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Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory - he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. Illustrated. -
An omnibus featuring: Leaving Bondi: Les Norton No XV. Les reckoned by tossing 50 grand into the Gull's movie he'd become the next Sam Goldwyn. Only someone put a bomb on the movie set. And who gets the blame? Now Les is a fugitive from the law and desperate to prove his innocence. Satanists, drug dealers, mad poets, blabbermouth disc jockeys - in fact, everybody between Sydney, the Blue Mountains and South Australia wants a piece of Les Norton, movie magnate. Alias Forrest McNamara, book publisher. Alias Conrad Ullrich, company director. And Norman Bates' mother. The only person who found the real Les Norton was the May Queen with a little help from the Avis navigator. So what are Norton's chances of clearing his name? Rely on Les to sort something out. Mystery Bay Blues: Les Norton No. XVI: Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can't run, he can't train. He can't do anything much. But he can still drive his car. So it's down to Narooma for the South Coast Blues Festival and a bit of R&R: 30 bands and three days and nights of non-stop rock 'n' roll. Which would have been great, only Les has to have a slight altercation with four fishermen on his first night in town. Now the toughest, meanest, most horrible bloke on the south coast is after his blood. then Les meets Amazing Grace. Add some magic mushrooms, a dancing bear and Jerry Lee Rat. It all makes for an interesting time at the Blues Festival. Rosa-Marie's Baby: Les Norton No. XVII: If it wasn't for a letter lost in the system for decades landing on his lap, Les would never have known he wasn't the only Norton to gain notoriety thanks to Kings Cross. there was another - even worse than him: devil - worshipping artist and occultist Rosa-Marie Norton, the Witch of Kings Cross. Rosa was so bad the police arrested her for lewd behaviour and obscenity, and the customs department burnt her paintings - paintings now worth thousands of dollars. Yet according to the lost letter, a bundle of her paintings had been secreted at an old church in Victoria. By sheer coincidence, Les is asked to help with a hit in Melbourne on a shonky art dealer named 'Latte' Lindsey. After the hit, Les decides to take a trip down the Great Ocean Road, call in to the Church of the Blessed Madonna, and see if he can finds 'mum's' painting. Along with plenty of trouble, Les finds sexy Sonia and staunch Stepha. He also finds there's a lot of deja vu getting around in Victoria. And when it comes to violence south of the border, there are no Mexican stand-offs. -
Les Norton No. XVI: Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can't run, he can't train. He can't do anything much. But he can still drive his car. So it's down to Narooma for the South Coast Blues Festival and a bit of R&R: 30 bands and three days and nights of non-stop rock 'n' roll. Which would have been great, only Les has to have a slight altercation with four fishermen on his first night in town. Now the toughest, meanest, most horrible bloke on the south coast is after his blood. then Les meets Amazing Grace. Add some magic mushrooms, a dancing bear and Jerry Lee Rat. It all makes for an interesting time at the Blues Festival! -
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$20.00Everyone knows the Darcy family, who live at 12 1/2 Plymouth Street, Surry Hills - but what came before? Flame-haired Eny - Grandma - had married John Kilker and had eleven children; Hughie and Jer Darcy, the sons of Martin and poor mad Frances had fled early from home. Hughie, free as a bird and irresistible to girls, knew every pub in the north-west; crippled Jer was his constant companion. When Hughie returned to Trafalgar, it was Margaret Kilker, soft and blooming with love who yearned for him and caught him fast. But love and marriage are not always what they seem... -
Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt is transferred to a new post at G Company, an infantry unit of the United States army posted at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Prewitt is a career soldier with six years of service behind him, known as a "thirty year man". He is also a top notch bugle player and a one time boxer. Formerly in a bugle company, he was transferred with a lowering of rank after making a complaint that an inferior bugler was promoted ahead of him. His CO is Captain 'Dynamite' Holmes, who asked for Prewitt for his past as a boxer - 'Dynamite' is a regimental boxing coach who is out for promotion and sees a winning boxing team headed by Prewitt as his road to glory. But Prewitt stopped boxing after he accidentally blinded his friend and sparring partner and he won't play 'Dynamite's' game - no matter how hard the going gets... -
Book V of Wilt. Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches... apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving Eva some headaches of her own. -
Most Australian love stories confront or subvert the happy-ending stereotype or the tragic-lovers myth. Distance, hardship, and the particulars of history have all played a role in this transformation of gender roles and desire. Goldsworthy here draws together canonical authors, successive generations of urban sophisticates, and younger contemporary writers in this chronological anthology on romantic, sexual love. Beginning in 1873 and ending in 1996, this collection includes Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson, Frank Dalby Davison, 'M. Barnard Eldershaw', Margaret Trist, Patrick White, Christina Stead, Peter Carey, Frank Moorhouse, Thea Astley, Helen Garner and more. -
Book II of Stone Of Light. They built a civilization ahead of its time and dominated the ancient world. They defined an era of war, love, passion, power and betrayal. They were a people of mystery whose secrets have turned to dust - but who inspire our awe and wonder even to this day... The ancient Egyptians. They showed us how to live. And how to die. Ramses’ son Merneptah, who succeeded Ramses after his death, is a king with a warrior spirit, but his age is well advanced. Despite this, he manages to save the country from many uprisings and attacks. Meanwhile, he does not neglect to give new works and tasks to overcome to the employees in the Place of Truth. But of course, those who are jealous of the Place of Truth and want to destroy this village are more determined and stronger than ever. In the face of the intrigues and assassinations that took place in the village, the Wise Woman Ubekhet, her husband Nefer the Silent and Paneb the Ardent try to stand together, but they soon realise that the traitor lives with them inside the village. This is a massive disappointment for the village because all the artists living here have heard and answered Maat’s voice. -
Book I of Stone Of Light. In the last years of Rameses reign, deep in the heart of the Upper Egyptian desert, there lies a forbidden village where bands of artisans prepare the tombs of the Pharaohs. Guarded by a handful of elite soldiers, the hidden city shelters the most precious of treasures: the Stone of Light, a legendary stone of magical power. When a devious military officer schemes to infiltrate the city and capture the sacred gem, his subversive plot is thwarted by an unlikely hero: a desert wanderer who falls into a maze of treachery and betrayal, desire and danger… Nefer the Silent.
