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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After a few beers in Colombo, Petty-officer Hooky Walker was ready to volunteer for duty anywhere with Lieutenant Peter Bentley, R.A.N. But he didn't know he was heading for Chitagong, to join a cut-throat band of commandos setting out on a suicide mission in the Burma jungle, amid Jap patrols. -
After a few beers in Colombo, Petty Officer Hooky Walker was ready to volunteer for duty anywhere with Lt. Peter Bentley, R.A.N. But he didn't know he was heading for Chitagong, to join a cut-throat, raffish bunch of commandos setting out on a suicide mission in the Burma jungle. At sea, it's fifteen miles to the horizon. A man's used to long distances when he's on look-out. Here you could see about five feet. And the place was thick with Jap patrols....
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Red - or Green? Shirley Grey; A Bit Of History, D. Dike; The Thing That Mattered, E.L. Haverfield; Improve Your Tennis, Jane Thornicroft; Letitia's Taxi Cab and Miss Connington In Town, Alice Massie; The Chinese Vase, Brenda Girvin; The Three Belpennys, Elizabeth Whitely; The Gargoyle and An Adventure In The Roussillon, S.M. Hills; Caroline And The Count, Jocelyn Oliver; The Pewter Candlestick, Dorothea Moore; S.O.S., Thura Lifford; Gillian's Choice, Pamela Tynan Hickson; Cricket For Girls, Marjorie Pollard; The Strange Sedan, M.A. Peart; It Flowered For Me Alone, Thora Stowell; The Saving Of The Undine, Beryl Irving; The Smugglers Of Portincross, Dorita Fairlie Bruce. -
The story begins in A.D. 30. The precise Latin of the Romans was heard everywhere; the land was a polyglot of warring peoples. It follows the life of Simon, called Peter and later St. Peter...who laid down his fishing nets on the Sea of Galilee to follow Jesus to Gethsemane. There, he would deny Him. Yet he became the greatest of the first Christian leaders and teachers. By the author of The Robe.
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Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him. This is a complete and unabridged edition. -
Five centuries after Rameses, the temples of northern Egypt lie deserted, the gods forgotten. Injustice and corruption reign and the empire seems to be doomed to ruin. Only one man, a Nubian, ruling his kingdom from the South, rejects this destiny. Piankhy has only one desire: that the gods should once again dwell in a united Egypt. But in order for this dream to come true, this man of peace must confront the Libyan Tefnakt, the ambitious and authoritarian prince of the North who is determined to force the country to submit to his will. -
Book II of The Celtic Crusades. The Great Crusade is long over, or so Duncan, son of Murdo, believes until a long-lost uncle appears from the East bearing tales of immense treasure. Though the Iron Lance had been won for the emperor, an even holier relic has been found: the Black Rood - the prayer-worn, blood-stained remnant of the True Cross - now endangered by the greedy ambitions of ruthless crusader barons bent on carving kingdoms from the desert sands of the Middle East. When Duncan’s life is shattered by tragedy, he sets sail on his own pilgrimage to Jerusalem, following in the footsteps of his father. But the gates to the Holy Land are guarded by the warrior priests known as the Knights Templar. These fearsome guardians hold the key to more than just Duncan’s fate - the very destiny of the West is in their hands. -
Richard Dadier, a World War Two Veteran who has recently qualified as a secondary school teacher, now must spend a year teaching at a vocational school in New York. The boys at the school are rough, tough and basically illiterate and most of the teachers are just trying to survive their day job, referring to the school as the garbage can that keeps filth off the streets. Dadier can't accept his and initially wins the respect of his students, but loses it when he steps in to prevent the rape of a female teacher by a student. From that moment on...war is declared between Dadier and his students and it can only end with a showdown of the most brutal sort. This is not Goodbye Mr Chips or To Sir, With Love: this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and student violence. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the savagery of the world he enters.
