Search Results: Titles starting with B from Petes Loved Books

London: Warner, 2001. Used. Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a good story, has finally been caught on the petard of his own self-confidence and is experiencing accommodation courtesy of Her Majesty. The fledgling Scottish parliament is in catatonic shock after experiencing its first dose of Westminster sleaze. The Catholic Church of Scotland is taking full advantage of the politicians' discomfort and is riding high in the polls as the voice of morality. Behind the scenes the truth is obscured by the machinations of the spin doctors and in prison, aware he's missing out on a great story, Parlabane discovers that contacts and a pretty way with words are no defence against people he has helped to put away. Part political satire, part cliff-hanging thriller this is high calibre entertainment.

Richmond, Victoria: Allen & Unwin, 2008. Used. Scotland Yard's brilliant crime-solving duo, Kathy Kolla and David Brock, take on an unsettling new case that touches on the timeliest of issues, Arab fundamentalism, genetic engineering, and murder. Scotland Yard's brilliant crime-solving duo, Kathy Kolla and David Brock, take on an unsettling new case that touches on the timeliest of issues, Arab fundamentalism, genetic engineering, and murder. Following her ordeal at the end of Silvermeadow, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla is on leave at the start of Babel, so burned out she is tempted to quit the force for good. But nothing can keep her from the hunt in this puzzling new case. Professor Max Springer, one of Britain's leading academics, has been brutally murdered on the steps of a London university. Springer was notorious for his stand against Islamic extremism, but was that motive enough to kill him? While Kathy and Brock start looking for answers in London's Arab community, rivalries within the… Read More

Random House, 1997. Hardcover/First Edition/Collec. Used. BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. NO DUST JACKET. FURTHER PICTURES CAN BE PROVIDED.In Babel Tower a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of Virgin in the Garden and Still Life) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Hers is not the only struggle; her friend Jude writes a novel, Babbletower, which is tried for obscenity; her broth in law Daniel becomes involved in new movements for London's poor and distressed. Their crises mirror those of the age-abroad, this is the decade of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the death of J F Kennedy; at home it is the era of the Lady Chatterley case, of the Beatles, of Mods and Rockers, art school riots, the Profumo scandal. Moving and absorbing… Read More

London: Harvill Pr, 1998. Used. One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic?slow, distant, and dreamy?he begins to have trouble telling Rose's half-sister Nancy apart from Rose herself, now buried in the village churchyard. Coping and failing to cope with the quiet realities of daily life, Charley's delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story both comic and disturbing. A contemporary of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green was one of the greatest English novelists of the twentieth century, and Back is his most haunting and personal work.

London: Lansdowne Press, 1976. Used. BACK OF SUNSET is a 1959 Australian novel from the award-winning Jon Cleary, author of the Inspector Scobie Malone series.Dr Stephen McCabe, a Sydney doctor, takes a working holiday with the Royal Flying Doctor service in Western Australia. When the doctor who runs the practice is injured, McCabe must step up in his absence as he deals with a variety of crises.

Milsons Point, N.S.W: Vintage, 2004. Used. In BACK ON THE WOOL TRACK, Michelle Grattan traces the footsteps of pre- eminent journalist and war historian C.E.W Bean. In 1909, Bean was commissioned by the Sydney Morning Herald to write a series of articles on the wool industry in western New South Wales. The articles were later compiled into a book and published as ON THE WOOL TRACK which went on to become an Australian classic. (Continually in print until 1966.) Now, almost 100 years later, Michelle Grattan traces Bean s footsteps and paints a fascinating picture of the Far West in 21st century Australia. Like Bean, whose descriptions brought to life the characters who inhabited this harsh, arid region, BACK ON THE WOOL TRACK is about people. Grattan visits the wool country and tracks down descendants of people Bean met during his travels and she observes the modern shearers, doing an old job in a new world. As Bean brought the outback to his city readers in 1909, Grattan interprets the Western… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 2012. Used. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night - until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy,… Read More

Melbourne: Random House, 2002. Literary Award Winner. Used. One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old-self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind?

Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Hardcopy. Used. What sort of man can direct - with equal skill and enthusiasm - such different films as Dead Calm, Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector, Newsfront, Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Quiet American? This brilliantly researched biography explores the man and his films, using unequalled access to Phil himself, as well as many of the stars and colleagues who have worked with him. It's also an extraordinary examination of the art of film making, and the complexities of the world's most powerful medium.

Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2007. Australian Author. Used. 'In that hour was born in me a fear that lasted throughout the whole winter. It was the dread of dying in the mud, going down in that stinking morass and though dead being conscious throughout the ages. Waves of fear at times threatened to overwhelm me... a little weakness, a little slackening of control at times and I might have gone over the borderline. In the light of the sun, on firm ground, I could laugh at fate. But where the churned mud half hid and half revealed bodies, where dead hands reached out of the morass, seeming to implore aid - there I had to hold tight.' In this gripping account, George Deane Mitchell relives the horror and the humour of being an Australian soldier on the Western Front in World War I. .Originally published in 1937 (and long out of print), this is a gripping, first hand account of a young soldier's experiences in France and Belgium during the First World War.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. Used. In "The L-Shaped Room," Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and even her landlady.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Hardcover.. Used. bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon departs from her classic Dark Hunter series and enters the world of BAD. The agents of the Bureau of American Defense are sexy, strong, brave, and unforgettable. You won?t want to leave their world of edge-of-your-seat suspense and they?ll leave you laughing out loud. BAD agent Sydney Westbrook must find the perfect sniper for a risky counter-terrorism mission. J.D. Steele, a military sniper whose attitude problem landed him in prison, seems a good candidate. But as they?re dragged into a secret world of freelance killers, Sydney begins to discover the man of honor and passion beneath Steele?s arrogant fa?ade. It?s a man even Steele didn?t know he could be?and a man whose mission will risk the life of the only woman he?s ever loved...

Vintage Books, 2006. Used. This brilliant book tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen -- Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, 'controlling' its Jewish population. Born into an established, politically moderate family, Louis Darquier ('de Pellepoix' was a later affectation) proceeded from modest beginnings to dissemble his way to power, continually reinventing himself in conformity with an obsession with racial purity and the latent anti-Semitism of the French Catholic Church. He was the ultimate chancer: always broke, always desperate for attention, social cachet, women and drink, he became 'one of the few men to put on weight during the Second World War', and after it was over he decamped to Spain, never to be brought to justice for having sent thousands of Jews, men, women and children, to the camps. Early on in his career he married the alcoholic Myrtle Jones from… Read More

London: Pandora, 1990. Hardcover. Used. Illustrates and comments explain why bad girls were so popular in movies, and who they were

Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Used. Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Llama in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, and becomes his lover, albeit an icy, remote one who denies having knowledge about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as - whether it's Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a high-ranking UNESCO official, or Kuriko, the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman - and however poorly she treats him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her.Gifted liar and irresistible, maddening muse - does Ricardo ever know who she really is? The answer is an unclear as what has become of Ricardo himself, a lifelong expatriate shadowed by the sense that he is only ever drifting.

Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. SOFT COVER. Used. CREASES TO SPINEISBN is 9780806501987 / 0806501987Bad Guys: A Pictorial History of the Movie Villainby EversonAbout the book:Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Lyle Stuart (June 1980) Language: English ISBN-10: 0806501987 ISBN-13: 978-0806501987 Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches

Crows Nest, New South Wales: Coronet Books, 2004. Used. Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four men are descending on Sanctuary, intent on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. All that stands in their way are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled officer Joe Dupree.But Joe is no ordinary policeman. He knows the island has been steeped in blood once and that it will never again tolerate the shedding of innocent blood. The band of killers who are set to desecrate Sanctuary will unleash the fury of its ghosts upon themselves and all who stand by them. On Sanctuary, all hell is about to break loose

London: Warner, 1994. Used. An Alex Delaware NovelIt came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address?an audiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice chanting: ?Bad love. Bad love. Don?t give me the bad love.? For Alex Delaware the tape is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, and a chilling act of trespass and vandalism. He has become the target of a carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats and intimidation rapidly building to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness.With the help of his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, Alex uncovers a series of violent deaths that may follow a diabolical pattern. And if he fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker?s mind games, Alex will be the next to die.

Crows Nest, NSW: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998. Hardcover.. Used. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here?and what do they want of Mike Noonan?

London: Random House, 2014. Used. Susie Moran is a success. Rooted in the traditions of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries, and producing charming, useable objects of distinctive design, Susie is justly proud of her family and her achievement - and has no intention of letting it change. But what of the men in the family?