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The wind is whispering in Woody Creek...Change is in the air...It's 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged kicking and screaming into the swinging sixties. Jenny's daughters, Cara and Georgie, are now young women. They have inherited their mother's hands, but that is where their similarity ends. Raised separately, they have never met. A mistake from Cara's teenage years looms over her future, but she believes emphatically in the white wedding and happily ever after myth. Georgie has seen enough of marriage and motherhood. She plans to live her life as her grandmother did, independent of a man. But life for the Morrison girls has never been easy, and once the sisters are in each other's lives, long-buried secrets are bound to be unearthed, the dramatic consequences of which no-one could have predicted...Described as ‘...very Australian, very real, very country small town and very well written.’ -
Woodlea Book 2. After losing a patient, Dr Fliss Knight returns to small town Woodlea and buys a rundown farm, her confidence and city career in tatters. She intends to live a solitary life and hopes that the slow country pace will help her heal. Pickup rider Hewitt Sinclair is no stranger to how hairy things can get in a rodeo arena. But when he can’t save the life of his twin brother, he hangs up his spurs. Determined to provide for his brother’s widow and young family, he gives himself no time to grieve. But when a motorbike accident proves he needs to also look out for himself, he accepts an old friend’s invitation to stay at an isolated property while his body heals. When Fliss meets the cowboy living in the bluestone stables across the garden, all her hopes for a quiet and peaceful life fade. Despite his reserve, Hewitt is impossible to ignore. As they work together to care for an abandoned dog and her puppies they find themselves drawn to each other. But as a family secret threatens every truth Fliss has ever known, and the heavy spring rain continues to fall, both Fliss and Hewitt must each face their deepest fears. -
When young Jinnie Howlett’s widowed father, a tinker man, died a pauper, she was indeed fortunate to already be the inmate of a northern workhouse, for with no other relatives, she might have ended up on the streets – a fate for girls her age that was all too common in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Close to her fifteenth birthday and after years of drudgery and toil, she is at last offered a position as a maid of all work with the Shalemans at Tollet’s Ridge Farm, a bleak isolated place near the Cumbrian border. Rose, the invalid wife of Pug Shaleman and mother to Bruce and Hal demanded all her time. But Bruce realises there’s more to this seemingly vulnerable girl than the rest of the family realises, and he becomes her defender against the brutish harassment of Pug and Hal. It is onlyj when she accidentally makes the acquaintance of Richard Baxton-Powell, who owed his life to Bruce, that Jinnie realises how different and tempting life was beyond the farm – and it is only later she understands that her growing confidence and maturity owed more to her life with the Shalemans than to any other outside influence.
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Capricornia: Xavier Herbert
$20.00Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal. In 1904 the brothers Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth, clad in serge suits and bowler hats, arrive in Port Zodiac on the coast of Capricornia. they are clerks who have come from the south to join the Capricornian Government Service. Oscar prospers, and takes to his new life as a gentleman. Mark, however, is restless, and takes up with old Ned Krater, a trepang fisherman, who tells him tales of the sea and the islands, introduces him to drink, and boasts of his conquests of Aboriginal women - or 'Black Velvet', as they are called. But it is Mark's son, Norman, whose struggles to find a place in the world embody the complexities of Capricornia itself. The inspiration behind Baz Luhrmann’s film Australia. -
Growing up in an isolated cottage in the hills of Cumberland, Tom knows the bitter cold of shooting expeditions with his grandfather and long evenings spent with his father and mother. But taken away from the hills to live in the small town of Thornton, Tom experiences a tumult of conflicting emotions which he must master before he can come to terms with his identity. -
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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Young student Axel and Professor Otto Lidenbrock, studying a very old manuscript, discover an ancient pathway into the centre of the Earth. They travel to Iceland, and with the assistance of Hans, a local guide, they find an entrance in Snæfellsjökull, a volcano near Reykjavík. The travel is extensively long, and not without its many perils. Will they be able to make it? And what amazing wonders await hidden within the depths of the Earth? Colour illustrations by T.C. Dugdale. -
Lennie Lower was born in Dubbo in 1903 and after school joined the Royal Australian Navy, which he left in circumstances that are somewhat obscure. During the Depression he seems to have led a hobo existence and began contributing humorous material to newspapers, later becoming a full time journalist. In this volume: The Secret Lives Of Lennie L:ower; Bloodhound Lower Of The Yard; Husband Lower Of The Back Yard; Hints For Young Home-muckers; Bearding Grandpa In His Den; Putting Curry Into The Curriculum; How To Be A Lighthouse Keeper Or Almost Anything; Is There An Elf On Your Shelf? Whaling, Chess And Other Indoor Sports; Science, Medicine And Other Lurks. Epilogue:The Melancholy Of Lennie Lower by Alexander MacDonald. Known for Here's Luck, Lower is still considered to be the comic genius of Australian journalism. He died in 1947.
