My Double-Whammy Days and Nights

Will young Gareth ever get his memory back? He’s lost in Paris, sleeps in parks and under bridges.

He wanders from church to church seeking comfort and solace. Will he eventually find his parents and who and where is this Mr Healer, the man everyone is looking for to cure mind and body?

Gareth meets Big Berthe of the night and other strange and wonderful characters, some of whom are just as down and out as he is. He is amazed to discover he has the gift of the double whammy and when he releases it, bodies fly. He also starts to paint and this is how he manages to eke out a living.

And then there’s this bird cawing away overhead and which sometimes comes too close for comfort.

Mud and Thunder

Ed Roberts is a young, talented and ambitious midfielder playing for Northtown United, a club buried in the depths of the Football League. A new owner and manager transform its fortunes and steers it into the First Division. Roberts plays a pivotal role in that progress and goes on to represent England before becoming one of the first English footballers to play abroad. This is his warts-and-all story of what it was like to play at all levels – before the advent of the Premier League, the influx of foreign stars, the appearance of the super agent and vastly inflated salaries. He writes, candidly, about some of the men he played with and for, how he didn’t always toe the club line, his failed international career and his off-field relationships. He broaches subjects such as racism, alcoholism, homosexuality and early player power. It all amounts to one of the most honest and compelling accounts yet written by a former footballer.

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.

Matthew's Tears

Matthew is born in 1974 and his proud father, Geoffrey, takes him to their family doctor for his first triple antigen vaccination. Within 24 hours, Matthew begins to incessantly convulse. This is a time when no one questions their doctor, their word is sacred.

Nothing can be done to stop Matthew’s fits, and the doctors only say they are continuously causing more and more brain damage.

Geoffrey blames himself and descends into a self-destructive pattern of behaviour, causing his life to spiral downward and out of his control.

Martinup

The year is 1967 and Martinup, situated in rural Western Australia, is largely unaffected by the sixties revolution that is sweeping the rest of the world. High school is the focus of attention for Brian MacArthur and his friend, Trevor Stewart.

It is so different from primary school. They make their own entertainment in the bush.

Their science teacher, Paul Newton, is on his first teaching post, straight from Perth, missing his girlfriend and sharing a dreadful flat with an outrageous person who works as a primary school teacher. Life is unbearable and conflict inevitable.

Brian has reluctantly accepted the position of altar boy in the local Catholic church. The priest hides a dark secret involving church funds.

The Vietnam War rages on, threatening Brian’s older brother, Roger, with conscription should he fail in his exams at university.

Brian and Trevor launch a hot air balloon which starts a bush fire and causes the deaths of hundreds.

Well, no. But it could have.

Love That Lasts Forever

Everything was happy and carefree in the Taylor household. Hettie and Jonty enjoyed a privileged life in the Welsh countryside. Then everything changed, arguments and recriminations led to separation and divorce and in a flash, lives and dreams were shattered. As their parents' conflict intensified, Hettie and Jonty were plunged into ever-more desperate situations, struggling with divided loyalties and powerful and conflicting emotions. How can they hold on to a loving relationship with both their parents? What does it take to maintain a bond when someone is trying to tear it apart? As Hettie relives her childhood and adolescence through adult eyes, the truth of her past emerges. What price has she and Jonty paid? Is true love unbreakable? Can love last forever?

Live. Live. Repeat.

What would you sacrifice for all the riches in the World? Your name? Your face?

Your soul?

Mike had already lost everything when he found himself sitting next to the stranger at the bar.

He listened to an implausible tale, too tall to be true.

What followed would change everything for him, forever.

Money can't buy happiness. But what about ALL the money in the world...?

Lady and the Tramp and Me

Life doesn’t always turn out the way you think it should, does it?For instance, what happens when you get a puppy you don’t want? For Simon that answer is simply: nothing good.His life as a happy bachelor is torpedoed when he reluctantly accepts a puppy of indeterminable breed who names himself Tramp and seemingly never ever stops growing – personality included. Any principles for raising a dog are put to the test, and so is Simon’s state of mind when his sex-life is sabotaged, his sports car rendered useless, and Tramp is spending all of Simon’s money.And then there’s the women… quite a few of them, but one in particular. The angry one in the park who likes dogs and who wonders if Simon is a stripper because he flashes her his ass. But in reality, he looks like he’s just escaped from an asylum.And that’s just the beginning…

Kirna

Do you believe in reincarnation? Maybe you will after reading this tale.

KIRNA links the modern with the ancient in a tale of mystery, kinship, love, betrayal and vengeance.

The story connects two time periods and two key players – Sam and Prince Suryaveer; read on to discover the many adventures they experience.

Jasmine and the Wisdom of Trees

Just imagine that we can find all the answers to our questions in Mother Nature.

Jasmine is looking for her dog, Woof, and does not know if she is wise and strong enough to find him. The trees in the forest are wise and tell her what she can do.

It's Now or Never

Veronica Johnson, known as Ronny to friends, lives a quiet life in the sleepy area of Shaldon, Devon. At 30 years of age, her life revolved around her job as a nursery nurse in the village, and seeing her mother and stepfather who ran a cake shop. Then her life suddenly became busy, busy, busy after meeting her stepbrothers, identical twins, as well as discovering her favourite twin boys in the nursery were sons of the Casanova of the high school she had attended years ago. On meeting up with him, could Ronny trust him to be faithful? Did he still have a roving eye for the women?

Isaiah’s Mountain

May 1901. Jo stands alone, ready to meet her fate, as British soldiers come thundering up the dusty track of her farm. She has not raised a white flag, it is pointless; the British are burning homesteads to the ground. Choked by the acrid smell of farmlands and livestock, blazing in the valley, Jo struggles to find her voice and the words she needs to save her home.

A strange twist of events transports Jo back to a time when, as a young teacher in the tiny Karoo town of Kweek Valley, she was drawn into the troubled world of a boy named Lukas Bester. A time past when nothing was as simple as it seemed and the truth lay silent and festering beneath the surface of the pious community. A time when she was Joanna Shepherd, an entirely different person…

If she is to survive, Jo has to find the words which uncover the truth as she navigates her way through grief, betrayal and the violence of war.