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Contains selections from Adam Gordon, Henry Kendall, Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, C.J. Dennis, Mary Gilmore, Kenneth Slessor, Rex Ingamells and indigenous poets Bulguru, Wenberi, Yityangu and many others. -
Book II of Clarenceux; the sequel to Sacred Treason. 1564: Catholic herald William Harley is the custodian of a highly dangerous document. When it is stolen he immediately suspects a group of Catholic sympathisers. But Queen Elizabeth's ruthless enforcers are convinced Harley is using the document to start a Catholic revolution in the name of Mary, Queen of Scots. Very soon Harley is on the run, with charismatic outlaw Raw Carew, as England teeters on the edge of bloody conflict. -
Book III of To The Ends Of The Earth. Edmund Talbot is a passenger - amongst others aboard ship - on his way to Australia. He's upper-crust - an administrator in His Majesty's service and he observes the 'lower' classes' - and such goings on amongst that riff-raff! A man who claims to be able to control nature using something he calls science; and a French Revolution sympthiser with a woman who MIGHT NOT be his wife; and boorish crude sailors...Talbot is the ultimate snob. And the decrepit man-of-war is on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney, blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. Nothing but rope holds the disintegrating hulk together. After a risky operation to reset its foremast with red-hot metal, an unseen fire is smouldering below decks. -
Book II of To The Ends Of The Earth. Edmund Talbot has completed the journal which he was keeping for his godfather and now the narrative of the adventurous voyage is much more personal, less constrained and less pompous. The real Edmund emerges - a privileged young man who has led a sheltered. He gradually becomes on more and more familiar terms with the ship's officers and his fellow passengers and has life-changing experiences. There is also an unforgettable young woman dramas, tragedies, humor and dark despair, all of which marks the beginning of Edmund's spiritual and emotional growth. -
Floodtide: Judy Nunn
$10.00A brilliant observation of turbulent times in the mighty 'Iron Ore State' of Western Australia. The fortunes of four men and four families over forty years are traced: the prosperous 50s, idylic and carefree; the turbulent 60s when youth is caught up in the Vietnam War and free love; the avaricious 70s with its rise of aggressive new young entrepreneurs and the corrupt 80s. The characters tell the story - a environmentalist battling to save the Pilbara; a Vietnam Vet who finds he can rise above crippling injuries; and an ambitious geologist and a hard core businessman join forces. -
Book I of Caledonia. Caledonia...whose epic history evokes images of rugged beauty and highland clans steeped in Celtic traditions, a land of proud heroes and heroines, ainted warriors and poet-bards, where chieftains wages war on emperors and kings. The legend...of of a Celtic warrior and Glencoe's mute maiden, tales of love and treachery and the hewing of a stone upon which would be crowned a millennium of kings and Queens. The stone...Stolen from Westminister Abbey. Andrew Trentham, member of Parliament and one of the nation's most eligible men, is as chagrined by the break-in as anyone, and wary of the winds of nationalism sweeping down from the north. It is difficult for him to focus on national affairs however when his personal life is filled with all the trouble he can handle. Rebuffed in his proposal of marriage by the woman that he loves and suffering through the lingering pain of a family tragedy, he feels compelled to reexamine his foundations. What Andrew discovers in the process is a link to ancient Caledonia, a highland heritage that will forever change the way he looks at the world. As the ancient legends begin to shed light on Andrew's place in the world, he makes attempts to rekindle the love he has lost while a resurgent Scotland rises to reclaim the glory of its independent past. The story shifts from present to past, weaving tales of ancient Caldonia with a modern mystery. -
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Rebecca: Daphne du Maurier
$55.00$40.00In Monte Carlo, the heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Shy, orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave. The second Mrs de Winter must contend with the ghost of the first - the beautiful, charming, sophisticated Rebecca, who died mysteriously and tragically. She must also do battle with housekeeper's Mrs Danver's obsessive worship of Rebecca. -
Serpent’s Delight: Ruth Park
$12.00An unusual offering from Ruth Park. When Geraldine, the youngest of the beautiful Pond sisters announces that she has had a vision of the Blessed Virgin, her family is shot from mundane middle-class existence into the glare of publicity and hysteria. The formerly peaceful and close-knit family is suddenly full of mistrust and tensions. First published in 1961, it is just as valid today when images of the Virgin Mary are to be regularly found in toasted sandwiches and fence posts. -
A dashing tale of Prince Charles Edward, the Pretender when he returns to France weary and heartbroken after the failure of '45. He is frustrated at every turn, invoved with love and intrigues and forced to wander through Europe on the hopeless quest for help to begin a new rising in order to regain his throne. This was Boileau's final book; she died before completing it and it was subsequently finished by Baxter Ellis.
