A Giant Tale

Set on another world, an enjoyable evening of celebration turns to disaster with the sudden invasion of an army of metal soldiers. Assisted by huge giants, the mechanical army destroys a fishing village and captures the inhabitants. Only a few escape…

Eitak, Sirod Spa and Bones find each other in extraordinary circumstances and so begins a thrilling adventure that covers three continents and takes the reader over snow-topped mountains, through white rapid waters, to a slave city and onto a vast desert, home to a huge hurricane and its secrets beyond. A Giant Tale contains intrigue. We meet savage monsters and unexpected new friends in the form of the soul-shifting dead. The story has magic and giants, hope and death. A Giant Tale contains love and war and leads to an eventual showdown with the metal army and the mystery of how it came to be.

A Good Rest for Some

Good Rest Care Home, “A luxury converted manor house where residents are well looked after by experienced, caring and compassionate staff. Let your loved ones stay here in safety, in superbly decorated accommodation single en suite bedrooms are decorated to a high standard and residents are encouraged to bring in their own possessions to personalise their rooms.”

A country home where residents are safe... aren't they?

Things go badly wrong when residents start losing their possessions from their rooms. And when four residents die, the deaths are attributed to natural causes. But three members of staff are not convinced, so they undertake their own investigation.

With an unconcerned manager and a mysterious doctor, the three discover that the residents are not in safe hands and are in danger of dying before their time.

Who is the person or persons responsible? Can the three staff members find out before any more untimely deaths?

A Ha’penny Will Do

Love, dreams and destitution.

Three members of one family are linked by their struggle to survive poverty and war at the turn of the century.

Kate, a homesick, lonely Irish immigrant, dreams of being a writer. After difficult times in Liverpool, she comes to London looking for a better life. Hoping to escape from a life of domestic service into marriage and motherhood, she meets charming rogue, William Duffield. Despite her worries about his uncertain temperament, she becomes involved with him. Will it be an escape or a prison?

Fred is a restless elder son, devoted to his mother yet locked in a tempestuous relationship with his father. War intervenes and he secretly signs up to serve abroad. Is his bad reputation deserved? What will become of him?

Joe, too young to sign up for WW1, is left to endure the hardships of war on the home front and deal with his own guilt at not being able to serve. He starts an innocent friendship with his sister-in-law which sustains him through hard times. Will he survive the bombs, the riots, the rationing and find true love in the end?

These are their intertwined and interlocking stories told through the medium of diaries, letters and personal recollections, based on the author’s family history covering the period of 1879–1920. The truth is never plain and rarely simple.

A Heart of Glass

This eclectic collection of poems invites you to sit at a table and feast along at a banquet of thoughts, desires and dreams. Each theme spotlights some untested message about identity, mental health, love and being, giving a lucid perspective to otherwise complex matters. The vulnerable, delicate and emotional poems coupled with the author’s transparency about her own experiences have informed the title A Heart of Glass. She employs simple rhythms and imagery to explore regular but intriguing characters set in plots that allow the richness of their stories to become real. This body of writing comes unrestricted and ready to spark – regardless if it is a conversation, thought or a long-lost memory...

A Kiss Under A Kalkan Sunset

A history of bad marriages and relationships can cause barriers to be raised when meeting a member of the opposite sex. Sometimes the ideal partner could be knocking at the door but past mistakes can cause blurred vision and deaf ears to the well-intended gestures of a genuine suitor. Opening up to someone new is difficult when dark shadows of the past hover nearby. Can trust ever be given again to someone new? Wonderful opportunities can arise out of some unexpected situations, and we must be ready to seize upon every one of them but we must also be aware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. True love has a way of finding you, and if you are open to it, you will never look back and will banish the demons of the past forever. They say, “Never judge a book by its cover,” and maybe we shouldn’t judge new potential happiness by a former lover.

A Legend Called Tanniv

England has an abundance of ancient stone circles, and the world is full of stone rings and megalithic places. Places like Stonehenge, The Avebury Rings, Carnac in France, even the newly found Göbeklitepe in Turkey have been discovered in more recent years, but no one knows why or what they were used for.

But what if two boys discover the actual answers to the archaeological questions that have perplexed the world for thousands of years? What if two boys knew all the answers to all the enigmas? Questions that scholars and historians worldwide have been desperately attempting to find for centuries but are largely unaware of what they are used for?

