Novedades

This book, dedicated to our great-grandson, and launched on "Rhodesia Day" (11 November - the date UDI was declared - in 1965) which is also called Armistice day or Remembrance day elsewhere. I am a guest in his Oamaru home, kindly made available while my good wife, Rina, is resident in the Oamaru Observatory Lifecare facility. Rina trasferred from the Kerikeri Retirement Village in April (28th) - having elected to die there after an unsuccessful operation to clear an intestinal obstruction. That was more than a year ago since her admission to the Waikato Hospital in Hamilton. We are slowly...

In 1932, Australia fought their own Great War... against the Emus. Convinced of an easy victory, the Army quickly learned not to underestimate their flightless foes. The emus formed alliances with other birds and kept advancing, gaining a near-human sentience after the nuclear testing of 1952-54 (We told the Poms and the Pollies that was a bad idea...) Come 2019, the east coast cities are the final hold-out against Avian Conquest of the Sunburnt Country, and it's Magpie season...

From the author of bestselling Sisters in Captivity, seven remarkable stories of men who served from WWI to Korea–their wartime exploits and achievements through aviation.

In very early January of 1904 Fritz Kramer arrived at Tsingtao in northern China. He was working as the supervising engineer for the German engineering company of F.H.Schmidt, which specialised in the building of steel bridge,jetties, railways and canal work. He knew that it was critical for his Chinese workforce to have the Buddhist religion preached to themin order to have harmonious relationships between his workers.So, he hired a Vietnamese Buddhist monk to offer spiritual guidance to his Chinese workforce. At the completion of the railway in early Janaury of1907 and receiving a ...

Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in 19th-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Hodgson arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Left alone when her police-officer husband was sent to work in remote Victoria, she turned her hand to running brothels.