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Trap: Peter Mathers
$80.00Jack Trap is an interesting mix of Irish, English and Aboriginal - but he looks Aboriginal. Admired by a few and hated by many, he affects everyone. He is a shifting product of the back streets, passively resisting poverty and racism, occasionally indulging in bursts of aggression. He is a symbol around which lurk a variety of characters representing the different aspects of an oppressive society. Trap is a hero. -
In 1920, Eve Tozer, the attractive daughter of an American tycoon with huge trading interests in China, disembarked from a P. and O. liner at Tilbury. Hardly had she checked into the Savoy when a mysterious Oriental was announced. Her father, who she believed to be safe and sound in Shanghai had been kidnapped by a warlord. The ransom demanded was a priceless statuette Eve had in her possession. The closing date for the hand-over is eighteen days - and even the fastest liner sailing on the next day will not get her back to China in time. The only hope is to fly - in a day before airlines and airports. Eve, herself a qualified pilot, found a couple of ex-R.F.C. pilots on their uppers - they bought and equipped three Bristol two-seaters, evaded trouble in France and ran into it in Germany. Historical personages - Mao Tse Tung and Mustafa Kemal - play a part as do wild and strange characters from the Balkans, Waziristan and India.
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A collection of tales set against the background of the South Pacific, the endless ocean, the coral specks called islands, the coconut palms, the lagoons, the jungles and the full moon rising against the volcanoes. The tales are told by a young naval officer whose duties on an Admiral's staff take him up and down the islands. He meets many people: the servicemen and the locals, and listens to their stories - the remittance man who lived among the Japs and radioed their movements until one fateful and dramatic morning; Bloody Mary, the Tonkinese woman who introduced her daughter to a young marine lieutenant; Emile de Becque , the French planter who fell in love with an American nurse; Tony Fry, the individualist who fought a very personal war in his own very effective way; Lieutenant Bill Harbison, who lived like a hero but was really a louse; and the young enlisted man from Ohio, going to pieces until a Sea Bee have him a reason to live. -
The Assyrian: Nicholas Guild
$80.00In the palace of Nineveh, Tiglath Ashur and Esarhaddon are half brothers, best friends, rivals for women - and the throne. The third part of the fateful triangle is Esharhamat, wilful, exquisite, lover and wife to the heir - whoever he may be. Her existence poisons the brotherly love until their increasing rancour threatens the very existence of the Assyrian empire. Esarhaddon is a warrior - plain and simple, shallow and nothing more. Tiglath is his equal in war and can be a brutal killer if necessary but he is also an intellectual, torn by doubts and qualms of conscience, temperamentally unable to challenge his brother and the priests, but known his own fate and that of Assyria hangs in the balance.
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Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history. Here is his redemption - Richard III was vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes, in the Tower - from his maligned place in history. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. This magnificent retelling of his life is filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book 1 of Earth's Children. Ayla, a five year old Cro-Magnon girl, separated from her family during an earthquake, is taken in and raised by a group of Neanderthals looking for a new home. She is physically and mentally more advanced that her adopted people, and her differences and intelligence make them both fearful and admiring. Ayla is cared for by Iza, the Clan's medicine woman and her brother Creb, a gentle holy man, wise and magically empowered. Brun, the Clan's leader, must punish Ayla when he finds she has learnt to use a sling, for women are forbidden to touch weapons. Broud, his son, loathes Ayla and does all he can to destroy her. But Ayla is a survivor. Cover art by Barbara Lofthouse.
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The list of short stories included in this volume: Heubler; Life of the Party; The Drover's Wife; Zoellner's Definition; Portraits of Electricity; The Silence; The Dog Show; Paradise; Ore; Cul-de-Sac (uncompleted); The Partitions and A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z. Cover art: Richard Neville by Brett Whiteley. -
Rain Boat: Lace Kendall
$90.00The people of Spanish Fort, Florida, had never seen such rain before. Young Edward Ames is washed away, eventually landing in the company of the two Morse children on one of the few remaining areas of high ground. Many days later, the children are rescued by Shem, a mysterious dark skinned stranger, a kind man with a curious ambition. And his cargo is strange - a boatload of animals. -
Book V of Outlander. The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Claire’s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.
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