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The sequel to Beau Geste: the ripping adventures of Major Henri de Beaujolais from adolescence to maturity as a well-connected cavalry officer in the French Army: he's an Old Etonian; his mother a Devonshire Cary; his deceased father a Frenchman; his paternal uncle the youngest General in the French Army and married to the sister of the French Minister of State for War. Starting as a one-year volunteer trooper in a hussar regiment, De Beaujolais graduates from the Cavalry School of Saumur to become an officer of Spahis and a member of the French Secret Service. The Major faces the struggle between love for his country and the love of a woman. Highly romantic - but it was published in 1926! Regarded as the 'French' novel of the Beau series with Beau Geste as the English novel and Beau Ideal as the American novel. -
A dashing tale of Prince Charles Edward, the Pretender when he returns to France weary and heartbroken after the failure of '45. He is frustrated at every turn, invoved with love and intrigues and forced to wander through Europe on the hopeless quest for help to begin a new rising in order to regain his throne. This was Boileau's final book; she died before completing it and it was subsequently finished by Baxter Ellis. -
A very educational annual circa 1940s with chapters on Heroes of the Bible; Heroes of Legend; Heroes of History; Heroes of the Arts; Heroes of Leadership and Service; Heroes of the Second World War. With beautiful colour plates, monochrome and black and white illustrations. -
In The Wet: Nevil Shute
$15.00Written in 1953 and set 30 years in the future, there is an inner story and an outer story: the first crowded with the great figures of the British empire and the second set in the wilds of Queensland during the rains from November to April when a strange adventure takes place. Great Britain is still great - its people determined, tenacious and disciplined. A young airman and the girl he loves find themselves at the very hub of the affairs of Empire during the course of a very astonishing Constitutional crisis. -
Bruce, the son of the busy Dr Henshaw and a doting mother, is pretty used to doing just as he likes. But Bruce also has an older sister who is not quite so charmed by him. Bruce doesn't realise the value of money, has no respect for the property of others, is too lazy to apply himself to school and always seems to talk his way out of the mischief he gets into so effortlessly. But when he 'borrows' a motor car belonging to City merchant Mr. Ferguson, almost has an accident and the bewildered merchant gets a summons to appear in court for reckless driving, Bruce's father knows the time has come to teach his charming lad a sharp lesson in reality. He also needs to learn that driving recklessly in a 'borrowed' motor is NOT a 'lark'. The railway line near Boonderong in Queensland is being extended and Dr. Henshaw's friend Mr. Langdon is in charge of the work camp there. And this is where Bruce is sent - to work, to learn the value of what he earns and to respect that which does not belong to him... and he has to learn it the hard way. -
A cult classic, based on an actual murder case. Theresa Dunn, a convent-educated school teacher with a respectable family and a decent fiance haunts the singles bars of New York. She arrives alone, but picks up a take-home man against the long, dark, lonely night. seeking to fill the emptiness within, and always failing. Then she begins to call in sick at school. spending her days with her pick-ups. As Theresa's life starts to spin out of control she meets the wrong man on the wrong night at the wrong bar....A cult classic, based on an actual murder case. -
Described as romance shorts - with definite twists and turns in every tale - this volume contains: The Odds/Without Prejudice: A young woman, without realising it, meets a man on the run from the law. Sparks fly but he must keep running. Time passes...she gets engaged to a law man. What happens when the woman and the convict meet again? Her Own Free : An impetuous girl agrees to marry a Boer millionaire for his money. After an accident which keeps the couple separated for a year, she's not so sure that she wants to be married...The Consolation Prize: A young woman, in love with a local farmer, agrees to marry an eccentric lord to save her family from poverty. But rather than two lives being ruined by sacrifice, her sister proposes a shocking solution. Her Freedom: A free-spirited girl calls off her engagement - not in the usual way, but by an announcement in the Society columns. her soon-to-be former fiance responds by posting the wedding date in the same column. She then meets a wild, bushy bearded Canadian man and rather than allow her mischievous cousin Dick to polish off the Canadian's rough edges, she thinks he will 'do' just as he is. Is this true love? Or infatuation? Death's Property: A wealthy man, disillusioned man returns to the seaside village of his birth, disgusted at the world and himself for having served the 'God of Gold' for 20 years in America. Irritated by a shrill American accent, he finds the voice belongs to a real beauty. But according to her cousin, she is 'untouchable...' The Sacrifice: When a young Society girl's admirer is falsely accused of forgery, she will do anything to clear his name...she will even submit to blackmail... -
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. -
Back Of Sunset: Jon Cleary
$12.00Dr. Stephen McCabe has a partnership in a fashionable practice in Sydney and a very beautiful, very ambitious fianceè and when he comes to the lonely Flying Doctor outpost of Winnemincka, he only intends staying for a short holiday. Yet he is aware that his true vocation is escaping him and that feeling becomes more acute when an old friend of his father comes from the Outback to visit him. The discovery that many lonely people desperately need him takes him out of his comfortable rut and presents him with a challenge and he must face the greatest personal problem of his life with a completely new set of values.
