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  • Musician’s Tales
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    Musician’s Tales
    Vince Prudente

    This book of short stories tells of experiences jazz musicians had during their lives, whether while living and playing in New York, traveling in the United States, or around the world so that people could hear their music and so the musician could make a living playing it.


    They tell about the problems Black musicians and a white musician had playing in a Black-led band and of the dues several Black musicians had to pay playing in a white-led band, especially when traveling in parts of the United States in the nineteen sixties, none of which in either scenario were from anybody in those bands.


    They also tell about the joys they had sharing the love they had for their music with audiences regardless of where they were playing and the appreciation they received from those audiences during their performances and sometimes afterwards.


    Several of the stories that happened in New York also illustrate the hard work these musicians had to do and the sacrifice all of these musicians had to make, none of which could dent the joy they gained by playing this great music.

    £3.50
  • Letters to Anonymous
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    Letters to Anonymous
    Guy Moore

    A chaotic, funny, and provocative dive into the lives of two lost souls as they explore spirituality, online connections, and sexual chemistry.

    Through witty conversations, they navigate lust, ego, and the bizarre quirks of modern romance.

    Insightful and amusing, this unconventional tale will keep you hooked.

    £3.50
  • Homesick for a Home I Don't Have
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    Homesick for a Home I Don't Have
    Sayeed Ahmed

    The mystery surrounding the questions of where anxiety originates, how morosity discreetly overwhelms us, what makes us hopeless, and why we experience joy and optimism remains vague and unanswered. Typically, the brain is regarded as the source of all our emotions and desires. In contrast, others consider the human soul to be the source. In the quest to understand the mysterious and invisible soul, this fictional narrative has sought to uncover some insights into the human psyche. The fiction’s protagonists, a homeless boy and his sister, and their interactions with the narrator, have attempted to unveil some insights into the functioning of the human soul. The fictional narrative depicts that the anxiety, fear, joy, optimism, and various desires originate from the invisible soul of each protagonist, which has shaped their life and guided their actions.


    In contrast, different brain activities, such as attention and memory, organise human intelligence and knowledge. Moreover, brain function helps to hone, inhibit, and shape various emotions. Finally, the fictional narrative has distinguished between brain function and the function of the soul in organising human behaviour.

    £3.50
  • Living and Learning
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    Living and Learning
    Philippa Ann Simes

    Iris Mae Braithwaite is a very wealthy, altruistic and brave woman. Having inherited a fortune along with a Georgian-style mansion, she opens a boutique boarding school in the historic city of Ballarat, in Australia, for ten teenage girls.


    Anyone who has raised teenagers, survived teenagers or simply been a teenager themselves will appreciate the roller coaster ride that guiding and teaching fifteen- and sixteen-year-old girls inevitably becomes.


    Pranks and personality clashes, achievements and heart-wrenching experiences abound as the students live and learn in new circumstances.


    Has Iris made a grave mistake hiring her killjoy cousin Estelle to teach Maths and Science? Along with her erstwhile brother, Jeremy, Estelle plots to undermine the school in hopes of getting her hands on the inheritance. Perhaps Miss Braithwaite has bitten off more than she can chew.


    Do all the girls even make it to the end of Year Nine? Will Iris’ vision for Makepeace College survive even the first year of the two-year scholarships she awarded?


    Can heartache and headaches be counteracted by a good dose of tongue-in-cheek humour?

    £3.50
  • The Cormorant
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    The Cormorant
    David Stanley

    The Cormorant

    The Return of the Big Wind


    As long as there have been people on this beautiful planet, stories have been told and over the years some of these stories have become legend and some have just remained a myth.


    A reporter for the Liverpool Echo stumbles across a story from a fisherman in the North Atlantic Ocean that may have connections with the city of Liverpool.


    With each passing day the story deepens and what was thought on as a light news item that may keep the people of Merseyside entertained suddenly has dark undertones that our journalist Ava is about to find out.

    £3.50
  • Marion
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    Marion
    Bruno Gismondi

    Marion is a grown woman who has a serious lack of confidence. With immense courage, she was able to get her bus driver’s license. Unfortunately, she is working under a manager and with several other employees who believe a woman should only drive a car when taking children to school or running to the shops at the request of their husbands.


    She makes mistakes, and now, given the punishment route of night shift, she increases her fear of again losing her way. But it is along the unscheduled run she meets unusual people, giving her belief in a better life.


    Marion’s brother appears after many years, who also gives her a good reason to build her character.

