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Legend said the Empire Stone was larger than a fist and could light a man's path in the dead of night. Fashioned by the Gods - or demons - it could bring awesome power and untold riches to anyone who possessed it. But it was lost when the city of Thyone was destroyed. The Year of the Mouse has begun badly for Peirol of the Moorlands. Having fallen in with Koosh Begee and his gang of tricksters, he taken to gambling. And he's lost. Peirol soon realises he's been trapped and Begee forces him to recover a long-lost gem from a ruined temple. Peirol begins an incredible adventure of danger, magic and mystery, ruthless warlords and wild sorcerers in search of the fabled Empire Stone. Cover art by David O'Connor. -
A very complete collection of Aussie folk songs: Convicts, bushrangers, goldminers; lawyers and law breakers; teamsters, drovers, stockmen, shearers and strikers. A tribute to the men who boozed, battled, bludgeoned, bullied and blarneyed their way through the first century of Australia. Illustrated by the author. -
The Time Machine: H.G. Wells
$20.00Regarded as the first science fiction thriller, it is the classic tale of the wanderings of the Time Traveller, his excursion in the fantastic machine of his creation into a future of nuclear war's aftermath; he encounters the Eloi - portrayed as the pampered, spiritless descendants of the upper class of his own time; and the Morlocks; the lower class who dwell below ground but who, in this future, control the cossetted Eloi in order to farm them for sustenance. Wells intentionally reflected his views of the class system, working conditions and politics of the late Victorian age in these fictional races, having experienced the unhealthy living and working below ground conditions for himself as a draper's assistant. Many film versions of this multi-layered story only go so far; Wells took his Time Traveller much further than the time of the Morlocks, to see...No, we won't spoil it for you... -
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. -
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Book I of The Mordred Cycle. Mordred, the tainted innocent, comes of age in a remote corner of the land of Arthur. Always a law unto himself, he is troubled by the visits of the cryptic 'strays'. Challenging him, they offer the keys not only to Arthur's kingdom, but to a darker, uncharted realm within Mordred himself. Now at last he must confront the mystery of his birth and embark on a cyclical quest, leading him to both destiny and nemesis.
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The blue-painted wizard appeared and spoke to Finnian. "You let a man die today because you couldn't be bothered!" "It wasn't my business." "You think nothing in life is your business!" the wizard howled. "But I'll make it so things will be!" Finnian waited alert, ready to kill if the wizard voiced a curse, but he only looked hard and said: "From now on, as long as you stay in my land, you will aid any man or woman in need of help." That didn't sound so bad..until Finnian discovered the whole realm needed help!
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Spain, 1906. The Duke de Richleau has not yet succeeded his father, and is still the Count de Quesnoy. Anarchy permeates every country in Europe. Not a night passes without groups of fanatics meeting in cellars to plan attempts with knives, pistols or bombs against the representatives of law and order. A bomb outrage gives de Quesnoy ample cause to vow vengeance on the assassins. His attempt to penetrate anarchist circles in Barcelona nearly costs him his life. In San Sebastian, Granada and Cadiz he hunts and is in turn hunted by them in a ruthless vendetta. Against this background a bitter-sweet romance develops between him and the beautiful Condesa Gulia. -
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.
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