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Larry Darrell is a young American who abandons a promising career and travels extensively searching for peace of mind - the absolute. His fiancee, Isabel, makes a choice between love and wealth that will have lifelong repercussions; Elliot Templeton, her uncle, is a classic expatriate American snob who will certainly contribute his two penn'orth. Maugham himself plays a considerable part as a character, wandering in and out of the story to observe his characters struggling with the fates he created for them. -
Les Norton II. It isn't every day you help murder someone with poison in an illegal casino, whisk his body halfway across town in a Rolls Royce (after robbing him) then bury his body in tonnes of concrete underneath an international airport - all more or less with the co-operation of two detectives. Les Norton is back in town! Trouble seems to follow Les like a blue heeler after a mob of sheep. Maybe it's his job – being a bouncer at the infamous and illegal Kelly Club in Kings Cross isn't exactly the stuff a quiet life is made of. Maybe it's his friends – like Price Galese, the urbane and well-connected owner of the Kelly Club, or Eddie Salita, the hitman who learned to kill in Vietnam, or Reg Campbell, struggling artist and dope dealer. But then again, maybe Les is just unlucky... -
A triumph of good over evil; the pioneering spirit of adventurous Englishmen, far from the villages of their birth, overcoming the perils of a new land: bushfires, bushrangers, kangaroo hunts and cattle-branding are just some of the new experiences. It traces the adventures of the Buckles and Brentwoods, Devonshire county families whose dwindling incomes could not sustain their position, leading them to seek better fortune in Australia. First published in 1859, it was acclaimed as the 'first great Australian novel'. -
Woodlea Book 2. After losing a patient, Dr Fliss Knight returns to small town Woodlea and buys a rundown farm, her confidence and city career in tatters. She intends to live a solitary life and hopes that the slow country pace will help her heal. Pickup rider Hewitt Sinclair is no stranger to how hairy things can get in a rodeo arena. But when he can’t save the life of his twin brother, he hangs up his spurs. Determined to provide for his brother’s widow and young family, he gives himself no time to grieve. But when a motorbike accident proves he needs to also look out for himself, he accepts an old friend’s invitation to stay at an isolated property while his body heals. When Fliss meets the cowboy living in the bluestone stables across the garden, all her hopes for a quiet and peaceful life fade. Despite his reserve, Hewitt is impossible to ignore. As they work together to care for an abandoned dog and her puppies they find themselves drawn to each other. But as a family secret threatens every truth Fliss has ever known, and the heavy spring rain continues to fall, both Fliss and Hewitt must each face their deepest fears. -
As the Soviet space-shuttle Dove orbits the earth on its maiden flight, Warsaw Pact troops crash into Poland. What is the deadly connection between the Dove and the invasion? The American President wants to be re-elected and he needs a spectacular - he needs to win the first stage of the war in space by capturing the Russian space shuttle. But as the President plans his coup a nuclear-armed shuttle speeds toward target America - and only defection is space can stop it. -
Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders the belief that her House is the true ruler of England and she has a great destiny before her. Her ambitions are disappointed when her cousin, Henry VI, fails to recognise her as a kindred spirit as he sinks into madness. And Margaret finds her mother is sending her to a loveless marriage in Wales. Married to a man twice her age and a mother at fourteen, Margaret is determined to put her son on the throne of England at any cost. Cover art by Liane Payne.
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The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter: one who procures - ahem - 'authentic' religious relics for wealthy and influential clients. His two most important patrons are Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony and soon-to-be Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz. While Frederick is drawn to the recent writing of Martin Luther, Albrecht pursues the financial and political benefits of religion and seeks to buy a cardinalship through the selling of indulgences. When Albrecht’s ambitions increase his demands for grander and more marketable relics, Dismas and his artist friend Dürer conspire to manufacture a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble. Unfortunately Dürer’s reckless pride exposes Albrecht’s newly acquired shroud as a fake, so Albrecht puts Dismas and Dürer in the custody of four loutish mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ’s burial cloth (the Shroud of Chambéry), Europe’s most celebrated relic. On their journey to Savoy, where the Shroud will be displayed, they battle a lustful count and are joined by a beautiful lady apothecary. It is only when they reach their destination that they realize they are not alone in their intentions to acquire a relic of dubious legitimacy. Filled with fascinating details about art, religion, politics and science; Vatican intrigue - and Monty Pythonesque wit. -
The Remake: Clive James
$10.00Things go astronomically out of control for Joel Court when Veronica Lilywhite muscles in on the discovery of his star, 'The Smudge'. Not that it was his star - no astronomer gets to own a star, although they might get to have a say in naming it. But Veronica's joyless methods were winning the professional contest. While she arrived at her elegant, seminal discoveries with half-baked mathematics in infuriating Chinese notebooks, Joel was becoming the David Attenborough of Asteroids in his own television spot. Every week the programme took Joel from the bosom of his family to the bosom of blonde research assistant Gael and eventually, Joel's wife simply turfed him out. It was time to navigate the convoluted corridors of the Barbican to the flat of fellow ex-pat Chance Jenolan, a specialist on the other sort of star and bankable enough now to have embarked on a suicidally obscure 'great big bad movie'. So there are plenty of 'stars' about - but one heavenly body shone so brightly that Joel couldn't bear to have it out of his sights. Her name was The Mole... -
At the close of the year 1820, two young men arrived in Rome. One was a poet of twenty-five, the other an artist of 26. Within three months of their arrival at the lodging house on the Spanish Steps, the poet died. The house became a shrine for the English-speaking world, for the poet was John Keats. The friend who had devotedly nursed him was Joseph Severn. Penniless, almost starving, Severn's recognition after nursing Keats brought him commissions, friendships, and entreè into high social and aristocratic circles. The beautiful Lady Westmorland, the Duchess of Devonshire, Napoleon's mother, Madame Mere and Princess Borghese are only some of the titled who become part of Severn's new world.
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