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Fifteen Stories: W.W. Jacobs
$35.00Neat little quirky tales with stings in their tails, some just for fun and others to make you think. In this volume: Hard Labour; The Bully Of The Cavendish; The Peacemaker; A Tiger's Skin; Three At Table; A Black Affair; A Case Of Desertion; The Rival Beauties; Smoked Skipper; An Intervention; The Lost Ship; The Persecution Of Bob Pretty; Odd Charges; His Lordship; In The Family. From the author of The Monkey's Paw. -
In this omnibus volume: Britannia All At Sea: It was love at first sight for Britannia Smith when she met Professor Jake Luitingh van Thien and shamelessly followed him to Holland, hoping to see more of him. She succeeded - and to her joy, he proposed. But just when all seemed perfect, she met Madeleine de Venz. In every way Madeleine was right for Jake, and Britannia became more convinced that to go ahead with the wedding might ruin Jake's life… Three For A Wedding: Phoebe Brook hadn't planned to take a nursing job in Holland. But when her sister Sybil got married instead of going to work for Dr Lucius van Somersen, Sybil persuaded Phoebe to take her place. And just to compound matters further, Phoebe found herself captivated by Lucius. Caroline's Waterloo: Caroline had never imagined that anyone would want to marry her, but the imposing Professor Radinck Thoe van Erckelens did propose to her - and having easily fallen in love with him, she accepted. But Radinck was clear about what he wanted in a wife - a convenient hostess! Caroline had to decide whether to settle for that, or to set about changing Radinck's feelings for her. -
They say no one from the convict settlement of Sydney Town crossed the steep ranges of the Blue Mountains until 1813. But the quick-witted convict Clancy Fitzgerald did it in 1798, dragging with him the proud, but reluctant, Eliza Phillips. Failure meant the noose, so their only hope was to push forward, into the unknown. Faced with constant danger and wrenching isolation, Clancy and Eliza find themselves pale-skinned strangers in a land of ancient traditions and spiritual beliefs. But their destiny is dramatically altered when Clancy discovers a golden road to fortune and makes a triumphant return to white society as a new man - in more ways than one... -
Barbara Trevor is the youngest of four children living on their parents' farm in country Australia. Barbara has acquired a horse, which she calls Rosinante, though she doesn't know the origin of the name. The book follows her attempts to school her horse and come to terms with her own life. Australian country life is well described, with real characters and an unaffected family living in a typical homestead. For young readers. Illustrated by Margaret Horder. -
Sydney 1945... The war is over, the fight begins.The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women's pages of her newspaper - the only job available to her - where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up. As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of-war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. Meanwhile Tilly's waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope with the stranger her own husband has become since being liberated from Changi a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning...
