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An aeroplane crashes down to earth. Blade Jackson manages to save the only survivor of the wreckage and becomes an international hero. Meanwhile an angry and powerful magician sets out to hurt Blade and everyone and everything in Blade's life. Now Blade's newfound faith is put to the test and as things become perilously worse, Blade finds himself being attacked by dark forces in an attempt to make him question who God really is. Can he survive as his beliefs and sanity are put to the test? Or will he lose his life to this magician? A powerful religious thriller dramatized through the age-old conflict between Good and Evil that will hold your attention to the bitter and glorious end!
Charles Muller, Diadem Books: Lex Sinclair is a great up and coming writer who has already found his voice. He's already proven that he's capable and talented. Damnetha Jules, Horror Palace

Steve, a squaddie, is on a physical, mental, and spiritual path, where guides help him in his search for peace and freedom. Steve is transformed from a squaddie trying to do the right thing to a participant in dangerous counter-terrorism operations, where rules and collateral damage are a personal choice. Counter-terrorism operations take him from diving in Greece and the UK to Syrian war zones. PTSD, surveillance - events shocking and sad - mixed with black humour, create dilemmas he can't turn his back on. He tries to do the right thing, but collateral damage becomes a matter of personal choice where core values are challenged. In the end - your decision. What would you do? Through it all, a beautiful yacht called Eleftharia (Freedom), escorted by dolphins, reveals life as it could be.

The Elimination event depicts the UK of 2017 where for the Black Friday weekend, any crime is permitted with no interference from the authorities. It's a survival of the fittest tale. In the midst of this, Gabriel fights back at a secret sect inspired by his newfound religious beliefs. He loses Katie and his friend Joshua, because of this sect. On the night of the event a young woman comes knocking at Gabe's door for protection and salvation.

'The Grim Reaper fled across the land and the antichrist followed. The full moon cast monstrous shadows in their wake. They appeared to float as opposed to ambling. The long, curving blade of the scythe reflected the pale radiance. The white horse was free of the Reaper's burden and strode forward alongside them. Then a luminous green fog ascended the horizon. Its core pulsed, spreading across the terrain, shrouding the moon and casting pitch blackness.

In this second volume of Don't Fear the Reaper the author once again transports the reader through hidden forces, into the realm of psychic phenomena and manifestations. An absorbing story with unexpected episodes of pure horror brings an end to one of the characters: 'Death finally arrived, he feared the Reaper that wielded the shiniest sharpest scythe he'd ever seen. . .' For readers from the Neath Valley a sense of place creates the foreboding atmosphere and will leave them looking over their shoulders! - Aida Birch (a Trustee of the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award) A cracker of a novel. - Ian Sputnik

On the brink of manhood, Sapphire and Elias are destined to meet at the biggest stadium in the Uk to confront each other, both spurred on by their own beliefs. The ultimate and ancient battle of good versus evil! The aftermath and dark days will remain if Sapphire doesn't fulfil his purpose of life. He is the hope and the light in the ever growing worldly abyss. Who will win? 'With an obviously high-quality standard of writing, Sinclair brings to life the Grim Reaper.

x-police officer Dean Ferris is taken to meet with infamous mob boss, Paul Demato - a man who previously helped him in a court case. Dean has no idea what to expect. Dean is given an ultimatum: do a deed for him or lose his life. Dean tentatively accepts that he is in Paul's debt and asks what is expected of him.

"This is certainly an important book which will make a significant contribution to Zimbabwean political history." - Professor C.H. Muller, MA (Wales), PhD (London), D.ED (SA), DLitt (UOFS), Editor. Zimbabwe's Stolen Property is a sequel in a series relating to the case book of psychic investigator, Doctor Patrick McKinleigh and his sidekick Doctor Tendai Tambare - into historical unexplained cold case files. Zimbabwe's Mysterious Mountain Disappearances was published in 2015 and was reviewed in ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT in November - "This book is probably one of its kind, blending the fiction-novel genre with authentic background research. . . that is bound to keep the reader hooked to the end.

This is a book of highly original Fairy Tales, though drawing on universal themes. The book is set in a Magical version of Sussex, a County where anything can - and probably does - happen. Here the little River Flitter runs down from the High Weald, through Punnetts Town, eventually to join the sea in Seven Sisters Bay. Strange things happen to people who stay in Turnaround Cottage. It is a converted post mill, which has lost its sails. Now it has become a somewhat mysterious bed and breakfast venue, looked after by a newly retired health worker, Helena Brown. And the Mice. Don't ignore the Mice - generations of active, chatty, cheese-loving, philosophical Mice. Though the Mill's main purpose is long gone, the Winds, North, South, East and West, blow the old place around as if it could still grind corn. Now the Winds love telling stories instead and the place may well have just the tale you need, whether you know it or not. So, come in, come in! Turn the pages and find your own special story!

About the book: Nick Berry has again proved to be a master at story-telling. Once again he has created a larger-than-life heroine, a warrior woman par excellence, that is both believable and mythical. Strapping and formidable, she embodies the Greek or Platonic concept of the 'ideal', the perfect woman, and yet displays all the natural charm and sparkling sense of humour of the girl next door - a brunette of stunning beauty that one gets to know very quickly and irresistibly. This is the girl-woman that, undaunted, fights the good fight against evil-this time culminating in the City of Babylon. Full marks to the author's meticulous research, for the evocation of this once impressive metropolis is stunning and believable. Zona's encounter with Nebuchadnezzar is spectacular and farcical at the same time, and one reads with bated breath to see how our heroine will extricate herself this time from a dictator's claws! - Charles Muller, Diadem Books

This new novel about Zona, the indefatigable and charming, robust Princess of Martial Arts, with her strapless breast band, adds to the glowing reputation of this series of books. I opened the pages eagerly to read of her new adventure as Princess of Medea, and was not disappointed! This story adds a whole new dimension to this fascinating heroine - a metaphysical dimension, for she is not just brawn and witty rejoinders, and there is a fascinating revelation of her character. Read the book for sheer enjoyment and once again you will be fascinated by the irresistible charm and impetuous energy of Zona who, refusing to comply with protocol and abjectly bow and prostrate herself before the gasbag King of Medea, is true to her independent and wayward nature. She is real and believable and behaves consistently with her stubborn and wilful, but endearing character! - Charles Muller, Diadem Books.

An imposing derelict mansion stands in its equally neglected estate. A young doctor, intrigued by the house most of her life, discovers her Great Aunt Jane may be the only person who knows the truth about Leightham House. The great aunt agrees to tell her what she knows. The old lady's story begins in the 1890's with the birth of her best friend, Alice, in one of the fishing villages on Scotland's East Coast. Gradually, over many visits to the old lady, the deep secrets unfold behind 'The House with no Roof' with far-reaching consequences-but what is fact and what is fiction in her story?

This new book in the now well-established saga of Zona's adventure is as exciting and nail-biting as ever, crammed with dramatic events, chapters often ending on cliff-hangers, and scenes of rapid, sudden action, with startling realism of gore and guts as our heroine decapitates and disembowels her enemies! What a superb film this novel would make, with its vivid scenarios of action and flying creatures! Here also is a sense of camaraderie, of empathy between humans and horses - and between a mythical cyclops and a fearsome dragon the size of a Boeing 747-8 to boot! Avid readers of phantasmagorical adventures who grew up with Harry Potter but have outgrown him might well welcome these intriguing Zona books which are in the same broad genre. - Charles Muller, Diadem Books

Wide Is The Way is a hilarious novel about a talented, but ultimately flawed engineer, Roy, who rises rapidly in local government in the mythical Borough of Brimley. It's 1970 and the northeast of England is reeling from the rundown of the mines, shipbuilding, and railways. Roy's empathy for the unemployed motivates him to generate jobs through innovative schemes. His popularity rises due to his willingness to lecture on the council's (his) initiatives, and more importantly, achieve their objectives in record time. With a flair for public speaking, he is soon sought after as a speaker, particularly by female institutions, where his energy and passion attract female admirers. He is also asked to lecture on solving cryptic crosswords and finds an almost magical way to seduction.

