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So you thought rugby league was a serious game played by hulking blokes in short pants. Think again. It might be tough out there on the field, but rugby league players love a laugh as much as the restof us. That's right - Blocker Roach and Mark Sargent are a frightening sight in full flight, but sit them down, put a cold beer in their hand and they'll spin a yarn with the best of them. And 20 more of footie's finest, ex-players and commentators do just that. Wally Lewis, Andrew Ettingshausen, Peter Sterling and more recall their hilarious moments in the game and give the inside guff of some of league's greatest mysteries and tall tales. You've heard of the 'eye of the tiger' - now read all about Tommy Raudonikus and the heart of the bull. There's the time Dallas Donnelly ate out the kitchen in Singapore and Mark Geyer stopped traffic in Paris - and just who was the Mysterious Underpants Phantom of Redfern Oval? Cartoons by 'Boo' Bailey. -
Mad Max is a survivor - and now he takes on Bartertown, built by Aunty Entity but now being run and blackmailed by the ferocious MasterBlaster. Here is the story and loads of fabulous photos of all the characters from the classic third and original Road Warrior series: Max, Dr. Dealgood, Aunty Entity, MasterBlaster, Iron bar Massie and the Lost Tribe. A very good piece of film memorabilia. -
Five years after the success of The Sentimental Bloke, Dennis continued the tale of Rose, the girl Ginger Mick left behind. Inclined to recklessness and 'like to come to 'arm' the Bloke appoints himself chief rescuer - like some 'tin knight of old' and later, bumbling match-maker. But Doreen is there, of course, to save the day. An Australian classic. With delicate black and white illustrations and a glossary of the slang of the times.
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No collection of nautical fiction would be complete without the inclusion of Tom Cringle's Log, a novel that - together with the works of Marryat - became a cornerstone of the genre on its publication some 150 years ago. Told in an irresistible and immediate style, the story follows the life of young midshipman Tom Cringle: his imprisonment in occupied Germany by Napoleon's forces, his West Indian cruise on the Torch, a British man-of-war, his daring escape from West Indian pirates and his ultimate promotion to the officer ranks. Edited by Ernest Rhys. -
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. -
Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even as it was criticised for its sentimentality by figures such as Oscar Wilde. Yet alongside the story's pathos are some of Dickens's greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved 'Marchioness' and the lustful, loathsome Quilp himself. Colour plates.
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After Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) came Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln, who was an instructor at the Boston Cooking School, where she influenced a generation of cooking professionals, including Fannie Farmer, with her methods based in the '...chemistry and philosophy of food.' Mrs Lincoln published The Boston Cook Book in 1883 and it became a standard in American kitchens and was also widely used in cooking classrooms. Specific instruction in the basics of technique, kitchen set-up, and preparation insured that young and/or inexperienced cooks would have great success with Mrs. Lincoln's recipes. This edition dated is 1921, the year Mrs. Lincoln died. -
On of the liveliest characters in Australian history is Sir Henry Browne Hayes, the Irish knight who was transported for abducting a Quaker heiress and who surrounded his house with Irish earth to keep the snakes away. This is the tale of his adventures and tales of some of his friends not known to history - especially Gos Blackthorn, a young man who did not know his real name or parentage, and Mary McGregor, the Quaker girl he loved. Their fortunes are caught up in the fortunes of the new colony, from the rising of the Irish convicts at Castle Hill to the Rum Rebellion. Gos becomes a fugitive, escaping to new country with the aborigines, while Sir Henry alternates between dispensing lavish hospitality at Vaucluse House and paying for his indiscretions in the chain-gangs or coal-mines. There is also Patsy O'Neill, Sir Henry's groom who follows Sir Henry to Australia and becomes a farmer on the Hawkesbury. A fabulous story, woven into the fabric of Australia's rough-and-tumble early history. Trivia - Frank O'Grady is the brother of author John O'Grady, a.k.a. Nino Culotta. -
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.
