Jacaranda Tree

H.E. Bates

Literature & Fiction

Electric Power Storage

Presented together now for the first time, Laurens van der Post's collected writings will reveal as never before the fullness of his perceptive, wise and remarkably consistent vision. In all of them his inspiration has been that of an adventurous pioneer exploring not just the outward aspects of a turbulent and troubled world but, at a deeper level, the patterns and paradoxes of human life, the myths and dreams of the human mind, the values and cultures of different peoples, the elusive springs of our own people.

A Mantis Carol

LAURENS VAN DER POST

Father and His Fate

I. Compton-Burnett

Genre Fiction

Rosamond Lehmann's enduring classic, told from the point of view of its seventeen-year-old heroine, who has been invited to her first dance Today is Olivia Curtis's seventeenth birthday. In exactly one week, she will attend her first dance. She is thrilled . . . and terrified. Will Tony Heriot ask her to dance? Will he even remember that they once attended the same costume party? What will she wear? Something bright and beautiful-red silk? In the handsome diary she receives as a gift, Olivia shares her innermost doubts and fears-about her pretty, confident older sister, Kate, her precocious baby brother, James, her eccentric country neighbors, and of course, the upcoming party, which she is sure will be the crowning event of her young life. Divided into three parts-Olivia's birthday, the day leading up to the party, and the breathtaking event itself-Invitation to the Waltz masterfully captures the conflicting emotions of a teenager on the threshold of womanhood. Will this be the night when all of Olivia's dreams come true?

Invitation to the Waltz

Rosamond Lehmann

Sebastian Holme was a painter who, as the exhibition catalogue recorded, had met a tragic death during a foreign revolution. Art dealer Braunkopf has made a small fortune from the exhibition. Unfortunately, Holme turns up at the private view in this fascinating mystery of the art world in which Mervyn Cheel, distinguished critic and pointillist painter, lands in very hot water.

Money from Holme

Michael Innes

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A quarter of a million pounds worth of diamonds have been stolen from an Amsterdam bank - a prize big enough to attract treasure hunters.  Furse, the Englishman, has knowledge of the stones' whereabouts and hopes this wealth will make his future and that of his son secure.  Detective Inspector Molenaar, acting for the bank; Constanta the Dutch girl, and Sluiter, who mysteriously dies, are also in the race.  Then there are Rohner and Elsa, top-flight crooks unburdened by scruples, together with Charlie, Furse's shady friend and Farmer Beukleman.  Drama and tension mount in this tale of excitement and suspense.

The House of the Seven Flies

VICTOR CANNING

An unidentified body is found in the Beverly Glen Hotel's opulent pool, a guest at the hotel is murdered, and Masao Masuto, Beverly Hills' only Nisei detective, follows the lead into a realm of espionage and terror

Case of the Russian Diplomat

E. V. Cunningham

Sir Lancelot Sprat, surgeon and patriot, is finding that his faith in the British National Health Service is taking a bit of a battering  especially when the ceiling of his operating theatre collapses. It had already been a bad daya call from Nairobi, a disagreement with Miss MacNish over the breakfast haddock, and a visit from Sir Lionel! Sir Lancelot’s single-handed battle to save St Sepulchre’s Hospital from closure creates a hilarious tale, complicated by two ex-students and three ladies only too willing to satisfy a widower’s sexual desires.

Doctor in the Nest

Richard Gordon

Humor & Satire

Room with a View

E.M. Forster

Classics

Molly Hughes vividly evokes from her memories the small, everyday pleasures of a close family life in Victorian London: joyful Christmases, blissful holidays in Cornwall, escapades with her brothers, schooldays under the redoubtable Miss Buss. Hughes provides the reader with an easy intimacy and intensity of recollection.

London Child of the 1870's

Mary Vivian Hughes

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