The Real President is a story of a man in his thirties who decides to challenge the incumbent tyrant president who has run down the country; a seemingly brave but dangerous mission. The latter is brutal and tries to stop him but with the help of the ordinary citizens, the tyrant's power melts away. The new leader ushers in a period of unprecedented prosperity. Set in an imaginary country in Africa, the book explores important issues such as the challenges of creating a true nation state and providing visionary leadership, lacking in many countries on the continent.

On the 6th June, 2010, a young woman is found naked in a Gloucester ditch. She cannot tell them her name or how she came to be there and is diagnosed as suffering from amnesia. When no-one claims her she is placed in the care of a kindly woman and given the name Bella Hawthorne. But Bella has memories and secrets she is afraid to reveal. About the Author Linda Jones, who has written other novels, lives in Gloucestershire, where many of her stories are set. When not involved in writing Linda enjoys a variety of handcrafts, reading and socialising. She has two daughters and four grandchildren.

Heiress Margaret Heywood has lost her memory following an accident. Alone and pursued by villains she is put in the care of Lady Chigley. There is danger and love before she is reunited with her family. About the Author Linda Jones was born in London and has always enjoyed writing stories. Now retired, she has more time to devote to writing. The Lost Heiress is her third novel. Linda now lives in Gloucestershire. She has two daughters and four grandchildren.

The Golden Tower - Edward Hurst UK price: £10.99      US price: $15.40  Kindle Format: Paperback Pages: 354 Published 2014 ISBN-10: 1291914633 ISBN-13: 978-1291914634 Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 2 x 21

The Scottish Cheviot hills and its amazing wildlife are under severe threat. A young couple find themselves at the heart of their defence.....
A lone walker strays from the path, loses his way and in need of food and shelter discovers an ancient shepherd who welcomes him into his incredible home and shows him how he has transformed the bare hills into an upland paradise.
The walker asks if he can help and the shepherd demonstrates how the simple act of choosing and sowing the right seed in the right place can transform the future, but the young man is distracted when he finds a highly valuable hoard of gold. Rather than confessing to his find he conceals it and returning home sells it, so sealing his destiny.

In the course of ministering to a member of his congregation, things go terribly wrong, and Pastor Pratt is arrested on suspicion of a very serious crime. A whole catalogue of misery and despair is subsequently opened, plunging everyone involved to depths of pain and confusion they hardly knew existed. As those involved struggle for their sanity, can Di Penny and the eccentric Dr Emily help them find any light at the end of a long, dark tunnel? What, exactly, happened in the Chapel? How do they begin to make sense of a series of uncanny coincidences connected to the Pastor? How could one man be capable of such hypocrisy and unrelenting callousness? Then there is the secretive Mrs Veronica Pratt about whom there is much concern - with good cause! Although written with a degree of humour (the account of a service in Pastor Pratt's chapel is hilarious), the author has nevertheless tackled serious issues with intelligence, sensitivity and insight.

Melanie's marriage to Donald Stone had broken down. Even worse, Donald was now living with her friend, Clare Marlowe. Although Melanie had become the successful owner of an art gallery, her sad past was never completely erased from her mind. Her relationships with friends and family cools and an intrusive fear enters the life of this ice-maiden. Violence creeps up on her, and who can she really trust? Eventually, as in the Arabian proverb, she had to decide whether she can sift the chaff and the grain and keep what is worth keeping.

It's 1853 and 20-year-old Ellen Garrow is summarily married off to an Australian sheep farmer, Rawley Winthrop. The Winthrop household to which she is consigned is distinctly unwelcoming, which includes her new husband. The only exception is his brother Joseph, who becomes her only adult friend. A humdrum way of life is shattered by a double calamity, resulting in the brothers heading off to the gold fields to try and recoup their losses. When after considerable time nothing is heard from them, Ellen decides to follow them... and her adventures really begin-culminating in a spell in gaol as a suspected murderer! How will she escape the clutches of the law? Will she ever find her husband and his brother? Will the Winthrop sheep farming enterprise survive? Who will finally be in charge?

In a sense the novel is about two worlds that are worlds apart, and which are bridged together. Not only is there a bridge between different geographical regions, but between people of different age groups and experiences. At the end of the day it's love that is the main bridge that brings these different worlds and people together. And as the author also says, 'There is more than one type of love, though not always of the sexual nature!' It's very appropriate that the cover of this novel depicts bridges! There are twists and turns in the plot that take the story into some surprising routes - the main one being from Marlow in Buckinghamshire to Derbyshire in the north. In fact, you might say that in many ways the novel is a dramatized travelogue, and one that especially highlights the scenic and rural appeal of the Peak District.

This book is about a beautiful little black girl growing up in a so-called 'coloured' township. Boonkie never had any real friends, and being accepted at a world-class university seemed beyond her wildest dreams! Would she make it at such a university, having come from a poor family in an impoverished marginalised community?

After spending his first twenty years with his supportive working class parents in a village largely run by middle-class professional values, Richard decides to move away. As a young boy growing up surrounded by farming people, including his father, two uncles and many other family members, his mother had always encouraged him not to end up as a farm worker. After a short spell working for a local furniture company, and running away with an underage girl to Scotland, he goes to sea for a while. Afterwards, slowly but surely, he begins to develop an enjoyable and productive career in forestry, working around the country, each time moving to a higher and better paid job. After nearly thirty years away from his place of birth, although he does visit his family and friends during that time, he decides to move back to where his parents were living, where he develops a new career and finds a new partner. But perhaps he had paid a high price for leaving his home village in the first place!

This story relates to the dangers of parents leaving their teenage offspring alone! Chance happenings, that may or may not occur. The bond between a brother for his sister can, as in this case, be very protective-this being the case when left to fend for themselves for days and nights, although they're teenagers. This is Ray's story of how a serious accident changed All of their lives forever.

Mac is back! Following on from Bryan Marlowe’s thrilling Recalled to Arms and Leaving Mercy to Heaven, Eli (Mac) Murray, an embittered ex-SAS captain and his wife Sarah Shahar, a former Israeli Army captain attached to Mossad (Israel’s Secret Service), who first joined forces to fight a fanatical terrorist group in North Africa and the Middle East, are thrust back into the world of international intrigue, abduction and murder, when actors and technicians from the Omega Film Company are abducted and held for ransom in Colombia by junta overlord, Diego Contrero Moretta. With the deadline for payment fast approaching and Moretta not known for showing mercy, the race is on for Mac and Sarah to save the innocent abductees.

The reader is taken on a post-World War II search for a former officer who was reported missing after the Gothic Line Battle. The search is set against a background of London, Italy and Greece.

A consultant surgeon tells his story of his appointment, his successful years in his hospital, and then the coming of changes which led at last to his sad resignation. The managers had arrived, amalgamations ordered, wards were closed, discord amongst colleagues raged, and personal antagonisms worsened as their worlds collapsed. The novel was written in the 1990s and you may well recognise it!

This is a tale of a small group of people dissatisfied with life on earth and determined to start a different way of life.

This story of suspense and mystery has the mountains and timber world of the Eastern Transvaal area of South Africa as its exotic setting. An isolated though beautiful farmhouse has been converted into a hostel for guests by its present owner, Thalia du Mont. To this guest-farm there come on holiday an assorted array of people: a journalist, a teacher, a professional artist, a doctor, an accountant, a scientist, an old woman intent on capturing the spirit of trees. Most of these people are not what they appear on the surface.

The most ancient of stories, Homer's Iliad, is resuscitated by the fertile imagination of Nick Berry, woven in with his exciting swords-and-sorcery character Zona, whose name means life-a princess of the most extraordinary vitality and youthful energy who brings justice and succour to the trapped Helen of Troy. She may or may not have been at Troy, but could history and legend have unfolded as this gifted author conceives it, had she been there? Helped by her sprightly sidekick Xanthia (whose Greek name means 'yellow' in keeping with her blonde hair) and an old flame, her reason for being there is to fashion a new start for princess Helen. In doing so, might she change history and myth? Forget X-Boxes, other computer games. If it's action, non-stop excitement and fantasy you're after, pick up this book!

