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This is the story of Karoly, a man whose family protected Katia and other Jewish refugees who were trying to escape the advance of Nazi Germany, from the west, and…
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Cecil was a consummate plotter who undermined enemies and helped his supporters, he himself wrote:I spend my time in sowing so much seed as my poor wretched fingers can…
A fascinating collection of people arrive in Uganda for the coronation of the Kabaka. They have adventures in Lake Victoria and the islands there, they go on safari but they…
An espionage pastiche. Fast paced, violent and sexually explicit, this thriller pits Finn McHugh against Didier Porchaire, the most violent and sadistic villain and smuggler. Using Carom board cases to…
Mark O'Donaghue works for his former partner's wife. No problem there, but with an attractive boss in a prime location, what started as a private investigation firm, soon begins to…
A boarding school in the depths of the country, no escape. A bully tormenting one child. Then, the nightmare ends when the tormentor disappears in a tunnel that caves in…
Stumbling on his brother's body, Phillip Hayward needs to find the killer fast, especially as his footprint is at the crime scene. Chas and Musar help Phil but Diana Deverill…
SEVENY SEVEN Seveny-Seven was what the Disc Jockeys, slovenly, called the year of seventy seven, the year after the heat wave and the year before 'New Wave'. Nineteen Seventy Seven…
Bobby, a painter is repainting a pub when he finds a cache of sovereigns and some bonds. He visits Georgina, a broker who he knows through family connections. She listens…
Major Bruton's Safari - Preparations for a coronation lead to a family visiting Uganda. The family, travelling to Africa as a group for the first time, know that adventures and…
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A fast paced thriller pits Finn McHugh against Didier Pourchaire, the most violent and sadistic villain and smuggler. Using Carrom board cases to hide drugs and smuggle stolen art, he…
A reader's review: couldn't resist purchasing this as I read the Snippet on Amazon and felt I just had to read on , I've finished ADBEC and I have to…
A modern version of Plato's Symposium. A comedy that examines serious issues. Socrates and his friends discussed the four types of love. In this updated version, women are the philosophers…
An updated version of Plato's Symposium where the comedy is provided by a parody of modern man and Severine and her friends discuss the many facets of love.
When a painter discovers a haul of government bonds he needs to cash them, but the haul belongs to The Dragon, money was never so easy to get and so…
Thomas Dowting, successful barrister, meets a stranger who implores him to leave his job and follow him to Darfur. They leave for 'The Angel' to meet Gabrielle, his girlfriend. The…
Uganda in the 1990's. Gathering for the Coronation of the King, heir to the throne of one of Africa's most prosperous countries, a Major and his entourage hesitantly discover the…
A teenager's view of 1977
Preparations for a coronation lead to a family visiting Uganda. The family, travelling to Africa as a group for the first time, know that adventures and disasters await. It is…
A Switch Blade Knife, a Switch Blade Life, living on a knife edge. Joe Ederer leaves New York to marry his love, but she has met someone in the meantime…
This is the story of Karoly, a man whose family tried to save Jewish refugees from the clutches of German troops advancing from the west and the advancing Russians Red…
An adventure on a yacht sailing from Portugal to Ibiza in the Falklands War when Spain was siding with the Malvinas. A yacht that had already sunk; the Atlantic Ocean…
This is the story of Karoly, a man whose family protected Jewish refugees who were trying to escape the advance of Nazi Germany from the west and the advancing Russians…
This is the story of Karoly, a man whose family protected Jewish refugees who were trying to escape the advance of Nazi Germany from the west and the advancing Russian…
Waterwitch was once a a 'Thirty-Square-Metre' racing yacht built in 1937 by Uffa Fox to a design by Knud Reimers. Two brothers are determined to sail her to Ibiza for…
Remember the Fifth tells the true story of Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby. The plot was Robert Cecil's attempt to remove the Catholic influence at James's court. Catesby was killed…
A tale of lust and betrayal spanning two continents. Set in London and New York in the 1980s. The author has adopted an almost autobiographic feeling to this book and…
The truth behind one of the oldest fictions in history can finally be told. The Catholics were in danger of wresting influence from Robert Cecil who had managed to remove…
This is the story of a boy, a tunnel, a prep school, a bully, a riding accident and revenge. Stephen is new to a progressive prep school in the midst…
One boy, one bully, one accident and one act of revenge. Stephen Inglis thought running away would help but that was not the solution, the bullies at his school teased…
Stephen Inglis thought running away would help but that was not the best solution. He was being bullied and, at first, the other members of his dormitory had missed that…
This is the story of Karoly, a man whose family protected Katia and other Jewish refugees; Karoly was a teenage boy who was used as human-shield by Romanian 'liberators' in…
Stephen was the only one. He thought running away would help but that was not the solution. The bullies at his school teased him for sleeping with a teddy bear…
Remember the Fifth of November, the story you were told was just that. Robert Cecil was a master manipulator and master storyteller. He could not have succeeded if it had…
As guest of the Buganda, different groups flew in from Kilimanjaro and the Middle East, landing at Entebbe where they were welcomed like VIPs. Staying in Kampala, at Reste Corner…
We all know the story of Guy Fawkes who wanted to blow up parliament. The very people who were going to replace James would be present at the opening. How…
We all know the story of Guy Fawkes who wanted to blow up parliament. What did he wish to gain; the very people who were going to replace James were…
The true story of the Gunpowder Treason and Plot, told for the first time. Events leading up to the 5th November show categorically that Robert Cecil was behind the scheme…
One boy, one bully, one accident and one act of revenge. Stephen Inglis thought running away would help but that was not the solution. The bullies at his school teased…
Cecil was a consummate plotter who undermined enemies and helped his supporters, he himself wrote: "I spend my time in sowing so much seed as my poor wretched fingers can…
Haunted by sinister and brutal nightmares, Joe Ederer, an American in London, recalls his voracious sexual past. Reality starts to mirror his dreams and Joe is thrust into a twilight…
This is the true story of the Gunpowder Plot; read the facts, read the truth; know that you have been brainwashed by the Tudor Court’s king of spin who went…
Philip Hayward is a mathematics teacher who is ‘Mr Nice Guy’. He tries to be generous and giving, but he harbours a guilty secret, he wants his brother, Patrick, dead…
