One day, on a dive in the Mediterranean, marine archeologist Jack Howard gets very lucky. He and his team uncover what could be the key to the location of the lost island. Jack's on the verge of making an astounding breakthrough, but someone else knows the location of Atlantis. And Jack and those close to him are locked in a life or death game with consequences that could destroy thousands of lives. What Jack discovers is beyond his wildest dreams - but it comes at a terrifying price.
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Atlantis: David Gibbins
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According to the Geneva Convention, red crosses on a ship guarantee immunity from enemy attack. The San Andreas is a hospital ship but the crew do not trust the night lights or the red crosses to keep her safe - and they do not trust the enemy U-boats. Suddenly, the the hour before dawn, the ship's power is cut. The lights go out. Someone on board the British hospital ship is intent on sabotage...Cover art by Paul Wright. -
In the wake of the World Trade Centre bombing of 1993, New York has become ground zero for an intricate web of betrayals and double-crosses in the shadowy world of Islamic fundamentalism. Sami Amir arrives in Brooklyn via Iran, his mission to investigate rumours of terrorist plots that are set to culminate around Christmas and New Year - only a few weeks away... First published in 2000, before the fall of the Twin Towers, this book now comes over as being eerily prescient. -
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. -
Down on his luck and kicked in the pants one too many times, sixteen-year-old Pagan Kidrouk arrives on the doorstep of the Templar Knights in medieval Jerusalem, looking for work as a squire. He's expecting only some protection from the seedier aspects of life on the street and a few square meals. Instead, Pagan finds himself hard at work for Lord Roland de Bram - an exciting life of polishing Lord Roland's armor, laundering his garments, and even training to fight by his side. But as the Infidel Saladin leads his army to Jerusalem, it becomes more and more difficult for Pagan and Lord Roland to discern what action to take or whom to trust. Neither Saladin's army nor the Christian Crusaders offer easy answers. Is a bloody battle for control of the Holy City inevitable?
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First volume of the House series which includes The House at Old Vine and the House at Sunset. 'It was in the first week in October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me...the man whose lightest word was, to us, his villeins, weightier than the King's law of the edicts of the Holy Father...' So begins the story of Martin Reed, a serf whose resentment of the autocratic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance. Encouraged by the woman he loved, Reed began a new life - a life which was to culminate in the building of the House, and the founding of the dynasty who were to live there. This trilogy spans five centuries of events told through the lives of the people who lived in the Town House...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-house-at-old-vine-norah-lofts/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-house-at-sunset-norah-lofts-2/
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Solo: Jack Higgins
$10.00Mikali was a concert pianist, internationally famous and fawned upon wherever he went. Irresistible to women, too, yet always cold and withdrawn. He was also the most dangerous man in Europe, a ruthless assassin who killed not for principle or revenge - just for the satisfaction and excitement. Asa Morgan, originally a soldier monk, is also a killer who has perfected his techniques in many places, including the dungeons of Communist China and who is now a colonel in Northern Ireland, waging his war with controlled savagery. As Mikali flees the police after the murder of a prominent Zionist, he runs over and kills a young girl on a bicycle in a tunnel under the railway near Paddington Station - and the girl was Asa Morgan's daughter. For Morgan, there is only one solution - death. -
High on a rocky outcrop above heathland stands a Victorian Gothic mansion, built by the aristocratic and ancient Rose family. In the lodge of the house - the rest being owned by the National Trust - live the last two of the line. Rosalba Rose, seventeen and dutifully submissive to her ferocious great-aunt Martine - until she meets Eugene Seal, a young serviceman. They fall in love but is their passion, surrounded by upheaval, doomed? Cover art by David Senior.
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At Hawkridge House in the English summer of 1636, botanist John Nightingale wants only to spend his life in the peaceful ordering of his estate. In Amsterdam, stock market and speculation is rife as fortunes are gambled on rare tulips. John is blackmailed into joining an elaborate money-making scheme. Falling in love with two very different women, pursued by demons of his past and trying desperately to keep ahead of a game spiralling out of his control, John must quickly learn the ways of the world.