Cheating Death Twice: Confession of a soldier by Michael Page UK price:£10.50 US price: $12.50 Format: Paperback Size : 14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm Pages:216 ISBN-10: 1909544795 ISBN-13: 978-1909544796 Published: July 2013

The author confesses to having been born into this life complete with memories of several previous lives. It was after these previous lives that he also remembers being born, literally remembering being squeezed out of his mother’s womb! And if that is not amazing enough, he also truly believes that he can remember being conceived in his mother’s womb. The author was once a sailor on a Tall Sailing Ship and recalls drowning in the cold sea, and later, in another life, he recalls serving as a Solider in the First World War, and so is able to theorise how, when the time comes, one can cheat Death...

Judas Goat: The Kennet Narrow Boat Mystery  -  Patrick Brigham UK price: £13.50  US price: $13.30 Format: Paperback Size: 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.1 cm Pages: 328 ISBN-10: 1861510004 ISBN-13: 978-1861510006 Published: July 2013

Sitting in a Lloyd Loom chair on a Narrow Boat, moored on the Kennet and Avon Canal, a dead man stares into oblivion. Who is he and what is his name? Chief Inspector Michael Lambert from Thames Valley Police Authority unravels a murder case which stretches from Reading to Bulgaria, South Africa to Belorussia, and finally Taiwan to Peru. What at first appears to be a straightforward murder is revealed to be part of an international manhunt, the result of a major arms deal which has gone horribly wrong. The story begins with the discovery of a small mobile phone on the narrow boat and ends with the murder of a Chinese shipping magnate in the streets of London. Will anyone’s life be the same again and how will our provincial policeman cope with these different layers of intrigue?

The year is 2349. Pirate Ben Long and crew face trouble. Chased by the Space Navy, they fall through a black hole. Their ship Lion survives, piloted by Sugar, Ben’s android, but in a new dimension adventures crowd them. They rescue Terri, an alien warrior in an escape pod and go to her planet Xenaria. Bugs have taken control of it. With Terri driven by revenge, she, Ben, Sugar and Ahmad, Lion’s First Lieutenant, land to fight. Captured by bugs, they escape, steal an enemy ship and head back to Lion only to find her hijacked. When they recover the ship, Sugar and Terri duel over Ben. Then it’s on to a meeting with bugs - and an unforeseeable proposal. More surprises follow…

Herodotus - The Gnome of Sofia   -  Patrick Brigham UK price: £12.99  US price: $14.50 Kindle UK     Kindle USA Format: Paperback Size: 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.1 cm Pages: 364 ISBN-10: 1909544191 ISBN-13: 978-1909544192 Published: Jan 2013

Against a backdrop of political change in South Eastern Europe, the story embraces disgruntled communists, cold war warriors, intrigue, deception and finally murder. Sir Arthur Cumberpot has an unspectacular career which is swiftly drawn to a close when he is appointed British Ambassador to Bulgaria. Due to some unforeseen mishaps his wife Annabel is accused of being a spy and sent home to their house in Watlington while her background is checked by MI5. Annabel is guilty of nothing, other than being the biological daughter of Jim Kilbey, Britain’s most famous spy. It seems that a jealous god has sought to visit the sins of the father upon her, but so has everyone else. She is the victim of serendipity, but also of cover ups, the duplication of thin evidence and exaggeration. But she is also heartless, treacherous, self indulgent and without shame.

One thousand years on, it's a globally warmed, savage world-after the Internet's crash and numerous plagues. The last scattered people are controlled by God's Warriors. When it gets too much, the final real Warrior, Beth Eden, and poet Cord Rain put together a mission to kill God. They come up against God's Warriors, cannibals, monsters on land and at sea. Their conflict, action and adventure lead to an unforeseeable final twist.

An Iranian at Home and Abroad: A Bid for Freedom - Cyrus Kamrani UK price: £14.50 US price: $15.50 Kindle UK     Kindle USA Format: Paperback Size: 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm Pages: 492 ISBN-10: 1909544167 ISBN-13: 978-1909544161 Published: Jan 2013

This is a travelogue with a difference! Since Henry James there have been many impressions of an American abroad and we have become used to seeing the world ‘under western eyes’. But what about seeing the world from a very different perspective - not from the standpoint of an affluent westerner, or even an anglicized foreigner like Conrad, but through the eyes of an Iranian who has not had the privilege of taking freedom for granted. Iran itself comes under close scrutiny as the author tries to come to terms with daily life in a country where freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and freedom to wear the clothing of one’s choice does not exist. Imagine, for instance, visiting a tourist town for a holiday break and being picked up by the police because you are not a local, and then inadvertently finding yourself with a rope around your neck in a public execution? The book is a real page-turner as one follows the author’s frequent bids for freedom, finding himself repeatedly in a prison cell, punting across a turbulent river to enter Greece without a visa, finding temporary solace and comfort in the arms of a young prostitute in Bulgaria, suffering the indignity of being treated as a slave by the high-minded bosses in Japan, and running away from the regular police raids in Cyprus. But not all is doom and gloom - by no means, for apart from the author’s downright honesty, sharing and confiding his innermost thoughts, there is his irresistible humor that never fails to see the funny side in the events and the people that he describes. With its unique perspective of what it is like to be down and out, and sometimes affluent too, in Iran and the countries the author visits, this book provides an unforgettable experience.

It is the year 2250 and Stephen Williams finds himself in a Great Britain overrun by zombies and whose green belt land has all been concreted over. He is devoid of nearly all hope until he meets a nine-year-old girl called Julie Mayberry and together they try to survive in a land where their fellow humans are all but extinct. It is a struggle to the death against the zombies whose relentless pursuit of Stephen and Julie leads them both to learn of the final hypocrisy that lies beneath the betrayal of their country.

The building and repair work carried out by dangerously incompetent and unscrupulous builders, often known as “cowboys,” is widely reported in newspapers and investigations into their nefarious activities make popular and thought-provoking television documentaries. This publicity helps to warn the unwary of the misery, unjustifiable costs and even death that can result by employing unskilled building workers to carry out improvements and, often-unnecessary, repairs to their homes. The cowboy builder will always ask for “cash-up-front” before he starts to work. Later, he will ask for more cash, because he “underestimated the work and material needed to finish the job”. If the householder is unable or unwilling to part with more money, the cowboy will leave the property in such a state that it is an unsafe dwelling. This is the story of two men who take deadly retributive action against cowboy builders.

A thrilling story following Chris Leyton's life journey, from his humble beginnings in an orphanage to years spent in the British and American Submarine Service, travelling the great oceans of the world and gaining a new respect for the sea and the dangers it holds. Eventually, ownership of his charter boat Syrena and his friendship with the O'Shaughnessys lead to a new period of mystery and drama, including the 'Leygan Lee incident'. Adventure combines with a touching love story, as his relationship with the beautiful Jane and her daughter Alex unfolds amid the tropical setting of the islands of the Caribbean.

Somebody is killing innocent people all over Wales leaving headless chess pieces as a calling card. The four Welsh Forces are at their wits’ end and they have no clues. The killings seem to be without motive. A new dedicated unit, The Serious Crime Squad, is formed to work from a new base which is situated in a Cardiff terraced house. The team consists of two Detective Inspectors. Mike Karetzi is young, unorthodox and a maverick, whereas Evan Jones is pedantic, works by the book and is nearing retiring age. The third member is a big, black sixty-year-old woman who is an expert in computers and forensics. Later they recruit an ex-con for his special expertise on gaining access to places normally inaccessible. However, the killer, codenamed ‘The Chessman’ by the unit, is no fool and he’s very clever and very cunning. The Chessman is hell-bent on completing his mission and won’t be denied by anyone. He wants to be rich, very rich.

