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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. -
Gabrielle Van Der Mal, a young gifted and strong willed Belgian girl, becomes Sister Luke and as a nun must remove all traces of her former self and sublimate herself as a devoted bride of Christ with no room for her personal desires and aspirations. She dedicates her life to the care of the sick as she battles to reconcile the demands of her Order with her pride as a nurse. She must face the heart-breaking and terrifying task of nursing the insane and finds her faith tested in Africa where she finds herself at odds with headstrong Dr. Fortunati, operator of a remote Congo hospital, with whom she gradually builds respect. She is ordered not to take sides in World War II, even as she witnesses the horrors of the Nazi invasion of Belgium and risks her life aiding the escape of British airmen and this order causes the final conflict within Sister Luke. -
When the noble Walter impulsively decides to test the affections of Alysoun by telling her that he is a banished man, she unexpectedly agrees to share his banishment and become an outlaw at his side. And then they meet Robin Hood... not the jolly lad bent on skylarking nor the philanthropic hero they had heard so many tales of, but a true outlaw of the Middle Ages - an outcast: brave, cruel, simple and cunning and urged on by a violent hatred of society, contemptuously viewing the world through the diminishing glass of his own colossal vanity. The author is the son of Australian artist and author Norman Lindsay. -
The Oath: Michael Jecks
$8.00Knights Templar XXIX. 1326. In an England riven with conflict, knight and peasant alike find their lives turned upside down by the warring factions of Edward II, with his hated favorite, Hugh le Despenser, and Edward's estranged queen Isabella and her lover, Sir Roger Mortimer. Yet even in such times the brutal slaughter of an entire family, right down to a babe in arms, still has the power to shock. Three further murders follow, and bailiff Simon Puttock is drawn into a web of intrigue, vengeance, power, and greed as Roger Mortimer charges him to investigate the killings. Brilliantly evoking the turmoil of 14th-century England, this novel features well-loved characters Simon Puttock and Sir Baldwin de Furnshill as they strive to maintain the principles of loyalty and truth. -
Masters of Rome VI. Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers. A man of contradictions, he is happily married and at the same time the lover of Cleopatra. He is a great general but wishes to bring an end to Rome's endless civil and external wars. He is respectful of the Republic and is determined not to be worshipped as a god, but his very greatness attracts dangerous envy. -
It's 1963 - and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward; this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands, a man as yet unpunished.
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