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The Shortbread Tales
The recipe: the rich mixture of stories that comprise The Shortbread Tales brings the reader face to face with a diversity of yarns, covering encounters with the SAS in Borneo, robberies, horse racing, financial escapades and ghostly experiences. The locations are as varied as the subject matter: from South Shields to the South Seas. All the short stories have the cachet of being true, or taken with a pinch of salt; the majority were experienced first-hand by the author. A vital ingredient is comedy. The stories recognize and amplify the funny side of life, they are devoid of social comment. Instead they aim to uplift the spirit through humour. The twenty tales comprise quick, easy and rewarding reads, with which people of all ages, can readily relate. The Shortbread Tales provide ideal bedtime reads, travelling material, or waiting room companions. They are delivered with insight, and are well-crafted to entertain and amuse the reader. Cook’s tip: perfect for reading on a tea break. Serve with a cuppa and a shortbread biscuit. Bon appétit!
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The Quest - A Collection of Short Stories
In The Quest - A Collection of Short Stories Yannis Kyrlis presents a mysterious and dream-tinged collection which focuses on the abstract, the emotional and the hazy difference between dreams and reality. A man loses his heart, and finds it drawn by an illustrator who tries to redeem him. A couple exploring a dump find an object that calls to them, but will they still be in love by the time it reveals its true origin and impact on their lives? Will a young Greek boy find the answer to his existence in a dream, or should he keep running from it? In this immersive collection of short stories, Yannis Kyrlis effectively combines the surreal, weird, and the deep emotional core that exists within every man or woman.
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Shooting at Morals
A man dies, yet lives on to tell about it; another man travels to Vegas seeking the base but instead finds the noble; a young woman too eager to please gets in over her head; a young man mistakes cowardice for revolution; and a teenager decides to take justice into her own hands. All these and others find themselves Shooting at Morals. But they also find that when they do so, morals can, and do, shoot back. "Veteran non-fiction author and philosopher Loewen turns to fiction. The results will amuse you. Disturb you. Shock you. Shooting at Morals: truly 'the most dangerous game' of all."
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She
She is a compilation of eight stories that revolve around various characters and circumstances filled with romance, eroticism, humour, despair and tragedy. It has a bitter grasp of reality, with down-to-earth characters and unthinkable plots.
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Intuition
Sometimes you need to be truly lost before being found.A young woman recalls the time before a horrendous car crash. But is her memory all as it seems? Banishing herself to a remote and harsh landscape, she replays events in a vicious cycle, without reaching clarity or a sense of peace.In time, a shadowy presence from her recent past appears, forcing her to evaluate her actions, her family and her desire to live.Will or can she survive long enough to face the consequences?Abigail Miller's first novel is a tension-packed dystopian look at life and how chance has the final say. Reminiscent of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden with a touch of Mad Max, Miller's tale evokes a sensory whirlwind, with an ending that will leave the readers gasping.
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Harry's Haircut
The inspiration for Harry's Haircut came to the author after witnessing many distressed children having their first hair cut, so she wanted to write a reassuring children's book.
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Ears Have Walls
Ears Have Walls is a collection of short stories which focuses on each character’s darkest secrets. These characters live in the suburbs of English towns, cities, Northern landscapes, Europe, and beyond. From the first tale to the last everyone is filled with surprise.A crime of the heart is taking place between Gerald Compton and his mother Hattie. Because of Gerald’s love affair with a younger woman, Hattie is faced with the decision whether or not to murder her husband.Margaret Grant takes a walk around the city of Nuremburg. She sees who her father really was and is consumed with guilt. Genius Loci: the spirit of place dominates throughout her visit.Jimmy Chan was given the story of a great Buddhist teacher called Xuanzang. It is now Chinese New Year and the horoscope of The Monkey takes Jimmy back home to his family.
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Brain Cramps from My Balcony
This is an eclectic mix of short reminiscences and daydreams of the future. The stories move from the author's brief memories of a bygone time, through his youth and early adulthood to his dreams and hopes for his family in the future. Let the author's imagination take you back to your own childhood"”not walking on the cracks in the pavements or crossing a puddle-strewn street without getting your feet wet. The book is in two distinct sections: the first section deals with the author's youth, and the second section brings the reader up to date and beyond.
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Spirits - A Collection of 15 Short Stories
Fifteen stories of fact and fiction including:- BETTY’S WAR, a son’s telling of his mother’s struggle with love and life during the Second World War years and beyond.- WORDS O’MALLEY, a ‘wish-it-were-true’ tale of a boy’s obsession with words that captures worldwide attention.- DEFENDING GOD, Jake and Laura meet in Heaven. After a rough start, their friendship warms until an earthly intervention upsets their intention.- LOSING LILLY, Phoebe Bromley, when it comes to her son, Will, fails to realise that sometimes, to make a horse do what you want it to, you have to get off its back.- NELSON’S WISH, a war, missing parents, unwelcomed relocation, a kidnapping, explosions and death. What more could one wish for?PLUS ten more enjoyable stories including SPIRITS, when master and dog meet in the Afterlife.
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When Reason Dreams
We live in a rational age in which science and modern technology have removed doubt and ignorance. We no longer fear the dark, we no longer need to use superstitious symbols to protect our houses and families. We know what is happening in the world and are in contact with friends and family who might live miles away. Ours is a rational world… or is it?
These short ghost stories are not set in remote Scottish castles or haunted Victorian houses. They are about the modern world, places where you would not expect to encounter the supernatural. Just because we can see the world on television, speak with people across the oceans and know exactly what causes natural phenomena, the happenings that so terrified our ancestors, does not mean that ghosts have disappeared. Scientific progress has not buried the supernatural.
Children play with long dead ghostly friends, a cruise ship is haunted, a Stuart tragedy reveals its secret in a horrifying way, a married man revisits his past in Florence where he meets his death lured by the ghost of a former lover, a doctor fails to save his wife’s death in a car accident and is haunted to destruction by her spirit, a man is obsessed by a dream, an art dealer steals a painting from an old lady but her ghost returns to pursue him, a man buys a First World War memorial plaque and wished he had never seen it.
Reason and logic still dream.
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The Tales of Hidden Truth I
As little Azure’s fears and doubt begin to grow more and more powerful, she sets out on a quest to find the one thing that can liberate her: the fabled ‘Dream Flower’! Along the way, she meets various people and beasts, and learns more about the world, while steadily reaching her goal. In the second story, we follow Globalea’s road to power and her fall from greatness. As she narrates her story and of her various ordeals, more and more of her emotions reach out, ultimately resulting in dramatic showdowns and a heart-stopping finale.
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The Midnight Mannequins and Other Stories
In each of the twelve stories in Michael Daly’s collection, he attempts to cunningly expose our human frailties and foibles with hopefully an expert mixture of humour and sadness at many of life’s challenges.
Retirement plans that don’t quite work out, a husband whose wife thought she really knew him well, a pet lover who has to ask an arch-enemy to help her bury her cat, people coping with illness and the lonely lady in London whose life is completely changed by telephoning a random phone number on a used banknote!
These short stories may appear perfectly calm on the surface, but readers will quickly find themselves submerged in the murky underwater of real life.
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