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A Hazardous Life - Captain George Forsyth Mariner and First Harbour Master of the Colony of Western Australia by Ron Forsyth (Index by); George Forsyth (Artist); Ross Shardlow (Artist); Kerry Sanderson (Foreword by); Ian Forsyth; Nicholas Burningham (Technical editor); Stephen Dobson (Cover Design by); Julie Taylor (Designed by, Editor, Maps by); Marcia van Zeller (Editor); Peter Worsley (Editor); Jill Worsley (Editor); David Nicolson (Photographer)
Category: Australiana
George Forsyth arrived in Western Australia in the early 1860s, still in the era of wood and sail and at the beginning of the era of iron and steam. The port of Fremantle - a critical maritime hub for the colony - was desperately unfit to meet the demands of growing maritime activity.Forsyth battled sno ...Show more
Battle Song by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: De Norton Trilogy Ser.
'There is a fury in England that none shall suppress - and when it breaks forth it will shake the throne'1264Storm clouds are gathering as Simon de Montfort and the barons of the realm challenge the power of Henry III. The barons demand reform; the crown demands obedience. England is on the brink of civ ...Show more
Battle for Rome by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire Ser.
The Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war. Only Maxentius, tyrant of Rome, stands between the emperor Constantine and supreme power in the west. Aurelius Castus is now a tribune in Constantine's army. But great honour brings new challenges: Castus is tormented by suspicions that his young wife has ...Show more
Battle for Rome (Twilight of Empire #3) by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire
The Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war. Only Maxentius, tyrant of Rome, stands between the emperor Constantine and supreme power in the west. Aurelius Castus, promoted from the ranks for valour and loyalty, is now a tribune in Constantine's army. But great honour brings new challenges: Castus is ...Show more
Battle for Rome (Twilight of Empire #3) by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire
The Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war. Only Maxentius, tyrant of Rome, stands between the emperor Constantine and supreme power in the west. Aurelius Castus, promoted from the ranks for valour and loyalty, is now a tribune in Constantine's army. But great honour brings new challenges: Castus is ...Show more
Imperial Vengeance by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire
The fifth novel in the Twilight of Empire series sees Aurelius Castus caught between loyalty to the Emperor Constantine and the plotting of his son. Aurelius Castus is one of the leading military commanders of an empire riven by civil war, but age is telling upon him. As the emperor Constantine grows ev ...Show more
Imperial Vengeance by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire Ser.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS NO MERCY IN ITS QUEST FOR POWER. Aurelius Castus is one of the leading military commanders of an empire riven by civil war. As the emperor Constantine grows ever more ruthless in his pursuit of power, Castus fears that the world he knows is slipping away. On the eve of the war's f ...Show more
Swords Around the Throne by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire Ser.
Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from Britain, to find himself caught in a conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine. Rewarded for saving the emperor's life in battle, Castus is promoted to Corps of Protectores, the elite imperial bodyguard--the swords around the thron ...Show more
Swords Around the Throne (Twilight of Empire #2) by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire
Rome is in peril. The old order is changing - and Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from Britain, to find himself caught up in a treasonous conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine. Rewarded for saving the emperor's life in battle, Castus is promoted to the Corps of Pr ...Show more
The Dizzying Heights by Ross Fitzgerald; Ian McFadyen
Category: Gift
In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised to find himself President of the newly minted Republic of Australia. Luckily he manages to avoid any actual w ...Show more
The Mask Of Command: Twilight Of Empire 04 by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire
Six years after the battle for Rome, the truce between the two emperors has failed and Aurelius Castus is again in the frontline. Six years after the battle for Rome, the truce between the two emperors has failed and Aurelius Castus is again on the front line. When a treacherous act of murder throws th ...Show more
The Mask of Command by Ian Ross
Category: Fiction | Series: Twilight of Empire
When a treacherous act of murder throws the western provinces into turmoil, Aurelius Castus is ordered to take command of the military forces on the Rhine. But he soon discovers that the frontier is a place where the boundaries between civilisation and barbarism, freedom and slavery, honour and treason ...Show more