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The title of the book A CHANGE IS GONNA COME! reveals the hope and longing for a better way of life for Jack and his family. On hearing a song with the same title, being sung by Seal, Jack gets an inner feeling and is encouraged something good is just around the corner. How wrong he was! Jack is left comatose after a traumatic life-changing experience. His mind goes back in time to his childhood where he recalls the same hardships, difficultie...

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A thrilling sequel to "Congo Cobalt, " by the same author, continuing the progress of Bobby and Sarie Hastings-McKenzie after their honeymoon as they return home to Zimbabwe, but are then, with their families forced to escape that tortured land in the face of the brutal tyrant Mugabe's land seizure vicious "war veteran" gangsters to carve out a new life in Mozambique. Once again, they get help from their former comrades in the Congo, those Bri...

Eddie Parlour was born in 1946, one of the post-war "boom" babies. At the age of two he was moved from the serenity of a small village in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) to the harsh streets of London, which is where he grew up. This book charts his life from his first memory - travelling to London in the back of the removal van - through his school years in the 50's and 60's and then into work right the way through to his retirement in 2...

In racing circles, whether motorbikes, cars or even athletics, it is important to lead the field into the first bend. Often it is the opportunity to win, and if at the back of the pack a mammoth task to forge one's way to the front. Frequently there is no hope for the back markers. Rick Moffat became a good motorbike speedway rider and excelled at motorbike scrambles, too. However, the first bend in his love life seemed an impossibility to rea...

It is very cold outside. Jacob wants to go out to play but refuses to wear his warm things. He thinks he doesn't need them but does he?...

Messages from the Heart, is a collection of reflective and inspirational poems. Throughout life we go through different times and seasons. Each poem is based upon inspired thoughts and feelings as I journey through these seasons. "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the heaven." (Ecclesiastes 3, v1)

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I was having a dispute with my wife-she pulled my hair causing me to turn into a lamp standard!" This is but one of the many excuses used by motor accident claimants. Many more of his favourites and quirkiest have been chosen by the author and included in the chapter "We Arnott Amused". From humble and often homeless beginnings the author succeeded in building one of the country's largest car insurance businesses and this, his second book, rev...

Spice is the variety of life."-This is one of the book's many "Chrissarisms" and just about sums it up. The book brings together, in the words of The Literary Consultancy, "a wealth of material." Described as "a sort of autobiography", it is not just about a boy who, from humble beginnings, created one of the country's leading car insurance businesses. It is much, much more than that. In a series of mini biographies you will meet characters li...

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About two weeks ago, a man came running into this station asking the Sergeant here to come at once to the jetty in Blyth harbour. Two fishermen had come across a macabre scene... When the Sergeant and a constable went with the messenger, they discovered the body of a man in a fishing net, half submerged in the water. The net was tied to the jetty. It looked as though the man had got himself tangled up in the net and had possibly tripped and fa...

When twelve ageing musicians are devastated by their exclusion from a breakaway orchestra, TV film composer Frank Morrison sets out to repair the damage and give them a new sense of purpose, by forming a retro dance band. After a hesitant start, they are soon reproducing the wonderful romantic sounds of the 1930s and before long, dedication and soaring enthusiasm lead to a string of successful engagements. Meanwhile, Frank's personal life beco...

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Sammy and Wullie are two lifelong pals with widely diverse opinions both socially and politically. Sammy is a dodgy second hand car dealer and Wullie, a builder, is of a similar ilk. Ella, Sammy's wife, has a very rich brother, Chuck, living in the USA who retires home to Glasgow to spend his ill-gotten gains. Meeting a tragic death, on the golf course, he leaves Ella an extremely wealthy woman. With Ella's inheritance, and in keeping with her...

Beginning in a boarding school in India, this is the story of a young Somali who encountered Christ in a way that was to profoundly impact and transform his life. Who are you Lord? is the denouement of a twenty-four year spiritual trek across countries as diverse as India, Norway and Ethiopia. In developing his theological arguments, the author draws on fields as diverse as sociology, education, science and philosophy. This book portrays the c...

Gull Ivor's Travels is a delightful tale of a Seagull who is unhappy with his lot in his colony in Engulland. He decides to travel abroad with his lifelong friend Gullible and two fellow travellers Gulleazy and Gullios to see how other colonies are run. During his adventures he travels to colonies in France, Italy and Greece making new friends and escaping death on the way. The four travellers meet a killer bull and a friendly whale who play a...

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