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Cassidy: Morris West
$10.00Charles Parnell Cassidy is an Australian politician cast in the traditional Irish-Catholic mold of rhetoric, dynasty, and influence-peddling. Martin Gregory is the moral and disenchanted protegè who married Cassidy's daughter, went to Europe, became a success on his own merits, and scorned his father-in-law. When the terminally ill Cassidy appears in London to die, he makes Gregory the executor of his legal estate and sets a complex trap by offering him the keys to a vast empire of wealth and corruption spanning Australia and Southeast Asia. With Cassidy's evil influence ever present, Gregory tries to unravel the complications of the old man's estate, obligations, and debts, while struggling with his own ambition and the security of his family. -
Poems designed to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader can gratefully sink, knowing they are in the presence of a master whose polymathic learning and technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever. There is a breath-taking range of themes, from a Hollywood Iliad to moving elegies; a meditation on the later Yeats and odes to rare orchids, wartime typewriters and sharks - and a poem on the fate of Queen Nefertiti in Nazi Germany. -
Chinatown Family: Lin Yutang
$20.00Chinatown Family is told with humor and wisdom, addressing the issues of culture, race, and religion - the story of an immigrant, working-class Chinese-American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. It traces their sometimes troubled - and sometimes rewarding - journey and all the wonder and the woe of settling into a new land. In an era when interracial marriages were frowned upon and it was forbidden for working-class Chinese men to bring their families to America, this story shows how one family were determined to become new Americans, by applying their Taoist philosophy to resist the discriminatory laws and racism they encountered peacefully. Is it possible to attain the American dream of material wealth and modest success as well as honouring the primary ties of family? For each family member, the answer to this question is different. Through the varied paths that each character takes, the novel dramatises the ways that Chinese immigrants have negotiated between the competing interests of economic opportunity and traditional values. -
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough has been the subject of biographies,yet little is known about her cousin, Abigail Hill - named 'that enchantress' by Queen Anne - the girl who the Duchess boasted she had 'raised from the dust' and who outrivalled her for the Queen's favour. She began as a lady's-maid and rose to become the power behind the throne and her influence secured not only the downfall of the man she loved but also of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. The detail of the settings - the graceful formal life of Anne's Court, the bawdy boisterous life of the streets, the petty intrigues, savage feuds and corruptions of the Whigs and Tories - form an almost fantastic background for the story of the girl who decided the history of Europe. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-favourite-olivia-colman-emma-stone-rachel-weisz/ -
Mr Britling Sees It Through: The garrulous, easy-going Mr. Britling lives with family and friends in the fictional village of Matching's Easy, located in the county of Essex, northeast of London. Mrs Britling runs the household efficiently, but does not engage her husband's affections; he is involved in his eighth love affair. But this story, set as this is on the eve of the Great War, will indeed test Mr. Britling's casual ways. In The Days Of The Comet: William Leadford, third in the office staff of Rawdon's pot-bank (a place where pottery is made) in Clayton, quits his job just as an economic recession caused by American dumping hits industrial Britain, and is unable to find another position. He returns to being a student and his emotional life is dominated by his attachment to Nettie Stuart, the daughter of the head gardener of the rich Mr. Verrall's widow, of a village called Checkshill Towers. Converted to socialism by his friend Parload, Leadford blames class-based injustice for the squalid living conditions in which he and his mother live. When Nettie jilts Leadford for the son and heir of the Verrall family, Leadford buys a revolver, intending to kill them both and himself. A comet suddenly looms in the sky, eventually becoming brighter than the Moon. Just as Leadford is about to kill his rivals, the green comet enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates, causing a soporific green fog. What will the effect be on Society? -
A de Richleau adventure No VII. July, 1936: Spain writhed in the torment of Civil War. In a Madrid bank lay ten tons of gold: and both sides wanted it. Its owner was the lovely Countess Lucretia Coralles - known to the rebels as 'the golden Spaniard' - who led the double life of a secret agent. She had other secrets too – and one of them was the reason why the Duke de Richleau responded so quickly to her appeal for help, throwing himself into the desperate struggle in which his own closest companions of earlier adventures were now his most dangerous foes...Illustrated by Peter Whiteman. -
London, 1914. Two young women dream of breaking free from tradition and obligation. Suffragettes are on the march and war looms, but at 35 Park Lane, Lady Masters, head of a dying industrial dynasty insists that life is about service and duty. Below stairs, eighteen year-old Grace Campbell is struggling. Her family believe she is a secretary, but she took the only job she could find - third housemaid in the Park Lane mansion. Asked to send home more money than she earns, Grace is soon entangled in an ever-thickening web of lies. Upstairs, a jilted and humiliated Beatrice Masters is determined not to return to the New York of her childhood before she has salvaged her pride. She secretly joins Emmeline Pankhurst's militant suffragettes and is steadily drawn into the violence rocking the city - and in the path of a man her mother wouldn't allow through the front door. Neither girl really grasps that the coming war will change the boundaries of both their worlds for ever. -
Coonardoo is a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo and Hugh is rigorously suppressed for Coonardo's sake and so it destroys not only Coonardoo but also a once-peaceful community. First published in 1929 and considered shocking and daring at that time, this novel also intimately and vividly describes the scorching Australian far north-west, its wildflowers and flocks of cockatoos as well as the life of a cattleman and the life of the indigenous people. -
Book IV: Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler. British Intelligence's Dr. Audley slips away to Italy without authorisation and without informing anyone. And takes his wife with him. Immediately, there's a ghastly suspicion - not uncommon in espionage circles - that he may be defecting. But Audley has his own reasons in an investigation which becomes for him a matter of life or death.
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