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Even in these days of X-Box and IPhones, there'll be some who'll remember when annuals such as these were eagerly looked for in the Christmas gifts - full of stories, games, puzzles and riddles. This one from 1961 is plenty of everything. Stories include: Clapper Boy, C. Schuster; Foes Of The Forest, Charles Hamilton (creator of Billy Bunter) ; Sports Club, Robert Bateman; Lovell On The War-Path, Owen Conquest; Shaghra The Leader, John Bancroft; The Flight of the Strato Queen, Leonard Gribble; The Guardian Of Devil's Cave, D.L.G. Stainton; Adrift On An Iceberg, Peter Spencer; Night Train To Zurich, Vincent Griffin; The Green Fire, Alan C. Jenkins; Just Like Jack! Frank Richards; Percy's Potty Prank, John Forsyth; The Young Archers, Sydney J. Bounds; Dawson's Double, Haydn Warman; Herring Moon, Arthur Catherall; Tick-Tock's Grandfather, David Norris; Who Cares About Archaeology? Robert Bateman; Spot On The Wicket, John Bancroft; Off The Record, Geoffrey Morgan; Sparks At Strathdrene, J.A. Jordan; The Wellport Wonder, John Forsyth; Adventures In Devon, William Luscombe; Pirates Of The Deep, Sydney J. Bounds; Old Bob's Barn, Louis Valentine; Terry Of The Tight Rope, Clifton Heath; Wildcatter By Accident, James Frederick; Leave Him To Ozzy, Michael Kendrick; Invisible Ink, R.A. Hall; Palma Incident, Darry McCarthy; Menace On Wheels, D.L.G. Stainton; Coral Sea Adventure, R.A. Hall; School House Mystery, Guy Leslie; The Stolen Renoir, The Phantom Rustlers and Road Ace, Sydney J. Bounds; Two Hundred Feet Of Celluloid and Phil Barton - Crack Runner, Robert Bateman. -
The house was built in the Old Queen's time for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. It survived many eras and many reigns - it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War. It was rescued by an illiterate woman farmer, became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a twentieth century hotelier. Children, both heirs and bastards, were born there. It had ghosts, legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation. Never be put off by the covers of any book by Norah Lofts. She always told a wonderful story, no matter what time period she chose to set her tales. Cover art by J.A. Greenberg.
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The title of this novelty item is from a saying of King Edward VII: "I don't care what the people do, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses." Macdonald was frequently compared to humourist Lennie Lower, although Macdonald's humour is more sophisticated. He also loved the comic-scope of 'the little bloke who gets pushed around'. Therefore, we see our hero being browbeaten by his bank manager, getting lost in the Paris underground, in Darlo Police Station and musing on such diverse topics as literature, travelling, eating and drinking. With an introduction by 'Nino Culotta'. Illustrated by Clarrie King. Very Australian humour. -
Before the Darwin Awards, there was Ripley's world of fascinating facts about risks, breaks, quirks, freaks and miracles. Such as... Minnie Gawell, who, in drawing a raffle, picked her own numbers four times in succession; if Bram Stoker had not eaten crab for his dinner (which gave him awful nightmares) the world would never have had Frankenstein; and the refugees from floods in Pakistan who received a supply of brassieres. Over 300 pages of the very weird but very true. With illustrations and photographs. -
The principal characters in the story are Doris Brunton and Andy with other characters existing mainly for contrast. There is no sickly sentimentalism, the love and romance being concerned with the hero's battle against harsh reality. Set in the sheep country of New South Wales and Queensland with distinctive characterisations and the eternal atmosphere of the Australian bush. -
Covers a wide selection of well-known and lesser-known mysteries: The Moving Coffins of Barbados; The Bermuda Triangle; The Disappearance of Agatha Christie; The Devil's Footprints; Was Dillinger Shot? The Mystery of Eilean Mor (The Island Of Disappearing Men); Joan of Arc - Did She Return From The Dead? The Loch Ness Monster; The Mystery of the Mary Celeste; Where Is Mona Lisa? Orffyreus and the Perpetual Motion Machine; Psychometry - A Telescope Into The Past; Did Robin Hood Really Exist? Synchronicity or Mere Coincidence? Spontaneous Human Combustion; The Great Tunguska Explosion; Velikovsky's Comet; The Most Mysterious Manuscript In The World - The Voynich Manuscript; Crop Circles - Whirlwinds, UFO's or Hoaxers? -
