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How did Max Krilich get to meet the Killer Rabbit? Why was Andy Gregory glad to get the hell out of Australia? Who was the Man in the Bowler Hat? How did Ronny Gibbs get on Sale of the Century? What was Johnny Raper doing in ladies underwear...and what was the miracle at Lang Park? How did Fatty Vautin save Steve Mortimer's life? What did Freddie Jones say that shocked the PM? And what was Allan Langer doing in the USA with all those big oily men??? The answers to these and many more questions are all here in the most hilarious collection of sporting stories ever assembled in Australia. Cartoons by Scott Rigney. -
A compendium of comic pieces that take a light-hearted look at life, from cross the globe and across the decades. In this volume: Special Delivery, Richard Gordon; The O'Conors Of Castle O'Conor, Anthony Trollope; When In Rome, Peter Ustinov; Butch Minds The Baby, Damon Runyan; A Linguistic Experiment, Jerome K. Jerome; The Whore Of Mensa, Woody Allen; Introduction To Cold Comfort, Stella Gibbons; How I Killed A Bear, Charles Dudley Warner; A Day In The Life Of A Milligan, Spike Milligan; Adventures Of A Y.M.C.A. Lad, H.L. Mencken; The House Of Fahy, E.Œ Somerville and Martin Ross; 'Not A Porthouse Man', Tom Sharpe; Getting A Glass Of Water, Frederick W. Cozzens; The Wrong Boot, Evelyn Waugh; The Adventures Of A Christmas Turkey, Mark Lemon; The Stalled Ox, Saki; Darrowby Show, James Herriot; The Phantom Elopement, Charles Dickens; The Waltz, Dorothy Parker; A Visit To Grandpa's, Dylan Thomas; The Hand That Riles The World, O. Henry; Without The Option, P.G. Wodehouse; Top Of The League, A.G. Macdonell; The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society Of Mrs Rasselyerbrown, Stephen Leacock; Body And Soul, Alan Coren; The Brief Engagement Of Lupin Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith; 'Absolutely Ghastly!' H.E. Bates; Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog; Kurt Vonnegut Jr; The Idol's Eye, S.J. Perelman; The Morning After, Kingsley Amis; A Visit To Niagra, Mark Twain; The Fiancé, Nancy Mitford; The Night The Bed Fell, James Thurber; An Italian's View Of A New England Winter, James M. Bailey. Cover art by Alistair Graham. -
Having exorcised the late Mr Stebbings, the awful wallpaper, the hideous leadlight window, the holly hedge and other acts of vandalism committed by the previous owners - Nichols sets about restoring the Georgian manor Merry Hall the gardens to their former glory while braving the wrath of village locals who regard the inappropriate building additions as a monument to the late Mr Stebbings' 'good taste.' As always, Beverley is accompanied by his beloved pet cats who, of course, have their say on all improvements. Illustrated by William McLaren. -
Here the greats of English seafaring - and probably a little pirating on the side - come to life through their letters. This volume includes letters from Drake to Queen Elizabeth; Hawkyns; Walsingham; Admiral Vernon; Nelson; Lord Howe;Captain Hardy and so many more. This is live history, as it happened. -
Two short stories: Little Brown House: The senator's wife - a life of receptions, dinners, social occasions and connections - can feel herself ever more distanced from her successful husband with every passing day. When she sees a little brown house for sale, she impulsively and secretly buys it and gives it to Annie, a homeless lady, who transforms it into a home of laughter, good food and a haven for mothers and children. Her kind act reveals a secret - about the senator. The Youngest Officer: Bruce, or 'Duny' as he likes to call himself, is only a little boy when his young mother dies. His father, a regimental officer, is heartbroken and the regimental wives take little Duny to their hearts. But when the regiment is shipped out, Duny must go and live with Great Aunt Lydia - a very different life. But he always remembers that his duty is to the regiment - and his endearing loyalty reveals a dark family secret. -
Faith, a young orphan girl is adopted by a Christian couple, but her adoptive mother dies and her father's mother moves in to take care of the family. Grandmother is lazy, drunk and violent, insisting that her son be rid of Faith, resenting her as an outsider and an intruder. Faith runs away, determined to find work as a servant girl...and she begins to find friends and help where she least expects it. Also published as The CHild Of The Toy Stall. -
Belle Poitrine, (French for 'pretty bosom') born Mayble Sclumpfert, presents her hilarious, scandalous 'memoirs' of her life as star of the screen, theatre and television, here documented meticulously by Patrick Dennis. All the world's a stage, and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot. Includes plenty of photos of 'Belle's' life and antics. -
The second book in the Little Women series - in an edition published under the original name. Meg marries her John Brooke, despite dire threats of disinheritance from Aunt March; Jo tries her wings, hopping from the family nest to New York to see if she really has the talent to write; Amy is invited to tour Europe with Aunt March and Beth is slowly recuperating from scarlet fever. New experiences come to the girls: Meg is tempted beyond her proud husband's means, and must learn some valuable life lessons; Jo escapes Laurie's courtship, falls into the trap of writing sensation stories, knowing that her family would not approve and meets the best friend she will ever have; Amy gets some bewildering lessons in love and Beth has a secret - and not even her family know what that secret is. -
