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Rumpole: utterly unflappable and slightly detached from and amused by all of life's challenges, whether they occur in a court of law or as a result of living with She Who Must Be Obeyed. In this volume: Rumpole and the Confessions of Guilt; Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail; Rumpole and the Dear Departed; Rumpole and the Rotten Apple; Rumpole and the Expert Witness; Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas; Rumpole and the Boat People. -
Rumpole, defender of criminals high and low, tormentor of judges and fools, goes fractionally too far and finds himself threatened with sweet domesticity...There's the terrible Timsons, Rumpole's bread-and-butter clients, defending themselves against a charge of devil-worship; Erskine-Brown defending himself against a charge of sexual assault; and Justice 'Ollie' Oliphant is defending himself against a tirade of home truths from an unrepentant Rumpole. In this volume: Rumpole and the Children of the Devil; Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle; Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice; Rumpole and the Family Pride; Rumpole and the Soothsayer; Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson; Rumpole on Trial. -
Described as a young adult ‘factional’ novel written around Australian battles along the Kokoda Trail during World War II, the story centres around the intertwined lives of Derek, the son of Australian missionaries at the Gona Mission, and Morso, a native Papuan. When all women and children are ordered back to Australia, Derek and Morso disappear into the jungle. When the Japanese come they and Derek's father become part of the small band of Diggers who save Australia from invasion. There is racism, heroism, death and savagery; and there is also compassion, bravery beyond belief and a mateship that has no equal. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Set in the Italy and England of the seventeenth century, this is a story of passionate love , implacable hatred, treachery and vengeance. Kindly Genoese merchant Balsamo becomes the vengeful "cripple in black" when a girl under his protection is abducted by an arrogant English aristocrat. Placing implicit trust in a friend and a girl he loves, he finds his trust betrayed. This sudden discovery turns the cripple from a kindly, forgiving man into one of iron determination to exact retribution and revenge.... -
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... -
Book III of Raven. Raven and the Wolfpack have suffered: good men have died and hard-won treasure lost. But for the Norseman there is something more precious than gold or silver - fame. Fame is the saga-story a warrior leaves behind when he has breathed his last. And so the Fellowship sail in search of Constantinople, that they call Miklagard, where it is rumoured that riches and glory are to be found. But the journey takes their longships through unknown, dangerous waters - from the wind=swhipped marshes of the Camargue to the crumbling walls and blood-stained arenas of decaying Rome. And while the streets of Miklagard might be paved with gold, they also run with blood. Armed with sword and axe, spear and courage, Raven and his Viking brothers will pay a high price for the fame they seek... -
Book VI of The Last Kingdom. Uhtred is ordered against his will to talk peace with the Vikings. He is sent into a trap: the men who control the king do not trust Uhtred, the Danes want him dead and his only ally is Aethelflaed, Alfred's daughter, who has been condemned to a nunnery. Uhtred himself has been banished to an impoverished estate in Mercia and must now watch as the churchmen around the king urge a policy of peace and conversion while the enemies of Wessex grow ever stronger on the border. The Danes talk peace but want war - they want Wessex, the richest Saxon kingdom. Alfred the Great, who has ruled for almost thirty years is rumoured to be dying and there are bad omens - 'seven kings will die,' the sorceress said to Uhtred, 'and the woman you love.' When Alfred dies the rivals for his crown will try and destroy each other, leaving Wessex open to the Viking onslaught. The survival of Alfred's kingdom - and the English nation - is at stake. -
Before he dies, the father of ambitious young archaeologist Dilara Kenner leaves her tantalising clues about the location of the legendary Noah's Ark. And when Dilara starts her quest, aided by former Army engineer Tyler Locke, she rapidly becomes obsessed by the thought of discovering it. But there are sinister forces at large who have deadly reasons for wanting to be the first ones to get to the relic. Dilara and Locke are soon on the run and in constant danger as they race against time to decipher the clues left by Dilara's father. From a helicopter crash in the Atlantic to a sinister sect in Arizona's Mojave desert to a remote cave in Mount Ararat, the action is non-stop. -
Book V of The Last Kingdom: At the end of the ninth century, with King Alfred of Wessex in ill health and his heir still an untested youth, it falls to Alfred’s reluctant warlord Uhtred to outwit and outbattle the invading enemy Danes, led by the sword of savage warrior Harald Bloodhair. But the sweetness of Uhtred’s victory is soured by tragedy and unexpected betrayal, forcing him to break with the Saxon king. Joining the Vikings, allied with his old friend Ragnar - and his old foe Haesten - Uhtred devises a strategy to invade and conquer Wessex itself. But fate has very different plans.
