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When beautiful, reckless Southern Belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is 17 and he is a young army lieutenant., Before long she has fallen in love with him although he is not wealthy, prominent or even a Southerner. And she keeps absurdly insisting his writing will bring him fame and fortune. When he sells his first novel, she optimistically boards a train to New York to marry him and take the rest as it comes. What comes - at the dawn of the Jazz Age - is unimagined success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. New York, Paris, Hollywood and the Riviera are their playgrounds, where they join the the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed, Last Generation that includes Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy and Gertrude Stein. Everything seems new and possible - but not even Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous - and sometimes infamous - husband? This is Zelda's story - as she herself might have told it. -
Zenith: Dirk Strasser
$15.00Books Of Ascension 1. Each summer, twin brothers in their eighteenth year are chosen to make a perilous journey to the Summit of the Great Mountain. There, if they have survived their dangerous and difficult Paths, they will be witness to the Zenith - and the secrets of the Mountain and the powers they hold will be revealed to them. Atreu and his brother Teyth are among those chosen to ascend. But as Atreu follows his torturous Path, he discovers that other, unknown forces also crave the awesome power of Zenith and will stop at nothing to make it their own - even if it means destroying the very thing that sustains all life - the Mountain itself. Cover art by Mike Worrall. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/equinox-dirk-strasser/ -
It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren’t able to find and destroy them, and soon, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism. Now, that can't be good...Cover art by Larry Rostant. -
Zero: Eric Van Lustbader
$12.00Although American painter Michael Doss has been schooled in the ancient ways of the warrior, he leads a quiet life. Until the tragic death of his father ignites the warrior spirit in his blood that will not be quenched until he uncovers the secret of his father's enigmatic life. His journey plunges him into a dangerous underworld, where he finds himself in lethal combat with a sinister Japanese organization that is bent on destroying the United States through global economic chaos. Doss is trapped. His only chance for survival is a final confrontation, face to face, with the vile assassin behind it all - Zero. -
Zeta Major: Simon Messingham
$20.00Past Doctor Adventures XIII. In his fourth incarnation, the Doctor landed on the planet Zeta Minor, a world located on the edge of the known universe, the bridge-point for the opposite universes of matter and anti-matter. Now in his fifth life, the Doctor meets the same race the landed there before, and once again they are eager to harness its secrets - with terrifyingly dangerous results. Caught up in a situation akin to a Jacobean revenge tragedy, the Doctor must fight his way through layers of court intrigue before he can try to stop the people really in control from allowing the forces of Anti-matter free reign to destroy every life-form in the universe. -
Ziegfeld: Charles Higham
$20.00Florenz Ziegfeld was without question the most flamboyant showman the American theatre has produced. His glorification of the American girl in glittering glamorous settings packed theatres for years and made him a legend in his own time. Higham's exploration of the life and loves of Florenz Ziegfeld show the man backstage - the demonic, driving, ruthless but utterly charming genius who private life was as agonising as his public life was dazzling. The son of the founder of the Chicago Musical College, Ziegfeld broke with family tradition early and launched his career as an extraordinary showman in 1893. Sent to Europe by his father to book classical music ensembles, he instead imported vaudeville acts, the most notable being Eugene Sandow, the famous strong-man, whose nationwide tour launched Ziegfeld's career, which reached its pinnacle with the lavish revue the Ziegfeld Follies, which enthralled audiences for over two decades. His extraordinary 'fake marriage' to Anna Held, his tempestuous romance with ravishing showgirl Lillian Lorraine, his marriage to Billie Burke and affair with Marilyn Miller are all highlighted, as his is move to musical comedy, producing memorable Broadway shows such as Kid Boots, Show Boat and Whoopee. Based on interviews with almost every living person who knew or worked with Ziegfeld: his daughter; his private secretary Goldie; and the stars who passed ascross the stage of Ziegfeld's life. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Zip Annual: Odhams Press
$15.00In 1957 Odhams Press lost the rights to use any and all Disney characters, meaning that their incredibly popular and long-running title Mickey Mouse Weekly was forced to close. Not every character in the comic was owned by Disney though, and Odhams used everything they still owned in a new weekly called Zip. There were two Zip annuals produced. The first came out in 1958 and is known as the 1959 annual, followed by a second one dated 1959 but known as the 1960 annual. These are the only two Zip annuals; for unknown reasons Odhams decided not to continue the series. This is a very high quality children's annual: Stories include: Nigel Tawny, Explorer - The Adventure Of The Lazy Lobster; Skippy: The Capture; Brett Brand - The Golliwog Mystery; Kid Brother; Touchdown - Operation Bowman; Nigel Tawny - The Windmill; The Kellaway Touch; Brett Brand - Monkey Business; Skippy and the Road Hog; Killer Cuda; Touchdown - The Big Illusion; Nigel Tawny - Obi; The Story of Samuel Plimsoll. There are also comic strips, games, puzzles and things to make. Fabulous artwork - see gallery pictures for examples. Verso front and back boards and endpapers are two different 'board' games. Some cartoons in full colour, others in monochrome. -
In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion - a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others. 'The Death' soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world. Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts - this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination. Cover art by Joe Roberts. Contributors: Peter Atkins; Peter Crowther; Paul Finch; Tim Lebbon; Paul McAuley; Kim Newman; John Llewellyn Probert; Marks Samuels; Pat Cadigan; Scott Edelman; Jo Fletcher; Robert Hood; Tanith Lee; Lisa Morton; Sarah Pinborough; Jay Russell; Mandy Slater. -
Zulu Dawn: Cy Endfield
$5.0022 January 1879. Across the slopes of Isandhlwana, there came the sound of thunder. Assegai shafts pound against drum-tight shields. Fifty thousand voices cry in one dread voice the Zulu word for kill: U-SU-THU! U-SU-THU! Against the sweeping landscapes of Southern Africa, Lord Chelmsford’s army of eight thousand soldiers moves inexorably into Zululand. Their aim: to subdue a proud and unyielding warrior nation. But what starts as an imperial adventure turns into one of the bloodiest episodes in African history. It becomes a struggle to the death between Chelmsford’s Redcoats and a fearsome army of fifty thousand Zulus, fighting for their nationhood and birth right. This is the story of the tragedy and shattering human drama of that struggle. A powerful action adventure tale, it was made into the hit film Zulu Dawn in 1979.
