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Inspired by real events. The story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes - and the personal toll on the team and the man who led it. -
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 -
Who is Kinky Friedman? He's an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, defender of stray animals and former satirical columnist. Friedman shifted his creative focus from music in the 70s to writing in the 80s - detective novels written in the style of Raymond Chandler and featuring a fictionalised version of himself, solving crimes in New York City and dispensing jokes, wisdom, recipes, charm and whiskey in equal measure. In this omnibus volume: Armadilloes and Old Lace: The Kinkster decides to take a break from big-city murder but scarcely does he arrive in Texas before his friend, Judge Knox, turns up wanting to talk about four little old ladies. No, they don't want the Kinkster to join a quilting bee - they're - er - dead... God Bless John Wayne: The Kinkster's back in his Lower Manhattan loft, having taken on the seemingly easy task of helping his friend Ratso find his true birth mother - an assignment which leads to untidy mayhem involving a couple of corpses and a plot to kill Ratso... The Love Song Of J. Edgar Hoover: The Kinkster is hired by Polly Price to find her missing husband but he's let himself in for far more trouble than he bargained for - and when Village Irregular Mike McGovern disappears along with the lovely Polly, Kinky comes to the natural conclusion: The FBI is after him! Cover art by Mick Brownfield. -
This is the life of a Canadian trapper in the early 1800s. Charlie Kennedy lives in the arctic colony known as the Red River Settlement with Indians, Scotsmen, and French-Canadian settlers. His father, an old fur trader, hopes to convince his son to become a clerk by recounting the dangers of the trapper’s life, but the stories only inspire the boy more to explore the vast Canadian wilderness. A variety of circumstances lead to Charlie trapping in the vast forests, on a journey with voyagers down perilous rivers, and surviving all sorts of scrapes and adventures with a new acquaintance, Jacques Caradoc, and an Indian named Red Feather. Many of Charlie’s exploits are taken from the real-life experiences of R.M. Ballantyne’s own time with the Hudson Bay Company in Canada. Just as Ballantyne had done, Charlie learns to shoot mercury from his rifle through a two inch board in 39 degree below zero temperatures. Discover the strenuous and vigorous life of a trapper through the eyes of Charlie and his friends. -
All the stars of the screen are featured in this annual, together with the film releases of the year and all the glamour of the premières attended by Royalty. There's Richard Burton, Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Anthony Quinn, Danny Kaye, John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Kim Novak and so many more. There's studio photographs, candid shots, stills and behind the scenes, between the takes and on location. There's even retro photographs and tributes to the silent screen greats. Cover shows Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in The King And I. -
A collection of some of H.V. Morton's columns for the Daily Express, which is still in print today almost 100 years later. Morton never did the tourist route; instead he went off the beaten track to look into what really made a city. What he found was London's wonderful diversity of people against intriguing backgrounds. Among other places, he visits the docks, the Caledonian Market, Petticoat Lane, the Free Cancer Hospital, observes the nannies and their charges in Kensington Gardens, tea-shops, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the Lost Property Office and many other places. -
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. -
A drama takes place in a small town in Northern England following the life of a young doctor who has returned from the Congo to take over his uncle's practice. Very likely to have been based on Wallace's own time in the Congo reporting on the brutality and violence of Belgian colonialism, this novel follows the young doctor as he fights the intolerance, ignorance and religious fanaticism of his local townsfolk. -
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. -
No Sugar: Jack Davis
$20.00A spirited and internationally acclaimed play set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. It tells the story of an Aboriginal family, the Millimurras. who removed from their home and forced to work on the Moore River Native Settlement. The Millimurra family take a stand against the Government's 'protection' of 1930s Australia - the Chief Protector, A.O. Neville believed at that time that 'the native must be helped in spite of himself.' Published in 1986, academics consider it an effort to validate the importance of Aboriginal culture, while also communicating the feelings of isolation when people cannot understand their own language and cultural customs. It received the Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) for best stage play. -
Former psychiatric nurse turned comedienne Jo Brand, best known here for her appearances on QI and Getting On, does not hold back on her opinions of men and the balls-up they've made of the world. No-one escapes - From Henry VIII to Mao Zedong to Elvis Presley, everyone gets equal roasting. On Sid Vicious: They had their own special language, which involved the use of phrases like, 'F*** off, you tosser,' particularly if they liked someone...On Martin Luther: Being declared a heretic in those days wasn't a barrel of laughs - it didn't take much for you to be playing the starring kebab role. On Rasputin: ...hair greasy enough to fry an egg on, eyes that would have been at home in Marty Feldman's face and a tunic that could make it back to Siberia on its own...' There's plenty of Jo Brand's particular brand of irreverent wryness to shock you into laughs. -
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. -
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 hilarious illustrated English 'history' of drinking, with illustrations by Larry and fanciful chapter headings such as: British Boozing Begins; Roman Revels; Saxon Swilling; The Birth of Brewing and Strong Bere for the Quene among many other humourous references. -
Pleasure Man: Mae West
$12.00This was originally written in 1928 as a play by the famous actress. It was considered so raunchy it was shut down by the censors before it appeared. The story is set backstage in vaudeville and dramatises the career of handsome headliner of Rodney Terrill, whose wild sex affairs with women lead to an unexpected - but probably well deserved - ending. A very 'ripping yarn' full of sauce with a very unexpected ending.
