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A unique celebration of that most beautiful and self-possessed of animals, the cat. More than 50 poems are included, reflecting every feline mood: the comic, the aristocratic, the lazy, the fierce, the inscrutable. Lovers of cats and lovers of poetry will be delighted by the wide range of the collection, which contains poems by T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeates, William Wordsworth, Stevie Smith, John Keats, Edward Lear, A.L. Rowse, Christopher Smart and many more. Illustrated. -
Here are two very different aspects of early 20th century Australia. The Poor Parson tells of the misfortunes of a Presbyterian minister in a bush parish - the day a goanna ran up his leg; his financial embarrassment when his stipend is not forthcoming; of the sudden disappearance of his church and its equally sudden reappearance as someone else's house...Dad in Politics : A man is wanted who will go to Brisbane "...'an' put the sufferances of the farmers plainly - an' - an' - well before Parliament - a man who'll talk t'them an' - an' tell 'em what's right an' - an' what ought t'be done." And no-one can do it better than Dad. Even though he doesn't know much about Parlimentary protocol he's determined to have his say! With illustrations by Syd Smith and Harry Julius. -
At the height of its New Year revels, luxury ocean liner Poseidon is capsized by a massive tidal wave caused by an undersea earthquake. A handful of survivors must fight for their lives against appalling odds, struggling through the entrails of the stricken vessel in a nightmare race to get to the hull, the only part above water, before the ship sinks. Faced with rising water, panic, desperation and the death throes of the liner, they must do whatever they can to survive and make to the rescue they hope is coming. Front and back cover shows scenes from Irwin Allen's 1972 film of the same name; this is not a novelisation of the film - it is the original text of Gallico's 1969 novel. -
Frank Chambers is a drifter - when life gets too heavy, he catches the next box car out of town or hitches a ride on the highway. When he stops in a Californian diner in the middle of nowhere, he sees Cora, the waitress. When Nick 'The Greek' Papadakis, the owner of the diner and Cora's husband offers Frank a job, he takes it. Because what has sparked between Frank and Cora is so bad, it's good - she's game for anything in the sado-masochistic affair that follows. Frank wants her to come with him - hit the road, live like gypsies. But Cora wants the diner, and that mean Nick has to be - removed from the scene...One of the most important noir novels of modern literature and originally banned for its steamy bedroom scenes, this tale is set down in the briefest, most direct prose - with flashes of brilliant imagination - the planning, the accomplishment and the sequel to the murder. First published in 1934, from the author of Mildred Pierce. -
Book I of The Potato Factory. Ikey Solomon, The Prince of Fences, is a nocturnal creature - brilliant, ruthless, unctuous and quick-witted. Hannah, his brothel-mistress wife, is rapacious, sharp-tongued, amoral and dearly loathes her husband - but dearly loves her children. Mary Abacus, Ikey's sometime-mistress who was born in St. Giles, London's vilest rookery, has somehow survived a young life of distress and misadventure but is gifted with a knowledge of numbers and the determination that one day, she will succeed. All three are transported as criminals to Van Diemen's Land , where the two strong and determined women raise separate families, each with the surname Solomon, the one legitimate and the other not. The destinies of both families are irrevocably locked into Ikey's greed, Hannah's haste and Mary's ambition - a potent combination that - when love is added - becomes a vengeful and explosive mixture as each woman sets out to destroy the other. -
This is the story of Simonides who lived in 6th century Greece - a time of tyrants, the Persian wars and a great flowering of the arts. As a boy, Simonides followed a sign from Apollo and finds his teacher, the bard Kleobis. He accompanies him to Samos where he carries out his apprenticeship. After Kleobis' death he goes to the court of the Pisistratids in Athens under the patronage of Hipparchos, who gathers to him a glittering group of artists of all kinds. The Pisistratids had come to power as the peoples' friends and they seem so almost to the end, when Hipparchos' folly precipitates his murder by Harmodios and Aristogeitron and the court's eventual fall from power. Simonides survives the upheaval and retires to Sicily, where he looks back over his long and eventful life.
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Book III of Robert The Bruce. Bannockburn was far from the end for Robert Bruce and Scotland; not even the beginning of the end—only the end of the beginning. There remained fourteen years of struggle, savagery, heroism and treachery before the English could be brought to sit at a peace table with their proclaimed rebels, and so to acknowledge Bruce as sovereign King. In these years of stress and fulfilment, Bruce's character burgeoned to its splendid flowering. The hero-king, moulded by sorrow, remorse and in grievous sickness, equally with triumph, became the foremost prince of Christendom - despite continuing Papal excommunication. -
Volume I of the Duke de Richleau adventures. The Duke de Richleau had British nationality. But why? Why should a French aristocrat renounce his country and live in exile? The answer lay in the Paris of the eighteen-nineties; a world of superficial glamour, and under the surface, deep social and political trouble. The army, discredited by the Dreyfus case, was being purged. The young de Richleau, cadet and then instructor at the military academy of St. Cyr, became involved in a conspiracy. A conspiracy to restore the French monarchy. The Duc de Vendome was secretly coached in his future role of King. Then, the conspiracy was betrayed. The results: death for some. For Richleau, the life of a fugitive, but a fugitive who had declared a single-handed vendetta against the government; who was determined to rescue the Prince. -
In some ways a sequel or successor to The Autocrat At The Breakfast-Table, there is plenty of philosophy, social critique and religious insights. Physician, poet, philosopher and essayist, Holmes also contributed much to medical reform in the 1800s. He was a member of the Fireside Poets and regarded as one of the best writers of his day. a collection of essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form. The essays take the form of a chiefly one-sided dialogue between the unnamed 'Author' and the other residents of a New England boarding house who are known only by their profession, location at the table or other defining characteristics. The topics discussed range from an essay on the unexpected benefits of old age to the finest place to site a dwelling and comments on the nature of conversation itself. The tone of the book is distinctly Yankee and takes a seriocomic approach to the subject matter. Each essay typically ends with a poem on the theme of the essay. There are also poems ostensibly written by the fictional disputants scattered throughout.
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