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In 1919, stealing money to escape a violent, abusive father, sixteen year old May Sharpe flees her native Ireland to chase her dream of finding a new life in America. But, arriving penniless in New York, May has to make a stark choice, between living an honest life in poverty, or crime. Within two short years May becomes the toast of the city's criminal community. But, at the height of her success, May is forced to re-examine her morality, and...

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Amelia Vassal, the youngest of two sisters and so ordinary in her ways, dumpy, not caring about fashion or anything like that is in complete contrast to her more glamorous sister. Louise, beautiful with an hourglass figure and an ability to walk over anyone in her path treats her sister abysmally taking every opportunity to deride her. They become very wealthy and then Amelia falls in love with the man next door. Louise intervenes to ruin ever...

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Arrival in England was something that had filled the author, Muriel, with mixed emotions. Feelings of great highs but also the dread of a different educational system and the meeting of new friends, whilst at the same time trying to bury the past, the same past which had led her to pen the first book (My Rocky Road), accounting the early years in Ennis, Ireland. Circa 1940. And now, the publishing of this, the second book. The high expectation...

An account of the life of a former monk who became an SAS soldier and went to war in the Middle East.

When Hector, a greedy and nasty giant, starts munching his way through the local townsfolk it looks like nothing and no-body can stand in his way, but Hector's about to eat the wrong person and boy is he going to live to regret it.

Based largely in and around Liverpool but reaching down to the Heights of Folkestone and deep into the Cotswolds and Cheltenham, the reader is given an insight, often controversial, into daily life. From the publisher: "The poems are delightful, lively, sharp and interestingly eclectic. Quite vivid and moving. He uses an almost 'stream of consciousness' style which makes you feel you are very much there at the moment. I also like his use of pl...

Here is a gripping blend of fact and fiction. The survival of a wild life Journalist and a Geologist in the wildest part of the African bush leads to a romance filled with adventure, irony and humour. A beautiful twenty-nine year old Scottish journalist specializing in the preservation of wild life in Africa is fanatically opposed to hunting of any kind. After she survives a small plane crash in the Luangwa Valley of what was Northern Rhodesia...

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