Before and After Eve

This collection of poems is inspired by personal journeys, the beauty of nature, and the mysteries of the unknown – inviting you to embark on your own imaginative voyage.

Among the featured works:

‘Friends of New Music Energy’ offers insight into the world of fellow musicians.

‘Traveller Friends and Countries’ explores the bonds of friendship across different places and cultures.

Altogether, this book presents 28 full poems to enjoy, each crafted to inspire, reflect, and resonate.

The Struggles of Sleeping Rough

This is not a typical memoir. It’s an ordinary person’s story—one of hardship, resilience, and survival. From a traumatic upbringing to life overseas, his journey led him to homelessness, where he faced daily struggles, abuse, threats, and battles for a safe place to sleep.

This raw and powerful account sheds light on the human side of homelessness, revealing the fears, hopes, and strength of those living on the streets. A call for empathy, understanding, and change.

Where Ya Goin'

In just 12 hours, a young lawyer’s life is utterly shattered.

Confronted with devastating choices, will he remain committed to his law career, succumb to the dark world of drugs, or forge an entirely new path to rebuild his future?

A gripping tale of resilience, temptation, and self-discovery.

A Magic Wish

Lose yourself in this heart-wrenching young adult/adult novel that delves into early difficult family life from the perspective of a brother and younger twin sisters having to grow up before their time.

At the centre of the story is James, who craves the attention of his father but has to look to his granddad for affection and support.

He has to deal with his sisters making home life unbearable for him as their father favours them above him.

A chance meeting with Hailey while on holiday turns his young life upside down. Their friendship quickly develops into something deeper, but a potential life-threatening health condition stands in the way of their relationship going any further.

Facing this turmoil, they make a magic wish, which gives them some confidence that whatever is thrown their way, they will always be together.

The reader will easily feel some sympathy towards James with his feelings and emotions stretched to the limit, while also seeing his parent’s marriage fall apart and experiencing personal tragedy.

The emotional twists and turns will keep you captivated until the end, perhaps touching on personal experience.

The Naked Gender Transient

Transgender and Intersex identities have long been portrayed as abstract phenomena, lacking a clear origin, purpose, or unified identity. Until now, no writer has dared to explore the key factors that affirm the humanity of a vast global community, often dismissed as nothing more than a marginal subculture.

Drawing on a lifetime of study, Phaedra J. Kelly – social anthropologist, human rights troubleshooter, historian, archaeologist, and theologian – illuminates these vital, overlooked aspects. In this groundbreaking work, Kelly uncovers a hidden cultural identity, establishes a historical timeline, and reveals a five-thousand-year genocide. On behalf of the TG/IS nations within nations, Kelly presents a mindset that challenges much of what has recently been enacted in the name of TG, offering a perspective from a faction that, until now, had no clear voice of its own.

Readers will be surprised, newly informed, and, for some, shamed.

My Doodle and the Park Adventure

Doodle and her best friend Rosie go on another adventure together. However, the two girls find themselves in a spot of trouble when Doodle follows along with yet again one of Rosies crazy ideas.

‘Doodle always went along with Rosies crazy ideas, even if it did mean getting into trouble. That’s what was so great about their friendship; At least they were in trouble together.’

Come and join Doodle and Rosie on this adventure and laugh along with the mischief they get themselves into.

Although Doodle has Rett Syndrome, it does not mean she cannot live a life like anyone else and get herself into trouble just like another other child would!

Rett Syndrome is a unique genetic condition caused by the X chromosome having an abnormality. This then causes the brain to develop slightly dissimilar to other brains, which could leave some people without any speech and the ability to walk.

My Sister's Shadow

Jake thought he had left the ghosts of his past behind, but the death of his father drags him back into the heart of a family fractured by secrets, loss, and betrayal. Once a bright and loving home, their sprawling estate now feels like a labyrinth of grief, where the memory of Lucy, Jake’s adopted sister who vanished without a trace, haunts every corner.

As Jake reconnects with his estranged family, he begins to uncover the tangled web of lies and resentment that shaped his childhood. His mother’s obsession with appearances, his father’s unravelling mind, and the mysterious figures who once orbited their lives all seem to point to the same dark truth: Lucy.

When strange visions of her begin to creep into his waking life, Jake is forced to question his own sanity. Is Lucy calling out for justice – or pulling him into the same despair that consumed his father?

In this psychological thriller, family loyalty collides with buried truths, and the cost of uncovering them might be more than Jake can bear. As time runs out, Jake must face a terrifying question: Is the past ever truly gone, or does it grow stronger the longer it stays hidden?

James Maury Esq First American Consul to the Port of Liverpool 1790–1829

The author’s intention is to provide an historical account of a little-known part of American history in the Port of Liverpool by illustrating the life of James Maury, an American tobacco merchant from Virginia who became the first American Consul to the Port of Liverpool.

