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There are pirates, adventures and plenty of heroics from the golden age when the might of England made itself felt by land and sea, under the rule of Good Queen Bess, the mistress of English hearts and Englishmen. In particular, these are the adventures of Humphrey Salkeld - how he was kidnapped and carried away to Mexico; how he underwent torments at the hands of the Inquisitors; and how he fell in with Captain Francis Drake and escaped to England. First published in 1895, Fletcher also wrote poetry and non-fiction books, and was acclaimed for his murder mystery novels. He wrote over 100 of these, the first one being published in 1914. Illustrated by W.S. Stacey. -
Circa 1940s-50s, an annual for teenage girls featuring short stories, nature articles, activities and craft, poetry and more. Contributors include: Winifred Bear, Mary Lillian Royce, V.F. Wells, Leonora Fry, Nancy Martin and more. Illustrated by W. Spence and others. -
We can't help you out with a plot line here - even Trove let us down! But we can tell you about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Everett-Green -
Nigel Molesworth offers advice for new students at St. Kustards: How to Succeed as a New Bug; How to Write Home; How to Be Topp in Latin; How to Be Topp in Everything using The Molesworth Bogus Report and How to Survive Christmas. From the duo that brought St Trinians to the world. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. -
A treasure trove of childhood past with stories by Noel Streatfield, Sir Edmund Hillary, Michael Westmore and more. There's puzzles and quizzes, short stories and articles, pictures in colour and black and white. -
The Good Life's Tom and Barbara Good make life merry hell for posh neighbours Margo and Jerry in this adaptation of the second series of the iconic television series. Jerry and Margo cope with more of the Good's self-sufficient eccentricities in suburban Surbiton - pigs, college students determined to make Tom their guru, torn posh frocks - while also dealing with Jerry's boss who thinks the Leadbetter home is an open house for entertaining clients.
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Being an Imagined Sequel to A Christmas Carol. Seven years after Scrooge was converted - to everyone's satisfaction - we see that Bob Cratchit has done well as the smug senior partner of Cratchit and Scrooge; Tiny Tim, cured of his ailment, is now a troublesome teenager; his sister Belinda, the remaining unmarried daughter of the household falls unsuitably in love; and Scrooge has given away most of his money, is crippled with gout and can't get upstairs, and so lives in the small cloakroom behind the Cratchit's front door. Cratchit, informed of his impending knighthood, tries to have Scrooge sent away - and now it's Bob who must learn a lesson in charity! Illustrated by Mark Summers. -
First published in 1952, it's obvious that even then there was a growing concern for the amount of road deaths. This book sets out clearly and comprehensively the chief causes of road accidents: speed, DUI, failure to observe rules, faults and many others - and gives sound advice on how to avoid them. Also included are sections on parking, heavy vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians. Nothing much has changed since this book's publication in 1952. The only thing needed to bring this book up to date is a section on switching off mobile phones while driving! -
How did Max Krilich get to meet the Killer Rabbit? Why was Andy Gregory glad to get the hell out of Australia? Who was the Man in the Bowler Hat? How did Ronny Gibbs get on Sale of the Century? What was Johnny Raper doing in ladies underwear...and what was the miracle at Lang Park? How did Fatty Vautin save Steve Mortimer's life? What did Freddie Jones say that shocked the PM? And what was Allan Langer doing in the USA with all those big oily men??? The answers to these and many more questions are all here in the most hilarious collection of sporting stories ever assembled in Australia. Cartoons by Scott Rigney. -
A collection of writings by various authors detailing the search for the Great Southland Terra Australis dating from accounts as far back as the 1400s. In this volume: The Early Voyagers, William Howitt; The Voyage Of Luis De Torres, R.H. Major; The Voyage of Francis Pelsart, John Pinkerton; The Voyage of Tasman, from Dr Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia; The Wreck Of The Vergulde Draeck, R.H. Major; In Search Of A Wreck, Matthew Flinders; Dampier And The Buccaneers, Samuel Bennett; First Voyage Of Captain Cook, Roderick Flanagan; The Voyage Of Captain Marion, Matthew Flinders; The Voyage Of Captain Furneaux, Reverend J.E.T. Woods; La Perouse, And The Voyages In Quest Of Him, William Howitt; The Voyages Of Bass And Flinders, from Dr Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia; Founding A Country, Roderick Flanagan; Troubles With The Natives, Samuel Bennett; Captain John Hunter In New South Wales, Samuel Bennett; John Batman And The Settlement Of Port Phillip, from Batman's Journal; The Story Of William Buckley, William Westgarth; An Emigrant's Adventures, Anonymous; In The Goldfields, Kinahan Cornwallis. -
