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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. -
Book II of Clarenceux; the sequel to Sacred Treason. 1564: Catholic herald William Harley is the custodian of a highly dangerous document. When it is stolen he immediately suspects a group of Catholic sympathisers. But Queen Elizabeth's ruthless enforcers are convinced Harley is using the document to start a Catholic revolution in the name of Mary, Queen of Scots. Very soon Harley is on the run, with charismatic outlaw Raw Carew, as England teeters on the edge of bloody conflict. -
July 1945. For Germany the war is over. But in POW Camp 8 on the outskirts of Garmisch, one man refuses to believe that his duty to the Fatherland is over. Erich Seyss, once one of Germany's greatest Olympic sprinters, now awaits trial for war crimes committed as a fanatical officer in the SS. But he has no intention of facing his accusers. He is determined to run last one race for Germany. Devlin Judge, an International Military Tribunal lawyer, is given seven days to track Seyss down. An almost impossible task. Not only must he outwit an elite killer trained to operate behind enemy lines, but he must also discover the extraordinary conspiracy to which Seyss is the key. -
The Safe House: Jon Cleary
$10.00In April, 1945, the Allied Forces came upon the first concentration camps. The pitiful survivors of the millions who had passed through those gates staggered out to greet their saviours. The released victims of Nazi terror took some time to readjust to freedom and they were known as Displaced Persons. This is the story of a group of survivors who set out to find their dignity, a home and a homeland. Much of this story is based on fact. -
A full length Saint novel. Amos Klein's thrillers were such hot property that his publisher kept his whereabouts a secret. Someone desperately wanted to find him, for reasons more fantastic than even the author could have devised - perhaps to prove that truth is just as strange as fiction. But you don't knock The Saint on the head and expect him to forget it - nor do you improve your chances of success by mistaking Simon Templar for Amos Klein.
