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Michael Johnson, retired and living in Torquay, has lost interest in virtually everything and suffers from boredom and a sense of futility. His sense of humour has vanished. His wife, Ann, desperate for a change and failing to jolt him into returning to be the man she married, visits Aberdeen to see friends. Michael, confronted by powerful dreams, is persuaded by one to visit London whilst Ann is away. Determined to right a few wrongs, suffer...

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IN THIS BOOK, former journalist and occasional broadcaster Philip Algar offers an imaginative and satirical account of politicians, their behaviour and policies and the reaction of the public in the early days of the corona crisis. In writing this book, the author emphasises that he does not underestimate the tragic impact of corona nor does he belittle the disease, unlike some international leaders. Instead he takes some real incidents, exagg...

The Devonshire village of Woodfield Magna, like so many in England, is decaying. The young, seeking work and affordable housing, are moving away. The remaining residents are mainly elderly and are confronted by age, a disinterested Member of Parliament and government-imposed austerity. Efforts to publicise the plight of the village, in a television documentary, reveal a government plot to curb free speech. One resident needs an operation but t...

Having left school in the early Fifties, Tim Adams has no idea of what he wants to do with his life. His father organises an office job for him in a multinational company where Tim is confronted by a very tedious life, in which little work is done by the large numbers of self-important staff to whom juniors are inferior beings. He is challenged by a so-called management course, run by men of dubious reputation, fears of National Service and it...

This is about the British Merchant Navy prisoners-of-war and is partly based on contemporary diaries hidden from the Germans. Other aspects of the war discussed include the activities of the German navy, the role of the BBC, how the prisoners knew what was happening in the war, the Nuremberg trials and the human cost of the conflict.

Tim, a little boy, growing up in Devon during the war, whose father is in a POW camp in Germany, has no experience of peace. He witnesses wartime damage, spends nights in a Morrison shelter, watches a bomb drop near his home and sees allied troops massing before the invasion. After the war, will his father's own experiences prevent him from developing a positive relationship with his young son? Will the war claim another emotional casualty? Th...

This is the remarkable story of an independent's first campaign to win the Parliamentary seat of Devon East in the 2015 General Election. Lacking a party label, an experienced party machine and relying on private donations and friends to fight one of the country's safest Tory seats, Claire Wright won the highest number of votes, 13, 140, of any independent in the UK. Usually, independents fail to win more than a few hundred votes. This book of...

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