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Napoleon is at the height of his powers and has become the complete autocrat, lusting for more power. Roger Brook, the most valuable and resourceful of secret agents, moves among the centres of power of Europe and beyond and is taken, by mischance and intrigue to Turkey, Persia, Portugal and Brazil. Interwoven with the history is the thread of Roger's passionate involvement with the beautiful Lisala de Pombal, who plays her part in leading him from one desperate situation to another. -
Roger Brook adventure No. VIII. Pauline Leclerc: the loveliest, most licentious woman in Paris – and the favorite sister of Napoleon himself. Roger Brook is back in France – playing a deadly game as Prime Minister Pitt's most daring secret agent. But when he is ordered to console the newly-widowed Pauline he finds that, for once, the calls of duty and passion coincide... -
John Grant: a young, middle-class schoolteacher, disgruntled because of the onerous terms of a financial bond that he signed with the government in return for receiving a tertiary education. The bond has forced him to accept a two-year post at a tiny school at Tiboonda, a remote township in the arid outback. It is the start of the Christmas holidays, and John plans on going to Sydney to see his girlfriend Robyn, but first he must travel by train to the nearby mining town of Bundanyabba, a rough outback mining town, in order to catch a Sydney-bound flight. A gambling den could be John's way out of his financial bond - instead it's the beginning of a nightmare of bestiality, perversions, drinking and hunting. -
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... -
Roger Brook adventure No XII. 1814. The Irish Witch is dead - and Europe is at peace. Roger Brook, now Lord Kildonan, is content to divide his time between his young wife, Mary and his life-long mistress and spirit-companion, Georgina. But as the fashionable world glitters at the Congress of Vienna, the power-hungry Napoleon is about to plunge the continent into war once more. And Mary, possessed by demonic jealousy, is hatching a plot which threatens Roger's fortune – and Georgina's life. Reluctantly, Roger Brook must assume his old identity – as Europe's most daring secret agent. -
Roger Brook adventure No XII. 1814. The Irish Witch is dead - and Europe is at peace. Roger Brook, now Lord Kildonan, is content to divide his time between his young wife, Mary and his life-long mistress and spirit-companion, Georgina. But as the fashionable world glitters at the Congress of Vienna, the power-hungry Napoleon is about to plunge the continent into war once more. And Mary, possessed by demonic jealousy, is hatching a plot which threatens Roger's fortune – and Georgina's life. Reluctantly, Roger Brook must assume his old identity – as Europe's most daring secret agent. -
Set in the tenth story during the Viking raids of England and the defeat of Ethelred the Unready's army at Maldon. Orm, son of a famous pirate, is shanghaied by the Vikings near his home in Sweden. He sailed with them until captured by the Moors and spent several years as a galley slave. He escaped to Ireland, fought in the Battle of Maldon and then journeyed down the unknown Russian rivers in search of gold. Epic battles and bloody feuds with authentic historical details and plenty of zest and humour. -
Ten stories, with the first four being from Biggles Learns To Fly and the remaining six from The Camels Are Coming. In this volume: First Time Up! Biggles is taken up by an instructor who gives him his first ever flight in an aeroplane. Landed - But Lost: Biggles' first solo flight results in him getting hopelessly lost. After 15 hours he gets his 'wings'. A Daring Stunt: Attacking an aerodrome, Biggles is again shot down. He and Mark escape from No Man's Land. The Pup's First Flight: Biggles transfers to 266 squadron and flies a Sopworth Pup. He captures a German Rumpler. The Zone Call: A captured German pilot tricks Biggles, but he realises in time to foil a German attack. The Boob: Biggles first meets a new pilot who happens to be his cousin and whose Christian name is Algernon. Spads And Spandaus: Biggles and his squadron join up with some Americans for a major air battle with the Germans. The Carrier: Biggles' propeller kills a carrier pigeon but Biggles finds the message and goes to rescue a spy. Affaire de Cœur: Biggles meets the love of his life, Marie Janis, only to discover that she is a spy. The Last Show: Biggles gets promoted to Major and is shot down only to discover the armistice has been signed. -
Having exorcised the awful wallpaper, the hideous lead light window (portraying the late owner's wife as a mermaid...) the speckled holly hedge and other acts of vandalism committed by the previous owners - Nichols sets about restoring the Georgian manor Merry Hall the gardens to their former glory while braving the wrath of village locals who regarded the inappropriate building additions as a monument to the former owner's - the late Mr Stebbings - 'good taste.' As always, Beverley is accompanied by his beloved pet cats who, of course, have their say on all improvements. Illustrated by William McLaren. -
