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The doctor's wife is finding life very difficult. Her small, intelligent son is finding his Mother very difficult! Deryck Brand likes his patients to attend for help in his own house and among his own family. It helps his diagnosis and assists the patient to adjust to a healthy family life. Flower Brand needs to come to terms with actually living with her husband's clients. Will they smell? What about all the germs? Will she ever find it in he...

In this book, the author delivers a devastating indictment on the Nigerian leaders whose greed, avarice and misuse of power have dwarfed a potentially giant nation and 'enslaved' a free people. The book tells the story of Nigeria in its almost complete form. All facets of national life and institutions and the ways in which they have become perverted are discussed through narratives woven around the author as a Nigerian boy and a Nigerian man ...

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Written by a close friend of the subjects, Echoes from a Cornish Cliff is the heart-warming, true story of two pioneers of the The Good Life - Jean and Derek Tangye - who left glittering London careers and privileged lifestyles to take on the challenge of a derelict cottage and six scrubby, moorland acres on the edge of a cliff in west Cornwall, almost half a century before the idea became "fashionable". From an unpromising beginning they ca...

What you will see, during this walk will be some of the city's incredible statues and some of the magnificent buildings of Manchester. We will learn about some of the famous or infamous incidents that took place and we will hear about some of the sons, daughters and residents of, and visitors to, this city. For the less earnest and more casual amongst us, this short journey can be thought of as a moderate stroll around one of today's world sig...

Peter, Paula and the Pelican is a romp of a story, combining humour, pathos and nonsense for the edification of the young and the not so young adults who are still young at heart.  The author confirms that he has not yet had a visit from the men in white coats. The author is aged 60, lives in the village of Cuffley, Hertfordshire and still is partial to the odd peanut butter sandwich although he says he prefers a nice strong cup of English b...

2035 Revelation It is April 2035. The world is controlled by a central government. In a Level Three dormitory in a megacity in Southern England, one hundred men are asleep. One of them has a vivid dream. He wakes up in the morning with the rest of his unit. He forgets about the dream as he goes about his daily tasks. He has been trained to follow every instruction. He has no name, no family. Only a number. But the dream is the beginning of a j...

Why has an eccentric old scientist been acting even more strangely than usual? Who owns the yellow van that mysteriously appears everywhere? Will Baninjano be saved from certain peril? This is a tale of growing suspense as Princess Emily and the Royal Pets - Albert, Poppy, Jacob and Carrie the cat - are forced into a fearsome battle to keep the Deadly Secret free from falling into enemy hands. Remarkable illustrations by Princess Emily (with a...

Just Three More Days is the story of two men, two women, and three young children, whose lives and destinies are inextricably linked. Their story, in the adventure/romance genre, is set in both the distant past and the present day, and is designed to appeal to a wide readership, from teenagers to adult readers. The book illustrates how past and present are one great circle, how hope can come out of the darkest and most profound despair, how go...

Stories For Airports...: fiction that might be regarded as 'superficially engaging' whilst not necessarily 'profound or philosophical' (depending on one's interpretation of 'profound' and/or 'philosophical'). And...where the reader's 'engagement' with the story is more likely to be temporary than long-standing and on reading the story he/she may be inclined to move on... A 5th collection of tales that possibly `pass the test` on both fronts! A...

Under extreme duress, publican and ex-spy Mike Strange hands over vital coded information about an impending terrorist incident to Frank Sterling. Straight away, the private investigator is impelled into a fast-moving, unorthodox race against time. With diverse, eccentric and often unexpected support, can Sterling stay ahead of his relentless, violent pursuers and complete his latest mission?

Lord Lucan - A Strange Encounter He was old, lonely, and had been harbouring dark secrets for the last forty years. Now, thinking that his days were numbered, had decided to tell his story - and what a story!

Sam explores LOVE from all sides. Rebelling against social templates she studies herself in parallel lives. Catching glimpses of figures from the past and the future, she explores, amongst others, as a wartime adventurer, as an inscrutable temptress, a wandering ghost, as a tormented high priestess 2, 000 BC. Love and its shadow dance with itself and sometimes the grim reaper. In her no mans land between child and adult, she experiments, a goo...

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In the summer of 1995 a start-up company led by the son of a Greek shipping tycoon, took up residence in an orange painted tin shack next to the runway at Luton airport. Initially dismissed by British Airways as "a peanut airline", easyJet became one of the most successful start-ups in UK corporate history and a household name. Now fully revised and updated, this book is the definitive insider account of the rise of easyJet. Laced with first-h...

Jim is long-term unemployed but discovers a talent for brewing beer. He opens an illegal brewery with Hondo, an ex-salesman searching for enlightenment. Jim's wife June obsessively wants a baby with him but habitually has sex with strangers. Her only friend is Dawn, who thinks her arms and legs are other people. A shocking and sometimes brutal story about people living in a world that threatens to trap them forever in the underclass, it is wri...

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Enter the Zone will teach you the mental skills of greatest golfers on the planet. This book will revolutionise your game. Dr John Pates has worked with some of the world's greatest players including former worlds number 1 and Ryder Cup captain Ian Woosnam and Ryder Cup Stars Darren Clarke, Thomas Bjorn, Graham McDowell, Jean Van De Velde and Paul Broadhurst. Dr John Pates and Dean Robertson (Italian Open Champion) will take you on a fascinati...