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The Makeshift Alibi
The jury was unanimous. Their verdict was that Rory Spenser murdered his former blood clinic colleague. His protestations of innocence, relying heavily on an unconvincing alibi, failed to sway them. Four years into his life sentence, a ray of hope emerges. A private investigator hired by Spenser’s mother unearths the alleged alibi, who could not be located for the trial. She lends her support to an application for a pardon for a miscarriage of justice.
To the surprise of supporters and detractors alike, Spenser is granted a free pardon and released from his sentence with compensation, though not acquitted of the crime. He moves into community accommodation in Lambeth North and resumes the life of a free citizen. A book deal ensures he will remain in the public eye. And his instinct to enjoy life to the fullest ensures he will not be hamstrung or prudent for long. He believes the world is his oyster.
A journalist and the private investigator take a closer look at Spenser’s history and the circumstances of the alibi that tipped the scales in favour of Spenser. Was the alibi all that efficacious? Was it a genuine miscarriage of justice? Their paths will cross Spenser’s and there will be consequences.
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Big Issues
This book is about some issues that are here now or rushing up to meet us. They include knowing what we want to do and whether we are achieving in the welfare area. It also includes a call for a sensible drug policy, for the better care and treatment of our old, for greater appreciation of the rights of patients, and for the coming shortage of jobs for all.
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Photons – The Real Time Lords
About one hundred years ago, new discoveries involving the nature of fundamental particles challenged some of the laws of classical physics and our understanding of reality. Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein became involved in an argument about the nature of reality, epitomised by Einstein’s claim that "God does not play dice with the universe," expressing his scepticism about the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics and the concept of inherent randomness in the universe. Today the argument has long been settled in Bohr’s favour, and quantum theory is firmly established as the most successful theory in the history of science.
At the very core of quantum theory is the wave-particle duality of matter, wherein fundamental particles like electrons and photons can be observed to behave both like particles and also like waves depending on the circumstances. Today there is increasing speculation that all particles and even larger compound objects may also have a quantum wave function.
Photons stand at the edge of this new reality because, unlike electrons, they have no rest mass, and yet they are attracted by the force of gravity. Black holes swallow up anything that comes too close, including photons, leading to the idea that nothing can escape their influence, not even light. However, there is evidence that black holes also radiate energy, producing a form of electromagnetic radiation, photons that energise the continual expansion of our universe.
Adding to their mystique, photons also appear to manipulate time, as evidenced in the classic "double slit" experiment, during which photons appear to show retrograde action, reversing in time to go backwards and change the images formed on a screen. All this and more has led the author to see photons as “the real Time Lords”.
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Human Behaviour
The author spent his early childhood in Rainford, a village situated approximately halfway between Liverpool and Manchester in the north of England. It was a time of great uncertainty in Europe as England and her allies resisted the expansion of Nazi Germany. People in uniforms were everywhere, and it was not just those serving in the military, like the Royal Navy and Merchant Marine operating out of Liverpool, the Royal Air Force and flight crew from the USA based at Burtonwood and local members of the Army and Home Brigade. Additionally, there was everyday contact with fire wardens, police officers, railway staff, vicars, priests, doctors, nurses and Land Army girls in what seemed a never-ending parade of different uniforms, hats, assorted weapons and vehicles and other symbols of office. It appeared that the only ones out of a uniform were in his school, too young or too old to be called up to support the war effort.
Even as a child, he soon realised that the people wearing a particular uniform were expected to behave in a certain way. Policemen were always around to make sure you behaved in a proper manner when out of the reach of parents or teachers and not inclined to pinch apples from someone’s orchard. Anyone serving in the military became the embodiment of the heroes shown on the movie screen and was held in great awe. Religious leaders were around to record births, deaths and marriages and to make sure that in between times you went to Sunday School and attended church.
In many ways the situation was surreal; toy soldiers could be put away in a box when you had finished your make-believe war games, along with the policeman, the railway inspector and sundry other tin replicas. The real ‘uniforms’ were different, of course and they had families and friends, and you couldn’t just put them away in a box at the end of the day; they were made of flesh and blood, and then quite suddenly some weren’t around anymore.
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Titus Turtle's First Adventure
Titus turtle was a really tiny newly hatched baby Hawksbill turtle.
He came to realise that he was all on his own in a nest of many broken turtle shells.
As he looked around he somehow knew that he had to find his way out of the sandy nest and on to the sand itself.
It was very quiet but he could hear the sound of waves breaking on to the shoreline and suddenly he knew what he had to do.
Titus’s first big adventure was about to start.
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Where is the Moon?
Surely I can’t be wrong about everything? My dark, fatalistic neurodivergent mindset also reveals flashes of light which hopefully can prevail. I feel compelled to write – perhaps a powerful read, a unique insight into an unusual mind.
Where does a story start? One might say at the beginning but that would take an inordinate amount of time. Frankly, there’s so much material but best to stay concise and avoid a stream of consciousness masquerading as virtuosity!
The story opens along Northern Ireland’s stunning County Down coastline, then journeys further afield, highlighting two particular trips with seven Italian August days in Turin and Cuneo closely followed by seven Spanish days in Seville, Granada and Malaga, culminating with three days in London – coinciding by pure chance with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth.
My book navigates an ordered chaos of tragedy, trauma, mental health, despair, lust, love and maybe hope!
