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Jack Hagan sailed off to war expecting Hell in the Pacific only to discover paradise in Australia. Decades later he returned home to the Midwest expecting forgiveness and a warm reunion. Wrong again. A boy sets out to follow in the path of his fallen father - duty, honour, country.

Tom Brown, disgraced former Home Secretary, is missing presumed dead. The police had been seeking him in connection with the deaths of several people, and his disappearance affectively closes the case.

Daniel Abercrombie, aged eleven, is growing up in the difficult years following the Second World War. Orphaned at an early age, he is cared for by his Uncle Barney, a man of many talents but a man with a terrible secret that weighs heavily on him and, he fears, threatens his future relationship with Daniel.

A DNA ANCESTRY TEST OPENS UP A PANDORA'S BOX OF SECRETS. When a fragile Elsa Watson takes a DNA ancestry test out of idle curiosity she little imagines the devastating consequences she is about to unleash.

If I Ever Get Out Of This World Alive is a collection of short stories and poetry exploring themes of rock and roll and death during the Covid19 pandemic.

My hand, guiding me along the wall, fell into nothingness. A shadowy blackness, deeper and stronger than any yet, opened before me, like the mouth of a cave.

The story picks up with Janie Arnold making a life changing decision to help her cousin Megan and hopefully to leave Janie free to start her own life. Whilst on holiday in Lanzarote she meets Adam, a boat builder from back home in Wales and Alison another holiday maker from Derbyshire. Life is finally starting to look up for Janie.

Craig Edmonds and his young family are awoken at 2 AM by someone banging at their front door. On their doorstep they find an unexpected delivery... a large crate with a generic label addressed to his family.

A story of loss, love, guilt and ultimately hope and redemption, MILLER STREET SW22 follows a year in the lives of five neighbours who move into the road in the autumn of 2005, each brought to the urban south London location for a new start.

The year is 2159. Generations of consumption ruined our world, eventually leading to a total collapse of society. As each territory prepares for war, they must choose whether to accept help from their neighbouring territories or go it alone. Will England return to feudalism or will it bounce back and prevail?

One Man's Journey is a re-imagining of events that occurred from the day of Tony's resignation in 2007. The story is a satirical take on our hero's search for meaningful employment from that date onwards.

Justin and Leah meet in the wrong decade. Ten years ago for him or ten years into her future would have worked. It would have been accepted. When Justin hires Leah to work for him after school, their encounters quickly shift from guarded and awkward to a mutual quest for knowledge of the other.

Like "Aladdin," but with shell shock, "Charlie Echo" is a story about wishes - the last wishes of a dying soldier on the battlefields of Normandy in 1944. Verbal wills of this sort are only valid if there are two witnesses and the first men on the scene in this case happen to be radio operator Charlie Goodman and his assistant, Sid Saunders.

Twelve-year-old Symphony Strange has had enough. Enough of the 'gruesome twosome' Phyllida and Suzette's mean 'tricks' because they don't see her as being posh enough, enough of St Bartholomew's School for Girls and most of all, enough of having no friends.

The book encourages both individual and group reading and provide an academic interaction between pupil and teacher. The fun element should increase attentiveness and group activities such as classroom reading and discussions would form part of a useful learning experience. An associated school play (or musical!) could be produced.

Finally released from gaol, Will Crosby, quits England for a new life in Queensland, hoping to regain self-confidence, and the lost esteem of his former 'wife', Alice. However, his hopes are soon dashed when a typhus epidemic breaks out on board The Emigrant which is then re-directed to the ill-prepared quarantine station on Stradbroke Island.

Luke really wanted to know what was concealed behind the heavy metal doors but Sam was sure it would be a waste of time and no hidden treasure would be found.

Marie is brought up as a country girl on the West coast of France, but world events catch up with her and life has more in store for her than her family ever expected. As a teenager working in a bar, the Resistance movement makes use of her local knowledge to help Jewish youngsters to escape the Nazi threat.

In the 1970s computers were just beginning to have an influence on the Secret Services.Quickly, too much information was coming into G.C.H.Q and things were being missed The Collation Unit was set up underground in six floors beneath some old hangars at Mannington airfield just outside Cheltenham to make connections and prioritise everything.

Reuben's grandfather (Gramps), a retired professor of neuroscience, builds a machine that can be programmed to change people's behaviour. To make Reuben 'Believe' in the machine, 'Gramps' tries it out on a pompous next-door neighbour. Apart from a few glitches, the machine seems to work successfully.

The wide-ranging plot straddles four continents as the main characters' lives are driven by love, ambition and the desire for a Legacy.

Henry Oxshott is a cat of medium intelligence, lazy but well bred. He lives in a flat which was left to him by one of his relatives who spent most of her time buying antiques and paintings which now fill the flat. It is the 1980s. He has no job and no income and is down to his last few pounds.

The Optimum You guides you through a series of actions, behaviours and thoughts which will help you to achieve your own, unique potential.

Simon Saxby-Jones almost had it all, good looks, success, charisma and the material possessions that come with a large salary. Simon had always been power hungry and driven, as a brilliant architect he worked for Aztec Developments, married the boss's daughter and secured his future.

Some years ago, for no obvious reason, Paul Whiteman felt compelled to analyse the mystical number 666, also known as the number of The Beast. His little mathematical revelation was followed almost immediately by a violent thunderstorm, and by a severe attack of asthma requiring urgent hospital admission.

The Actors' Orphanage was a home for the abandoned children of struggling or incapacitated Actors. In 1934 it was a harsh and brutal institution. Meanwhile however, the playwright and cultural phenomenon, Noel Coward, was looking for more meaning in his life. After success after success, he would always ask... "What now?"

Michael J. Vincent uses his life story to illustrate how experience, no matter how trivial or intense and life-changing, becomes a deep well of learning for us to draw upon in our search for truth.

During my MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University we followed a module on the short story. I wrote a story published in the Lightship Anthology 1 by Alma Press, winning a GBP1000 prize. The story is included in this collection under the title A Fish out of Water.

The book is divided into two sections. The first contains 'nature' poems but with the underlying meaning of how we are connected to the earth. The second section contains more personal poems.

I wrote about dreaming during the pandemic which brings us back to our childhood memories and wishes because we were confined. We dreamed a lot more and more vividly.