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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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We all know and love Forrest, and here is his story, as told by himself. Travel with him from football dynasties to the Vietnam War, encounters with Presidents and pow-wows with Chairman Mao, to Harvard University and Hollywood. If you've ever felt left out, lacking or put upon - this is a book for you. -
Dombey is a proud, stern and unfeeling man obsessed with his son, longing for the day that his shipping firm will one day bear the name Dombey and Son. This single-minded ambition, granted... then cruelly taken away, leads Dombey through tragedy, bitterness and separation from his staunch daughter Florence and others who he has wronged and who nevertheless have endeavoured to love him. -
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 plane that crashed in the icy wastes of Greenland was empty and without identity. A deserted wreck shattered against the freezing landscape. Joe Martin had been on many salvage operations but something told him that this one was different. The insurance company and the dead pilot's beautiful widow had hired him to discover what he could about the incident. But some things are best left alone... -
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. -
Sean Courtney was a man as big and bold as Africa itself. With his brother Garrick, he had grown up beneath the shadow of Cetewayo and the spears of the Zulu impis. The onrush of the Zulus would bring their world to an end on the bloody sand of Isandhlwana and the heroic barricades of Rorke's Drift. But the lure of the wilderness and white ivory would remain.
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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. -
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 small English travelling circus of Mr Marvel is stranded by disaster in a remote part of the seemingly limitless plain of La Mancha, in Spain. Mr Marvel returns to England to deal with the insurance problems; and the story is that of the members of the circus ""family" who are left to handle the animals of the menagerie, of the acts and the horses. Among this group of misfits is Rose, who chooses to stay with Toby of the equestrian troupe and Mr. Albert, who has taught her to love the wild animals as he does. Rose - despite her dubious morals - has managed to keep a strange kind of goodness and innocence, even when she sells the only commodity she owns to secure food for the animals. Then Mr. Albert and the dwarf Janos find that they too have something to sell - to the Marquesa, whose desperate plight can never find recompense in her fortune. This is a story of dark romance, disaster and eventual deliverance, cowardice and greed, compassion and cruelty, kindness and love - and told with brilliantly observed humour and pathos. -
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. -
Frank Berry is a terrorist with a capital T. His idealogy is money - and he can deliver whatever is wanted. When the Russians want copies of the latest NATO missile system, Berry's the man to deliver them. The only man who can stop Berry is Martin Brosnan, poet and scholar, Vietnam-trained killer and IRA ranker, currently in the French prison of Belle Isle. His oldest and best friend, Liam Devlin is the man to get him out and working for British Intelligence.
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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. -
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. -
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. -
Book III of Robert The Bruce. Bannockburn was far from the end for Robert Bruce and Scotland; not even the beginning of the end—only the end of the beginning. There remained fourteen years of struggle, savagery, heroism and treachery before the English could be brought to sit at a peace table with their proclaimed rebels, and so to acknowledge Bruce as sovereign King. In these years of stress and fulfilment, Bruce's character burgeoned to its splendid flowering. The hero-king, moulded by sorrow, remorse and in grievous sickness, equally with triumph, became the foremost prince of Christendom - despite continuing Papal excommunication. -
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. -
Three more classic tales in which the Saint finally pays his tax bill...only to discover that the taxman has a rather unhealthy hobby for some. Then a good deed leads the Saint to discover a plot to undermine the Italian economy, and his plans to retire are interrupted when a couple of homicidal diamond smugglers object to his interference in their plans. Not only that, the Saint bests some richly assorted villains, such as the Scorpion - who wanted to exchange Templar's tails for a concrete overcoat; Kuzela - an arch field for whom Templar made the punishment fit the crime; and Perrigo - who was undone when the Saint pinched his trousers...In this volume: The Inland Revenue; The Million Pound Day; The Melancholy Journey Of Mr. Teal. Previously published as The Holy Terror. -
The Tower Of London: W.H. Ainsworth
$5.00–$20.00The story of seventeen year-old Lady Jane Grey - known as the Nine Day Queen. History concedes that she was manipulated by ambitious relatives; here, Ainsworth covers her life from her arrival in London to the day of her execution. Ainsworth delighted in the history of the Tower and there are descriptions of secret passages, dungeons and torture chambers; he also explores the characters in-depth. The values and every day life of the period are also present, as a few extra possibly fictional minor characters. Originally published in serial form in 1840, then in two volumes. -
Constance and Sophia Baines had been brought up bound by the limited outlook and strict morality of Bursley - one of Staffordshire's Five Towns. Constance accepted this as they only world they knew, but Sophia's craving for excitement and romance takes her to Paris and a wholly different existence. The reader follows the sisters through their lives against a faithful and vivid background of Midland provincial life in the mid-nineteenth century and the glittering Paris of the 1870s.
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From the moment of Katharine's betrothal to Arthur, Prince of Wales, she believed she would be the future Queen of England. But Arthur died just after their marriage and it was as the wife of his brother, Henry VIII, that she went to her Coronation. Here is her life with the infamous Henry Tudor - many happy years, the birth of her daughter Mary, her popularity with the people. But after twenty years, Henry's eyes fixed firmly on the young Anne Boleyn. He repudiated their marriage, subjected Katharine to the humiliation of a public 'trial' and banished her from his life. -
A mysterious ceremony at a hidden location has unlocked the catastrophic countdown to world annihilation. Super-soldier Jack West and his team must find and rebuild a legendary device known as 'The Machine'. The only clues to locating this Machine are hidden in the fabled Six Sacred Stones. But Jack and his team are not the only ones looking for the Stones. Cover art by Wayne Haag. -
Bare Nell: Leslie Thomas
$5.00Little Nell Luscombe padding naked and tanned in her native Devon streets was the delight of the local GIs. Growing up, she learnt that there was a good living to be made from her substantial charms. From servicing the Weymouth fishermen, she progressed to the peak of her profession, running a high class establishment - all tastes catered for - at Westminister. A modern Moll Flanders, a girl no better than she ought to be and doing very nicely, thank you! -
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. -
Claudius the idiot. That fool, Claudius. Poor Uncle Claudius. All these titles and less complimentary ones were applied to Claudius, cursed with a limp and a stammer. Believed to be of no intelligence, he became the shameful and pitiable member of the Roman Imperial family, pushed to the background, despised, ignored and married off now and again for political alliances. All he wanted to do was study and write his histories - and no-one was more surprised or dismayed than he when - having survived the golden age of Augustus and the bloody reigns of Tiberius and Caligula - he was elected Emperor of Rome by four thousand cheering Praetorian guards. Here is all the folly, grandeur and vileness of early Imperial Rome. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/claudius-the-god-robert-graves/ -
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.
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