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A mosaic portrait of a fascinating man going through the motions of an ordinary life. George Baker had fled the England of his birth to begin a new life in Australia, but he could not abandon his memories and emotions. Years after his death, many of his character traits reappear in his grandson, who must learn to live with a legacy that is both rewarding and disturbing. -
Mudflat is a typical small Australian township of a few hundred people. David Parsloe, one of its former sons who migrated to America and prospered hugely, bequeaths to the little township of his birth £1 million - for cultural purposes. The next thing that happens is a impecunious, retired Brigadier, a high-pressure, fast thinking advertising man, and everyone else in the town, tries to secure their pound of flesh. The main contenders is the band of living, breathing evidence of David Parsloe's Charles II-like propensities, who have formed themselves into a union - the name of which clearly explains their birth status. Mudflat's other claim to fame is the late Inigo Burse, author - another son of Mudflat who has just 'arrived' in the literary world. It seems that that Inigo and Parsloe were schoolfellows - and bedfellows - in the same marital bed at different times...which makes for some very interesting relationship entanglements! Earthy Australian comedy. -
The tangled destinies of an unusual family are played out against the backdrop of the English countryside where two pretty sisters and a beautiful widow take center stage in a drama of dangerous flirtation and backstairs gossip. Esther Musgrave, an attractive widow, has her hands full trying to keep her energetic family together - and on speaking terms! Her three daughters, prickly Delia, sensible Meg and carefree Rose, mean everything to her, especially since the death of her husband, Charles. The story of the Musgraves in their Cotswold home, their loves and hates, hopes and disappointments, is vividly recounted in this charming chronicle of family life. -
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory - he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. Illustrated. -
The Cold War is over...but who was the mysterious and shapely go-between who made two enemies change their minds? Was she really the most sexually alluring woman in human history? Where did she and her similarly endowed band of followers come from? Who was she working for? Did the world really hover on the brink of destruction while they worked patiently to defuse the explosively moribund libidos of two desperate, aging men in Washington and Moscow? Add to this the crucial secret role played by a British gossip journo who happens to be a one-man sexual super-power - how did his erotic prowess save the planet from cataclysm? Based on actual events still a little too recent to be presented unvarnished, Grey has perforce clothed fact with fable, altered locations, dates and the names of the world leaders. Cover art by Otello Diamonte. -
The Naked Sun: Ted Willis
$15.00At 2.00 a.m. on August 5, 1944, over one thousand Japanese prisoners stormed the barbed wire barricades of the POW camp near Cowra in New South Wales. Two hundred and thirty one were killed, most of them cut own by Australian bullets - and many died by their own hand. Over three hundred escaped into the bush and were gradually rounded up by the Australian Army, assisted by police and local citizens. This historic and true event is the background for this novel. Waiting in Cowra for the break to come is Tom Boyd, who was taken by surprise when the Japanese invaded Papua New Guinea and has his own motives for revenge and hatred. Among the Japanese who escape is Kantaro Tomochika, a soldier who has been brought up to live by the code of the samuri. Through these central characters, a deeper understanding is offered of the nature of revenge and a sympathetic picture of the Japanese mindset of death and dishonour. -
Book XI of The Australians. The days of exploration were over. Now cries of "Unlock the land!" echoed from the outback to the cosmopolitan streets of Sydney. A young generation - farmers, bush-rangers, dance-hall girls, shippers, soldiers and mates - would be the first to call this down-under land their native soil. Their dream was one nation under God united. Their champions were those like beautiful Java Gordon, daughter of Jessica Broome, whose vibrant passion declared a fierce, proud country hers to fight for. But other voices raised the specter of race, hatred and violence. Now the move toward unity could forever divide a people...or prove the ultimate triumph for those who challenged an entire continent to create one free and mighty land. -
Reid’s collection of poems relate to the beauty of the Australian countryside, creating realistic images. He also offers humor and vision in his observations of people, animals, philosophy, emotions and of course, love.
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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.
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