At the age of six, Kerry McGinnis lost her mother. Her father, left with four young children to raise, gathered up his family and left the city to go doving. For the next fifteen years, the McGinnis clan traveled the continent, droving, horse breaking and living off the land. Kerry grew up in the harsh outback, and the animals that inhabit the land became her closest friends. With the memory of her absent mother ever present, Kerry begins her difficult journey into young womanhood. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/heart-country-kerry-mcginnis/
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An erudite guide to twelve of the most famous sites of myth and legend: Atlantis; Pyramid Hill; Stonehenge; Troy; the Queen of Sheba; King Solomon's Mines; Tintagel and the Round Table; Angkor; Tikal and the Feathered Elephants; Machu Piccu; Nan Matol and Rapa Nui. Each site is described, factual and legendary history is reviewed and theories and controversy examined. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath party seized power, the devastation on her life made her a divorced mother of two alone in Baghdad, earning a meagre living printing brochures - until one morning, in 1999, she was arrested by Saddam's Secret Police and taken to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, accused of producing anti-government propaganda. She and seventeen other women were imprisoned, tortured without trial and threatened with execution. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
The life and times of Billy Connolly. Billy was a battered and neglected child and he turned himself into the classroom clown as a way of survival. As an adult he built on that early experience, his provocative and outrageous brand of humour making him one of the best loved comedians of his generation. On the way up, Connolly has collided with trendies, booze, women, the press, the Royals and even Fyffes bananas. Although he now enjoys that status of a comic institution, Glasgow pundits accused him of 'selling out' and forgetting his roots amid the big houses, smart cars, friendships with royalty and Hollywood. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Amanda Barrie was a star of the English stage, screen and the occasional Carry On film. She was believed to be a slow learner for years as she could not read, so she would have a friend repeat her lines over and over to her until she was word perfect and completely cued-in! She was finally diagnosed with dyslexia. Here she recounts anecdotes from her packed professional life and talks frankly and without self-pity about her disrupted childhood, disastrous schooldays and her relationships with both men and women, including remarkable threesomes with her husband Robin Hunter. An ideal piece for any Carry On fan. Illustrated with black and white and colour photographs.
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The Darwin Awards, for the uninitiated, are given to those who have removed themselves from the human gene pool in a variety of unusual ways. Such as... the guy who playfully pulled a stripper's pastie off with his teeth - then choked to death on it; the two blokes who found conventional fishing a bit slow and decided to liven it up using dynamite; and the missionary who fearlessly forged into the jungle depths with his wife and two daughters to convert a tribe of satan-worshippers and ended up treating them to lunch. (Detectives on that case say the banquet was quite a lively one.) Plus 177 more stories you would think are tall tales, but are actually true. Walt Disney said that the animal kingdom is the wackiest kingdom of them all, but after reading this, we at the Cauldron think he had it wrong!
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This volume covers the creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the Olympians, the Thesus, Oedipus and Heracles cycles, the Argonaut voyage, the tale of Troy and much more in a harmonious narrative. Contains full references from classical sources, making this a valuable book to the scholar as well as the reader, with full commentaries on each myth that explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today's archeological and anthropological knowledge -
Twas the night before Christmas when a self-described curmudgeon rescues a bedraggled feline from a snowy New York City alley. Thus begins this tale of a man and his cat or, rather, of a cat and his man as told by Amory in The Cat Who Came For Christmas. This is the sequel and Book II of The Compleat Cat. Despite his hard-knock beginnings, Polar Bear is finicky about his newfound fame. Will nine lives be enough for him to answer all his fan mail? This tale of two curmudgeons will tickle the fancy of everyone who has ever been owned by a cat. Cleveland Amory has devoted a tremendous amount of his time and energy to The Fund for Animals. -
Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky was already a successful writer in the early 1940s and living in Paris. She was also Jewish and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. She intended Suite Française to be a five-part novel but at the time of her death, she had only completed the first two parts. The handwritten manuscripts were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. A Storm In June: In the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival - some try to maintain lives of privilege, others struggle simply to preserve their lives - but soon they will be forced to face physical and emotional displacement and the annihilation of the world they know. Dolce: Life in a German-occupied provincial village becomes increasingly complex and uneasy as the villagers - from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants - cope as best they can with the soldiers billeted amongst them. Some choose resistance, others collaboration - and lives are transformed by each and every choice. Irène Némirovsky saw that true nobility and love did exist but often in the most surprising places.
