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  • The Landing Place
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    The Landing Place
    Michael John Pole

    Israel, October 1973: Jason, a dashing but cynical British photographer, has been hired to take pictures for the Israeli tourist board. His local guide is Asher, brought up in London but currently alienated from her devout Jewish family. They find themselves travelling in the Golan Heights just at the moment when tanks roll in from Syria, as the Yom Kippur war starts...
    Featuring wonderfully vivid evocations of London and Israel in the early 1970s and a large cast of complex characters, Michael John Pole’s The Landing Place is set at a pivotal moment in recent history, as the optimism of the late 1960s, already waning, was finally brought to a close by the global energy crisis of the early 1970s. The novel is a thrilling and suspenseful tale of danger, conflict and endurance, which celebrates the power of reconciliation and offers a wide-ranging meditation on faith in its many forms.

    £7.99
  • The Park
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    The Park
    Mehrdad Shahmoradi Mofrad

    The Park is a historical fiction novel based on the double espionage activities during WWII at Bletchley Park, UK. It is literally fictionalised; the names have been changed and any similarities with dead or living persons are simply coincidental.

    £3.50
  • Into the Light
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    Into the Light
    Gerald W Searle

    Into the Light begins early in the third decade of the first century of the Common Era. And it is set during the reign of four Caesars: Tiberius, from 14 BCE to 37 ACE; Caligula, from 37 to 41 ACE, followed by Claudius, who rules until 54 ACE; and finally Nero, who rules from 54 ACE until 68 ACE, who all rule over a vast empire that includes Israel and Palestine and would rule for eight hundred years.


    But the kingdom, or empire, if you wish, started by Yeshua, a humble carpenter, and continued by a fiery fisherman, Peter, and a courageous tentmaker, Paul, would outlast the Roman Empire and all other empires that would follow and continue to grow and flourish in the midst of persecution, right up to the present time and forever into the future.


    Into the Light is set in the time when the Good News brought by Yeshua, a humble carpenter of Nazareth, for which he lived and died, is continued to be spread by over a hundred apostles and disciples, men and women, especially chosen by this Yeshua to spread his Good News of salvation for all. And to spread his new faith and way of life that is destined to change the history of humankind forever.


    What unfolds in Into the Light is unimaginable. But at the same time the characters of Into the Light, led by the fisherman, Peter, and the tentmaker, Paul, will touch you deeply. Will uplift you, inspire you, and take you to where you have never been before. You will be taken out of the darkness and into the light, where peace, love and joy await you.

    £7.99
  • One Nation – One Heart; One Heart – One Nation
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    One Nation – One Heart; One Heart – One Nation
    Theepavarnan Anandamyl

    This work includes two short novels. I have transformed true events into short novels. I was one of them who survived the war until the last day. What happened in Sri Lanka in the twenty-first century is the genocide of Tamil people in Sri Lanka.


    An ‘Eternal Testament’, a short novel, is a dissection of that genocide. The Tamil race in Sri Lanka, which became a victim of genocide, has not received justice to this day. I firmly believe that this short novel will draw the attention of the international community.


    The Tamil Eelam Liberation Struggle was a just cause. It is unique compared to other liberation struggles in the world. Fighters in the Tamil Eelam Liberation Struggle engaged in the movement with honesty and in truth. I have depicted the experience and history of one of them in the short novel ‘One Nation – One Heart; One Heart – One Nation’. I believe that the short novel will help the world understand the nation of the liberation struggle.


    Let the sense of emancipation spread among the people all over the world. Let the door of the
    heart of the World Court open! Let us get justice.

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  • Defying the Black Eagle and Then There’s the Irish
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    Defying the Black Eagle and Then There’s the Irish
    Doc Ray

    The end of Queen Victoria’s reign and the Edwardian period that followed witnessed some of the greatest social and political upheavals the world had ever seen. Patriarchal aristocratic dominance was gradually being replaced by the educated middle classes. In Great Britain, the House of Lords had lost its power of veto, and for the first time, a Liberal government had been voted into power. The fight for Irish independence was growing stronger by the year, as were the suffragettes, who had replaced peaceful demonstrations with violence and illegal tactics. Spies were everywhere, or so the public believed, and as war with Germany came closer, the modern British Secret Service was formed. This novel is about one woman’s involvement in all of the above, ably assisted by a few Irish folk she chanced to meet along the way.

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  • The Mortal Edge
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    The Mortal Edge
    Alan Paisey

    An unusual partnership was strained to the limits when the man was moved into the barren interior, with a small number of others, to a ramshackle and grossly neglected school building in an abandoned village at a great distance from the city.