For three decades, Erma Bombeck chronicled motherhood's daily frustrations and victories and her columns were published in over 900 newspapers worldwide thrice weekly. In this classic anthology, she presents all sorts of mothers, and even a stay-at-home dad, on good days and bad. With hilarious anecdotes and deep compassion, she shows that there is no other profession that demands so much, and rewards so highly. Anyone who thinks motherhood is easy has never had children. To care for children, a husband, and oneself is a superhuman task, and any woman who appears to be expert at doing all three simultaneously is not Supermom - she's a good actress. See what other readers think: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569043.Motherhood?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=PITRhqkaqf&rank=1 -
Kim: Rudyard Kipling
$25.00Set in 19th century India, this is the tale of Kim - Kimball O'Hara - the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in an India under British rule, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. He befriends an aged Tibetan lama and accompanies him on a spiritual journey. He is also recruited by a native member of the British secret services as a spy but he is recognised by his late father's regimental chaplain and is sent to a good English school. Kim maintains contact with his secret service friends - and he will not only learn to serve his country, but also will learn to fulfil the lama's and his own dream of Enlightenment. -
Here’s Luck: Lennie Lower
$25.00Lower's iconic novel which took its place in Australian culture, never to be dislodged. Rather like its main character, Jack Gudgeon. Residing in a run-down Sydney suburb during the Depression is Gudgeon - 48, a male chauvinist, an in-debt cynic, layabout and barroom philosopher. His wife, Agatha, having had more than she can take, has finally walked out on him. With Jack - and his equally unreliable adolescent son Stanley - fending for themselves, pandemonium ensues. Full of sardonic Aussie wit and mad capers, father and son blaze a trail of drunken chaos through the city's pubs, clubs, race courses, and their own increasingly battered home. Along the way, they fall in with a wondrous assortment of dubious characters who turn up to enliven the kind of party that Mr. Gudgeon invariably intends to be a "quiet, respectable turnout," but which, somehow, never is. Illustrated by the equally classic cartoonist 'Wep'. -
The First Fleet Re-enactment. A fleet of square riggers left London on April 27 1987 and arrived at Sydney Cove on January 26 1988. The author was a full-voyage trainee on that re-enactment voyage. -
The Magic Pudding is a pie...except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam doughnut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there's always something left over. It's magic. But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it's got a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill and Sam Sawnoff as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding. Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. -
The most magical nanny in the history of reading is up to more adventures and taking everyone along for the ride. And she's reappeared just in time. According to her tape measure, Jane and Michael have grown "Worse and Worse" since she went away. But the children won't have time to be naughty with all that Mary has planned for them. A visit to Mr. Twigley’s music box-filled attic, an encounter with the Marble Boy and a ride on Miss Calico’s enchanted candy canes are all part of an average day out with everyone's favorite nanny. Illustrations by Mary Shepard. -
Ronald Searle ( St. Trinians, Down With Skool, How To Be Topp, et al) describes several fantasy, fictional and overwhelming encounters with Toulouse-Lautrec - with illustrations! -
The story of the most daring cavalry operation of the American Civil War. A thousand silent horsemen hurry southwards on dusty Mississippi Roads - hungry, filthy and red-eyed with fatigue, too tired to speak. They are Marlowe's brigade, leaving behind them a trail of fire and chaos. The war between the States is in its third bitter year, and a rebel force fed by a single railroad artery holds out. Marlowe's brigade gets the job of cutting that lifeline - for good. -
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. -
The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Léon is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed - and impossible to come by. Louise's friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette is convinced that her hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, will come to their rescue. She refuses to believe that he only exists in her imagination. 'I say that the Scarlet Pimpernel can do anything! And I mean to get in touch with him,' she vows, and sets forth into the Paris streets... -
