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The true story of a young gay man who was hanged for the murder of his mother. Sidney Harry Fox was the illegitimate son of a railway signalman. He and his mother Rosaline were a devoted couple. Sidney was a forger and a fraudster and a pathological liar who in the course of his life went to prison six times, while she was a Red Cross nurse who was kept by men. Sidney was also a handsome and seductive rent boy with well-placed clients, includi...

If you love CHOCOLATE, CAMPING and SNOW, then join Mr Toilet Man and Mr Funky Man on their surprise picnic adventure. They meet two new friends along the way: Mr Smarty Pants and Mr Chocolate Man!

...a forward passing the key to the next forward". The goal posts magically 'shimmer and shine' and a door appears! Grace uses a key and disappears through the door to a football match. She arrives at several football matches hoping to help the team on their journey. Teams such as the Netherlands who were 2017 Euro champions and Northern Ireland who were first timers at the 2022 Euro tournament appear in this story. Is football just a game? ...

Noteworthy Nature around Horsham town includes information about natural history sightings at locations in or near to Horsham, West Sussex. The author has made nature notes over many years and has extracted details from her observations to enable her to write this book. She hopes that readers will become enthusiastic about nature and progress to observe the nature around their own gardens and beyond. This book tells of local places where the a...

A magical and colourful picture book about the power of independence, determination and a creative mind. "My wing is broken And I can't fly So I'll build a ladder To climb up high" Celina has a broken wing and, unlike her friends, she cannot fly. One day, Celina has an idea and starts working hard to reach the top of the highest tree. Her friends do not believe Celina can do it. They discourage her from carrying on, fearing she might fail....

Transplant and Fears is the emotional roller coaster ride of a baby boy born 23 weeks prematurely fighting everyday against his own body against the grueling challenges that living with any chronic condition can bring, during Chris's life he has unfortunately had to under go 4 kidney transplants by the the time he was 23 while battling family, relationship and social issues as-well as as coping with issues of mental health. This story also sho...

The story is about a 10 year old boy called Zain, who is a space enthusiast. One night he goes on a mind-blowing space adventure. He finds himself on planet Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus with each planet having its own mystery and challenges which he has to navigate and through a magical door he travels from planet to planet whilst learning actual facts about each and every planet. In the end he realises a remarkable ...

The story is about a 10 year old boy called Zain, who is a space enthusiast. One night he goes on a mind-blowing space adventure. He finds himself on planet Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus with each planet having its own mystery and challenges which he has to navigate and through a magical door he travels from planet to planet whilst learning actual facts about each and every planet. In the end he realises a remarkable ...

Sally Brown found herself sitting alone in an old familiar armchair, in a small room she knew so well. Closing her eyes, she wandered off into the echoes of the past. The overwhelming smell of cigarette smoke drifted back, loud chatter and noisy children filled the room. Sally had first arrived in the Parents' Room over twenty years ago as a newly appointed Community Teacher. The Room was based in the Meadows Infant and Nursery School, on the...

Emails are at the center of everything we do. Whether personal or professional, we send and read emails every single day, multiple times a day. Yet, most people have no idea what goes into writing a good email. In this book, Juliette Sander pulls from a combination of research and real-life application and presents a business email strategy that will upgrade your writing and get you the results you hope for. From the sales pitches you em...

On holiday in Australia, Bingham and Lina come across a stranded motorist, his car hung partway up a tree, the result of avoiding a kangaroo. Their act of kindness takes them to Yulara, the staging post for the sacred rock, Uluru, where they meet Nellie Doolan, an Aboriginal of mixed race, and, eventually, her father. While there, they are told that Helen Lewis, who runs the local Aboriginal art gallery, has gone missing. Arriving in Alice Spr...

In recent decades we've seen how non-financial risks such as operational, cyber, model, conduct, climate change and many others have grown exponentially both in their size and complexity. We've also seen how devastating unexpected losses can be for a business, they're a CEO's and CFO's worst nightmare. It's a frequently overlooked fact that an unexpected financial loss must have previously existed as an unquantified and unreported exposure to ...

This exciting new adventure of Pablo the donkey is set in the real life north Devon village of Clovelly and finds Pablo being given a very important job by the Wizard Of The Northern Shire, to deliver an ancient dragons egg to its mummy who lives on a nearby island. He finds help from some cheeky mice, clever seagulls, a magical mermaid, and his best friend Patrick the squirrel, but¿needs to overcome challenges on the journey due to the app...

This personal memoir attempts to set out a blueprint for new NHS hospitals, alongside a commentary about a recent experience as a Trauma inpatient and outpatient in a large failing London teaching hospital which highlighted some of the difficulties and frustrations facing patients. This took place during the NHS's struggle with the Covid pandemic. The buildings and facilities within which patients are treated and staff have to work are so impo...

Born in Bentwood, Essex, the author Ted Bailey was sent to a boarding school in Croydon, just before he was seven-years-old. In those early schooldays, he was very small compared to most of his fellow pupils. There was some bullying which was difficult to avoid as a boarder. Also, he positively hated organised games, especially football outside in the winter. As they were compulsory, unfortunately, there was no getting out of them. Being use...

The year is 401 BC, a new art form is burgeoning, what we now call La Tene, or Celtic, spreading north from the alpine regions. Three years earlier Athens had finally been defeated by Sparta and her allies, Rome is but a fledgling city state, the Etruscan confederation is in decline, hordes of Gallic warriors are rampaging south over the Alps and through all this, two from the far northern Tin Islands, blithely wander. It is a tale related b...

The Teller, volume 2, is a continuation of the story of survival in what we call, the Early Iron Age, made all the more desperate by the fact two potentially hostile tribes now occupied the same coveted swathe of territory, actually the rich, rolling farmlands north of the river Severn. It is a tale related by an itinerant storyteller, returning as promised, 401 BC, to the hilltop tribe avidly waiting to hear more details of trials and escapad...

The Teller is a tale set in the late Bronze Age, told by an itinerant storyteller to members of an Iron Age tribe living on a defended hilltop c 405 BC in the region now known as the Welsh Marches. It describes survival during worsening weather and how they sustained themselves on what little was available. Apart from when luxuries such as meat, fish, wheat, barley and peas, were obtainable, the rest of their diet was barely nourishing, simila...

Policing Henley-on-Thames from Parish Constables to the formation of the Oxfordshire Constabulary in 1857 shows the progression from the hue and cry system required from every eligible citizen through to the duties of the parish constables selected annually from the population by the town Mayor, regardless of their wishes, to a more professional police in the small market town of Henley-on-Thames. The names of those private Henley citizens wh...

Life in Connaught was hard. It was no more than a subsistence existence but at least they had a roof over their heads, of a sort. As if the vagaries of unpredictable crops and blights were not enough, the threat of an eviction now loomed. Edward now had little choice, the family had to leave their homeland and seek a better existence elsewhere. America was their destination, but they were never to get further than Liverpool. Central charact...