First publication for 1954. Stories in this volume: The House Down The Lane, Joan Pepper (Joan Alexander); Conscience, Burgess Drake (author of Chinese White and Hush-A-Bye Baby) The Case Of The China Dogs, Guthram Walsh; Susan And The Elder, Jeffrey Jones; Murder In High Places, Alister Kershaw (Murder In France; Village to Village; Hey Days); Suffer A Witch, Peter Shaffer (Sir Peter Shaffer, Equus); The Water Beast, E.G. Ashton; Escape to Fear, Claire Pollexfen (Plunderer's Harvest, Call of the Horizon) Cardillo's Shadow, Sydney J. Bounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney James Bounds ; The Artist, Jonathan Scribe; The Cave, F. McDermott; The Green Tiger, Rett Sinclair; The Tancarrow Treasure, George Milner (real name 3rd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst). There is also a section of reviews on new detective/crime fiction, including one for Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. -
A cult classic, based on an actual murder case. Theresa Dunn, a convent-educated school teacher with a respectable family and a decent fiance haunts the singles bars of New York. She arrives alone, but picks up a take-home man against the long, dark, lonely night. seeking to fill the emptiness within, and always failing. Then she begins to call in sick at school. spending her days with her pick-ups. As Theresa's life starts to spin out of control she meets the wrong man on the wrong night at the wrong bar....A cult classic, based on an actual murder case. -
Mount Lidgbird and Ball's Pyramid commemorate the discovery of Lord Howe Island in 1788 by Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, commander of the Supply, when Lieutenant King sailed in it to establish a settlement in Norfolk Island. Between that time and 1834 only whalers and an occasional schooner, visited this Pacific paradise, which had evidently never been inhabited. In 1834 three former sailors, with their Maori wives, settled at the head of Hunter Bay. They all left in 1841, but others succeeded and the commencement of the palm-seed industry by Captain Armstrong in 1878 brought commercial property to the island. Originally printed in 1940, a fascinating history of Lord Howe Island - its discovery and early associations and illustrated with wonderful old black and white photographs, covering the years 1788 - 1888. -
Adrienne was the beautiful beloved bride of Vincent, Lord Satan, eager to begin her new life as mistress of Castle Caudill. From the moment she enters Castle Caudill, Adrienne is drawn into a world of demonic terror. Does she participate in satanic rituals and black masses or are they only horrifying dreams? Is her husband a devil with great powers at his command? And why does the ghost of Lord Satan's mother mournfully roam the halls of the castle? Desperately Adrienne sought the fearful truth, through shadows that concealed nightmarish terrors, in a world that cloaked dark unseen forces she was powerless to control...Cover art by Enrich Torres-Prat. Roberts, daughter of an Ohio missionary, was a hardworking librarian by day, devil-romancer...most likely also by day. Somewhat maligned by later romance historians for her undeniably violent sex scenes, Roberts was something of a pioneer in her context and milieu in bringing a hefty amount of explicitly disreputable sexuality to the gothic genre of the 1970s. The Louisa Bronte heroine would follow her libido to hell and beyond and the consequences be damned! -
Mad Max is a survivor - and now he takes on Bartertown, built by Aunty Entity but now being run and blackmailed by the ferocious MasterBlaster. Here is the story and loads of fabulous photos of all the characters from the classic third and original Road Warrior series: Max, Dr. Dealgood, Aunty Entity, MasterBlaster, Iron bar Massie and the Lost Tribe. A very good piece of film memorabilia. -
The most magical nanny in the history of reading is up to more adventures and taking everyone along for the ride. And she's reappeared just in time. According to her tape measure, Jane and Michael have grown "Worse and Worse" since she went away. But the children won't have time to be naughty with all that Mary has planned for them. A visit to Mr. Twigley’s music box-filled attic, an encounter with the Marble Boy and a ride on Miss Calico’s enchanted candy canes are all part of an average day out with everyone's favorite nanny. Illustrations by Mary Shepard. -
The Seagrave family are returning to New South Wales on board the Pacific when a storm strikes, wrecking the ship. The crew escape in a lifeboat, abandoning the passengers to their fate. The Seagrave family, together with their young black female servant Juno, and the veteran sailor Masterman Ready, are shipwrecked on a desert island. The family learn to survive many obstacles, helped by Ready's long experience of life as a seaman and they keep faith that they will be rescued. One of the first historical adventures for younger readers, Marryat - a sailor of long experience - was annoyed that Wyss had portrayed being shipwrecked as a romantic adventure in his 1812 book The Swiss Family Robinson and he also disapproved of the ignorance regarding flora and fauna displayed by Wyss. -
'Henry Handel Richardson’s' debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world - among them Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with a 'highly unsuitable' Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer. The novel was deemed too controversial to be published as Richardson intended, and she was forced to cut twenty thousand words from the original manuscript and tone down its language.
