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Book III of The Heaven Tree. In the castle of Parfois, flaring down over the debated lands of the Welsh border, young Harry Talvace is held prisoner by his father's sometime patron and late destroyer, Ralf Isambard. Captive and captor, bound by implacable hatred and reluctant affection, seemed doomed to stalemate. Then the threat of civil war in England lays Isambard open to his enemies and Harry abruptly reaches self-knowledge and maturity. The characters are drawn together in the final siege of Parfois beneath the towering shadow of Harry's first masterwork - the great Church he dedicated his life to finish. -
For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth and one explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, a pupil at an exclusive public school drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them are young Hugh Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South American land owner. The drowning and its aftermath initiate a spiralling circle of treachery that will last for three decades and entwine many lives.
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A tale of two sets of twins - Edda and Grace, Tufts and Kitty - who battle against the restraints, prohibitions, laws and prejudices of 1920s Australia. The steely Grace yearns for marriage; sophisticated Edda burns to be a doctor; the down-to-earth Tufts wants NEVER to marry; and the too-beautiful Kitty wants a love free from male ownership. -
Araluen: Judy Nunn
$8.00On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard Ross take their first steps on Australian soil after three long months at sea. All they have is each other, and a quarterly remittance from their irate father who has banished them to the Colonies. A decade on, and the brothers are the owners of successful vineyard, Araluen, nestled in a beautiful green valley not far from Adelaide. Now a successful businessman, George has laid down the roots of his own Ross dynasty, born of the New World. But building a family empire - at any cost - can have a shattering effect on the generations to come. -
Here is the tale of a Suffolk drinking place, from the end of the Roman occupation of Britain until the 1980s. Roman veteran Paulus, crippled, is left behind. Being a worshipper of Mithras, the tavern became known as the One Bull. From then on it changed with the times: a clearing house for contraband, a miniature Hellfire Club, a fashionable hotel, a pub. Just across the Bull's yard was the church of St. Cerdic: king and martyr, who fought the Danes and was once famous for miracles performed at the shrine. His remains were lost during the Reformation, yet something of the saintly presence lingered and had its effect on the fortunes of the One Bull. Through the times and and changes, one passion always ruled at the inn - to retain possession. Don't be misled by the cover - this is a very good read and NOT a romance novel. -
These twenty-three stories were selected by Moorhouse from his first three books: Futility and Other Animals, The Americans, Baby and The Electrical Experience and were written between 1964 and 1974, spanning the vastness of distance between Sydney's bohemian intelligentsia and the apparent certainties of life in an Australian country town. The old-fashioned attitudes of T. George McDowell, a manufacturer of aerated soft drinks, leading country town resident, Rotarian and an apostle of Progress are juxtaposed with the shifting values of the urban tribe. Cindy - tribal member - a university lecturer living with Roger, the father of of her forthcoming child, is unable to quite shake off the fears and doubts that her conventional upbringing have instilled in her; and on the fringes is Becker, an American Coca-Cola executive who is overwhelmed by Australia - to his doom. In this volume: The Story Of The Knife; Across The Plains, Over The Mountains And Down To The Sea;The First Story Of Nature; Lou Shouted 'Hey!'; Walking Out; The Train Will Shortly Arrive; Futility And Other Animals; The Second Story Of Nature; The Third Story Of Nature; Dell Goes Into Politics; Becker And The Boys From The Band; The Machine Gun; Becker On The Moon; A Person Of Accomplishment; The Coca-Cola Kid; Soft Drink And The Distribution Of Soft Drink; The St Louis Rotary Convention 1923, Recalled; Jesus Said To Watch For Twenty-eight Signs; George McDowell Does The Job; George McDowell Changes Names; Business No Picnic; Rules And Practices For The Overcoming Of Shyness; The Enterprising Spirit Of The Anglo-Saxon Race. -
401 BC... In the ancient world, one army was feared above all others. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones. Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy’s empire, without support, without food, and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes’s legendary Persian warriors. -
Book III of the Rome series. Here is the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic rulers of Rome: Sulla, returning from exile, and Pompey, who designates himself Magnus - The Great. Behind them both, the young soldier Caesar, who begins to show the expert qualities that will one day culminate in him becoming a leader of ancient Rome. At the heart of the story is the unforgettable Spartacus and the doomed slave rebellion, told as it has never been told before. -
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in Talbingo in central New South Wales, in 1879. Her parents belonged to the "Squattocracy" - Europeans who lived off the land because they were the only ones there, but had no land rights. Up The Country - a tale about mid-19th-century pioneer families in New South Wales based on tales handed down from her maternal grandmother. This is not only a story of the adventures of the Mazere, Poole and Brennan families; it's also the pioneer life, the challenges and benefits of community and the harshness of the environment as well as ex-convicts, gold-fossickers, picnics, dances and all the ideals of genteel society together with the raising of cattle, mining camps and all lush natural wonders of Australia. Illustrated with black and white sketches. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/my-career-goes-bung-miles-franklin/
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