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A motorway is proposed through Cleene Gorge, and everyone's got an opinion about it. At one end of Cleene Gorge is Handyman Hall; the home of Sir Giles and Lady Maud Lynchwood. Sir Giles is secretly in favour of ensuring that the motorway passes through the Cleene Gorge as he'll be paid compensation for the destruction of Handyman Hall, which is under a covenant preventing its sale. Lady Maud is just as fierce in opposing the motorway and expects George to support her. Enter Maud's gardener, Blott, a former German P.O.W. He's strongly patriotic towards his new home nation and home and fiercely devoted to Maud. With his military training, and some leftovers of the war secretly buried on the estate, Blott begins a wildly inept and covert campaign to undermine the construction of the motorway and Sir Giles' skullduggery. Vintage Sharpe humour. Cover shows David Suchet as Blott in the BBC TV series. -
Warbow: Wayne Grant
$12.00Book II of The Saga Of Roland Inness. Having found his place as a squire to a Norman knight, Roland Inness sets off with his master, Sir Roger de Laval, and fellow squire on a perilous mission to the Holy Land. King Richard has sworn to take Jerusalem from Saladin and orders Sir Roger to assess the military situation. Joining them is the Templar Knight Tuck as they contend with Moors, Berbers and a Sicilian usurper before reaching the battlefields in the east. There, Roland sees the ugly face of war and tests his mettle. In England, the land is awash in political intrigue, led by Prince John and Sir William de Ferrers, Roland's mortal enemy. Countering them is Queen Eleanor who picks Sir Roger's daughter Millicent for her own mission - one that puts her at the centre of a plot to turn England against King Richard -
In Bangkok, a Palestine Arab meets Chung Li, South East Asia's most deadly drug merchant. In San Francisco, German and Arab terrorists eliminate the family controlling narcotics in North America - and in Paris, Lee Cory, FBI, is briefed by Israeli Intelligence on a mission of ruthless brilliance: its purpose - to ship to the West all the heroin in the Golden Triangle. Behind the plan is the ice-cold mind of the man called The Scorpion, and Sioo, the beautiful Thai, who uses sex and drugs as tools of evil...
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The Lovers: Morris West
$10.00Bryan de Courcy Cavanagh, successful international lawyer, is summoned back to his past - back to the early Fifties, to the loss of innocence and the bitter-sweet lessons of Rome's Black Aristocracy and love in the uncertain climate of the early post war years. On his birthday, a sealed letter from Rome arrives, bearing the arms of the ancient house of the Farnese di Mongrifone. Affectionate, even imperious, it is a summons from the woman he loved - and lost - in the turbulent, opportunistic world of postwar Europe. Beset by his memories of an extraordinary voyage on a private yacht on the Mediterranean forty years earlier, Bryan returns to Rome, where he discovers a closely guarded secret. -
Set in a British Colony in Central Africa in the 1930's, the characters include bachelor Harold Stebbs, the Governor's secretary; the Governor himself, Sir Gardner; Mr. Frith, the much-passed-over Acting Chief Secretary (and a too-familiar figure in the Milner Club bar); Tony Henley, ADC; Old Moses, the chief butler at the Residence; the socially irresponsible Mr Ngono; Mr Telfwa, militant left wing newspaper editor; and Mr Das, an itinerant legal counsel. Then there is the Governor's Lady - twenty years younger than her husband and already the subject of gossip in European, African and Asian circles. Norman Collins was an expert observer of people for his entire life, enabling him to write very rich and satisfying books - that probably were NOT all fiction. -
Trap: Peter Mathers
$80.00Jack Trap is an interesting mix of Irish, English and Aboriginal - but he looks Aboriginal. Admired by a few and hated by many, he affects everyone. He is a shifting product of the back streets, passively resisting poverty and racism, occasionally indulging in bursts of aggression. He is a symbol around which lurk a variety of characters representing the different aspects of an oppressive society. Trap is a hero. -
Lee's classic story of the lawyer who defends a black man charged with the rape of a white girl in America's Deep South in the 1930s. Here are the roots of human behaviour: innocence, experience, kindness, cruelty, hatred, humour, pathos - and love. Cover shows Gregory Peck and Brock Peters from the film. -
Tony: Patrick Dennis
$70.00Tony makes an impression wherever he goes - he knows all the right people, wears all the right clothes, is seen in all the right places and is always in the society columns. Yet there are some odd stories also circulating...a messy divorce case...blackmail and Mob involvement...a very peculiar wedding...He's a rogue, a rascal and a reprobate. Patrick Dennis tells a good story and has a sly dig at society pretensions and the cult of so-called celebrity at the same time. -
Madselin: Norah Lofts
$10.00In 1066, Saxon England became an enemy occupied territory, subject to the greed and tyranny of the Norman conquerors. Madselin, the young wife of an ageing Saxon Lord, found herself - in the space of a few short days - bereft of husband, land, title and friends. Her only defense against the oppressors was pride - the pride of ancient people, and of a royal descent. And to Rolf, the purloiner of her husband's land, Madselin was a challenge - an emotional challenge that both of them were more than eager to accept...
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