MaryAnne 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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Guardian: John Saul
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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.
