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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in Talbingo in central New South Wales, in 1879. Her parents belonged to the "Squattocracy" - Europeans who lived off the land because they were the only ones there, but had no land rights. Up The Country - a tale about mid-19th-century pioneer families in New South Wales based on tales handed down from her maternal grandmother. This is not only a story of the adventures of the Mazere, Poole and Brennan families; it's also the pioneer life, the challenges and benefits of community and the harshness of the environment as well as ex-convicts, gold-fossickers, picnics, dances and all the ideals of genteel society together with the raising of cattle, mining camps and all lush natural wonders of Australia. Illustrated with black and white sketches. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/my-career-goes-bung-miles-franklin/ -
Les Norton IV. Les thought it'd be the easiest two weeks of his life - playing minder to a young member of the Royal Family called Peregrine Normanhurst III. So what if he was a millionaire Hooray Henry and his godfather was the Attorney General? Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble - so what if he was on the run from the IRA? They'd never follow him to Australia...Would they? Cover art by Brad Quinn. N.B. Title becoming scarce - new editions available as audio/CD only. -
Book IV of the Rome series. Here is Gaius Julius Caesar's rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68 B.C. to make the Forum a battlefield of words, plots, schemes and metaphorical assassination. Today's friend may be tomorrow's foe with political shifts and changes. And Caesar will prove that he is master of this battlefield as well. And his victories are not limited to the Forum. He conquers Rome's noblewomen: Servilia, powerful, vindictive and mother of a youth named Brutus; his mother, his daughter and Rome's revered Vestal Virgins. He is loved, yet to Caesar, love is simply another weapon.
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Book I of the Stuart Saga. A queen in her cradle, Mary grew up in the Court of Henri II of France, was married to the Dauphin and after his death was forced to return to her native Scotland and the fateful meeting with the bold adventurer, Bothwell. -
Devil Water: Anya Seton
$15.00Set during the Jacobite uprising of 1715. James, Earl of Derwentwater loses his life for his espousal of the cause; his brother Charles is the last Englishman to die for the Jacobites. Charles, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, had a daughter, Jenny, by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds, teeming London, and colonial Virginia - where Jenny eventually settled on the estate of the famous William Byrd of Westover - Jenny’s story reveals one young woman’s loyalty, passion and courage as she struggles in a life divided between the Old World and the New. Anya Seton writes a well-researched, good story every time. -
For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth and one explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, a pupil at an exclusive public school drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them are young Hugh Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South American land owner. The drowning and its aftermath initiate a spiralling circle of treachery that will last for three decades and entwine many lives.
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First published in 1911 - and still in print. Here is all the romance and chivalry of the days of knighthood. Tales in this edition: How Arthur Was Made King And Won His Kingdom; How Lancelot Was Made a Knight; The Four Witch Queens and the Adventures At The Chapel Perilous; The KNight Of The Kitchen; How Sir Tristram Kept His Word; The Deeds Of Sir Geraint; How Sir Percival Was Taught Chivalry; How Sir Owen Won The Earldom Of The Fountain; Of Sir Lancelot And The Fair Maid Of Astolat; How The Three Good Knights Achieved The Holy Grail; Of The Plots Of Sir Mordred And How Sir Lancelot Saved The Queen; Of Sir Gawaine's Hatred And The War With Sir Lancelot; Of The Rebellion Of Mordred And The Death Of King Arthur. With 16 black and white illustrations. -
Book I of the Conqueror series. A man without a tribe was at great risk, so the young boy abandoned with his siblings on the harsh Mongolian plains has to struggle for life. He survived both starvation and hostile attack by learning leadership skills and gathering a group of outsiders and outcasts like himself. He dreamed of uniting the tribes into one house, one nation. He became a great warrior who would be a father to his people. He would be Genghis Khan.
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Book III of The Heaven Tree. In the castle of Parfois, flaring down over the debated lands of the Welsh border, young Harry Talvace is held prisoner by his father's sometime patron and late destroyer, Ralf Isambard. Captive and captor, bound by implacable hatred and reluctant affection, seemed doomed to stalemate. Then the threat of civil war in England lays Isambard open to his enemies and Harry abruptly reaches self-knowledge and maturity. The characters are drawn together in the final siege of Parfois beneath the towering shadow of Harry's first masterwork - the great Church he dedicated his life to finish.
