A Bit of Spirit and a lot of Spit is the emotional and empowering true story from Anna May, sharing with you her life experiences of love affairs, live observations and personal loss. Told from the heart, through a unique blend of prose and poetry, A Bit of Spirit and a lot of Spit was born from popular demand, after a successful poetry roadshow for charity in 2009. Her poems provoked both tears and laughter, in celebration and commemoration of her late sonâEUR(TM)s 30th birthday. Within these pages lies the story between the poems.
An extraordinary turn of events sees Marylebone cab proprietor, Henry Gough, propelled from the familiar streets of Victorian London into the grip of a stirring adventure, full of danger, political intrigue and ruthless treachery in faraway Siam.
Embarking on a journey across Japan through famous cities and remote locations, Michael Brown and his companions, are faced with ruthless adversaries and natural perils in a foreign land and culture. Events begin to unfold that reveal a traitor among them, Michael only has his wits to survive with time rapidly running outâ¿
Cornish Villages Volume 2 is the perfect guide for holidaymakers and local people in Cornwall, to make planning trips easy.
Summer 1914. A London-based private detective, Sergeant Dagger, is employed by Celia Harrison, a suffragette, to discover why her husband, an army Captain, has committed suicide. Unconvinced by the official verdict of melancholia, Celia wants the truth - as do MI5, who also recruit Dagger.
Jam-packed with wonderful characters, cultural and factual London references, and cross-generational wit, hop onboard Wonderground. A delightfully imaginative and beautifully illustrated book that contains 11 tailored rhymes for the 11 Underground lines and culminating in some tantalising Tube-Train-Trivia.
Covering the period between the two world wars, the Second World War itself and the fifteen years that followed, The Deaf Doctor focuses primarily on Marian's formative years along with an account of her father, his pre-war way of life and his experiences in the Far East as an army doctor during the Second World War.
Lakeland Larks, Laughter and Lunacies is a quirky memoir poking fun at the travails and tribulations of Anna Nolanâ¿s car-less exploration of the Lake District, her home and playground, and reflecting her Polish ebullience.
PJ and his fellow ghost-hunting friends are invited to stay in the picturesque fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife, a place which, unbeknown to them, has haunting echoes of its witch-hunting past.
William Dunbar, the younger son of a Scottish nobleman, craves wealth, and marriage seems to be his simplest way to achieve it.
After fifteen years of (fairly) devoted parenting, a shocking incident forces mother-of-three and ex-psychologist, Sofia Gardner, to acknowledge that her former A-grade brain now contains absolutely nothing at all.
Meike is seventeen and she uses a wheelchair. Already in life sheâ¿s accepted that sheâ¿ll always somehow be â¿differentâ¿. But overnight, different becomes dangerous after the government announces disabled youngsters under the age of eighteen must spend the war in specially designated institutions.
1454. Tensions are rising between the Houses of York and Lancaster. On the brink of civil war, unease and distrust fill the air, and nobody can be trusted.
2010. The end of the world has begun, but no one is paying attention. People are unaware of the breaking pandemic, code name, The Eichmann Effect.
Set against the backdrop of 1920s colonial India are the mysteries that follow little Stephen Crow when he is smuggled from England, by his corrupt uncle Jeremy, into a wealthy Indian household. Why is he hastily renamed Tom Spicer? And why are his origins, an heir to a vast fortune, hidden from them?
Saída Abbas is a bounty hunter surviving in a galaxy controlled by the sinister Grand Design. She has spent a decade in pursuit of a single goal: rescuing her beloved Uncle Abbas from their colonised home planet of Sektor 47.
One summer, at the age of seventeen, Savannahâ¿s reckless behaviour results in her being sent to Liverpool, from her loving home in Cumbria, to stay with her brother. There, she meets the man of her dreams, a young Irishman whose attentions hide an ulterior motive.
Fresh out of medical school and coping with the loss of their mother, life is chaotic enough for Lils Howells. But when a little boy introduces himself as the powerful wizard Merlin, and tells Lils they're in fact the reincarnation of King Arthur, life for Lils and their group of friends is destined to change forever.
When recently widowed Kerry travels to St Ives, her main reason for visiting is to take the same boat trip that took her late husbandâEUR(TM)s life in a horrific accident. Accompanied by her fiercely protective teenage son, Dan, Kerry sees the boat trip as the start of her healing process.
An unnamed narrator wakes suddenly to find himself in the compartment of a train he cannot remember boarding. His fellow passengers are both strange and familiar. Together, they must work out the truth of their situation. Are they memories of long, forgotten souls, or something else? And what links them through the mists of time.
Jake and his friends are due to spend their first summer at Camp Terra; a self-proclaimed haven for teenagers that encourages eager campers to surrender their grip on technology in the hope they can 'reconnect with nature'.
On a medieval world called Wayan, where wondrous beings unravel their destiny through Tarot reading, a powerful sorceress commits a shocking act by abducting the queenâ¿s young children and spiriting them away through enchanted portals. Their memories erased, the children grow up on Earth, oblivious to their heritage.
His lifeâ¿s a mess, his wifeâ¿s betrayed him and heâ¿s being framed for murder. Daniel Kendrick must find the killer before he loses everythingâ¿
Muddleton is a comic novel about the Hogg-Marchmont family â¿ a dysfunctional and delusional aristocratic dynasty â¿ as they desperately try to save their beloved ancestral home from demolition.
"Don't touch - it's poisonous," Jess Ponder, the Schools' Secret Agency 'Double A-Star' agent, tells schoolmate and master of the forged sick-note, Leo Sleepwell, when he sees a trail of dried, gold saliva on the seal of an envelope. The letter it contained was sent to Jess by the notorious Nine-carat, aka 'The Man with the Golden Tongue'.
The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth's journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, while Vic's wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over.
Tasked by Ben, an old friend, to locate a man in Turkey, private investigator Matt Quillan soon finds himself out of his depth when he has a flash drive thrust on him by a stranger who is arrested by armed officers shortly afterwards.
Why are extraordinary creatures disappearing from the Banana Sanctuary for Amazing Animals? When explorer Billy Banana mysteriously vanishes while on a mission to rescue the world's deadliest - and smelliest - Amazonian frog, his son Arthur is left home alone.
Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, All Booked Up invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book.
How James Bond Saved My Life is a unique self-help memoir. The author takes you on a journey through cinema, delving into the significance of cinematic role models and how cinematic characters can empower and inspire young minds, be it Bond, Batman or Wonder Woman.
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