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NUMA Files 8. In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government– sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly...disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers—including Zavala—left to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he’s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it’s not just their own skins they’re trying to save - it’s the lives of millions. -
Fargo 12. Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries. Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. When Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry - and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away. Time becomes their enemy when the kingpin they helped send to prison over a decade ago is released - and he has two goals in mind. Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo. The Fargos know that as long as this gold is out there, no one is safe. They return to Greece for a final showdown - and one last chance to find that elusive treasure. -
Here is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide: those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, ‘Golobal Teens.’ Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living in a decaying northwest city and aspiring to a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once fire-bombed. It’s a six month chronicle of Tyler’s life that takes the reader to Paris and the ongoing party beside Jim Morrison’s grave, then to a wild island in British Columbia, the freak-filled redwood forests of northern California, a cheesy Hollywood, ultramodern Seattle and finally back home. On the way, a constellation of characters: Jasmine, Tyler’s Woodstock mum; Dan, his land-developer stepfather; Tyler’s summer fling ‘Princess Stephanie’; Anna-Louise, his post-feminist girlfriend with an eating disorder; Neil, Tyler’s Deadhead dope-ranching biological father...and Harmony, a rich computer hacker with a fetish for the medieval.
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Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis
$9.00His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creauture of the night and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross country run and then been beaten up expertly by secret police. He felt bad.
Jim Dixon has as lousy job at a second rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without – a tedious and ridiculous professor; a neurotic semi-detached girlfriend; burnt sheets; medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. The solution seems to be fairly straightforward – pull faces behind people’s backs, copy others’ work and make sure the pretty girls choose his course. But without luck, life is never simple...This is a book for anyone who has come to hate a job they have to keep and who never ever has quite enough money for beer and cigarettes. A book about embarrassment, daydreams and lust and the importance of being lucky, Jim. -
Rogan Stewart unexpectedly falls in love with the married Elspeth Trant, but following the wilful destruction of his home anf familyj and being implicated in her husband's murder following a tragic poaching accident, then takes to the road in the company of a group of travellers to re-evaluate his life and the lessons that have come to him. There are poetic descriptions of the Irish countryside, bucolic pictures of life on the road, and serious discussions between the characters about ethics and morals, seasoned with much whimsy and reality. -
Australians are witty, ironic and humorous...much of their poetry ends with a grin; Their virtues are many, their verses are numerous - so we gathered them up and we put the best ion; Parodies, ballads and strange confrontations...snippets and couplets and good humored curses; Ludicrous antics, absurd situations - one hundred years of our best comic verses; Read them alone, or read them in tandem, read them outdooors in your sweater and scarf - read them in order or read them at random, but read them, dear reader, and have a good laugh! -
Escort Ship: J.E. MacDonnell
$30.00‘Enemy bridges in sight, Sir. Course unchanged. Definitely Takao-class.’ ‘Very good. Let me know…’ ‘Just a moment, sir!’ Still leaning sideways to the voice-pipe mouth, Bentley twisted his head around and up. All he could see was a pair of shoulders, a pair of binoculars held very steadily and an old white canvas hat. Then the hat bent sideways. ‘Enemy altering course towards, sir. They’re...I think...yes, they’re altering formation to line abreast.’ Wind Rode met a long swell and her foc’s’le lifted gently a further six feet. ‘I can see the bow waves now, sir. Almost level with the gunnels. I’d say about 30 knots. And I think they’ve sighted us, sir.’ ‘I think you’re right, Norton,’ Bentley answered dryly. He came upright and Randall reported: ‘Radar’s in contact, sir. Range 15 miles, bearing right astern.’ Bentley spoke two words: ‘Make smoke.’ Waiting, Ferris swung to his signal-lamp and the order for the first part of the battle plan, decided on by Bentley in the event of discovery by a superior enemy force, flashed back to the escorts. Randall stepped forward to the Edge of the bridge and pressed a large brass button... -
Casablanca: Michael Moorcock
