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In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, she secretly begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. Set when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. -
Assassin's Creed III. Niccolo Polo, father of Marco, will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life—the story of Altair, one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary assassins. Altair embarks on a formidable mission—one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed. To demonstrate his commitment, Altair must defeat nine deadly enemies, including Templar leader, Robert de Sable. Altair's life story is told here for the first time: a journey that will change the course of history; his ongoing battle with the Templar conspiracy; a family life that is as tragic as it is shocking; and the ultimate betrayal of an old friend. -
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 -
A tale of two sets of twins - Edda and Grace, Tufts and Kitty - who battle against the restraints, prohibitions, laws and prejudices of 1920s Australia. The steely Grace yearns for marriage; sophisticated Edda burns to be a doctor; the down-to-earth Tufts wants NEVER to marry; and the too-beautiful Kitty wants a love free from male ownership. -
Forsaken: Oliver Bowden
$9.001735 - London: Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword from the time he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked - his father murdered and his sister carried away by armed men - Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills. With no family, he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer. Consumed by his thirst for revenge, Haytham begins a quest for retribution, trusting no-one and questioning everything he has ever known. Conspiracy and betrayal surround him as he is drawn into a centuries-old battle between the Assassins and the Templars. -
Assassin's Creed o: Egypt, 70BC: a merciless killer stalks the land. His mission: to find and destroy the last members of an ancient order, the Medjay – to eradicate the bloodline. In peaceful Siwa, the town’s protector abruptly departs, leaving his teenage son, Bayek, with questions about his own future and a sense of purpose he knows he must fulfill. Bayek sets off in search of answers, his journey taking him along the Nile and through an Egypt in turmoil, facing the dangers and the mysteries of the Medjay’s path: -
Adrian Mole 7. Adrian Mole - now 33 ' the same age as Jesus was when he died' and father to the grammatically challenged Glenn and William - who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot-air balloon project - and is a single parent having an off/on relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. But will she help him move from the notorious Gaitskell estate before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club? Of course, he continues to be scandalised by his irresponsible parents, who are conducting a matrimonial square dance with the Braithwaites - the parents of the beautiful bu unobtainable Pandora, who is ruthlessly pursuing her ambition to be New Labour's first woman PM - and of course, confides in his diary. His current worries include: indestructible head lice; his raging jealousy when his accomplished half brother Brett arrives on his doorstep; moral decline in The Archers; his desperate attachment to two therapists; his mild addiction to Starburst (formerly Opal Fruits); a small earthquake in Leicester and perhaps most significantly, the dawn of a new millennium. -
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in Talbingo in central New South Wales, in 1879. Her parents belonged to the "Squattocracy" - Europeans who lived off the land because they were the only ones there, but had no land rights. Up The Country - a tale about mid-19th-century pioneer families in New South Wales based on tales handed down from her maternal grandmother. This is not only a story of the adventures of the Mazere, Poole and Brennan families; it's also the pioneer life, the challenges and benefits of community and the harshness of the environment as well as ex-convicts, gold-fossickers, picnics, dances and all the ideals of genteel society together with the raising of cattle, mining camps and all lush natural wonders of Australia. Illustrated with black and white sketches. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/my-career-goes-bung-miles-franklin/ -
Sean Dillion 20. An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can’t stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn’t know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister’s private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon, who thinks there just might be a way to pull it off. But plans have a way of encountering the unexpected. And as the operation spins out, from Paris and Syria to Iran and the Saudi Arabian desert, there is very much that is unexpected indeed. And much blood that will be spilled. -
Are You Irish Or Normal? Sean O'Grada. O'Grada traces the history of the Irish in his own inimitable fashion, from many centuries B.C. (The First Irishman was a Greek) through the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries (A Man's Best Enemy is His Neighbour - And Where Was The O'Neill?) into the 15th and 16th centuries (A Good Sharp Axe Makes Divorce Permanent) and beyond. -
Payne and Jones 4: Carved into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Metéora monasteries are all but inaccessible. Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a secret that has been protected for centuries. In the dead of night, the holy retreat is attacked by an elite group of warriors carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top to the rocks below ― the holy men taking their secret to their graves…Halfway across Europe, Richard Byrd fears for his life. He has uncovered the location of a magnificent treasure. But there are those who are dedicated to protecting it, and they will stop at nothing to prevent its discovery. Hoping to save himself, Byrd contacts two colleagues, Jonathon Payne and David Jones, and begs for their help. The duo rushes to his aid and quickly find themselves caught in an adventure that will change their lives forever. -