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Over a hundred enigmas to solve, as well as logic puzzles, magic squares, brain teasers, riddles and more all with a medieval theme to wake up and perk up the grey matter. Can you foil the cunning traps in these tricky games? There's no sturdy steed or magic sword to help - alas! - but a cunning mind and a little reflection will conquer the dragons and dodge the poison vials. -
Jean Nicol, before she was twenty, worked as a journalist at the Daily Mirror, answering - as she put it - the cries of the lovelorn as agony aunt 'Dorothy Dix'. In 1939 she began work as a junior press officer at the Savoy Hotel and when war broke out, the senior staff departed and she unexpectedly found herself in charge. Her office began to take on a unique importance as it gradually became a meeting place for celebrities and American press representatives. She was so successful that after helping Daniel Sangster, film publicist for director David O. Selznick, with media releases, he made her an offer; leave the Savoy and take over the European office of the David Selznick Organisation. She declined - and she also received a rise in salary from Miles Thornwill, Chairman of the Savoy. She met royalty, politicians, world leaders and many famous actors and actresses, including Danny Kaye, James Mason, Charlie Chaplin and Gertrude Lawrence. She first met Derek Tangye in 1941 when he asked her to stock his book, Time Was Mine in the hotel book stall. They became engaged in the winter of 1942 and married in February 1943. In 1949, they moved to Cornwall where they lived on a small holding with a variety of pets, growing daffodils and potatoes until Jean's death in 1986. Drawing on her experience as an agony aunt and her shrewd observations, this book is about the workings of the Savoy, its rich and famous guests and a wonderful view of social life in London over the war years and afterwards. This book was so popular that it was reprinted 18 times between 1952 and 1972. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
This edition, 1866 (!) is a volume that contains 'views of the characters of the world's greatest men...and to present these views in the best words of the best authors.' One can only imagine how differently some of the greats herein may be viewed today, over a century later; would Lorenzo de Medici, for instance, be remembered as a patron of the arts or as a member of a family of notorious poisoners? In this compendium: Kings and Conquerors: Alexander the Great, Grote; Julius Caesar, de Quincey; Mahomet, Gibbon; Charlemagne, Hallam; Alfred, Hume; William the Conqueror, Lyttleton; Wallace and Robert Bruce, Tytler; Peter the Great and Charles XII, Voltaire; Charles V, Robertson; Henry VIII, Froude; Oliver Cromwell, Carlyle; Lord Clive, Macauley; Washington and Napoleon Buonaparte, Brougham; Nelson, Alison and Lamartine; Sir John Moore, Napier; Wellington, Hugh Miller. Statesmen and Orators: Cicero, Professor Spaulding; Lorenzo de Medici, Hallam; Machiavelli, Sismondi; Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More and Sir Walter Raleigh, Tytler; Thomas Cromwell, Froude; Hampden, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Warren Hastings and William Pitt, Macauley; Viscount Falkland, Clarendon; Burke and Charles Fox, Alison; Talleyrand, Brougham; Mirabeau and Robespierre, George Gilfillan; Palmerston, Blackwood. Philosophers And Men Of Science: Socrates, Grote; Plato, Brucker; Aristotle, Blucher; Copernicus and Kepler, Olmstead; Lord Bacon and Byron, Macauley; Galileo, Sir David Brewster; Descartes and Locke, Hallam; Sir Isaac Newtown, Voltaire; Leibnitz and Berkeley, Dugald Stewart; Benjamin Franklin and James Watt, Jeffrey; La Place, Playfair. Poets and Dramatists: Homer, Pope; Virgil and Petrarch, Professor Spaulding; Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Lope de Vega and Alfieri, Sismondi; Chaucer, Spenser and Thomas Moore, Hazlitt; Shakespeare, Dryden-Blair; Ben Jonson, Dryden; Calderon, Augustus