Rhodesia and the vicious civil war continues and is intensified by the shooting down of a civilian airline and the horrific massacre of the survivors. Kensington's own Territorial Battalion has been called up and routinely deployed on the Zambia border. But there is nothing routine about this deployment. The war has been joined by Alice Chingola and her tribe of merciless religious warriors, and are now allied to ZANU the local terrorist group with Alice as supreme leader, tilting the balance in favour of the terrorists. For the army the gloves are off, the rule book thrown away, terror met with terror with just a hint of conventional soldiering.

Amelia: Beautiful, wealthy, privileged and damaged. Her children would pay the ultimate price. Paul: The idealistic, talented and inquisitive Investigative Reporter. He fought a difficult and soul-destroying battle in his quest for justice. Catherine: Passionate, and sensual; the woman Paul searched for all his adult life and finally found. Lucinda: Intense and loyal; her love for Amelia transcended all. Clarissa: The Matriarch; She is strong, fierce and determined; her love for Amelia bordered on the obsessional. These five people's lives are intricately woven together. They played, laughed and cried together. They suffered, struggled and fought together. They lived for each other and would die for each other. Very few will ever forget the poignant and heart-rending story of...Amelia.

These insightful stories vividly evoke rural life in Scotland as seen through the eyes of the young protagonist. The immediacy of such details as riding a bike at speed, the ringing of a bell, the rituals of Halloween as well as the authenticity of the Scots language, all contribute to a powerful re-creation of a past age. In the easy flowing style one senses an artistic sensibility. "Edith Buchanan's work recalls a pastoral Scotland before the age of technology. In the musicality of the language one hears an echo of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Jessie Kesson and the Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod."

- Valerie Thornton. Writer and creative writing tutor

The Three Lives of Peter Miller by Michael Page UK price: £7.99 US price: $11.29 Published by Diadem Books: Format: Paperback Size : 14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm Pages: 232 ISBN-10: 1908026413 ISBN-13: 978-1908026415 Published: Jan 2012

This story is about reincarnation and the eternal soul. The 3 Lives of Peter Miller is the continuing and ever more revealing story about the life of this very special character. It is a psychological adventure through the thoughts and feelings, the beliefs and attitudes of this very bemused individual providing us with much valuable food for thought! In this part of the story, Peter Miller tells a tale about an out of the body experience and reveals his normally private thoughts about reincarnation and the immortal life of the soul. Secrets revealed from the other side of the grave!

The year is 2349. Pirate Ben Long and crew face trouble. Chased by the Space Navy, they fall through a black hole. Their ship Lion survives, piloted by Sugar, Ben’s android, but in a new dimension adventures crowd them. They rescue Terri, an alien warrior in an escape pod and go to her planet Xenaria. Bugs have taken control of it. With Terri driven by revenge, she, Ben, Sugar and Ahmad, Lion’s First Lieutenant, land to fight. Captured by bugs, they escape, steal an enemy ship and head back to Lion only to find her hijacked. When they recover the ship, Sugar and Terri duel over Ben. Then it’s on to a meeting with bugs - and an unforeseeable proposal. More surprises follow…

Readers of Leaving Mercy to Heaven, which introduced Eli (Mac) Murray, an embittered ex-SAS captain and Sarah Shahar, an Israeli Army captain, who joined forces to fight a fanatical terrorist group, in North Africa and the Middle East, might be interested to learn that they are bent on action again.. They are now married, but find they cannot settle down to a humdrum life and are ready and eager to answer a call to arms. This time they are engaged by a powerful British media magnate to take on the task of rescuing his son (a foreign correspondent) and his daughter-in-law, who have been arrested and imprisoned by the Syrian Secret Security Service. Their mission takes them, incognito, to turbulent Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad's tyrannical government is engaged in brutally subduing the dissident populace, who are demonstrating and dying in their attempt to overthrow him and replace his government. As you might expect, the action is very strong, with Mac and Sarah giving covert, but no holds barred, support to the rebels in exchange for their help in freeing the newspaperman and his wife.

One thousand years on, it's a globally warmed, savage world-after the Internet's crash and numerous plagues. The last scattered people are controlled by God's Warriors. When it gets too much, the final real Warrior, Beth Eden, and poet Cord Rain put together a mission to kill God. They come up against God's Warriors, cannibals, monsters on land and at sea. Their conflict, action and adventure lead to an unforeseeable final twist.

A truly endearing rags to riches story with a twist. Jack Riley is a handsome, yet highly sensitive young man. He has the charm and rugged character to captivate many a pretty lass, but his desires lie elsewhere. The sudden abandonment by his father at a tender young age and the family's struggles over the years fuels his burning ambition to rise above the poverty of his upbringing on a remote Scottish Island and escape to the mainland in search of a more meaningful life. The many obstacles and trials that he faces along the way only make him more determined to achieve success, his deep love for a country girl and the intriguing circumstances which conspired to prevent them having a future together take a dramatic turn as the story unfolds. The reader is engaged in a web of uncertainty throughout Jack's endeavours. The path of true love is never smooth and Jack has to face up to the possibility of losing everything dear to him in his ultimate quest for true happiness.

One young guy, three twenty-something women, several devastating consequences... Matt Grant is a young alpha-male with all the right attributes. A devastating occurrence forces him to re-evaluate his life. This time, he decided to embark on the task of finding his bride and settling to a more sober existence. What he assumed was going to be a straightforward task, is about to turn into a bitter-sweet nightmare of unimaginable proportions, taking him across the Atlantic-from London to the United States of America, Paris and back to London. In the course of this journey he comes across three ladies - the sex addict, the liar and the shopaholic. Faced with such TOUGH CHOICES he must make a decision. His encounters inexorably alter the entire course of his life and stretch the limit of his human endurance.

EMBATTLED BRITAIN is a book with a solid historical framework through which the author conducts his storyline. The characters are sharp and their individual and collective concerns of 1600 years ago are illuminated. Meticulous research and descriptive writing of a high standard places the reader alongside real human beings in crisis within a distant but recognisable environment.

Betrayed by their political masters, deserted by their cavalry support, faced with an enemy fresh from their victory at Killiecrankie which outnumbered them five to one, only half equipped with firearms, and led by a man whose General assessed him as "not much of a soldier", what chance did the untried three-month-old Regiment have? This book tells the story of William Cleland, the first Cameronian commanding officer, and Alexander Shields, the first chaplain, who played a critical role in Scotland during the Revolution of 1689, and were instrumental in raising the Cameronian Regiment. Viscount Dundee had raised the Highlands for the ousted King James, and the story reaches its climax with the battles of Killiecrankie and Dunkeld. Yet despite all the problems the unblooded Cameronian Regiment faced, they fought the battle of Dunkeld with such courage and determination that they won a significant victory, breaking the back of the first Jacobite rebellion, and providing stability for social and religious changes in Scotland which still endure.

A letter found in an old chest on the island of Zanzibar finally reveals the secret of Kate Hope's glamorous but anguished past, and the reason for her sudden and unexplained disappearance. Ten years previously Kate's lover and business partner, Adam Hamilton, tormented by a terrifying secret he is willing to risk everything for, brutally ends his relationship with Kate. A woman is found murdered in a remote part of Kenya, bringing Tom Fletcher back to East Africa to unravel the web of mystery and intrigue surrounding Kate, the woman he loves but hasn't seen for eighteen years. In Zanzibar, Tom meets Kate's daughter Molly. With her help he pieces together the last years of her mother's life and his extraordinary connection to it. A page turning novel of love, passion, betrayal and death, with an unforgettable cast of characters, set against the spectacular backdrop of East and Southern Africa, New York and France.

Disaster looms for the USA as terrorists demanding Hawaiian independence threaten to decimate the US fleet in Pearl Harbour. The terrorists are employing a new explosive of awesome power, and it is soon realised that Honolulu itself is threatened. As the US President struggles with the evolving political crisis at home and abroad, her country's intelligence agencies are beset by infighting. One CIA agent starts to suspect there may be more to the threat than is apparent. The hunt for the plotters and the source of the explosives is not confined to Hawaii but stretches to Europe and Asia. The international dimensions of the plot become more serious when the new explosive is used, in Moscow. The Russians and America must unite against a common foe. With drastic action the only hope, can the ships be saved and the plot foiled, or will the world spiral into chaos and war?

