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A Certain Kind of Sense
Sanity gives way to madness. Madness brings with it another form of sanity. The question is, if you could do it all again, would you change anything… even knowing how the story ends?
Chris Curran is a wildly successful sales executive whose life has taken a turn for the worse. He’s lost his home, his wife, his career – everything that mattered to him, only to discover that it really wasn’t worth all that much to begin with.
A Certain Kind of Sense tells the story of a man coming to terms with a changed reality, waking up on the first day of the rest of his life, over and over again. Tragic, darkly comic, insightful – can redemption be found, or does it have to be earned?
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A Challenger's Song
A sensitive and lovingly told story mixing fact, action, letters, journals, song and oral history.
Pearson writes with a rich clarity and intelligence about his great grandfather, Charlie Collins, the boy who ran away to sea to become head stoker on the celebrated scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger (1872-76). Finding his feet as a blacksmith back in Brighton with wife Mary and family, we learn about the joys, hardships and everyday heroism of their lives within the grand sweep of 19th Century history.
Andrea Watts, writer and creative writing tutor
In 1872, HMS Challenger, powered by sail and steam, left Portsmouth for an epic voyage of ocean exploration. A Challenger’s Song combines a lifetime reimagined with a fresh account of the voyage seen through the eyes of the crew and scientists, drawing on their own letters and accounts.
‘I had read about the voyage of HMS Challenger before, but this combination of imaginative reconstruction and factual information for me shed a new light on life for those on board ... my appreciation of the men and boys whose hard work kept the Challenger going, and made possible the collection of samples which led to a transformation of our understanding of the deep oceans, was increased enormously ... The sea shanty section at the end is a nice bonus!
Angela Colling, Editor, Ocean Challenge.£10.99 -
A Chance Encounter
The story from which this book takes its title sees a young man in a London bar enjoying a last drink before setting off home, when a young woman passes by, dropping her handbag as she does so. The retrieval of the bag and the subsequent brief relationship leads the man into life-changing circumstances.
The remaining stories all follow a similar line, with an unusual twist in the tale.
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A Cheetah's Cubs
This is an inspirational story about the life and struggles of two cheetah cubs on the African plains. The time has come for the cubs to leave their mother's protection. Will they pass the test? Facing many obstacles, they will have to use their instincts and the knowledge their mother has passed to them if they are going to survive. This book takes the reader on a visual journey through the eyes of cheetah cubs, introducing many African animals along the way. The cheetah population today is classified as 'vulnerable'. By exploring cheetah conservation with our children, they can see what can be done and what's being done to save these beautiful animals. For more information please visit www.cheetahconservationbotswana.org
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A Child's Voice
Minette is a mouse in The Royal Courts of Justice whose forebears remember seeing Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century attending at Court One. Minette watches, sees, hears and relates all that goes on in the family courts, with the awful tragedies of people’s lives and issues, especially affecting children. Minette is downcast by the accumulation of people’s problems often caused by themselves and indeed with the behaviours of some of Her Majesty’s Judges, but she has camaraderie with the other mice in the Royal Courts of Justice, as well as the mice at the Old Bailey and the mice of the Supreme Court, where they especially gather for receptions with many leftovers scattered on the carpets, taking, as they do, the number 19 bus along The Strand. But not all is sad, for Minette knows that some of Her Majesty’s Judges are, nevertheless, aware and kindly regarding the very serious responsibilities that they own.
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A Christmas Tail
It’s Christmas and Scat and his friends are experiencing all that comes with it for the first time. Everything is new, and exciting, and a wonder for all the cats and they all wonder what this ‘Santa’ could be bringing them.
Join Scat, Chips, Alleyoops, Tiger, and the others for a fun Christmas of snow, presents, food, and a bellyful of laughs.
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A Clarinet Almanac
More than 60 years’ experience in playing the clarinet has led to a very personal and idiosyncratic review of the repertoire. From the point of view of being both a player and a programmer the author has endeavoured to find works for unusual combinations involving the clarinet. This book includes a few orchestral solos and several vocal works (both chamber and operatic), but it is focussed on chamber music and includes gems from the repertoire for the standard wind quintet. The clarinet features as a solo instrument, in duos with a surprisingly large variety of instruments and in mixed trios, quartets and so on to larger ensembles. During the course of one year the reader will be exposed to 366 works, probably some unfamiliar, by 245 different composers. The author hopes it will whet the appetites of students, teachers and concert organizers alike.
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A Close Confiding Relationship and Dr. Lydgate's Enhancing Marital Intimacy Therapy Manual
This book begins with an imaginary marital assessment interview by Dr Lydgate, a flawed psychiatrist with three failed marriages. He interviews imaginary couples from the literary world of relationships like Adam and Eve and Romeo and Juliet to offer the reader insight into marital intimacy. A narrator offers a psychological view of the process. Part two offers information on how to interview couples, assess couples and treat couples by helping them disclose their ideas about relationships from their parents and past experience.
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A Cold Wind From The North
In seventh century Wales, a young man must fight to prove himself. As the kingdoms of post-Roman Britain struggle for a new order, his chieftain father is called away to war and Rhun is left to care for his people. But soon he is tasked with a dangerous mission of his own. Gathering a small band of friends, he sets out into the unknown to face a deadly enemy, battle, and death.
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A Collection of Children’s Stories
These three delightful new children’s stories are for readers of all ages.
For the older readers, the first story, The Giant People that lived in the Chateau, is about five teenagers who also happen to be giants. The teenage giants meet a French captain during a time of unrest in France and their exciting adventure begins.
Grandpas Don’t Play is about a seven-year-old mixed-race girl of Syrian and Jamaican descent called Chantel. Chantel is determined to teach her seriously grumpy grandpa how to be more playful and lighthearted.
James and his Dog Luna is a story about the special bond between a boy and his dog and their eventful week of fun activities.
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A Collection of Reflective Poems
Every poem tells a story, and the poems in this collection are no exception.
A poem like ‘Jessie and Josh’ is based on the author’s early memories, while he and his friend – both passionate writers – were the inspiration for ‘Two Old Boys’. ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ is a loving message to his wife, and ‘The Old Man’ was written for his children, The poem ‘I Never Noticed’ is based on a friend’s comments during a country walk; ‘Joe’, by contrast, came from conversations overheard while sitting on a park bench in Windermere.
With poems that are by turns powerful, emotional, passionate, personal, funny and thoughtful, this is a book to carry with you for those moments of personal contemplation.£6.99 -
A Common Murder
The only place they could be hidden from view was in the wooded area to his left. He called again, this time he heard a whine, and it came from the wooded area, he hoped to God that neither dog had got itself injured and tangled up amongst the brambles. Vet bills were costly. On getting to the edge of the wood he could make out the dogs sitting among them, them being golden labs enabled James to see them. It was obvious that neither dog could not or would not come to him, so concerned he went through some of the bushes and trees to find the dogs sitting by a large sack or something, then he realised it was a body.
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