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Roger Brook No. III. At Fontainebleau all seems peaceful and serene; Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette secure on their thrones. Yet as Roger Brook arrives on a secret and vital mission for Prime Minister Pitt, the smell of blood, of Revolution and the Terror is already in the air. Intrigue, violence, suspicion – this is the maelstrom into which Roger is plunged at once. But with it: love. Isabella D'Arana is beautiful, Spanish – and married. Laws and conventions must be defied if he is to have her. Police and agents must be outwitted if he is to achieve his secret mission. Illustrated by Barry Wilkinson. -
The River Kings: Set at the turn of the century, Shawn runs away from home and a harsh stepfather to take a job under Cap'n Elijah on the Lazy Jane, an old riverboat. Elijah is tough yet kindly, fighting a losing battle against creditors, sandbars, his rivals and Red Morgan, the fearsome river pirate. The Spirit Wind: Life for the men aboard the Hootzen, an old square rigger bound for Australia was hard but for young Jarl Hansen it was worse. Goaded by the vicious mate, The Bull, he jumps ship. Now he is hunted, by the Bull who wants revenge, yet the mystical summoned by Nunganee will come to his aid. -
The story of two generations of a Creole family, the d'Alverys of Belle Heloise, set just after the end of World War I. A returned war hero, a son of one of the great houses, marries a girl from the wrong side of town - the girl who had waited for him in single-hearted devotion. He takes her home and she makes for herself a place in his life, even winning over his proud patrician mother and sister. In the next generation a child is raised to believe he is one of a pair of twins when in truth, he is the result of the sister's unhappy love affair. The background is that of well-to-do planters in the sugar belt; intimate details of the plantation life, the luxuriously run households, the intricate machinery of running the plantation; and great passions, secrets, wildcat hunts and beer and shrimp parties abound. -
Rogan Stewart unexpectedly falls in love with the married Elspeth Trant, but following the wilful destruction of his home anf familyj and being implicated in her husband's murder following a tragic poaching accident, then takes to the road in the company of a group of travellers to re-evaluate his life and the lessons that have come to him. There are poetic descriptions of the Irish countryside, bucolic pictures of life on the road, and serious discussions between the characters about ethics and morals, seasoned with much whimsy and reality. -
Commissioned by the Left Book Club in 1937, this is a searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire coal districts at a time of mass unemployment. His descriptions of social injustice, slum housing, mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are graphically unforgettable in this bitter attack on the socialist bourgeois. -
A series of short stories ranging from the charging of the Wells at Beersheba by the Australian Light Horse in World War I, through to stories of living on the land in the early part of the 20th century. Davison depicts his characters, mostly hard working people, selectors, bush workers and farmers and their women with respect, sympathy, dignity and understanding with insights into those itinerant bush workers who live on the fringes and are frequently at outs with the authorities. His depiction of men at work and his vivid description of the country are his greatest achievements with a remarkable insight into the economic problems of the selector, small farmer and country worker. -
The Robe: Lloyd C. Douglas
$10.00It was said that the Roman soldiers who waited at the foot of the Cross for Jesus' death gambled over his clothes. Marcellus wins Christ's robe. But possession of it causes him to search his soul and he sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe - a quest that takes him to the very heart Christianity, through the decadence of Imperial Rome and the stolid practicality of its military. This is a story of adventure, faith, and romance, spiritual longing and ultimate redemption. -
Set in the lawless days of the 1520s, Tom Alwyn returns to his home in the Cheviot Border country to find his family scattered and hounded into the wastes. His father and uncles have been murdered and it's all too clear that Tom, as the last man of the family, is in very grave danger. It is this realisation that begins his long struggle with the evil Sir Oswald Culver, a struggle always dominated by a msyterious and weird archer. Tom, together with his loyal henchmen Curst Hobbie and Angel Geordie, will meet the challenge and risk the sword of his enemy. This is an abridged edition of The Weird Archer. -
From the Preface by Alfred W. Pollard: There is much repetition in the Morte d'Arthur as Malory left it. How often Sir Breuse sans Pitie played his ugly tricks, or Tristram rescued Palomides, or minor knights met at adventure and emulated their betters, it is not easy to count. I have tried to clear away some of the underwoods that the great trees may be better seen, and though I know that I have cleared away some small timber that is fine stuff in itself, if the great trees stand out the better, the experiment may be forgiven. In attempting it I have introduced, I think, not more than a hundred words of my own, but in certain places I have taken over the readings devised half a century ago for the well-known Globe edition by Sir Edward Strachey, which has justified itself by passing through some twenty editions, and has probably brought Malory more readers than all other texts put together. With colour and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
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