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When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and Rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, he must enter the world of suburbia - and marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in modern society by his medieval upbringing, Lockhart must resort to drastic tactics in his attempt to return to Flawse House. Faced with the horrors of suburbia, he must either terrorise, blackmail and potentially kill an entire street of his tenants, or attempt to find his unknown and elusive father in order to inherit the estate. However, with the belief that he was dropped into his mother's arms by a stork, killing a street of people may be the wiser option for the socially inept young man. Naturally, he falls in love with Jessica, the first girl he has ever been allowed to speak to. He is also under mounting pressure, as it may all be in vain if his gold-digging mother-in-law has her way. She's has decided that if Lockhart's wealthy grandfather can't have the decency to die on his own, she will take matters into her own hands. -
It's said - and it's true - a great short story is often more memorable than a full-length novel, as the short story demands the fullest expression of an author' skill in a smaller space. This volume consists of fifty-three shorts by classic and modern greats of Australia and New Zealand: Morris Luri; Geoffrey Dutton; Henry Lawson; Ruth Park; Henry Handel Richardson; Dal Stivens; Olaf Ruhn; Alan Marshall; Cherry Wilder; D'Arcy Niland and so many more. -
London - from the days of the Romans through two thousand years of history - as seen through the eyes of generations of the same six families. This is both a unique narrative exploration of the city's development from humble trading post to the hub of a mighty empire and the very human story of the men and women who made it great. Through the lives and adventures of memorable characters - Julius, the small-time Roman coin forger, risking his life to find buried treasure; Dame Barnikel, who runs the tavern where Chaucer and his pilgrims carouse; Geoffrey Ducket, the founder of a dynasty whose members one day become peers of England; Edmund Meredith and the actors in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; and little Lucy, living by Dickens's muddy Thames - the reader can experience London's growth from its first beginnings and become part of the wonderful pageant that flows on still today. -
And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth... When Re Jana and her family reach the desert plain and sees the great ship is being constructed, she doesn't understand what she is seeing. But she knows the world has already begun to change. The waters are rising everywhere, chasing her family from the marshes. Both people and animals are beginning to panic and the once-barren desert is a tent city bustling with industry. But the rumour of a coming flood seems too remote to believe in a land where water is scarce. How could a god, anyone's god, determine who deserves to live and who will die? As Re Jana falls in love with Ham, son of Noah the Builder, the skies begin to darken and the panic spreads she begins to question all that she hears...This is the dramatic story of the weeks and months that follow, as the rain transforms the earth and the people come to understand the magnitude of the disaster. This is the story of one girl who stows away on the ark for love of Ham, Noah's son. This is her story of survival. -
Over a tense weekend of reflection, Major Norman Starr of the National Security Council prepares to appear before a congressional committee to publicly account for his covert actions. Hoping to learn something from his proud, troubled heritage, Starr looks for guidance in the lives of his ancestors: all-Americans who weren't always right. From a framer of the Constitution to a slave owner, from a Supreme Court justice to a courageous suffragist, each recalls an important legacy that Starr must somehow reconcile with his own perilous dilemma. -
King Solomon's Mines: Darkest Africa was a realm of savage tribes, beautiful queens, undiscovered races, dangerous mountains and long-lost, fabulous treasure. Three adventurous Englishmen set out to find the diamond mines marked on an ancient mysterious map. and Henry Curtis' brother, who vanished on the same quest. And for a real old-fashioned Saturday arvo matinee: https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/king-solomons-mines-richard-chamberlain-sharon-stone/ She: The cryptic paper left in trust for orphaned Leo inspires him and his adopted Uncle Holly to travel into unknown Africa. They are captured on their inland canoe journey by the savage people of Ayesha - 'She' - more beautiful and yet older than any living person. Allan Quatermain: The jovial Captain Good and Quatermain travel for the last time with Curtis and the devoted Umslopogaas to discover the secret race ruled by two bewitching rival Queens. Illustrated by Mark Thomas. -
Bonn: a small provincial town elevated by the Cold War to the artificial status of a capital city of British diplomats, their wives and aspiring German politicians. While the Foreign Office is locked in a last desperate battle to enter the Common Market, while the new Germany is being carried away on a rising tide of student-bourgeois nationalism, an aging Second Secretary vanishes from the British Embassy. Leo Harting: and he has taken with him, apparently official files which if disclosed could ruin Britain's chances at the negotiating table. Alan Turner, a tough investigator from London is sent to find him and pursue Harting's past: the institutions which employed or rejected him; the women and men who loved, trusted or despised him; and there's a refugee background to check out as well. It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse and that's probably not an accident... -
On of Dickens' classics written to rouse society to the sufferings of the poor and the Government's ineptness to do anything practical to help those who had no choice but the grim workhouse. It also illustrates the complete lack of feeling toward the poor, and the corruption that was rife in a mean welfare system that actually made things worse, not better. Oliver's mother dies while bringing him into the world; and the sensitive boy is buffeted from the horrific workhouse to being sold to an undertaker and thence into the foul slums of London. He naively falls in with the Artful Dodger and the evil Fagin, fencer of stolen goods and schooler of children in the art of thievery. There is the vicious Bill Sikes and his pathetic lover Nancy, who is kind to Oliver; Mr Bumble the bullying beadle, Mrs Sowerberry and a whole raft of other vivid Dickensian characters. Oliver's story is unforgettable. This is the complete and unabridged text; with illustrations by George Cruikshank from the 1892 and 1897 editions. -
In his affectionate and gently humorous verses 'John O'Brien' (Father Patrick Joseph Hartigan) sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - a home life of affection and instinct with true piety; intercourse, humorous or comradely, with friends and neighbours; a life on the land; and at the Church upon the Hill that is the center of their lives. Around the Boree Log is verse that is simple, sincere and lit with a kindly understanding of the lives it chronicles.
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