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Opal Fever: Nicholas Miles
$12.00An opal buyer is ambushed in the remote Australian interior and hunch-backed Chilla and his young companion Snow escape with $150,000 in gems. Burying the swag, they hole up in a mining settlement until the hue and cry dies down. It's a rough life in the settlement: night and day, men and women dream of opal, dig for opal, live for opal. To Delese, falling in love with Chilla, it means security for her and her baby; to bluff, warm-hearted Bill the hunt for it is the only life he wants; to Chilla and Snow, it means freedom but it also threatens to destroy the strange intense bond between them. To all of them it is a fever, creating deep love and loyalty in some and overpowering greed and envy in others. An authentic story of human endurance. -
Ordeal: Deanie Francis Mills
$15.00Wren Campbell's new life falls apart on a mundane shopping trip - it's a day like any other except that she is brought face to face with the one man she hoped never to see again. Hunter's time in prison has taken the gloss from his youth not from his plan to wage a survivalist war on the rest of society. In the sixteen years since Wren fled a backwoods massacre, with the FBI hard on her trail, she has rebuilt her life, Now the naive young rebel is a high school teacher, a mother of two and the wife of a respected criminal lawyer. For Wren, the past is a distant land - which Hunter wants her to visit again. He spirits Wren and her impressionable teenage son Daniel away to a survivalist fortress hidden in the near-desert landscape of Texas. From there Hunter intends to lead his Armageddon Army in a terrorist war. Wren's choices are simple - obey Hunter's commands or watch him destroy her son. But the first thing she has to do is throw off sixteen years of easy living and find the inner strength to fight. -
They came on a distant, secret night, armed and ready to kill. Their ghosts are still with us today...In June 1942 a party of German saboteurs landed by submarine in the United States of America. They were betrayed and executed within eight weeks of their landing. Their treacherous leader served a prison sentence and then disappeared. Orders for New York takes this historical fact as its starting point and tells the story of Michael Findlater, a British journalist who is in the USA researching for a book. Invited to meet his ex-wife Madelaine for the first time since their divorce and to see his twelve-year-old daughter, Findlater finds he is, in fact, being recruited for a well-paid secret mission. Madelaine's father-in-law, a wealthy and successful newspaper proprietor, wants him to take on the assignment of finding the vanished Nazi saboteur, Peter Karl Hine and write his story. Spurred on partly by the huge reward on offer and partly by curiosity, Findlater embarks on his quest and rapidly discovers that there are ruthless parties involved, who will stop at nothing to prevent him. -
While mourning the death of his father, journalist Stewart Dubin decides to research the life of a man he had always respected, always admired but possibly never quite knew. As a young idealistic lawyer during the last months of World War II, David Dubin was sent to the European Front - ostensibly to bring charges against an American Hero, Robert Martin, who had suddenly and inexplicably gone local. No longer following his superiors' orders, Martin has become a liability and General Rollie Tweedle wants him neutralised. But as Dubin learns more about Martin and the demons possessing him, he finds himself falling in love with Martin's enigmatic ex-mistress - a brave yet dangerously angry woman who will do anything to protect her comrade-in-arms. Stewart discovers his father's journal and learns of his incredible courage in the face of battle and the secret he had died protecting. -
In this volume: Oroonoko: (1688) When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but will his struggle for freedom bring about his destruction? The Fair Jilt: (1688) When an attempted seduction of a man fails, young Miranda accuses him of rape. Now set on a course to destruction, she ruins the life of a prince, preys on the mind of her sister in order to get her money and begins to contemplate murder...The History Of The Nun: A devout young girl has taken her vows as a nun. Yet she is in love and she breaks her vows to leave the monastery to be with him, to live in...some lonely cottage, far from the noise of the crowded, busy cities...to walk...in groves and silent shades...while wreaths of flowers crown our happy heads...If only the ending could have been so...The Adventure Of The Black Lady (1684): Bellamora leaves her Hampshire home on a pretext to go to London. She hopes to find her cousin there, and her adventure starts when she finds her cousin no longer lives at the address she gave to Bellamora. She meets people from all walks of life and of all moral levels and has a great many adventures. The Court Of The King Of Bantam (1698): The haughty and extravagant man who Wou'd be King is deliberately invited to Sir Philip Friendly's social gatherings to be fleeced and laughed at, as he is rich and believes he will one day become what his surname implies. This is Behn at her most ironic. The Nun: (1688) Isabella's reputation for virtuousness and religious devotion ironically becomes her motivation for... murder. The Unfortunate Bride: A young lady named Belvira and her blind cousin, Celesia are dear friends and confidants - and both long for Frankwit, a handsome and virtuous gentleman. -
At the start of World War II James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on England's south coast. Abandoned by his wife, the soldiers under his command are his family: Bairnsfather, whose sexual encounters with girl friend Muriel take place in an air-raid shelter; Cartwright, trying to keep two women on a gunner's pay of one shilling a day; Higner, cosily educating himself in the orderly room. It's a rude shock when they are called upon for the real war!
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Out Of Egypt: Anne Rice
$15.00Book I of Christ The Lord. With the Holy Land in turmoil, seven-year-old Jesus and his family leave Egypt for the dangerous road home to Jerusalem. As they travel, the boy tries to unlock the secret of his birth and comprehend his terrifying power to work miracles. -
A collection of Abbott's essays on Australian life, originally published serially in The Bulletin and covering events, personalities and the things that don't get into the history books - but which probably should! -
A diverse selection of Australian prose, poetry, articles, plays and review articles. Contributors include : Anthony Macris; Chris Mansell; Desmond O'Grady; Jennifer Compton; John Vasilakakos; Diane Fahey; Leith Morton; Connie Barber and many more.
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