Welcome to the fascinating world of small creatures living in and around a garden pond as they enjoy their far from ordinary daily lives.The stories will introduce you to charming animal and insect characters who will entertain you with their experiences. They each encounter their own challenges as they become involved in exciting adventures. All of them contemplate something of life's big mysteries from a remarkably human perspective. There is something to learn here about biology and the environment and perhaps one of these little things may carry a message for you.
In a world where shadows can sing, where the moon is flying around, and everything is being swallowed by night herself, one man wants to fade away but can't. In a Journey from dusk till dawn, everything is lost, no one was saved.Stuck in an impossibly escapable limerence, tortured by riddles and cryptic metaphors, surreality takes over with its only witness spiralling out of control. Constantly combining and contrasting the romantic with the grotesque, all that's left is a bitter taste, disguised as a reward for thelonely poet.
This story will not just grab you. It will get you by the throat and chuck you down the staircase.An authentic portrayal of life on the streets. A struggle for survival. Triumph over adversity and prejudice, against incredible oddsLiving in a brutal and savage world with minds destroyed by psychosis and addiction. You could be killed or maimed for the price of a drink.But even in the cruellest of places you can find love, hope and friendship. Danny was that beacon of light in Magda's dark and violent existence of criminals and misfits, who slept on the cold hard pavements at night.Could he save her from the gates of insanity or death? Perhaps she could only save herself.
Looking for her wayward son in 1960s Italy, an English widow encounters revelations and begins a dangerous romance. In Venice Lillian Rutherford meets the ex-gigolo who has shared the last four years of Andrew's life; his disclosures force her to confront a side of her son that she never suspected. Going on to Amalfi, she meets the charismatic Prince Massimo Monfalcone, whose playboy son is being held to ransom in Corsica with Andrew. Massimo distracts Lillian with his life story: his first wife was murdered in a Sicilian blood-feud; his second wife killed herself because of his infidelity. As they wait for news of their sons, a bond grows between Lillian and the Prince...
'The Silent Owl' explores a world of danger, courage and the power of friendship through a story which holds readers spellbound.World War Two veteran David Price lives as a hermit in the woods to hide the destructive torment caused by his horrific memories of war. Then two ten-year-old pals befriend him and decide they can save his sanity. That decision leads to a dangerous adventure which places their very lives in peril. So can David find the courage to rescue them and even win back control of his own damaged mind?
The Ice-Floe Girl' is a delightful, beautifully-written and wonderfully observed true story about a nineteen-year-old boy who meets an innocent, angelic Swedish au pair and then hitch-hikes across Europe to join her in Sweden, where she lives at the top of a forbidding villa. She proceeds to take him along with her as an unwitting spectator to her mysterious life in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki.If good writing is about capturing an inexpressible paradox in words - here it is. This account of an ephemeral beauty presents in precise photographic details a remarkable true tale of people and places, retrieves eternall meaningful passing moments that would otherwise have been lost forever and fixes them to the banner of eternal love. The Ice-Floe Girl is an unforgettable, enigmatic quest stretching from a north London suburb to a small wooden town on the shores of the Baltic.
'Buying Your Granddaughter' is a gripping story of women wrestling power for themselves in First Century Palestine in order to survive at a time when women are traded and sold like chattels.Tabitha needs a man to save Miriam, her granddaughter, but not just any man. She needs Ezekiel, the man she hates most. Ezekiel sold Tabitha's maid, Tira, into slavery to another Hebrew tribe and Tira was killed. The Romans are hunting Miriam as her husband was a Zealot in the Judean Revolt. Tabitha plans to have Miriam bought as a slave and supposedly sold to a Gentile so that she can be taken to safety. Ezekiel is the only person short of a real slaver who can believably do this. Can they pull off Tabitha's audacious plan or will their personal enmity destroy the mission?
A memoir by a narrator who chronicles the effect she believes her father has on her life after his death.
A helicopter pilot's memoirs
A book about new ways of breeding garden varieties
A historical novel set in the first century AD
An autobiography of a colourful life
A non-fiction book about the nature of comedy, featuring hilarious cartoons and many jokes.
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