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Mabel Murphy
It’s 1920s London and the world is in a deep economic depression. Times are very hard and the city is rife with unemployment, poverty and disease. One family in East London
have managed to keep themselves afloat, housed and fed, despite having one parent with a long-term mental health condition, but that is all about to change as their teenage daughter is catapulted into a series of life events which are traumatic, heartbreaking and shocking but which make her become a much stronger and more resilient human being than she ever dreamed possible.
This is a harrowing story of innocence, shame, hostility and vicious cruelty from the very people who should be caring for those in need, but it is tempered with love, hope and the potential to change one’s situation given the right opportunities.
Although fictional, this was a true story for many women of that time and is based on several older women whom the author met and supported whilst an NHS nurse in the large hospital system.£8.99 -
Macbeth and Julius Caesar
Macbeth, with the murder on his mind, has a vision.
“Is this a dagger I can see… see but cannot touch?
The hilt is turned toward my hand, but still… I cannot clutch.
It is a dagger… of the mind to lead me to his room
Although unreal, it’s like the one I draw to seal his doom.”
He draws his dagger.
“I must move soft, that no one hears my footsteps on the stone
In silence then I make my way, my presence never known…”
A bell rings.
“The signal sounds, the time has come for Duncan… it’s a knell
I go… it’s done, I send him now to heaven, or… to hell.”
He enters the room.
End of Scene 1
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Mad, Bad Jason
Zane Fellows is shocked on the first day of school when his new teacher, Ms Plumb, has him sit next to the naughtiest boy in school. Jason Riley has a bad reputation and a disregard for the rules. Zane would prefer to sit next to his best mate, but Aaron has suddenly developed a crush on the new girl, Charlie. Dad, a knock-about man whose best mate is a foul-mouthed cocky, thinks it’s a huge joke. How can Zane manage to stay out of trouble himself? And what does he unexpectedly find out about Jason that helps change his attitude towards him?
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Main Attraction
Have you ever dreamed of meeting your favourite celebrity, your dream guy. They are just like us norms. They dress the same way, just have better clothes, more money. Imagine getting to know the real person. The fame and celebrity is just their job, it isn’t who they are. Can fate and destiny really bring opposites together to fall in love? Enjoy Sandy’s adventure with fate and destiny. Will she find true love for once, friendship, heartache or will it just be a dream? Will she get everything she has ever wanted?
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Making Old Bones
Gramwell Glade is Making Old Bones.
A care home, purpose built around a Georgian folly castle façade in Essex, Gramwell Glade is making a fortune for business developer Akin Akindele who, armed with an MBA foresaw that high end care homes were going to return significant returns on his investment.
It’s Making Old Bones of Pauline Graves’ career since moving from hospitality to head up the staff at Gramwell Glade and putting her misplaced hopes in a liaison with Akindele.
It’s Making Old Bones of the dedicated carers who support its sundowners while supporting their own families on the small fiscal returns their efforts bring on the ‘living wage’.
It’s laying old bones to rest. For many of the residents their time at Gramwell Glade is their first experience of surrender when it comes to real life responsibilities. That onus now falls to their ‘children’ who now have their parents’ Powers of Attorney and who are handing over the funds that would otherwise satisfy a mortgage sufficiently large enough to buy their own castle.
If we know someone who works in the care sector or spends their twilight years in a home, if we visit family or friends who have moved on into residential care, make no bones about it, something like the Gramwell Glade experience could come to us all.
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Malory's Grail
The final book in The Malory Trilogy relates how Sir Thomas Malory’s dying wish to see his great work Le Morte D’Arthur safely placed in Winchester Priory is finally fulfilled by his fictional friends. Interwoven with the unfolding story of the manuscript is the historical struggle for the English throne. The dynastic upheavals of the time are inseparable from the journey of Malory’s precious manuscript from prison to print. The action moves between London and Brittany where Henry Richmond is planning his triumphant attack on the usurper, Richard III. Far away in ‘The Other Place’ Sir Tom hears the good news.
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Man With A Gun
That the gun was kept in a drawer of the old Singer sewing machine was never a secret; although, when his father died, its significance as a reminder of the old man’s mysterious occupation was quickly overshadowed by the discovery of a fortune in banknotes in the loft.
There was, too, the emergence of some alarming connections with an extreme nationalist organisation. And if all that wasn’t enough to disrupt his quiet existence, the presence of dognappers in the village presented a more immediate cause for concern than how to deal with an unexpected legacy, although the inherited gun would come in handy there.
