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Elizabeth Brown has a score to settle, and when she does, it won't be pretty. Discovering the people, who made her an orphan, she's determined to see justice done. Her brand of justice. First, though, she has to survive. Kidnapped from the dormitory of the orphanage by masked soldiers in green cloaks, she uncovers a new world. One where the Mistress hunts her. Escaping capture, she finds a new family and home, something she'll protect with...

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography." -- Oscar Wilde Some believe the Messiah will return to rapture the saintly and condemn sinners to Hell. Others believe He will return with love and forgiveness for all. Asher Delacroix believes that He has already come and gone again (several times) with almost nobody noticing at all. Asher needs parental guidance, but can't see any in his ...

Rose Well Holiday Park needs a hero. This once shining icon of the Great British Holiday Camp is dying, and the last residents are more interested in preparing for a zombie apocalypse or fighting off imaginary UFOs than playing Crazy Golf or Bingo. In addition, a foreign bottled water company is attempting to force a sale so they can seize the last asset of Rose Well Park, the Rose Well Spring. The famous spring water claimed to bestow gre...

A diary opens your heart and reveals your mind. Three friends recall through their diaries the extraordinary events that drew them together in their teenage years... Ally Green, aspiring professional footballer dealing with personal tragedy. KT Lee, drummer and animal lover with a complicated family history. Alex Andrews, would-be intellectual and poet who learns to face reality the hard way. Through it all their hard won faith is t...

Freddie's start in life is difficult, but he finds The Buddha and decides to become a Buddhist cat. When he's saved from the cat shelter, by John and Mary, his new life begins. That's when he meets Gemma. Gemma regards humans as Fascist oppressors as they took her kittens away. She believes Freddie is soft in the head but begins to see his approach to life brings rewards. Being a Buddhist cat isn't always easy. He tries to live in the mo...

The 1st Australian Imperial Force played a crucial role in the Allied victory in Europe in 1918. Over 313, 814 Australians were deployed into that theatre of the war, and over the period March 1916 to November 1918 they participated in thirty major battles. In many of these battles the Australians achieved remarkable victories, but at a grievous cost. By 1918, 46, 000 Australians had lost their lives, and around 132, 000 had been wounded. Th...

The crew cons Jeb into becoming the temporary guardian of Nate, the computer nerd teenaged son of Jeanette, an ex-FBI agent who is new in town. Jeanette needs to go to Europe for a few months to assist in an Interpol investigation and Jeb has no time to research his new role and is simply thrown in the deep end. The crew jumps in to assist, but this is a case of the blind leading the blind. It turns out that Jeanette's vengeful ex-husband ...

Tim grew up on an Exmoor farm where an early memory was the harsh winter of 1962/3, when a helicopter was the only way of rescuing a neighbour who had broken his leg. After university in Kent, a summer job assisting on a course for Mexican students led to a career in teaching, which has enabled him to live in several places, work in a variety of schools and publish a couple of text books. He now lives on The Quantock Hills in Somerset with...

A family saga of love and loss, war and turmoil. A world at war and the ancient land of Ireland makes a thrust for independence from the fading British Empire. Bridie struggles to find her place and break the boundaries of her class and gender. Danny is also searching and together they attempt to forge their own path. Can Ellen put aside the shock of witnessing her brothers take the life of a neighbour, in order to help Sarah who has b...

There are some things done that can't easily be undone. This fact was discovered, to his cost, by Albert Robson, heir to his father's estate. Albert, self-important and rude, upset a seamstress - and her cat! This was the start of his trouble. There was more to this cat than most would imagine. Benjamin, Albert's younger brother, and Kate Milligan, daughter of the estate's cook, set out to try and undo the mischief that Albert had created for ...

This history includes reports on each series of Camrose matches from the first series of matches in 1937 to the seventy-ninth series in 2021 and the appointment and reports of the Northern Ireland Bridge Union Selection Committees. The brief biographies of the 44 players who played in ten or more Northern Ireland Camrose Trophy matches are introduced in the narrative when each such player ceased playing for Northern Ireland in Camrose Troph...

In 1465 the world is a dangerous place for women who practice medicine. Even more dangerous for those who defy authority. Luccia Alimenti is a woman who does just that. As a daughter of one of the legendary female doctors called Salernistas, she travels Europe dispensing herbs, remedies, and the ancient medical texts of Trotula. Those put her in direct conflict with the powerful Inquisition. When she becomes an archer to save women fr...

Milly Hope is the Crossover child of fae folklore, but her parents don't know that yet. Of course, they know that their little girl is going to be special - just not exactly how special. To complete the Crossover process, she has to learn how to become fae before her 7th Birthday, and Barry Goodfellow, publican at the Royal Oak, and the rest of the faery community of Whimbury will have their work cut out to help her to do it. First, they ...

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Milly Hope was born in the village of Whimbury to be the Crossover Child of Fae legend. Her destiny is to be able to cross over from human to fae and back again whenever she chooses. But her ability to do that will only be within her powers if the first 'Crossover' takes place before her 7th Birthday. There is a responsibility, therefore, for the fae community of Whimbury to prepare her for this event. She will need to understand the history...

In his day the Flying Pieman, William Francis King, was one of Sydney's noted personalities. He frustrated his father's ambition for him and, leaving London, set off to make a name for himself in the Australian colony of New South Wales. This is the story of his successes as a pieman and a professional pedestrian - and his failures.

Guillaume de Rochefort believed with all his might that he had lived through time's tragedy, the madness of his ordeal with the storyteller five years prior all in the past. When his wife and daughter vanish while he is away on a business trip, Guillaume will have no choice but to follow anonymous clues taking him back to Mauritius. An unexpected host will request his assistance in a matter that defied everything Guillaume thought he knew ...

In 1865 in the shanty town of Tartatenango, the Caketown Bar is owned by the extraordinary Jaguar Paloma, matriarch of a village that is home to raucous miscreants, cast-off mothers, muleteers, and forgers. Amid drunken monks, a roaring trade in faked marriages just for fun, and the Romani, all balance on the knife-edge between legality and the illicit. Paloma's life is honed by this community, as their lives are affected by her mystery and ma...

Anybody who has worked on or lived on a farm will be well aware of the urgent "call to arms" when the stock have escaped. Most of us keep a bit of string and a penknife in our pockets as well for emergency repairs on the go! This little book rambles through some of the ups and downs of living in a rural area using simple verse.Put the kettle on, sit back and enjoy the read.

Moscow. 1998. On the edge of winter in a sleeping district slum, a little girl runs away from a family unhappy in its own way. Seeking shelter in a snow-melt world, she stumbles upon a curious little bird being chased by a dark force. On the run, they stumble through a portal into post-Soviet purgatory. Separated in the sprawling catacombs of lost souls and red tape, the little girl goes on a fantastical journey through parallel world...