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The Therapeutic Charity Shop
Greg had experienced a lot of personal problems in recent months, but he soon forgot about them when he met all the quirky characters at his local charity shop.
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The Story of Molly Mitter
Molly, a young girl from India, finds herself in a foreign land, grappling with the discovery that her beloved is desired by many.
Distanced from her closest friends and family, she’s enveloped by nostalgia and cherished memories of her childhood.
As challenges mount, Molly confronts pivotal questions: How will she navigate this new life? Where can she turn for guidance? Dive into her journey of love, longing, and self-discovery.
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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 Spectre of Stanhope Lane
Macnutt has done it! He has made the foray from his previous architectural, travel,
and cultural books into a work of unique fiction and has done it with great skill. The
Spectre of Stanhope Farm is written with imagination, creativity, and amazing insight and
attention to historical detail and research into the Scottish world and the place of the
diaspora. What an exciting way to explore the 1770s world of Prince Edward Island
through the character of Frank and the spectre of Stanhope. Sense of place, heritage,
genealogy, class, and mystery are woven together and exhibit a writer who has come of
age. Warmly recommended to Islanders and visitors to the Island and atl who are intrigued
by all things Scottish. I want to see that wall!
- Dr Jack Whytock, author and lecturer£10.99 -
The Silvergate Restoration
A year-long restoration project for a historical conservation group sees a gang of builders restore a group of three eighteenth century cottages in Norfolk that were badly damaged by a fire. During the year-long contract the lives of the builders involved are followed. Their stories of life and the challenges that face them both at home and at work place. Funny stories, romantic and passionate stories, as well as a few darker troubling stories within.
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The Secret in the Cellar
Timmy is an only child and has just moved into an old house with his Mum and Dad a day before his ninth birthday. While his Mum prepares his birthday dinner, he manages to force the strange door under the stairs to open. He soon finds out the door leads to a dirty old cellar full of junk. While exploring in the cellar he spots an old trunk shut tight with age.
Suddenly the trunk slowly vibrates then bursts open! He rushes over and looks inside, soon to discover The Secret in the Cellar. Timmy has been chosen to deliver The Book of Rule to The Golden King of Inner Earth with the help of Nanos, the Keeper of the Book. But it is not a simple as all of that, as the evil Wizard Bathos also wants the book and will stop at nothing to get it. Timmy is taken on an adventure full of dragons, flying carpets, monsters, and wizards.
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The Man Alone With the Lake
The Man Alone with the Lake deftly explores the intriguing paradox of attaining one’s dreams. Often, we believe that achieving our goals, reaching our chosen destiny, and fulfilling our life’s purpose will paint our lives with an unmatched hue of perfection. We believe that everything will effortlessly align, providing a sense of profound contentment.
But what happens when you crest the summit of your ambitions, only to discover that the victory tastes just as mundane as any other day? What happens when the satisfaction you envisaged is strikingly absent? Does this suggest that the goal was never truly yours?
Our tale orbits around a 22-year-old football prodigy, who soars to remarkable heights in his nascent career. With each milestone he conquers, every facet of his life seems to fall into seamless harmony, echoing the vision he’d always dreamed of—everything, that is, except his mental well-being.
It is only upon reckoning with a life-altering incident that he reevaluates his triumphant journey. The revelation strikes like a bolt of lightning: his long-chased dream was never truly his. He yearns not for the life he has meticulously constructed but for a solace found far from the madding crowd, in the serene solitude of being utterly alone.
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The Legate and the Caledonian Queen: Book 1 from a Series of 19
The hero is Adrianus and follows his posting to the very edge of the Roman Empire to Caer Amon (Cramond), an outpost to the Antonine Wall on the Forth Estuary. A man of uncertain parentage who with his family must not only face the Caledonian tribes at his fort gate but also the treachery within from those wishing to discredit the new Emperor. For every hero there should also be a heroine as history has neglected the heroines.
Mine is the young and spirited Selinda, Queen of the Venicones, Caledonia’s own Boudicca. How can she maintain her rule and the future of her tribe as she is caught between the Romans to the south and the Caledonii to the north whilst facing rivals amongst her own tribe? They agree to meet on an island in the Forth. Will she poison him or will they love and work together for the good of Rome and her tribe? Read on!
The first Roman novel on the Antonine Wall it features not just the Roman Army but also the women and their families living on the very edge of the Roman Empire almost 2,000 years ago. It is the first of 19 featuring other forts and the soldiers and their families as well as the tribes’ people on or around the Wall.
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The Last Grain of a Dandelion
Jon’s paradisiac world is soon to be destroyed as simply as a child puffing upon a perfect dandelion seed head.
It is set to be one of his life’s testing moments that we all have experienced at one time or another in our own lifetime.
Jon travels to all four corners of our globe, even to the moon. He encounters men, women, and children from all religions and all walks of life from the biggest city to the smallest remote village within less than one of Earth’s years. During this time Jon also coexists with every animal, insect and aquatic world teaching him our planet’s strengths and weakness. His unique knowledge and gift to be channelled to every living human being. Giving him a chance to choose, do and wish not only for ourselves but for another.
The questions remain.
What would you choose?
What would you do?
What would you wish?
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The Kingdom of Watetu and Songaland
The Kingdom of Watetu and Songaland is an autobiographical story about Mpeki, the princess of the Watetu tribe who realised early that FGM in her tribe was wrong and who sought out to bring about a change, a journey that caused her and her loved ones a lot of pain, because the Watetu tribe practised FGM while the neighbouring tribe, the Songa, appreciated sexuality. The differences that their cultures represented brought about a clash after the prince of Songaland assisted Princess Mpeki to run off after she hindered the mutilation of her sister.
This started a rift between both tribes that resulted in the abduction of the prince of Songaland, and the princess’s sister, whose mutilation the princess had hindered, was bought back by the missionaries. The prince of Songaland ended in Portugal as a slave, making his father furious – reason for a war that lasted for two decades.
It was finally after the abolition of slavery worldwide that the prince of Songaland came back with Mpeki and the missionaries who had travelled with her to help her evade her own mutilation.
Upon the arrival of the prince, his father ordered him to leave the princess, claiming that she was cursed. In fact, the princess was not cursed as all had thought. It was through her sacrifices that the two tribes reunited, becoming one under the prince and princess’s rule in the new kingdom of Watetu and Songaland, a kingdom of peace, justice and harmony. The story ends with a bombastic marriage between the two tribes, the result of the eradication of FGM.
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The Icky Wick Bowls Club
The Icky Wick Bowls Club invites you to join them at their private table known as the Gin Club Table, come and listen to hilarious tales of the past, or maybe witness the steamy night at The Vicars and Tarts party with a different story on every table. Travel to Ireland in the 60s with Molly and the gang as they cleverly remove marble fireplaces from a mansion in the wilds of Ireland and ship them off to the USA. Meet Micheal the renowned Irish raconteur singer/songwriter. Stay with Benny the septuagenarian gangster while he plans to bring his finest cannabis down from his factory in London filling up three golf bags, which he hides in the holiday coach carrying all the OAPs, to France. His journey with his wife Beryl, into and out of France with no passport, due to the fact he is on a lifetime ban from leaving the UK due to his criminal record.
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The Hunter
Leeches. You know them as vampires, they seem to be normal people. Except the fact that they have ivory skin and blood red eyes. They try to hide in the normal world, but people like me, we can tell the difference. I’m a hunter, one of many. We’re all over the world. Right now, they’re looking for something, something that would destroy the human population withing days. I must stop them. I must save the human race. Even if it’s the last thing I do.
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