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  • Duke de Richleau Adventure XI. The Duke de Richleau, together with his friends Richard Eaton, Rex van Ryn and Simon Aron – the Modern Musketeers, have faced many hair-raising adventures together. Now, there is also Rex's son and Fleur, Richard Eaton's daughter. Fleur, who believes in all the freedoms, including that of sex. But interwoven with the the story of Fleur's love life is a story of a strange inheritance that draws the whole party to Ceylon; and in Ceylon to face theft, murder, arson and blackmail. Until finally de Richleau has to take a last desperate gamble, alone, to save his friends. Cover art by Edward Mortelmans.
  • The story of the dysfunctional and dirt-poor Walden family, headed by patriarch Ty Ty, who is firmly convinced that there is treasure buried on his land, treasure that dates back to the glory days of the clan.  He is determined to find it and drives his family to dig up the entire property in a frenzied effort to find it - all except that acre that's dedicated to God and must not be touched!  Made into a film with Robert Ryan and Tina Louise, well away from her ditzy Gilligan's Island role.
  • A detailed account, with photographs, of the author's travels through the Mcdonough and Krichauff ranges, through the desert to Lake Amadeus, Ayer's Rock with its amazing Old Woman Cave and onto Mount Olga. Groom lived and worked in the Red Centre, travelling by car, camel and on foot, falling under its spell of limitless distances and unbelievable colours. For 1950s Australians, books like Groom's were their only glimpse of the inland. This is a portrait of those times - a strange and wonderful land - with 52 photos, including one of Namitjira painting.
  • Book I of The Clifton Chronicles. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war.” A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he’s left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys’ school, and his life will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line?  
  • This 1959 omnibus edition features three Gregory Sallust adventures: Black August: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. X: England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure...N.B. This is the first Gregory Sallust adventure published but it comes in at 10 for chronological order. Contraband: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. I. There was menace in the night skies over England: an international smuggling racket with far-reaching political implications. Gregory Sallust knew nothing of this when, in the Casino at Deuville, he first saw the beautiful Sabine Sventy. Even the presence beside her of Lord Gavin Fortescue -  a man as rich as he was evil - gave him no warning of the violence and danger to which he was committed from that very moment, nor that he would have to save Sabine from a retribution that she ha surely earned. The Island Where Time Stands Still: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. IX.  On a pleasure cruise in the South Seas, Sir Pellinore Gwaine-Cust's yacht hits a coral reef and sinks.  Only one survivor is washed ashore - Gregory Sallust.  When he regains consciousness, he finds himself among a community of Chinese, ruled by the descendants of the ancient Imperial House.  Within days, the throne becomes vacant and Gregory joins an expedition to find the true heir - a hazardous search that takes him deep into the forbidden heart of China.
  • Here is a story of the Highlands and the red deer that live there as seen through the eyes of Roddie and Flora, the children of Murdo MacKenzie, a stalker. There is not only a tale, but information on how the red deer live and their beautiful country.  Sir Frank Fraser Darling (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland.
  • An aging spinster has her head turned by a charismatic opportunist and is initially flattered - but misgivings soon set in. One night she finds herself lost in the cold, wet fog alone with him and through the help of a blind girl makes her escape. She is taken in to convalesce at a farm called Tetherstones, located near some old druid stones, a scene of a past tragedy and home to family secrets. The master of Tetherstones is a large brute of a man, more gladiator than farmer, and the heroine finds herself strangely attracted by him. Is a new start possible for either one of them or will the past win out?
  • In the hot weather at the height of the Long Vacation, solitary don Dr. Wiston observes his colleagues Born and Thomas conducting experiments in ESP on a room overlooking the college court. The devil finds work for idle hands and Dr. Wiston, with nothing better today, invites the melancholy Born to a sinister meal at which he introduces a darker element to his innocent colleague's unconscious. Now Born is haunted by the black stone mirror, the Devil's Looking-Glass, once owned by - among others - the Elizabethan magus Dr. John Dee. As Thomas loses control of his subject to Wiston, events move helter-skelter to a terrifying climax in the British Museum. Cover art by Alan Powers.

  • An interesting look at a woman who rose from a common milliner to become the wife of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister. Born Mary Anne Evans, she had great influence on her two husbands, helping to propel her second husband Disraeli to the highest official post i England. A woman of little culture and no education, yet she charmed the heart out of Disraeli, he who had all London at his feet when he flung himself at hers; he, who - when Queen Victoria offered him a peerage - asked that it would be given instead to her whom he named "the perfect wife".
  • Young Robert Lomax, fed up with working on a rubber plantation in Malaya, takes a year off to live in Hong Kong and paint. He doesn't know if he's got what it takes, but he wants to try. He takes a room at the Nam Kok Hotel - it's cheap, clean and on the waterfront. And it's interesting. He's the only resident who rents his room by the month - the Nam Kok is host to a group of bar girls who ply their trade in rooms rented by the hour. The American sailors, their customers, are their 'boyfriends' who give them 'presents' of money.  Suzie's imagination is such that she is sometimes 'Mei-Ling' - a daughter of a very old, very wealthy Chinese family. To have such dreams makes her life tolerable. Robert begins dating an English nurse but finds himself comparing her reserve to Suzie's lively personality and intriguing mix of worldliness and naivety. Suzie, together with the other girls in the bar are his muses but it's Suzie that he loves. However, will love be enough to overcome the prejudice they will encounter in the English and Hong Kong society of the 1950s?  A classic modern novel. Cover art of this edition by Harry Toothill.
  • In 1957 Odhams Press lost the rights to use any and all Disney characters, meaning that their incredibly popular and long-running title Mickey Mouse Weekly was forced to close. Not every character in the comic was owned by Disney though, and Odhams used everything they still owned in a new weekly called Zip. There were two Zip annuals produced. The first came out in 1958 and is known as the 1959 annual, followed by a second one dated 1959 but known as the 1960 annual. These are the only two Zip annuals; for unknown reasons Odhams decided not to continue the series. This is a very high quality children's annual: Stories include: Nigel Tawny, Explorer - The Adventure Of The Lazy Lobster; Skippy: The Capture; Brett Brand - The Golliwog Mystery; Kid Brother; Touchdown - Operation Bowman; Nigel Tawny - The Windmill; The Kellaway Touch; Brett Brand - Monkey Business; Skippy and the Road Hog; Killer Cuda; Touchdown - The Big Illusion; Nigel Tawny - Obi; The Story of Samuel Plimsoll. There are also comic strips, games, puzzles and things to make. Fabulous artwork - see gallery pictures for examples. Verso front and back boards and endpapers are two different 'board' games. Some cartoons in full colour, others in monochrome.