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London, 1984 examines the history of London during the tumultuous 1980s. Against the backdrop of dramatic political and social change driven by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government, it explores the radical politics of the capital, tracing the impact of political and social changes on the lives of ordinary Londoners.

We seek the islands of our dreams, whether upon the sea or along the empty streets of cities. We seek love. We seek our way, our way to far lands, our way to home. Through the pages of 'Islanders, ' poet Stephen Brooke voyages far and returns, bearing a cargo of dream and poetry.

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Radal was dead. Radal the mad, Radal the great sorcerer. Radal, father of Fachalana. Their final battle had left her lost, near-broken. Could she find healing on the Plain of Silver, the mystic world where once she hid from his power and that of the dark god Asak? Could she at last find peace and, yes, love? Now she learns a part of her father, possessed by Asak, is yet trapped in the god's realm. Fachalana must come to terms with her own po...

Yes, he loved these hills, these remembered hills of his youth. Jim Fry had returned from his four years in the navy, returned to the family farm where his sister had died, broken at the foot of a cliff. An accident. So most believed. Not her friend, artist Rick Myers. A few days later, Myers is also dead and no one mistakes this for an accident. Through farmland and forest, the cliffs and creeks of the Hocking Hills of southern Ohio, Jim pu...

Bring me tomorrow in a tall glass and I shall toast the memories that were my comrades These poems by Stephen Brooke speak of time, of things that were, of things that will be, remembering that through it all the clock keeps Ticking.

A connecting flight - as the aging Wilk returns to his native Poland he reminisces how, in the aftermath of the Great War, a young Jan Patrowski finds himself adrift. From the Russian Revolution to a China torn apart by factions and warlords, he strives to learn who he is. The decorated war hero and pilot? The clever mechanic and engineer? Or maybe a man in love who would throw away the rest of the world and lose himself in the heart of Asia. ...

The moon and I conversed last night ~ these poems are conversations with the moon, with the night, with the soul. The birds and the wind, dreams and memory, speak in this collection from Stephen Brooke, THE MOON AND I.

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Hurasu, the greatest sorcerer his world had ever known, was dead. To his son he left his sword, four mystic jewels, a realm in ruin, and many enemies. Urtu was not at all sure he wanted that realm. A wide unknown world lay beyond it, for a lad skilled with both weapons and spells, the path lay away from the great valley of his birth, across the mountains and into the tropical empire of the Molu. Urtu realized that a mission had been given him ...

Away! Beyond the hills, beyond the seas, lie kingdoms unknown. This book of stories is for all who would seek them at the edges of the world, for all who would journey to Lands Far Away ~ tales of fantasy by Stephen Brooke.

Ken Sasaki and his fellow time-travelers paid well for the Neanderthal experience-two weeks living with an Ice Age tribe, becoming part of that tribe. Things did not quite work out that way. The last minute addition of a woman scientist to their group caused some grumbling. That proved to be the least of their problems as they found themselves struggling for survival in an inhospitable world, an age ago, When Man Was Young.

The little meadow people introduced in 'The Contrary Fairy' return with new adventures in 'Daisy Days, ' a magical story from Stephen Brooke. Periwinkle and Marjoram, the brownie brothers Hob and Gob, and all their friends are joined by the goblins Nettle and Nightshade as the seasons pass through a year of play and wonder in DAISY DAYS. A beginners' chapter book from Arachis Press.

Beyond the Greater Sea lay fabled Tesra, the City of Wizardry. A golden city it was, the greatest the world had ever seen. Could the sorceress Na, a refugee, a wanderer, find her place there? Could she help defend its people against the mad, malevolent Wizard-Lord, a mighty sorcerer who had his own dark plans for her future? Travel with Na and her young companion Im across the sea and the hills, to seek their fate in the City of Wizardry. A fa...

Explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain, arguing that sexuality has been a key, though often neglected aspect of party politics in the last century and a half. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society.

Raoul Guzman was dead. Not so the plots that had swirled around the former dictator. Three children he left behind, and a young widow. Were any of them involved in the whirlwind of intrigue that pulled John Wilkins into their world? From glittering, corrupt Havana and Miami Beach, to the violent jungles of Central America, Wilk seeks answers while dodging Marxist rebels, Nazi fugitives, and shadowy American criminals. A novel of adventure and ...

Newly wed Marana and Saj thought they had put all adventure and magic behind them. It was time to start a new life in the south as colonists on the Isle of Lorj, their only concerns business and family. Yes, Saj had powers of foreseeing. Yes, they still had the Eyes of the Wind, those four mystical jewels, carefully hidden away. The couple would just as soon forget all that! But others had not. The priests of Munu still coveted the stones, and...

Every poem is a magic spell, words crafted to entrance, to transform. Illusion and reality mingle in the lines, and none can say which is which, where one ends, where one begins. Nothing here's real, and nothing is false, these poems are the stuff of dreams and of magic. Magic is a collection of poems from Stephen Brooke.