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Commander William Mallett tried hard to rehabilitate himself after being dismissed from his destroyer for drunkenness. Ignored by his fellow officers and subjected to the indignity of minor duties, he pestered the naval hierarchy to give him another ship. The Wanderer was old, worn and manned mostly by misfits. His job was to work up Wanderer to fighting efficiency in time to participate in the American invasion of Tarawa Island… -
Reid’s collection of poems relate to the beauty of the Australian countryside, creating realistic images. He also offers humor and vision in his observations of people, animals, philosophy, emotions and of course, love.
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In this volume: The Family Streak andThe Old Fault, Shirley Grey; Hiking On Horseback, Cora Gordon; The Scotch Society, Constance Savery; The Monster Of Loch Shee, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; 'For The Best Disguise', Evelyn Simms; The Three Workers, Frances Joyce; Mr Stewart's Nuggets, Wallace Carr, The Fairies' Gift: A Welsh Story, Ann Vaughan; The Parrot That Did Not Talk, Elizabeth Whitely; Caroline And The Smuggler, Jocelyn Oliver; Good Aunt Earle, M.A. Peart; Camping Out, A.G. Holman; Jill Repays, Anne Page; Pamela's Piebald, Gunby Hadath; The Wanderer, Thora Stowell; How To Dive, W.J. Howcroft; Sally's Sunday, Alice Massie; The Poison Cupboard, Frances Joyce. -
The post-Revolution years saw a state of flux with the balance of power shifting back to the bourgeoisie. Napoleon's rise to power was meteoric and he is a successful young general when this book opens. Hortense Beauharnais finds life very different when he mother becomes Bonaparte's wife and she lives her life on the chessboard of the French court amid jealousy and greed. She is married off the Napoleon's brother but is in love with Charles de Flahaut, a gallant young officer. History, brought to life. -
Simon Templar tangles with the notorious ‘Snake’ Ganning, tracks down a stash of stolen jewels and busts a drug-smuggling racket. He may not always stay on the right side of the law, but with his swashbuckling charm and Robin Hood morality, he is clearly on the side of the angels. Three short stories: The Man Who Was Clever; The Policeman With Wings; The Lawless Lady. -
Volume XII of Sharpe. Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine the dangers that await them in Chile…Cover art by Gino D'Achille. -
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane - the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. The men agree to hide, keep and share the fortune. It all seems simple enough. But what started off as a simple plan slowly devolves into a gruesome nightmare none of them can control... -
Captain Albert Ebbs - M.B.E - expecting to be fired from his job captaining Pole Star company's line freighter the Martin Luther for some unvarnished speaking, is pleasantly surprised to find himself promoted to Captain of the luxury passenger liner Charlemagne. This being a long-held dream since his cadet days, he is confident of handling his duties - after all, all ships float on water, contain machinery and sleep and feed people. It's only the people who differ...and he finds out how very much they do differ! Now he must host cocktail parties, dance with lady passengers, cope with amorous widows, deal with a Chief Officer who's a serial womaniser and a Purser making money on the side by stealing ships supplies - and if all that weren't enough, a lot of unruly children and a crusty British Army officer who claims to know the Chairman of the Board. Subtle and sly British humor. -
Mayday! Clive Cussler
$5.00Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his amphibious place over the Aegean Islands. Brady Air Force base was under fire, its entire force of jets destroyed on the ground - by a World War I bi-plane. A psychotic ex-Nazi, a vicious narcotics dealer, a bloodthirsty Greek strongman and a beautiful double agent set Pitt on the trail of the warped mastermind behind the devastating sabotage plot.
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Deadline: John Dunning
$5.00When a circus tent fire calls reporter Dalton Walker into action, he's disturbed to find that an eight year old girl is a victim of the tragedy; and no relatives come to identify the body. While searching for leads Walker has to juggle a second, seemingly fluffier piece: the success story of a young Amish woman he left her pious home to make it big in New York as a dancer. But not every big city story is what it seems....
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In 1568, the defeat of Mary Queen of Scots at the battle of Langside and her subsequent flight to England left Scotland in turmoil. Her infant son was crowned James VI with her illegitimate half brother the Earl of Moray as Regent. The population was bitterly divided as Moray and the Protestant Lords began to wreak terrible vengeance on supporters of the losing side. Having fought for the Queen, the Carmichaels of Lanarkshire were in a precarious position. Poor nineteen year-old John Carmichael, Younger of that Ilk, whose sole ambitions were land-improving, organising fishing expeditions and raising a family was to become deeply entangled in the murky world of Scots Regency government and finding himself in great danger. -
The sequel to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4: Sunday May 9th: I have just realised I've never seen a dead body or a real female nipple. This is what comes of living in a cul-de-sac. Thursday July 1st: Nigel has arranged for me to have a blind date with Sharon Botts. I am meeting her at at the roller skating rink on Saturday. I am dead nervous. I don't know how to roller-skate, never mind make love... All the comical teen angst of this famous fictional lad. -
Book/DVD: The Painted Veil: W. Somerset Maugham
$5.00–$30.00Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love. A story which demonstrates that it is possible for human nature to learn to grow, change and forgive. DVD: Naomi Watts; Edward Norton: Preloved; region 4; very good condition. DVD: The Seventh Sin:Eleanor Parker; Bill Travers; George Sanders In post-World War II Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man, Paul . Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village, where he will fight a cholera epidemic - or face the scandal of a very public divorce. Based on Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil. DVD: preloved; print-on-demand; all regions; very good condition; uncommon title -
In the villages and on the mountains of County Tyrone, in the heartland of the Provisional IRA's most active Brigade, the golden rule is, "See nothing, hear nothing, know nothing." To collaborate with British Intelligence is to court a death sentence. But word on the mountain is that there's a tout, an informer. He will be identified, interrogated, tortured, then hooded and shot. Gary Brennard, MI5 field agent, and Parker, who runs the informer, have to protect their man at all costs: he is the critical asset to hold onto until the stakes are high enough - and if the innocent step into the crossfire, that's just bad luck. -
