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What was it like to be a student nurse during the mid 1940s? 18 year old Audrey French took the plunge and started training in Derby, a long way from her home in Hertfordshire. The stories of her training come thick and fast until illness unexpectedly interrupted her studies. Forced to leave Derby Royal Infirmary, yet very anxious to pick up the pieces, she starts again, this time nearer to home at the West Herts Hospital in Hemel Hempstead. H...

The Unspectacular Rise and Fall of Irwin Lipsted is the first story in a collection of nine short stories. They all deal with seemingly ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Irwin Lipsted, for instance, is a young man from a working class background. He forms a kind of relationship with a beautiful, somewhat older, widow. She wants a long term relationship with him - but, after certain strange things occur, he is not so sure. Maybe he w...

After his career in research, the author and his wife sailed from Edinburgh to the Mediterranean. While over-wintering at Rhodes they decided to go to the Ukraine in 1991, visiting Varna in Bulgaria, Odessa and Yalta. This was the first British boat to visit Yalta since 1919 where they found themselves in the midst of the Gorbachev coup. Cruising was fascinating with an unexpectedly sociable life. Visiting the old Communist bloc was eye-openin...

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Sef Meyer had made quite a few enemies, in his 56 years, and during the summer of 2008 they were lining up to damage his family and his property. But he was too pre-occupied to see the warning signs, his father, Hans, had recently died and after burying his ashes on the moors, there was a gathering at Sef's Moor Cross Stables for the reading of the will and the screening of a video that Hans made shortly before his death. The revelations shock...

If you go from Queens Road, Richmond into Cambrian Road and walk up the hill you come to a hefty iron gate, push it hard, go through and you are in Richmond Park. If you take the right hand path and go up the slight rise and then cross the path where cyclists and pedestrians fight for space and safety you come to a small pond. A nondescript pond, called Bishop's Pond. The name has no ecclesiastical significance, it is the name of the man who w...

Leading Your Organization' contains a series of short essays that examine the theories and practices of organizational management. It undertakes an exploratory journey into the concepts, issues and challenges of organizations ranging from leading oneself to managing change.

Brian Canty went into retirement as a former member of H.M. Diplomatic Service. However, during his lifetime, his experiences were wide and varied. As a young man, waiting to be called up for the Royal Navy, he worked as a junior clerk in a unique department of the Home Civil Service, the Tithe Redemption Commission. Then, on leaving the navy, he was assigned to the Air Ministry, later the Air Force Department of the Ministry of Defence. Follo...

Alec Hammond is the country's leading jump jockey, popular amongst his peers and adored by the betting public. Nicola James ran away from home at the age of 16 and drifted into the world of adult movies. When she meets Alec and falls in love with him, she cannot reveal her past. Murder, blackmail and kidnap follow.

Lost and found. We are pain. We are sorrow. We are joy. We are love. We are passion. We are ecstasy. We are all of the above. You search for your identiy. You search for what is true. Your search has ended here my friend. For all these things are you.

Peter Tait was a true entrepreneur. He became the inventor of a new type of working practice - the production line, a new way of sewing garments where each person did a particular job, thereby making each garment quicker and easier to manufacture. The monograph tells the full story of his company - Peter Tait & Co of Limerick, Ireland - from its beginnings to becoming the biggest supplier of ready-made uniforms to the Confederate Government du...

When 12 year old Julius McCoy is told that he has been selected to join the elite Zed Lunar Academy, he is over the moon...literally. It promises to be a year of neck-breaking races in The Hologram Palace, spaceship-pilot training and of course, developing his own very special mind-skills.Yet even as he begins to get a grip on his fantastic abilities, strange things start to happen around him. Who are the three mysterious men hanging about in ...

The phone rang, and a voice in Spanish said, "I'm Carlos. In excavations in Rome, they have found a new Gospel, in Latin, on clay tablets. The tablets went directly into the Vatican. However, I have a copy from a friend within the Vatican-we'd like to have it in English.He said, "I have a Spanish translation. If I post you the transcript, could you translate it?" I said I could.I'm simply an Australian journalist, who worked for United Press. ...

Mud never put itself together to make animals and humans. Vast intelligences with fingers of infinite cunning did.An Intelligent Designer, to create new forms of life, has to create at least 30 of them at once for them to survive. Male and female... Insects, fish, birds, animals or prehistoric man... at least 30 an Intelligent Designer must put together in on spot, all healthy, up and running. A very dangerous world awaits them.Atoms can't put...

North Korea shocked the world with its test of a nuclear weapon. But questions remain. Was it truly a nuclear warhead? Was it a massive conventional explosion?Are the known North Korean nuclear reactors still operating and producing more plutonium? How many nuclear weapons can North Korea potentially build? What is the secretive government of the "Hermit Kingdom" hiding from the international inspection teams?Somebody has to find out.They've k...

Following the success of his 20110 debut: Little Black Boo, the ever-mysterious Oh returns with the second book in the Trilogy. Taking another up close and personal look at sex in London's multi-cultural community, Little Black Book Volume 2 is a mix of heated stories and poems designed to keep your eyes, mind and thighs open. Featuring the debut of a new Erotic Writer's group called: The Blackrotica Collection. Little Black Book Volume 2 is: ...

World War II has produced a multitude of 'Military' books. 'TED'S WAR' fills an important niche among the fewer 'Home Front' books thus providing, in depth, more pieces of the Social History jigsaw during an epic time.This true story vividly describes the day-to-day life of a youngster growing up through London's six-year war turmoil, and the austerity years that followed. Sadness, anxiety, happiness, and humour during those formative characte...

The Panthers controlled the streets. The Neos grew to challenge that power. All was black and white - black V white - until...The Mongrels. Michael Chantrill, a young mixed-race man of twenty years of age - who once dreamt of leaving south London and its racially motivated gang problem behind - becomes engulfed in the middle of a race war. His newly gained mixed-race group of friends named flippantly - by themselves - as the Mulatto Mongrels (...

13 year old Julius McCoy is about to start his second year at Tijara Academy, in the Zed Lunar Perimeter. With the threat of the Arneshians averted for the moment, he can get on with the important part of his school life: developing his rare mind-skills. Of course, what any student on Zed looks forward to most is gaming in the Hologram Palace. But who is the mysterious lady hidden in one of the games? This encounter will set in motion an excit...

Mankind has faced several problems in history. Most of these problems, we overcame. Yet today, ever greater troubles are harassing mankind. Why? Because the most important problem that mankind had ever faced, is being ignored. This book discusses this problem.