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This volume contains the following stories: Sticks, Stones: Chris Tsiolkas; Confession, Malla Nunn; Merlo Girls, Nick Earls; Dress, Medium; Maggie Alderson; Mirrored, Georgia Blain; Manuka, Alex Miller; The Amber Amulet, Craig Silvey; The Evolution of Sadie Smith, Rachael Treasure; The House on Hill Street, Judy Nunn; The Shedding Planner, Mark Dapin -
1610: Hermetic magic is about to transform into science - this is the year everything could change. Robert Fludd, English physician and astrologer uses Jon Dee's method of foretelling the future. It appears to work but he doesn't like the centuries he's predicting. Someone will have to change the future. Rochefort, duellist, down-at-heel aristocrat and spy for the Duc de Sully, France's powerful finance minister, has troubles of his own - Dariole, a young man of his acquaintance who is lust walking on two legs and as irresponsible as an alley-cat. The last thing he needs is a mad English astrologer in his life. Continental Europe is briefly at peace - but Henry IV is planning to invade the German principalities. Five years earlier, in England, conspirators almost succeeded in blowing up King James and his Parliament. The seeds of the English Civil War and the Thirty Years' War are being sown... For a man of no conscience, Rochefort is about to be caught between loyalty, love and blackmail - between kings, queens, politicians and Rosicrucians - and all this before he encounters the woman he has, unknowingly, crossed land and sea to meet. Robert Fludd is pulling the strings... And Rochefort does not take kindly to being someone's puppet. Cover art by Les Edwards.
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38 North Yankee: Ed Ruggero
$30.00The North Korean People's Army has crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea, viciously ambushing a routine American convoy. The shocking news reaches the beaches of Hawaii, where Captain Mark Isen is a 27 year old second-generation professional soldier. Commander of C Company, part of a light infantry division and like most of his peers, he's never seen combat. The Army's lightest, most mobile units are rushed to Korea. Charlie Company gets there weeks ahead of the Army heavy forces and in a matter of days, Isen's men are at war. And when the front-line grunts of C Company are exposed to the white heat of battle, Isen knows, before the first engagement is over, that his men will be outnumbered and outgunned in every battle they fight.
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633 Squadron: Squadron 633 was chosen for a special mission, crucial to the success of D-Day. From the beginning of their special training, each man knew it was an almost impossible task. Their target is a Norwegian fjord, where the Germans are developing a top-secret weapon. The pilots know they'll be flying in low, between the steep mountain walls, without fighter support. For many, the trip will be one-way only... Operation Rhine Maiden: After a near-suicide mission to the Swartfjord, which claimed many lives, morale among the survivors of 633 Squadron was at its lowest ebb. Unbearable tension and problems with replacement recruits were tearing the squadron apart. The new Commander, the young, brilliant and aggressive Ian Moore, knew that the only thing that would pull it together was the challenge of another dangerous mission. The Germans were developing Rhine Maiden - a new antiaircraft rocket which posed a deadly threat to the Allies’ invasion plans. The top brass decided that 633 Squadron should first bomb the rocket factory and then make a daring strike in broad daylight on an underground target, buried deep in a Bavarian valley. Operation Crucible: Autumn 1943: An angry American press has blamed the RAF for heavy U.S. B-17 losses over Europe. To restore confidence, joint Allied operations are planned by RAF and 8th Air Force top brass. 633 Squadron, whose Rhine Maiden mission success has won them a glorious reputation, is called in to launch Operation Crucible. It is to be a Dieppe-style landing by the Americans, supported by the aces of 633 Squadron. Their role: to give ground support to troops against overwhelming firepower and totally unforeseen odds. -
Denis O'Grady, son of John...got bored with the Big Smoke so he packed a few belongings, filled his ute with juice and a dozen bottles and headed for the bush. In the bush, as long as you don't try and pull the dirty on anyone and act natural you'll be bought a beer anywhere, this O'Grady sez. Den and his various mates Pat, non-swearing Scotsman Jock and Pommie Ron drove, drank and worked their way around Australia accompanied by Den's dog, Boof. They drove cranes, fenced and painted properties, delivered milk and burnt off tobacco leaves. Their trucks, Mephistopheles and Nebby (short for Nebucadnezza' or however you spell it) developed an unaccountable habit of stopping outside 'rubbities', refusing to move on until they were watered, which inevitably meant a long watering for their passengers as well. And wherever they went they met a variety of characters unique to to Australian towns. Illustrated by Clarrie King. -
In 1819, a soldier of the 6th Light Dragoons, disillusioned with life, has a chance encounter with an eminent English poet that leads him to rethink his future. He reunites with his depleted regiment and is charged with raising a new troop to go to India. But what should have been a relatively simple operation becomes a dark and dangerous march through the jungle as the ill-equipped and inexperienced men race to confront the Burmese warboats. -
A unique presentation of Dickens' classic tale of Scrooge and his reformation at the hands of the ghosts of Jacob Marley and Christmases Past, Present and Future. Illustrated by Peter Fluck and Roger Law, this is the complete text of Dickens original work. -
For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth and one explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, a pupil at an exclusive public school drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them are young Hugh Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South American land owner. The drowning and its aftermath initiate a spiralling circle of treachery that will last for three decades and entwine many lives.
