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Follow Jimmy on his journey from his birth, through to the birth of his first child at the age of 21. His early life was filled with every kind of deprivation, he was constantly living on the edge of starvation, the threat of death was never far away either from his home life or from his multiple abusers, the authorities knew what was going on but they didn't help, the most they did was observe, the schools also knew the treatment he was getti...

Kraj is still a young, unexplored world. Here sailors are hopeful, merchants are jubilant, and the aspiring scholars of each realm are still teething on what information they can clasp from beyond their borders. Yet for all its promise, Kraj also hosts a forgotten anomaly who withers in hidden confinement. In the sunken heart of an ever-blue forest, an ageless creature is stirred from its perpetual sleep-walk. Cloud-cursed and without memor...

Largely based on interviews with surviving relatives, this is a book about how to achieve as good a quality of life as possible during a terminal illness.

Excitement and romance are blossoming in Merebank Bay before popular resident Marie mysteriously disappears. Mystery deepens when police link her to violent crime.

Lusaka to London in ANA45 - Tales from along the way The author describes various incidents which took place during his overland travels from Lusaka to London in 1986 from Zambia in Southern Africa to London. Travelling in an old Land Rover (with the registration ANA45), these were the days before sat navs or mobile phones, what could possibly go wrong? Leaving Lusaka in February 1986 with a travelling companion (a young Brit called Peter...

A collection of poems expressing some of the experiences, thoughts and emotions of the author taken from various periods in his life, often on journeys in a working environment which engendered feelings of a place and of the general environs at that time.

This is an unflinching portrayal of life in a coastal Yorkshire village three hundred years ago with its folk lore, old farming methods, superstitions and traditional remedies. Mary Jordan shares her damp, chalkstone cottage in Filey Bay with five growing boys and an unsympathetic husband. William Jordan is a farmer and customs officer. In league with the local smugglers, all is well until a keen young excise officer arrives. Mary's boys don...

Can we transcend worry? How do we find contentment? Is it possible to stand firm when the world around us seems so uncertain? Can we still find hope in God's written word? Transcending Worry takes us on a journey of reflection through some verses from the book of Philippians 4 1-13. Familiar and much loved these wonderful verses written by St Paul to the Church in Philippi give us a lot to think and contemplate: "Do not be anxious about any...

Lottie is a little girl who is always getting lost! Because of this, her family affectionaly call her Lottie Lostalot. When the family go on holiday, Lottie of course gets lost, and this leads to an amazing, magical, exciting, adventure with a magnificent Owl called Mowk. Kahrn Prince of Owls has been captured by Rheena the Rat Queen, and taken down into the Rat Underworld. Lottie and Mowk must come up with a plan to defeat Rheena and rescue K...

In Out of Time: The Intergenerational Abduction Program Explored, author Steve Aspin has written a crossover work about the enduring worldwide reports of alien abduction. The book is intended for both those familiar with the historic published case material and the curious reader unfamiliar with the decades of serious academic research on this superficially improbable phenomenon. The author details his lifelong personal experience and the re...

A book of short prayer poems addressing spiritual themes of identity, meaning, purpose and the Divine. Who am I? What is most important? What is life about? What is true? What is real? are all essential questions that lead us beyond ordinary language and into metaphor. The hope is that the reader might experience a moment of re connection to their own truth somewhere among the lines.

Darcy has a BIG problem. He's AFRAID of having to talk in social situations. He worries about crowds and fears he won't be able to talk in front of people. His good friend Ollie Owl has an idea. Darcy can overcome his fear by setting a goal. Taking several small steps toward that goal will help him achieve it. Wanting to perform in the school play, Darcy agrees. As the steps become more difficult, Darcy has to gather more and more courage ...

Anna, lost and alone, taken from a remote Icelandic car park on a stormy night, and her determination to be free and returned to her family. A story of abduction and stoicism in the face of hopelessness.¿ Strength of character and a strong belief that all will be well in the end. Told from two viewpoints, that of the victim and the family who search for her.

The original plan was to establish a small commercial vineyard in Andalucia in southern Spain but a combination of circumstances dictated that it finished up being fifteen hundred miles away on an island off the North Wales coast. The first few vines had actually been planted on a gardening whim in our field in Anglesey a few years before but they were totally mismanaged and eventually produced a small amount of unremarkable wine. Despite this...

The original plan was to establish a small commercial vineyard in Andalucia in southern Spain but a combination of circumstances dictated that it finished up being fifteen hundred miles away on an island off the North Wales coast. The first few vines had actually been planted on a gardening whim in our field in Anglesey a few years before but they were totally mismanaged and eventually produced a small amount of unremarkable wine. Despite this...

Winter 1961. Bruce Cordell has had quite enough trouble in his life. With a reputation badly injured by the collapse of his investigation into a corrupt corporation, he wants to keep his head down. His life has become mundane, reduced to desk work, and complicated only by family responsibilities. That is until his boss gives him a new case. A case which means that he will have to travel to the Caribbean Island of St. Eleanor, a tiny British co...

In my story, I cover my idyllic childhood at home, protected under my mother's wing, where I simply existed in a state of bliss. This was before the age of six. At six years of age, I attended primary school and my whole world changed. I woke up to a world of fear, anxiety and trepidation. My daymares began and remained with me throughout my primary school days. Corporal punishment was allowed at our primary school and my teacher took full adv...

This is a story about an alien, Zola. Zola and her family have just moved to planet earth and it is Zola's first time experiencing school with humans. Zola starts school and begins to enjoy her lessons and this new adventure on earth. However, later, Zola struggles coping with new and unfamiliar feelings on her first day at school as she experiences some unkindness from her peers. These children from her class tease Zola for being and looking ...

After their parents leave them, at the age of three, Etta and Dayal, always intimate, grow even closer, At 16, the almost incestuous nature of their relationship, troubles Dayal and he leaves his home, his sister and his two gay uncles, and sets off - he knows not where - just determined to find answers about his past and what the future might hold for him. He travels to Delhi where he meets a couple of young gay boys who have found their wa...

This book of 20 poems is is to be the first of many books that I shall be sharing with the world. The poems cover a wide variety of subjects including Hereford Art Gallery, Musical Instruments, Skiing in the Alps and Trees.