For the new owner of the gun, and very quickly too, the quiet Scottish village of Beachborough was transformed into a centre of smuggling, money laundering and revolution, such a situation of turbulence as had not been known since the Jacobite rising, centuries before. As a singularly unremarkable man, would it be possible for him to stay such an unsettling tide of change, or could he maintain his studied convention of spectator?
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Mangrove Sands – The Enchanted Sea World
The Epic Journey is the third book of the Mangrove Sands series. It aims to inspire and educate children who for one reason or another have difficult starts in life, either by fate or disability.
Based on an island in South East Queensland, Australia, five children experience many adventures and mishaps through an enchanted underwater sea world with their magical talking animal friends.
A young Swedish girl has recently had her leg amputated. She struggles to accept the loss of her leg and has no interest in making new friends or attempting to walk until she meets her Enchanted Sea World friends and her life is changed forever. She starts doing things she never thought possible. She shows her friends how to make Dala horses, bake Swedish buns and join in traditional Swedish celebrations.
Mangrove Sands, The Epic Journey is full of magical adventures in the Enchanted Sea World including surviving a cyclone, a pandemic, and the realm of horrors. Magical spoons, a magical sea god, a wedding, and a death will keep young minds curious and captivated.
This book is full of fun, adventure, and many magical moments. It aims to provide hope and inspiration to children around the globe and encourages children to embrace, respect and learn about other cultures and languages. It further encourages children to exercise humility, love and understanding to all.
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Marelle
The nature of war is that there is no normal; emotions are always running on the surface; fear, hope, sadness and love can all manifest themselves in an instant.
In this setting, four central characters embark upon a daring and extremely dangerous journey through war torn France in 1944. Two French orphaned children have no idea how they will reach what they believe to be their only surviving family. Meanwhile, two Allied prisoners of war escape their captivity, but behind enemy lines they are uncertain about their survival and their ability to get back behind Allied lines.
They each carry a burden of their own personal heart-breaking tragedy as fate brings them together. The sadness and despair from the loss felt by each of them must be overcome if they are to survive. Survival, however, is not guaranteed as each step they take on the journey is fraught with danger.
They soon realise that love and friendship are the most important ingredients to help them reach their personal objectives. Despite the perils they face they demonstrate courage and determination and never lose hope, because as each day passes and with each crisis they face, the bond between the two vulnerable children and the soldiers grows stronger.
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Marnari Rashna
The story starts with Marnari Rashna, the last from the order of magi, being summoned to the king. On her way there she meets Quinn, the most interesting street urchin ever. Quinn has an amazing talent: one that Marnari has only heard of, but never seen. Marnari invites Quinn to join her the next morning. The girl has nowhere else to be so agrees.
The two of them head to deal with the king’s business, only to realise it is a trap: a threat on the king’s life looms. Racing back, they are too late. The only friend Marnari now has at court, the stable master, tells her that there may be an heir. The only one who may know about this has long since left the continent and headed to the northern shores. Quinn doesn’t want to leave her new horse behind so opts for the gateway, never used since the great war. There is only one quick way to get there: across the plains.
Dangers await, yet the gentle soul of Quinn has only ever known one life. This will become the greatest adventure of her life and of all those she meets.£8.99 -
Marsupial Tracks
As a jaded regular in the city’s underground music scene, the only thing that mattered to Jacob Blythe was punk rock. When the arrival of a mysterious girl tempts him into seeing a vision of the world that exists beyond the confines of his cosmic nihilism, Jacob finds himself helpless to resist it.
Now, sitting alone in an unfamiliar train station, and possessing no memory of how he got there, Jacob has no choice but to piece together the scattered remnants of this fractured past before he is consumed by the sinister creature chasing him.
With time running out and one of the greatest punk bands of all time about to take the stage, Jacob has only one chance to discover the answers to life’s most complicated questions.
If only he and his friends hadn’t drunk so much first…
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Martex Renver in Search of a Better Life
Planet Capo is situated on the other side of the black hole. There was a war and after a chemical fallout, the humans were left with an altered DNA. They must get to Planet Earth because they believe that by combining their altered DNA with that of the Earthlings, it would revert to the way it had been. On the night before the official launch to Planet Earth, Martex Renver and his friends go on board the spacecraft for a tour. After a mishap Martex becomes the new Commander, and his friends the new crew and they are on their way to Planet Earth to find a cure for their altered DNA. Martex must first destroy a meteor as big as a bus that is about to collide with them. When they land on Earth, they discover a problem. They are much smaller in size than the Earthlings. Martex meets the American President's daughter, Angela Andrews. They fall in love, but their size difference makes it impossible to have a normal relationship. Can Martex get back to his planet in time with the cure to save his father from an early death?
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