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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. -
A collection of Abbott's essays on Australian life, originally published serially in The Bulletin and covering events, personalities and the things that don't get into the history books - but which probably should! -
Superficially, this is the story of a man who returns to his home town to investigate the misappropriation of a family trust fund. Psychogically, it is the study of the failure of that man to find his place outside the ancestral family home and the changes he undergoes as a result. Reid's first novel, set in the oppressive life in a small Australian country town. Reid's first novel. -
Dad and Dave are so well-known in Australian literature that they feel like family. Their struggles, troubles and joys at Snake Gully are just like ours. On Our Selection contains the following: Starting the Selection; Our First Harvest; Before We Got the Deeds; When the Wolf Was at the Door; The Night We Watched for Wallabies; Good Old Bess; Cranky Jack; A Kangaroo Hunt from Shingle Hut; Dave's Snake-Bite; Dad and the Donovans; A Splendid Year for Corn; Kate's Wedding; The Summer Old Bob Died; When Dan Came Home; Our Circus; When Joe Was in Charge. Our New Selection: Baptising Bartholomew; Some Trouble With A Steer; Goodbye to the Old Home; A Fresh Start; The Great Milk Enterprise; Dad In Distress; A Surprise Party; Dave Becomes Discontented; Dave in Love; When Dad Got Bucked Off; Dad and Carey; When Dad Went To Maree; The New Teacher: The Prodigal's Return. Cover art by Norman and Lionel Lindsay. -
Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase III. Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur's beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages and thought lost for over a thousand years. But with a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate Excalibur...and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical - until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts of Syria to the arctic wastes of Russia, Nina and Chase must battle a merciless enemy who plans to use the sword's powers to plunge the world into a new era of war... -
Book IV of The Saga Of Roland Inness. King Richard has made peace with Saladin, but must run a gauntlet of enemies to get home from the Crusade. While England waits for her King, Prince John spares neither lives nor fortune to usurp his brother’s crown. Roland Inness, Declan O’Duinne and Millicent de Laval once more find themselves at the centre of a growing civil war. Each will play a crucial role in deciding who will ultimately sit on the throne of England.
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Book III of The Australians. Continuing the stories of the Taggarts and the Dawsons. Jenny Taggart, a young widow, is reunited with her old friend and lover Andrew Hawley. Andrew is forced to serve the irascible governor William Bligh during his disputes with Jon Macarthur and the Corps officers as Jenny and Andrew fight to build a new life within the growing colony. Justin, Jenny's son, longs for adventure. This volumes also sees the arrival of beautiful newly-arrived Abigail Tempest, her sister Lucy and their sinister guardian Reverend Caleb Boskenna. -
An ebullient play inspired by the stories of the homeless men 'on the wallaby' who roamed the Australian roads in search of work during the Great Depression. The story traces the misfortunes of the O'Brien family, waterside workers in Port Adelaide. The effect of eight years' of unemployment, birth, separation, strikes and subsistence on the family are seen in the light of the political strategies of the time. It also incorporates the death of the old music hall theatre and the rise of the age of mass communication. -
Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov
$40.00Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love and lust with Lolita Haze, his landlady's silky- skinned nymphette twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs. Haze just to be close to his Lolita, Humbert suffers agonies in the pursuit of Lolita; but then Lo starts looking for attention elsewhere... Lolita is probably the first literary nymphette; the book is full of ingenious word play and written as a confession - justification - bending of reality...? It is certainly told retrospectively but what perspective? While H.H. awaits trial? Or has he been sentenced and is now in prison? Is the reader the 'ladies and gentlemen f the jury'? And who is really the seducer? Humbert, the old roué? Or Lolita, the nymphette, dangerously talented and wise in the ways of physical love? Lolita has been described as 'an unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust... deviant, queer, puerile, and yet ever so human, darkly human, perverted in the corner...exacting, alluring, inventive, sexy, pleading, conceited, lurid, savory, languid...' You, dear Reader, must make up your own mind.
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