A Fairway Affair

Golf clubs are home to a diverse cast of characters united by their love for the game, but that’s where the similarities end. Among the members, you’ll find crooks and cops, accountants and bank managers, plumbers, pensioners, paupers, and multi-millionaires alike. Some are quiet, others are loud, and it’s often hard to tell who’s who. Beneath the surface, a few are cheats or adulterers – rarely murderers, though it’s not impossible, even in the most prestigious clubs. This is the story of some of those members. Despite their best-laid plans, life has a way of surprising them, and sometimes, even the bad guys get a lucky break.

Lockdown Infinity

Lockdown Infinity seamlessly continues the gripping narrative that began in Lockdown Alpha. In this novel, the story follows a woman consumed by the torment of unrequited love, leading her down a dark path of stalking and heinous crimes amidst the unending COVID-19 pandemic. Desperate to fulfil her obsessive desires, she harnesses metaphysical, mystic, and quantum powers to transform from a mere human into a complex, monstrous entity driven by a relentless killing instinct.

Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the story fearlessly explores LGBTQ issues, including discrimination, insecurity, mental illness, attempted suicide, and the tragic reality of lives lost to suicide. The narrative delves deep into the social, economic, and psychological complexities that arise during lockdown, shedding light on how these challenges can lead to disturbing and abnormal human behaviour, ultimately resulting in a surge of criminal activity.

The Devastation of Dunelaw

Damore is a contented Trellan, happily living a peaceful life, secure in the belief that tomorrow will be just like today. His home is filled with love and laughter, and the thought of leaving his hometown has never crossed his mind.But everything changes when an unknown army lands in Dunelaw, bringing devastation in its wake.Forced from his quiet routine, Damore takes his first steps beyond Blacksand. As the lone survivor, he embarks on an adventure that reveals a world he never knew existed. Along the way, he’ll be aided by some and hunted by others, encounter dragons and kreaks, forge lifelong friendships, and face mortal enemies.The only thing Damore knows for sure now is that tomorrow will never be the same again…

Reading Elgar’s The Music Makers

Elgar’s The Music Makers, for contralto solo, choir and large orchestra, has experienced a chequered reputation since its 1912 premiere at the Birmingham Festival. The work faced significant adverse criticism which re-emerged over time. Criticism targeted the poem Elgar chose for his setting – Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s ode, whose reputation was later tarnished by T.S. Eliot’s infamous critique ‘What is Minor Poetry?’. Misunderstanding of Elgar’s innovatory compositional procedure was another main reason behind the negative responses. Elgar integrated the poetic language with musical self-borrowings, transforming the words and offering perceptive listeners enhanced emotion at the highest artistic level. All aspects of Elgar’s musical language combine to produce one of his greatest, yet least understood, masterworks.

Reading Elgar’s The Music Makers brings to the fore a prime example of how first musical performances can be misunderstood and reception can shift over time. The work remains as relevant today as ever. The book’s multi-faceted approach will be invaluable not only for conductors, singers and music students, but for concert goers and music lovers generally.

Toby Turtle Turns Bright Purple

Meet Toby Turtle, a curious little fellow who loves to explore the swamp! When Toby discovers a mysterious thorny bush and makes a new friend in Simon Snake, he can’t resist the temptation of delicious blackberries. But what happens when Toby doesn’t heed Simon’s warning and eats one too many? Join Toby on this colourful adventure and learn why he might just be the most eye-catching turtle in the swamp!

The Rainbow Children

Rudd, Ola, Yann, Gann, Bell, Plum and Plim are the Rainbow children. They live in a white castle in the clouds.

On a journey to Earth, down the rainbow, protected by Cirrus Cloud, they make friends with two children. This is the story of the adventures they have together. They even get to meet Santa Claus!

Enjoy the colourful rainbow venture with the band of friends and their alien chums.

The Little Bird Who Couldn't Fly

Have you ever questioned your own incredible worth? Felt the pangs of loneliness and sadness? If so, this book is a beacon of hope just for you.

Embark on an inspiring journey with Billy, a little bird who has yet to realize his own amazingness. As Billy ventures through life’s challenges, he uncovers the profound power of love and friendship. These forces not only conquer fear but also illuminate the path to achieving our dreams.

Join Billy in this heartwarming tale and discover, just as he does, the strength that lies in companionship and self-belief.

