Reid’s collection of poems relate to the beauty of the Australian countryside, creating realistic images. He also offers humor and vision in his observations of people, animals, philosophy, emotions and of course, love.
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In this volume: The Family Streak andThe Old Fault, Shirley Grey; Hiking On Horseback, Cora Gordon; The Scotch Society, Constance Savery; The Monster Of Loch Shee, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; 'For The Best Disguise', Evelyn Simms; The Three Workers, Frances Joyce; Mr Stewart's Nuggets, Wallace Carr, The Fairies' Gift: A Welsh Story, Ann Vaughan; The Parrot That Did Not Talk, Elizabeth Whitely; Caroline And The Smuggler, Jocelyn Oliver; Good Aunt Earle, M.A. Peart; Camping Out, A.G. Holman; Jill Repays, Anne Page; Pamela's Piebald, Gunby Hadath; The Wanderer, Thora Stowell; How To Dive, W.J. Howcroft; Sally's Sunday, Alice Massie; The Poison Cupboard, Frances Joyce. -
Commander William Mallett tried hard to rehabilitate himself after being dismissed from his destroyer for drunkenness. Ignored by his fellow officers and subjected to the indignity of minor duties, he pestered the naval hierarchy to give him another ship. The Wanderer was old, worn and manned mostly by misfits. His job was to work up Wanderer to fighting efficiency in time to participate in the American invasion of Tarawa Island… -
Simon Templar tangles with the notorious ‘Snake’ Ganning, tracks down a stash of stolen jewels and busts a drug-smuggling racket. He may not always stay on the right side of the law, but with his swashbuckling charm and Robin Hood morality, he is clearly on the side of the angels. Three short stories: The Man Who Was Clever; The Policeman With Wings; The Lawless Lady. -
Volume XII of Sharpe. Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine the dangers that await them in Chile…Cover art by Gino D'Achille. -
The post-Revolution years saw a state of flux with the balance of power shifting back to the bourgeoisie. Napoleon's rise to power was meteoric and he is a successful young general when this book opens. Hortense Beauharnais finds life very different when he mother becomes Bonaparte's wife and she lives her life on the chessboard of the French court amid jealousy and greed. She is married off the Napoleon's brother but is in love with Charles de Flahaut, a gallant young officer. History, brought to life. -
Book VIII of The Tudor Saga. Margaret Tudor is the greatest prize when her father, Henry VII, negotiates the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with neighboring Scotland. The betrothal is meant to end decades of bloody border wars, but it becomes a love match: to Margaret's surprise, she finds joy in her marriage to the dashing James IV of Scotland, a man sixteen years her senior. But neither the marriage or the peace it brings will last. When James is struck down by the armies of Henry VIII, Margaret - Princess of England, but Queen of Scotland - finds herself torn between loyalty to the land and family of her birth and to that of her baby son, now King of the Scots. She decides to remain in Scotland and carve out her own destiny, surviving a scandalous second marriage and battling with both her son and her brother to the very end. Like all the Tudors, Margaret's life would be one of turmoil and controversy, but through her descendants, England and Scotland would unite as one nation, under one rule - and find peace. -
When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and Rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, he must enter the world of suburbia - and marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in modern society by his medieval upbringing, Lockhart must resort to drastic tactics in his attempt to return to Flawse House. Faced with the horrors of suburbia, he must either terrorise, blackmail and potentially kill an entire street of his tenants, or attempt to find his unknown and elusive father in order to inherit the estate. However, with the belief that he was dropped into his mother's arms by a stork, killing a street of people may be the wiser option for the socially inept young man. Naturally, he falls in love with Jessica, the first girl he has ever been allowed to speak to. He is also under mounting pressure, as it may all be in vain if his gold-digging mother-in-law has her way. She's has decided that if Lockhart's wealthy grandfather can't have the decency to die on his own, she will take matters into her own hands. -
American socialite Sarah Talbot had everything going for her: a multi-million dollar business, a large circle of well-placed friends and a marriage to an English aristocrat and army colonel Edward Talbot. Talbot is killed in the Falklands campaign, leaving her with her adored stepson Eric, a Cambridge. student. When Eric dies from a drug overdose, Sarah tries to uncover the mysterious circumstances of his death and finds all roads blocked by officialdom. When she meets former SAS sergeant Sean Egan, she knows she had found the man who can help her. Together they embark on a quest to the depths of the underworld - truly, a season in hell. -
