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Dragonlinks: Paul Collins
$60.00Book I of the Jelindel Chronicles. An all-powerful, enchanted mailshirt from the stars...and six links are missing. An orphan, a streetwise urchin and a swordsman must find the links before the greatest evil known descends upon Qzar. Jelindel dek Mediesar led a charmed life until Lindrak assassins murdered her family. Fleeing to the markets, Jelindel dresses as a boy to avoid detection. Here she teams up with Zimak, a street-wise urchin, and Daretor, a warrior on a quest to destroy an alien artifact. Murder, betrayal and deceit are just some of the hurdles they must face in order to find the missing links from a star-dwellers' mailshirt six powerful links, whose individual powers are nothing compared with that of the complete mailshirt. Cover art by Cathy Larsen. -
An ancient Egyptian tomb - sealed from the outside world for centuries, deep inside solid rock...the sarcophagus is opened...and inside is a freshly murdered corpse! Legendary detective G.K. Chesterton investigates the mystery and reveals the amazing solution - but not before there are more deaths and deadly dangers. Take this trip down the Nile, past the ancient temple of Karnak, the Valley Of The Kings and the city of Luxor, to an archeological dig in the valley of Deir el-Bahri in the year 1919...and into a surprise world of suspence and romance. -
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Red In The Centre III. Are they really turning the old atomic testing site at Maralinga into a tourist park? Why did Gulflanders know 2011 was going to be a monster wet season? And what exactly is the H Chord anyway? Freelance multimedia journo and storyteller Monte Dwyer is in search of the answers to these questions as he travels through the Queensland floods of 2010, through the Great Victoria Desert and the Kimberley, across the Top End into Arnhem Land and then back into Queensland just in time for the 2011 wet season. An exploration of the 'cobwebby corners' of this great land. Illustrated with colour photographs. -
So, Anyway…..John Cleese
$50.00So, anyway...how did a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare become a self-confessed legend? These things happen. And en route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python. Punctuated from time to time with John Cleese’s thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England, this is a masterly performance by a former schoolmaster. With fabulous black and white photographs. -
In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers, hopeful yet terrified, staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the indigenous people who cared for him. -
Threshold: Sara Douglass
$50.00A shadow is looming over the hot southern land of Ashdod - the shadow of Threshold, the Pyramid which the Magi are building to send them into Infinity. Thousands of slaves have been used in the construction of Threshold. Tirzah, a young glass worker, has a secret gift - she can communicate with glass. And what the glass screams at her every time she touches her drives her to despair. Because something is waiting in Infinity - waiting for the final glass plate to be laid, for the capstone to be cemented in blood - waiting to use Threshold to step from Infinity and into Ashdod. Boaz, Master Magus, is watching Tirzah. He knows she's hiding something and he'll do whatever it takes to discover it. Cover art by Shaun Tan. -
Book I of Sooner Or Later: For 16 years, Elizabeth Conroy had been slowly suffocating in her Pollyanna straightjacket, when circumstances dealt her a crushing blow. Gone was the laughter and the life she had known as bitterness and anger bit into her soul. She knew she had to escape the city and all she had held dear before she emotionally festered to death. Looking like a vagrant, Elizabeth roamed the Queensland hinterland, not at all sure that life had any value. But one thing she was sure of, no one would ever push her around again. Book II of Sooner Or Later When Patrick Ryan reluctantly came to Australia as a ten pound migrant, he never dreamt he would exchange the soft, misty days of the Emerald Isle for the blistering heat of the Queensland hinterland. Nor could he imagine how his family in Ireland, with their 12 acre plot, could become emotionally entangled with the wealthy Davidsons on the 90,000 acres of Glamorgan Station. Book III of Sooner Or Later: Three headstrong women in the Autumn of their lives reveal their true character when faced with life’s changing circumstances. -
In this volume, people of the Bush pay tribute to their dogs for the extraordinary role they play in Australian rural life. Uncomplaining, tough and loyal, they are the only workers that never go on strike or hit the grog. In this classic collection of more than 300 original stories, many from listeners to ABC Radio's Country Hour, these cheerful workaholics are celebrated in tales of heroism, extraordinary intuition and intelligence. On this journey around the nation's farms, this band of canine characters shows they can be pretty funny, too. During long days spent together in paddocks and yards, working dogs can be a sympathetic ear when times are hard - and in a moment of total disaster, every dog have the ability to back over his shoulder with the cheekiest grin in the world.