Book II of The Eagles Of The Empire. When Centurion Macro arrives on British soil as one of Emperor Claudius's invasion force in 43 AD, he is facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career. In a series of bloody skirmishes, Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato, and the desperately outnumbered Roman army must find and defeat the enemy before he grows strong enough to overwhelm the legions. But the Britons are not the only foe facing Macro and Cato. A sinister organisation opposed to the Emperor is secretly betraying the invaders. And when rumours of an assassination attempt coincide with the Emperor's arrival on British soil, the soldiers realise they are up against a force more ruthless than their acknowledged enemy...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/eagle-hunts-simon-scarrow/ -
Between Home and Naples, on a mountain dominating town and valley, stood for four hundred years St.Benedict's Monastery - the most celebrated in Europe.War swept over Monte Cassino and completely demolished it. From the ruin comes a call to seven men; among them a Leicestershire lad, a Benedictine monk, a Pole, a Ghurka...Between them in England, America, Poland, France, Austria, India and Italy, they had experienced the vagaries of fortune, young love, high adventure, success and disappointment. Their story seemed to end abruptly and finally, like the great monastery above the town, which was wiped, out in the space of a few hours by a handful of nameless youths fulfilling their orders. But was that the end...? -
Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn’t ‘get’ a single thing about anything anymore. Meanwhile, each day another public figure confesses to having ‘misspoken’ and prostrates themselves before the judgement of Twitter. Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public “that is not who I am”. But if nobody is who they are anymore...then who the f##k are we? A a blistering satire of the world as it fractures around us. -
Sylvia Day who goes to Crete to be with her brother, an archaeologist, who is working on the island with a young Italian in the days immediately preceding World War II. Those peaceful days are remembered when later the brother and sister find themselves once again on the island, the former a nurse and her brother an airman. The remains of past civilisations take a prominent part in this story as Cretan patriots and Allied troops fight a guerilla warfare through the mountains and Sylvia stays on after the evacuation and helps organise an underground resistance movement against the Nazis. The novel gets its title from that gallant band who, in the harbors and on the soil of Crete, planted '...so immortal a flower of heroism.' -
Book III of The Eagles Of The Empire. In the bitter winter of A.D. 44, the Roman troops in Britain are impatiently awaiting the arrival of spring so that the campaign to conquer the island can be renewed. But the native Britons are growing more cunning in their resistance, constantly snapping at the heels of the mighty Roman forces. When the most brutal of the native tribesmen, the Druids of the Dark Moon, capture the shipwrecked wife and children of General Plautius, quick action is called for. Two volunteers from the crack Second Legion must venture deep into hostile territory in a desperate attempt to rescue the prisoners. Centurion Macro and his optio, Cato, find themselves slipping out of camp in the dead of night to reach the General's family before they are sacrificed to the Druids' dark gods. They know they are heading towards an almost certain death, and their only hope is that, with sheer courage and ingenuity, they can outwit the most ruthless foes they've ever faced. -
The Eagles Of The Empire VII. Trouble is brewing in Syria, on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. With the troops in a deplorable state, centurions Macro and Cato are despatched to restore the competence of the cohort. But another challenge faces them as Bannus, a local tribesman, is brewing up trouble and preaching violent opposition to Rome. And Parthia, Rome's long-standing enemy, is poised to invade. As the local revolt grows in scale, Macro and Cato must stamp out corruption in the cohort and restore it to fighting fitness to quash Bannus - before the eastern provinces are lost to the Empire forever... -
Victoria Railway Station sees the going and coming of monarchs, men who have become famous and just men going or coming. Here are travellers from various walks in life - a famous but lonely violinist who succumbs to the temptation to adopt an infant born on the train; a once-famous actor not longer required, because of his Jewish blood, to impersonate the ideal German youth; a puzzled young King of nine years, puzzled because yesterday he was merely a boy at a school in England and today he is Your Majesty but has the greatest difficulty in obtaining permission to have his cherished rabbit with him; and a middle-aged bachelor who has come into a little money and has turned his back on brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews and for the first time in his life is going to live up to the "selfishness" which was attributed to him on the rare occasions when he was unable to satisfy their demands. These stories within a story give not only character sketches but an insight to the ramifications of European politics of the late 1930s and the effect on individuals. -
