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Back page. I am an activities coordinator in a beautiful care home in rural Dorset. This little book of poetry contains many trips down memory lane as well as touching on grief and the demon which is dementia. It is a roller coaster ride of emotions, memories and observations taken from my own journey through life. Grab your tissues, hold on tight and enjoy the trip! ~ A Review ~ Jan Millward works at a wonderful care home called The Old Vicar...

Don Scotsdon and his lovable cohort Sally Rob set out on exciting and dangerous escapades in service of their rogue leader Dillard. Missions engaging clandestine operations and assassinations are all part of a quest to please him and eminent members of a government's narcissistic justice. Not all assignments go as planned, in fact few do, and along the way their commitments generate deception, violence, turmoil and commotion, the work ultimate...

He turned on his back. The sleet belted down on him from the black cynical sky above. He watched it mournfully, as his eyelids began their close. Something else was watching. It would be watching all night. It stood patiently, but like its master, it was almost dead.' In the idyllic city of Belle Vue an unemployed millionaire is slowly killing himself. But he's not on his own. Something else is with him. It's always with him. Following his eve...

I'm a film scriptwriter in Hollywood, with a partner called Ellie who's eight months pregnant and a film director, Harry Badella, who's rude irascible and always applying pressure on actors and writers. However fifty years ago, I was evacuated to Cornwall during World War Two and fostered by the Laitys. They had a son, Patrick, and for years I wanted to go back to meet him. There was never a suitable time. But eventually I take the bull by the...

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All things must end - surely?" Loholt Pendragon and his lover, Severus, are doing all they can to save Galahad du Lac from The Lady because he must become the next King of Albion, but whose influence will temper his mind? Even as the sons of Camelot find a way to join together once again the fate of Albion is sealed. The Lady will not settle for a throne when she can have a world and her plans for Albion send our heroes on a final journey into...

The political offspring of the Nazis rise in modern Europe to form an even more hideous spectre than in the past. A new movement has been created which intends to take control of Europe on the premise that Germany lost the war but can win by means of the peace. Jimmy Savage, a newspaper reporter, finds himself at the forefront of an assignment investigating matters far beyond his capability having been recruited, reluctantly, for the mission...

Set in 1970's Balham, Clapham and Battersea, as a teenager sex is making its way into your every thought. Girls or boys are all you think about and sleeping with one is something you think about even more. But girls, to this boy, are another race altogether. How do you even talk to them? We follow the young Mike Quin, known as Tiger, on his journey of sexual discovery that takes him to 1970s Soho and a house in Balham that doubles as a b...

Exploring for diamonds probably doesn't occupy too many conversations around the dinner table, but that's mostly what geologist Tom Lindsay has been doing in various countries, on four continents, for over forty years. From scrabbling about at the bottom of one of the world's deepest mines, to seeing the sun rise over a sacred mountain in China, the book is populated with unusual locales, oddball characters and larger-than-life situations in a...

Dave is your typical 23-year-old all-Canadian wizard: he's close with his family, spends a great deal of time with his best friend, lives in an apartment with a room dedicated entirely to Pokémon and owns a restaurant in downtown Toronto. However, the course of his future will change forever when his ex-girlfriend, Kelly, reenters his life and resumes their relationship. Dave and Kelly, as well as their other friends and Dave's family, will em...

Botallack Mine in Cornwall. Young Russian defectors. A rogue political asylum seeker. And nuclear waste. Ivan, seeking a freedom denied him in Russia finds sanctuary in the arms of Elsie, having left Anna and his unborn child in Cornwall. When he once more flees, robbing Elsie in the process, he is found by James - a mining consultant who wants Botallack mine. But they aren't the only buyers and the quiet shadow of the British Government begin...

Ethan Mercer, an executive from a New York advertising agency, inherits a Cornish cottage. Alone in the world since the death of his wife, he decides to travel to England to visit his cottage. Unfortunately the idyllic dream isn't as it seems. The cottage is a wreck. However, Ethan conquers boardrooms in a hub of the commercial world so this Cornish village shouldn't prove too difficult to control in comparison. But he doesn't take into accoun...

An affair, a death and a history... Sam Ross is unfaithful and his wife dies the night she finds him in bed with another woman. With death on his mind, and grief, Sam decides to trace his family history - which might well stretch back to Jewish slavery in Egypt during the building of the pyramids. His quests begins in Minsk, a city destroyed by the Nazis. On to Romania to seeks his family and his redemption. He finds it in Germany, starting a ...

A chambermaid with four children and a drunk for a husband, in Sweden in 1925, falls pregnant by the Crown Prince of Sweden. When it is discovered, the family is shipped off to Liverpool to avoid a royal scandal. Gustavus is born half-way across the North Sea so that he has a dual nationality. The family arrive in Liverpool destitute because the husband lost all their money in a card game on board ship. It is snowing, the children are crying, ...

A series of journal entries explain the mystery of a terrible killing. In the town of Muscatine, Iowa at the turn of the 20th century a respected jeweler called Fitch Swan has a disagreement with a former employee, George Volger. This man dares to start his own jewelery shop within view of Mr. Swan. Fitch's fortunes start to fade as Volger's rise. Circumstances in the small town gradually cause Fitch to lose his sense of self, family and most ...

After she is taken to hospital in an unconscious condition, her brother, who hadn't seen her for fifteen years finds her diary. It describes in detail that as a fifteen year old schoolgirl, she ran off with a school teacher and married him in Gretna Green only to be left deserted, pregnant, moneyless and homeless. She roams the streets and is taken into a nunnery but leaves when her baby dies. From then on, in great despair, she almost takes h...

Based on a true story, Secret Demon relates the astonishing, and often harrowing, childhood of a girl whose life is beset by abuse and demonic activity. We follow Megan as her idyllic early years in rural Ireland are abruptly ended when she is taken from her grandmother's care to live with her parents in England. While struggling to adapt to a new culture and being bullied at school, Megan's life is dominated by the unpredictable behaviour of ...

I am an architect, an unemployed architect. I am also the nephew of a man imprisoned by the Beijing authorities for drug smuggling. Knowing he was innocent, I decided to go to him. Unfortunately, with very little money, I was forced to trek there on foot. I started off in France and went on to Switzerland, Austria, Burgenland. Hungary, Rumania, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea, Turkemenistan, Uzbekistan, Tadzikistan and then into China....

The trilogy continues to the closing stages of 1951. When Gus reflected all that had happened during the year, it made his head spin. He discovers that his legal assistant, Samantha Lockwood, is a woman not a man and that she is the sister of his old school friend Barney Short. He falls in love with her and they eventually marry. However he regarded Pringle's legacy to him as the most important of all. It had nothing to do with his money or th...