Jack Drake is highly disciplined, skilled in all aspects of his job and courageous; an ideal career soldier who is well regarded by his superiors and singled out for early promotion. But there is a dark side to Drake's character - he wants to track down his father, known only to him as a soldier called 'Rowdy,' and exact revenge on him for deserting his mother. The story moves dramatically between the lives of Jack and the soldier called Rowdy. Jack's relentless pursuit of Rowdy takes him to war-torn Iraq and to Afghanistan where they have their final confrontation, while fighting for their lives against a large force of merciless Taliban warriors. Unfriendly Fire is a family saga spanning over sixty years and involves betrayal, blackmail, bravery, loyalty, love, romance and revenge.

Limberlost  by Ricky Dale US price: $8.49  UK price: £5.99 Format: Paperback Size: 22.6 x 15 x 1.2 cm Pages: 136 ISBN-10: 1908026138 ISBN-13: 978-1908026132 Published: Diadem Books May 2011

The scene is set in Southern Ontario during the emergence of the l960's. In the format of purposely brief chapters, the theme unfolds a narrative of events which search and expose the tangled emotional alterations of a virtuoso who desperately yearns to bring her austere demons to rest. The result is an explicit non-cliché colour portrait of devouring pathos and perverse humour; which correlate and blend a relationship of semi-autobiographical sequences with semi-fiction. From the onset the twists and turns of her life will promise the effect of a compelling and curious realism of empathy; that will captivate, enthral and follow the heart of even the most casual reader.

No Smoke Without Fire by Michael Page UK price: £8.99  US price: $12.79 Published by Diadem Books: Format: Paperback Size : 14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm Pages: 300 ISBN: 978-1908026064 Published: Feb 2011

The main character in the story is Peter Miller, who at the age of 46, unwittingly becomes a Male Escort after moving to Brighton to get away from his second wife Diana. He is six foot tall with shoulder length black hair, a very handsome man with deep blue eyes and very broad shoulders; in all honesty a very civilized man who hides the mental scars from a tortured childhood. Peter Miller accidentally finds www.Champagne&Chocolates.com website offering opportunities for mature men to become Male Escorts; he applies to the website by email with all his personal details; is readily accepted along with twenty other available and very gorgeous black & white male escorts. Over the following months, Peter Miller learns the ropes of his new and rather erotic vocation, as he tries to fulfil all of the passionate needs of the female clientele, but along the way he also desperately tries to understand exactly what it is these rich women really want from him!

Naseby: This Phantom Ground chronicles the lives of the Eachelhursts and the Wellbeloveds. The intertwining of past and present play a crucial part in the lives of all involved. James Eachelhurst, a Major in Cromwell's New Model Army, finds a new life in Wychwood, as does Katherine Anderton in modern times. Religion and politics play integral parts of the characters' lives. A passionate belief in their cause makes the opposing armies exceedingly brutal and bitter foes. There is no pity; revenge is instant and bloody. Events occur that change England forever. The saviour is the deep abiding love of family life. Audrey's first book in The Battle Trilogy, Talavera: Tongued with Fire, was set in the present and the Regency period. Naseby, the second book, is about the period she finds most fascinating. The outcome of the English Civil War affected not only England but, over the course of time, Parliamentary Democracy worldwide.

The most ancient of stories, Homer's Iliad, is resuscitated by the fertile imagination of Nick Berry, woven in with his exciting swords-and-sorcery character Zona, whose name means life-a princess of the most extraordinary vitality and youthful energy who brings justice and succour to the trapped Helen of Troy. She may or may not have been at Troy, but could history and legend have unfolded as this gifted author conceives it, had she been there? Helped by her sprightly sidekick Xanthia (whose Greek name means 'yellow' in keeping with her blonde hair) and an old flame, her reason for being there is to fashion a new start for princess Helen. In doing so, might she change history and myth? Forget X-Boxes, other computer games. If it's action, non-stop excitement and fantasy you're after, pick up this book!

Blue Watch by Gwyn Fford-Osborne UK price: £13.99  US price: $15.20 Published by Diadem Books: Format: Paperback Size : 14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm Pages: 390 ISBN: 978-1908026026 Published: Dec 2010

Rhodesia, in 1975 and a bloody vicious civil war is at its height-a war between the white minority supported by the black majority and the ZAPU and ZANU terrorist groups, supported by Zambia and Mozambique. Kensington, a small town in the farming belt, has been the subject of several terrorist attacks, but with only a small police force for defence and the local T.A. unit having been called up for service on the Zambia border, the situation appears grim. Until Iffor Meredith turns up on a pilgrimage, that is. A deadly ambush on the "Dix" family and his escape from a land mine attack makes Iffor determined to offer resistance of some form or other to the terrorists. His application to join the Rhodesian Army has been accepted and he sets about forming a small militia. With all the fit men already on call up, who can he recruit from? Then he's invited to a darts match at the Moth Club and meets up with the remnants of the town's Fire Brigade, the men considered too old for call up. And so Blue Watch is engaged!

About two weeks ago, a man came running into this station asking the Sergeant here to come at once to the jetty in Blyth harbour. Two fishermen had come across a macabre scene... When the Sergeant and a constable went with the messenger, they discovered the body of a man in a fishing net, half submerged in the water. The net was tied to the jetty. It looked as though the man had got himself tangled up in the net and had possibly tripped and fallen into the water...' But was it an accident, or something more sinister that took the life of Big Cam Boise, the loudmouth bully of Blyth who everyone hated, who threw his weight about in the 'Fishermen's Lodge' public house, demanding free drinks, beating up the women if they refused his advances, and generally causing mayhem, forcing the patrons, including the harmless old codgers, Tom and Gerry, who liked to ogle the women and sing drunken songs, to take refuge in the other drinking houses of Blyth. As Al, the landlord of the 'Fishermen's Lodge' said, something had to be done about this loudmouth bully. Will Detective Inspector Luke Forem, from Morpeth, uncover the true facts? The reader will certainly enjoy this very readable 'whodunit'!

Johnny is the most unconventional family doctor you will ever meet. Brilliant but soft hearted, with an appetite for hard work, attractive women, and pub quiz nights, he treats many poorly patients in his busy Yorkshire practice. When Johnny's lifelong friend Joe Bradford develops a fatal illness, his promise to look after him to the end is jeopardised by a malicious complaint. Not only may Johnny not be able to care for Joe but his entire career might be terminated by an angry patient with a grudge. Could he be rescued by Kate, a beautiful young American woman who has moved into the town, or will Johnny be forced to abandon Joe at his time of greatest need? As time runs out for both men, can a frantic search for evidence clear his good name?

Two women - one Bahraini, one American - are in pursuit of an ancient treasure before it is spirited out of the country by ruthless Art thieves. The island of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf is the setting for this mystery. It emphasizes two features of the country: an old residence in the traditional Gulf architecture, the Windtower House and an archaeological site of the Dilmun civilization dating from the third millennium B.C. Dilmun was the pivotal point in the ancient culture triangle between Mesopotamia and the Indus region. The mystery evolves around the theft of a Dilmun treasure, a young Bahraini woman, Mona, and her best friend, the American Faith, who works for an agency that specializes in the recovery of stolen Art. It is Faith's first visit to the Middle East. She starts out somewhat naively but soon questions the usual Western image of the meek Arab woman as she learns about local society. Two elderly Bahraini women, one a traditional herbalist, the other a sweetseller, feature strongly in the final retrieval of the treasure.

An edge-of-the-seat adventure set in 1960's England and Europe. The intriguing action begins with the unusual discovery of a WWII British aircraft that comes ashore on a deserted Norfolk beach. The mystery deepens with the sudden disappearance of a Norwegian trawler. The chance meeting with the beautiful Alicia Shannon leads Sean Summers back to the dark days of WWII and the terrifying secret that lies in the ocean's depths.