Are There Any Moral Truths?

We live in crisis-ridden times. Civilization is repeatedly ravaged by diseases, recessions, wars, and international terror, while global climate change and the existence of nuclear weapons could soon put an end to humanity. What are we to do? Serious problems like these raise many moral questions, but people often disagree, sometimes vehemently, about the answers.

Moral disagreements pose a fundamental question: Could some moral opinions be better than others? Are there any moral truths at all, or is right and wrong merely a matter of perspective, depending on the eye of the beholder? Perhaps moral beliefs are nothing but a kind of superstition, like beliefs about vampires or Greek gods and goddesses?

In this refreshingly unorthodox introduction, Danish philosopher Thomas Østergaard deals with these questions in a novel way. Written as a philosophical dialogue, the book makes the various positions come alive through four people’s interchange of ideas and arguments, continuously interspersed with everyday examples as well as intriguing thought experiments. As a witness to this debate, the reader is invited to ponder the nature of morality, the possibility of resolving our moral differences, and the puzzling and provocative question: Why should I care about morality?

The Polish Neighbours

Reading Dad’s poetry is like taking a walk through his life. It is easy to see there are demons, but there is beauty and love too. Beauty in memories of greyhounds, raging fires, the plight of Indigenous people, the complexities of religious beliefs, and recognising the power of other people’s life stories.I remember sitting in the back seat of his car, listening to him speak of Shakespeare and reciting sonnets verbatim. He spoke of Keats and Eliot, of Yeats and Poe, and Yevtushenko and I did my best to comprehend the images of tragedy, love and loss. And now, many years later, when I read Dad’s words, I think I understand them.

McMurdo Village

What happened to Fred 12? The asteroid made the planet fall, but its location is unknown. McMurdo Village in Antarctica is settling down to life post the 2047 catastrophe. Dense forest covers most of the planet. Something strange is Iurking in the forest outside of the village, as well as the prehistoric creatures. What can it mean? All inhabitants of the planet are located in the village, even the scientists that were scattered around Antarctica.
An expedition to the former Island of Crete comes across a lost city in what was the Mediterranean Sea. What could it be? The McMurdo team make some startling discoveries in the city some that will change the history of the human race. How will these discoveries affect the remaining vestiges of people left on the earth?
In McMurdo village, something is stirring: a huge dark shadow falls over the village. The ground is shaking and people are running around terrified.
What is happening? Can the village survive?

The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Squad

In his quest for truth and answers concerning the suspicious death of his son and his family, retired career soldier, Jesse Hunter, finds himself in a sedate retirement village in New Zealand’s South Island where he reunites with a former Special Air Services buddy.

After making friends with some of the village’s retirees, who themselves have past military backgrounds, they find out that a young man who visits them regularly has a mysterious and out-of-character disappearance.

Are Jesse’s son and the young man’s demise somehow connected?

As suspicions are also raised about the integrity of the local police, the ‘boys’ decided to take matters into their own hands with a little bit of homegrown detective work. Their investigations take them from a peaceful retirement and a life of fun and humour into a world of intrigue, danger, kidnappings, Russian mobsters, murder, a biker gang and a terrorist cell group.

Who can they trust?

As they all draw on their past wartime experiences, they realise they can only trust each other and embark on rescue missions using their old age smarts and unconventional weapons to take on the bad guys.

There is humour, action and drama as The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Squad have one last battle to fight.

The Enchanted House Chronicles: Sisters, Secrets and Sorcery

The Enchanted House Chronicles: Sisters, Secrets and Sorcery is a laugh-out-loud tale of adventure and magic, focusing on the lives of three sisters during the Second World War. It is the first novel in ‘The Enchanted House Chronicles’, a series of five stories following the girls’ antics as they uncover their family secrets.

Issy, Molly and Daisy arrive in Hastings to stay with their great aunt, Miss Baglio, to be safe from war-torn London. However, rather than the lovely seaside holiday they were hoping for, something feels off about the house, and they are sure that their unwelcoming aunt is hiding something from them. They are determined to discover what is in the secret rooms that are off limits, and the meaning of the identical dream they have all been having.

Buckle up for a cracking adventure, filled with mischief, fairy cakes, cuddly cats, and a mystery like no other, that will leave you keenly anticipating the next book in the series.