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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Whirlwind by James Clavell

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  James Clavell brings his usual epic, entertaining style to a story of the Iranian revolution. A team of pilots is caught up in the violence and confusion of the moment, caught between their loyalties to Iran and their duty. A 1000-page novel covering danger, romance and international political intrigue.

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  King Rat by James Clavell

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  Based on James Clavell's own experiences, this is the story of a group of inmates incarcerated in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. More than just a powerful, emotional story, Clavell's novel is also a study of human nature: how the harshest of circumstances will turn some men into heroes and others into monsters.

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  Tai-Pan by James Clavell

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  Commentators believed that Hong Kong would never become an important trading post, they reckoned without the determination, greed and power of opium smugglers, pirates and tai-pans. Dirk Struan, hero of James Clavell's thrilling novel, is just such a man, in the 1840s he is controller of the most powerful trading company in the Far East; a fast-paced, epic adventure of a novel.

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  Noble House by James Clavell

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  A thrilling story about kidnap, murder, espionage and sex set against the business world of 1960s Hong Kong.

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  Shogun by James Clavell

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  An epic, swash-buckling novel that tells the story of giant Elizabethan, Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, who is ship-wrecked on the Japanese shores in the 17th century. A hero to rival Sharpe and Hornblower, Blackthorne turns his fortunes from reviled foreigner to respected samurai.