Written with unerring skill and insight, The Dyehouse is a masterly portrait of postwar Australia, when industrial work was radically transformed by new technologies and society changed with it. Mena Calthorpe—who herself worked in a textile factory—takes us inside this world, vividly bringing to life the people of an inner-Sydney company in the mid-1950s: the bosses, middlemen and underlings; their dramatic struggles and their loves.This powerful and affecting novel was first published in 1961, and is the hundredth book in the Text Classics series. The new edition comes with an introduction by Fiona McFarlane, acclaimed author of The Night Guest.Mena Calthorpe was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, in 1905. There the editor of the Evening Penny Post, who had helped Miles Franklin early in her career, encouraged her to write. After marrying, Calthorpe moved to Sydney and lived for most of her life in the Sutherland Shire. Working in... Views: 13
These books should be read in the correct order. In the twelfth installment of the Matt Drake series, the SPEAR team battle impossible odds deep in the Amazon rainforest. Learning that a significant terrorist's arms bazaar is being attended not only by many of the world's most wanted men but by the CIA and a "special guest" too, they must infiltrate, observe, and then do what they do best.
With all the ongoing interactions, personal complexities and camaraderie that characterize the Drake series, The Last Bazaar introduces a diabolical plot where wealthy terrorists plan and pay for new styles of devastation, where government agencies pursue secret agendas, and where the team race against the clock to shut it all down.
Amidst nuclear threat, conspiracy, local predators and intense action, Matt Drake and his team fight to maintain and protect the world's future in a hostile environment . . . from within the planet's worst gathering of madmen. Views: 13
I know what’s supposed to happen at my casting call. In walks a stranger, my clothes come off, and we shoot amateur porn. Only a hot guy doesn’t show up—two of them do. Originally published in the USA Today bestselling anthology "For the First Time," this novella contains 50% more all-new content.** Views: 13
Caleb Carson is not a good man. All of his life he's trained to be part of the family business. The Carsons kill, they hurt, and do whatever is necessary to stay in charge. Still, when he's handed an eighteen-year-old girl as payment for a debt, he's pissed. He takes the girl and keeps her protected. In return, he kills her father, as he doesn't like loose ends.Faith doesn't get attached to anyone or anything, and she knew it was only a matter of time before her father's gambling affected her. Now she belongs to Caleb, but ... he's different. She knows he's a monster, but Caleb intrigues her. When she's in his arms, it's unlike anything she's ever felt.Caleb doesn't do love, and he never will. Faith deserves so much better, but he can't let her go. Why not have something for himself for a change?Will Caleb keep Faith and learn to fall in love? Can Faith bring herself to love the man who owns her? Views: 13
