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This volume forms part of the Peverill family history ( The Peverills, Folly's End) but can be read as a stand-alone. Antonia, daughter of Chritina Lady Tyson, is as headstrong and impulsive as her mother ever was, and proves it by eloping to Gretna Green with her young lover, and thence with him to the West Indies, where his father, also a Peverill 'on the wrong side of the blanket', has amassed a considerable fortune in sugar and slavery. Her daughter Pauline, equally impulsive, betroths herself to a undesirable fortune hunter, embraces philanthropy and in an amusing scene with her lawyers, quixotically disposes of her immense fortune. The themes of the story are the agricultural revolution of the early 19th century, political change, the abolition of slavery and dramatic rebellion of the slaves. -
The sequel to Abbie. The further outrageous, funny and entirely credible adventures of Lady Abbott-Acland (and her best friend Maud) - the prototype of all impossible female relations. Abbie can cause a peculiar gut-guilt reaction; since most of us have done - or wish we'd done - some of the appallingly brazen things that she gets away with! And she is still observed with clear-sighted affection by her long-suffering nephew, and revealed through her copious letters from unlikely addresses and erroneous headings. -
A collection of authentic myths and legend, including the Creation Myths, the Legends of Sun, Moon and Stars and the Legends of Animals. -
It is the summer of 1939. A young Oxford don, Richard Myles and his wife Frances are about to leave for their usual long vacation on the continent. At the request of a Foreign Office friend of Richard's they agree to serve as messengers to a man who has been involved in rescue work and anti-Nazi espionage, a man who now seems to have gone missing. Their qualifications? Next to nothing except for Richard's superb memory and the fact that they look so very innocent. Across a continent on the brink of war from Paris to Innsbruck and beyond, Richard and Francis travel ever deeper into danger. Made into a film in 1943 starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. -
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. -
He's baa-aack - aged 30 and a 1/4. Now in his thirties, he's still worrying. Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as a celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair's Britain?
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They decided to call the fishing boat Aphrodite. But when Mac and Tunny took possession, they found Joe had got it wrong and there it was across the stern for-bloody-ever: Afro Dite. Tunny was furious. He should've written it down for Joe. This story, set on the northern coast of New South Wales, is the story of two boats: one a bark canoe built by an Aborigine before white settlement, the other a fishing boat restored in 1956. Both represent the fulfillment of their owners' dreams and both boats are doomed. The interwoven narratives in this tale are linked by Aboriginal boy Lance, a descendant of the canoe builder and who works as a hand on the Afro Dite. Cover art: Ngalyod and the Great Wave by Darian Causby. -
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. -
Bradly Mudgett is fed up with beer-swilling, gossip-ridden small town life.o he packs up his paintbrushes and his dog and heads for the beach. Pacing the shores, dreaming of the perfect seascape, Bradly thinks he's found the peace his heart desires. But into the picture steps Cora - a girl who can reach the parts every middle-aged man would like refreshed. Nor had he reckoned on Cora's grandmother, eccentric and unpredictable and well aware that Cora is under the age of consent! Cover art: Solly by Norman Lindsay. Interior illustrations by Norman Lindsay.