W. Schlegel; Cornielle, Moliére and Racine, Hallam; Milton, Congreve and Thomson, Johnson; Pope, Wordsworth and Shelley, de Quincey; Cowper, Jeffrey; Chatterton, Thomas Campbell; Burns, Carlyle; Coleridge, Foster. Historians, Novelists and Essayists: Boccaccio and Cervantes, Sismondi; Rabelais and Voltaire, Hazlitt; Montaigne and Pascal, Hallam; Swift, Jeffery; Addison, Johnson; Samuel Johnson, Sir J. Mackintosh; David Hume, Professor Nichol; Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, John Paul Miller and Sir Walter Scott, Carlyle; Goldsmith, Johnstone; Gibbon, Prescott; DeFoe, Hugh Miller; Macaulay, George Gilfillan; Thackery, Hannay. -
Take a trip down memory lane, it's rolled-sleeve white jackets and mullets to the max. James 'Sonny' Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs are a pair of deep undercover detectives in the Miami drug world. With lifestyles to match their cover stories - Sonny lives on a sailboat with his pet crocodile Elvis and Richardo totes a sawn off shotgun - the two take on the Florida underworld to try and find the killers of Ricardo's brother. The series featured many famous guest stars. This volume features the pilot episode. -
Features four stories: Death In Texas, Brett Halliday; Four Knights, Gerry Maddren; Deadly Queen, Brett Halliday; Motorcycle, William Babula. Federal Publishing Company Pty Limited, Waterloo, undated, but probably circa 1982. -
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive her husband's desertion in post-Depression America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous, selfish daughter... Made into a classic film noir starring Joan Crawford in 1945 and revisited as a miniseries in 2011 starring Kate Winslet. -
Since everything old is new again, you can liven up your next 'do' with novel party games from the fabulous Fifties. Includes pencil and paper games, word games, team games, treasure hunts and mimes. Good clean fun all round. -
A narration of the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of Ana, the scribe: This is the story of certain of the days that I, the scribe Ana, son of Meri, lived through, here upon this earth...I tell of Merapi - who was named Moon of Israel! - and of her people, the Hebrews, who dwelt for long in Egypt and departed thence - having paid us back in loss and shame for all the good and ill we gave them. And now I - the King's Companion, the great scribe, the beloved of the Pharaohs who have lived beneath the sun with me - tell of the war between the gods of Egypt and the god of Israel... I write of these matters now when I am very old in the reign of Rameses, before death takes me... -
A hysterically funny vintage look at the war between the sexes. Contents include: Woman, the Necessary Evil : Truth and Fiction About Some Highly Disreputable Ladies (!); All for Love: Or: How the grand passion can become the big heartbreak; The Lady Speaks Her Mind: Or: Where Dr. Kinsey left off; Women of the World : Isadora Duncan, Ingrid Bergman and the career woman; Sugar And Spice: Bittersweet Commentaries On Feminine Foibles; Science And Sex: Marriage and Bedfellows; A Dying Race - Mistresses; How Well Do You Know Women? Contributors include: Stuart Cloete, Ferenc Molnar, Paul Gallico and Robert Switzer. -
Based on original scripts by Spike Milligan and brought to life by illustrator Pete Clarke. Entertainments in this volume include: Rommel's Treasure; The Case of the Missing C.D. Plates; The Saga of the Internal Mountain and The Case of the Vanishing Room. -
The Good Life's Tom and Barbara Good make life merry hell for posh neighbours Margo and Jerry in this adaptation of the second series of the iconic television series. Jerry and Margo cope with more of the Good's self-sufficient eccentricities in suburban Surbiton - pigs, college students determined to make Tom their guru, torn posh frocks - while also dealing with Jerry's boss who thinks the Leadbetter home is an open house for entertaining clients.
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