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1940: Nazi Germany has conquered most of Western Europe and Lisbon in neutral Portugal has become a hotbed of international intrigue as the world waits for the invasion of England. In this hotbed is an ambitious plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor, which will set Hitler's seal upon his anticipated defeat of the British. -
The next self-help book after the Bible. This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celestial City. Along a road filled with monsters and spiritual terrors, Christian confronts such emblematic characters as Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, Talkative, Ignorance, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. But he is also joined by Hopeful and Faithful. An enormously influential 17th-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language, The Pilgrim's Progress remains one of the most widely read books in the English language. Colour plate frontispiece by Byam Shaw. Line illustrations by RH. Brock. -
Vinegar Hill: Colin Free
$10.00The Corinthia is a hell-ship, riddled with fever, overloaded with cargo and bound for the new penal colony of early nineteenth century New South Wales. Three days off the coast a vicious mutiny breaks out and in its midst is Lt-Surgeon Thomas Pollitt, an idealistic young Englishman racked with typhus. He is saved by two Irish convicts, John and Mary Brannan, who jeopardise their own escape to help him reach safety. Pollitt resolves to bring justice on those who caused the mutiny. Cast upon his own fortune and wit, Pollitt grows from naive impulsiveness to hard-won maturity - a maturity that will be needed in the bloody convict rebellion of Vinegar Hill. -
The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon. She has her own deep contacts, but the more she investigates, the more she discovers herself in a very dark place indeed. For the assassination plan is only the beginning... -
Book III of The Australians. Continuing the stories of the Taggarts and the Dawsons. Jenny Taggart, a young widow, is reunited with her old friend and lover Andrew Hawley. Andrew is forced to serve the irascible governor William Bligh during his disputes with Jon Macarthur and the Corps officers as Jenny and Andrew fight to build a new life within the growing colony. Justin, Jenny's son, longs for adventure. This volumes also sees the arrival of beautiful newly-arrived Abigail Tempest, her sister Lucy and their sinister guardian Reverend Caleb Boskenna. -
The evergreen classic tale of the March sisters begins ten years after Little Men. Plumfield is still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Although her 'little men' are now adults, they are still her 'boys'. Restless Dan looks towards new frontiers, but his good heart and effort to protect a naive man lands him in jail; Emil has gone to sea and will experience shipwreck and sorrow before he sees Plumfield again and Nat, the musician, is ready to go abroad and study music - and he gets some other lessons in life as well. Meg's youngest daughter Josie is stage-struck and Amy worries that her only daughter Beth will make an unwise marriage. Apart from worrying about her 'boys', Jo inadvertently gets into another scrape when her privacy is invaded after one of her books becomes a best-seller. -
Lusitania: David Butler
$8.00At 2.20 p.m. on May 7, 1915, the Cunard liner Lusitania was struck by a German torpedo, sinking the giant ship in 18 minutes and drowning over 1,200 passengers and crew. Here is the story of the last voyage of the doomed ship and the men and women who lived and died. -
Storm Warning: Jack Higgins
$10.00At the end of August 1944 the Deutschland, a three-masted nineteenth-century sailing vessel, slipped out of a Brazilian port at the mouth of the Amazon with a crew of twenty-two men and five nuns as passengers. The destination was Germany, the route five thousand miles of storm-swept ocean barred by the overwhelming military might of American and British forces - both in the sea and in the air. As the Deutschland and her crew set out on this voyage, Fate moves other parties like chess pieces in preparation for the final encounter month later off Scotland, on the Outer Hebridean island of Fhada. Janet Munro, an American doctor caught in Europe by the war and now working with air raid victims; her uncle, Rear Admiral Carey Reeve, severely wounded and fretting under the personal order of General Eisenhower that he spend the rest of the war out of the firing line; U-Boat ace Paul Gericke, ordered on a desperate mission to penetrate the Royal Naval installation at Falmouth; Harry Jago and the surviving crew of his gunboat, who have seen action from the Solomons to the English Channel. As the Deutschland struggles north these and others are drawn inexorably together to coincide at that one point on the map: Washington Reef, three miles northwest of Fhada. And then, out of the North Atlantic, the winds start to blow up the storm of the century. Americans, Germans, Scottsmen, lairds, prisoners, fishwives, admirals - all are there. The presence of each of them has a history that we have followed in parallel with the progress of the barquentine, and now all are drawn together in the desperate struggle against man's oldest and implacable foe - the sea. This is the point at which the enmities of war fade into insignificance. -
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...
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