Three more classic tales in which the Saint finally pays his tax bill...only to discover that the taxman has a rather unhealthy hobby for some. Then a good deed leads the Saint to discover a plot to undermine the Italian economy, and his plans to retire are interrupted when a couple of homicidal diamond smugglers object to his interference in their plans. Not only that, the Saint bests some richly assorted villains, such as the Scorpion - who wanted to exchange Templar's tails for a concrete overcoat; Kuzela - an arch field for whom Templar made the punishment fit the crime; and Perrigo - who was undone when the Saint pinched his trousers...In this volume: The Inland Revenue; The Million Pound Day; The Melancholy Journey Of Mr. Teal. Previously published as The Holy Terror. -
Book III of Robert The Bruce. Bannockburn was far from the end for Robert Bruce and Scotland; not even the beginning of the end—only the end of the beginning. There remained fourteen years of struggle, savagery, heroism and treachery before the English could be brought to sit at a peace table with their proclaimed rebels, and so to acknowledge Bruce as sovereign King. In these years of stress and fulfilment, Bruce's character burgeoned to its splendid flowering. The hero-king, moulded by sorrow, remorse and in grievous sickness, equally with triumph, became the foremost prince of Christendom - despite continuing Papal excommunication. -
The Lawless: John Jakes
$5.00Book VII of The Kent Family Chronicles. 1869: While America flourishes in a new age of prosperity, Gideon Kent pursues the course of a working man and incurs the enmity of powerful railroad boss Thomas Courtleigh. By hiring the criminal fugitive Jeremiah Kent, Courtleigh unwittingly sets brother against brother. Artist Matthew Kent, abandoned by his wife, escapes justice in France and returns to America. Eleanor Kent, Gideon's daughter, dreams of an acting career. Estranged from her father and the victim of terrible violence, she turns to Matthew to help rebuild her life. -
When the Saint and Patricia Holm stumble upon a government test of a weapon of mass destruction, they realise they've seen something that must be kept away from the wrong hands. But the Saint's nemesis Rayt Marius is already nearby and there is only one way to stop Marius from using the weapon to start a war - by kidnapping the scientist who built it.
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If America had a royal family the Winthrops would be it. Popular and charismatic, they have captured the regard of the world with their public service, enormous charity and glamorous lives. But in a single year, all five members of the family are killed in a series of 'accidents'. Dana Evans, beautiful young anchorwoman with a Washington TV network believes something sinister is going on and begins an investigation that yields unbelievable evidence that results in a cat-and-mouse game through several countries in search of a remorseless killer, the placing of Dana and her son in jeopardy and then, Dana becomes the hunted...
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At Hawkridge House in the English summer of 1636, botanist John Nightingale wants only to spend his life in the peaceful ordering of his estate. In Amsterdam, stock market and speculation is rife as fortunes are gambled on rare tulips. John is blackmailed into joining an elaborate money-making scheme. Falling in love with two very different women, pursued by demons of his past and trying desperately to keep ahead of a game spiralling out of his control, John must quickly learn the ways of the world.
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Zulu Dawn: Cy Endfield
$5.0022 January 1879. Across the slopes of Isandhlwana, there came the sound of thunder. Assegai shafts pound against drum-tight shields. Fifty thousand voices cry in one dread voice the Zulu word for kill: U-SU-THU! U-SU-THU! Against the sweeping landscapes of Southern Africa, Lord Chelmsford’s army of eight thousand soldiers moves inexorably into Zululand. Their aim: to subdue a proud and unyielding warrior nation. But what starts as an imperial adventure turns into one of the bloodiest episodes in African history. It becomes a struggle to the death between Chelmsford’s Redcoats and a fearsome army of fifty thousand Zulus, fighting for their nationhood and birth right. This is the story of the tragedy and shattering human drama of that struggle. A powerful action adventure tale, it was made into the hit film Zulu Dawn in 1979. -
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders are connected in only one mind and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of Washington to cause shockwaves that will see her boyfriend murdered in a bomb blast, send hired killers to hunt her down and will send her across the country to meet the one man who is as near to the truth as she is - investigative reporter Gray Grantham. Can they stay alive long enough to expose the truth behind the Pelican Brief?
