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 Real historical documents that include Barrack Street, 1900; Martin Place, c. 1929; Circular Quay and the ferries of 1930; the Pyrmont Bridge, 1870; the Victoria Markets c. 1890 (where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..." -
