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P J Parsons looks back over his life, from living in London during the Blitz to living in retirement in Eastbourne. He also recounts humorous incidents from working as a volunteer with Social Services. If the author has any ambition, it may well be the desire to find light relief and humour in the various seemingly fraught situations of life.

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It's a funny game, football. PJ Parsons has been an enthusiastic follower of the sport since his childhood in the 1930s and 40s, playing it and watching it, analysing it, discussing it. Here he takes a comical look at all aspects of the modern big-money game and contrasts it with the grass-roots sport of the 1950s and earlier.

It 1106 when an eight-year-old girl named Hildegard came to live with Lysanor of Rupertsberg. One of the girls would become a twenty-first-century saint and icon-a mystic, physician, teacher, and, most importantly, a musician. The other would make her mark on the world as a grace note-the woman in the shadow. As their lives intertwine, two vastly different girls begin to build a friendship that will eventually lead both into experiences they n...

It is 1106 when an eight-year-old girl named Hildegard comes from Bingen in Germany to live with Lysanor of Rupertsberg. One of the girls will become a twenty-first-century saint and icon-a mystic, physician, teacher, and, most importantly, a composer. The other will make her mark on the world as a grace note-the woman in the shadow. As their lives intertwine, two vastly different girls begin to build a friendship that will eventually lead bot...

P J Parsons takes a humorous look at the typical tennis club, inspired by his experiences of club tennis at home and abroad over the past seventy-odd years. The perils and pitfalls of committee membership are explained, and there are useful hints and anecdotes for those wishing to improve their performance with the help of a little gamesmanship.

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While teaching at a Canadian university, ex-pat American English professor Sean O'Hara stumbles on the diary of his great-great-great grandmother, Bridget Ryan. With a doctorate in English literature based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Sean is drawn into Bridget's story when he discovers that she and Poe were contemporaries, and more than that, it appears they were friends for a time. The story sweeps us into Bridget's life in Boston and Bal...