Facade

Holly Stringer is savvy, but will do anything to put food on the table for her young son. Divorced, she is in a desperate situation. Then the unthinkable happens, her dad has a stroke, forcing her to run his detective agency. She soon discovers this remains in the dark ages, surviving on past glories. In order to survive, she urgently needs to modernise the agency and requires a big case that pays big bucks. This duly arrives, but is she capable of solving this as the police warn her off, siting her inexperience? She discovers behind every smile lurks hidden secrets to be exposed and these facades need to be broken down. But every time she digs deeper, she is putting her own family in peril. Will her naivety in the situation win through as she unravels the truth and reveals the villains or will she succumb to the complexities that hamper her every step?

Facing East at Sunset

Do you want to return to a time in your life when things were wonderful, filled with people you loved, with dreams that you had, when the world was simpler and the future glistened?
And do you wonder what happened, where did those years go?
The answer, my friend (no, not with Bob Dylan), is with you inside your head, all the good and some of the bad. The answer is writing it down – it’s still there – in poetry. Reading others, writing your own. Think back – it’s still there – look back, look forward… poetry. Do you recall those violet-infested walls of that old English church; that girl you saw and never forgot in a tavern once visited; that old town you first taught in and that noisily funny dunny-cart man; the fear of being trapped in a crashed car with petrol dripping; resting in love with a beautiful partner; dangling a line in a beautiful river with beautiful sons?
It’s all there, deep down, relived and reloved, in poetry.

Faerie Tale

When the forest fairies notice the changes in the forest, the Oracle declares that they must recover the four fairy treasures from the elemental fairies;

“The darkness that has grown for many years,
the terror that every fairy fears.
But with the fairies’ growing plight,
hope is returned by a single light.
One chance we have to correct this wrong,
this hope will need to grow strong.
Because if the four races cannot unite,
the one will fail in the final fight.
You will need the earth’s wisdom to have its say,
You will fail without a flame to guide your way,
You need the air’s knowledge that is kept
You will fail without the water’s emotional depth.
These four elements are needed for all fairies’ creation,
to twist them is the darkness’s motivation.
To stop it collect the Tuatha De Danann’s four treasures,
even though the darkness will try to stop these measures.”

The Oracle sees that Elizabeth is the only fairy with a chance. The Dark Fairy tries to thwart their friendship and collection of the treasures, even invading their dreams with pixie magic.

Meeting friends along the journey and gaining wisdom from the elemental races, Elizabeth learns the true meaning of being a fairy. Can Elizabeth and her friends collect the treasures, unite the races and defeat the dark fairy to save the forest?

Fairies at Number 55

“Nobody in the world will admit to having seen a fairy, but it doesn’t mean they are not there.”

“Fairies are kind and they always, always do the sweetest, gentlest things for you and for all that you love, but rarely will they be visible. But you just never know…”

Fairy mum, Starlight, is beautiful. Sheer gossamer wings with a duck-egg blue hue, her tinkling voice always sounds like tiny cymbals chinking as she laughs, forever checking her fairy family, imploring them to keep kindness and gentleness to the fore of every endeavour.

From their garden at number 55, the family of fairies, Starlight and Nimbus, their fairy children, Mimosa, Chicory and Chirrup, Lychen and Moss, weave in and out of the lives of various woodland and water creatures, “giants” and their pets, all along the leafy green and cool bridleway.

Calling, along the way, upon such firm friends as doves, Darcy and Dill and magpies, Mick and Maggie, Spinner the friendly spider, and Skeet the generous dog, the fairies cheerfully carry out rescues, avert danger, make gifts, and even bring love to two lonely foxes.

Fairies Fashion Show

In this second book of a series, it follows The Amazing Cooking School. The same country boys Billy and Lionel together with an elf Alfred get involved in the village fashion show. Billy’s sister Megan gets involved with the material shop owner Apple to design and make some clothes. Along the way the village has a team in the Dragon Boat races on the nearby pond. Madam Erle is up to her tricks and causes chaos as usual and a mystery is solved.