It is a raw ride within the heavens of the Alps, with Dante’s Hell lurking in the shadows. A full moon rises, alluringly beautiful and I ask my Lupina, my Cressida, my everything “Dov’è la Luna?” She raises her small hand, pointing lovingly!
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The Horses of Saddlers Ranch: Black Knight
Coral Johnson grumpily rolled over and risked a quick glance at the clock on her bedside cabinet. Then she blinked her eyes several times and tried again. She hadn’t been imagining it – 2:30 am blared back at her, the bright green lights forcing the seventeen-year-old girl to look the other way rather abruptly. It was still in the middle of the night, so what had woken her up? Some moonlight filtered into her bedroom through the curtains, but most of the room was still shrouded in darkness.
Coral lay wide awake for several minutes, just staring toward the ceiling, wondering why she felt so uneasy all of a sudden. She usually preferred being at Saddlers Ranch; it was much better than living in town like her two best friends did. She’d had sleepovers at both Tilly Carpenter’s and Lexie Howard’s, but nothing was quite like being at home on her family’s ranch, with the fresh open air and rugged landscape just outside her window.
The horses! Coral bolted upright, no longer able to relax. That’s what that noise was!
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The Adventures of Andy Greenleaves
A courageous Andy, with her heart beating loudly in her chest and her sweat-soaked hands holding the reins, sits high on Whee, her family snail’s shell, ready to fight her vindictive aunt and an evil Windmaker to save her world, Florentia.
Andy was just a fun-loving school flora girl that adventured from the great waterfalls through the tunnel of truth surrounded by constant beautiful scenery with her best friends, brother and Whee until her Aunt Kaufina decided to break the flora laws, which could cause the flora waters to run dry and the mountains to crumble. Florentia is a magical world found deep beneath the earth where the floras live and secretively serve the Immani (humans) by keeping the elements of nature in balance.
Our brave Flora learns about friendship, secrets, and broken bonds as she sets out to save the Floras, but will the risk be worth it, and will Andy be able to take on the huge responsibility bestowed upon her? This is a story that will take your imagination on a journey that it has been craving. Be prepared to disappear into the world of Florentia.
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Older Adults and Cancer
Are you ready to be inspired? Dive into the remarkable life of Ray Gardner, a man whose personal battles with myasthenia gravis and prostate cancer became a springboard for advocacy, change, and impact. Ray’s journey is not just about surviving but thriving; not simply about illness but about forging powerful connections between patients and cancer professionals. With warmth, wit, and wisdom, Ray invites you to see the world of cancer care through new eyes—those of a patient, a champion, and a collaborator determined to make every voice count.
This book is not just about illness or science—it’s about hope, collaboration, and the power of informed engagement. Ray’s passion for empowering others, his work with leading oncology organisations, and his unwavering belief in the value of partnership between professionals and patients shine through every page. Discover how one individual’s insight and determination can help reshape our understanding of care and survivorship. Whether you are a patient, carer, clinician, or someone seeking inspiration, Ray’s story will encourage you to rethink what’s possible. This book is a clarion call for partnership, compassion, and the belief that together, we can reimagine what’s possible for older adults facing cancer.
Ray’s journey will remind you: adversity can be the start of something extraordinary. Join him on a voyage that proves even in the face of life’s greatest challenges, there is always room for making a difference.
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Why the Value of the East Should Matter to the West
Why The Value Of The East Should Matter To The West by Majid Salim is a lively and thoughtful book. It’s an exploration of many ideas from Eastern philosophy and religion, with an emphasis on their applicability to secular management economics in the West.
It’s designed for thinkers— people switched on to the fact that there is more to life than materialism and nihilism. In the West, there is little religion, as Christianity has declined.
But what if people still need solutions to problems affecting their souls? This book attempts to provide these potential solutions.
Perhaps for the first time, the very best management theories in Hinduism and Buddhism are described in this book in a way that will light a touchpaper in the minds of cognoscenti everywhere.
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Parvon Zin's Universe: Gimaldreys
Did you ever wonder how Gimaldreys got its name? Wonder no longer. The tale of Gimaldreys is blood-soaked and hard. From its humble beginnings as a Randorian Tiban Crystal mine to its present-day finery.
Hooki’s bar. Leeken’s Gun Shop. All started small. Tentatively feeling their way in a raw, outer-rim frontier station where ‘rule of law’ is a mere hopeful suggestion. There are dangers in the outer rim. Cot-Fee pirates, the Koban, the Anunnaki. Not to mention the usual hostile takeover threats from various Boldonian merchant guilds eyeing up each other’s territory. Gimaldreys is a wild frontier station where no being goes about their business unarmed or unshielded… The denizens of Gimaldreys would not have it any other way.
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The Council of Masters
The Council of Masters, Echoes of a Conclave is not a book you simply read – it is a threshold you cross. Every page breathes with the resonance of silence, where unseen masters wait to remind you of truths long hidden. Their voices rise through earth and stone, fire and water, leading you deeper into the mysteries of your own soul.
Here you will discover that the body is not a burden but a temple, that every vibration is a note in the great symphony of creation, that stones themselves remember, and that love burns as an eternal fire within the heart. Each chapter unfolds as a revelation, a mirror in which the masters appear – not as distant beings, but as reflections of your own essence.
Written in a voice at once mystical and timeless, this book calls both to the mind and to the marrow of the spirit. It does not merely inform; it transforms.
At the final threshold, two doors await, one opens to the world, one to eternity. Yet perhaps they are not two at all, but a single mystery wearing many faces, inviting you to step across and remember who you have always been.
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