Troubled by Love by Piers Blake UK price: £7.99  US price: $11.99 Publisher: Diadem Books Format: Paperback Size : 9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches Pages: 238 ISBN: 13: 978-1907294532 Published: May 2010

Two men meet in a pub, one a psychotherapist, the other, friend and confidante, a priest. The former, Frank Appleton, is fraught with the pains of unrequited love. The latter, Fr. Alec, is increasingly and disturbingly haunted by the activities of a serial rapist - an antagonist who bears a peculiar grudge against the Roman Catholic church. The story tells how each man is variously affected by the unfolding crimes and the powerful personality of their sinister perpetrator. This novel is unusual in that it eschews a straightforward narrative and evolves for the most part through the letters and diary of the counselling protagonist. By adopting the perspective of 'the wounded healer' the author is able to give added immediacy to the impact of the criminal and to explore as he does so various themes: these include the viability of faith in the modern world, the potential for evil and madness when integrity becomes compromised, and the endeavour to maintain a sexual ethic in a secular environment. Of interest to all who have suffered love's troubles, this book will hold special appeal for those affected by the ambiguities of religion and who yet strive towards a spiritual goal.
 

The Parousia    Book One: Hell by Paul T. M. Jackson UK price: £7.99     US price: $11.99 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback Size : 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.7 cm Pages: 160 ISBN: 978-1907294525 Published: April 2010

The Holy Grail has been discovered, and Satan has found it, and intends to use it, against its purpose, for his own devices. Joshua is the unlikely boy chosen to sneak down to the depths of Hell, and surreptitiously win it back for God, and for mankind. But as he sets out on his journey, is all as it seems? This is the first of a trilogy, following the adventures of Joshua, with ‘Heaven’ and ‘Earth’ to follow.

The discovery of an old portrait of a Cavalry Officer in the uniform of Regency times, changes Audrey Hunter’s life for ever. The past reaches out to her with an intensity she cannot possibly ignore. The secure tranquility of her pleasant family life is threatened.  She must find depths of courage such as she never imagined she could possess. To be without the golden soldier boy whose love searches for her through time seems to be an impossible decision

Archibald Sinclair Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumly), the glib-tongued and picaresque, street-wise youth, who first appeared in Memoirs of an Errant Youth, is caught out at last – called up for National Service. He chose the Royal Air Force in which to serve his time, because old soldiers had told him, ‘There’s less ‘bull’ in the ‘Brylcreem Boys Brigade’ and blue had always been his favourite colour.’

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An aftermath of the Falklands War, the gripping action of this intriguing spy/thriller starts with the sinking of the Argentine battle cruiser General Belgrano in May 1982. Many lives were lost, including, in the story, the son of a wealthy meat packer and shipper with a business in Buenos Aires

A Bit of a Shake-Up    
by Nick Berry
UK price: £8.99     US price: $13.99
Format: Paperback
Published by Diadem Books
Size : 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.7 cm
Pages: 326
ISBN: 978-1907294266
Published: Dec-2009
 

Nick Berry’s tongue-in-cheek divine comedy is certainly more readable and enjoyable than The Satanic Verses! The ancient Greeks would have approved the apocalyptical themes and theatrical settings. The novel is a roller-coaster ride through heaven and hell—a refreshing change from the Dawkins Delusion, and provokes some interesting questions into the reality of divine existence.

Katie was a shy and sensitive lass when she was a young girl living in Scotland, and when her father died her mother took to America to live with her cousins in Louisiana. When war broke out in 1861 between the north and south, Katie moved to New Orleans, where she found love and intrigue and danger-after meeting the dashing and handsome Captain Clark Boyd who's loyalty lay with the south rather than marriage.

The Reluctant Squire
by Jean Morley
UK price: £6.99     US price: $11.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 196
ISBN: 978-1907294259
Published: Dec-2009
 

An eighteenth century tale of romance and intrigue in the spirit of Jane Austen!

As a younger son, Jack Langford did not expect to become Squire of Cherrydene. Reluctant to leave his crime-solving work in London, he gradually becomes more involved with the residents of Cherrydene and tries to make up for the neglect of his ancestors. But what does he really want? And will Lucy change his mind?

The Rum Runner    
by A. Hamilton-Scott
UK price: £12.99     US price: $17.99
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 610
Published by Diadem Books
ISBN:978-1907294198
Published: Nov-2009

The picaresque, swaggering Glaswegian hero, Danny, irresistible to women, is drawn into a series of colourful events that take the reader through a dingy yet colourful period of history, from the back streets of Glasgow, across the ocean to Cuba and the nightclubs of New York

While the Lion Sleeps    
by Mary Rose Hall
UK price: £6.99    US price: $9.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9 (22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm)
Pages: 204
ISBN: 0-595-37197-3
Published: Oct-2009

While the Lion Sleeps is an evocative and at times disturbing story of colonial Africa, set in Kenya under the shadow of Uhuru.

With the third book set around the golden plains and hills of her beloved Kenya, the author completes a trilogy to form an African version of the Forsyte Saga. While the Lion Sleeps continues the story where Whispering Grass left off.

The Best Laid Plan       
by Robert Henry
UK price: £5.69     US price: $8.79
Format: Paperback
Size : 5" x 8"
Pages: 134
ISBN: 9781907294006
Published: Sept-2009

When Carol is asked to visit her bank manager, she is surprised by the information she is given. What indeed, has happened to her ex-husband, a bully who had made her life such a misery? The story that unfolds from the second chapter shows the events that had led up to this—a happy conclusion that has left her father with a dark secret he dare not reveal and one which, for the sake of the happiness of his daughter, he will take to his grave!

A gripping blend of fact and fiction. The survival of a wild life Journalist and a Geologist in the wildest part of the African bush leads to a romance filled with irony and humour.

This story is based loosely on the lives of the author's great, great, great, grandfathers, John Andrew and James Law. Both were well known smugglers in the late 18th and early 19th Century, and operated at the same time on the north Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and the Tees estuary.

Dave Mackenzie, the man, the legend—superstar space pilot, supplier of weapons, lover of women, connoisseur of fine ales and transporter of toilet rolls throughout the known galaxy. See him on Utube: Rogue Trader, Memoirs of a Space Cowboy

Have you ever really considered what is important in your life? In today’s non-stop world of fast food, technology and credit, where people have become trapped on the ever-turning hamster wheel of life, sometimes you just have to say, “Stop! I need to get off.”

This is the terrifying and nail-biting story of the de Quatreaux family and friends as they attempt to survive the violent political changes of the French Revolution—and the guillotine.

Leaving Mercy to Heaven is a bang-up-to-date, dramatic action-packed tale of revenge, intrigue, betrayal, and romance, involving terrorism, modern Casablanca, and the Israeli Secret Service

Wheel of Destiny is a novel of intrigue, adventure and explicit sexuality. An English teacher flees the threat of death across the world in the company of his provocative pupil.

Orphaned at ten, destitute at fourteen — vital ingredients for early maturity.

Set initially in Lancashire in the late twenties, this story follows the early life and Vicissitudes of Tim who, shortly after birth, was fostered out by his mother to a poor, socially deprived family, in Blackpool.

Congo Cobalt is a classic adventure story, packed with authentic detail, set in 1994, which will appeal to and be appreciated by all devotees of Wilbur Smith and Bernard Cornwell, about a group of former British Army comrades who decide to come out of retirement to wrest profit from the mineral riches of Central Africa.

The story behind the construction of the railway in the West Highlands of Scotland in the 1890s. A triumphant blend of Scots railway engineering know-how and vision with Irish initiative, determination, luck and muscle.

A woman in Nova Scotia struggles through disappointment and adversity for acceptance and love denied her as a child. Hope springs eternal, and faith, determination and a sense of humour is what she clings to as she keeps reaching for tomorrow.

Genetic engineering in the Highlands. A story of one solution to the threat of climate change.

History is rewritten as Hitler mounts a successful invasion of Britain. After an agonising dilemma, Churchill flees to the United States to seek its intervention. Will the Americans heed his plea or stand aside allowing Hitler to pursue his global ambitions?

A Gothic novel, set in the northeast of England, late 19th Century, early 20th Century. A spellbinding read!

