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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. -
Book V of Fairacre. Over The Gate. Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gathered excellent accounts of the rich and varied history of her beloved country village, often through neighborly conversation over the gate. Fairacre has garnered its share of odd incidents, entertaining episodes and village folklore - from an unusual recipe for weight loss found in an old notebook used with alarming consequences! to the tragic story of the village ghost. With characteristic grace and vigor, Miss Read retells many treasured stories of Fairacre past and present. Farther Afield: Book XI of Fairacre. On the first day of the summer holidays Miss Read plunges literally into the end of term, by falling downstairs and breaking her arm and twisting her ankle. Her old friend Amy Garfield, the ever hopeful matchmaker, insists on taking her on holiday to the idyllic island of Crete. The two women, so dissimilar but united in friendship, have time to assess the values of married and single life. -
Down on his luck and kicked in the pants one too many times, sixteen-year-old Pagan Kidrouk arrives on the doorstep of the Templar Knights in medieval Jerusalem, looking for work as a squire. He's expecting only some protection from the seedier aspects of life on the street and a few square meals. Instead, Pagan finds himself hard at work for Lord Roland de Bram - an exciting life of polishing Lord Roland's armor, laundering his garments, and even training to fight by his side. But as the Infidel Saladin leads his army to Jerusalem, it becomes more and more difficult for Pagan and Lord Roland to discern what action to take or whom to trust. Neither Saladin's army nor the Christian Crusaders offer easy answers. Is a bloody battle for control of the Holy City inevitable?
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Paper Money: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. Three seemingly unrelated events, nothing to keep the tabloid editors awake - until ambitious young Evening Post Kevin Hart starts asking questions...A Place Called Freedom: Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers are propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever. -
Paper Money: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. Three seemingly unrelated events, nothing to keep the tabloid editors awake - until ambitious young Evening Post Kevin Hart starts asking questions... Eye Of The Needle: His weapon is the stiletto; his code name: The Needle. Henry Faber, German aristocrat, coldly professional, a killer...Germany's most feared deep-cover agent in Britain. A master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood. His task: discover the Allies' plans for D-Day and get them to Germany at all costs. His plans are ruthlessly carried through - until Storm Island, and the woman named Lucy... -
Paris: Edward Rutherfurd
$9.00An epic tale of four families from the medieval period to the 1960s: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne who claim descent from the hero of the celebrated poem The Song of Roland; the revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction; from the Blanchards whose bourgeois respectability is threatened when one son joins the underworld near the Moulin Rouge, creating a scandal; and the hard-working Gascons who lose everything during the reign of Louis XV yet rise again in the age of Napoleon to become part of the art and culture of Paris. Real events and people make their appearance on this stage: Napoleon, Louis XVI, Monsieur Eiffel...the occupation of France in World War II, the Paris Commune, the World Exhibition...all these and more make up the epic tale that is Paris. -
London, 1914. Two young women dream of breaking free from tradition and obligation. Suffragettes are on the march and war looms, but at 35 Park Lane, Lady Masters, head of a dying industrial dynasty insists that life is about service and duty. Below stairs, eighteen year-old Grace Campbell is struggling. Her family believe she is a secretary, but she took the only job she could find - third housemaid in the Park Lane mansion. Asked to send home more money than she earns, Grace is soon entangled in an ever-thickening web of lies. Upstairs, a jilted and humiliated Beatrice Masters is determined not to return to the New York of her childhood before she has salvaged her pride. She secretly joins Emmeline Pankhurst's militant suffragettes and is steadily drawn into the violence rocking the city - and in the path of a man her mother wouldn't allow through the front door. Neither girl really grasps that the coming war will change the boundaries of both their worlds for ever. -
In wartime, people are either friends of enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die. When Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction. The German High Command masterminds a strategy which will annihilate the partisan resistance. Three Yugoslavs set out to relay the German battle plan to the pro-German Yugoslav Royalists - but where do their loyalties lie? It's a d dangerous journey with dangerous companions, where no one is who they seem...and where the three men find intrigue and betrayal around every corner... -
Pastoral: Nevil Shute
$10.00World War II pilot Peter Marshall leads the most successful bombing crew at his airbase, having survived an unusual number of extremely dangerous missions over Germany. However, when Peter falls hopelessly in love with an attractive WAAF officer - one who insists that wartime duties should take precedence over emotions - his concentration begins to suffer. Soon it looks as though his perfect run of successful missions may be at risk - along with the lives of Peter and his men - unless she can be persuaded to relent.
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