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In an isolated Suffolk cottage, a young American writer lives and battles with his artist wife. He fantasises about murdering her - and when she runs away, he tries out acting like a murderer. But when his wife doesn't turn up, people start wondering, the police start investigating - and he can't stop behaving suspiciously. The first of this American author's stories with an English setting. -
Star Wars. This volume comes between The Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The Emperor is dead, the remnants of his Empire are in retreat and a second Death Star has been destroyed. Many hope for new beginnings and new destinies - for Han Solo, it will mean settling his last outstanding debt, helping Chewbacca free the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. Norra Wexley and her band pursue Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy. But as more and more officers of the Empire are brought to justice, Sloane manages to elude capture by the New Republic, and Norra fears that Sloane is searching for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. But the hunt is cut short when Norra receives an urgent summons fro Princess Leia Organa. The liberation of Kashyyyk has led Han, Chewbacca and a band of smugglers into an ambush - Chewbacca is captured, and Han has vanished. Norra and her crew race toward the Millennium Falcon's last known location...Cover art by Scott Biel. -
"If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable." So said Beau Brummell, the first metrosexual, 200 years before the word was even invented. His name has become synonymous with wit, profligacy, fine tailoring, and fashion. A style pundit, Brummell was responsible for changing forever the way men dress - inventing, in effect, the suit. He cut a dramatic swath through British society, from his early years as a favorite of the Prince of Wales and an arbiter of taste in the Age of Elegance, to his precipitous fall into poverty, incarceration, and madness, creating the blueprint for celebrity crash and burn, falling dramatically out of favor and spending his last years in a hellish asylum. But for nearly two decades, Brummell ruled over the tastes and pursuits of the well heeled and influential - deemed more important than Napoleon and the inspiration for Byron's Don Juan. Through love letters, historical records, and poems, Ian Kelly reveals the man inside the suit, unlocking the scandalous behavior of London's high society while illuminating Brummell's enigmatic life in the colorful, tumultuous West End. A rare rendering of an era filled with excess, scandal, promiscuity, opulence, and luxury, 'Beau Brummell' is the first comprehensive view of an elegant and ultimately tragic figure whose influence continues to this day. -
Inspector Lynley No. XVII. Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough, Cresswell's uncle. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect - Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict - leads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for - and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind. -
Gordon Reeve is going to the funeral of his brother, a journalist, found dead in his car - a presumed suicide. When he gets there, no-one wants to answer his questions - like why the car in which his brother was found was locked on the outside - and why does the local cop shadow him and stop him talking to the friend who saw Jim last? And he feels that it wasn't a ghost he saw parked outside the crematorium...Ex-SAS, a professional killer with an anger management problem, it's not in Reeve's nature to let such questions go unanswered - particular when the killers come knocking on his front door.
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A novelisation of the Carlo Ponti film of Noel Coward's 1936 play Still Life. A chance meeting in a cafe, a piece of grit delicately removed by a gentleman from a lady's eye - and an affair is born; a brief yet unrelenting emotional tug-of-war between two people whose desire clashes with the facts of their lives. Anna is married to Graham and happily content with her home and children; Alec is trapped in a loveless marriage with cool, uninvolved Melanie, using his work as a doctor for fulfillment. Passion is ignited, then comes the test - can their dream become lasting love or will it founder on the rocks of reality? By the author of Island In The Sun. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/island-in-the-sun-alec-waugh/
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Book IV and the conclusion of the Chanur series. Alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war. Cover art by Mick Posen.
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Warren Tute (1914-1989) a naval officer who took part in the Normandy landings, collaborated with historians John Costello & Terry Hughes to produce this volume book for the 30th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The book opens with a facsimile of a letter from Eisenhower to the troops and there is a foreword by Lord Mountbatten. There are the newspaper headlines of the day, cartoons, maps and fabulous colour and black and white photos - a comprehensive, pictorial study of the preparation for and the events of the epic force that was the D-Day landings of 1944. -
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. -
Guardian: John Saul
$12.00MaryAnne Carpenter, newly separated and raising her two children, receives the news that her friends the Wilkersons have died suddenly and their only child - MaryAnne's god child - is orphaned. Was it a chance, tragic mishap that took their lives? Or was it murder? Joey Wilkerson is a sad, silent adolescent harbouring secrets that are nightmarish beyond MaryAnne's imaginings and as early winter closes in on the Wilkersons' beautiful, lonely ranch, Joey's sly secretiveness and volatile temper begin to fill MaryAnne with fear. Soon a series of horrific murders draw ever closer to the family, killings that defy solution by a desperate police force and MaryAnne begins to know the true meaning of terror. Cover art by Danilo Ducek.
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Hythrun Chronicles; Book III of Demon Child. Medalon has surrendered to Karien and Tarja is once again an outlaw. The Defenders are scattered and their only hope is Damin Wolfblade and the army of Hythria. But Damin has his own problems - false claimants to the throne, civil war and of course - Adrina. R'shiel has accepted her destiny and is searching for answers, but time is running out. She must defeat Xaphista soon, for the Harshini king cannot hide Sanctuary for much longer. But how can she defeat a God? Cover art by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law.
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Here’s Lower: Lennie Lower
$20.00Lower only wrote the one novel, Here's Luck, in which Gudgeon and Son battle the great Australian icons - the police, the wife, the booze and the races. Here is a selection of his whimsical newspaper columns of the 1930s, short tales which were a showcase for Lower's natural Aussie anarchy. You can get the low-down on Banking; The Cruel Tactics of the Emu; The Terrors of Wealth; The Perils of the Bathtub and What Bread Is and How To Use It among other wits and wisdoms on life. -
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. -
A book about the author's journey to find Fiji - the REAL Fiji, not that which is presented to the tourists. He found a gold mine beneath an extinct volcano; the annual sugar can harvest; the copra plantations; he saw Fijians, Indians and Chinese studying together in technical college to gain skills that would speed the development of their community. He bargained with merchants in duty-free shops and discovered the romantic legends of Fiji and conversed with wood carvers and a Fijian public servant charged with the duty of developing tourist industry to help the progress of the people. He spent time with island trading boat captains, Sugar Queens and royal Fijian chiefs. With black and white photographs. -
A very unusual first novel, unexpectedly touching and very unputdownable. A group of elegant dogs in top hats, tails and bustled skirts become instant celebrities when they descend on New York in 2008. They are refugees from a Canadian town that has been isolated for over a hundred years - they are monster dogs who retain the 19th century Prussian culture of their human creator. They talk, walk upright, have excellent manners and seem to lead charmed lives, but as Cleo Pira, a young woman who has befriended them discovers, they are threatened with extinction. Cover art by Kirsten Bakis.
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An unusual Australian novel about the need for a second Sydney Harbour Bridge. The underlying theme is how idealism and complete absorption in giving benefits to great masses of people can bring injustice and unhappiness to a small number of people - the immediate family circle of the idealist. The idealist, in this case, is a man with a drive to do good to the exclusion of all else - can this situation work out to a satisfactory conclusion? Cover art by Robert Parker. -
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.
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