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When Linda boarded the London train, en route for freedom, she was penniless and alone. A polite offer of help from the stranger in the opposite seat was the last thing she expected. Life with Rowley Frobisher was everything she had ever dreamed of: fast, sophisticated and expensive, In a few months the country girl had changed beyond recognition. But then Rowley has a fatal heart attack - and once again., Linda must take desperate action to survive... -
Neil Mallory was a member of that rare breed of men, the pioneer pilots of the thirties. He loved 'planes with a deep passion, and he was willing to fly anything. In Brazil in 1938, he found himself pushing ancient machinery over the densest jungle in the world but as long as he was flying, he was happy. He just hadn't reckoned on the River of Death - the Rio das Mortes - the last place God made where the Huna Indians killed outsiders on sight or Sam Hannah, the enigmatic American, ace of aces at twenty three years old and on a long slide to nowhere - and willing to do anything, sacrifice anyone, to get back on top. -
Devil Water: Anya Seton
$15.00Set during the Jacobite uprising of 1715. James, Earl of Derwentwater loses his life for his espousal of the cause; his brother Charles is the last Englishman to die for the Jacobites. Charles, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, had a daughter, Jenny, by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds, teeming London, and colonial Virginia - where Jenny eventually settled on the estate of the famous William Byrd of Westover - Jenny’s story reveals one young woman’s loyalty, passion and courage as she struggles in a life divided between the Old World and the New. Anya Seton writes a well-researched, good story every time. -
The classic H. Rider Haggard adventure comes to life. Adventurer Allan Quartermain is commissioned by beauty Jessie Huston to find her explorer father in Africa - and the way is littered with Nazis, cannibals, a jungle full of dangerous creatures...and the wiles of the woman who's hired him! But as they near the spot where her father was last seen - the legendary mines of King Solomon - there's even more adventure and danger than they bargained for. And if you'd like to find out all about the legend... https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/king-solomons-minessheallan-quatermain-h-rider-haggard/ -
The sorrows and joys of family life on a vast Queensland station, complete with all the harshness and beauty of the landscape as seen by child-then-adolescent Joan Whatmore. When her adventures take her into other worlds - the conventional elegance of her grandmother's house with its tea-parties and lace, the brilliance of the tropical island off the Barrier Reef where the brief idyll of her married life is spent, the grimy city where she struggles against poverty - all are recorded with vividness. Cottrell's first novel. -
I'm Jenny by name and Jenny by nature, and I couldn't be changed even by legislature. I never was one to make a pretense of not wanting a man for company. A buxom, big-hearted landlady, retired from the oldest profession in the world and now more or less respectable, Jenny Royster holds sway over a colourful household i the cold shadow of the Rugged Cross Church. She fills her rooming-house with the town's lame ducks - Veasy Goodwillie, a midget on winter vacation from the circus who keeps Jenny warm on cold nights; Betty Woodruffe, who has become quite the town scandal with her frequent and indiscriminate visits to the less respectable motels; Judge Milo Rainey, Jenny's weakness and her slow-moving middle-aged suitor who helps when the Rugged Cross community poersecute Jenny for harbouring immoral lodgers. But even he has a battle on his hands when a beautiful dark-skinned girl from Palmetto County moves in, inciting the town to raise the black flag. It's a tough, warm-hearted moral tale, full of racey, country characters and ready to poke fun at small minds and hypocrisy. -
Ex-chorus girl Rita Aanson tires of stage life and finds a new career - and romance - in the second-hand furniture trade in the Sydney suburb of Paddington. There's plenty of humour as Rita struggles to learn the tricks of the trade and does battle with the gin-soaked Mrs Dibble, all the time supported by Peter Bodfish, an eccentric yet inspired furniture restorer and her staunch friend Dr. Grimsby. Lindsay was fascinated by Paddington's lanes, tenements, old shops selling curious treasures (or junk!) and its people who never observed the rules of the more respectable suburbs. -
Book II of Amra's Journey. For the past fifty years the golden treasures of Troy have been lying in the basement of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Now Germany and Turkey are both reclaiming the treasures, but who really owns the precious antiques? And how far is each country prepared to go to claim them as their own? American lawyer Sarah Kaplan, an expert on the reclamation of property, is drawn into the debate when the Turkish government employs her to get the treasures back. But things go horribly wrong and Sarah ends up in a Turkish gaol, accused of theft and blasphemy. Alone in the filthy cell, Sarah's only link with the outside world is the amulet she wears around her neck, passed down to her from her great-grandmother. Engraved with the symbols of the bull and the owl of Troy, the amulet's origin is a mystery. But gradually, through the interweaving of two stories 3000 years apart, the secret of the amulet becomes known... https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-gift-of-evil-alan-gold/ -
