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Book II of Viking. In London in 1019, a few months have passed since Thorgils escaped the clutches of the Irish Church, only to find himself at the center of a capricious love affair with Aelfgifu—wife of Knut the Great, ruler of England, and one of the most powerful men of the Viking empire. As this passionate relationship between the two begins to unfold, it forebodes inevitable consequences. When Thorgils is finally on the run again, he meets Grettir, an outlaw feared for his volatility, and the two become travel companions and sworn brothers. At the gates of Byzantium, Thorgils’ loyalty is put to the ultimate test. Cover art by Larry Rostant. -
Sydney, 1942 - the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Australia is surely doomed to fall to the Japanese...In the confessional, naive young Father Frank Darragh hears how his community fear the end of life as they know it - how the very real fear of invasion by the Japanese is leading people to challenge what the church teaches is right or wrong. Under the threat of death, people do things they would never dream of in peacetime. Especially vulnerable are those women whose husbands have been captured in Singapore or the Western desert. Facing the future alone and unprotected, they are at risk of succumbing to the charms of more subtle invaders: American servicemen. When the beautiful wife of an Australian POW is found brutally murdered, she becomes a casualty of war in the mind of the impressionable young priest. His obsession with her lost soul leads Darragh on a dangerous journey of personal discovery, one that puts his own life at risk. -
I Can Jump Puddles: This is Alan Marshall's own story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and most of all, he laughs. His world was the Australian countryside of early last century: rough-riders, bullock teams, bushmen, horse-drawn vehicles and spinners of 'yarns'. Encouraged by his father, Alan refused to see himself as a cripple and was determined to achieve physical prowess, competing with the other kids without fear or favour despite his dependence of crutches - and when adults hesitated to teach him skills, he taught himself. Wake In Fright: For outback school teacher John Grant it's the end of another term, and another trip back to Sydney. He wants to buy out his teaching contract and the only way, it seems, is to gamble. The town of Bundanyabba offers gambling dens...and when he is cleaned out of funds Grant's five days of utter nightmare begins - a downward spiral into a hell of hangovers, fumbling sexual encounters, and increasing self-loathing as he becomes more and more immersed in the grotesque and surreal nightmare that his life has become. The Fringe Dwellers: Sisters Noonah and Trilby, are young, beautiful - and part aboriginal. The grim alternatives before them are those that most white Australians do not even know about, let alone have to face: the brawling squalor of the camp, the neat ghetto of the Reserve, a bottle of conto and quick love in the sandhills. Noonah is happy to cruise along; but Trilby has the fire to drive her on. But - to what? The Breaker: Breaker Morant was executed at Pietersburg on 27 February 1902 for wilful murder of civilians. Yet to this day his guilt remains in doubt. This is a fully rounded picture of Breaker Morant; a champion horseman, a likeable larrikin, a popular balladist, a soldier and a lover. Was he a cold-blooded killer - or a scapegoat? -
Courtney, Book XII. In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, the Madhi or 'Expected One'. The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman, Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum. It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars, as well as the British Consul, David Benbrook and his three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum, in which British General Charles George Gordon is killed and the British retreat, these three powerful men fight to survive. -
Midnight. New York, the summer of 1864. The Museum has closed its doors. The human inhabitants, released at last from the day's toils, gather together to discuss the outside world. This is P.T. Barnum's Museum and these men and women are his most profitable exhibits. But forty years are beginning to take their toll; once Barnum could do no wrong but now it seems that success is slipping beyond his reach. Across the country the Civil War rages, Atlanta burns and the sparks from that conflagration threaten the great city on the Hudson. In the American Museum, P.T. Barnum's human showpieces, confined to their quarters high above Broadway, take the hours of darkness as their own. This is the story of their struggles and triumphs; a journey through that overheated summer until at last, the events of one night becomes, for them all, a long and terrible transition into day. -
Too many things had been going wrong in too many Formula One races. Johnny Harlow, world champion driver and apparent cause of the latest accident, decides the time has come to sort things out - and what he finds has nothing to do with cars. -
The Godson / Guns ‘N’ Rosé
$55.00The Godson: Les Norton IV. Les Norton thought it'd be the easiest two weeks of his life - playing minder to a young member of the Royal Family called Peregrine Normanhurst III. So what if he was a millionaire Hooray Henry and his godfather was the Attorney General? Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble - so what if he was on the run from the IRA? They'd never follow him to Australia...Would they? Guns 'N' Rosé: Les Norton XI. Les needed a holiday - anywhere - as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige - Les could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was look after George Brennan's nephew for a week while he was there. Sounded okay...Jimmy Rosewater was young, cool and handsome. He loved good wine, going to restaurants, going line-dancing and the ladies loved him. This suited Les nicely. But, Jimmy was also supposed to be in jail. Before he knows it, Norton is fighting off the usual yobbos looking for trouble, sex-crazed feral aunties and getting shot at by feral bikies. That was during the quieter moments...and all the time Les has a feeling Jimmy's up to something...Cover art by Brad Quinn. -
Missus: Ruth Park
$7.00The prequel to The Harp In The South and Poor Man's Orange, Missus details the lives of Hughie and Mumma before the gritty realism of inner city slum life; back in the past of the stations, the bush and the country towns. Flame-haired Eny - Grandma - had married John Kilker and had eleven children; Hughie and Jer Darcy, the sons of Martin and poor mad Frances had fled early from home. Hughie, free as a bird and irresistible to girls, knew every pub in the north-west; crippled Jer was his constant companion. When Hughie returned to Trafalgar, it was Margaret Kilker, soft and blooming with love who yearned for him and caught him fast. But love and marriage are not always what they seem... -
Jackdaws: Ken Follett
$8.00Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel. Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail...
