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Two short stories: Little Brown House: The senator's wife - a life of receptions, dinners, social occasions and connections - can feel herself ever more distanced from her successful husband with every passing day. When she sees a little brown house for sale, she impulsively and secretly buys it and gives it to Annie, a homeless lady, who transforms it into a home of laughter, good food and a haven for mothers and children. Her kind act reveals a secret - about the senator. The Youngest Officer: Bruce, or 'Duny' as he likes to call himself, is only a little boy when his young mother dies. His father, a regimental officer, is heartbroken and the regimental wives take little Duny to their hearts. But when the regiment is shipped out, Duny must go and live with Great Aunt Lydia - a very different life. But he always remembers that his duty is to the regiment - and his endearing loyalty reveals a dark family secret. -
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! -
Gabrielle Van Der Mal, a young gifted and strong willed Belgian girl, becomes Sister Luke and as a nun must remove all traces of her former self and sublimate herself as a devoted bride of Christ with no room for her personal desires and aspirations. She dedicates her life to the care of the sick as she battles to reconcile the demands of her Order with her pride as a nurse. She must face the heart-breaking and terrifying task of nursing the insane and finds her faith tested in Africa where she finds herself at odds with headstrong Dr. Fortunati, operator of a remote Congo hospital, with whom she gradually builds respect. She is ordered not to take sides in World War II, even as she witnesses the horrors of the Nazi invasion of Belgium and risks her life aiding the escape of British airmen and this order causes the final conflict within Sister Luke. -
Us And Them: Patrick Cook
$15.00Aussie humour, in the best of traditions - Cook takes his place with O'Grady, Wep and Lumsden with this book of caricatures. He sees humanity as somewhat like Basil Fawlty - surrounded by social and technical enigmas that one can only survive through a display of style and therapeutic outbursts of temporary madness. Laughter IS good for the soul! -
Fun fantasy and time stories: I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: A town does not want to forget its past and begins producing random - and physical - 'memories'. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere: What happens when two work colleagues find a novelty shop - with a difference. Where the Cluetts Are: A couple find their perfect house in an old blueprint - and the house seems to have found the perfect owners. Hey, Look At Me! A shy young author dies, but still wants to leave his mark on the world...The Coin Collector: A man picks up an odd coin in his change - which allows him to visit a parallel universe and live two different lives. The Love Letter: When a young man buys an old desk and finds a young lady's letter to an unknown lover, he answers it - and gets a reply. Also in this volume: A Possible Candidate For The Presidency; The Prison Legend; Time Has No Boundaries and The Intrepid Aeronaut. A book for the serious collector - very hard to get. -
Stories include: Pandora the Prig, Peggy Carr; Out Of Bounds, A.E. Seymour; The Girl Who Had Too Many Friends, Mary Gervaise; Christmas At The Towers, M.C. Field; A Mixed Scent, Bessie Marchant; The Spies, Grace Golden; Out On Ben Corrig, Nancy Firle. With colour and black and white illustrations. -
No home was complete with an annual, affordable, all-round reference work: The Pear's Cyclopaedia. It covered World Events (from 2234 B.C. to present day); A Citizen's Guide to local and central laws, the United Nations, various Societies and recent legislation; The Gazetteer of the World, with maps and descriptions of other countries; Everyday Information, such as common abbreviations, synonyms and antonyms and entries of general interest, bank rates, conversion tables, exchange rates, postal information and how to address persons of rank; Home and Personal covered beauty, health, cooking, gardening, sports, radio, television, care of domestic pets and poultry and so much more. Publication of this vital handbook began in 1897 and ceased in 2017 as the internet finally won. -
Volume 1 contains some of Poe's better-known and many of his lesser-known tales, including: The Gold-Bug; The Adventure of One Hans Pfaall; The Balloon Hoax; Von Kemelen And His Discovery; Mesmeric Revelation; The Facts In The Case Of M.Valdemar; MS. Found In A Bottle; A Descent Into The Maelstrom; The Black Cat; The Fall Of The House Of Usher; The Pit And The Pendulum; The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade; The Premature Burial; The Masque Of The Red Death; The Cask Of Amontillado; The Imp Of The Perverse; The Island Of The Fay; The Oval Portrait; The Assignation; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Domain Of Arnheim; Landor's Cottage; William Wilson; Berenice; Eleonora; Ligeia; Morella, Metzgengerstein; The Murders In The Rue Morgue; The Mystery Of Marie Roget; The Purloined Letter. -
Mary and Tony's parents do not take them to the seaside as usual for their holiday. Instead, they are going to have their holiday at Fallow Farm where they'll learn about animals both tame and wild. This would not be a story with enough sophistication for modern children, but the illustrations alone make this a very worthwhile book. -
Considered a must for every child's Christmas stocking. Tiger Tim's annual has stories, games, puzzles, cartoons, jokes and riddles - something for all ages and just the thing to keep children occupied in the post-Christmas aftermath, especially in England. -