The very wealthy Lonsdale Walsh is convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment - convicted on purely perjured evidence. He appeals and petitions with no success - what is he to do? From his prison cell Lonsdale hatches an intricate plan to stage his own retrial at a secret location. Find out if he can secure an acquittal and enjoy the further unexpected twists that are to be revealed... -
The place: Scotland. The time: four years after independence. The country faces economic collapse, massive unemployment and growing civil unrest...and this upheaval may not be happening by accident. Rescue is offered by a rich US-based multinational company which offers jobs and financial support ... but there will be political strings attached. -
Book IV of Portuguese Irregular Verbs. Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs and pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the condescension of his colleagues with regard to his unmarried state. But when his friend Ophelia Prinzel takes it upon herself to match-make, and duly produces a cheerful heiress with her own Schloss, it appears that the professor's true worth is about to be recognised. Described as 'maddening, idiotic and hugely entertaining'. -
Two Japanese ships were less than a mile away on the port bow. The Canberra altered course to bring her after guns on the bearing. Before they could get on a storm of shells swept her from end to end. The whole ship shuddered under the vicious upthrust of steel. Worse was to come during the invasion of Guadalcanal... -
An unusual Australian novel about the need for a second Sydney Harbour Bridge. The underlying theme is how idealism and complete absorption in giving benefits to great masses of people can bring injustice and unhappiness to a small number of people - the immediate family circle of the idealist. The idealist, in this case, is a man with a drive to do good to the exclusion of all else - can this situation work out to a satisfactory conclusion? Cover art by Robert Parker. -
Maggie-Now: Betty Smith
$15.00In the unforgiving urban jungle of Brooklyn of the 1890s, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. As Father Flynn, her confessor, points out: there are in this world ten takers for every giver... and Maggie-Now is a magnificent giver. The chief taker is her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father; then there's her wild younger brother Denny and her enigmatic 'educated' wandering husband Claude; yet for all their weaknesses they are warm and steadfast friends to her. In a time when women had to be steadfast and reliable when their men were not, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness. By the author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. -
American socialite Sarah Talbot had everything going for her: a multi-million dollar business, a large circle of well-placed friends and a marriage to an English aristocrat and army colonel Edward Talbot. Talbot is killed in the Falklands campaign, leaving her with her adored stepson Eric, a Cambridge. student. When Eric dies from a drug overdose, Sarah tries to uncover the mysterious circumstances of his death and finds all roads blocked by officialdom. When she meets former SAS sergeant Sean Egan, she knows she had found the man who can help her. Together they embark on a quest to the depths of the underworld - truly, a season in hell.
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Book V of Jalna. When Renny Whiteoak came home from the war he discovered many strange things at Jalna. Not least among them was his young brother Eden's romantic affair with an attractive widow. Renny determined to put a stop to it. But when he met the infamous Mrs. Stroud, Renny found himself reluctantly entangled in her dangerous web. -
Book I of the Plantagenet and Tudor sequence. Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her own power reflected in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the wheel of fortune before Joan is taken to a horrific death at the hands of the English rulers of France. Jacquetta understands the danger for a woman who dares to dream. Jacquetta is married to the Duke of Bedford, English regent of France, and he introduces her to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy. Her only friend in the great household is the duke’s squire Richard Woodville, who is at her side when the duke’s death leaves her a wealthy young widow. The two become lovers and marry in secret, returning to England to serve at the court of the young King Henry VI, where Jacquetta becomes a close and loyal friend to his new queen. The Woodvilles soon achieve a place at the very heart of the Lancaster court, though Jacquetta can sense the growing threat from the people of England and the danger of royal rivals. Not even their courage and loyalty can keep the House of Lancaster on the throne. Henry the king slides into a mysterious sleep; Margaret the queen turns to untrustworthy favorites for help; and Richard, Duke of York, threatens to overturn the whole kingdom for his rival dynasty. -
Nine short stories in which the Saint hustles the hustlers, tricks the tricksters and rights wrongs that he stumbles onto and into. In this collection: The Man Who Was Lucky; The Smart Detective; The Wicked Cousin; The Well-Meaning Mayor; The Benevolent Burglary; The Star Producers; The Charitable Countess; The Mugs' Game; The Man Who Liked Ants. -