Pilgrim Cottage: Ann, a dancer, has just been stranded penniless in the city. Philip, a young and struggling novelist, having quit a regular job in London to devote himself exclusively to writing, has also exhausted his last few pounds. By chance, they meet a Mrs. Cressington, one of those inevitable American matrons, with lots of money and spending nature, who are wont to luxuriate abroad. She decides to generously patronize the arts by presenting them with an Elizabethan cottage in England. The Guests Arrive: Described as a romance in sunshine with tragedy: the story of Anton Salzenthal, the great pianist, in his schloss at Zell-qm-See. Volcano: A series of strange events in and around a group of volcanic islands in the Augean with associated happenings in London. On a bright morning, Ian Caudray, a young devotee of archaeology and of the classics swims from a yacht to one of the islands which he believes is uninhabited. When a beautiful girl appears he thinks of her as Nausicaa with himself as Odysseus- but she makes it clear she doesn't share his fantasy and wants him gone! Discouraged, he returns to the yacht for breakfast and a light-hearted inquisition from his family - but it's not long before the beautiful lady's secrets come out. Photographic illustrations. -
Adam’s Empire: Evan Green
$40.00It's a great country, but never trust it, son. It's beautiful but it's treacherous. Adam Ross had seen the way his country could destroy a man. Growing up in the Australian outback in the first half of the twentieth century with no formal education, orphaned at the age of nine, he learned to fend for himself. But when he forms an unlikely friendship with Jimmy, who works in the opal mines, his luck begins to change. He dreams that he will one day have land of his own. The land that stole Adam's father gives him an opportunity to start anew. Armed with determination and ambition, Adam treks west to carve himself an empire. However, success doesn't come easy and Adam, a man who spent much of his life devoid of love, soon finds himself caught between two women. Torn between his love for his cold-hearted wife and his mistress, Adam must make decisions about his future and the type of man he wants to be. Cover art by Gregory Bridges. -
Jack West Jr I. In ancient times, a Golden Capstone was placed atop the Great Pyramid at Giza during a rare solar event called the Tartarus Rotation. Once every 4,500 years, a superhot sunspot - the Tartarus Sunspot - aligned itself with Earth and caused immense worldwide flooding and sun-scorching. It is said that when the Capstone sat atop the Great Pyramid, no such flooding or solar damage occurred. And, according to legend, whosoever places the Capstone on the pyramid at the next Tartarus Rotation will gain absolute power over Earth for the next 1,000 years. In 2006, the Tartarus Rotation will come again - but the Capstone is nowhere to be found...With the fate of global dominance hanging in the balance, nearly every world power sends forth its troops to locate the Capstone. Among them are the United States, the European Union, Israel, ruthless terrorists, and one other unusual force: a coalition of seven smaller nations that have decided that the Capstone is too powerful for any one country to hold. So they band together against all odds and send an eight-man team to take on all the great forces in the chase. Led by an Australian super-soldier named Jack West Jr., the team includes a Canadian professor, two crack Irish commandos (one of whom is female), a Spanish paratrooper, a Jamaican soldier, an Arab commando, and a daredevil New Zealand pilot. And Lily, the ten-year-old daughter of the Oracle of Siwa - one of only two people in the world who can decode an ancient text that leads to the Capstone. This stalwart group embarks on a global journey filled with booby-trapped mines, stupendous ancient wonders, gigantic evil forces, and adventure beyond imagination. -
Cop This Lot: Nino Culotta: Book II of They're A Weird Mob. Nino, now an Australian with the help of his mates and Kay, his missus, has a chance to get a few laughs at the expense of workmates Joe and Dennis as they accompany him on a trip to Italy to visit Nino's parents. Joe and Dennis have never left Sydney and the plan is to go by 'plane and cargo ship then buy a cheap car in Germany to drive to Italy. At the Culotta family villa, Nino's father, a crusty and misbehaving patriarch who loves to conduct local feuds, is only concerned that Nino and Kay have not been 'properly' married by an Italian priest. Nino's mother is worried that the children will be eaten by kangaroos. By the time they return to Sydney, Joe and Dennis have learnt a smattering of several European languages and despite their working-class 'Ocker' background, have acquired a veneer of European sophistication, preferring wine to beer and Italian suits to Jack Howe singlets - a veneer, of course, that doesn't last too long! Illustrated by 'Wep'. There Was A Kid: John O'Grady: Author John O'Grady's (Nino Culotta) father, with no practical experience and very little money, threw up city life and became a farmer - he bought his land, worked hard, applied the latest scientific methods - and went broke. Yet O'Grady has wonderful memories of growing up on the farm near Tamworth and recounts them all here with his usual wry humour. Illustrated by Collinridge Rivett. -
