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| Swords and Crowns and Rings by Park, Ruth Growing up in an Australian country town before World War 1, Jackie, Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their life-long odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage. | $6.00 |
| The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Heyerdahl, Thor The story of six young men crossing the Pacific on a balsa wood raft makes an 'incredible adventure which happens to be true, and a book whose sales are reconed in millions | $3.00 |
| Mr Scobie's Riddle by Jolley, Elizabeth Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude - and into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price - is accidental. Self-educated and still preserving the gift of idyllic memory and wish, Mr Scobie stands apart from the others. For long term resident and eccentric, Miss Hailey, he represents a kindred spirit; for Matron Price - a lady of questionable practices - the latest victim... | $6.00 |
| The Jacaranda Tree by Bates, H.E. His masterly account of a cruel flight from invasion. | $2.50 |
| Fair Stood the Wind for France by Bates, H.E. Can love survive the dangers of occupied France? | $4.50 |
| The Darling Buds of May by Bates, H.E. Introducing the Larkins, a family with a deserved place in popular mythology. | $5.00 |
| The Distant Horns of Summer by Bates, H.E. Compared with bony Miss Garfield, his new nanny, Gilly, was a welcome vision of youth. | $5.00 |
| The Four Beauties by Bates, H.E. Four short stories...... | $4.50 |
| The Song of the Wren by Bates, H.E. Includes three long elegiac stories and two short ones featuring an 'irresistible' female eccentric, the jealous relationship between a mother and daughter and the success of a sluttish Delilah in robbing a middle-aged woodcutter of both his hoarded wealth and his inner serenity. | $4.00 |
| The Man Who Never Was by Montagu, Ewen This is the fantastic but true story of Operation Mincemeat, a brilliant coup by British Intelligence which completely deceived the German High Command and ensured the success of Allied landings in Sicily in 1943. | $6.00 |
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