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As plans go ahead for an International Peace Conference in Vancouver, a number of shadowy, unrelated characters make their way to the Canadian shore. A Greek shipping magnate with Russian connections...A British expert on mini-subs...A team of frogmen with exaggerated 'American' accents...The head of the Russian section of British intelligence...And when six Sword nuclear missiles are dislodged from the ocean floor, the scene is set for some desperate international intrigue. Cover art by Vicente Segrelles. -
Dick Marston tells the story of his life, his loves and his association with the notorious bushranger Captain Starlight, a renegade from a noble English family. Set in the bush and goldfields of Australia in the 1850s, Starlight's gang, with Dick and his brother Jim's help, sets out on a series of escapades that include cattle theft and robbery under arms. The book begins with Dick sitting in gaol, with just under one month before his scheduled execution for his crimes. He is given writing material - and begins documenting his life's story. -
Society is under control of Big Brother. Every aspect of life is closely monitored and any hint of unorthodoxy is ruthlessly suppressed by the Thought Police. Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth, the Party's propaganda machine. Winston is a rebel - he keeps a diary as he searches for truth. He yearns for liberty and finds new hope when he falls in love with the earthy, sensual Julia. But he finds himself in a nightmare world of terror, where the price of existence is betrayal. -
Fall Of Giants: Ken Follett
$7.00–$20.00Book One of the Century Trilogy. Master tale-spinner Follett tells of five families brought together through the dramas of the World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women. In 1911, on King George's coronation day, 13-year-old Billy begins his first day at work in a coal mine. Drama and intrigue move on from this point, from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the filth and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace and from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. -
The title refers to the famous 'drop hole dunny' beloved of Australian historians and humourists. Set in the small Australian town of Bowley on an even smaller orchard, the block belongs to Bluey Jacks, his wife Flo, their two sons and Flo's Dad. Bluey is always ready to 'give it a go' - whether it's riding a bull, finding the right words to say to the local curate when he's just about to make the winning stroke in a cricket match, or helping out a mate in distress. There are plenty of escapades and local fun, not to mention Bluey's constant flow of money-making ideas and his entire family's unstinting support, even for the most absurd and unlikely schemes. Down-to-earth Aussie humour in the style of Steele Rudd's characters Dad and Dave. Illustrated by Rigby.
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Punch 1872-3 – Volumes 62-63
$95.00Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration. From 1850, John Tenniel was the chief cartoon artist at the magazine for over 50 years. Punch became a staple for British drawing rooms because of its sophisticated humour and absence of offensive material, especially when viewed against the satirical press of the time. Yet a quick glance through this volume reveals some very sly wit indeed. -
The wind is whispering in Woody Creek...Change is in the air...It's 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged kicking and screaming into the swinging sixties. Jenny's daughters, Cara and Georgie, are now young women. They have inherited their mother's hands, but that is where their similarity ends. Raised separately, they have never met. A mistake from Cara's teenage years looms over her future, but she believes emphatically in the white wedding and happily ever after myth. Georgie has seen enough of marriage and motherhood. She plans to live her life as her grandmother did, independent of a man. But life for the Morrison girls has never been easy, and once the sisters are in each other's lives, long-buried secrets are bound to be unearthed, the dramatic consequences of which no-one could have predicted...Described as ‘...very Australian, very real, very country small town and very well written.’ -
Flying Blind: Colin Bowles
$18.00Set in the mid-1960s, this book introduces Dr Mike Hazzard, who has accepted a two year posting with the Flying Doctor Service. He is greeted by flies, dust and a complete lack of privacy, a far cry from the civilised Sydney practice now two thousand miles behind him. Included in the deal is Joe, the accident-prone pilot who will take him to damsels in distress, post mortems half-way up a baobab tree or to treat - yet again - an Aborigine named Aspirin, a regular customer whose real health issue is perpetual hypochondria. There is also romance in the air with the lovely Megan Hoagan. -
