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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.’ -
Book I of Wilt. Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. At the Polytechnic, he can look forward to years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners and butchers. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, and his fantasies grow daily more murderous and more concrete. After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans, Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of gin, puts one of his more vindictive fantasies into effect. But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries. Or is he exactly helping? Wilt's problem -although he's on the other side of the fence -is the same as Inspector Flint's: where is Eva Wilt? But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of the investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt deploys all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground. Fabulous satire on middle-class life. Wilt On High (Book III of Wilt): Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt is the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt's talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender, to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place - in the middle. -
Wilt On High: Tom Sharpe
$7.00Book II of Wilt. Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt is the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt's talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender, to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place - in the middle. -
Wilt, Book IV. When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water for a visit with two rotund Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...Meanwhile, Eva finds her plans to inherit Joan and Wally's fortune slipping away faster than her sanity, thanks to a combination of sinister teenage quadruplets with foul mouths, and her unexpected role as lead suspect in a drug-trafficking plot. -
Young Will Shakespeare had a lot to answer for. When Will gets mixed up in poaching, his father sends him away from Stratford with a band of travelling actors. On the outskirts of London, a fierce storm forces them to take refuge at the house of Doctor Dee - Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer. There they get caught up in a plot involving piracy, Walter Raleigh, magic, a mysterious stranger known only as 'Maddie' and the secret of the Devil's Fire. As spies and cut-throats pursue him, Will must save England from a fiendish plot and confront the deadly menace of the Devil's Fire. -
Barsetshire, Book II. Lady Emily reigns behind a self-generated thicket of confusion and turmoil. There is no event so settled that Lady Emily cannot throw it into chaos at the last moment. (Mr Leslie has been known to take off on a cruise to the 'Northern capitals of Europe' when it all becomes too much for him. )Their daughter Agnes, a matriarch-in-waiting, has already produced three children despite a husband who seems to be perennially abroad; the French tenants and Mr Holt, the consummate social leech, are in evidence and there's a household struggle for control between Housekeeper and Nannie. -
Over a hundred writers are represented herein to give a well-rounded vision of Western Australian themes and images, from the gritty beginnings of first settlement to contemporary urban living. There are extracts from newspapers, journals, diaries, speeches, songs, short stories and poems. Contributors include Xavier Herbert, Tom Quilty, Russell Drysdale, Hammond Innes, Anthony Trollope and Elizabeth Jolley. Illustrated with photos, cartoons and paintings. -
Whiteout: Ken Follett
$6.00As a blizzard whips up on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family home. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. His children, at home for the holiday with their off-spring have their eyes on the money he'll make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story even if he has to bend a few facts; and a trio of vicious thugs are on their way to steal it - for a waiting client. As the storm worsens and the group is under siege from the elements, emotions run high and dark secrets are revealed.
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Whiteout: Ken Follett
$15.00As a blizzard howls from the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to wipe out a lethal virus. His children, home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, his head of security and ex-police officer is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a big story; and a trio of violent thugs are on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting for the goods. Trapped by the storm, emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets emerge that could drive Stanley and his family apart forever. A story full of startling twists.
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