Miss Sparrow, the printer’s devil who leads him into temptation with a book of dangerous wisdom. | 0 | 0 |
| The Ghost Downstairs | Leon Garfield | 1975 | A bargain of a lifetime -- selling seven years off the end of his life in exchange for a fortune now! By day, Mr Fast was a solicitor's clerk, drawing up strang… | 0 | 0 |
| The Macmillan book of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures | Mary Elting | 1984 | Traces the history and development of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animalsand discusses how scientists have pieced together information about these animals b… | 0 | 0 |
| The Shakespeare murders | A. G. Macdonell | 2013 | When gentleman-adventurer Peter Kerrigan retrieves a stolen wallet from a pick- pocket, he discovers a small note inside that sparks his curiosity. "Dear Harry,… | 0 | 0 |
| A Place for the Wicked | Elleston Trevor | 1972 | [5], 280 p. 21 cm | 0 | 0 |
| Children's Britannica | Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc | 1978 | Presents alphabetically-arranged articles in twenty volumes covering a wide range of human knowledge. | 0 | 0 |
| Oner's repair manual Toyota Carina Mk.II | Peter Russek | 1992 | Oner's repair manual | 0 | 0 |
| Kalu and the Wild Boar | Arthur Catherall | 1973 | A thirteen-year-old boy of India tangles courageously with a tiger and a wild boar to save his father's crops | 0 | 0 |
| The memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelin | Glückel von Hameln | 1932 | Glukel bas Judah Leib (1646-1724) recorded her thoughts and her life as a widow running her own business to support her large family. Her memoirs provide a deta… | 0 | 0 |
| Divine death | Bibudharañjana., Bibudharañjana | 2008 | On Navakalevara, new wooden images, of Jagannātha, Hindu deity and the trinity and the religious ethos of Purī associated with it; articles. | 0 | 0 |
| A Zebra Came to Drink | Arthur Catherall | 1967 | EXCELLENT living story book. The story of the perilous life of a zebra foal's first week of life. Very realistic and gripping. | 0 | 0 |
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