King Rat: James Clavell
$5.00The time: World War II. The place: Singapore, the last British bastion in Asia, has fallen. The East Indies are lost, together with Allied Armies stationed there. Almost 150,000 young men were captured and only one in fifteen would survive the three and a half years to VJ Day. Changi, the most notorious POW camp in Asian is deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are drive, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path. It is a story of courage - but the reader must decide who are the courageous ones. Note: James Clavell lived through those years as a young soldier -
It's 1963 - and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward; this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands, a man as yet unpunished. -
The Stars Shine Down: Lara Cameron sees to have everything life has to offer: young, beautiful, a self-made tycoon, she has outshone her competitors to reach the top - but she is lonely, driven by the ghosts of her past. The Best Laid Plans: Oliver Russell is the handsome governor of a small Southern state, with ambitions to win the White House. HE's about to learn that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. His teacher is Leslie Stewart, beautiful and ambitious, who learns that power can be an aphrodisiac for some men and she has a scheme to make Oliver wish he'd never been born. -
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. -
From the creator of Dangerous Davies. In the spring and early summer of 1944 a huge force - over a million and a half strong - spread across Southern England awaiting the greatest adventure in military history - the invasion of Occupied Europe. This army - mainly British, Americans and Canadians -- most of whom had no experience of battle, was to be transported across the English Channel. No-one knew how. This is the story of the the American 'occupation' of South Devon to permit realistic war games. with characters ranging from General Eisenhower to the village simpleton. A recreation of the astonishing operation which preceded the Allied landing in France. -
In 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition - to become an artist. Instead, she becomes, the wife of a great statesman and the mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, and to the dismay of her pompous children, she abandons the family home for a tiny house in Hampstead. Here she recollects the dreams of youth, and revels in her newfound freedom with her odd assortment of companions: Genoux, her French maid; Mr. Bucktrout, her house agent; and a coffin maker who pictures people dead in order to reveal their true characters. And then there's Mr. FitzGeorge, an eccentric millionaire who met and loved her in India when she was young and lovely. It is here, in this world of her own, that she finds a passion that comes only with the freedom to choose; and it is this, her greatest gift, that she passes on to the only one who can understand its value. -
February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Who or what is the dissolute Englishman, Farnholme? The elegant Dutch planter, Van Effen? The strangely beautiful Eurasian girl, Gudrun? The slave trader, Siran? The smiling and silent Nicholson who is never without his gun? Only one thing is certain: the rotting tramp steamer is a floating death trap, carrying a cargo of human TNT. -
Book V of Sharpe. 1807 - Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, newly returned to England, is offered a new job: go to Copenhagen, help the Honourable John Lavisser deliver a bribe and so - stop a war. To him, it seems easy. But nothing is easy in a Europe stirred by French ambitions. The Danes possess a battle fleet that could replace every warship the French lost at the battle of Trafalgar and Napoleon's forces are gathering to take it. The British must stop them. Sharpe is ordered to protect Lavisser against the French agents who infest the Danish capital. It's a shadow war of spies and brutality in which Sharpe is a sacrificial pawn. But sometimes, pawns can change the game. As the Danish army attempts to raise the British siege. it is met by Sir Arthur Wellesley with a force of Redcoats and riflemen. Copenhagen is doomed. In nights of merciless British bombardment, Sharpe must protect a woman, hunt a traitor and stay alive. -
The story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. The deeply reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother is the estranged son of a deskbound colonel; and the cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse is well on his way to becoming America's Number One Flying Ace. Alike only in their courage, they forge a bond of friendship in battle with far-reaching consequences for themselves, and for the future of those they love. A multi dimensional picture of what it is to be at war and what is was to be in love in the England of 1944. Mickey Mouse: Slang for anything unnecessary or unimportant. -
God Knows: Joseph Heller
$5.00Here is the story of David : King of Israel, slayer of Goliath and father of Solomon, but told is David's own words. So the reader will meet David the smart Jewish kid, the fabulous lover, the poet, the father and (one-time) crony of God. There is nothing held back - he's equally un-embarrassed by his faults, sins, prowess and glory. From the author of Catch 22. -
A story told in the first person by bushranger Dick Marston as he awaits his appointment with the gallows, looking back at his turbulent years as cattle-duffer and bushranger with his father Ben, brother Jim and the gentleman adventurer, Captain Starlight. Cover art by Don Stephens. -
In which Simon Templar joins Scotland Yard's Special Branch to the surprise and consternation of Chief Inspector Teal, and confronts beautiful Jill Trelawny, leader of the London underworld.Templar discovers the reasons for Jill Trelawny's criminal activities; and then the hunt is on for two men who have played a large and sinister role in the lives of Jill and her father. -
Duke de Richleau Adventure XI. The Duke de Richleau, together with his friends Richard Eaton, Rex van Ryn and Simon Aron – the Modern Musketeers, have faced many hair-raising adventures together. Now, there is also Rex's son and Fleur, Richard Eaton's daughter. Fleur, who believes in all the freedoms, including that of sex. But interwoven with the the story of Fleur's love life is a story of a strange inheritance that draws the whole party to Ceylon; and in Ceylon to face theft, murder, arson and blackmail. Until finally de Richleau has to take a last desperate gamble, alone, to save his friends. Cover art by Edward Mortelmans.
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