Modern Literature

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  • It begins with a curse, a song and a hanging and it's a story you will never forget.  Beginning in 1123, this story is a historical epic surrounding the politics, the Church, the monarchy and the lives lived in the England of this period.  It weaves historical events into the narrative of the fictional characters over a forty year span:  Aliena, the daughter of the disgraced nobleman Earl Bartholomew; William Hamleigh from a social-climbing, ruthless family; Jack and his mother Ellen, forest dwellers; Tom Builder, the stonemason walking the roads with his family searching for his ultimate life's work and Prior Phillip of the Kingsbridge  monastery and his ambition to build a beautiful cathedral.  A book that can only be described as 'unputdownable'.   We have sold numerous copies of this book and the customer always comes back in search of more Ken Follett.
  • It begins with a curse, a song and a hanging and it's a story you will never forget.  Beginning in 1123, this story is a historical epic surrounding the politics, the Church, the monarchy and the lives lived in the England of this period.  It weaves historical events into the narrative of the fictional characters over a forty year span:  Aliena, the daughter of the disgraced nobleman Earl Bartholomew; William Hamleigh from a social-climbing, ruthless family; Jack and his mother Ellen, forest dwellers; Tom Builder, the stonemason walking the roads with his family searching for his ultimate life's work and Prior Phillip of the Kingsbridge  monastery and his ambition to build a beautiful cathedral.  A book that can only be described as 'unputdownable'.   We have sold numerous copies of this book and the customer always comes back in search of more Ken Follett. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/evening-morning-ken-follett/
  • Jed Stevens' rise to wealth never frees him from the ties of his family background - half Jewish, half Sicilian Mafia. He is caught up the world of show business and high finance - a world full of the piranhas who feed on greed, immorality, the drug trade and high finance. Jed will be forced to choose between the world he has conquered and the world to whom he owes his loyalty. A dazzling exploration of cold ambition and unrestrained lust. From the ruthless dealings of global drug lords to the corporate savagery of Wall Street's hustlers, the Piranhas are those hungry, vicious, men and women whose greed is all-consuming - and whose power is deadly.
  • Former pirate and captain of the Guardship, Thomas Marlowe is now a man of property with a prosperous tobacco plantation in Virginia and a beautiful wife, Elizabeth.   But the Anglo-Spanish war has caused a decline in tobacco prices and Thomas decides to come to England to trade his wares, never thinking that in the busy streets of London, he will meet an old enemy from his pirating days.  Forced to abandon his tobacco and flee, he takes to sea and finds himself in a battle with the ships bound for the Moghul Empire. In Madagascar, he at last comes face to face with his pirate foes.

  • Book IV of Earth's Children. Ayla the orphan and Jondalar the traveller leave the safety of the lands of the mammoth hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across the whole of a continent to the Cro-Magnon settlement from which Jondalar set out years before as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the stallion Racer and the mare Whinney, they brave enemies, the elements and the unforgiving terrain in their search for the place they call home. Cover art by Geoff Taylor.
  • Book IV of Earth's Children. Ayla the orphan and Jondalar the traveller leave the safety of the lands of the mammoth hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across the whole of a continent to the Cro-Magnon settlement from which Jondalar set out years before as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the stallion Racer and the mare Whinney, they brave enemies, the elements and the unforgiving terrain in their search for the place they call home.
  • Book IV of Earth's Children. Ayla the orphan and Jondalar the traveller leave the safety of the lands of the mammoth hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across the whole of a continent to the Cro-Magnon settlement from which Jondalar set out years before as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the stallion Racer and the mare Whinney, they brave enemies, the elements and the unforgiving terrain in their search for the place they call home.
  • In this volume: Flying Squirrels; Song Of The Future; The Weather Prophet; Black Harry's Team; Australian Scenery; Sunrise On The Coast; At The Melting Of The Snow; The Old Australian Ways; A Singer Of The Bush; By The Grey Gulf-water; With The Cattle; The Wind's Message; The Travelling Post Office; Black Swans; Buffalo Country; A Mountain Station; The Daylight Is Dying; Clancy Of The Overflow; On Kiley's Run; Pioneers; The Uplift; Song Of The Wheat; In Defence Of The Bush. Lavishly illustrated with colour reproductions of Australian landscapes of the late 1800s and early 1900s by noted artists.

  • In the wake of the World Trade Centre bombing of 1993, New York has become ground zero for an intricate web of betrayals and double-crosses in the shadowy world of Islamic fundamentalism. Sami Amir arrives in Brooklyn via Iran, his mission to investigate rumours of terrorist plots that are set to culminate around Christmas and New Year - only a few weeks away... First published in 2000, before the fall of the Twin Towers, this book now comes over as being eerily prescient.