    £3.50
  • As The River Watches
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    As The River Watches
    Rhonda Matheson-Browne

    As the River Watches is set in between 2000 in picturesque Lorne, Victoria, and 2020, around the time that covid stopped the world. It was set on the banks of the Barwon River, in Barwon Heads, Victoria, where the author lived at the time.


    It follows the non-chronological journey of Lily (who tragically lost her mother in suspicious circumstances) and how she pieces together the mystery while learning to develop her own identity within this shifting and changing landscape.

     

    Her father’s identity (a mystery at the start of the novel) unravels along with the breakdown of her relationship with her controlling grandmother and the many secrets that clog the muddy shorelines of this ancient estuary. There is an environmental message and campaign that swims in parallel with the complicated disappearance, and the twist will hit the reader in a confronting and emotionally charged way.

     

    Heartbreak, isolation, innocence, complicated family relationships and coming of age all weave together before an explosive ending exposes the secrets of the influential families of the town.

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  • The Arrival – Tales of East Seaworth
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    The Arrival – Tales of East Seaworth
    Zena Sheikh

    When Aisha Khan and her brother Ibrahim move with their family into a crumbling old house on the edge of East Seaworth, nothing feels quite ordinary. The woods whisper warnings, the shadows dance, and ancient secrets stir beneath the trees.


    Soon, Aisha discovers that she has been chosen for something far greater than she imagined. Together with new friends, she must face the mystery of dying forests, poisoned land, and an age-old guardianship that ties her to the town’s forgotten past.


    From ghostly stables to tree spirits and whispered legends, the children are drawn into a battle to protect the woods before they vanish forever. But can three girls—and the bonds of their growing friendship—truly stand against forces determined to destroy the heart of East Seaworth?


    A story of courage, friendship, and the magic of the natural world—perfect for readers who love fantasy adventures with a hint of mystery.

    £3.50
  • Blind With Eyes
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    Blind With Eyes
    Navara de Wijoo

    Modern society is not insular but a mixed cultural entity. Some, especially old and especially backed by wealthy narrow-minded individuals, live in a different sphere and try to create a different society, not compatible with today’s world. In this novel, it creates conflict in that person’s family. His own son, as he moved in a different layer of the circle, planned opposite to his liking.


    Politics is a nasty game; it does not care what happens to people after electing candidates. This novel describes how a doctor gets caught in the crossfire of this plot with a catastrophic outcome.


    This book also narrates how an independent-thinking British Asian young man tried to swim against the tide.

    £3.50
  • A Prize Beyond Price
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    A Prize Beyond Price
    Alfred Dyer

    A Prize Beyond Price


    What could be so valuable that ownership or destruction are the only choices?

    Greed is a powerful motivator; wealth is another.

    Power may be the greatest.

    Suppose a telepath exists…

    What lengths would you go to to have access to her abilities and the benefits?


    Viki, a runner, was only eleven when she experienced one of the effects of her abilities but needed help to discover what it was.


    Andy, a child psychologist, was called in when she was in hospital to discover if she could speak. After she fled the hospital, she contacted him to help her. Little did he realise what they would discover and what his phone call to an expert on parapsychology would expose them to.


    MI6 was soon aware of Viki and determined to track her down, but in the world of espionage, where secrets are always sought, others, too, were soon seeking her: others who had fewer morals.


    Viki became aware of this and recognised her death was the only escape…

    £3.50
  • The Reluctant Banker
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    The Reluctant Banker
    Jeremy Raylton

    Born into a banking family, Martin spent most of his adult life resisting the ambition of his father that he take his place in the family bank in the footsteps of his grandfather and father.


    While trying to avoid this fate, he worked in a hotel, lost most of his money to a blackmailer, connived to conceal the operation of a brothel, brokered a solution to a dispute as to the ownership of a substantial French property, and supervised the construction of a dam in the Moroccan desert.


    He eventually stopped fighting his father’s ambition for him, but there was a final unexpected twist in the tale.

    £3.50
  • Old Dog, New Tricks
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    Old Dog, New Tricks
    Marion Heather Cane

    A story about a young boy who at the start of the tale is happy and enjoying most things in life, but it is short-lived as he experiences all that life throws at him, causing drama and pain for him. Advancing into adulthood, he’s pushed into war and all the horrors that go hand in hand with it. A grim time in far-off places that he often wishes he was far from and back into a world of contentment, a world he was once happy in.


    A spark of relief comes, yet only in short bursts until more drama follows.


    Fate changes his course, and new friends are made. Memories haunt him; guilt follows him everywhere. As the years pass, what is there for him? What can he do? Will he ever be at peace again? Help comes from an old friend.

    £3.50

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