Somerset Maugham - husband, father, bi-sexual; homosexual; playwright, author, thorough-going agnostic and - spy, recruited to the network of British agents who operated against the Berlin Committee during World War 1. Published in 1937, the aim of this book - which, according to the author, makes no attempt to be biographical in the strict sense - is to trace the developments of Maugham's style, technique and choice of subject matter in his novels, plays and short stories. There is also speculation of the the thought and philosophy of which Maugham's work is his eloquent expression. -
First published in 1822, de Quincey's best-known work is still in print. Though seemingly offering the reader poignant memories, temporal digressions and random anecdotes, the Confessions is a work of great sophistication and rated as one of the most impressive and influential of all autobiographies. He evidences a nervous self-awareness as he scrutinises his own life in an effort to answer that eternal question: Who am I? The horrors of addiction are not a large part of the whole yet in its day it was regarded as a 'lucrative piece of sensational journalism, albeit published in a more intellectually respectable organ' ( London Magazine). Written in an almost romantic, self-reflective neo-classical style it still today reaches out to the reader. -
Subtitle: Being Two Hundred Pictures of the English Inn from the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Railway Hotel. Somewhat misleading - this is not a book of two hundred pictures, but two hundred observations on the history of the English inn and its role in society, travel, festivals, portentous solemnity, a place of repose...The observations come from a fantastic diversity of names: John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell, Disraeli, Dickens, Washington Irving, Thomas de Quincey, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, 'George Eliot', Chaucer, Anthony Trollope and many more. The theme of the observations is as diverse as the contributors: from the 'gallant' in the tavern to the arranging of duels; from gluttons to gourmands; from highwaymen to harridans; from cockroaches to cleanliness and - of course - hosts and hostesses. -
Kundu: Morris L. West
$30.00Set in the Highland valleys of New Guinea, a white man meddles with the age-old mysteries of the native tribes. There is Kumo, the sorcerer, jealous of the white man's power; Kurt Sonderfield, owner of a coffee plantation; Gerda, his wife - and the men who love her - and N'Daria, the sensual native girl who shares the worlds of Kumo and Sonderfield. -
The true and truly unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have twelve kids and Dad can prove demonstrably - well, almost! - that efficiency principles can apply to family life as well as the workplace. Made into a film (1950) with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as Dad and Mum Gilbreth and remade in 2003. (See the original, it's funnier!) -
In this volume: All Fools' Day: Dorita Fairlie Bruce; A Painful Prep, Lucy Scott; A Good Turn, Grace Mary Golden; The Domestic Economy Class, Peggy Judge; The Tale Of A Trail, Jessie McAlpine; The Innocent Sinner, Dora M. Hardisty; White Heather and Second Fiddle, Shirley Grey; Pamela's Pound, Gunby Hadath; Mount Warning, by Castleden Dove; The White Rabbit At School, Winifred Darch; Prue Goes Shopping, Barbara E. Todd; The Play's The Thing, Agnes Frome; The Price Of Attainment, Agnes Adams; A Shooting Star, E.M. de Foubert; Puck's Performance, G.M. Faulding; The Ragging Of Rachel, Christine Chaundler. Illustrated with colour plates and black and white line drawings. -
'...Containing the best modern methods for treatment of women's and children's diseases with a comprehensive index of symptoms.' Some listings of this book designate it as being first published in 1912 ( the date of the Australian Copyr4ight Act) but it was in fact first published in 1917 (Reference: https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=183E). Earlier editions are credited to Eulalia and Franklin Richards, her husband (also a doctor). Later revised and expanded editions are credited to Eulalia Richards only. A comprehensive manual for home health, it covers courtship and marriage; what is necessary for a successful marriage; sex; nutrition for mothers-to-be and children; chest, heart and blood diseases; urinary and genital diseases; nervous disorders and skin diseases; ear, nose, throat and eye problems; infectious diseases; tuberculosis; the relationship between health and women's dress fashions; bladder and bowel issues; puberty, menstruation and menopause; venereal diseases; health in middle life and home/first aid treatments. There's a great deal here that is commonsense, some treatments that definitely would NOT be used today and much to interest the medical student/historian. Illustrated.
