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The Viking: Edison Marshall
$40.00Einar is the handsome son of Ragnar Lodbrok but when his good looks are scarred by ex-slave Ogier Gyrfalcon's bird of prey, he swears a harsh vengeance. Ogier sets out to find his destiny and frees a Welsh princess, taken captive en route to her marriage to King Aella. When Ragnar is captured during an invasion and put to death by Aella, the Norsemen launch into bloody slaughter - and after Aelaa's death, leaving the throne of Northumbria vacant, the battle is on between Einar and Ogier as to who will succeed. This book was the basis for the 1958 film The Viking starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis. Ernest Bourgnine and Janet Leigh. -
Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets, and gourmet outings with his mother. But when tragedy pushes the family out of India, they embark on a journey around the world, eventually settling in Lumière, a small village in the French Alps. The family takes the village by storm, provoking the ire of their neighbour - Madame Mallory, the proprietress of an esteemed French relais. Only after waging culinary war with the immigrant family does Madame Mallory agree to mentor young Hassan, leading him to Paris and a host of new adventures. -
A Roger Brook adventure No. VII. Roger Brook, Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent. Zanthé, exotic, loving and hating with equal intensity; daughter of the Sultan and beautiful...Napoleon's army; victorious in Egypt but trapped by Nelson's fleet, besieging Acre, ravaged by plague. At the heart of the French counsels – Roger Brook. A vital position for England. A deadly dangerous one for him. Illustrations by Jenny Thorne.
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The Breaker: Kit Denton
$10.00There was a Breaker Morant. He was vigorous, handsome, a champion horseman and a popular balladist who came to grief in the Boer War where he was charged with the wilful murder of civilians. To this day, his guilt remains in doubt. Was this man of enterprise and imagination also a cold-blooded killer? Or was he a scapegoat? This was the Breaker as history records him. But this novel takes the bones of the historical records with the skills and license of the creative writer to create a man of flesh and blood, as well as the historical enigma. -
Duc de Richeleau Adventure No. III 1914. As the smouldering European crisis erupts into war, the Duke de Richleau, intelligence agent for Britain and 'wanted' in three hostile countries, risks certain death to return to Vienna and to the beautiful Archduchess Theresa. Told with Wheatley's usual spirit for high adventure, espionage and a dash of romance. -
Rob, on board the north-bound train, hoped no-one would notice him. For he was running away from home, which had not felt like home since his father died. His uncle had sold the farm and disposed of Rob's beloved horses so Rob set off to join his older brother Alan, working in Mount Isa. He lost his money then his train tickets so he was glad to meet the rough, hearty bushman Pardy and his granddaughter Dot. They offer to drive him to Mount Isa and invite him to stay on their cattle station. Rob's growing friendship with Pardy, Dot and her brother Ernie arouse the enmity of another boy, Frank. This enmity has dramatic results when the party reach Mou8nt Isa and must search for Alan. Then Rob's uncle arrives... -
A 1986 collection of Australian writing from the early to mid-80s, featuring the following: Mirrors, Richard Lunn; The Bathroom Dance, Elizabeth Jolley; Partying On Parquet, Angelo Loukakis; Farnarkeling - A Typical Report, John Clarke; The Heraldry Of The Body, Craig McGregor; An Unfinished Head, Carolyn van Langenberg; Campaign, Jean Bedford; Epithalamium, Rosemary Creswell; Conrad's Bear, Susan Hampton; Reasons For Going Into Gynaecology; Secrets, Tim Winton; House and Neons, Ania Walwicz; Seeds, Serge Liberman; The Empty Lunch-Tin, David Malouf; The Lost World - Signs Of Life, Ted Colless and David Kelly; The Misbehaviour of Things, David Brooks; I Lost My Love To The Space Shuttle 'Columbia', Damien Broderick; Not The News, Patrick Cook; Summer In Sydney, Barbara Brooks; McBride's List, Ron Blair; At The Signora's, Marian Eldridge; Gockza, Carmel Bird; I Am The Monarch Of All I Survey, Michael Wilding; Land Deal, Gerald Murnane; Mirdinan, Paddy Roe and Stephen Muecke; Brian 'Squizzy' Taylor, Moya Costello; Park, Carmel Kelly; Xmas In The Bush, Anna Couani; Forty Susan Sangsters Stride Out At The Wellington Boot, Richard Beckett; Our Lady Of The Beehives, Beverley Farmer; Postcards From Surfers, Helen Garner; Buenaventura Durruti's Funeral, Frank Moorhouse. -
Book II of Wulfgar. They call it the Traitors’ Pit. Though others know it by other names: the Heathen Pit. The Thieves’ Pit. The Pit of Hell... Wulfgar does not believe that his older brother is capable of treason. But Wystan stands accused of plotting to overthrow the King and place his cousin, Athelwald Seriol on the throne. With an invading army gathering force, can Wulfgar exonerate his brother before Wystan suffers a traitor’s death? -
Dirk Gently is back, and on the trail of half a cat and an actor whose sudden appearance is not as random as it seems - and the pizza addicted detective is aided in his search by Thor (Norse God of Thunder), Dave of DaveLand and a highly confused rhinocerous called Desmond. There are also the tales of Young Zaphod Plays It Safe and The Private Life Of Genghis Khan, written with Graham Chapman. There are also non-fiction pieces which range from an earnest 12 year old Douglas's letter to Eagle magazine; insights into a teenage mind full of admiration for the Beatles and loathing for short trousers; lectures that reflect Adam's exceptional understanding of our natural, technological and philosophical worlds; and articles on religion, the 'little dongly things' making a mess of computers, the letter Y and Douglas's love affair with two dogs in New Mexico. -
