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On her last night working in a run - down pub, Joanne is unnerved by a well - dressed middle aged man sittings alone at a corner table, not drinking and staring at her every time she looked in his direction. Something about him made her feel uncomfortable. Later he turned out to be a reputable cardiac surgeon.

Samuel Pepys Diary - 1664. The fourth year of Pepys extraordinary and seminal diary. Other books in this series: Samuel Pepys Diary - 1660. The first year of Pepys extraordinary and seminal diary. ISBN 9781803021430 Samuel Pepys Diary - 1661. The second year of Pepys extraordinary and seminal diary. ISBN 9781803021355 Samuel Pepys Diary - 1662. The third year of Pepys extraordinary and seminal diary.ISBN 9781803021331

Journalist Ewen Langtree's random viewing of a family photograph sets off a chain of events that uncover a conspiracy not only involving the Australian superannuation industry but the entire Asian financial system as well. Set in the aftermath of a second global financial crisis, in Perth, a city sweltering within a heatwave, Ewen's search for the truth plunges him towards imprisonment and financial ruin. Desperate to fend off both, his salvat...

this book is one of two that I have just written the initial idea came to me many years ago and it was only just recently that I had decided make it Parr of my franchise Lucy and Benjamin the first attempt of this story was created way back in 1997 it was a story I created for an English essay its filled with fun and action and its dangerous if you like this kind of thing its almost reads like a comic book and the characters too have that comi...

In 2012-13, after an epic legal case, 5, 224 Kenyans were awarded compensation of several thousand pounds each for torture and abuse by Britain dying the period 1950-59. A total of £19.9 million was paid out. This novel, through focussing on particular individuals involved in the struggle for freedom, tells the story of the Kenyan people's struggle for land and independence that forms the backdrop to the legal case. It covers both the Kenyans'...

Some people choose to have cats, others have cats choose them. That's what happened to us with three terrific tabbies, plus a little black and white thrown in for good measure - and then there were some simply passing through. This story covers 35 years of feline frolics and friendship.

a selection of short stories--eighteen in total--which range from lost love to humour, horror to strangeness, and even a touch of fantasy is thrown in. Also is the fact that many of the stories are set in different parts of the world: America, England, Ireland, Australia and Germany, and sometimes in different eras of time. For example the Germany setting is from the late 1950's, England of the early 1950's and the 1960's, and America one year...

It is a bleak February morning. Jane Grey, of Bradgate Park, Leicester, not long sixteen but hardly more than a child, faces the block. Those who have used her in their power-games, not least her parents, have disowned her. One who has witnessed her suffering at such cruel hands and has accompanied her on that tortuous journey from birth to the scaffold, Nurse Ellen, stands weeping as Jane says her final prayers. Ellen, her true mother, knows ...

This is Janine's 31st book, in which Readers are invited to share her final journey. By the end of this publication, she has been given approximately 6 months to live ... maybe a little less or more. It is a remarkable book in many ways, bringing together a rich variety of personal stories, art, poems, prayers, interspersed with nuggets of truth. It also provides positive ways to embrace the overall experience, creating a tool to support those...

The Vital Nail recalls a period between 1936 and 1945. Bruce Samways as a young teenager moves from Watford to Gillingham in Dorset where his father helps run the family pharmacy. Bruce falls in love with a young Peggy and then gains a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge to study physics and maths. His adventures really begin at the outbreak of war when 19 year old Bruce finds himself caught up in the secret world of radar development, t...

Nathan East, successful agent for rock and pop bands, singers and tour technical crews ... and part-time private investigator. His problem? Taking on investigation cases in which he becomes too personally involved, often out of his depth with the criminal fraternity, the Serious Crimes Office and the Metropolitan Police ... and those women who find him utterly irresistible. Nathan has a knack of getting positive results with his investigation ...

Matthew Walker is kidnapped by Internet hypnotist Diabolus and finds himself in a network of caves next to a rumbling volcano. He meets a young Wolfgang Mozart. With the help of scientist Dr. Gildenstein, the boys manage to escape. They are transported to Mozart's home in 18th century Austria.

A Strange Kind of Madness is a Romantic Comedy. As a woman of fifty plus life was so simple. Her days revolved around cleaning the house, tartan slippers and an urge to make Gypsy tart. Then came the new neighbours, Barbara with a pedigree cat and a voice to match and Fred with a roving eye. Suddenly life becomes complicated, as with good intentions Lucy tries to save Fred from the amorous advances of the local siren, only to fall into his clu...

Li Qingzhao, Poet is a new translation into English of the lyric poems of Li Qingzhao, (1084 - 1150), the most well-known woman poet of the Song Dynasty. Intended for the general reader in the West, it is supported by a brief critical preface and explanatory notes. The translator is herself a published poet and a scholar of early women's writing. The book is lightly illustrated, and offers an excellent introduction to this important poet.

Lucy and Fred have married, but if policeman Fred thinks it is going to be easy, then he is in for a shock. After Lucy gets arrested, for the second time, Fred leaves the marital home, however Lucy has not finished with her unusual lifestyle. She ends up once again in the middle of a crime scene and at the mercy of an illegal importer. Will best friend Mabel save her from the clutches of an amorous ape, or will Fred finally come to the rescue.

PREFACE to A WINTER IN AFRICAThis travel journal was originally intended to be a book of impressions about Africa as I travelled through each country but it turned into a book about how each country made its impact upon me and led me on a path of self-discovery as much as new learning about the places I visited. The whole experience was as much spiritual as intellectual and emotional and has led to a complete turn around in my life, the course...

This is the story of Cornelius Franklin Gudgeon, archaeologist, as pieced together from the notes and tape-recordings that he left behind. It tells the tale of an ordinary man from a mercantile background in the English Midlands who became a solider then dug in Mesopotamia, met and knew Agatha Christie, worked with Mortimer Wheeler, and established a successful academic Department at a northern University. The memoir reflects on some of the ma...

It is a recipe for frustration. Frozen in time by wartime restrictions, young men in post-war Britain have much the same 1930s attitudes to life as their fathers. On the other hand, the young women are looking to advance on the wartime job freedoms their mothers experienced. The Lord Chancellor still wields his blue pencil but, as always, sex is on the mind of every young person. In the autumn of 1954 five clever and self-confident lads in the...

The poems, and prose, in this book are mostly of a humorous or light hearted nature, although some are a bit more serious. They are intended to amuse, make you think, make you smile or even laugh out loud. If you find something in the book which you enjoy then I will be delighted.

The wild adventures of a professional ornithologist - struggling to defeat alcoholism - working on the remote islands of the 'Forbidden Zone' of the Maldives in the late 1980s. Until very recently, permits to visit these islands south of the equator had almost never been issued to foreigners. The inebriated ornithologist arrives in the capital, Malé, after banishment from a Middle-Eastern kingdom when he was discovered abed with the king's fav...