This novel spans 130 years and follows the line of women of the Wrotham family, beginning with Sabrina in 1806. The daughter of a socially disgraced, sadistic roué, she is sponsored into 'Society' by her step-aunt - after having had some good manners vigorously instilled in her and her tomboyish ways smoothed out. Her brother Prior's marriage and production of children play a part in keeping the Wrotham name going. The next Wrotham woman is Clare - her brother Anthony's marriage to Harriet brings Charlotte to the line and the last is Gillian Rose, known as 'Jill'. The diaries and letters of the women are fictitious but the times in which the story is set are not, and many historical characters and events of England are brought to the story. As the generations overlap, with the members of each generation subscribing to the beliefs of their day, there is little sentimental romance involved - just a very good story, tinted with gentle romance and enhanced by the backdrop of historic reality. -
A compilation of over 6000 quotations arranged thematically; a great reference for speeches, essays and letter writing as well as for trivia quiz and crossword buffs. On actors - Marlon Brando: An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. Or the home? Cicero: What is more agreeable than one's own home? Or there's Spencer Tracy's memory of the lean times in his life, before stardom: There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. And from Bert Leston Taylor, journalist: A bore is a man who, when you ask how he is, tells you. With an introduction by Reginald Hill. -
We often use expressions without thinking about it, but why do we use them and what are their origins? Such as cheesed off to denote irritation; and what does it mean to cock a snook? Why a kangaroo court? All these and so much more, great potential for trivia nights. A great little volume to browse now and then. -
Thomas Stanley Hepworth (1916 - 1985) was a teacher, author and editor, responsible for the Australian Children's Newspaper, The ABC Children's Hour Annual Nos. 1–5 (1956–58, 1960–61), and The Australian Children's Annual Nos 6–8 (1963–65). There is plenty to amuse and educate in this thoughtfully-produced annual: stories, plays, information on how things were manufactured, hobbies and other countries; songs; riddles; crosswords and handicrafts. Contributors to this edition include Ruth Park, Rowena Farre, Denys Burrows, G.K. Saunders and 'The Argonauts'. In a day of limited television, these annuals were regarded as very instructive for young people. Illustrated with cartoons and black and white photographs of events in Australia and overseas. -
Thomas Stanley Hepworth (1916 - 1985) was a teacher, author and editor, responsible for the Australian Children's Newspaper, The ABC Children's Hour Annual #1–#5 (1956–58, 1960–61), and The Australian Children's Annual #6–#8 (1963–65). There is plenty to amuse and educate in this thoughtfully-produced annual: stories, plays, information on how things were manufactured, hobbies and other countries; songs; riddles; crosswords and handicrafts. Contributors to this edition include Ruth Park, Carl Huson, Philip Sidney and Denys Burrows. Illustrated with cartoons and black and white photographs of events in Australia and overseas - including one of 'Miss Pat' and 'Mr Squiggle' for the truly nostalgic Australian. -
Born Juliana Horatia Gatty in Yorkshire, 1841, Mrs Ewing's first successful story was The Brownies. Fifty years later, Sir Robert Baden-Powell adopted the name for the junior branch of the Girl Guide Movement. Even though these stories were written in the Victorian age, when life was very different, they address child behaviour issues that still exist: laziness, self-entitlement and taking things for granted. In this volume: The Brownies; The Land Of Lost Toys; Three Christmas Trees; An Idyll Of The Wood; Christmas Crackers; Amelia And The Dwarfs. With four colour plate illustrations by E.H. Shephard. -
A real must-have for serious film historians: this volume contains the listing for all films made over 1955 - 1956 and commentaries by Orson Wells, Richard Burton and Alfred Hitchcock. Illustrated with evocative and numerous still, studio and publicity photos. -
Four men set out on camel-back to cross the starkly beautiful Red Centre. Two of the men have mysterious pasts and their stories are woven into this novel that reveals dramatically the indigenous way of life. Illustrated by Mona Killpack. -
A very thorough work which - in this edition - also covers the years since Federation. Contents: The First Visitors; The Penal Settlement; The Colony Expands; The Days of Bourke; The Daughter Colonies; The Coming Of Self-Government; New Zealand In The Early Days; New Zealand 139-1851; The Gold Discoveries And Their Results; Filling In The Map; Constitutional Government; New Zealand Since 1850; Australiasia; Australian Literature: this chapter covers such luminaries as Henry Kendall, Marcus Clarke; A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Henry Lawson and Adam Lindsay Gordon, among others. A must for any sincere history buff. With fine colour maps, numerous black and white illustrations and useful margin notations for quick reference. -
A fascinating history of Christmas carols and their meanings. Who was Good King Wenceslas? What are the pagan origins of The Holly And The Ivy? And - of course - what was the partridge doing in the pear tree? Carols first appeared in the Middle Ages, when a carol was any song sung with the singer standing in a circle; they were banned under Puritan law and united the soldiers on both sides on the Western front; and they are the longest running tradition of Christmas. -