When priceless champion bulls start vanishing from stock-farms around England. Gaskin asks for Biggles and the Air Police to investigate Bertie, whose family also once bred cattle, has background knowledge which comes in useful. And it's obvious it isn't the work of a couple of country yokels - the crooks are highly organised - therefore, dangerous... -
A small Eastern European country, Maltovia, is being threatened by its larger neighbor, Lovitzna. Maltovia needs Biggles to help set up its air force as another European country has begun supplying Lovitna with aircraft. Biggles is not inclined to get involved. But then the Lovitna ambassador threatens Biggles and warns him not to get involved. As might be expected, this has the opposite effect - and our friends go to war.Illustrated by Martin Tyas. -
The fifth andfinal Steeley adventure. Steeley, Tubby and Brian accept an invitation to help reform and train the air force of a Central American country but soon discover that it is not going to be a straight-forward commercial enterprise but rather an "adventure" or perhaps even a "misadventure". -
A volume of short stories featuring Biggles, Worrals of the W.A.A.F. and 'Gimlet' King. An Oriental Assignment: (Gimlet and Biggles): Gimlet, Cub, Copper and Trapper are asked to go to French Indo-China to collect an unusual form of Hevea braziliensis, or rubber tree. Sir Lionel Radnor had cultivated a strain of sufficient hardiness to be grown in a temperate climate. He destroyed all but 20 seeds, which he hid, then died under torture by the Japanese without revealing where the seeds are hidden. British Intelligence has discovered the hiding place and Gimlet's team, together with Biggles and Ginger, are sent to retrieve the precious seeds. On The Home Front: (Worrals of the W.A.A.F.): The authorities believe that Aircraftwoman Doris Marchant died by drowning but her friend Norma Day is convinced she was murdered and sends a report which makes its way to higher headquarters. Air Commodore Raymond sends Worrals and Frecks to investigate. Thunder Over Germany: (Biggles): Cadet Corporal Peter Masters of the Air Training Corps thinks he knows the location of a secret German fuel depot in the Black Forest. Fortunately, Air Commodore Raymond and Biggles are willing to listen to him. The Chance Of A Lifetime: A story of U-boat warfare. Seventeen year old Jack Carrington lives on Trinidad and while exploring a nearby island, discovers a German U-boat secretly refuelling. Jack must get to the Fleet Air Arm base to raise the alarm. A Night Out: A sabotage story. Pilot Officer Kazi Mahomet meets up again with his old childhood friend, Flying Officer Lance Lorimer. Lance is now a operational saboteur in Germany and on a quick run over to Germany to blow up a railway bridge, the pair must evade Germans on the ground and outrun German planes to make it back to England. A Routine Job: A commando story. When fifteen year old Hubert Fairfax is rescued from a canoe on the Mediterranean Sea he has an interesting story to tell. His father, working in Rome at the outbreak of war, has been interned and Hubert, fluent in English and Italian, was forced to join a Fascist intelligence gathering group. And when Hubert manages to steal the plans for a new secret German submarine base, Colonel 'Buster' Brown of 'Buster's Bulldogs' asks him to be a scout on the commando raid on the base. Note: As far as can be determined, this is the only publication of the 'Worrals' story. -
In 1942, when Singapore was being evacuated prior to the Japanese invasion, 20,000 sovereigns were loaded on the schooner Vagabond, but after putting to sea, the boat was never seen again. However, a dead native has now been found in his canoe in the Mergui Archipelago, wearing a necklace made up of the same sovereigns. Biggles, with Ginger and Bertie, befriend McDonald, the captain of the ship that found the dead native and with the help of Chintoo, a local man, they begin the search for the Vagabond. But there's corrupt officials, storms, Chinese pirates and a mad Japanese airman in their way... -
Biggles is approached by Paul Cronfelt of Cronfelt and Carstairs - bullion brokers - with a proposition. Cronfelt wants him to set up an airline, a private venture with the primary object of carrying his companies' freight, namely gold and jewellery. Biggles is initially reluctant but decides to accept after receiving a threatening phone call from Germany, warning him not to. Setting up business with Algy, Ginger and Smyth as mechanic, the company is called Biggles & Co.- and as Biggles was wont to say, where there is gold, there's trouble... -
Biggles is asked by Air Commodore Raymond to investigate the disappearance of a 2 lb. carved green jade statue with a large red ruby set in the middle of its forehead - a statue of the ancient South American God, Atu-Hua - recently been bought at auction by Don Carlos Ricardo y Pallimo. -
Biggles, on leave in London, is mistaken for another officer and offered a chance to fight on the side of the German forces. British intelligence wants him to accept the offer and soon Biggles finds himself in Palestine, a member of the German intelligence service and pitted against a deadly German masterspy who is only known by his codename - El Shereef. -
The chronicle of Biggles' adventures (and misadventures!) at Malton Hall School. He immediately falls foul of the school bully, Hervey, and his sidekick Brickwell. He recaptures an escaped dancing bear and on a mock army exercise, captures the enemy's flag. After exposing a crook at the local fair and recovering a "stolen" diamond ring from a jackdaw's nest, Biggles and his best friend Smith Tertius cause a local rumpus by making a fake treasure map for their own amusement This sets all the locals off on what became known as the Hertbury Treasure Hunt. But Biggles' most dangerous adventure is sparked off when he goes trespassing in Foxley Wood to gather conkers and he sees Hervey and Brickwell poaching to sell to a local butcher...Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
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