With the Russian tanks advancing into Hungary in 1945, Count Karoly Kasinczy-Landsberg is forced to abandon Fetevis, the majestic palace that has been his family's home for the past 500 years. Now after half a century of communist neglect, the new regime wants to be rid of the ruined building. But who is the rightful heir? Zoltan, a multi-millionaire and the last living person to have known Fetevis in its glory, has returned from America, confident the estate belongs to him, only to find it has been given to Terezia, the beautiful impoverished girl who claims to be the only child of Count Karoly. Zoltan is certain he can destroy the proof of her identity but he reckons without Terezia's tempestuous determination or the intervention of Max Anderson, the diplomat whose search for a missing lecturer inadvertently hands him the key that will unlock the dark secrets of the past.
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Book I of Earth's Children. Ayla, a Cro-Magnon child, is adopted by a Neanderthal clan, who do not know what to make of her strange ways and her different appearance. Yet she grows, cared for by medicine woman Iza and wise holy man Creb, to become a healer. Unfortunately, she unwittingly makes an enemy of the Clan's future leader Broud who does all he can to destroy her - but Ayla is a survivor. Cover art by Larry Rostant. -
Book 1 of Earth's Children. Ayla, a five year old Cro-Magnon girl, separated from her family during an earthquake, is taken in and raised by a group of Neanderthals looking for a new home. She is physically and mentally more advanced that her adopted people, and her differences and intelligence make them both fearful and admiring. Ayla is cared for by Iza, the Clan's medicine woman and her brother Creb, a gentle holy man, wise and magically empowered. Brun, the Clan's leader, must punish Ayla when he finds she has learnt to use a sling, for women are forbidden to touch weapons. Broud, his son, loathes Ayla and does all he can to destroy her. But Ayla is a survivor. Cover art by Barbara Lofthouse.
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The Client: John Grisham
$8.00Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client - even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives. -
Australian troops have been repatriated from the Middle East in order to face the likely threat of Japanese invasion after the fall of Singapore and Indochina. The story begins with an eight-day Sydney furlough between the two theatres of combat, explores the relationships they have come home to and gives the reader a sense of Sydney in 1942, when people were still more or less unaware of the gravity of the threat of war. In New Guinea, the first days to control the Kokoda Trail were disastrous. The men suffered, far from their supply lines against an overwhelming enemy force that they hardly see and deal with all the ills of the tropical jungle - typhus fever, malaria, dysentery, and more. Ill-equipped and ill-prepared, yet they fought - heroes in their tough and dogged endurance. Cover art by Edward Osmond. -
Thirty six of Archer's shorts - characterisation, suspense and with plenty of tail-twists in the tales. In this volume: Never Stop On The Motorway; Old Love; Shoeshine Boy; Cheap At Half The Price; Broken Rotine; An Eye For An Eye; The Luncheon; The Coup; The Perfect Murder; You'll Never Live To Regret It; The First Miracle; The Loophole; The Hungarian Professor, The Steal; Christina Rosenthal; Colonel Bullfrog; Do Not Pass Go; Chunnel Vision; Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm; Clean Sweep Ignatius; Not For Sale; One Night Stand; A Chapter Of Accidents; Checkmate; The Century; Just Good Friends; Henry's Hiccup; A Matter Of Principle; Trial And Error; The Perfect Gentleman; A la Carte; The Chinese Statue; The Wine Taster; Timeo Danaos; Not The Real Thing; One Man's Meat... -
Naturally, this volume contains the epic Man From Snowy River, Saltbush Bill J.P and Rio Grande but also a massive cross-section of his other works: Santa Claus In The Bush; The Geebung Polo Club; A Ballad Of Ducks; Brumby's Run; Daylight Is Dying; Father Riley's Horse; The Mylora Elopement and so many more. A real treasure-chest of Australia as it was. -
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Contains selections from Adam Gordon, Henry Kendall, Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, C.J. Dennis, Mary Gilmore, Kenneth Slessor, Rex Ingamells and indigenous poets Bulguru, Wenberi, Yityangu and many others. -
Book VI of The Australians. For three generations they had struggled to harness an alien wilderness, to lay the foundation for their dreams. But now, just as a radiant future beckons, they are menaced by distant powers hungry to seize what they have so bitterly won. As the new generation comes into its own, some, like Lucy Van Buren, live drugged by lavish splendor. Others, like Michael Dean, carry on the invincible pioneer spirit. And still the newcomers arrive, burning with unbridled passions and dark desires. Men like Robert Willoughby, fleeing disgrace, headed for disaster; women like Alice Fairweather, willing to risk everything for a cause. Together, as lovers and enemies, they must battle to forge the glorious destiny that is rightfully theirs. Once they were outcasts - now they are the colonists.