UK price: £9.00     US price: $17.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 268
ISBN: 0-595-51038-8
Published: Mar-2008


Growing up in the Dockerty household in the austere years after World War 2, with a father who reigned supreme as head of the household and a mother who was duty bound didn't bode well for a middle child that was defiant and rebellious. My childhood moulded me into the teenager I became, looking for love in the wrong quarters, facing challenges through situations brought upon me and the choices I made that affected my life in my adult years — Vivienne Dockerty

Davey Watson was an ordinary boy—an embittered child of Scotland's Killing Times. His mother was a saint in heaven. His father was a bully and a thief. His master was the amazing Mr Allan. Strange guardian angels guide the ragamuffin hero through the dangers and deceptions of Scotland's Civil War. And a mysterious destiny carries the savage boy along twisting roads that lead to God, or glory, or the gallows.

Tense, gripping and with a rich seam of black humour, Settled Out Of Court is the latest thriller from Bryan Marlowe—a man with a literary mission of his own.

A sequel to Genesis 2, The Genesis Debt continues the nail biting dramatisation of the conflict between the tyrannical Gnathe Link-soo-shan and the recreated humans on the shrunken planet, Jupiter, over six million years in the future. The Genesis Debt will be paid by the Gnathe by defying the laws of space and time

Be warned; don’t be fooled by Gary Remington’s gentlemanly demeanour. He’s a tough, war-hardened ex-sergeant major, who exercises unremitting relentlessness in whatever he undertakes. He’s now on a mission of merciless vengeance and he’ll take no prisoners!

Whispering Grass, like Selengai before it, evokes that delightful time of colonial stability when farmers and British settlers planned and schemed in what is now a lost world - a world that was eventually swept away by the winds of change that culminated in Uhuru.

The setting is Britain following the Roman invasion in the time of Boudica. In the centre, a damaged adolescent comes to power. In a far, new Province, the dismantling of Celtic institutions and the opening of the territory to World trade is blocked by a furious native rebellion.

It's the cold war in the Far East and a chain of deadly circumstances forces two former world war heroes to form an alliance to save those they love in a final desperate act of heroism and redemption.

"Heroin is like falling in love—you just can't help yourself..." This vivid, dramatic and disturbing novel is based on a true story of the drug scene in Hong Kong and Manila.

A romantic saga dedicated to those who have lost the love of their life and live in hope of one day regaining it.

A seasoned mercenary, having returned from a recent contract in the Dark Continent, receives a message from a lifelong friend who is dying from cancer.

Memoirs of an Errant Youth—a tongue in cheek account of the author’s early years of employment in wartime Britain and the immediate post-war period of austerity.

Horror/thriller with more u-turns than a minister of Parliament! A real page-turner of suspense in the Stephen King tradition.

Selengai is an evocative and nostalgic story of colonial Africa, set in Kenya before Uhuru.

A young engineer’s introduction to the hardships of life at sea and the vicissitudes of war on the heroic Pedestal convoy to Malta during WW 11.

In two spellbinding books the author follows the military exploits of his hero, first in a futuristic account of the Third World War, and then in some dramatic scenes in Germany and Scotland, with a memorable maritime skirmish in the English Channel.

It’s just after the invasion of southeast Britain by Rome. In the City, there is financial manipulation to fuel political ambition, while outside the newest Province, a desperate British defence of the West takes place.

Hitler sent a mission to an island off the coast of Wales during the Second World War in the belief that the Templar Treasure was located there and its seizure would secure world domination for the Nazis. Are such aspirations behind the present mayhem when the birds and livestock on the island go berserk?

The novel is extremely well written, imaginative, and full of great ideas and concepts, which at its best reminds and bears similar styles to the works of Niven and Pournelle. It examines how alien races may differ in their culture and beliefs, and brings the reader a wonderful tale of how these races interact with the human survivors of Earth.

What will happen when the two most powerful forces in the world—sex and religion—collide with the sex and religion of other planets and cultures? As usual, this author has no hesitation in stripping his male characters (both human and alien) to fully explore the mind-boggling possibilities.

This true story of a love rooted in Hungary, a saga in the spirit of Doctor Zhivago, set in the chaotic times when the Russian revolution swamped the lives of the landed gentry in Hungary, will fascinate and move the reader to tears of sadness and joy.

The fascinating story of a man who loses his Russian identity to assume various fraudulent identities to further a life of crime—a survival strategy in a world besieged by fraud and con-men. The book, in effect, extols the value of truth and honesty.

The book covers a lifetime of serving in the Catholic Church combined with the renegade lifestyle of seven lads who became men and dealt with the hysterical consequences of being holy and sinful.

This enthralling historical novel re-enacts the invasion of Britain by Rome. Political murder, intrigue, mutiny and invasion, underpinned by business deals on an imperial scale, are set against the struggle for freedom of an artistic and warlike people.

This is an enchanting fairy tale for adults that will keep you turning the pages in eager suspense. Will it end in glory or in tragedy?

Set in the sixties with its anti-war demonstrations, flower power and hippy culture, this is an intriguing novel about the war in Vietnam and why it happened, with some mind-blowing implications.

Romantic tale of a transatlantic affair between an American and her British second cousin. Lots of thwarted passion and appetite for life as the hero and heroine cross their emotional and cultural barriers. 

This is an intriguing journey into the capital city of Luxembourg, European life and the heart of the protagonist, Sabina, as she embarks on a personal quest to cure herself of ‘life deficiency’.

This is an enthralling novel about international conspiracy, murder of a Prime Minister and the overthrow of the British Monarchy, set in the near future.

This fascinating story of a little girl in a remote land around the west coast of Africa will hold you spellbound as she grows up and becomes immersed in the world of a Soho stripper.

He was a powerful magician, who had taken her with him across a dark landscape, peopled with trapped souls. And in the end, he had not allowed her to refuse him anything, even the most intimate invasion of all...

In the tradition of Joseph Conrad, the author explores the heart of darkness in a traditional African village. But unlike authors in the Great Tradition, his young hero, a Congolese boy, discovers himself by moving from the city to the country, not, like Pip in Great Expectations, from the country to the city.
 

An Odyssey of Murder is a thoroughly fascinating and compelling novel with its insight into the mind of a serial killer.  

A fast-paced thriller of adventure, murder and romance set in the violent and treacherous, yet exotic world of the Amazon.

This absorbing narrative will keep you turning the pages as you follow the sexual encounters and fortunes of a young mining engineer, from the vast territories of Wyoming and Nevada to the majestic splendour of the Scottish Highlands, evoking passions ranging through lust, greed, and genuine love.

Milly the Bitch                
A Bulldog Farce                   
by Jennifer D Wayman            

US price: $12.95           UK price: £10.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 168
ISBN: 0-595-26174-4
Publication Date: Dec-2002

This phantasmagorical farce presents a hilarious madcap search for the missing owner of a jinxed bulldog. The comedy is enhanced by the psychedelic characters—a harassed nightmare-prone East-End cabbie and a loony old French mademoiselle sculptress whose only means of ensnaring a man is by a canine curse!

A Farewell to Skiing            
A Novel
by Kurt Larson   

US price: $15.95       UK price: £13.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 290
ISBN: 0-595-25625-2
Publication Date: Oct-2002


This skiing adventure with evocative settings in Switzerland and the Scottish Highlands will captivate you with its two strands as it brings together two loves, one for a fun-loving English girl, the other for a piquant Scottish girl.

The Ten Percent Man          
A Novel
by Moss Tosney   

£26.49 in UK          $30.95 in US
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 648
ISBN: 0-595-25794-1
Publication Date: Dec-2002

The novel presents a horrific futuristic scenario where a young doctor pits himself against a new Goliath, a gigantic and ruthless pseudo-medical corporation that buys and sells human organs for profit. Is the novel
a warning—or a prediction?

Red Enemy           
A Novel
by Chester Cole   

US price: $14.95         UK price: £12.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 244
ISBN: 0-595-25665-1
Publication Date: Nov-2002

A fast-moving thriller presenting a multinational cast of heroes and villains led by an American before and after the Cold War ended in Europe.

