Told in the form of a diary, this is the story of young Harriet's bid for freedom in the Sydney of the 1960's. She wants to have her own space, live life, learn about men and love - not get married just because everyone expects her to! And who is Mrs Delvecchio Schwarz, who runs the King's Cross boarding house where Harriet takes a room? What is her connection with Harriet? And how does Mrs Delveccvhio Schwarz's silent little girl Flo - 'Angel Puss' - accurately predict the future through crayon drawings?
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...And Other Tales Of An Earlier Outback Australia. Keith Garvey, Australian author, poet and radio personality could put together a good selection of short, humorous stories of an earlier Australia. These tales are filled with rugged and durable characters, who may be familiar to readers of The Funny Bugger and Shout For The Adder. In this volume: Slowly Sweats The Gun; The National Game; The Cake Snake; The Black Man's Burden; Kangaroo Christmas; It Looks Like Murder; The Coconut Kid; Gypsy's Warning; The Bolter; Tank of Tragedy; The Saga of Pat and Mary; Quiet and Dangerous; A Difference of Opinion; The Night O'Meally Called; Because They're Australians. -
England, 865: The invading Vikings rule in Ireland and the North while a new army of Northmen is fighting and butchering its way South. The surviving English kings must flee or die. The Church is being crushed with the nobles - Christianity is under threat of destruction as the Pagans wipe out all resistance. Shef, a young man with a Viking father and English mother is forced to run - then fight - and is soon involved in the conflict between the opposing armies. He receives protection from the followers of The Asgarth Way, an expanding Norse religion and grows in strength and battle skills. Apprenticed to the blacksmith, he builds new weapons that may decide the coming battles. But he has made an deadly enemy of the Viking chieftain Ivar who plans his destruction. Cover art by Gino D'Achille. -
There was no tranquillity in 1789 as the streets ran red with the blood of Revolution. On one side of the Channel was a country firmly in the grip of aristocratic and patrician government; on the other a country whose old systems had been clawed down by the advocates of revolution. Young David Treloar left his desolated home on the Devon coast and made his way to France. It was there that he he saw the Revolution for what it was - a many headed monster that had obliterated the reason for its existence; it was there that he fell in love with the daughter of an old Parisian wig-maker; it was from there the lovers escaped, flirting with danger to arrive in England only for David, ironically, to be suspected as a French spy. -
Book II of 44 Scotland Street. Bertie the immensely talented six year old is now enrolled in kindergarten, and much to his dismay, has been clad in pink overalls for his first day of class - far from his dreams fishing and rugby. Bruce has lost his job as a surveyor, and between admiring glances in the mirror, is contemplating becoming a wine merchant. Pat is embarking on a new life at Edinburgh University and perhaps on a new relationship, courtesy of Domenica, her witty and worldly-wise matchmaking neighbor - after an adventure at a nudist picnic. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/44-scotland-street-alexander-mccall-smith/ -
Returning from the sophisticated French court to take up her throne in cold and backward Scotland, 18-year-old Mary finds herself trapped in a web of ambitions and intrigues: those of her self-righteous brother, James, who desires to rule in her place; of her brilliant Secretary of State, Lethington, dedicated to placing the Stuarts on the throne of England; and of Elizabeth I, dazzling and unscrupulous, who fears Mary as a threat to her crown and to her life.Mary is portrayed not as a woman driven by passion, but as the inspiration and victim of one of the most murderous plots in British history. The assassination of her secretary Riccio, stabbed to death at her feet, the murder of her husband Darnley, her marriage to his killer and her own end on the headsman's block may not have been random events in an era of easy violence, but intricately linked episodes in a grand, sometimes terrifying and successful design. -
Antony And Cleopatra: Colleen McCullough
$12.00–$18.00Book VII of Masters Of Rome. Brutus and Cassius are dead at Phillippi, leaving two men to inherit the world: Octavian, young, brilliant and sickly-looking - or Mark Antony, a powerful war-lord in his prime. It seems like no contest. But Cleopatra, mourning the death of Julius Caesar, is determined to attain world power for her son Caesarion. She must choose to seduce either Antony or Octavian and makes Antony her choice. But Antony is first and foremost a Roman and she must first overcome his prejudices. A compelling chronicle of love, hate, defeat and victory as Antony and Cleopatra challenge Octavian for the world. -
Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth "the Virgin Queen's" passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley. Set against the background of the Spanish Armada's invasion of England in 1588, two parallel tales unfold: Queen Elizabeth's affair with Leicester, her politically dangerous pregnancy and elaborate scheme to hide it from the world and the tragedy of her still-born son; and the story of Arthur, their illegitimate son, born alive but secretly swapped at birth to be brought up as a country gentleman completely unaware of his identity. A dreamer, romantic and magnificent horseman, he sets off to fight Philip II of Spain. Years later, his story collides with that of his mother when his adoptive father confesses all on his deathbed. -
Tokyo, 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers are growing up with their loving grandparents, who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. Hiroshi, the elder, shows unusual skill at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of creating hard-carved masks for actors in the Noh theater. Life seems full of promise as Kenji begins an informal apprenticeship with the most famous mask-maker in Japan and Hiroshi receives a coveted invitation to train with Tanaka. Across town, a renowned sumo master, Sho Tanaka, lives with his wife and their two young daughters: the delicate Aki and her independent sister, Haru. But then Pearl Harbor changes everything. As the ripples of war spread to both families' quiet neighborhoods, all of the generations must put their dreams on hold - and then find their way in a new Japan.