Maury, who had arrived in Liverpool in 1786 to establish his tobacco house, went on to become American Consul to the port from 1790 to 1829. As Consul, Maury was issued with two prime directives. He was to protect all American citizens and their interests within his consular jurisdiction and to promote the necessary trade between the two nations. This Maury did in exemplary fashion. Maury’s day-to-day duties consisted of dealing with impressments, desertions, assisting sick and distressed mariners, and in the issuing of passports.

Maury as Consul was the prime architect in establishing the American Chamber of Commerce in Liverpool in 1801, in order to collectively fight and protect all merchant members in the American trade from unfair excessive dock and customs charges. And for his efforts Maury was elected the Chamber’s first chairman and president. The Chamber then became the catalyst for organised mercantile, commercial and trade networking between the Liverpool and American merchants during the nineteenth century.

In 1821, due to the volume of sick and distressed American mariners arriving at the port, Maury established and administrated an American Hospital with great success. As an entrepreneur, Maury had established a successful Virginian tobacco house, and from the proceeds he became a very wealthy man and the owner of five ocean going vessels. Maury was also a family man, who met and married an educated English woman, a Margaret Rutson, and together they raised five children on an English education.

The story is compiled from the many consular and personal letters of James Maury, and also from the letters of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, all of whom had written to Maury whilst he was Consul at Liverpool. The personal letters of Maury’s daughter Ann are also included.

James Maury, an American patriot who became an English gentleman, was a religious and benevolent man, who did so much for all American citizens and mariners who passed through his Consular District. From my many years of research, I firmly believe Maury played a significant, and indeed pivotal, role in the advancement of the port of Liverpool in the American trade and also made a considerable contribution to the improvement of Anglo-American trade relations from the period 1790 to 1829.

The Verse Anthem: Byrd To Tomkins

The ‘Verse Anthem’, a type of choral composition peculiar to the Church of England and mostly intended for Matins and Evensong, involved solo voice(s) with instrumental accompaniment alternating with passages for full choir.

In Elizabethan and Jacobean times much of the most forward-looking music was cast in this form: indeed, it was the preferred type of religious composition for some of the leading composers, and it had the advantage that the solo lines could deliver the texts in a manner that was more easily grasped by an illiterate congregation than was music for full choir singing in counterpoint.

It is strange, then, that no full-scale study of the form has been published until now. This book traces the development of the form from its beginnings during the final years of Elizabeth I to the point where the Commonwealth put an end to English Cathedral Music. The output of that half century is of a fascinating kind, and includes music of the very highest quality, some of it still unknown today.

The Bank Account

Young people! The money you receive, whether as pocket money or gifts at Christmas and birthdays, is often spent too quickly on meaningless items. But once it is gone, it is gone forever.

Look inside The Bank Account and discover how the animals of a magical forest taught Charlotte and Olivia the value of saving their money.

In woods and forests everywhere, animals play happily throughout the year. When food is plentiful, they gather and store the surplus so they never go hungry during the harsh winter and early spring.

Learn how to save your spare pocket money. Like the mighty and wise oak tree, your savings will grow and grow and help you later in life.

Learn how to bank.

The Footprints of Mormonism

Many of us have had the experience of finding two nice young people with white shirts knocking on their door and finding out they are Mormon missionaries. The Mormon faith is uniquely noted for sending such missionaries all over the world. The founder of Mormonism was Joseph Smith and the study of his life, though complex, is most interesting at the same time.

To his followers, Joseph Smith is considered to be second in importance only to Jesus Christ in all of Church history. How Smith came to lead this movement is a captivating story on its own, and how he came to die is a sordid tale in American history. The Mormon faith started out as just a small inner circle of Joseph Smith’s relatives and it has grown to be a very large movement of multiple millions of adherents.

Most of the early leaders of Mormonism were very controversial because they practiced polygamy which they called celestial marriage. Joseph Smith himself had at least thirty-seven wives. Brigham Young, the second leader of the Church, had over fifty wives. The main Mormon body with its headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, has long since abandoned polygamous practice. Splinter groups, however, separated from the main Utah Church and continue even today the practice of polygamy.

One of those main splinter churches is centred in Colorado City, Arizona. This Fundamentalist group asserts that polygamy is a deep spiritual duty ordered by God Himself that is required to reach the highest heaven. Warren Jeffs is the leader of this group, and some estimate that he has around eighty-seven wives. He however is no longer with any of his wives because he is now serving multiple years in jail for sex crimes connected to minors.

This book covers all of the foregoing matters in refined detail and provides new insight and research into all of the issues connected to the history, the theology and the politics of the Mormon faith.

Sally Siamese Learns to Save

Sally has learned her lesson not to spend, so now she puts her new savings skills into action, investing and giving back to those in need. Come on this fun adventure with Sally as she discovers hidden talents, and the importance of not being afraid to ask her new friends for help.

Complete with parent guidelines and discussion points, it will have the family talking about saving habits that will last a lifetime.