Fairy Among the Ants

Get ready to plunge into the exciting world of Kaia, a fairy who lives inside a giant Kapok tree in a lively and vibrant forest.

This is a story of self-discovery and adventure as an unsuspecting creature sets her life in a completely new direction…

Fairy Light Magic

Charlotte and Rose arrive home from school to find their kitchen covered in stinky, orange slime and their parents missing. To rescue them, the sisters use a magical book to travel to the sparkling, underground land called Gem. There they must find alternative sources of magic for the five Heart Duties that make life in Gem possible. With the help of the book, a dragon and two little fairy lights, can Charlotte and Rose track down a new source of magic for the first Heart Duty?

Fairy Tale World

A powerful wizard finds himself taken for granted…
A fancy hat goes on a strange journey – or does it?
A new broom takes on a life of its own…
A bullying billy goat gets a taste of his own medicine…
Never outstaying their welcome, Mary Richards’ enchanting stories are full of charm, simplicity and a touch of whimsical humour, aptly accompanied by the author’s characterful illustrations.

Fairy Tales of the Mind

Every story has a beginning, but what happens if you don’t remember that beginning? What if you realise that the few memories you have, are only of violence and neglect?

Anxiety rises, fear of abandonment is constant on your mind, fear of being unloved is eating you up, and the world you envisioned to be a fairy tale is destroyed. So, you comfort yourself by letting your mind wander, and you wait for someone to save you even after the abuse, despite knowing full well that it’s unhealthy. Knowing that those daydreams you have of dying are unhealthy.

You survived the physical abuse and the neglect by escaping reality and continually dreaming of fairy tales, but you became too engrossed in those dreams. Those dreams resulted in you creating an alternative world in your mind in which you craved to stay in – like an addict, forgetting entirely that there existed a world outside of those dreams.

This is a collection of poetry about mental illness and the impact of child abuse in adulthood.

Fake Love

Moving through the complexities of dating, Stella and her friends quickly realised that the online world was simply a revolving door of people coming and going.

It had become a collection of hopeful souls and artificial feelings, all competing for attention. Conversing with many, yet rarely sealing the deal; because in the blink of an eye it was all yesterday’s news, and there were fresh, new people to talk to instead.

Craving love, and being burnt by the fire, losing hope, losing themselves, and getting lost within the deep, dark caverns of this online world of desire.

The fickle nature of being just a number and waiting your turn; of broken promises and stretching the truth. The short-lived swipe-right, swipe-left world around them was no easy game to play. The virtual world was certainly not a place to become emotionally invested in.

As Stella takes a reminiscent walk down memory lane, the stories of her and her friends are discovered, each with their own complicated tales of love, hope, heartbreak, and regret.

Was there really such a thing as finding the one? Or was that all just a fantasy?

Fall in Love with Your Mind

Fall in Love with Your Mind is a collection of poetry about the wayward notion of creativity as a force to combat darkness on the journey towards self-discovery. It is divided into sections dictating the continuous and frustrating feeling of time slipping away all too quickly on the path from mindless self-destruction, to heartbreak and hopelessness, to learning and growing.
Read each section whenever you feel you can relate to it the most, or when you feel you need it the most. That’s the thing about words on a page – they’re always there. Even if you burn them, the most important ones always remain safe and sound in your mind. Falling in love with your mind is the key to brighter days.
Make a coffee, light a cigarette, do whatever warms your soul; read and be present. You are right here, and that is always enough.

Fallen Through The Cracks

Press your chin hard against your throat. Now turn your head to the left and lift your left shoulder until it touches your ear. Keep your chin against your throat, your left ear against your left shoulder, contract your neck and shoulder muscles as tightly as you can and hold it like that for the rest of your life. That’s right. Eat like that, brush your teeth like that, drive like that and keep your head like that when you go to sleep at night.

This is what psychiatrists in South Africa did to me and they expect me to live like that for the rest of my life.