Longtime Passing tells the story of the Truelance family who came to 'Longtime' in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales after World War I, to build a bark hut and a thriving property. The Truelance children have a world of rainforest and bushland to explore as well as correspondence lessons, helping with the turnip crop and in the sawmill. The reader will see 'Longtime' change as the years pass: a motor-lorry replaces the bullock dray, the telephone line is installed and one by one the children go to High School in Sydney. It is based on Brinsmead's own family as told to her by her grandfather. Cover art by Rob Mancini. -
David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to lead lives that could not be more different. Through the story of the two brothers, Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths: that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success, and that of the tough, honest Aussie battler, whose greatest ambition is to serve his country during the war. The story follows the boys from childhood, when their virtually unremembered parents - a sapper and an army nurse - return from World War I to resume their humdrum life in suburban Melbourne, until their own adolescence and maturity as they are faced with World War II. Partly autobiographical. -
Hell Ship: J.E. MacDonnell
$15.00There were a hundred prisoners of war aboard the German ship Munchen. A hundred disillusioned men subjected to the mercy of a brutal Nazi psychopath. The pitiful hopes of 99 of those men lay in one man - a man who knew they were sentenced to an endless imprisonment – who, on a sudden, desperate impulse, had flung a garbage can into the sea. But had he been stupid? Had he failed? Why else was Captain Fricke enraged? He only knew that - somehow - he had to leave another sign...another clue… -
The story of the dysfunctional and dirt-poor Walden family, headed by patriarch Ty Ty, who is firmly convinced that there is treasure buried on his land, treasure that dates back to the glory days of the clan. He is determined to find it and drives his family to dig up the entire property in a frenzied effort to find it - all except that acre that's dedicated to God and must not be touched! Made into a film with Robert Ryan and Tina Louise, well away from her ditzy Gilligan's Island role. -
Set in the turbulent times of the Maori Wars: the hatred between the Maoris and the Pakeha settlers; bloodthirsty raids on enemy villages; and the doomed and tragic romance between Cedric Tregarthen and Governor Grey's ward Leonora are all brought to life. -
A series of short stories ranging from the charging of the Wells at Beersheba by the Australian Light Horse in World War I, through to stories of living on the land in the early part of the 20th century. Davison depicts his characters, mostly hard working people, selectors, bush workers and farmers and their women with respect, sympathy, dignity and understanding with insights into those itinerant bush workers who live on the fringes and are frequently at outs with the authorities. His depiction of men at work and his vivid description of the country are his greatest achievements with a remarkable insight into the economic problems of the selector, small farmer and country worker. -
Peking: Anthony Grey
$15.00To a China racked by famine and bloody civil war in 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith. He burns to save the world’s largest nation from Communism. But on the cold, unforgiving Long March, amid horror and despair too great for Christianity to salve, Jakob becomes entangled with Mei-ling, a beautiful and fervent revolutionary. Powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith—and entrap him for life in the vast country’s tortured destiny. Once held hostage by Red Guards in Peking for more than two years, author Anthony Grey crafts a portrait of China as a land of great beauty and harshness, of triumph and tragedy, as he traces the path of China’s Communist party from its covert inception through purge and revolution in an epic novel that enhances the reader’s understanding of modern China. -
A year has passed since Pollyanna’s paralysing accident. A year older, but still playing the Glad Game. Pollyanna travels to Boston, where she meets an ex-convict, gets lost in the city, saves a young woman from degradation and makes friends with a boy who keeps a Jolly Book. In the second half of the book, Pollyanna comes home from a trip to Europe as a young woman of 20, pretty as a picture yet convinced she’s unmarriageable. With three potential suitors, whom will Pollyanna choose? -
Avalon: Anya Seton
$15.00This saga travels across oceans and continents to Iceland, Greenland and North America during the time in history when Anglo-Saxons battled Vikings and the Norsemen discovered America. The marked contrasts between powerful royalty, landless peasants, Viking warriors and noble knights are expertly brought to life in this gripping tale of the French prince, Rumon. Shipwrecked off the Cornish coast on his quest to find King Arthur's legendary Avalon, Rumon meets a lonely girl named Merewyn and their lives soon become intertwined. Rumon brings Merewyn to England, but once there he is so dazzled by Queen Alfrida's beauty that it makes him a virtual prisoner to her will. Anya Seton proves her mastery of historical detail and ability to craft a compelling tale that includes real and colorful personalities such as St. Dunstan and Eric the Red.