Home Circle: Fougasse
$15.00A wonderful little book of cartoons on the joys of everyday life in wartime, with some good sly social comments on the little human pomposities of the time. -
Are You Irish Or Normal? Sean O'Grada. O'Grada traces the history of the Irish in his own inimitable fashion, from many centuries B.C. (The First Irishman was a Greek) through the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries (A Man's Best Enemy is His Neighbour - And Where Was The O'Neill?) into the 15th and 16th centuries (A Good Sharp Axe Makes Divorce Permanent) and beyond. Now Listen, Mate! John O'Grady: O'Grady sez: These essays, or whatever they may be, represent my thoughts and conclusions on various things and people. My eldest son wanted me to write my autobiography: "The story of your life, Pop" he said. "And tell the truth." He can go and jump in Lake Burley Griffin. I offer instead some comment on what life has taught me. After sixty years of knocking around and being knocked about, a man acquires a sort of philosophy. Basically, mine is that nothing in life is worth getting steamed up about, and most things are good only for a laugh. Illustrated by Paul Rigby. -
Being the Chronicle of the Wars of Montrose as Seen By Martin Somers, Adjutant of Women in O'Cahan's Regiment. Surgeon and adjutant of women in O'Cahan's Irish regiment, warring in Scotland with Montrose, is Martin Somers, better exponent of swordplay than of surgery. In his adventurous wardship of this ill-fated company of women, in the strengthening of the line against the forces of the Covenant, his dexterity and toughness is often decisive. This is a tale of keen endeavour, fury and tenderness. Also published as The Dark Rose.
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History as you've never learnt it before - from the invasion of Briton to Alfred the Cake, to Anne (A Dead Queen), The Merrie Monarch and WilliamandMary who were a pair of Oranges. A lot of it reads like a Blackadder script with typical English humour.With comic illustrations by John Reynolds. -
This mystery thriller written at the turn of the century begins thus: "Two o’clock - two o’clock in the morning. The bells had just chimed the hour. Big Ben had boomed forth its deep and solemn note over sleeping London. The patient constable on point-duty at the foot of Westminster Bridge had stamped his feet for the last time, and had been relieved by his colleague, who gave him the usual pass-word, “All right.” The tumultuous roar of traffic, surging, beating, pulsating, had long ago ceased, but the crowd of smart broughams and private hansoms still stood in New Palace Yard, while from the summit of St. Stephen’s tower the long ray of electricity streamed westward, showing that the House of Commons was still sitting. The giant Metropolis, the throbbing heart of the greatest empire the world has known, was silent. London, the city of varying moods, as easily pleased, as easily offended as a petted child; London, the dear, smoke-blackened old city, which every Englishman loves and every foreigner admires; London, that complex centre of the universe, humdrum and prosaic, yet ever mysterious, poetic and wonderful, the city full of the heart’s secrets and of life’s tragedies, slept calmly and in peace while her legislators discussed and decided the policy of the Empire. The long rows of light on the deserted terrace and along the opposite shore in front of St. Thomas’s Hospital threw their shimmering reflection upon the black waters of the Thames; the cold wind swept roughly up the river, causing the gas-jets to flicker, so that the few shivering outcasts who had taken refuge on the steps of the closed doorway of Westminster Station, murmured as they pulled their rags more tightly round them. Only the low rumbling of a country wagon bearing vegetables to Covent Garden, or the sharp clip-clap of a cab-horse’s feet upon the asphalt, broke the quiet. Except for these occasional disturbances all else was as silent on that dark and cloudy night in late October as if the world were dead."