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Fire is always a potential enemy in Australia's Blue Mountains, where Howard Anderson and Julian Fane are building a holiday resort. Anderson is proud of the venture, but Fane secretly plots to burn it down as an insurance fraud. He's hired a 'burning man' - arsonist Steve Adams - to do the job. This isn't the first of Fane's insurance scams and even as he plots the new one, there are suspicions about his activities in the past. Adams acts as a hit-man to eliminate one snooper, but another investigator is already on the trail. As bushfires erupt in the Mountains during the extreme heat, Anderson knows there's a lot more wrong than a very active bushfire season - and it's not only a race to save his resort, but his daughter, from her new boyfriend Steve... From an original idea by Kit Denton; filmed in 1982 starring Tom Skerrit, Wendy Hughes James Mason and Ian Gilmour. Fun Fact: the boss of the Cosmic Cauldron was one of many Rural Service members who participated in the film. -
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... -
A well-chosen compilation of essays, discourses and short stories. In this volume: The Philosophic Mind; A Bevy of Lovers; Husbands and Wives; Law and Lawyers; The London Scene; To Lie Magnificently; A Little Learning; Essays in Invective; Some Observations on Food; The Latest Hour; The Aphorisms of Samuel and Tony Weller. -
Christmas Eve in London. The capital is deserted, silent. In the offices of the Joint Intelligence Bureau, three people are left to man operations - and protect MIDAS, the computer lynchpin of British Intelligence gathering. Then out of the blue, Operation Silent Night explodes... Three months later: one man, Major Anthony Hollands, a former JIB officer, is on a deadly mission - a mission which leads him to a mole buried deep within MI5, and whose ambitious plans are only beginning... -
Alice, transported to the colony of New South Wales, serves her sentence and becomes a free woman; Eliza Jane is an unwitting partner in her husband's illegal slave-labour trading at the turn of the century and is forced to commit murder; Clare, a nurse during the Spanish Civil War, is an undercover agent in Germany during the second World War. A novel spanning a century and five generations, with settings moving between Europe and Australia. -
After the end of World War II, Australia's Directorate of War Graves Services uncovered an extraordinary document hidden in a bottle buried in a grave in Singapore. It was a summary of the secret diary of Dr. Rowley Richards, a P.O.W. and medical officer on the notorious Burma Railway. Richards, just 23 when the war broke out, witnessed the horror of camp life first-hand and through his work treating fellow prisoners suffering in the harsh conditions. In a series of diaries he recorded the everyday brutality of the P.O.W camps as well as the courage, humour and mateship of his comrades. Just before being transferred to prison in Japan, he buried a summary of his contraband writings. Astonishingly, it was returned to him intact. -
Barsetshire No. XXVI. The community is all abuzz with news of the impending marriage of Herbert Choyce (vicar of Hatch End) and Miss Merriman (who had been the long-time secretary of the late Lady Emily Graham). The couple, older and wiser than the usual betrothed, are in no hurry to tie the marital knot, but the enthusiasm of their friends and neighbors sweeps them up on a rush to the altar, as all of Barsetshire's familiar faces join in the festivities. But in the wake of the wedding, other concerns take center stage. -
Terry Delaney leads a relatively satisfying life as a security guard and as a passionate rugby player with a shot at pro-team success. But Terry's life is shaken beyond recognition when he falls obsessively in love with Danielle Kabbel, the daughter of his employer, Rudi Kabbel. Rudi, a half-mad/half-charming immigrant from Eastern Europe, suffers from visions of an impending apocalypse and from the demons of a tormented childhood. The family madness runs deep, from the Kabbel family patriarch, Stanek, a Nazi collaborator who betrayed his wife to save his own neck, to Rudi's traumatic childhood in which he was a pawn between the Nazis and the Russians. It is into this maelstrom of devastating history and present day insanity that Terry is drawn - to his own desperate peril. -
The man with no name rode into San Miguel and saw the chance to make himself a fistful of dollars. He set two rival families against each other and managed to survive the bloodshed unscathed, while each side paid his hire. Then a massive shipment of Mexican gold arrived and violence exploded in the streets, the man with no name - the stranger, the Americano - came near to losing his life; that was when he ceased to be dangerous and became lethal...Cover art shows representation of Clint Eastwood as the Stranger in the 1964 film of the same name. -
In the remote barren wasteland of North-western Australia, three wandering thugs make a murderous bid to gain ownership of a newly discovered nickel fortune by crippling the legitimate owners' vehicles and setting the occupants adrift, without food or water, to die in the searing heat. The victims attempt the seemingly-impossible desert crossing, close-herded by the thugs. But the killers have reckoned without the power of gratitude, when the victims receive assistance from someone they never expected to meet...
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