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Men Of Iron: Howard Pyle
$10.00Myles Falworth is a cheeky young squire of medieval England, an England torn and smouldering with intrigue. Richard II has been dethroned, Henry IV is now the King and still the land seethes with dark plans. Myles, in the service of the powerful Earl of Mackworth, is unaware that he's the centre of frenzied plotting as he grows from the pranks of boyhood into the chivalry of a Knight of the Bath. He will be pitted against his family's persecutor the vicious Earl of Alban and it will be a duel to the death. Filmed as The Black Shield Of Falworth in 1954, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Cover art by Howard Pyle. -
Now that Deborah's moved into the flat upstairs, Gary and Dermot have been in an uproar. Both of them love her, badly. They angle and vie for her, steal and pine longingly for her...Gary offers Deborah money, commitment and evenings in listening to the radio. Dermot stresses traditional values, such as sexual performance. Deborah, meanwhile, is giving as little information as possible. She's been hurt before, she says...and it could be she wants to do some hurting of her own...This is not the novel of the TV series - it's the novel that inspired the comedy TV series starring Martin Clunes, Harry Enfield, Neil Morrisey, Leslie Ash and Caroline Quentin. -
The sequel to The Other Side of Midnight. Greece, 1948. In the seclusion of a remote convent a young woman emerges from the trauma of memory loss. To Catherine Alexander, Larry's widow, Demiris seemed a benefactor, the man who helped her rebuild her life. She knows that Larry and Noelle are dead, but not who is responsible. Nor that Demiris' desire for revenge is not yet satiated - there is one last victim to silence.
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Ron Saw is a very urban Australian humourist. In this, his third collection of yarns, although there is a bit of tramping around the mulga in this volume, there are no sliprail jokes nor tales of intelligent sheep. But more than one story has a moral sting! Among some of life's great matters to ponder: Unsundered Sandwiches; The Australian Gourmet; Fishrinser's Fowlhouse; Cool-headed Cowardice; The Bum's Rush from Seat 4B to 38G and much more. Illustrated by Alan Moir. -
Meltdown: Ben Elton
$6.00For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab. But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out, his star just burned brighter than ever. Rich, pampered and successful, Jimmy, Monica and their friends lived the dream, bringing up their children with an army of domestic helps. But then it all came crashing down. And when the global financial crisis hit, Jimmy discovers that anyone can handle success. It's how you handle failure that really matters. -
Les Norton VIII. Les Norton's Hawaiian holiday should have been just like in the tourist brochures. Balmy days, blue seas, palm trees swaying in the moonlight. And it would have been if Les had just minded his own business. But what are you supposed to do when a cop you know and an old friend are in trouble? Especially at Christmas? The detective was okay. But Norton's old friend turned out to be the biggest brothel owner in America: Madam to the Stars. Through her, Les meets Mitzi Moonkiss; he also meets the Japanese Yakuza - lesbian geisha girls - and every time he puts his head out the door some boofhead US marine is looking for a fight. Somewhere in the middle of all this, a crazed serial killer is on the loose with a bayonet. Aloha, Les... -
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. -
Medicus: Ruth Downie
$40.00Gaius Petreius Ruso 1. Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His arrival in Deva (more commonly known as Chester, England) does little to improve his mood, and after a straight thirty six hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. Now he has a new problem: a slave who won't talk and can't cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. A few years earlier, after he rescued Emperor Trajan from an earthquake in Antioch, Ruso seemed headed for glory: now he's living among heathens in a vermin-infested bachelor pad and must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next. Who are the true barbarians, the conquered or the conquerors? It's up to Ruso—certainly the most likeable sleuth to come out of the Roman Empire - to discover the truth. A world as real, raucous and comical as our own.
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Robbie Grenn is a charming but mentally challenged young man who, owing to an injury when young, has never been to school. He's regarded by his family as an outsider. Espionage would hardly seem to be his métier, yet to prove himself Robbie takes up a challenge that lands him in peril of his life many times. Interwoven with his adventure is the story of his relationship with the lovely Stephanie, the first girl with whom the shy Robbie has had more than a passing acquaintance; and his own unique narration and interpretation of the Greek myths and legends. Something different from the Master of magic and witchcraft.
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