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Tuesday, 20 October: Everyone but the lift boy was playing the market and there was every reason for the party to go on forever. In the centre of the action were the freewheeling entrepreneurs whose spectacular deals encapsulated every virtue and vice of the 80s. Then Wall Street went down in a heap and that was the cue for anyone holding shares in Australia and New Zealand to freak out... This is the only book to explain what happened and to look at the forces that shape the age - the psychology of greed, the politics of money, the cult of the yuppie, the rise of the market hero and the mind-boggling phenomenon of all that easy money to be had. This is a story of damnation and redemption of those who dared to tap into all that tremendous power...a book that no self-interested economist or financier would dare to write, a marshalling of fact and opinion - clear and wickedly mischievous - that will fascinate both insider and outsider alike. -
Cop This Lot: Nino Culotta: Book II of They're A Weird Mob. Nino, now an Australian with the help of his mates and Kay, his missus, has a chance to get a few laughs at the expense of workmates Joe and Dennis as they accompany him on a trip to Italy to visit Nino's parents. Joe and Dennis have never left Sydney and the plan is to go by 'plane and cargo ship then buy a cheap car in Germany to drive to Italy. At the Culotta family villa, Nino's father, a crusty and misbehaving patriarch who loves to conduct local feuds, is only concerned that Nino and Kay have not been 'properly' married by an Italian priest. Nino's mother is worried that the children will be eaten by kangaroos. By the time they return to Sydney, Joe and Dennis have learnt a smattering of several European languages and despite their working-class 'Ocker' background, have acquired a veneer of European sophistication, preferring wine to beer and Italian suits to Jack Howe singlets - a veneer, of course, that doesn't last too long! Illustrated by 'Wep'. There Was A Kid: John O'Grady: Author John O'Grady's (Nino Culotta) father, with no practical experience and very little money, threw up city life and became a farmer - he bought his land, worked hard, applied the latest scientific methods - and went broke. Yet O'Grady has wonderful memories of growing up on the farm near Tamworth and recounts them all here with his usual wry humour. Illustrated by Collinridge Rivett. -
Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the centuries-old mystery surrounding the existence of the great south land, Terra Australis Incognita; became the first explorer to circumnavigate New Zealand and prove it comprised two main islands; discovered the Hawaiian Islands and much more. Cook was a man who pursued a teenager's dream that evolved from a chance encounter in a small seafront village on the east coast of England ; a dream that became a reality and transported him to legendary status among all who mapped the world, on land and sea. Through the combination of hard-won skills as a seafarer, the talents of a self-taught navigator and surveyor, and an exceptional ability to lead and care for his men, Cook contributed to changing the shape of the world map more than anyone else. Illustrated with delicate colour sketches and maps. -
Countess Constance Markievicz was a woman who entered the male-dominated world of conspiracy and revolution, an aristocrat who became a committed Socialist, a member of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy who was a fervent Irish nationalist. She was one of the first women to experience many of the problems associated with nationalist struggles and feminism which are still hotly debated today. She was also the first woman to be elected to the British parliament and the first woman to become a Minister of State in any European government. Her story takes the reader from the big houses and hunt balls of the Irish aristocracy in the last days of Empire to bohemian Paris, literary Dublin and into the world of insurgent nationalism. street battles, barricades and tense political negotiations. She experienced sadness and difficulties both personal and political but she carried herself with bravery and panache. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
This is not a 'novel of the TV series' - it's a small part of the memoirs in the rich life of Peter 'Nicholas Rhea' Walker, who was a 'bobbie' in a Yorkshire village in the 1960s and whose stories inspired the television series Heartbeat. This omnibus volume contains Constable On The Hill; Constable Around The Village and Constable Across The Moors. Here's all our favourite characters: Claude Jeremiah Greengrass, Sergeant Blaketon, P.C. 'Vesuvius' Ventress and more: Greengrass' dog Alfred's unfortunate incident with the budgerigar; young P.C. Nick's first very merry New Year in Aidensfield; the funeral of the ancient tramp, Irresponsible John and other touching, humorous and affectionately-remembered tales of the Yorkshire countryside. -
Throughout WW II and the Cold War, Britain's Secret Service was compromised by a group of privileged, Cambridge-educated Englishmen who consistently betrayed their country by working for Stalin's Russia. Until he was publicly exposed in 1979 and stripped of his knighthood, Sir Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, seemed to personify the Establishment. But as an undergraduate in the 1930s, after meeting Guy Burgess, he became a communist and later a spy. This book is an examination of how this brilliant art historian, appalled by the poverty and deprivation of 1930s Britain, as were so many of his contemporaries, became enmeshed in the series of events that made him a traitor to his country and the class which had nurtured him. Illustrated with black and white photos
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Communion: Whitley Strieber
$20.00On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with his wife and son, ate Christmas dinner leftovers, and went to bed early. Six hours later, he found himself suddenly awake - and changed forever. Thus begins the most astonishing true-life odyssey ever recorded - one man's riveting account of his extraordinary experiences with visitors from"elsewhere". How they found him, where they took him, what they did to him and why. Believe it. Or not. Described as a fascinating, terrifying and life-altering experience. Cover art by Ted Jacobs. -
Published in 1940, Daphne du Maurier turned from fiction to write the true stories of everyday English people who, while following the common round of their daily lives, have given their best to their country and done deeds of gallantry in their respective spheres in a time of war. The mother who triumphed over bereavement, the London grocer who settled labor disputes at the pithead - all were able to turn the difficulties of war time into opportunities to spread a spirit of victory on the Home Front. -
Here are tales of a real country practice - in Scone, New South Wales. They are unique: a mix of humor, medicine and of course, the most necessary factor - patients. There's a generous dash of local history, too and an interesting tracking of the medical and social changes over 50 years in the town where he began his medical life. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Poidevin's sixth book.
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