Dr. 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.
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Back Of Sunset: Jon Cleary
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Arthur Daley, national institution, super patriot and Olympic gold medallist in Ducking and Diving, takes a long hard look at the state of the nation and asks: What Is Occurring? Her Majesty the Queen forced to open up the hallowed portals of Buck House and become a Pentax-dodger; Mrs Thatcher roaming the seas singing for her supper; the fate of the country left in the hands of a Nerd-Do-Well and a Chancellor who smokes cigarillos - and even Her Holiness Lady Porter treated like some common shoplifter at Tesco! But Arthur is on hand. His brief? To hold out a beacon of hope to hapless Brits lost in a mailroom of uncertainty and to lead them back to the level playing field on top of the high moral ground. To bring the country back to basics on such burning topics as the Monarchy; Sport, Education; the Citizen's Charter (Arthurised version); Europe, the Arts and the vexed question of Sunday Trading - in short it's an in-depth company report on Great Britain that makes the Doomsday Book look like a takeaway menu from the Fulham Golden Palace. -
In this volume: Badger On The Barge: Miss Brady lives on a barge, with a b adger. She doesn't like people much, especially children and that includes Helen. But she needs her help and for Helen, that's better than staying at home. Reicker: Sean learns to deal with violence through his encounter with an old German prisoner of war and farmhand. The Egg Man: Jane learns how secrets and regrets can ruin a life. Jakey: An old, fiercely independent boatman shows Steven that hope and faith come from the inside. The Topiary Garden: Liz meets Sally Beck, who was once a boy, and makes sense of her own frustrations. A thematic collection of the special relationship between the young and the old and suitable for any age. -
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Barbed Wire: Hall Caine
$12.00Set on the Isle of Man during the First World War, the novel relates the life of Mona Craine, a young woman who lives with her brother and their aging father. Mona's life is disrupted first by her brother being called up to fight in France, and then by the authorities agreeing to set up an internment camp for enemy aliens there at Knockaloe. Mona consents to live there still and supply food for them odious Germans against her wish and only for the sake of her ill father. However, her hard and unforgiving attitude towards the Germans begins to lessen when she meets the polite and well-spoken Oskar Heine. As they begin to fall in love, they also need to deal with the fierce hostility of the local community.Originally published as The Woman of Knockaloe. -
A treasure trove of childhood past with stories by Noel Streatfield, Sir Edmund Hillary, Michael Westmore and more. There's puzzles and quizzes, short stories and articles, pictures in colour and black and white. -
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. -
What? We’ve heard about Table Manners and Party Manners; Visiting Cards and Formal Manners...Another etiquette book in a world already groaning under the wight of etiquette books? Yes. Because this book pioneers in a new field of good manners and good form when you find yourself there with the partner of your choice. It should be given to every couple; doctors will prescribe it to all their discontented partnered patients. NB: Statistics quoted do not include Eskimos, nudists, bedridden people or dancers. You may gather from all this that is is a funny book...Chapters include Getting Undressed; In Bed; Getting Up; The Bedroom As A Public Lounge; On Coming Home From Stag Dinners; The Wife Who Stays Out Late; Reading In Bed; Physical Jerks; In And About The Bathroom; How To Make Conversation In The Morning; A Short History Of Bed Manners; Bed Manners On A Friend’s Yacht; Berth Control In The Sleeping Car; Camp-Bed Manners; Simple Rules For Subtle People; When Nighthood Is In Flower; Last Words. -
The second volume of the Belle the Bushie stories by Pat Richardson includes those she read each Monday morning on 2SER-FM's new Horizons programme from August 1990 to January 1992. Mostly humorous, sometimes sad and even one or political commentaries, the tales cover Sydney and the bush, covering such topics such as AIDS, schixzophrenia, Country ARt shows, Women's Day Marches, the 'rellies', family Christmases and the Gulf War.
