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Tigers, Mountains and Pagodasthe story of a special and adventurous life At the end of 1923 Stanley Robins passed out of Sandhurst as a prize-winning cadet. He was commissioned into the North Staffordshire regiment, at the time based in British India. Stanley was "thrilled" at this posting as he saw army service in India as the gateway to a "special and adventurous life", and so it turned out to be. In India Stanley became an expert and highl...

A Town of Ghosts is a collection of 19 original illustrated ghost stories set in the Buckinghamshire town of Stony Stratford in Milton Keynes. The stories are loosely inspired by the history, characters and landscape of the town, most have an element of dark humour, though several nod towards the cryptic, brooding tales of the great ghost story writer MR James. You will meet a host of bizarre and macabre characters such as the resentful decomp...

Can you be sure of what is real? For almost seventy years Jetaru Dark has been living inside a simulation. In a cabin, deep in the Infinite Forest, she waits to awaken back into her real life. But one day two teenagers knock at her door, causing her to leave the forest and make her way to a village beside the sea, there, she comes to see that her concept of what is real and what is not, may not be accurate. This is the second book in ...

A Town of Ghosts is a collection of 19 original illustrated ghost stories set in the Buckinghamshire town of Stony Stratford in Milton Keynes. The stories are loosely inspired by the history, characters and landscape of the town, most have an element of dark humour, though several nod towards the cryptic, brooding tales of the great ghost story writer MR James. You will meet a host of bizarre and macabre characters such as the resentful decomp...

The mystery of Bigfoot has endured for generations, folklore has touched on this through the centuries and yet we have not come any closer to recognising this phenomenon as a reality. How can this be when countless numbers of people have witnessed these incredible beings? Even in the United Kingdom there have been many reports, including modern day encounters. Are all these witnesses mad or is there some truth behind this myth? The Green Man a...

The mystery of Bigfoot has endured for generations, folklore has touched on this through the centuries and yet we have not come any closer to recognising this phenomenon as a reality. How can this be when countless numbers of people have witnessed these incredible beings? Even in the United Kingdom there have been many reports, including modern day encounters. Are all these witnesses mad or is there some truth behind this myth? The Green Man a...

Tinuke was ecstatic to start her life as a married woman- and Femi turned up at the right time Perfect! Was it true love though? Or was she just giving in to societal pressures- especially as a Nigerian woman? What was really in it for Femi... and how was he able to charm her sister against her? While enduring an abusive relationship, Tinuke starts to question how her abuser gained her family's support and, in turn, how she could now be losing...

What does it mean to be adopted? If you are adopted by the right people at the right time and live in the right place, life should be simple shouldn't it? It is, until the day you find out you are adopted. Anthony Edge found out at nine years old. At age forty three he went to find out what happened. This collection takes you on a poetry journey from the adoption life to the adoption file. From Lancashire to the Atlantic with important stops t...

In the not-so-distant year of 2038, a world on the precipice of chaos is divided into two stark realms: the meticulously governed suburbs, where AI reigns supreme, and the lawless, untamed urban wastelands that sprawl beyond. It is within this fragile equilibrium that the fate of humanity hangs by a thread. At the heart of this compelling futuristic thriller lies an audacious plan conceived by a disillusioned English boy. His objective: to r...

In the not-so-distant year of 2038, a world on the precipice of chaos is divided into two stark realms: the meticulously governed suburbs, where AI reigns supreme, and the lawless, untamed urban wastelands that sprawl beyond. It is within this fragile equilibrium that the fate of humanity hangs by a thread. At the heart of this compelling futuristic thriller lies an audacious plan conceived by a disillusioned English boy. His objective: to r...

What does it mean to be adopted? If you are adopted by the right people at the right time and live in the right place, life should be simple shouldn't it? It is, until the day you find out you are adopted. Anthony Edge found out at nine years old. At age forty three he went to find out what happened. This collection takes you on a poetry journey from the adoption life to the adoption file. From Lancashire to the Atlantic with important stops t...

A story about a day in the life of a hedgehog and bee and the troubles they are experiencing. It illustrates ecological pressures that hedgehogs and bees are facing and what people can do to help them.

Climb aboard the rollercoaster of life's ups and downs as we try to grow old gracefully (or even disgracefully!) while navigating the changes in our minds, bodies and world around us. From the menopausal mayhem of brain fog and hot flushes, to the consternation of creaking bones and inexplicably shrunken jeans, from the mysteries of modern technology to the horrors of the magnifying mirror, ¿¿from all the inevitable indignities of ageing tö...

What if you have the chance to live three lives? Which one would you choose? An answer to these thought-provoking questions is at the heart of the intriguing memoir, Essentially: Being Me in a Becoming World. It emerged as a rebirth from the ashes of a near-tragedy and life-defining experience of a single mother as she breaks the barrier of stigma and silence. In the book, the author craftily weaves her intensely personal journey and life-chan...

It's the night before Christmas Eve, and Father Christmas is in a terrible pickle. Far from the North Pole, he has lost his Reindeer, and can't get back to Christmas Land. This is a disaster, as without his reindeer, he won't be able to deliver the Christmas Presents to all the children on Christmas Eve. Mowk the Magnificent Owl, enlists the help of Lottie to try and save Christmas. Will they be able to do it?

It's the night before Christmas Eve, and Father Christmas is in a terrible pickle. Far from the North Pole, he has lost his Reindeer, and can't get back to Christmas Land. This is a disaster, as without his reindeer, he won't be able to deliver the Christmas Presents to all the children on Christmas Eve. Mowk the Magnificent Owl, enlists the help of Lottie to try and save Christmas. Will they be able to do it?

Jazmin and Emma, have been best friends since school and tell each other everything, well almost everything. That is until just after Jazmin's 18th birthday, when the loss of her parents, changes her life forever. Time in hospital, shows her things, she never new were possible. Follow Jazmin on her journey of discovery. Find out about the secret she hides and what happens when she tells Emma and her new boyfriend about it. How will her life ...

An exhaustive, systematic study of scripture investigating the nature and character of the one, true, living God as He has revealed them to us through His written word.

A story about a day in the life of a hedgehog and bee and the troubles they are experiencing. It illustrates ecological pressures that hedgehogs and bees are facing and what people can do to help them.

This insightful commentary on Matthew's Gospel illuminates the text, making the book come alive for the new Christian and the old alike. MJ Flower brings her academic expertise and a lifetime of faith to the Gospel, with well-researched details to help inform the reader as they journey through the life of Jesus. The reader is drawn closer to the text, opening up their hearts to message God wants to share 'that we may behold wondrous things out...