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A volume of 11 Biggles adventures: The Case of the Lost Coins: The British authorities sanction Biggles to fly to Albania and retrieve a valuable collection of coins which the owner has presented to the British Museum. The Case of the Old Masters: Biggles is asked to investigate the theft of some valuable paintings from a gallery. Since there would be no point exhibiting or selling these paintings in Britain or anywhere else where they would be widely known, Scotland Yard suspects that they must be taken abroad - and the most practical way would be to do it by air. Mystery on the Moor: While out on a routine patrol, Ginger spots another Auster landing near a farmhouse in Dartmoor. When he turns back for a second look, the aircraft had been hidden away. Biggles decides this needs to be investigated at ground level. The Two Bright Boys: Biggles is asked to investigate reports of a strange small aircraft which had been causing a flight hazard in Hertfordshire. Horace Takes a Hand: Fifteen year old Horace Wilberton brings Biggles a report about an Auster and its pilot behaving suspiciously in Dartmoor. Biggles Learns Something: As Biggles observes, in almost every case of illegal flying, the criminal made a point of choosing an isolated location. "Be funny, wouldn't it," he says to Ginger, "if a crook was smart enough to realise that and go to the other extreme by landing in the middle of a crowd of ten thousand people." Dangerous Freight: Biggles investigates a string of air crashes - and all of aircraft carrying shipments of gold. A Routine Job: Investigating how large shipments of marijuana cigarettes are getting into the country, Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie find that it is very much a matter of routine police checks and patience. Dawn Patrol: While out on a dawn patrol, Ginger spots an aircraft which quickly dodges into cloud cover. Things begin to look even more suspicious when it turns out the aircraft was using false registration markings. The Trick That Failed: Ginger spots yet another aircraft behaving suspiciously while out on patrol. This time it is a French aircraft dodging among the clouds before putting down somewhere in the New Forest. The Case of the Early Boy: Gaskin shows Biggles a diamond necklace which was found in a tree in the Ashdown forest. Twenty-four hours before, it was seen adorning a princess in Monte Carlo. How did the necklace travel so far so quickly and what was it doing in a tree? -
Book VII of the Doctor series. Dr Grimsdyke’s genius for disaster is given full rein. He falls in love with a model, only to find she is already married. His much-anticipated cruise is an unmitigated disaster and his role as Sir Lancelot’s biographer leads them both into misadventure in the extreme. And then there is the hypochondriac Bishop of Wincanton, the murder specialist Dr Mcfiggie, not to mention a very alarming girl from Paris. With such potential pitfalls, it is not surprising that Grimsdyke and Sir Lancelot avoid imprisonment by only the narrowest of margins. -
Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history. Here is his redemption - Richard III was vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes, in the Tower - from his maligned place in history. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. This magnificent retelling of his life is filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Shining Harvest: E.V. Timms
$15.00Book IX of The Great South Land series. Anne Barkly is a blonde, gray-eyed model of classic English poise. Margot Dareste is a dark, tempestuous, French beauty. Both are passionate contenders for the love of one man - the dashing ex-cavalry man, Peter Whitney. But Peter has his own battle to fight - against the murderous encroachments of his strange, vengeful half-brother, John. Are Anne and Margot locked in futile combat over an already doomed man? -
King Rat: James Clavell
$5.00The time: World War II. The place: Singapore, the last British bastion in Asia, has fallen. The East Indies are lost, together with Allied Armies stationed there. Almost 150,000 young men were captured and only one in fifteen would survive the three and a half years to VJ Day. Changi, the most notorious POW camp in Asian is deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are drive, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path. It is a story of courage - but the reader must decide who are the courageous ones. Note: James Clavell lived through those years as a young soldier -
The Brethren: John Grisham
$12.00Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a 'camp,' home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers. And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money is pouring in. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends... and the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over. -
London: Edward Rutherfurd
$30.00From the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers who created the Tower Bridge, through compelling lives and adventures: Julius, the small time Roman coin forger, risking his life to find buried treasure; Dame Barnikel who runs the tavern where Chaucer carouses; Edmund Meredith and the actors of the Globe Theatre and little Lucy, who lives by the Thames in Dickens' day. A history of London, 'told' by those who were there. -
Book II of the Dublin Saga. In the days of England's colonising plantations, the ranting Puritan preacher Doctor Pincher and his land-hungry nephew Barnaby Budge oppose the passionate piety of the Walshes. Against the background of the Irish Confederation, the coming of Cromwell, the massacre of Drogheda, and the Battle of the Boyne, the middle-aged adultery of Margaret Smith with the Irish chieftain Brian O'Byrne leads to many consequences. During the English Ascendancy, through the elegant world of Georgian Dublin, the literary times of Swift and Sheridan, and the political drama of Grattan's famous Parliament, rich Walshes, poor hedge schoolmasters, and Dublin shopkeepers try to protect their position and their faith - until all compromise breaks down with the rebellion of Wolfe Tone in 1798 - the Year of the French - and the tragedy of Emmet's Rising. The story follows Tidy the Quaker, Smith the Catholic, Dudley Doyle the economist, and many others through the rise and fall of O'Connell and of Parnell, and during the day-by-day misery of the Famine, where a poor girl tries to save her family in the exciting, yet dangerous, world of the Celtic revival of WB Yeats, the growth of Sinn Fein in the streets of James Joyce's Dublin, and the remarkable story of the Women of the Easter Rising. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dublin-edward-rutherfurd/ -
London, 1938. Young Jim Brown, a porter at London's Victoria Station, comes into a large sum of money and takes his aspirational girlfriend Lizzie Parrish on the foreign trip he's always promised her. During their eventful journey they find themselves caught up in high society, a daring mercy mission, and a Europe darkening under the cloud of Nazism. "Money turns people's heads...With the result they see things they never saw before.” Set in Vienna and Budapest during the advent of the Nazi invasion, this is a moving, thought-provoking yet often amusing story of a naive young couple whose lives are changed forever by the turmoil of a continent at war with itself. Featuring characters from the bestseller Victoria Four-thirty, this book can also be read and enjoyed as a stand-alone novel.
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