Modern Literature

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  • Round The Bend: Nevil Shute

    $10.00
    Told in the first person by Tom Cutter,  aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur, the story starts with Cutter's boyhood - he gets a job with the Alan Cobham "National Aviation Day" flying circus of barnstorming aircraft which take customers up for short joyrides, with other entertainment provided. Cutter meets Shaklin, a boy a little older than himself, half Chinese and half Russian - British subject with a deep interest in religion. When the air circus folds, the two drift apart. Cutter apprentices in aviation engineering and learns to fly. He marries Beryl, a co-worker and soon afterwards he's posted overseas as a civilian working in military aviation work during World War II. While overseas, he learns his wife has been unfaithful. He is stern, but forgiving, in letters to her, but when she realises that he is soon to return, she commits suicide.  Cutter blames himself and unable to return to his old job or remain in England, he buys and rebuilds a small aircraft and flies it to Bahrain, operating a freight business. In Indonesia he meets Shaklin again, and Shaklin's brand of spirituality begins to make profound changes, not only for Cutter but for a great many people.
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  • The Four Corners: An Anthology Of Poetry: Edited by Andrew Kilpatrick Thomson

    $25.00
    Divided into sections: Adventure, Romance and Song; People And Life; and The World Around Us and featuring such luminaries as Tennyson, Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson; Robert Browning; John O'Brien; Thomas Hardy; Stephen Vincent Benet; Charles Kingsley; William Cowper; Hilaire Belloc; Walter Scott; Judith Wtight; Kath Walker; Mary Gilmore; Colin Thiele; Henry Kendall; Kenneth Slessor; W.H. Auden; Walter de la Mare; John Masefield and many more. Illustrated by Mollie Horseman.
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  • Rilla Of Ingleside: L.M. Montgomery

    $15.00

    Book 6 of Anne of Green Gables.  Anne's children were almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and leaves her changed forever.

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  • Right Royal Friend: Nigel Tranter

    $20.00
    When James VI, His Grace of Scotland also becomes His Majesty of England, far-reaching changes take place in the two realms. David Murray, the young son of Sir Andrew, a Perthshire laird, has no aspirations to greatness. Then a chance meeting with King James VI leads him to becoming Cup Bearer and Master of the Horse to his young liege.Together with James' foster brother John Erskine, Master of Mar, the three enter a new era of political intrigue and dynastic manoeuvring. When David meets and falls in love with Elizabeth Beaton he hopes he can distance himself from court events and lead a quiet  family life in his beloved Perthshire hills. But the demands of a right royal friend lead him straight back into the thick of one of the most notable periods of Scots and English history.
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  • Jo’s Boys: Louisa May Alcott

    $7.00
    The evergreen classic tale of the March sisters begins ten years after Little Men. Plumfield is still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Although her 'little men' are now adults, they are still her 'boys'. Restless Dan looks towards new frontiers, but his good heart and effort to protect a naive man lands him in jail; Emil has gone to sea and will experience shipwreck and sorrow before he sees Plumfield again and Nat, the musician, is ready to go abroad and study music - and he gets some other lessons in life as well. Meg's youngest daughter Josie is stage-struck and Amy worries that her only daughter Beth will make an unwise marriage.   Apart from worrying about her 'boys', Jo  inadvertently gets into another scrape when her privacy is invaded after one of her books becomes a best-seller.
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  • Outrider 90 – a Year of Australian Literature: Edited by Manfred Jurgensen

    $30.00
    A diverse selection of Australian prose, poetry, articles, plays and review articles. Contributors include : Anthony Macris; Chris Mansell; Desmond O'Grady; Jennifer Compton; John Vasilakakos; Diane Fahey; Leith Morton; Connie Barber and many more.
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  • Ivanhoe: Sir Walter Scott

    $12.00
    Enter a medieval world of gallant knights, castles, beautiful noble ladies, tournaments, outlaws and evil men. Ivanhoe, a noble and courageous knight, returns to England after bravely serving in the Crusades and becomes entangled in a series of adventures. With the help of Robin Hood and the mysterious Black Knight, Ivanhoe tries to rescue his love, the beautiful Lady Rowena, from her Norman captors. Later, he fights the evil Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert to save the life of a friend. Will Ivanhoe be victorious over his enemies?
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  • The Saint Meets His Match: Leslie Charteris

    $5.00
    In which Simon Templar joins Scotland Yard's Special Branch to the surprise and consternation of Chief Inspector Teal, and confronts beautiful Jill Trelawny, leader of the London underworld.Templar discovers the reasons for Jill Trelawny's criminal activities; and then the hunt is on for two men who have played a large and sinister role in the lives of Jill and her father.
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  • The Red Dirt Road: Alissa Callen

    $20.00
      Woodlea Book 2. After losing a patient, Dr Fliss Knight returns to small town Woodlea and buys a rundown farm, her confidence and city career in tatters. She intends to live a solitary life and hopes that the slow country pace will help her heal. Pickup rider Hewitt Sinclair is no stranger to how hairy things can get in a rodeo arena. But when he can’t save the life of his twin brother, he hangs up his spurs. Determined to provide for his brother’s widow and young family, he gives himself no time to grieve. But when a motorbike accident proves he needs to also look out for himself, he accepts an old friend’s invitation to stay at an isolated property while his body heals. When Fliss meets the cowboy living in the bluestone stables across the garden, all her hopes for a quiet and peaceful life fade. Despite his reserve, Hewitt is impossible to ignore. As they work together to care for an abandoned dog and her puppies they find themselves drawn to each other. But as a family secret threatens every truth Fliss has ever known, and the heavy spring rain continues to fall, both Fliss and Hewitt must each face their deepest fears.
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