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Twenty-one year old Harriet shares her room at home with Grandma... and the dreaded chamber pot - what a life! She flies the respectable suburban nest to take a room in Mrs Delvecchio Schwarz's Bohemian boarding house. Mrs Schwarz tells fortunes, and she opens Harriet's eyes to a world of excitement, passion, adventure and men. But Harriet finds that following your heart is not easy and the future isn't as obvious as Mrs Schwarz's crystal ball would suggest. And there is Flo - Mrs Schwarz's beautiful, mute four year old daughter. Harriet loses her heart to little Flo and when tragedy strikes, she fights to ensure Flo's survival - and solves the mystery of a missing family member. Told in the form of a diary and set in Sydney's colourful King's Cross of the 1960s, this is an uputdownable read. -
The tale of Helen and Paris, the immortal lovers who doomed two great nations to war. It is told through the eyes of the main characters: the sensuous and self-indulgent Helen; the subtle, brilliant Odysseus; the sad, elderly King Priam; the tormented warrior-prince Achilles and King Agamemnon, who consents to the unspeakable in order to launch his thousand ships. -
1965, Holloman, Connecticut, and someone is preying on the innocent. At a prestigious research centre for neurosciences comfortably called 'The Hug', parts of a body are discovered. Lt. Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman Police learns that a string of horrifying disappearances, each fitting the same modus operandi as the body at The Hug, has been occurring throughout the state. Then another body is found, again linked to The Hug. As Delmonico delves deeper, it seems everyone at The Hug has something to hide but he is determined to solve this case - even though the killer is a monster who leaves no clues and is always two steps ahead. A page turner that will keep you in until the very last page. -
1968: America is in turmoil and the leafy Hoplloman suburb of Carew is being terrorised by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When one victim finally finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the rapist escalates to murder. For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to be a case with no clues. And it comes as the Holloman Police Department is troubled: a lieutenant is out of his depth, a sergeant is out of control and into this mix comes the beautiful, ruthlessly ambitious new trainee, Helen MacIntosh, daughter of the influential president of Chubb University. s the killer plots, Carmine and his team must use every resource available - including a highly motivated neighbourhood watch - the Gentlemen Walkers...
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It was one of the greatest human experiments undertaken - to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English Society. Amid horrendous conditions of brutality, the First Fleet was sent to a place that no European - except Captain Cook - had ever seen and there they were left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent. Richard Morgan - convicted felon and educated, intelligent, resourceful man - finds the will to survive, experience the joy of love and finally make an indelible mark on the new frontier. Meticulously researched and epic. -
Book II of the acclaimed Rome series. Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from the commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival - first against the neighbouring Italian states, then against a barbaric Asian conquerer. -
Set in the latter half of the nineteenth century on the New South Wales goldfields. Alexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland as a shiftless apprentice and a Godless rebel. But when he writes to summon his bride, his relatives realise he's made a fortune on the goldfields. His sixteen year old bride is frightened and repelled by him, yet she marries him and is isolated in wild country in a big house with only Chinese servants for company. And she has no idea her husband still has a mistress. Kinross sees no reason not to have both women - he's rich, powerful and has the Midas Touch. But power costs more than even Kinross can pay.
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Told in the form of a diary, this is the story of young Harriet's bid for freedom in the Sydney of the 1960's. She wants to have her own space, live life, learn about men and love - not get married just because everyone expects her to! And who is Mrs Delvecchio Schwarz, who runs the King's Cross boarding house where Harriet takes a room? What is her connection with Harriet? And how does Mrs Delveccvhio Schwarz's silent little girl Flo - 'Angel Puss' - accurately predict the future through crayon drawings?
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Caesar: Colleen McCullough
$8.00–$20.00Book V of the Rome series. The leaders of Rome grow ever more frightened and yet more obdurate: Caesar, brilliant and ruthless, must be crushed and sent into exile before he can overthrow the government and set himself up as a dictator. In Gaul, Caesar is engaged in conquest of the fierce and brave Gauls The battles are titanic and evenly matched - yet no Gallic prince has the ambition of Caesar. When Cato and the Senate refuse to give Caesar his due, he crosses the river Rubicon and marches on his country, his army prepared to die for him at his back. But between Caesar and victory stands the ageing Pompey the Great, who must marshal the forces of the Republic and pit himself against the one man he knows cannot be beaten on a field of war. This is the first recorded instance of a modern common fiasco - how impossible it is for generals to wage war while constrained by militarily inept politicians. In the midst of it all, life goes on: Caesar, his women and the personal tragedies which make his life lonelier, yet the Rubicon easier to cross; Pompey and his last two wives, a bitter contrast; Brutus and his cousin Porcia, learning to love; Gaius Cassius, fresh from saving Syria from the Parthians; and the great advocate Cicero, recording history in letters to his friends.