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. Now Listen, Mate! John O'Grady: O'Grady sez: These essays, or whatever they may be, represent my thoughts and conclusions on various things and people. My eldest son wanted me to write my autobiography: "The story of your life, Pop" he said. "And tell the truth." He can go and jump in Lake Burley Griffin. I offer instead some comment on what life has taught me. After sixty years of knocking around and being knocked about, a man acquires a sort of philosophy. Basically, mine is that nothing in life is worth getting steamed up about, and most things are good only for a laugh. Illustrated by Paul Rigby. -
Book IV of Empire. Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins. The murderous Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus have been defeated by his friends. But in order to protect those very friends from the wrath of the emperor, he must leave the province which has been giving him shelter. As Marcus Tribulus Corvus, centurion of the second Tungrian auxiliary cohort, he leads his men from Hadrian's Wall to the Tungrians' original home in Germania Inferior. There he finds a very different world from the turbulent British frontier - but one with its own dangers. Tungrorum, the center of a once-prosperous farming province, a city already broght low by the ravages of the eastern plague that has swept through the empire, is now threatened by an outbreak of brutally violent robbery. A bandit chieftain called Obduro, his identity always hidden behind an iron cavalry helmet, is robbing and killing with impunity. His sword - sharper, stronger and more deadly than any known to the Roman army - is the lethal symbol of his unstoppable power. And now he has moved beyond mere theft and threatens to destabilise the whole northern frontier of the empire ... -
The Berkut: Joseph Heywood
$30.00Hitler sits mindlessly in the Bunker, staring at the walls. The Nazi dream is over and the Russians are dancing on its grave. Valentine, rogue American operative, is also hot on the trail.... Colonel Brumm parachutes silently through the sulphuric haze into the smouldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops who encircle the skeleton the city has become in the last days of April 1945. He is the man who will smuggle 'Herr Wolf' - the greatest war criminal in history - to safety. Less than twenty four hours later, Vasili Petrov, Stalin's top man - code name Berkut - leads a Russian team called the Special Operations Group into Berlin's city limits, making for the Reich Chancellory. Usually, he takes no prisoners - but he must take Hitler alive - and if he fails, it will mean certain death. Valentine, a larger-than-life rogue American OSS operative, is also hot on the trail when he realises that Herr Wolf is not only alive, but about to escape... We know a lot about Hitler's last days. We can speculate - but we don't know. -
Conclave: Robert Harris
$9.00The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth. -
Ballantyne 0.5. The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to wealth and luxury - until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla-and destroying Chester. Camilla, trapped in New Orleans, powerless as a kept slave and subject to Chester's brutish behaviour, must do whatever it takes to survive. As Mungo battles his own fate and misfortune, he must question what it takes for a man to regain his power in the world when he has nothing, and what he is willing to do to exact revenge... -
Ordeal: Deanie Francis Mills
$15.00Wren Campbell's new life falls apart on a mundane shopping trip - it's a day like any other except that she is brought face to face with the one man she hoped never to see again. Hunter's time in prison has taken the gloss from his youth not from his plan to wage a survivalist war on the rest of society. In the sixteen years since Wren fled a backwoods massacre, with the FBI hard on her trail, she has rebuilt her life, Now the naive young rebel is a high school teacher, a mother of two and the wife of a respected criminal lawyer. For Wren, the past is a distant land - which Hunter wants her to visit again. He spirits Wren and her impressionable teenage son Daniel away to a survivalist fortress hidden in the near-desert landscape of Texas. From there Hunter intends to lead his Armageddon Army in a terrorist war. Wren's choices are simple - obey Hunter's commands or watch him destroy her son. But the first thing she has to do is throw off sixteen years of easy living and find the inner strength to fight. -
Never: Ken Follett
$10.00In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives - and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers - at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while traveling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself and his country battles against the older Communist hawks in the government, who may be pushing China - and its close military ally, North Korea - to a place of no return. And in the United States, Pauline Green, the country's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. But when one act of aggression leads to another, the most powerful countries in the world are caught in a complex web of alliances they can't escape. And once all the sinister pieces are in place, can anyone - even those with the best of intentions and most elite skills - stop the inevitable?
