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Norman Andrews was born in 1934 in Bristol. He has lived in London, Peterborough, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. He attended Oxford University briefly but did not take a degree. He had 53 separate occupations until he decided to become an accountant at the age of 43. He has written poems since he first learned to write. He has had such a busy life that there are gaps of as much as seven years between some of these poems. He did some paintings in 19...

People disappear! We read of such vanishings from time to time in our newspapers and see the distraught faces of their loved ones, as they appear on out TV screens, pleading for information and the safe return of the one they hold dear. This is a story of such a disappearance. A history of the affluent MacVee family whose lives were blighted by an event so bewildering and mysterious that, in old age, Vinnie MacVee feels compelled to write an a...

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How Parents Can Help Stop Bullying

Here is a fascinating story of Esau and Jacob contending for the same thing i.e. 'The Blessing and the Birthright'. In this remarkable biblical story, Esau is angry with his younger twin brother, Jacob, who cheated him out of his birthright and blessing. In the end the story ends with bother twins embracing each other as they kiss and make-up after 20 years of hostility. Lloyd also tells his own personal story with gusto and humour. A must rea...

The subject of ageing has never been more relevant in Africa, where because of a steady reduction in fertility and mortality rates (not withstanding the AIDS pandemic), the population now comprises an increasing percentage of older persons. As the recent governmental 'Act Policy Framework and Plan of Action on Ageing' has surmised, one needs to understand not only the phenomenon of ageing, but the ways in which policies can be adjusted to help...

Former Royal Marine Peter Savage accidentally discovers that he has the ability to regress to the past under hypnosis. He can revisit the events of previous centuries, and meet relatives he never previously knew existed, having grown up as an orphan, but it also means he has to witness his ancestors in times of enormous stress and great pain. A fascinating exploration of the mind and its incredible, undiscovered powers. But where will it lead ...

This book tells the story of my days in, and my love of, the fields and countryside, starting when I was just a small lad, learning the ways and the fine art of poaching. I am in my early fifties now, with nearly a lifetime of experiences behind me. This book records all of my antics, my escapades and closely-kept secrets. I tell all the different ways of rabbit catching, plus many of the poaching tricks I have mastered over those bygone years...

In 'Ghosts of the Fisher' Anthony Whatley takes the reader on a journey from the Fisher Boxing Club down at the Docks at Tooley Street, through the boxing halls and amateur boxing clubs, and describes some of the colourful people that he had the good fortune to meet on the way.

Boat to Boardroom uses the extreme case study of the 2004/5 Global Challenge round the world yacht race to demonstrate Leadership and Teamwork in action. The authors draw out the real life learnings and translate them into practical tools and lessons that can be used in everyday business.

Is Rebecca Jumpitt an infuriating mother-in-law on the verge of paranoia, or is she really the centre of a conspiracy that is set to change the very structure of society?

When Meg meets the handsome and charming Mr Wolfe she discovers that the succubus and incubus are not just medieval myths.

What this book is NOT. It is not an instruction book on how to wash clothes, nor is it a guide to setting up a chain of launderettes and retiring thereafter with a fortune. It tells instead of totally unexpected year that happened in the lives of four boys accustomes to drifting about aimlessly in a chilly suburb of north west London. Nothing to do, nowhere to go. No money. Nasty weather. Their gradual involvement with the other end to the age...

In 1899 foreign adventurers seeking gold in South Africa, petitioned Queen Victoria asking her to persuade the Transvaal government to hold free elections, giving all the gold miners the vote. The Boers rejected the Queen's proposals as the British government knew they would, giving them the opportunity to serve an ultimatum, 'agree or face war'. The Orange Free State sided with the Transvaal in what they saw as an attempted land grab by the B...

In this unique collection of verse the author brings together a selection of her work based upon a variety of topics that capture every human mood and emotion. The messages revealed within the pages are likely to encourage person reflection and bring comfort and joy and inspiration to the reader as they journey through the Kaleidoscope of Life.

The National Service Act of 1948 decreed that all young men must join one of the Armed Services on attaining their eighteenth birthday. They came from many different backgrounds, some direct from school never previously having left home. Some had already started a career which had to be quickly interrupted, others, who were three years older than the majority, had obtained a degree prior to their call-up. They came from all points of the compa...

Imaginative misery-me genre. This book contains child abuse, witchcraft and magick spells. Poison. Hypnosis. Nostalgia. Statistics show that one mother in every million births irrationally hates her own child. Isabella had such a mother. Her mother also practised witchcraft - illegal during wartime - and offered Isabella to her Warlock as a virgin sacrifice, aged six. Luckily he said, 'She's pretty - bring her back to me when she is nine.' Suc...

Despite suffering a life-threatening illness after rescuing a young girl from the River Dee, Detective Constable Dominic Strider of Chester CID still gets tangled-up in the hunt for a serial killer stalking students in the medieval city. He also clashes with a nasty new police chief, uncovers an international sex slave scandal, probes a spate of mysterious disappearances, and makes a most tragic discovery. It seems Strider's convalescence in t...

Power of the Mind - Achieving the Unbelievable

The second book by this author. The first was a true life, historical story of a families tragedies and triumphs. This is a romp through Rurral England, a land of allotmenteers and would be naughty councillors. Of good triumphing over not so good.