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Waterwitch was once a a 'Thirty-Square-Metre' racing yacht built in 1937 by Uffa Fox to a design by Knud Reimers. Two brothers are determined to sail her to Ibiza for the summer despite losing her engine. Fox used his experience in Waterwitch to develop his design for Sea Swallow in 1938. The brothers used the experience to tell stories of horror and daring escapades! The boat is recorded in Uffa Fox's 1937 book: 'Racing, Cruising and Design'....

An adventure on a yacht sailing from Portugal to Ibiza in the Falklands War when Spain was siding with the Malvinas. A yacht that had already sunk, the Atlantic Ocean and two sailors, one aged eighteen, the other twenty years old. Forty-two foot of boat, weighing 2.75 tonnes and some of the busiest shipping lanes in Europe, surely this was a recipe for disaster? Argentina is at war with Britain, any British yacht is considered the enemy.

A modern version of Plato's Symposium. A comedy that examines serious issues. Socrates and his friends discussed the four types of love. In this updated version, women are the philosophers, led by Severine. She is the catalyst. Gaston, Giles and Mercer are typical modern aging 'lads'. It is up to Severine and her friends to open their eyes and their hearts to the joys of love. An updating of Plato's Symposium. A play for six characters. A part...

A fascinating collection of people arrive in Uganda for the coronation of the Kabaka. They have adventures in Lake Victoria and the islands there, they go on safari but they are no match for Africa. An amusing account of people forced into cynicism and facetiousness by the weather, the people and the mosquitoes.

A Switch Blade Knife, a Switch Blade Life, living on a knife edge. Joe Ederer leaves New York to marry his love, but she has met someone in the meantime! What can he do, he's burnt his bridges, but all is not lost, he finds work as a limousine driver until his articles are accepted by English journals. He even meets someone. Then things go wrong, dreams haunt him and he buys a gun. It's tough living life on a kinfe edge.

Preparations for a coronation lead to a family visiting Uganda. The family, travelling to Africa as a group for the first time, know that adventures and disasters await. It is not what life throws at you but how you deal with it that counts. This is a humorous and warm account of a family's frustration and bewilderment. From being stranded in Lake Victoria with no fuel to being buffeted in a tropical storm near Murchinson Falls, the Bruton fam...

A teenager's view of 1977

An updated version of Plato's Symposium where the comedy is provided by a parody of modern man and Severine and her friends discuss the many facets of love.

An innocent man finds his brother's body, the last on the crime scene, he is the chief suspect. Captured he will be proven guilty, at large he can try to find his brother's killer and clear his name.

Major Bruton's Safari - Preparations for a coronation lead to a family visiting Uganda. The family, travelling to Africa as a group for the first time, know that adventures and disasters await. It is not what life throws at you but how you deal with it that counts. This is a humorous and warm account of a family's frustration and bewilderment. From being stranded in Lake Victoria with no fuel to being buffeted in a tropical storm near Murchins...

A reader's review: couldn't resist purchasing this as I read the Snippet on Amazon and felt I just had to read on , I've finished ADBEC and I have to say I am absolutely stunned by your recollection of how it all was, and all of the characters, some of your recollections were identical to mine. It is very rare for me to gasp or laugh aloud when reading, a reaction usually reserved exclusively for the late Tom Sharpe, but I did reading ADBEC! R...

A fast paced thriller pits Finn McHugh against Didier Pourchaire, the most violent and sadistic villain and smuggler. Using Carrom board cases to hide drugs and smuggle stolen art, he leaves a trail of bodies. He has to be stopped. Morac Carom is a thriller introducing Finn McHugh and his glamorous and sexy team as they try to track down an art smuggler and drug dealer who has fatally dispatched others who have stood in his way. Through Helsin...

Bobby, a painter is repainting a pub when he finds a cache of sovereigns and some bonds. He visits Georgina, a broker who he knows through family connections. She listens to his story, but there is a twist. A gang of villains, using a courier company as a front, has discovered the haul too. George insists that Bobby return the cash to the crooks. Before he has an opportunity to offload the bonds, the crooks are on to him. He is pursued by the ...

SEVENY SEVEN Seveny-Seven was what the Disc Jockeys, slovenly, called the year of seventy seven, the year after the heat wave and the year before 'New Wave'. Nineteen Seventy Seven was the year of the Queen's Jubilee and the zenith of the Punk Rock revolution. It was time of fear and uncertainty. The oil crisis had knocked the economy off course, the cold war was at its height, there was doom and gloom all around. What did 1977 mean to adolesc...

Stumbling on his brother's body, Phillip Hayward needs to find the killer fast, especially as his footprint is at the crime scene. Chas and Musar help Phil but Diana Deverill, a glamorous reporter, and Chief Inspector Lord, the investigating officer, are both determined to find him. He has to stay free but has he enough friends to help him remain at large? His only concern is to find whoever murdered his brother. In order to do that he has to ...

A boarding school in the depths of the country, no escape. A bully tormenting one child. Then, the nightmare ends when the tormentor disappears in a tunnel that caves in. Stephen has a choice, tell no one of the collapse and be free from persecution or rescue the person who had made his life a misery and return to living in fear and trepidation. What would you do? Find out what Stephen did and how he justified his actions.

Mark O'Donaghue works for his former partner's wife. No problem there, but with an attractive boss in a prime location, what started as a private investigation firm, soon begins to resemble the centre for London's espionage.

Haunted by sinister and brutal nightmares, Joe Ederer, an American in London, recalls his voracious sexual past. Reality starts to mirror his dreams and Joe is thrust into a twilight existence where only the fittest will survive. This is a graphic and tasteful, erotic thriller, which follows Joe's thoughts and deeds in excruciating detail. For readers who will appreciate an enjoyable bagatelle that twists and turns as 'Jive-talking Joe' fights...

The true story of the Gunpowder Treason and Plot, told for the first time. Events leading up to the 5th November show categorically that Robert Cecil was behind the scheme and that it was a government plan to discredit and destroy the Catholic elite in England.

Cecil was a consummate plotter who undermined enemies and helped his supporters, he himself wrote: "I spend my time in sowing so much seed as my poor wretched fingers can scatter, in such a season as may bring forth a plentiful harvest. This was written just a fortnight before the discovery of poor Guy Fawkes. What does it mean? It is ambiguous, which is probably what Cecil wanted.I think it is a coded message proclaiming that nothing could st...