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In this volume: The Family Streak andThe Old Fault, Shirley Grey; Hiking On Horseback, Cora Gordon; The Scotch Society, Constance Savery; The Monster Of Loch Shee, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; 'For The Best Disguise', Evelyn Simms; The Three Workers, Frances Joyce; Mr Stewart's Nuggets, Wallace Carr, The Fairies' Gift: A Welsh Story, Ann Vaughan; The Parrot That Did Not Talk, Elizabeth Whitely; Caroline And The Smuggler, Jocelyn Oliver; Good Aunt Earle, M.A. Peart; Camping Out, A.G. Holman; Jill Repays, Anne Page; Pamela's Piebald, Gunby Hadath; The Wanderer, Thora Stowell; How To Dive, W.J. Howcroft; Sally's Sunday, Alice Massie; The Poison Cupboard, Frances Joyce. -
A recent census taken among cats show that approximately 100% neurotic. Of course they are. As a human, you have everything they want and you refuse to share it. You take up too much room in the bed, keep the best food for yourself, don't offer them a seat at the table and hang on to the remote control for the TV. This cat's-eye view of thew world is full of helpful pointers, such as:- Don't try to give your cat a bath. Cats wash themselves several times a day;
- The best place to keep food out of a cat's reach is your safe, provided the cat doesn't know the combination;
- If your cat is willing to share your bed with you, he gets first crack at the pillow, blankets and any space he wants. You get what's left over;
- Explain the rules to your cat. Then follow his;
- A cat's greatest gift to his owner is that he lends you his presence. That should be more than enough.
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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 classic children's fantasy adventure that was first published in 1863. Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls fast asleep, and becomes a water baby. In this new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Other-End-Of-Nowhere, Tom achieves his heart's desire. Illustrated by Harry G. Theaker. -
The mystery of the Man behind the Iron Mask has intrigued people for over 250 years, inspiring as much fantasy as serious conjecture. This is the story of the story, so to speak; an account of the theories and counter-theories, from the claim that he was the twin brother of Louis XIV to the recognition that he was Eustache Dauger, with diversion by way of such candidates as the Duke of Monmouth, Richard Cromwell, Molière, Nicholas Fouquet, an Armenian archbishop, an Italian astrologer and many more. Complete and comprehensive, this is a presentation of all the known facts of the prisoner's existence chronologically, as they have been discovered, together with all the myths as they have flourished from the preposterous stories put about by his gaoler in 1669 to the alleged discovery of his skeleton in a tower in Cannes in 1977. As the various stories are revealed, the reader may accept or reject the assorted evidence and develop his own views before the author presents his own conclusions. Illustrated. -
Does anyone have tales from their elders of sitting around the radio, waiting for their favourite serials to come on the air? When A Girl Marries...and Blue Hills. At Oolera, an isolated township in Central Australia, Sister Heather Jamieson of the Australian Inland Mission answers a radio call for help for an injured stockman on Copper Downs Station. There, she is soon doing battle with the owner, Ric Carson, who accepts hardships for himself yet invites no woman to share them. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, her brother Donald has been influenced by her accounts of Australian life and desiring to widen his horizons, is planning to emigrate. His fiancée, Ellie, is afraid to leave the security of home and family. Meredith's story follows the fortunes of them all, with emphasis on Ellie's development which brings her not only to Australia but deep into the heart of its sun-scorched interior. -
Over a hundred enigmas to solve, as well as logical puzzles, magic squares, brain teasers, riddles and more to wake up, perk up and bend the grey matter. Thrown deep into the fascinating and mysterious world of the Celts, can you dodge the traps of these tricky games and enigmas? There's no magic sickle or druid's potion to help you; rather a (hopefully) alert mind, a little reflection and a lot of cunning will be needed to get to the bottom of these Celtic enigmas. -
Australian insults, invective, ridicule and abuse as only Australians could invent! From lords and ladies, governors and generals and even Ned Kelly - on all topics from Explosive Explorers to Royalty Rebuked. Here is some of the real Australian history, some of it in satirical verse, such as Wowsers by Anon, 1911: For six days long they lie and cheat...And on the seventh at Church they meet...To render to the Lord their God...A threepenny bit, with a holy nod; And then they part with unctuous smile - and a prayer to prosper the next weeks guile. Or this, spotted on the headstone of an old-time Murray River settler's grave: He revelled 'neath the moon; He slept beneath the sun; He lives a life of going-to-do - And died with nothing done. -
A family is curious about a legend surrounding a string of beads, handed down from Great-grandfather. Kept in a horn snuff-box with a clue - or a riddle -
Our mystical meaning a secret shall be: Here's a key for a lock, find a key for the key.
They must be kept in the house as long as the house remains in the family - and this was stated clearly in Great Grandfather's will. It was believed, once, that the string of beads - being a variety of colours - might be a form of cipher or code that contained a hidden message. But none yet have cracked the code... -
When Eva Smiled: R.T. Foster
$30.00Humorous Australian poetry, often satirising news events of the day: Down To Earth lampoons Professor Auguste Piccard's prediction of future space journeys to distant solar systems lasting thousands of years and from which it would be possible to return without aging. All manner of everyday life events are in the sights of Foster's gun, from the culinary arts to modern sculpture, with a few sly digs at political notables from the Cold War Era. With amusing black and white illustrations by Emeric.
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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.
