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Sir Montague Merline and his platoon are massacred in a bloody combat in Africa - except for one man. Since her husband is presumed dead, Lady Merline remarries, but Montague emerges a couple of years later in some African village, with no memory. After finding out about his wife's new life, he decides not to ruin her happiness and joins French Foreign Legion. -
Book IV: Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler. British Intelligence's Dr. Audley slips away to Italy without authorisation and without informing anyone. And takes his wife with him. Immediately, there's a ghastly suspicion - not uncommon in espionage circles - that he may be defecting. But Audley has his own reasons in an investigation which becomes for him a matter of life or death.
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Book II of The Heaven Tree. Young Harry Talvace, the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and who was put to death by his jealous patron, has grown up at the court of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for vengeance, and when Harry become innocently involved in the tragedy which strikes Llewelyn's marriage he sets out to avenge his father's death. Alone, he makes his way to Parfois to challenge Isambard. But enmity can prove as complex as love, Harry discovers, as in his turn he falls under the spell of the old warrior. -
Gallico makes a return to his earlier style - the small boy armoured in innocence and faith, as made famous by The Small Miracle. The odyssey of nine-year-old Julian West leads him across the country from San Diego, California to Washington on a lonely and courageous venture to patent his invention. He meets a man who offers him help and companionship - at a price. But like Christian in Bunyan's A Pilgrim's Progress, Julian knows not friend or enemy, but marches steadily through a series of fantastic situations and all-too-real dangers. If these perils are conquered by innocence when Julian's private world is shattered at the end of the Journey, Julian is ready - for he is no longer a child. -
Ann Veronica: H.G. Wells
$18.00Stong-willed, reckless and fiercely independent, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to be a Person: to work, love and, above all, to live. Walking away from her stifling father and the social conventions of her time, she leaves drab suburbia for Edwardian London and encounters an unknown world of suffragettes, Fabians and free love. But it is only when she meets the charismatic Capes that she truly confronts the meaning of her new found freedom. Ann Veronica caused a sensation, damned in the press and preached against from the pulpits when it was first published due to Wells' ground breaking treatment of female sexuality. A fascinating description of the women's suffrage movement, Ann Veronica offers an optimistic depiction of one woman's sexual awakening and search for independence. -
The magnificent castle at the throat of Brittanny is the inheritance of the orphaned Everard de Vaumartin. In medieval France, the age of chivalry is drawing to a close, but matters of love honour and blood still reign supreme. Everard, a scholar, is despised by his rutheless uncle, Josseran, who schemes to deprive him of his birthright. Sent unprepared into battle against the English, Everard is believed dead but after the massacre at Crecy in 1346 he travels alone to Paris to pursue a scholarly life until he can reclaim Vaumartin for his own. Here is a time when alchemy and magic are as common as bread and ale; where lust for pageantry competes with a thirst for logic; and where the Black Death can fell noble and peasant alike. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury. -
Book I of The Heaven Tree. England in the reign of King John- a time of beauty and squalor, of swift treachery and unswerving loyalty. Harry Talvace, master-mason and his foster brother Adam experienced injustice at a young age and fled to Paris where Harry's genius for carving drew him into a friendship with the enigmatic Ralf Isambard, Lord of Parfois and the beautiful Madonna Benedetta, a Venetian courtesan. In their company he returns to his native Shropshire to build a church for Isambard beside Parfois Castle. Soaring heavenward, the tower of stone becomes an arrow of light, but as it flowered darkening shadows presaged jealousy, pitiless revenge - and death. -
To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colourful brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of innumerable coves, on the cane-fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled huts of the villages and the fine houses of the white planters handed down through generation after generation from the Sugar Barons of a past century. But this was not how the newspaper columnist, Bradshaw, saw it when he arrived on his first trip to the Caribbean. Bradshaw found Santa Marta a smouldering emotional volcano of atmosphere and racial inequality - ambitions and jealousies, hopes and fears, complexes and inhibitions tangled with wealth and power. Santa Marta is a place where the blood never cools. -
Young Australian journalist Wade Scotter returns to his hometown Clayville, tired of the intrigues, hatred and mistrust of world politics. But when he reaches Clayville, the peaceful town no longer exists. An atomic research laboratory has been installed - the formerly tranquil town is now a hot-bed of international politics and everyone is curious to know why Scotter has chosen now to return from the world stage of business and politics? Has he returned because of the atomic research facility? Scotter is far from naive, but he does not see through the confusion that espionage and counter-espionage surrounding him. This is very sophisticated intrigue and he is also hampered by the emotions that connect him with the people of his youth. As well as being a thriller, this is also the story of a troubled man who, in the modern world, is no longer entitled to a life of his own - and has nowhere to hide.
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