The Saga Of Black Gold

BLACK GOLD is the sixth and final volume in Iris Gower's superb novel sequence of novels about Swansea in the early years of the twentieth century. Set against the background of the General Strike, it tells the thrilling story of a conflict which divided the families of the town for generations. On one side are the mine-owners, men like Sterling Richardson, hero of COPPER KINGDOM, the first novel in this sequence, his weak and corrupt brother Rickie, and Luke Proud, a newcomer to the saga. On the other are the Murphy brothers, miners and rabble-rousers, the Llewelyns from FIDDLER'S FERRY and Jim O'Connor, the charismatic Irishman newly come to Sweyn's Eye. Between these two warring factions stand their woman. Mali Richardson and Mary Sutton, once working class girls, now women of substance. Delmai Richardson, Rickie's treacherous wife, riding devil-may-care towards her come-uppance, and Charlotte, Luke Proud's sister, born to sympathise with one side in the struggle, but in love with a man that ought to be her enemy. And above all, Katie Murphy, betrayed so often before in love, now caught in a deadly crossfire between her brothers and their masters, the mine-owners. BLACK GOLD is, Katie's story, for in her dilemma is the tragedy and splendour of this conflict summed up

The portrayal of the events, people, and company that created a boomtown and a rare glimpse into the wheelings and dealings of cattle barons, oil tycoons, and politicos on a truly Texas scale.

Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal–white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, Black Gold offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history—the gold story. In vivid detail it describes how Aboriginal people often figured significantly in the search for gold and documents the devastating social impact of gold mining on Victorian Aboriginal communities. It reveals the complexity of their involvement from passive presence, to active discovery, to shunning the goldfields. This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways. Running through this book are themes of Aboriginal empowerment, identity, integration, resistance, social disruption and communication.

Over forty years ago the British Government warned the Italian Government; "Don't trust the Russians." The author was there. Today, forty years later, Newsweek echoes the same warning to any country that puts its energy sources at the political whim and fancy of Mr. Putin. And what of the warnings that the United States Government was given over sixty years ago that Mao-Ze-tung was not the 'second coming of the Messiah'? The author was there. And he seethed in rage and torment as he tried to sleep on the steel deck of a United States evacuation LST while he heard the 'Messiah's guns laying siege to Beijing. But all good things come to an end, even the bad ones, and meeting the Queen of England at the Prime Minister's residence, The Temple Trees, in Ceylon and issuing an invitation to His Royal Highness to play polo more than compensated the author for his first evacuation. But the reasons for his second evacuation from Cairo and his family's evacuation from Beirut are not quite as clear as he would like. Hearing about them might give the reader some thoughts about the difficulties faced by their fellow citizens who serve them abroad.

Empire in Black and Gold is the first instalment in the critically-acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The days of peace are over . . . The Lowlands’ city states have lived in peace for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization. Yet that peace is about to end. A distant empire has been conquering neighbours with highly trained soldiers and sophisticated combat techniques. And the city states are its desirable new prize. Only the ageing Stenwold Maker – spymaster, artificer and statesman – foresees the threat, as the empires’ armies march ever closer. So it falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of the cities’ leaders. He sees that war will sweep through their lands, destroying everything in its path. But to warn his people, he must stay alive. Empire in Black and Gold is followed by the second book in the Shadows of the Apt series, Dragonfly Falling.

From action/adventure novelist Michael Kasner comes a series of future military warfare! The year is 2030 and the world is in a state of political and territorial unrest. The Peacekeepers, an elite military force is created to combat it. Armed with all the tactical advantages of modern technology, battle hard and ready when the free world is threatened - the Peacekeepers are the baddest grunts on the planet. BLACK GOLD: WARKEEP 2030 - Book 0: ARAB JIHAD RISING! The rugged desert terrain of the Middle East is a high-tech battlefield for black gold. Fighting to control the monopoly of oil is a ruthless Arab alliance - up against a coalition of major Western industrial nations. As the war escalates, so does global unrest, and the Peacekeepers are dispatched. Their job is not to appeal to peace, brotherhood or goodwill. Times have changed, but war remains the same - strike first, strike hard and give no quarter. But in the changing battlefields and shifting alliances, the Keepers must first identify the enemy. If they make the wrong move, the world stands to be crushed by the destructive juggernaut of nuclear war.