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Book V of the Casteel Family saga. On their return to Farthinggale Manor, the mystery-shrouded luxury home of the Tatternon family, Annie and Luke believe they will be putting the past to rest at last, and bringing peace to the spirit of Annie's mother, Heaven. But Annie finds a diary at Farthinggale - 'Leigh's Book': the story of her grandmother Leigh and of her great-grandparents. Born into the privileged life of Boston's wealthy, Leigh hoped for happiness but her dreams were shattered when, at the age of twelve, her beloved parents divorced and her mother Jillian married Tony Tatterton. It was then that the awful shadow cast by the Tatterton family had begun to spread over three generations... -
Book V of the Casteel Family saga. On their return to Farthinggale Manor, the mystery-shrouded luxury home of the Tatternon family, Annie and Luke believe they will be putting the past to rest at last, and bringing peace to the spirit of Annie's mother, Heaven. But Annie finds a diary at Farthinggale - 'Leigh's Book': the story of her grandmother Leigh and of her great-grandparents. Born into the privileged life of Boston's wealthy, Leigh hoped for happiness but her dreams were shattered when, at the age of twelve, her beloved parents divorced and her mother Jillian married Tony Tatterton. It was then that the awful shadow cast by the Tatterton family had begun to spread over three generations... -
An unusual and eerily prophetic story from the author of On The Beach and in a similar vein. Written and published before World War II, Shute, an airman, had a very good idea of the coming war and how it would fall on a town like Southampton. A devastating aerial bomb hits the city, destroying the infrastructure and leaving the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera, hunger and further assaults. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they try to get to safety on their small leisure boat. One of Shute's scarcer novels. -
What Happened To The Corbetts: A surprise aerial bombing of twenty cities, the first of many attacks, occurs in England. Young solicitor Peter Corbett, wife Joan, and their small three children leave Southampton after their home and Corbett's offices are damaged, friends are killed and a cholera epidemic breaks out after disruptions to the water and power supplies. They move aboard their small yacht, kept on the river Hamble, but as disease spreads and supplies diminish they set sail, hoping to find safety... Pastoral: World War II pilot Peter Marshall leads the most successful bombing crew at his airbase, having survived an unusual number of extremely dangerous missions over Germany. However, when Peter falls hopelessly in love with an attractive WAAF officer - one who insists that wartime duties should take precedence over emotions - his concentration begins to suffer. Soon it looks as though his perfect run of successful missions may be at risk - along with the lives of Peter and his men - unless she can be persuaded to relent. Illustrated by Rosemary Neale. -
Ex-SAS Jeff Hawkins is summoned to war-torn Bosnia to replace a negotiator in the Royal Wessex - and he soon finds he's been pitched into a task far more difficult and dangerous than he imagined. His role is to keep the UN aid convoys running at all costs. But his Company commander isn't up to the job and his oppo in Liaison is running his own Agenda with the Secret Service. The uneasy Muslim/Croat alliance is breaking down with the arrival of Afghani freedom fighters - then there the mercenaries for hire and the CIA stirring the pot for its own ends. The winter snow brings a welcome lull from the mayhem - but there's a bigger problem. One huge aid convoy must run the gauntlet of fighting along the icy mountain roads to break the siege of Sarajevo before Christmas. One hundred trucks are on a journey to hell and back...
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Damian Sharp's rich, hypnotic stories explore the harsh, but often beautiful and mystifying, effects of the Australian bush on those who live there. With a gift for evoking this rough scrub country, Sharp transports the reader into the land of relentless sun, red sand deserts, and rushing muddy rivers of his own youth. His characters inhabit this rugged landscape graced by kangaroos, screeching cockatoos, ants that derail trains, and great goannas. Admirably bold, and blindly determined, these men and women confront themselves as they struggle to deal with issues of race, desire, family, and destiny. Larger than life, yet dwarfed by their dramatic surroundings, they are people whose passionate lives are punctuated by reckless acts of violence and of love. Ena, angrily inhabiting the faded rooms of an abandoned farmhouse, is visited by the persistent ghosts of her many departed lovers. A young boy befriends his father's hired band and learns the violent secret of the aborigine's rite of passage. Two quarrelsome traveling companions wrestle with love and infidelity while crossing the Simpson Desert. An American woman, sent in to investigate a suspected Nazi, has a mystifying encounter in the bush. A father and son test the limits of a strained relationship shadowed by an unspoken past. In a dusty shantytown an old woman lies dying, and Alan Bedford, witness for his father, finally learns the tale of the legendary Big Flo and the Flying Kangaroo. -
Book I. The good times never seemed further away than they did in the 1920s: life was a dreary treadmill of smoke, grit and hard labour. But Jack Ford knew his boat would come in. He had survived the Great War only to find the fight for survival was as fierce int he northern shipyards as it had been in the trenches. Jack didn't talk - he acted, even when it meant hurting people. Like the girl who loved him or his best friend, whose sister Jack took to bed. -
Book III of The Eagles Of The Empire. In the bitter winter of A.D. 44, the Roman troops in Britain are impatiently awaiting the arrival of spring so that the campaign to conquer the island can be renewed. But the native Britons are growing more cunning in their resistance, constantly snapping at the heels of the mighty Roman forces. When the most brutal of the native tribesmen, the Druids of the Dark Moon, capture the shipwrecked wife and children of General Plautius, quick action is called for. Two volunteers from the crack Second Legion must venture deep into hostile territory in a desperate attempt to rescue the prisoners. Centurion Macro and his optio, Cato, find themselves slipping out of camp in the dead of night to reach the General's family before they are sacrificed to the Druids' dark gods. They know they are heading towards an almost certain death, and their only hope is that, with sheer courage and ingenuity, they can outwit the most ruthless foes they've ever faced. -
This volume completes the trilogy of the Larkin family begun in The Darling Buds of May and continued in A Breath of French Air. Set in the rich and fertile heart of the Kentish countryside and the time is the long, unforgettable summer of 1959. -
One winter night seven men and one girl are parachuted onto a mountainside in war-time Germany. The objective - an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo, to which a crashed VIP American general has been taken for interrogation...Or is this audacious rescue the sole reason for the expedition. A literal cliff hanger from MacLean.