She's still trying to run their lives and she just won't act her age. Phyllis Geronomous is a senior citizen and a real original - funny, blunt, truthful and razor sharp. But as far as her three grown children are concerned, the best thing about her is that she's living in Florida and they're living in New York. When Phyllis decides to move back to New York at Christmas, her kids are horrified - Christmas is bad enough with a visit from Mom - and what if she decides to stay?! Sigourney, single stylish stockbroker and control freak, Sharon, a suburbanite with two small kids and an unemployed husband and Bruce, the youngest, a gay greeting card entrepreneur must join forces - and get Mom married off! -
Captain Peter Skellen has retired from the SAS and is looking for a new master. Frankie Leigh, the rich and beautiful socialite and leader of the People's Lobby, feels Skellen's knowledge of counter terrorist undercover operations makes him an ideal recruit. The People's Lobby are planning the biggest act of terrorism in London. To the SAS and New Scotland Yard, Skellen is a menace who must be topped. Hut how to find a man who's trained to disappear? -
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. -
Nicholas Everard 2. On St George’s Day 1918 the Royal Navy launch a desperate assault on the German base of Zeebrugge. In the sixty minutes from touchdown to withdrawal, eleven VCs were won and hundreds lay dead or wounded. Churchill said the raid ‘may well rank as the finest feat of arms of the Great War’. Sub-lieutenant Nicholas Everard finds himself in the thick of it: working on mine-laying operations, manning coastal patrols and, above all, fighting in savage clashes with enemy destroyers. He must not only fight his skilled opponents: he must fight the odds. -
Book I of The Saxon Stories. This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms. The story is told by Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child then raised by the Danes so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sides. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea. This tale, based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell’s ancestors, depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England. Cover art by Lee Gibbons. -
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... -
Leaving behind the security and modern conveniences of their Boston suburb, Jimmy, Pollyanna and the children heads to the wild west, where Jimmy has taken on the supervision of the building of a dam. Pollyanna's eastern friends felt that she had made an appalling sacrifice. But she loses no time in finding new interests, making new friends, and winning new adherents to her sunny philosophy. She starts a lending library, which helps ease the drudgery and hardships of life of the mountains people by expanding their worlds through literature and makes the ranch house became a center of helpfulness. Sundry love affairs received timely aid and the Pendleton youngsters absorb their new environment wholeheartedly. -
Book II of The Eagles Of The Empire. When Centurion Macro arrives on British soil as one of Emperor Claudius's invasion force in 43 AD, he is facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career. In a series of bloody skirmishes, Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato, and the desperately outnumbered Roman army must find and defeat the enemy before he grows strong enough to overwhelm the legions. But the Britons are not the only foe facing Macro and Cato. A sinister organisation opposed to the Emperor is secretly betraying the invaders. And when rumours of an assassination attempt coincide with the Emperor's arrival on British soil, the soldiers realise they are up against a force more ruthless than their acknowledged enemy...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/eagle-hunts-simon-scarrow/ -
Being the Chronicle of the Wars of Montrose as Seen By Martin Somers, Adjutant of Women in O'Cahan's Regiment. Surgeon and adjutant of women in O'Cahan's Irish regiment, warring in Scotland with Montrose, is Martin Somers, better exponent of swordplay than of surgery. In his adventurous wardship of this ill-fated company of women, in the strengthening of the line against the forces of the Covenant, his dexterity and toughness is often decisive. This is a tale of keen endeavour, fury and tenderness. Also published as The Dark Rose.
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The Quest: Wilbur Smith
$12.00Book IV of the Egypt series, continuing the story of the Warlock, Taita, master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the kingdom and then the ultimate disaster occurs - the Nile fails. The nourishing, sustaining waters dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant, unexplored depths of Africa, from where the mighty river springs. Taita is the only man who might win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of its failure. But no-one knows what terrible enemy lies in wait to ambush the Warlock in those mysterious lands at the end of their world.