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Full Flavour: Doris Leslie
$25.00Catherine DuCrox, at the age of eighteen, abruptly inherited her father's RUN-DOWN cigar and tobacco shop. For a young woman in Victoria's England to take it upon herself to become a business owner was almost scandalous - and in such a masculine-oriented business as well. Yet she goes ahead to first create an income for her mother and sister and later to extend her empire, becoming the first tobacconist to import Indian cigars and the first to introduce cigarettes to the public. Along the way, she finds that breaking the rules will not always get her what she wants - and that some rules are never meant to be broken. -
Adventures as the yacht, Wanderer, sailing around the South Seas looking for treasure. wanders into an atomic testing area of the Pacific. Illustrated by S. Fezzard. The author, Percy Francis Westerman (1876 - 1959) was a prolific author of children's literature, many of his books adventures with military themes. His writing career allegedly began with a sixpence bet made with his wife that he could write a better story than the one he was reading to his son, who was at the time ill with chickenpox. His first book for boys, 'A Lad of Grit', was published in 1908. During the 1930s Westerman was voted the most popular author of stories for boys, having published over 170 books. -
Persuaded by a beautiful Russian Countess to help her flee her loathsome fiancè, Captain Jonathan Clark sails from San Francisco to Alaska, evading cunning rival Captain Portugee - who will unite with Clark to defeat the Russian menace, Prince Semyon. -
Margery and Ian voyage to the queer land of Baste in a silver bubble. There they undertake marvellous adventures brought about by the theft of the Frost Fire and encounter other wonders such as the Timeless Stone. There's fabulous characters: Tiel Quintillian of the leaf-green beard, Miles Pennycook and his sweetheart Biddy Bluebell; the gallant Captain Tod (gallant, nut noisy); Mr Ned Kelly, young Harry Dale, the drover, the Brooding Brolga, the Mocking Lyre Bird and the Ancient One of How Many Years living in his Gibba-gunyah. Even Cobb and Co find a place...a wondrous and scarce Australian fantasy story to rank with Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding. Illustrated by R.W. Coulter. -
Poor Mr. Banks. His cutaway is too tight, he can't get a cocktail, and he's footing the bill....He's the father of the bride. Stanley Banks is just your ordinary suburban dad. He's the kind of man who believes that weddings are simple affairs in which two people get married. But when Daddy's little girl announces her engagement to Buckley, Mr. Banks feels like his life has been turned upside down. And any man with a daughter can appreciate Mr. Banks's feelings. To say the least, Mr. Banks isn't taking it well, and to make matters worse, he must host cocktail parties with the in-laws-to-be, initiate financial planning talks with Buckley, and moderate family conferences on who will be invited to the reception. Who can blame him when he sinks so low as to offer Kay $1500 to elope? But Mr. Banks holds his peace, and when the last wedding guest has departed from his confetti-carpeted house, he has his memories, and you have a merry record of his tribulations. Classic comedy that was considered so classic that it has been filmed twice and a 50th anniversary edition of the book was issued. Illustrated by Gluyas Williams. -
Short articles of a Fifties vintage: cigarettes, awful food, marriage, trying to keep up appearances, life, death, growing up, getting a job and becoming a young man...not to mention a Dutch Reformed religious upbringing. Many of de Vries' quirkies have become part of the vernacular: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be and Deep down, he's shallow....or his comparison of a conscience to a car brake... because it doesn’t work in emergencies, only when one is morally parked. His first novel, The Tunnel of Love, became a Broadway play and a movie with Doris Day and Gig Young. Chapters include: Flesh and the Devil; A Cold Potato; Requiem for a Noun; Life Among the Winesaps and more with equally intriguing titles. He had a fabulous gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, snobbery and grandly silly dialogue. -
Volume III of the Industrial and Social History series. The history of our ancestors in the age of the chase - the time of hunting that necessitated invention of new weapons, the study of herd migration, the re-designing of tool and much more, told in an easy fictional fashion with plenty of rotogravure illustrations. First published in 1911, this is the 1938 edition and this book is still in print today. -
Having exorcised the late Mr Stebbings, the awful wallpaper, the hideous leadlight window, the holly hedge and other acts of vandalism committed by the previous owners - Nichols sets about restoring the Georgian manor Merry Hall the gardens to their former glory while braving the wrath of village locals who regard the inappropriate building additions as a monument to the late Mr Stebbings' 'good taste.' As always, Beverley is accompanied by his beloved pet cats who, of course, have their say on all improvements. Illustrated by William McLaren. -