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Jon Jamieson struggles to survive in suburban Sydney, with something of herself intact after twenty-seven years of marriage to a drunken, brutish philanderer. She looks back to a loveless childhood at the mercy of her ambitious mother and into the marriage market where a 'suitable' match is arranged. Two fine children bring her joy, a brief love affair a trace of happiness; her painting gives her satisfaction - but each day she faces more clearly her inability to take control of her future. Resilient and determined, she so often nearly breaks away to remake her life - even urged by her daughter Ruth - but the awesome weight of obligation, the seductive alternative of compromise and a kind of love hold her back - until it is too late... -
This highland tale focuses on Alistair, a young American laird, and his cousin Don. When they fight over Norray, an actress who has bewitched both young gentlemen, Alistair is left battered. Aleac, an occasional poacher, finds the laird and brings him home to be nursed back to health. There, he meets Aleac's niece Margaret...and the action really begins. -
An awesome collection of 87 of Lawson's best known stories, that will take the reader from the Sydney slums to the shearing sheds of northern New South Wales - stories peopled with drovers, buckjumpers, seamen, diggers, drunks and lovers. Some of the stories herein: An Old Mate of Your Father's; Arvie Aspinall's Alarm Clock; Mitchell Doesn't Believe In The Sack; The Drover's Wife; Two Dogs and a Fence; Baldy Thompson; Andy Page's Rival; Bill, The Ventriloquial Rooster; Mr. Smellingscheck; The Shanty-keepr's Wife; Two Boys At Grinder Bros; Mitchell on 'Sex' And Other 'Problems' and so much more.
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Whirlwind: James Clavell
$9.00Book VI of the Asian Saga. Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once secular, is now thrown back into an orthodoxy that threatens to tear it apart. The United States and Russia go on high alert, with warships heading to the Middle East. The region becomes a powder keg, waiting to explode. Caught up in the revolution are a British helicopter company and its pilots. The oil fields of Iran need helicopters to ferry workers and administrators, and when the main US aviation company pulls out of Iran fearing what might come next, S-G Helicopters steps in to fill the void. Soon they realize that they, too, must leave or risk losing all their machines to whomever takes control of the country. The company risks bankruptcy if that happens—which would ruin Andrew Gallavan and reveal that the company is actually owned by a secret Hong Kong-based consortium: Noble House, controlled by the Struan family. Caught in between is his son, Scot, a pilot in Iran who must help save his father’s company, but also the other pilots and their families. In a risky move, the pilots concoct a plan to get their choppers out of Iran. But will they be able to escape a country crumbling around them before it’s too late? -
Here are barmaids and black musicians; single mothers and burnt-out businessmen; all struggling a little too close to the edge in lives where a lot is at risk. These nine stories draw on the author's own experience as an army wife living in a trailer in Georgia and as an often unemployed single mother back in her Michigan hometown. A daring new writer who slices into ordinary American lives. -
A confrontation between a radical environmental group and a Danish cruiser has forced Kurt Austin - leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala - to come to the rescue of a ship full of trapped men. But when the two of them investigate further, they find something more sinister is at work. A shadowy multinational company is attempting to get control of the seas, no matter what havoc results, and killing anyone who tries to stop them. When Austin's boat blows up and he barely survives, it seems certain he's next in line to die - but he can't stop now...the environmental disaster has already begun and only he and NUMA stand in the way. -
White Fang: Jack London
$6.00He was three-quarters wolf and all fury. Born in a cave, in famine, int he frozen Arctic, in a world where the weak died without mercy and only the swift, the strong and cunning survived. This was White Fang's world until he and his mother were captured by the man-gods: Men who taught White Fang to hate. He was beaten, abused and attacked. He was bought and sold, tortured, trained to kill in blood sports. He did not know kindness and became a mad, lethal creature of pure rage. Only one man saw White Fang's intelligence and nobility and he had the courage to offer the killer a new life. But can a wolf understand the words 'hope' and 'love'? -
White Topee: Eve Langley
$30.00Set in idyllic Gippsland, Victoria, a girl called Steve is the heroine - a complicated, almost incredible, but delightful character. Steve will cheerfully pick peas or sort beans or work on a tea plantation, revelling in the hard manual labor because she can see beauty in its performance. She's a hard-working Australian country girl, habitually dressed in men's clothes and a white topee who sees life through the eyes of a poet. There's lively characters, music-loving Italians, casual Australians, university graduates and laborers - who all love Australia. Regarded as a sequel to The Pea-Pickers.