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Swordpoint: John Harris
$6.001944: Cassino must be taken. Monte Cassino had become a German bastion against the Allied advance through Italy. Even with the historic abbey reduced to rubble, the mountain itself continued to command the adjoining valleys and block the road to Rome. Frontal assault had been a costly failure; but now Brigadier Heathfield had a plan. The job of leading the attack fell to Colonel Yuell and then men of the North Yorkshires, veterans of Africa and as hard, tired and mixed a group of soldiery as the war had yet produced. -
The face of the Earth is changing as the last of the Neanderthals clash with the new race of homo sapiens emerges. When a deadly plague devastates the Blue Shell Tribe, three young friends band together for the perilous journey to the territory of the Tree People. Duru, the girl, is eagerly accepted for her magical powers. But the two young men must prove themselves worthy by hunting down and destroying the giant Neanderthal - the last of his line - who has been terrorising the tribe. Cover art by Mike Van Houten.
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In the summer of 1140, Oliver Pascal returns home from a long pilgrimage to find England ravaged by civil war. Among the survivors he finds Richard, an illegitimate royal son and the boy's nurse Catrin. Widowed, stubborn and proud, she has much in common with Oliver, a man still grieving for a wife lost in childbirth, but the love that grows between them is threatened by the deepening seriousness of the conflict. When Oliver is taken prisoner, Catrin returns to the husband she mistakenly believed had died in battle. When Oliver is seriously wounded in an effort to regain his lands, Catrin hastens to his side, her marriage a disaster. Beyond the perils of battle lies the danger of childbirth, the continuing war and the risk of loving in exchange for nothing but heartbreak. Then Catrin's husband makes his final demand on her loyalty...
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Assegai: Wilbur Smith
$9.001913: ex-soldier turned professional big-game hunter Leon Courtenay is in British East Africa, guiding rich and powerful men on safari in the Masai tribal territories. One client is German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, who has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's growing army. But Leon didn't count on falling in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful, enigmatic mistress. Just before the outbreak of World War I Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from von Meerbach. Leon stumbles on a plot against the British involving disenchanted survivors of the Boer War. It is only when Eva and von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
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Silent Reach: Osmar White
$25.00Hamilton Wrightson, millionaire mine owner and pastoralist, owns twenty three million acres of the best land in remote Western Australia. Yet all is not well in his wilderness empire. Slowly but surely, saboteurs are bleeding its enterprises to death: gangs of night raiders strike at its mines and homesteads, destroy and vanish without trace, leaving no clue as to their identity or motives. Wrightson hires George Galbraith, ex-diplomatic intelligence man and expert on subversion and terrorism to help unravel the mystery. It's Galbraith's first freelance job using his specialised talents developed in Asia and Africa. He has help from Wrightson's personal assistant, one of the most strikingly beautiful women he's ever seen - and the most unobtainable. Together they follow a trail of murder, arson and double-dealing through blistering heat to the terrorists' hideaway in the heart of a savagely hostile land.
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Puckoon: Spike Milligan
$12.00Spike Milligan's classic slapstick noel. n 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess... -
Eureka: the scene of one of Australia's most colourful episodes - the miners' riot which became a legend and a symbol of the Australian character. Here is the spirit of Australia's wild gold-mining past bringing to life the Eureka drama and the chief players: the digger leader Peter Lalor and his faithful love Alicia Dunne the corrupt magistrate John D'Ewes and all the determined men and women who had a part in the violent confrontation that marked Australia's first step from a colony to a nation. Illustrated. A noel based on the screenplay of the 1984 television mini-series. -
Under tow, you were expected to sheer off from danger, not stick your nose smack into it, Bentley reflected bitterly. And yet he had sent an unarmed cutter against his enemy base – because his men needed the fillip of success...could this foolhardy gamble pay off? -
Book II of The Conjuror's Years. John Cole is a bushman, born and bred. His childhood is dominated by the mysteries of the hills surrounding his father's slab hut, hills that can hide stolen horses for months or protect his brother Pat from the spying eyes of the police. John is soon his own man and marriage confines him to wages work until he takes a job droving cattle; but the peace of the camp is shattered by tragedy at home. His desperate ride and the rootless drifting that follows comes to an end with a long journey of affirmation back to the northwest - and peace and fulfilment as manager of a cattle station. His life there, its challenges and pleasures and trials are a memorable picture of a hard, yet rewarding, country
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