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The Stones of the Trobriands
It is February 1942. Singapore had fallen. In the seismic shockwave that follows, John Fullwood is preparing to abandon his rubber plantation on Bougainville Island before the Japanese arrive. He is loading his boat when an unexpected visitor flies in, the Civil Administrator of Papua New Guinea, Leonard Murray. He brings bad news. The army has ordered the plantation and everything in it to be destroyed to stop it falling into enemy hands. Even worse, Murray brings information about a stricken plane flying over Losuia Village in the Trobriand Group.
On board is Fullwood’s youngest daughter Maria, a nurse recently evacuated from Singapore. An intercepted radio transmission suggests Maria had been captured by the Japanese. John Fullwood enlists Murray’s help. He intends to impersonate his wife’s German cousin, Baron Eric von Waly and go behind enemy lines to secure Maria’s release through diplomatic channels. On the way he must deal with a near death-experience from snakebite, a tsunami and sailing into a spider’s web of savagery and intrigue ruled over by the sadistic Colonel Haruki Saito, the Butcher of Nanking. He will also dine with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on the eve of the Battle of the Coral Sea, and above all he will fall in love.
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The Highway Store and Other Stories
Trevor’s had a rough life. Growing up in the crime ridden suburb of Blacktown, struggling with PTSD from his tour in Afghanistan, and his girlfriend’s tragic overdose. All he wants is to get away from it all and find some peace. Opening a highway store in the remote outback seemed like a great opportunity for him. Little did he know, he wasn’t prepared for the unsavory characters that came his way. As these nefarious figures start to emerge, he is forced to confront a past he thought he had left behind.
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The Beautiful Anatomy of Despair
It’s 2014 in San Francisco and Tristan thinks he’s found love. Meanwhile in London, Toby is at work in the City. On the Amalfi Coast, Cordelia and Freddie are fighting about a secret.
The Beautiful Anatomy of Despair is a novel about hope and hopelessness.
It is a portrait of four friends figuring out how to live a meaningful life, and what it takes to survive one that isn’t.
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The Anemone Bowl
“If the inability to see other than that which you wish to see can be considered a kind of heaven, then presumably the inability to escape self-knowledge must be one version of hell.”
The ill-fated consequences of happenstance: Born into an English country village community in the 1950s, a young boy is led, through a series of events over which he in effect has little or no control, to take the life of a neighbour’s child, and subsequently his own. And this is the tale, if there can be any, of the subsequent accounting.
The book itself is set in an ever-mutating afterlife that also provides an interim existence before rebirth – an illusory world where, of necessity, it is in large part conveniently repressed memories that hold sway, and where for Eric (if we can suppose that to be his name), each step forward is also leading (with some level of perversity) to the truths of his own personal past transgressions.
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Steelsbridge Angels
Steelsbridge Angels is a gritty, compassionate and community-led story of Gary Minton and his burning ambition to play football as a goalkeeper for his hometown club. This leads him to the ultimate glory in the summer of 1966!
Gary strives hard to become a success! Out of poverty, he influences family and friends and all who he encounters in his life.
This is a comical, tragic, uplifting and inspirational novel all about Gary Minton and his Steelsbridge Angels.
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Starnberg Series: Book 2 – You Don’t Own Me
Juliette Simon is married, more or less unhappily, and is the most popular folk/pop singer in the German speaking world. She is Marie and Arabella Cooper-Nyman’s new neighbour, and lives in her purpose-built villa on Lake Starnberg in Bavaria.
She meets and falls in love with one of her backing singers, Jodie Sanchez. Their story is one full of trials and tribulations. Juliette must confront the homophobia rampant in the folk music world. Jodie must decide: her solo career in the USA, or Juliette?
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Silence of Snow
Tommy Lee was born in the mid-’30s on the wrong side of the blanket in a small village in the west of Ireland. He was reared in a convent run by the nuns of the Poor Clare’s till he was eight years of age. He was then fostered to a couple, who, he found, were of intense hatred and deep devotion to all under one roof. Caught up in tragedy, misunderstanding and emigration, he finds himself on the run from the law, all alone in this world. Accused of double murders of his foster parents with no alibi, he jumps the first fishing boat to Cobh. Lying under a night’s fishing catch for eight hours, he then escapes. For the next 20 years, he lives in the shadows…
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Safe in the Arms of Love?
We’re back! The third and final (?) book in the Lloyd and Lacey series is done! Prepare to be swept along at breakneck speed as their story continues to evolve.
Your many questions are about to be answered. Questions to which you believe you already know the answers? You might just be shocked and surprised.
Please remember, surprise in a mystery novel is the main element that keeps a reader wanting more. Don’t spoil your surprise by reading ahead – this is the final book – hang on to your hat and wait for it! You can do it!
Enjoy book #3, Safe in the Arms of Love? my dear readers. See you when my next book is published.
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Re-Vamped
Imagine a life so painfully ordinary that monotony isn’t just routine; it deepens with each passing day.
That’s the world our protagonist knows until they meet an enigmatic stranger. This individual doesn’t just break the monotony – they shatter it, revealing hidden truths about our hero’s heritage and inner self. But once the veil is lifted and mysteries unravel, can life ever revert to its previous state of blandness? Or is this cycle of revelation and discovery fated to repeat – over and over again?
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Philosophical Muse and Stuff 'n' Nonsense
Stephen Peter Oldham is relatively new to the poetry scene. In his first book, he explores the issues facing ‘Modern Man’ through poetry, muse and stories in his original style of ‘Real Fiction’. Stephen examines issues facing humanity at this time as diverse as the family unit, drug and alcohol abuse, mental health, creation and revelations of prophesy! In this unique book, there are many questions raised which may one day lead to the ultimate question. Who are we and just what is it that we are supposed to be doing here! Take your time and enjoy his rhymes or read more purposeful perhaps. Designed to entertain, Philosophical Muse will certainly make you ask questions!
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Onvoy: A Tale of Pain
A tale of a world at the brink of falling apart being abruptly thrust into a new beginning – life changes forever. Our hero finds a mysterious and powerful sword, something that amplifies his own emotions immensely, engaging them into physical manifests of a devastating heat that scorches everything, even himself. With so much hate, loss and sorrow on his shoulders, our hero must contain himself and not let go of his emotions lest they become too much and send what’s left of his world crumbling to ashes.
Life might never be the same again but that doesn’t mean it’s the end – only an opportunity. An opportunity for what? That is the decision of the holder. Where others not know what to do, feeling lost and hopeless, our hero has a purpose – to learn more about this mysterious power and sword which has entered his life, find his family and take back the apocalypse no matter the pain.
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Meg Tyson - Screen Lass
The year is 1862, and Meg Tyson is a screen lass – women tasked with separating the coal mined from the pits out of wastes such as metal and stone. She lives in Morthwaite, a small village in Cumbria, in the northwest of England.
The tiny village is home to Coater Pit, a coal mine, and here, most of the men are colliers and many of the women and girls are screen lasses. That is the destiny Meg has accepted for herself. But one terrifying moment sets Meg on a different path, to a life a world away from Morthwaite.
Little does Meg know that an encounter with the youngest son of the Bensons – Coater pit owners and, essentially, owners of the village – would set her off on a journey that would lead her to Vancouver Island in Canada, where she would get to make a life for herself that she could never have imagined.
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