The Throne of Pharaohs       
A Novel
by Irene Roberts   

US price: $16.95     UK price: £14.49
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 234
ISBN: 0-595-25623-6
Publication Date: Nov-2002


This colourful tale of intrigue, love and lust, ruthless cruelty and power in the time of the Pharaohs, will hold you spellbound. The explicit scenes of violence, human sacrifice and exotic sensuality weave a magic that will keep you entranced until the final page.

Kingdom of the Sun
A Novel
by Irene Roberts   

US price: $15.95      UK price: £13.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 284
ISBN: 0-595-25961-8
Publication Date: Dec-2002

Set in ancient Egypt, this is a love story, tender and at the same time erotic and sensitive, that will enchant and captivate the reader—with its splendour of historical detail and explicit, unflinchingly sanguine portrayal of a time notorious for its savagery and cruelty.

Song of the Nile
A Novel
by Irene Roberts   

US price: $15.95         UK price: £13.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 278
ISBN: 0-595-26114-0
Publication Date: Dec-2002

An enchanting and endearing love story, tender yet erotic, set in the sensual splendour and ruthless brutality of ancient Egypt.

Baptism in Siberia         
A Novel
by Christopher Sarton   

UK Price £12.99     $14.95 in US
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 248
ISBN: 0-595-25085-8
Publication Date: Oct-2002

A powerful, thought-provoking journey toward spiritual truth, Sarton's novel is a unique exploration of several major religions of the world.

Is Life Fate or Destiny?         
A Novel
by A. J. Bushy   

US price: $15.95       UK price: £13.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 286
ISBN: 0-595-24653-2
Publication Date: Sep-2002

Is Life fate or Destiny? This is a fast-paced thriller that brings together a multiplicity of love stories with sexual realism, ending in a shootout in Gibraltar that shocked the world.

Ebony                        
WW 1 Charger
by Dalton Alexander   

UK Price £12.99       $14.95 in US
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 168
ISBN: 0-595-24677-X
Publication Date: Sep-2002

This is a vivid and absorbing account of the frightening hardships and victories of the First World War, focused around the role played by a General’s splendid and heroic horse, Ebony.

John Paul Jones
Father of the United States Navy
by Wallace Bruce   

US price: $18.95    UK price £15.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 300
ISBN: 0-595-24232-4
Publication Date: Aug-2002
John Paul Jones: the Father of the US Navy is not just a novel, but an essential slice of living US naval history that traces the link between a barefooted son of a Scottish gardener to the raising of the Stars and Stripes on the moon.

Winter Carnival (Queen)            
A Novel
by Kurt Larson   
US price: $18.95    UK price £15.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 344
ISBN: 0-595-23616-2
Publication Date: Jul-2002

This skiing adventure novel will draw the reader into the spectacular winter wilderness of Upper Michigan and the aspirations and triumphs of a young engineering student as he discovers a new and rewarding relationship.

Edge of the Glen               
A Novel
by Clifford Geddes   
US price: $14.95    UK price £12.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0-595-23621-9
Publication Date: Jul-2002

International villainy set in a Scottish landscape. At last, the authentic echo of John Buchan's Hannay novels rung out for today!

Hardcore            
A Novel
by Philip Moss   
UK Price £10.99       $12.95 in US
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 178
ISBN: 0-595-23943-9
Publication Date: Aug-2002


After the death of his girlfriend, Hardcore, a high ranked member of the Malino crime family, seeks vengeance on the people he blames for her demise, leading him down a violent and unexpected path.

BRANIGAN     by  Filton Hebbard      

Published by Writers Club Press  

This is the story of one man's love for his wife and for the family he lost and for many years did not find. It is set against the West Australian goldfields where few men could be trusted and many paid the ultimate penalty for their betrayal.  A rough novel with with an underlying tenderness.

TIPSY MARSH    by  Filton Hebbard      

Published by Writers Club Press  

Tipsy Marsh is the story of a woman who battles against the odds in a man’s world -- the stark, harsh world of the Australian bush in the pioneering gold-mining days. She fights for her children and respectability, haunted by the spectre of murder

An Elusive Sanctuary: Quest for the Golden Key   by  Humphrey Muller.    

Published by Diadem Books   

This is a Bildungsroman, or a novel of character growth, presenting a form of self-discovery for the protagonist who wrestles with a hopeless marriage and unfulfilling business, and who finally realises a dream. The novel embodies many of the life-changing ideas expressed by James Redfield in The Celestial Prophecy (Bantam Books).

 A  TWIST  IN  TIME   by  Humphrey  Muller.   

Published by Writers Press Club.  

US price $13.95    UK price £11.99

The main theme of this novel is destiny and time. Can we really alter time? Would we - or could we - change any details of our lives if we had the opportunity to go back in time? This is a question I’ve often mulled over, so in the end I wrote a novel about it.   

THE  CAGE   AND  THE  CROSS   by   Humphrey   Muller.   Published by Writers Club Press. 

US price $10.75   UK price £7.21

A Christian novel of salvation based on an actual person, a prisoner in Pretoria Central Prison who committed suicide in 1975.  
The protagonist couldn't help falling in love, against his will. Those who knew him better tried to stop him, to draw him back, to tell him it was wrong, against the Law of God. But they couldn't stop him. Because the affair was with God. Or was it?  Perhaps the whole affair was just part of his imagination. 

THE  SPIRIT OF ECSTASY  by Carolyn Charles. 

Published by Writers Club Press.  

$14.95   £10.40

his is a romance based on computer dating.  Richard Vance, a nuclear physicist from South Africa, visits Britain armed with three names he received from Compudate, a computer dating agency -- and he is suitably miss-matched!  The fact that one of the dates appears to know a lot more of weapon-grade enriched uranium than is likely for a district nurse adds an element of intrigue.   

LAURA'S SECRET  by Elsie MacMillan Young and Humphrey Muller. 

Published by Writers Club Press.  

$11.95    £7.89 

At 13 Laura enters service as a kitchen maid in Millfield Hall. The Mistress is soon enamoured of her, promotes her to ladies maid and gives her a magnificent brooch as a token of her affection. When Laura trains as a nurse after the outbreak of the Great War she is raped by a shell-shocked officer. This sets in motion a sequence of events that lead her to harbour a terrible secret by the time World War II breaks out.  

RANULF THE NORMAN. Historical romance 
by Philip Ordinaire. 

Published by Writers Club Press, 2000.
 

Set in conquered Saxon Britain, the population resentfully accepts their Norman masters. Amid the hate and despair, a young Norman knight is given a manor and lands for services rendered to the King on the battlefield. But when he attempts to claim what is rightfully his, he is implacably opposed by the beautiful but warlike former Lady of the Manor. Their battle for dominance is carried out in the harsh and cruel times immediately following the conquest.  

RAPTURE AT SEA  by Carolyn & Humphrey Muller.

Published by Writers Club Press. 

$13.95          £9.85 

A Christian novel.   As the year 2000 approaches for many the prospect of Christ's promised return becomes more of a reality. So what if the Parousia, or the Rapture does take place?   What if Christ returns to Earth while some are at sea?   Would some be taken, and some left?  What might happen to those passengers on a sea voyage?

LOVE IN A NUTBAG  by Lisa Ammerman. Published by Writers Club Press. 

$13.95          £11.64

Love in a Nutbag presents a combination of literary and intellectual as well as sexual and romantic interest. The story is a “parallel montage” in the lives of two women —— the modern granddaughter and the dead grandmother, suggesting how the two lives are bound together in a common quest for those epiphanies, or moments of intense (often sexual) fulfillment, that come out of the “nutbag” that our otherwise humdrum and prosaic lives occasionally present to us.

Killer Genes
A Novel
by Filton Hebbard   US price: $15.95     UK price £11.11
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 276
ISBN: 0-595-20991-2
Publication Date: Nov-2001

Killer Genes, a novel that evokes the harsh environment and rough characters of the Australian outback in the pioneering gold-mining days, is the latest work to emerge from the author’s fertile imagination.