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The Last Glass
A man arrives in Dallas the day before the assassination of President Kennedy and is involved in events that would change history – what are his intentions on 22 November 1963 and afterwards…?
A policeman receives news that an old friend has died and begins to reminisce with his wife, both will be shocked at the result…
A young boy’s idyllic world is shattered by events in war-torn Greece…
A 16-year-old sneaks out to see his hero, the legendary guitarist Jimmy Parker, in concert and changes his life forever…
Stories that stretch from the beaches of Dunkirk to an Edwardian orphanage, stories of real people and historical events that would change the world. This collection of short stories unites the author’s passion for history, writing and playing with the possibilities of ‘what if’.
Carefully researched and with an eye for detail, some will surprise, some will shock – and all will entertain.
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The Gray Mind
The present book, called The Gray Mind (a collection of short stories), is taken from the daily conditions of every human being that he sometimes encounters during his life and is considered a great challenge for him. But why humans find themselves in such a critical situation is a reflection of the behavioural complexities that lead them to a world far removed from individual imagination and to a world that is more like a hell that endangers their peace of mind.
In this book, the author has made every effort to portray these conditions and to show that human beings are victims of conditions left to us by the superstitions and wrong frameworks of our predecessors. The author’s attempt is simply to use the smallest spaces and the least characters to achieve the greatest concepts, which in today’s terminology manifests itself as minimalism.
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The Doctor and Other Stories
A book of six short stories that move from a London doctor in the 1850s to a soldier in Sussex in the early 20th century, and from a person who brings a dog into his life to a citizen’s view of how his beloved city has changed.
These stories will not just take you to places and eras you’ve never been to before, but will also force you to look deeper within yourself.
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The Chess Board Execution and Other Stories
The stories in this book touch upon the author’s own life and his sense of humour and wide-ranging interests.
‘By the Waters of Stepney Green’ is half historical recollection, half romantic dream.
‘Gilda’, a story set in Burma in World War II, will keep you reading well into the night.
‘Gareth’ is the story of a young man from orphanage to officer and tells how deep friendship can emerge from enmity, while ‘Chess Board Execution’ is a story of love, deception and revenge.
These stories will appeal to all readers who enjoy a mixture of genres and moods.
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The Camera Obscure
Supernatural secrets; psychopathy; disturbing dystopias; vanity and Victorian graveyards. Each story, evoking an atmosphere of gothic classics, will take you on a journey through past, present and possibilities, where the familiar becomes strange. The new tenant above a bookshop uncovers a terrifying truth; a man looks out of his window to discover he is completely alone; a young man’s vanity ends up ensnaring him. You will anxiously anticipate characters’ fates, whilst reflecting on your own lives and experiences. It may lead you to speculate that there are many ways to be haunted, and that the most frightening spectres walk within us and among us.
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The Aged Infant and Other Stories
In this volume, Margery Hargest Jones – whose previous books for Austin Macauley have covered some of the most iconic folk tales of the British Isles, from the Mabinogion and King Arthur to Robin Hood – now tells, or re-tells, some of her favourite stories. Three of these are given in full, while the other four are compressed into intriguing and resonant summary form.
The title story, ‘The Aged Infant’, is set in the author’s native Wales and concerns a devoted mother’s troubles with a changeling child. The next, ‘The Miraculous Watermelon’, reads like one of the piquantly comic tales from The Arabian Nights. The final tale in this section, ‘Caravan Joe’, details how the eponymous character deals with the mischievous inhabitants of Squirrel Wood.
The four subsequent summaries range from a simple anecdote about Larry the Lamb and other much-loved characters of ‘ToyTown’ to a mini-epic in which the Nordic hero Sigmund battles with a she-wolf.
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Tales Tall and True
Philip Rintoul shares his love of fictional short stories. Terse and powerful prose conveys the stories and vignettes of life of how people rise and cope with their challenges. From the carefree newlyweds in ‘Wedge-Tail’ to the gritty demands of business in ‘Mad Friday’ and the shadowy world of ‘Retired Geezer’, each story aims to engage and entertain the reader.
This collection was written about people, places and events in Australia in 2018.
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Tales from Here and There
From country bars, back seats of cars
and colonies on Mars,
there’s tales to be told.
Three dozen such tales spanning irony,
pathos and humour from here and there
are presented in no particular order.So, start anywhere
for your first ten minutes of distraction
from the cares of life.£8.99 -
Symmetry
Drawing on her thirty years’ experience as a social worker in England and three Australian states, Margaret Hughes’ stories explore the dark world at the heart of modern Western society. In this hidden world, children and the elderly suffer misfortune, violence and tragedy. The perpetrators of abuse and exploitation range from poor, illiterate parents to the privileged elite. The response from the authorities is, at times, protective and benign while at other times incompetent and even destructive.
But above all else, it is the survivors who shine through. Their remarkable resilience and their uniquely creative solutions break through the adversity they have suffered.
There is symmetry between the dilemmas they face and the answers they find.
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Survivors of War
In Survivors of War, traverse the gripping journey from the streets of England to far-flung battlefields, spanning the years from 1931 to a post-war Christmas in 1949. This emotionally charged narrative grapples with a poignant question: How can one find joy and fulfilment after witnessing the horror and brutality of war?
The story delves into the psyche of a young man forever changed by the atrocities he encountered during World War II. Explore the transformative elements – love, friendship, and perhaps a dash of serendipity – that offer the resilience to overcome the lingering scars of battle.
The other stories in this selection cover a range of genre including crime (‘The Parcel’, ‘Behind Closed Doors’), mystery (‘The Mists of Time’, ‘Is My Twin My Sister?’), Sci-Fi (‘Phantom Island Refuge’), and romance (‘Similitude’, ‘When One Door Closes’). The stories tease the reader’s imagination in a variety of locations and scenarios.
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Strange and Surreal Stories
This book is intended to amuse and interest you. You’ll meet many characters from history and see how they might have behaved in situations you’re sure to know about. There are also murderers and victims – some real and some fictitious; there’s ‘Who Dunnits’ and barbaric actions by ordinary people; there are unreal situations faced by very real characters.
There are 20 different stories for you to choose and all as fascinating as each other. Was Benedict Arnold a traitor or a hero? Did William Shakespeare really desert his wife for a better life in London? How did Abraham Lincoln earn the name ‘Honest Abe? Was Rabbie Burns as enamoured of the lassies as he was said to be? (I think you’ll find he was.)
The above are just a few examples to grip your interest – but there’s much, much more to keep you glued until the end of each story. As for the answers to the above questions, perhaps you’ll have a better idea after you’ve read this book.
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Stories from the Heart
Stories from the Heart is a collection of stories which depicts lust, friendship, reflection, love, family, adventure, romance, the forbidden, regret, humour, freedom and procrastination.
Readers will be entertained, enlightened and will marvel about each story from the past when compared to the current way of life experienced today.
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