We can't help you out with a plot line here - even Trove let us down! But we can tell you about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Everett-Green -
Red - or Green? Shirley Grey; A Bit Of History, D. Dike; The Thing That Mattered, E.L. Haverfield; Improve Your Tennis, Jane Thornicroft; Letitia's Taxi Cab and Miss Connington In Town, Alice Massie; The Chinese Vase, Brenda Girvin; The Three Belpennys, Elizabeth Whitely; The Gargoyle and An Adventure In The Roussillon, S.M. Hills; Caroline And The Count, Jocelyn Oliver; The Pewter Candlestick, Dorothea Moore; S.O.S., Thura Lifford; Gillian's Choice, Pamela Tynan Hickson; Cricket For Girls, Marjorie Pollard; The Strange Sedan, M.A. Peart; It Flowered For Me Alone, Thora Stowell; The Saving Of The Undine, Beryl Irving; The Smugglers Of Portincross, Dorita Fairlie Bruce. -
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. -
Very scarce story collection for girls. In this volume: Poor Miss Robinson, Katharine Tynan; The Great Winter, R.D. Blackmore; Twilight Wind, Thora Stowell; Marcia Of The Mill, Estrith Mansfield; Two Gardens (poem), Lilian Holmes; Sky-High, Margaret Lillie; Felicity's Revenge, E.L. Haverfield; The Shepherdess (poem), Alice Meynell; Concerning Theodosia, Christine Chaundler; The Mocking Fairy (poem), Walter de la Mare; Violeting, Miss Mitford; Signal No. 52, Brenda Girvin; Sheep And Lambs, Katharine Tynan; Eleanor's Valentine, Margaret Stuart Lane; Our Dutch Garden, Lilian Quiller Couch; Uncle Jasper, Winifred Letts -
Thomas: Shelley Mydans
$15.00On a dark December afternoon, in the rising wind and rain of an unprecedented storm, four knights of the court of King Henry II rode into Canterbury in search of the archbishop. They left him dead in the blackness of his own cathedral, and the people of the town came to dip their hands in his blood. Within hours miracles were performed in his name, and soon he was proclaimed a Holy Martyr of the Church. His tomb became a center of pilgrimage for centuries to come. And yet - this was a worldly man, son of a prosperous London merchant, educated in the Church but trained as a knight by one of the great barons of the court of King Henry I, a politician, a lawyer, a protege of the saintly Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury. As chancellor to the young King Henry II, he became the second most powerful man in all England, a wily diplomat and ruthless soldier. so far, he was successful in all he did. His true testing came when Henry, hoping through his chancellor to control the Church, maneuvered his election to the See of Canterbury. Now Thomas was forced to choose between Church and State, between the orthodox Christian religion in which he believed and the slow-dying Old Religion which still influenced his king. His choice for the Church led him into bitter quarrels with Henry, into exile, to his return, and the murder which he foresaw. -
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. -
The small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange older woman with scraggly gray hair and jewelry that jangles as she walks, Matilda is certainly not the most likely person to buy the old Barton Building on the town's quaint main street. When it becomes apparent that her new shop is not going to fit the expectations of Parrish Springs residents - or the Council - a brouhaha erupts. After all, Christmas is approaching, and the last thing the town needs is a weird junky shop run by someone who looks and acts like a hippie relic. Rumours begin to fly about what might be going on behind the paper-covered windows and locked door. But Matilda has a little something for each of them on her cluttered shelves - a gift, just waiting to be found... -
Book I of The Eagles Of The Empire. 42 A.D. Quintus Licinius Cato has just arrived in Germany as a new recruit to the Second Legion, the toughest in the Roman army. If adjusting to the rigours of military life isn’t difficult enough for the bookish young man, he also has to contend with the disgust of his colleagues when, because of his imperial connections, he is appointed a rank above them. As second-in-command to Macro, the fearless, battle-scarred centurion who leads them, Cato will have more to prove than most in the adventures that lie ahead. Then the men discover that the army’s next campaign will take them to a land of unparalleled barbarity - Britain. After the long march west, Cato and Macro undertake a special mission that will thrust them headlong into a conspiracy that threatens to topple the Emperor himself...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/eagles-conquest-simon-scarrow/ -
The Vintener Trilogy I. The year is 1346 and King Edward III is determined to pursue his claim to the French throne. Despite earlier victories his army has still not achieved a major breakthrough and he has not managed to bring the French to a decisive battle. Determined to bring France under English rule and the French army to its knees he has regrouped and planned a new route of attack. England, the little nation with its puny chivalry so sneered at by the great French army, is launching a fearful assault. A chevauchée so violent, so brutal, so devastating that the French King will be forced to come and defend is realm. It will be total war: war against peasant and freeman, farmer and nobleman and no-one will be left unchanged by it...least of all the men of the vintaine of archers under Sir John de Sully...
