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This is a short prequel to Billy's War. It is short because Billy is only nine at the beginning of Billy's War, and readers begged me to write another book about Billy, but there is already a sequel in print, There's No Pride in Prejudice, it deals necessarily with Billy's life between the ages of 5 and 9, and the number of adventures that a boy that age can realistically have is strictly limited, however adventurous he is by nature!But, despi...

This is an omnibus edition, containing one novella and two novels, all of which have already been published. The novella is Billy: The Early Years, which is a prequel to the second book included in this edition, Billy's War, to which the the third title in the collection, There's No Pride in Prejudice, is itself a sequel.It is the story of Billy Frecknall, who is a little boy living in Nottingham, whom we meet in the first book along with his ...

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Thursday 8 May 1941, and Britain is at war with Germany. Billy Frecknall is only nine, but what a character he turns out to be! Like many boys of that age at the time, Billy to all intents and purposes no longer had a dad, because his father is in the army, and Billy doesn't even know where he is. But that night sees the biggest air raid Billy's home town of Nottingham has experienced, and there are many casualties, including Billy's mum. Bill...

Mummy, why don't I have any grandmas or grandads?' is surely a natural question for a little girl who hears her school friends talking constantly about outings with and presents received from loving grandparents. But when her innocent question is met by evasive answers, the sense of deprivation she feels outweighs even the problems she faces as a child of mixed race, the daughter of a white working-class girl from Nottingham married to a young...

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Maurice Summerfield was an old man, a very old man indeed, who boasted that he 'could remember his ninetieth birthday as if it had happened only yesterday'. He was also something of a celebrity, having been a popular broadcaster for many years, a lecturer at both Cambridge and Oxford, and, in between those two academic phases of his life, he had spent ten years as a Member of Parliament. But, despite his undoubted success in a number of sphere...

This is a newly-revised version of a book first published in paperback in 1998, which was very popular but went out of print some years ago when the original publishers ceased trading. It has recently been re-published as an e-book, and after it reached the number one spot for cricket books in Amazon's Kindle Store in both July and August 2013, the author decided to publish it again as a paperback. It is a book which explains the game of crick...

The date was Thursday 8 May 1941. Billy Frecknall was nine years old, and the country was at war. What could that mean to a nine-year-old? A great deal, not least being the fact that Billy to all intents and purposes no longer had a Dad, because his father had enlisted in the army in the early days of the war, and they didn't even know where he was. That night saw the biggest air raid Billy's home town of Nottingham had experienced, and there ...

The Heat of the Kitchen is a fast-moving, exciting story: Saint-Pierre-sur-Loup is a little town in the south of France, a popular tourist destination, but with a notorious problem - perpetual traffic jams - and Alain Simondi is its Mayor. Cécile Delpech is an attractive single mother who, although leader of the opposition on the local Council, is closer to the Mayor than her position would imply. Simondi's proposals for building a relief road...

Before The Swallow Dares is a story about two old friends, Ted Bryant and Jim Fletcher, who bump into each other by accident after a gap of forty years, and decide to renew their friendship, one of them discovers that his friend is married to a girl he loved when still at school but with whom he lost contact, something which he had regretted for many years. The two couples become firm friends, but the school-days romance remains a secret. At l...

There's No Pride In Prejudice is a sequel to Billy's War, but you don't necessarily need to have read Billy's War first - though if you haven't, you will probably want to read it afterwards! Biily Frecknall is a university student when we first meet him in this book, and we share his experiences in various countries of the world (France, USA, Yugoslavia, as well as his native Britain). Even when he was a little boy Billy was a fighter, fig...

This short novel, or novella, is 83-year-old Tony Whelpton's second book this year, and his fifth since he switched from being a best-selling author of school and college textbooks in his late seventies, a change which he wishes he had made many years ago because of the enthusiasm which his novels have inspired. In the summer of 1986 Wilf Broadhurst is a desperately unhappy and lonely old man, a former factory hand living in Nottingham. Now a ...

There's No Pride In Prejudice is a sequel to Billy's War, but you don't necessarily need to have read Billy's War first - though if you haven't, you will probably want to read it afterwards! Biily Frecknall is a university student when we first meet him in this book, and we share his experiences in various countries of the world (France, USA, Yugoslavia, as well as his native Britain). Even when he was a little boy Billy was a fighter, fightin...

This short novel, or novella, is 83-year-old Tony Whelpton's second book this year, and his fifth since he switched from being a best-selling author of school and college textbooks in his late seventies, a change which he wishes he had made many years ago because of the enthusiasm which his novels have inspired. In the summer of 1986 Wilf Broadhurst is a desperately unhappy and lonely old man, a former factory hand living in Nottingham. Now a ...