This is a story about how two young boys discovered the hidden secrets of the past and could understand why civilisations and Empires have forged over the past twelve thousand years, only to be lost and forgotten again.

Living in the New Forest in England, two boys discover a hidden stone circle in the countryside: only to find out what they were used for and why they existed; only to find out where they lead to, why they were built in the first place; only to find a closely guarded secret that only a few would know and a long-forgotten past with civilisations that rose to glory then collapsed into the ashes of history.

A sophisticated network of stone circles crisscross the globe, and voices from the past whistle in the wind around our accidental megaliths, waiting to be discovered.

A Lesson in Love

Sarah had bought herself a pub – by herself.

Miles from family and friends Sarah was about to learn what hard work really was, the building had seen better days and she was going to run the business by herself – a bit different to a small takeaway shop in a local suburb of Melbourne. What was she thinking?

Sarah was to find out how this small community pulled together and supported each other through good and bad. 

And how the love of a dog and one very infuriating man would change her world.

A Life of Breath

Jamie is a respiratory doctor working on the front line. After 12 months without catching the illness himself, he finally gets infected from an unlikely source.

He struggles to come to terms with his own first experiences of the breathlessness that has been the focus of his working life. He also has to reflect on his own potential mortality. Neither are a comfortable ride.

He has had a hugely successful 35-year career, which has taken him to the very top of his specialist field. At the same time, we meet the shy, gauche, and naïve first year doctor, who could never imagine, the achievements ahead. We read the disastrous, humorous, and unbelievable escapades, which mould his career, whilst realising that a successful personal life does not necessarily match, that of the career

The author believes the public has fallen out of love with their medical professionals and in writing this part biography, part fictional account of one doctor’s story, he hopes to put this right. You should laugh, cry and cringe in approximately equal doses, but you might not be able to look your own doctor squarely in the eye, with quite the same perspective, again.

A Little Bit of Everything

This is a compact and intriguing collection of mixed genre poetry. As the title suggests, it has “a little bit of everything” within it: happy, sad, horror and fantasy.

Let your imagination get to work, as you immerse yourself in a world of dreams, and possibly even some nightmares.

These poems may alter your perception of the world around you and make you realise that there is always something beneath the surface, or that a shift of perception can breathe new life into an old routine. Perhaps some of these poems may even reflect on your own personal circumstances?

A Magic Flight

As a child, Hannah Lethbridge is persistently abused by her self-centred mother. She is assaulted and cheated by a perverted tutor, and eventually collapses dramatically in her doctor’s waiting room. Only after three years’ therapeutic care can she recover her shattered self-confidence sufficiently to negotiate a job with an Edinburgh publisher, and eventually a teaching post in the University of Dundee. There, slowly, she meets and falls deeply in love with an introverted scientist. Her former life, which had wounded her so deeply, is almost forgotten, until her criminal mother appears unannounced on her doorstep, and Hannah’s world is shattered once again. This time, however, she has the support of her lover and her friends, the police and the justice to be found in the courtrooms of the Old Bailey.

A Maltese Crossing

After a full life’s hard work, retiring to the Maltese sunshine was supposed to be a relaxing sunset for Rosy’s grandparents, and a great holiday for her. But when a bleach-blonde barmaid from Bradford exploded on the scene, it all got a bit complicated. Rosy and Iain had to learn some tricky local law and intricacies of Maltese life quickly.

This family saga guides the reader across the years, and between the seasides of Lancashire and the Mediterranean, along with plenty of photos to help. A Maltese Crossing won’t make you a lawyer, but it will give you a great virtual adventure on this most enigmatic and fascinating island in the sun. Whether you read it at home, on the plane or on a Maltese beach, you will soak up the feeling, at no risk, unlike our accidental heroes.

Amaze your friends with your new favourite word: ‘usufruct!’ Guidebook, social history, a crime to solve or absolve, and a collection of all-too-realistic characters walking off the page to meet you – a captivating read.

A Mind Behind

Embark on an extraordinary journey alongside Laura as she ventures from the shores of England to the vibrant landscapes of Italy.

Set against the backdrop of Italy’s struggle for independence, A Mind Behind unravels the compelling story of one woman’s courageous odyssey.