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The leisurely life of Austin Herrington, at home on the Murray River during his school holidays, takes a dramatic turn when he is confronted with a delinquent escapee from a distant prison farm. This encounter has a devastating effect on Austin's new-found friend Felicity Ainsworth, too - ultimately compelling her parents to sell their adjourning property and live abroad. Ten years later, while serving as a conscript in Vietnam, Austin is severely wounded during enemy action but there is a a future awaiting the new hero. Cover art by Roger Janovsky. -
'I and these other brave chaps are about to escape from Colditz...' 'Oh, my God, another fruitcake...' So begins the hilarious love story between Diana, a grim realist who protects herself from life's disappointments with a biting wit, and Tom, a mild mannered fantasist who lives much of his life as Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Edmund Hillary or a variety of movie stars. Together they are living out their twilight years at Bayview Retirement Home, or as Diana puts it: on the hard shoulder of life waiting for the last tow truck.' Determined not to slip into old age gracefully, their antics wreak havoc at Bayview as they conduct a guerilla war with the postman or speed to Bournemouth in a Porsche not theirs. Other characters include the director - 'that idiot Bains' who is hotly pursued by Jane the housekeeper; DIY-shelf expert Geoffrey and his pill-popping, Vodka-swiggin wife Marion; and Basil, the Bayview Casanova, who believes that behind any Zimmer frame lurks a hot babe. Novelisation of the popular BBC series. -
Hornet Flight: Ken Follett
$12.00June, 1941 - and a baffling Luftwaffe message mentioning a new invention code named Freya is picked up by the decoders of Allied Intelligence. Hermia Mount, a British Intelligence analyst, suspects the existence of a experimental radar station on the coast of Denmark. Meanwhile, young Harald Olufsen, a brilliant Danish student, has spotted an unusual installation near his island home. Unable to resist a challenge, Harald is soon drawn into Hermia's investigation, but when he finally learns the truth, he finds the only way of getting to England with the information is in a near derelict Hornet Moth biplane, mouldering away in the nave of a ruined church... -
Beowulf is one of the most important and complete poems in old English. It is not a relic of savage bygones nor simply a document of historical importance. It is the only native English heroic epic and one of the finest products of what is called the Dark Ages. -
When James VI, His Grace of Scotland also becomes His Majesty of England, far-reaching changes take place in the two realms. David Murray, the young son of Sir Andrew, a Perthshire laird, has no aspirations to greatness. Then a chance meeting with King James VI leads him to becoming Cup Bearer and Master of the Horse to his young liege.Together with James' foster brother John Erskine, Master of Mar, the three enter a new era of political intrigue and dynastic manoeuvring. When David meets and falls in love with Elizabeth Beaton he hopes he can distance himself from court events and lead a quiet family life in his beloved Perthshire hills. But the demands of a right royal friend lead him straight back into the thick of one of the most notable periods of Scots and English history. -
The author of Ragtime takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life: his loves and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. -
Tweed and Co 19. An investigation into a number of horrific - and apparently disconnected murders sweeps Tweed across the world. The Vorpal Blade advances into gripping new territory. Tweed has reverted to his one-time role of Homicide Superintendent at the Yard. He also retains his position as Deputy Director of the SIS. Paula Grey and Bob Newman still assist him. Tweed has suspicions about the strange Arbogast banking family. Roman, the bank´s owner; his niece, the brilliant Marienetta; his daughter, the volatile Sophie. Wherever they go, the American Vice President follows. Why? Tweed realizes enormous power lies behind the five murders. But it is shrewed, stubborn Paula Grey, risking her life, who eventually tracks down the wielder of the blade. By herself, underground in a remote mountainous zone.
