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Originally published over 300 years ago as The Compleat Housewife - and 100 years before the famous Mrs Beeton - Eliza Smith, drawing on her vast experience while 'constantly employed by fashionable and noble families' compiled this collection of over 600 recipes which had 'met with general approbation'. There are also remedies and cures for the 'benefit of every accomplished noblewoman' for every ailment from the bite of a mad dog to a case of pimples. This book was not only famous in Britain, but also in America where it has the distinction of being the first ever cookery book to be published there. N.B. Please exercise caution if you should decide to try any of the remedies mentioned; this is a 300 year old book and some of the recommendations and ingredients therein would definitely NOT be advisable to try. -
The last chapter of Heidi was called, 'Promises to Meet Again.' In this sequel, written by Johanna Spyri's translator, all the timeless characters do meet again - Peter, the goat-herd; Clara, no longer an invalid; Granny; the good Doctor and Grandfather. There are new characters to meet and new stories to tell as Heidi begins a strange new life at boarding school. Illustrations by Pelagie Doane. -
Sam Pig lives in a thatched cottage with Tom, Bill and Ann Pig - and also Brock the Badger. Cheerful stories for children from Alison Uttley (1884-1976) who wrote over 100 stories for little people, including a pioneering time-slip novel A Traveller In Time. Illustrations by A.E. Kennedy. -
More than 4,000 American Express employees were in Lower Manhattan on the morning of 9/11. Many had just arrived at the office and were getting ready to start their day. Eleven Coporate Travel employees who worked on the 94th floor of the World Trade Centre's north tower died that day. This is American Express' tribute to them and to all the A.E. employees world-wide, who turned to and kept going through the devastation of that day. Includes a CD. An item for collectors of the unusual. -
The trip with the football team is a tradition and a rite of passage: the first trip where they stay at motels rather than being billeted, someone's going to lose his virginity, everyone's expected to get drunk... On this trip The Sandman makes a significant discovery - which he can't disclose, because then it won't be his secret anymore. Sandy is a natural bus clown- not the leader of the group, but the one who entertains the others and performs his funny noises if the cool players at the back of the bus get bored, such as the Pterodactyl, the Lip Trumpet, Compressed Air Walking.... This will resonate with blokes who grew up in Australia - specifically Newcastle - in the early to mid seventies. Politically incorrect cover art by Michael Bell, The Sandman, Archibald Prize finalist 2000. -
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. -
A Tale of Rome, in the time of Marcus Aurelius...very few major historical characters will appear here. This story concerns itself with the back streets of Rome; the artisans, the growers and the makers; where hucksters and tricksters rubs shoulders with priests and philosophers. The Encyclopedia of the Novel describes it as a 'playfully comic' depiction of Ancient Rome. So don't worry too much about any historical inaccuracies you may find, it's all in good fun! -
A light-hearted, adventure story, set on the Great Barrier Reef around Lizard Island and Cooktown, of two young boys who join a trochus shell fishing boat and cruise to Lizard Island. A story for young adults, and it is NOT about opium or any other drug. -
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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Jean de Mer is an Acadian Ranger - an unofficial seigneur of lands around Minas Basin. After three years' absence he returns to find his son Marc in trouble with a French partisan leader known as the Black Abbé. Taken captive, Marc is to be tried as a spy. Father and son make a quick escape and plan to expose the treacherous priest. When Marc is wounded, Jean sets out on a perilous canoe journey with a young English woman to rescue her child from the Black Abbé. Set in the years leading up to the 1755 expulsion of the Acadians.
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Book III in the Bum trilogy. Dedicated by the author to anyone who has or who has ever had a bum, the last instalment promises the reader: Bums! Action! Adventure! Romance! Robots! Time Travel! Prehistoric Bums! Giant Brown Blobs! A Huge Arsteroid! Plenty of scope for bum, fart and poo jokes here, for the young and the young at heart. -
Features four stories: Death In Texas, Brett Halliday; Four Knights, Gerry Maddren; Deadly Queen, Brett Halliday; Motorcycle, William Babula. Federal Publishing Company Pty Limited, Waterloo, undated, but probably circa 1982. -
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. -
A booklet of 24 ready-to-post picture postcards of Old Sydney from the 1870s to the 1950s. Real historical documents that include Barrack Street, 1900; Martin Place, c. 1929; Circular Quay and the ferries of 1930; the Pyrmont Bridge, 1870; the Victoria Markets c. 1890 (where the Queen Vic building now stands); some fabulous shots of the Harbour Bridge construction and much more. A fabulous addition to the library of a history buff. At 20.00, not even $1.00 per postcard. -
Honouring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves in sublimely idiotic ways, such as: the woman caught in an American national park, smearing honey all over her small son's face so she could get a photo of a bear licking it off; the man who decided to add a plastic bag to his collection of solo sex toys, and who was found with the plastic bag over his head, the vacuum cleaner still running and himself being very very dead; and the two allegedly experienced twenty-something construction workers who fell to their deaths after cutting a circle in a thick concrete floor without realising they were standing in the middle of the circle. All this and much much more! Also includes sections on honorable mentions and debunks.
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The story of the British Army's dash to relieve Khartoum. Cousins Valentine and Jack Fenleigh, meet at school and spend adventurous holidays at their aunt's country cottage. Their friendship is broken when Jack is suspected of stealing a watch but they meet again as soldiers in Egypt, marching to the relief of Gordon in Khartoum. From the narrative, as Valentine - a boy when the story opens - enacts a battle scene with his tin soldiers..."The battle was nearly over. Gallant tin soldiers of the line lay where they had fallen; nearly the whole of a shilling box of light cavalry had paid the penalty of rashly exposing themselves in a compact body to the enemy's fire; while a rickety little field-gun, with bright red wheels, lay overturned on two infantry men, who, even in death, held their muskets firmly to their shoulders, like the grim old "die-hards" that they were. The brigade of guards, a dozen red-coated veterans of solid lead, who had taken up a strong position in the cover of a cardboard box, still held their ground with a desperate valour only equalled by the dogged pluck of a similar body of the enemy, who had occupied the inkstand with the evident intention of remaining there until the last cartridge had been expended. Another volley swept the intervening stretch of tablecloth, and the deadly missiles glanced against the glass bottles and rattled among the pencils and penholders..." -
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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.
