Tikka

A book for doggie people but also ghost lovers. This is definitely a ghost book and good and evil fight with each other against a background of the moors. The ghost dog Tikka is all that stands between his master’s evil force and a place in the hereafter. Caught up in the titanic struggle is a schoolboy whose love for Tikka puts him in terrible danger. Past and present are blended.

Tile Tales

When young I often wrote stories, either to fulfil the requirements of school or for my own pleasure. At one point I joined a circle of budding writers; we never met but circulated our tales by post. This was a short-lived experience. The rather harsh criticisms dampened my enthusiasm, it would appear. Thereafter, a working life and family needs pushed the idea of writing largely out of my mind, until that light-bulb moment arrived. Like so many others, I had been playing the popular word game, Scrabble, with family and friends over many years, and more recently a similar internet-based game using a tablet. I decided that, by keeping note of the final medley of words from each game, it might be possible to write a short story utilising some of these words, which might trigger in my mind a setting, a plot or characters of a short tale. One more constraint I imposed was that each story should be no longer than one printed page. So, this I set out to do, and while not every game produced words that fired my imagination, many did. This collection of short stories is the result.

Tilly, Timo and the Tea-Drinking Queen

Tilly and Timo are ready to go on their very first adventure to England in their magic machine! They have a very, very important meeting with a very special person. Will you join in the adventure with Tilly and Timo?

Time For Revenge

The latest case for DI Keane is personal. A retired policeman is found murdered in amongst his flower beds, a second body turns up in a local church.

How are they intertwined, and what effect does it all have on village life and a mother?

Ray Keane has to work through it all to a conclusion.  

As things finish up, there is a sense of relief and new personnel to get used to.

Fortunately for Ray, his life is moving along nicely, does this all bode well for the future?

Time for Tales

A book for children of short stories and poems for fun. Where two small mice have an adventure. When a giraffe worries about her long neck. There is magic one cold and frosty night. When strangest new friends are made. There is an amazing broom cupboard. A silver spoon that gets into a fight, a very noisy clock, and a puzzling far away sun.

Time to Move On

It’s the end of the 1950s, Mary, an Irish girl, is nearly 16 years old, struggling with her bleak and lonely life in Western Australia, missing Ireland. Mary grasps at the opportunity of happiness and a different future without foreseeing the dire consequences that follow.

In 1970s, Harry, as a teenager, loses his parents in a car crash. Now homeless and jobless, he finds love while he is struggling with others’ expectations of him.

Each of them finding resolution of their situations – a story that carries you with the narrative, exploring the difficulties of life, infused with issues of culture, religion and identity.

Times of My Life – Part Two

A sequel to Times of My Life: A Forest Gate Girl, this book carries the reader from a wedding in 1971, to the present day in Wiltshire, spanning 50 years of events that have punctuated the writer’s life up to now. It’s been a whole adventure and education for a girl from a fairly sheltered and strict family background, embarking on married life as a young wife which would soon take her away from the London she had known and loved to following her husband’s career all over the country.

She would eventually achieve all the things she had dreamed of as a child. She would travel the world, meet fascinating people in far-flung places and make lifelong friends. She would have a successful career of her own. She would teach. Her love of music, theatre and performance would lead to one of her most thrilling and satisfying endeavours, running her own musical theatre group with amazing young people and watching them grow in skills and confidence. This memoir revisits those hectic days which tend to get lost in the fullness of time. Treasured old photos bring it all back. 

Most of all, she would have a long and happy married life, and be blessed with wonderful children and grandchildren. There were many adventures and so many reasons to celebrate along the way. But there were also trials and challenges, tragedies and sadness, as there are and have been for everyone, particularly during the Covid years. The best of times always outweighed the bad, however, and the happiest memories will be cherished forever.

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‘We are so tiny we poison the plants and starve the fish of oxygen. Oh, and we get breathed into children’s lungs. You, Toxie, might not think we are bad, but we are called pollutants for a reason,’ she seethed with gritted teeth.

– Tamin (pollutant). 

‘Firstly, I wouldn’t encourage the children to jump out of a moving vehicle, Mrs. Hawkins,’ she grinned sympathetically. ‘Please feel free to boot the little darlings out once you have stopped in the drop-off marked areas.’

 – Miss Violet (teacher).

Katty Sheehan’s family is always chaotic – especially with her little brother – the annoying ‘know-it-all’ Mummy’s boy, Jake, and then there’s Mum’s obsession with cooking and hiding chocolate brownies. Really?

Katty is one small girl in a very big world who makes an unexpected discovery.

There are a handful of suspects and a lot more baddies.

All aboard the journey of discovery, where nothing is as it seems!

As Katty, Jake and Miss Violet fight to save a polluted planet, can they unravel the truth about the harm and misery and find a way to bring the polluters to justice?

Everything is spinning out of control.

Can anyone really stop the mutant ninja pollutants?

Time is running out. Seriously. Time is running out fast. Many lives are at stake.

A mystery story that is not actually a mystery! Get it? Oh, you defo will get it.

TJ and the Winged Visitor

To Catch a Mouse

In a world where memory fades and knowledge elude, Louis navigates solely by instinct, his past a blank slate. Meanwhile, Michael stumbles upon a coveted treasure trove of knowledge, its origins shrouded in mystery. The path ahead remains uncertain as they follow the sticky trail of clues.

Amidst this enigmatic journey, a host of characters, burdened by loss and driven by longing, embark on their own quests. Brown Shyn, a relentless seeker of truth, weaves through intricate webs of imagination, piecing together fragments until they coalesce into meaning. Their paths intersect, converging upon Billy, the embodiment of our collective hopes and uncertainties. Will he triumphantly unearth the long-awaited gold, or succumb to the weight of doubt?

Yet amidst the thrill and turmoil, a figure of resilience emerges – Orchid. In a realm where male characters dominate, she yearns to demonstrate that the pursuit of “redemption’s nectar” is the ultimate prize, a cure for the poverty that haunts their minds. As the boundaries between knowledge and peace blur, their destinies intertwine, and the unveiling of truth becomes both their salvation and their downfall.

To Cry No More

Can you remember the last time you cried?

Life can take many directions. Each path leads to a different result. Which one you choose is determined by the previous path. 

How do we decide which path to take?

Linda’s paths could have been determined from her birth, her upbringing or the tears that flowed from her falls and tumbles or the joys and jubilations.

This is the true story about Mazie, who demonstrates that no matter what life throws at you, there is always another door to walk through, another path to follow. She shows that strength and willpower can turn any bad experience around and that no matter how hard, sometimes it’s just best to walk away.

Linda’s successes were through pure fight and determination. Her courage allowed her to see through her horrific childhood, her traumatic motherhood and her final moments with her true love.

Follow Linda’s paths entwined with pure emotion. Which path would you have taken? How many tears would you have shed?

To Fall and to Rise

The author puts his entire world on trial with the hope of breaking free from the shackles of his past. He desperately seeks a path that will see his dreams and desires fulfilled but must confront his fears, failures, and an unwilling mind along the way.