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From the author of The Once and Future King. This volume contains: The Maharajah; A Sharp Attack of Something or Other; The Spaniel Earl; Success or Failure; Nostradamus; No Gratuities; The Troll; The Man; The Black Rabbit; Kin to Love; Soft Voices at Passenham; The Point of Thirty Miles; A Rosy Future, Anonymous; Not Until Tomorrow; The Philistine Cursed David by His Gods; A Link with Petulengro. -
How to survive minor social embarrassments - and somewhat reminiscent of The Grumpy Old Men television series! Have you ever queued, exasperated by the repeated cry of 'Next!' and asked the man in front, 'Are you deaf?' only to discover that he is? Who hasn't tried to slip under the covers before the lover of their dreams discovers they're wearing chewing-gum-grey undies? If you have, then Guy Browning is here with an invaluable guide to surviving such toe-curling moments. His advice includes: What to do when you discover the man you beeped, flashed and swore at for driving too slowly is your girlfriend's father who you'll meet for the first time that night. How to convince your friends that shoes with loo-paper attached to the soles are now a cutting-edge fashion statement. How to argue, persuasively, that George Eliot is in fact a man. Also included: how to use a library; how to push a shopping trolley; how to shop by catalogue and how to exaggerate. -
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 Now older editions serve as fabulous historical documents in which changes to nations, borders, medical knowledge, communications and all manner of general knowledge is documented.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. -
The Venture, an old Trident nuclear sub retrofitted for research has picked up an ancient and powerful artifact on the ocean floor and brought it on board. Called the Hades Stone, it allows the dead to return and join the living. Evil things appear in this world - phantoms. demons and an ancient being called the Stone Keeper, the guardian of the Hades Stone. The demons attack, killing the crew. The portal inside the Hades Stone fills the submarine with the accursed souls of the past. Jack Bavaro, head of Interceptor Force, has gathered his best operatives they know the submarine has been commandeered and they know they cannot just torpedo it - a navy attack submarine that tried was instantly destroyed by the demon-ridden submarine. They must enter the Venture and do battle at the bottom of the ocean. -
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. -
Norman Lindsay kept a small warm corner of his long artistic life for his cats. He not only collected them and kept a horde of them in the stables and sheds, the gardens, bush and architectural nooks of Springwood - allowing the occasional prince to share the master's studio - but he drew them with humour and delightful observation. While The Magic Pudding made Lindsay's kookaburras famous, this other small anabranch of his art meandered own without public scrutiny amid the controversy, furor and celebration of his paintings and pen drawings. Some of the collection presented here were done with quick delight over the behaviour of one of his Springwood friends, others were drawn as cartoons for The Lone Hand or The Bulletin and others were done as Christmas cards or jokes. They all express the pleasure and delight his feline friends gave him. His long time friend, poet and author Douglas Stewart, introduces the drawings with an affectionate memoir of Lindsay and his cats. -
Trying to be remarkable is painful whereas trying to be remembered is simply humiliating. The Sandman believes that in this, his second book, he has captured his fourth most humiliating experience to date. The Sandman (real name Steve Abbott), a noted radio host and comedian on Triple J Radio, is a master of ironic - often dubious - social adaptations. His methods for fitting in can be plausible and ridiculous at the same time and as a misfit with an overwhelming desire to please, can capture the essence of Australian beach culture. -
The legendary Robin Hood will never go out of style - he fights for the poor and for justice. This collection traces him from the day of his outlawry, his meeting with Little John, the forming of his band of men of like mind, outlaws all; the embarrassment of the Sherrif and the eventual return of King Richard. Illustrations by R.C. Smith. -
The plays of Noel 'The Master' Coward still draw audiences today. This is a compilation of the Mermaid Theatre's Cowardy Custard which brought together the best of Noel Coward, as well as some of his less well-known songs and poems. Beautifully illustrated with colour and black and white drawings and photos. -
Homer Smith, a black ex-GI, was a carefree and happy soul on the open road - until he met a group of refugee nuns with an unworkable dream...to build a chapel in the midst of the desert. Homer Smith set out,against impossible obstacles, to make that dream come true. Illustrated by Burt Silverman. -
Book II in the Katy series. Dr. Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a year away at boarding school. A strange place and far from home, but on arrival the girls have an inkling that it might turn out to be rather different from their expectations. One thing is for sure, it certainly isn't going to be dull with Rose Red as an ally. -
Fields was the kind of an actor that only comes along once in several lifetimes - a comic genius and an original anti-hero, cantankerous, pompous and ribald. Here he lays out his proposed presidential campaign with biting wit: his views on politics, big business, marriage, babies, physical fitness and alcohol. A classic Fields comment: when asked if he liked children he replied, "Yes - but only if they're properly cooked." This is vintage Fields and his only book.
