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Verses and short stories that reveal O'Grady's skill in being able to record certain typical aspects of Aussie life - not all of them humorous. Chapters in this volume: Some of us are weirder than others; You can have a lot of fun if you're a dog; Exile; Put your hat on, driver; Mucked about by experts; Pokin' around; What is an Australian; Mondayitis; Il re di cosa nostra; Bundeena for bangers; Coober Pedy Pete; Slapped in the kisser with a spin; Brown bottles are different; Integrated adjective; View of a gentleman; Soldier in the rain; Gilgais and billabongs; When a man gets a bit stewed; Always dreamin'; The plonk that launched a thousand books; What did you say your name was? The song of Eddie Gunther. Illustrated by Paul Rigby. -
Here is a story of the Highlands and the red deer that live there as seen through the eyes of Roddie and Flora, the children of Murdo MacKenzie, a stalker. There is not only a tale, but information on how the red deer live and their beautiful country. Sir Frank Fraser Darling (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. -
First published in 1822, de Quincey's best-known work is still in print. Though seemingly offering the reader poignant memories, temporal digressions and random anecdotes, the Confessions is a work of great sophistication and rated as one of the most impressive and influential of all autobiographies. He evidences a nervous self-awareness as he scrutinises his own life in an effort to answer that eternal question: Who am I? The horrors of addiction are not a large part of the whole yet in its day it was regarded as a 'lucrative piece of sensational journalism, albeit published in a more intellectually respectable organ' ( London Magazine). Written in an almost romantic, self-reflective neo-classical style it still today reaches out to the reader. -
A wonderful, bawdy, completely unsubtle nonsense of Upstairs, Downstairs and in my lady's chamber - and with more sauce than the average Carry On! The elderly Lord Cockshute - drunk, broke and trouserless - is chasing Mimi the maid who has somehow lost her uniform; gamekeeper Mellons and the parlourmaid have found a new and intriguing way to make daisy chains; Lady Kitty is avoiding the clutches of the revolting Snotty Shuttlecock who would never get into the house - let alone Lady Kitty - but for the money the family owe him; the groom also has designs on Lady Kitty, and is strangely jealous of a black stallion called Ramrod; Hampton, the faithful butler, is desperately trying to conceal the truth about his shameful past; and Viscount Standfast is experimenting with rubber in his laboratory but can't think of a use for his latest unusual invention. With black and white photos from the 1976 film which starred Diana Dors, Jack Wild and Carmen Silvera. -
In this volume: The Crimson Shawl, Florence Bone; The Work Of The S.P.M., Mary Oldfield; The Quicksand, Philippa Francklyn; Summer Voices, Katharine Tynan; The Island Of Adventure, Winifred Darch; The Influence Of Anne and A Horrible Fix, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; The Shadow Of The Past, A.G. Hobart-Hampden; The Bogle, Margaret Baker; The Little Shepherd Of The Stars, Thora Stowell; The Lady In The Yellow Gown, Elinor G. Brent-Dyer; The Tide, Lilian Holmes; The Hat That Was Almost A Tragedy, Agnes Adams; The Bronze Man, Brenda Girvin; Under Canvas, M.C. Carey; Latymer And Barchester, Margaret Chilton; Alone In The Hills, G.E. Scott; The Princess Does Not Dance, M.E.F. Irwin; The King Of Somewhere, S.M. Hills; Two Grey Pigeons, Alice Massie; Then And Now, Vernon Rendall; The Spanish Innkeeper, S.M. Hills. Colour plates and line drawing illustrations. -
First published in 1879, a collection of over 1700 recipes from over 250 old and famous Virginia families was regareded as the essence and mysteries of Old Virginian 'housewifery' and was acclaimed by the President's wife, Mrs Rutherford B. Hayes. There are recipes for literally everything as well as chapters on remedies and behaviour in the 'Sick Room', housecleaning, restoring old clothes and miscellaneous recipes for cosmetics and cures. -
Set in the immediate post Civil War period, two boys, mustered out of the U.S. Military in 1865, construct a singular craft and make a perilous voyage down the mighty Missouri River from Fort Benton to St. Louis. -
An essential guide to Australian rhyming slang drawn from oral sources in and around Sydney. Three of the author's best informants were mates who'd spent some time as guests of Her Majesty in Sydney's Long Bay Jail. Two other prolific sources were a couple of retired shearers. Great as a social document or just for fun - or even as a gift to a 'New Australian' so they know the meaning of such phrases as He did a Harold Holt (bolted, vanished); Here comes the John Hops/Johns (cops, the police); I'm on me Pat Malone; I'm alone; The saucepan lids are home on holidays - The kids are home on holidays plus many more. -
Belle Poitrine, (French for 'pretty bosom') born Mayble Sclumpfert, presents her hilarious, scandalous 'memoirs' of her life as star of the screen, theatre and television, here documented meticulously by Patrick Dennis. All the world's a stage, and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot. Includes plenty of photos of 'Belle's' life and antics.