Subtitle: Being the Story of British Heroism in Voyaging and Sea-fight from Alfred's Time to the Battle of Trafalgar. First published in 1905, this anthology was the first one-volume survey of Britain's historic sea voyages and battles. With selections from John Dryden, Samuel Pepys, Sir Walter Raleigh, King Alfred as well as contemporary accounts from documents, letters and eyewitnesses. This history covers the period from 55 B.C. to 1805 A.D. With one colour plate, several glossy black and white plates and sketches. -
In this volume: To An Old Mate; In the Days When the World Was Wide; Faces In The Street; The Roaring Days; For'ard; The Drover's Sweetheart; Out Back; The Free-Selector's Daughter; 'Sez You'; Andy's Gone With Cattle; Jack Dunn Of Nevertire; Trooper Campbell; The Sliprails And The Spur; Past Carin'; The Glass On The Bar; The Shanty On The Rise; The Vagabond; Sweeney; Middleton's Rouseabout; The Ballad Of The Drover; Taking His Chance; When The 'Army' Prays For Watty; The Wreck Of The 'Derry Castle'; Ben Duggan; The Star Of Australasia; The Great Grey Plain; The Song Of Old Joe Swallow; Corny Bill; Cherry-Tree Inn; Up The Country; Knocked Up; The Blue Mountains; The City Bushman; Eurunderee; Mount Bukaroo; The Fire At Ross's Farm; The Teams; Cameron's Heart; The Shame Of Going Back; Since Then; Peter Anderson And Co.; When the Children Come Home; Dan, The Wreck; A Prouder Man Than You; The Song And The Sigh; The Cambaroora Star; After All; Marshall's Mate; The Poets Of The Tomb; Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers; The Ghost. Cover art by Walter Stackpoole. -
Everything and everyone is under the gun in this collection of outrageous stories and non-politically jokes! Even James Bond isn't exempt. There's blonde bombshells, ethnic jokes, religious rib-ticklers, mansplains, church crackers, sex, quickies and shorties and the completely bizarre to make you laugh out loud wherever you are. Adults only... -
Book III of The Saint vs Crown Prince Rudolph. The Saint had decided to turn over a new leaf. But he hadn't reckoned with Prince Rudolf - nor with his old adversary's hankering for diamonds! Why would a man as rich as Rudolph care about the comparatively small value of the Montenegrian Crown jewels? -
Faith, a young orphan girl is adopted by a Christian couple, but her adoptive mother dies and her father's mother moves in to take care of the family. Grandmother is lazy, drunk and violent, insisting that her son be rid of Faith, resenting her as an outsider and an intruder. Faith runs away, determined to find work as a servant girl...and she begins to find friends and help where she least expects it. Also published as The CHild Of The Toy Stall. -
The hilarious story of how Graham 'Screw' Turner established a bus touring company using old converted double-decker buses. From humble beginnings in London 1973, Screw, together with a crew of colonial larrikins, builds up a fleet of 100 deckers. Screw, Spy, Bill Speaking, Wombat. Filthy, Grilly, Budgie, the mysterious Graham James Lloyd and other incorrigible crew members lead their unsuspecting punters on riotous escapades to the far flung, exotic corners of the world. Today, Graham 'Screw' Turner is one of Australia's wealthiest men and is the CEO of Flight Centre, which he began in the 1980s. With caricatures by Bill Leak and cartoons by Warren Brown. Illustrated with black and white photographs and newspaper clippings. -
Obadiah and Elizabeth ‘flabbergasted frightfully’ when they heard their three children, Daniel, Walter and Sarah, were considering leaving England and joining the goldrush to the Antipodes - the Australian Goldfields. The children expected to find gold and to make ‘their everlasting fortune.’ Their parents could only see the terrible dangers involved in what they considered ‘a foolhardy adventure.’ Obadiah and Elizabeth concluded a warning letter they wrote to Walter, Daniel and Sarah with this desperate plea: PLEASE, PLEASE, DO NOT GO TO THE GOLDFIELDS. This is an entertaining look at life on the goldfields in the 1850s from the journey from 'Home' to the Antipodes; the scenes of drunkneness and brawling that greeted the shocked Britishers; the intriguing crimes of interfering with your own clock, severing a clothesline, kite flying and why they were deemed to be criminal; the women of the goldfields and what life was like for children and school students. For teenage readers and upwards. Illustrated by Carson Ellis. -
If you want Irish oatmeal bread, Italian bread sticks, French or Alsatian sourdough bread, Jewish honey cakes, Swedish limpa, German buttermilk rye or the more exotic German farmer's herb-parmesan bread, you'll find it all here - and much, much more. John Braué has lovingly collected priceless recipes which have been handed down family to family, baker to baker, friend to friend, for generations. But this book is more than that; it's also an entertaining primer of fascinating bread lore covering the different properties of flours, the vast differences in recipe results due to climate, altitude and ovens; and the little known techniques of baking perfection. Tucked between the recipes are dozens of wise hints on the good life, good baking, good humor - and good eating.