$30.00A miscellany of articles, experiences, people, six new short stories and a long novella. In this volume: Short Stories: Casablanca; The Frozen Cardinal; Hanging The Fool; The Murderer’s Song; Mars; The Last Call. Non-Fiction: Scratching A Living; Mervyn Peake; Harlan Ellison; Angus Wilson; Andrea Dworkin; Maeve Gilmore; Taking The Life Out Of London; The Smell Of Old Vienna; Literally London; People Of The Book; London Lost And Found; Building The New Jerusalem. Pornography And Politics: Who’s Really Covering Up; What Feminism Has Done For Me; Caught Up In Reality; Anti-Personnel Capability; The Case Against Pornography. Fiction: Gold Diggers Of 1977 (Ten Claims That Won Our Hearts). Cover art by Diane Pfister. -
The Campbell family, on losing their estate, emigrate to Canada to start a new life. The family is united in their troubles and they pull together to make their farm a success and along the way dealing with the harsh weather, hostile natives, forest fires and other challenges and adventures. Written for young people in 1844 and suitable for all ages today. -
Now listen, mate! These essays, or whatever they may be, represent my thoughts and conclusions on various things and people. My eldest son wanted me to write my autobiography - "The story of your life, Pop" he said. "And tell the truth." He can go and jump in Lake Burley Griffin. I offer instead some comment on what life has taught me. After sixty years of knocking around and being knocked about, a man acquires a sort of philosophy. Basically, mine is that nothing in life is worth getting steamed up about, and most things are good only for a laugh. Illustrated by Benier. -
A comic play, written in 1902. Crichton is butler to the Earl of Loam, a gent who considers the class divisions in British society to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea parties, where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton particularly disapproves. When Loam, his family and friends and Crichton and a maidservant are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island, the resourceful Crichton is the only one of the party with any practical knowledge, and he assumes the role of leader – reluctantly. Can the Earl and the high-society members of the party go it alone on the deserted island, or will they accept the reversal of roles in order to survive ? The play deals with serious class issues that were controversial at the time. -
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden; A Little Princess) is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly found to be the heir of the Earl of Dorincourt. Saying loving goodbyes to his working-class friends, Cedric goes to England together with his mother to embrace his new fortune. His grandfather, the old earl, is a bitter old man ridden with gout and a foul temper, trusting no one. However the angelic boy elicits a profound transformation in the grandfather, which not only benefits the castle household but the whole populace of the earldom. If only the old man's heart would soften toward Cedric's estranged mother, the family would be healed at last. And when another potential heir to the earldom makes a claim, it seems that everything is lost.... But all things are possible through a child's innocent trust, true friendship, and unconditional love. -
First published by Charles Dickens in 1855, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn is the story of a traveller who finds himself snowed in for a week at the Holly-Tree Inn – so he entertains himself by recording the stories he hears from the other lodgers and staff. In this volume: Boots At The Holy Tree Inn; Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions: To Be Taken Immediately; Not To Be Taken At Bedtime; To Be Taken At The Dinner Table; Not To Be Taken For Granted; To Be Taken In Water; To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt; To Be Taken And Tried; To Be Taken For Life. The First Poor Traveller’s Story; Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings: How Mrs Lirriper Carried On The Business; How The First Floor Went To Crowley Castle; How The Side-Room Was Attended By A Doctor; How The Second Floor Kept A Dog; How The Third Floor Knew The Potteries; How The Best Attic Was Under A Cloud; How The Parlours Added A Few Words. Mrs Lirriper’s Legacy: Mrs Lirriper Relates How She Went On And Went Over; A Past Lodger Relates A Wild Story Of A Doctor; Another Past Lodger Relates His Experience As A Poor Relation; Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew At Glumper House; Another Past Lodger Relates His Own Ghost Story; Another Past Lodger Relates Certain Passages To Her Husband; Mrs Lirriper Relates How Jemmy Topped Up. -
Devil Water: Anya Seton
$15.00Set during the Jacobite uprising of 1715. James, Earl of Derwentwater loses his life for his espousal of the cause; his brother Charles is the last Englishman to die for the Jacobites. Charles, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, had a daughter, Jenny, by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds, teeming London, and colonial Virginia - where Jenny eventually settled on the estate of the famous William Byrd of Westover - Jenny’s story reveals one young woman’s loyalty, passion and courage as she struggles in a life divided between the Old World and the New. Anya Seton writes a well-researched, good story every time.
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