To the accompaniment of a pungent whiff of hot oil, a miniature cascade of coal dust and frozen snow, and the rasping sound of the derrick chain, the last of the cargo for No. 3 hold of the S.S. Donibristle bumped heavily upon the mountain of crates that almost filled the dark confined space. "Guess that's the lot, boss," observed the foreman stevedore. "Thanks be!" ejaculated Alwyn Burgoyne, third officer of the 6200-ton tramp, making a cryptic notation in the 'hold-book.' "Right-o; all shipshape there? All hands on deck and get those hatches secured. Look lively lads!" Burgoyne waited until the last of the working party had left the hold, then, clambering over a triple tier of closely-stowed packing-cases, he grasped the coaming of the hatch and with a spring gained the deck. "What a change from Andrew!" he soliloquized grimly, as he surveyed the grimy, rusty iron deck and the welter of coal-dust and snow trampled into a black slime. "All in a day's work, I suppose, and thank goodness I'm afloat." Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson. Author Percy Westerman was known for his accurate portrayals of sea-life and war. Many of his adventure tales were set in World War I. During his lifetime, he wrote an impressive catalogue of 178 books. -
In 1965 a young man joined the well-established 'House of Pears' as a junior partner. Thomas J. Barrett's genius for advertising made Pears Soap a household name world-wide. But he also believed in education, convinced that poverty, squalor and slums were in great measure due to ignorance and realising that massive dictionaries and encyclopaedias were beyond the reach of the general public, he decided to publish a book that contained practical everyday information with general knowledge all in one inexpensive volume. And so, Pear's Cyclopaedia came to be published at the end of the 19th century. The book grew steadily over the years and changed as new knowledge was added - until countless copies found their way into homes all over the world. Now older editions serve as fabulous historical documents in which changes to nations, borders, medical knowledge, communications and all manner of general knowledge is documented. In this, the 1958 - 1958 edition: The Wider World (Events; Prominent People; A Citizen's Guide; The Law Of England; Background to Economic Problems; The World of Science; Greek Myths and Legends); Everyday Information (Gazetteer of the World; Atlas of the World; General Information; Literary Companion; General Compendium); Home And Personal (Medical Matters and Baby Care; Family Affairs; Hygiene and Cosmetics; Cookery, Wines and Indoor Plants; Gardening; Sports and Pastimes; Radio, Television and Radar; Poultry and Pigeons; Domestic Pets and Birds). Certainly a book with something for everyone. -
Pale Rider: Alan Dean Foster
$10.00A nameless stranger rides into the corrupt and explosive gold-rush town of Lahood, California. His arrival coincides with the prayer of a young girl who is hoping for a miracle to end the sudden and random violence in the community. Fifteen year-old Megan quietly recites from the Bible: "And I looked, and beheld a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death and Hell followed with him.' A story of confrontation in a lawless time, the nameless stranger becomes a catalyst for hope and retribution. A struggle between ruthless corporation gunmen and innocent independent miners takes on a new meaning with the appearance of the enigmatic horseman... A novelisation based the screenplay of the film Pale Rider by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack. Follows the film almost exactly. The book contains stills from the film. -
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 -
Erewhon: Samuel Butler
$8.00Book I of Erewhon. After a series of near-mishaps, Biggs, a traveler, crosses a mountain range and stumbles into a fantastic land utterly unknown to him - only to be jailed: for in this odd place being penniless is tantamount to criminality. Here, criminals are treated as sick people, sick people are treated as criminals and machines are outlawed. Slowly learning the language and gaining the confidence of his hosts, he comes to know their strange ways and their stranger ideas and institutions - including the Hospital for Incurable Bores, the Musical Banks, the College of Unreason - and the Museum of Old Machines. First published in 1873 and written as a commentary on marriage, religion education, crime and a world dominated by machines, this classic could apply to any time and anywhere in the world. -
Arthur Daley, national institution, super patriot and Olympic gold medallist in Ducking and Diving, takes a long hard look at the state of the nation and asks: What Is Occurring? Her Majesty the Queen forced to open up the hallowed portals of Buck House and become a Pentax-dodger; Mrs Thatcher roaming the seas singing for her supper; the fate of the country left in the hands of a Nerd-Do-Well and a Chancellor who smokes cigarillos - and even Her Holiness Lady Porter treated like some common shoplifter at Tesco! But Arthur is on hand. His brief? To hold out a beacon of hope to hapless Brits lost in a mailroom of uncertainty and to lead them back to the level playing field on top of the high moral ground. To bring the country back to basics on such burning topics as the Monarchy; Sport, Education; the Citizen's Charter (Arthurised version); Europe, the Arts and the vexed question of Sunday Trading - in short it's an in-depth company report on Great Britain that makes the Doomsday Book look like a takeaway menu from the Fulham Golden Palace. -
Realising he was on more than delicate ground and risking being caught between the choppers of the Machos and the Amazons , the irrepressible Ronald Searle felt it was more than time for a de-sexerciser - or at least, having a second look at some of the more sombre sexist crannies in the English language. The French don't seem to mind that la barbe (beard) is feminine; but in neuter English there are some anomalies crying out for correction. Is it logic that men should monopolise menopause ? Out of justice, womenpause must come. And so, Searle has corrected anomalies such as abandonment (abandonwoment) mandolin (womandolin) dismantle diswomantle - and more - complete with illustrations.