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The sequel to The Broad Highway. This is the story of the fiery Charmian's love for her husband and reckless son - and the passion her beauty arouses in two ruthless men. Charmian, now in her forties and a great deal more wary and wise, is still a great beauty and not afraid to gamble life and honor in a sinister and perilous game. While in Paris, young Richard Vibart, son of Sir Peter and Lady Charmian, receives a challenge from Henri Willoughby-Gafton, a famous duelist whom Richard has slapped for speaking lightly of Lady Charmian. When Sir Peter hears of it he hurries to Paris, while Charmian - with a plan of her own - follows secretly. But is Henri Willoughby-Gafton the real villain? Mr. Bob Meadows, the valet from The Broad Highway also makes a reappearance. Set during the Regency.
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First publication for 1954. Stories in this volume: The House Down The Lane, Joan Pepper (Joan Alexander); Conscience, Burgess Drake (author of Chinese White and Hush-A-Bye Baby) The Case Of The China Dogs, Guthram Walsh; Susan And The Elder, Jeffrey Jones; Murder In High Places, Alister Kershaw (Murder In France; Village to Village; Hey Days); Suffer A Witch, Peter Shaffer (Sir Peter Shaffer, Equus); The Water Beast, E.G. Ashton; Escape to Fear, Claire Pollexfen (Plunderer's Harvest, Call of the Horizon) Cardillo's Shadow, Sydney J. Bounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney James Bounds ; The Artist, Jonathan Scribe; The Cave, F. McDermott; The Green Tiger, Rett Sinclair; The Tancarrow Treasure, George Milner (real name 3rd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst). There is also a section of reviews on new detective/crime fiction, including one for Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. -
'Henry Handel Richardson’s' debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world - among them Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with a 'highly unsuitable' Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer. The novel was deemed too controversial to be published as Richardson intended, and she was forced to cut twenty thousand words from the original manuscript and tone down its language.
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The Bondman: Hall Caine
$10.00First published in the late 1890s, this is the tale of half-brothers Michael and Jason. Jason is sworn to avenge the wrongs done to their father; Michael is sworn to rectify them. The story moves from the Isle of Man to Iceland. On the way the half brothers encounter love, personal upheaval, political revolutions and natural disasters. This is not only a literal journey - it is also a spiritual journey. -
Cecil Beaton travelled the world, photographing the changes and signs of recovery that took place post World War II and of the active talented people from the fields of art, politics and literature who were responsible for much of the tone, tenor and societal change in that decade. Beaton describes his book as a 'pot-pourri' of pictures and texts '...gathered together in the hope of creating some sort of impression of what might be called a decade of revival.' Illustrated with sketches and photographs by Cecil Beaton. -
Whiteoaks: Mazo de la Roche
$18.00Book VIII of the Jalna chronicles of the Whiteoaks family. It is the successor to Jalna in which the central characters were Piers and Eden. Here it is their younger brother Finch, sensitive, misunderstood and musical, and finding growing up a torturing business. Twice he tries to escape, but the spell of the old red-brick house drags him back with that peculiar haunting power that influences every character in this striking saga of Canadian country life.
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