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EY UP ADOLF is based on a true story and concerns the wartime events in the lives of three Yorkshire people. Ann Huggup and Edgar Stanton were still in their teens when they became engaged. After war broke out in 1939 Edgar was conscripted into the Royal Corp of Signals. They wrote regularly until Edgar was transferred to a secret communications centre under Whitehall and the letters stopped. Doubt and suspicion created by people around her ca...

This book is about the author, an ordinary man, remembering his journey through life. It catalogues his early years, his easily forgettable scholastic achievements, his career from working in the mines up to retirement from the police and several other notable achievements away from his working life. The narrative ranges from the claustrophobic, enclosed world of the mineworker, through marriage and divorce to the vast open plains of Africa. T...

Milly Buntly always sticks her nose where it's not wanted. So when Thomas Fiskdale contacts her little brother Jonas about seeing a ghost, Milly is on the case. She enters a world where nothing is as it seems, a world of imaginary mansion houses, secret laboratories and talking parrots. As she gets closer to uncovering the truth, the same questions crop up. Will Jonas ever stop thinking he's a French orphan? Do semi-beings actually exist? What...

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Christopher Leopold Brent returns to his neck of the woods, the picturesque township of Breighton-In-The-Dip situated in the Roode Valley. No welcome awaits him for he has history. Not that he expects one either, for good memories are few. But he is there for a purpose - to kill someone! Brent is soon aware that this consignment is different from others undertaken on an international scale, one that hints of treachery afoot. With the arrival o...

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Many women today are struggling with the negative side-effects of loving an emotionally abusive man. What is emotional abuse? What are the symptoms of traumatic bonding? How can you recover from the degrading things he's said and done? And what happens when love turns toxic and you think you're going crazy? Using the latest research in the therapeutic effects of creative writing, a writer and tutor with a background in psychology takes you thr...

Detective Inspector Tom Ashton is having a hard time. Haunted by memories of his best friend's death and attempting to forge a new relationship after his recent divorce, Tom really doesn't need any more trouble. But in the build up to Manchester's Commonwealth Games, an unidentified body turns up in the river Irwell - and on the streets, somebody is peddling drugs that have an unfortunate side-effect - sudden death. In the midst of all this, T...

On June 25th 1876 George Armstrong Custer and his command were wiped out, an incident that shocked America, in its centenary year. Many questions about that day still remain unanswered. Why did Custer lose a battle that he should have won easily? Why did he fail to support his two commanders after making that support an integral part of the plan? Why did the Indians stand and fight for the first time in the war on the Plains, instead of retrea...

Rita Roberts is a retired archaeologist. She was born in Birmingham and educated in state schools, leaving secondary education at the age of fifteen. During World War Two she was evacuated from St Thomas School to the country where she was cared for by a local family. She married in 1953 the year of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. Rita has two sons and two granddaughters and now lives in Crete. In her biography Rita covers many interesting subje...

Blue Room is the story of a young girl's personal struggle to overcome severe mental illness. We are taken on a journey through the horrors of life within the confines of a secure psychiatric hospital. Terrifying demonic manifestations had a devastating effect but eventually, following a remarkable train of dramatic events, true liberation takes place. 'This book gives a contemporary reminder of God's ancient power to heal physically, mentally...

Bobby and Ryan are a couple of young chancers from Manchester who decide the only way to get away from their hum drum lives is to rob a local villain by the name of Jack Roberts of his ill gotten gains. When things don't go as smoothly as planned they are forced to skip the country pretty fast. They soon set up a new life for themselves in sunny Spain, but the past as a habit of catching up with them. So their dream of a peaceful life in the s...

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Two boys, Colin Monro a Protestant and Tom O'Neill a Catholic, both born at the beginning of the Second World War become blood brothers in the innocence of childhood friendship. Both boys grow into men with the expectations of their communities, Colin becoming an Officer in the Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service, Tom a solicitor and a leader of the Provisional IRA. Through their eyes and those of their family and friends we experience ...

What happens when all heaven breaks loose? The idyllic setting of a university town on the Mid-Wales coast. New arrivals from various parts of Britain, exhilarated and apprehensive at the prospect of grappling with the unfamiliar, in learning, ideas - and life. Four boys, extrovert, loner, poetry lover, aspiring intellectual. A malapropistic landlady. Three girls, one worldly, one demurely innocent, one full of adolescent ardour. A lecturer an...