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Arthur Shelby is facing the loss of his farm because of debts. He and his wife Emily believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, yet Shelby decides to sell two - Uncle Tom, a man with a wife and children and Harry, the son of Emily's maid Eliza - to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader. Tom places his faith in God; Eliza takes her son and runs away. Tom, after rescuing a little girl from drowning, is bought by her father in gratitude. After two years her father resolves to free Tom but he is shot before he can legally release Tom and his widow sells Tom to a vicious plantation owner, Simon Legree. Tom keeps steadfast in his faith, inciting Legree's hatred. Eliza and her son meet Eliza's husband George who has also run away and when cornered by slave hunter Tom Loker, George shoots him then carries him to a Quaker settlement to receive care. Can all the threads come together for a happy ending? This book, first published in 1853, is said to have laid the groundwork for the American Civil War. -
Book I of Queens Of England: Despite the dangers of practicing her faith in the staunchly Protestant England, pretty Queen Henrietta Maria refuses to cast aside her Catholicism, so she finds little favour among the people. She is impetuous and loving, fond of fashionable clothes and gossip and Charles, a family man of principle and integrity, is entirely devoted to her. But their happy if controversial marriage is soon under threat when Henrietta is denounced as a puppet of Rome and charged with leading Protestant England back to Rome. Soon her enemies swarm and the spies in her household prove too much. Only her loyalty and love for Charles can hope to keep him from the road to regicide. -
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane - the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. The men agree to hide, keep and share the fortune. It all seems simple enough. But what started off as a simple plan slowly devolves into a gruesome nightmare none of them can control... -
Book/DVD: The Painted Veil: W. Somerset Maugham
$5.00–$30.00Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love. A story which demonstrates that it is possible for human nature to learn to grow, change and forgive. DVD: Naomi Watts; Edward Norton: Preloved; region 4; very good condition. DVD: The Seventh Sin:Eleanor Parker; Bill Travers; George Sanders In post-World War II Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man, Paul . Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village, where he will fight a cholera epidemic - or face the scandal of a very public divorce. Based on Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil. DVD: preloved; print-on-demand; all regions; very good condition; uncommon title -
Finally married to Ferdinand, Isabella triumphed over every danger, convinced of her true destiny. With mighty Portugal humbled, the Court of the Sovereigns saw the rise of Torquemada, the establishment of the dreaded Inquisition and the coming of Columbus who left the woman he loved to make his dream a reality. The ambitious and unfaithful Ferdinand longed to lead his troops against the Moorish strongholds. Isabella knew a united Spain and a glorious future could be theirs but they must only share it together. -
He's a journalist who knows too much. She's his lover, a Norwegian press photographer who shares his deadly secret. They are held in war- torn Iran and Khomeini wants them to talk. Britain is determined they don't talk. Their fate is in the hands of an SAS team that must disappear into the hostile turmoil of Iran in a desperate rescue bid against the clock, a gruelling ordeal that calls for ingenuity, sacrifice and courage in a dangerous, desolate terrain cu off from the outside world. -
More short tales of derring-do from the modern day buccaneer: The Pearls of Peace: From Mexico's Lower California comes a tale of two women and a blind man's oyster bed. The Revolution Racket: In the heart of Mexico City, The Saint finds an ice cool blonde with her own saintly ideas - and joins in the fun. The Romantic Matron: Exotic Havana turns ugly and dangerous as The Saint answers a beautiful widow's plea for help. The Golden Frog: Fraud in torrid Panama - with The Saint playing 'the sucker'.
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King Rat: James Clavell
$5.00The time: World War II. The place: Singapore, the last British bastion in Asia, has fallen. The East Indies are lost, together with Allied Armies stationed there. Almost 150,000 young men were captured and only one in fifteen would survive the three and a half years to VJ Day. Changi, the most notorious POW camp in Asian is deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are drive, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path. It is a story of courage - but the reader must decide who are the courageous ones. Note: James Clavell lived through those years as a young soldier -
Book I of The Heaven Tree. England in the reign of King John- a time of beauty and squalor, of swift treachery and unswerving loyalty. Harry Talvace, master-mason and his foster brother Adam experienced injustice at a young age and fled to Paris where Harry's genius for carving drew him into a friendship with the enigmatic Ralf Isambard, Lord of Parfois and the beautiful Madonna Benedetta, a Venetian courtesan. In their company he returns to his native Shropshire to build a church for Isambard beside Parfois Castle. Soaring heavenward, the tower of stone becomes an arrow of light, but as it flowered darkening shadows presaged jealousy, pitiless revenge - and death. -
High on a rocky outcrop above heathland stands a Victorian Gothic mansion, built by the aristocratic and ancient Rose family. In the lodge of the house - the rest being owned by the National Trust - live the last two of the line. Rosalba Rose, seventeen and dutifully submissive to her ferocious great-aunt Martine - until she meets Eugene Seal, a young serviceman. They fall in love but is their passion, surrounded by upheaval, doomed? Cover art by David Senior.