    The woman fought the enemy, suffering physical wounding in his absence.


    When captured, the enemy put his skills to the opposite purposes that had been intended, compelling him to fight a long-standing ignominy in his mind, variously employing him for wildly different tasks.


    He encountered a series of chance liaisons with women in bizarre circumstances – including the nurse who saved him from typhoid, a woman captive later assassinated, a policewoman killed by a tripwire, a cousin he never knew he had, and the consul of a foreign country.


    He himself finally fled in propitious circumstances to solve his personal mental problem. After fifteen years of anguish, by a most fortuitous event, he recovered his long-lost partner.

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  • In Plain Sight
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    In Plain Sight
    Ronald Chalmers

    Eighteen-year-old Scottish actor Alec Douglas arrives at Dartwick Repertory in the summer of 1938.  Young, talented, and inexperienced at life, he finds a home among the cast and crew of the old theatre, and through hard work, under the guidance of mercurial director Robin Barton, soon graduates to lead roles, sparking a spirited, at times intense rivalry with the troupe’s star actor, Danny Tryon.


    When a pretty Irish newcomer, Barbara Scanlon, joins the Rep, she soon charms and beguiles the all-too-willing young Scot.  Showing him a mesmerising, unorthodox ‘gipsy’ approach to life, he is soon deeply in love, at the same time sensing there is something she is holding back, keeping secret. Misreading and misunderstanding her elusiveness, Alec presses too hard, losing her even as England is forced into war.


    Enlisting, Alec sees action in France, Barton unexpectedly stepping back into his life during the chaos at Dunkirk.  Now heading a Special Operations Unit, Barton dragoons Alec into helping track a deadly gang of terrorists unleashing killing raids throughout England, the Nazi-backed murderers led by his old rival, Danny Tryon.


    Worse, Barbara has been proven an active participant in the group.


    Stumbling into a chance encounter with her, propelled together into a treacherous race just ahead of both factions now hunting them, Alec is left searching desperately for answers in the eyes of the woman he still loves but can never be sure of.

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  • Curious Bobby and the White Envelope
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    Curious Bobby and the White Envelope
    Richard Charles Angell

    Bobby loves to sit and watch the world go by from his favourite viewing place, that of Mrs Mason’s church bench. Gifted with an eidetic memory and an overcurious mind, there is not much that passes his eye. When, one ordinary Saturday morning, a blonde-haired lady trips over on the street cobbles and causes somewhat of a stir amongst the shoppers, Bobby takes in all the details. He sees the precise actions of the gentleman, who rushes to her assistance, the grateful response of the fallen blonde and the covert and purposeful placing of a white envelope into the stand-alone carrier bag, a bag that belongs to the helpful gentleman. Aside from Bobby, no one else notices.


    Intrigued by what he has witnessed, Bobby decides to follow the carrier bag owner, who, oblivious to the fact that he now has a mysterious white envelope in his possession, makes his way through the town to the local Antiques and Assortments store. After much pondering and waiting, Bobby too enters the store, where he soon finds himself immersed in a world of seemingly every conceivable knick-knack but also a secret world of strange war memorabilia, striking images and personal testimonies. He has inadvertently entered the fascinating world of the eccentric Mr Nathan Katz.


    Guided by his overpowering curiosity, Bobby chooses to delve further into his surroundings, and thus the adventure begins.

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  • Pains from the Past
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    Pains from the Past
    John F Wilson

    At the close of the last millennium, Grace Moran is living in a care home, suffering with dementia, and having time to look back on her life.


    Grace was born in 1917, in the Suffolk village of Hartley Halt, where her grandfather was the rector at the village church.  Her father, Gerald Whittingham, had been invalided out of the army, having been blown up and gassed and was suffering from severe mental issues.


    The Second World War was underway and Grace, now a young woman, no longer wanted to stay in this stifled community; she moved to London, where she shared a flat with Mary.  Having secured a clerical position working in Churchill’s War Rooms, she returned home one morning, after a night shift, to discover the house had been blown up and so had Mary.


    Through the next five years, Grace experienced the horrors, the loves and losses of war, finally meeting Charles Moran on VE Day, 1945. They married two years later, having two children.  Married life, for Grace, was not always an easy ride and she was afflicted with many emotional and difficult decisions.  And now living in a care home, she has the time to reflect on the past, as well as worrying about her daughter, Robyn, in the present.

    £3.50
  • Sylvia
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    Sylvia
    Vicki Ostenfeld

    In 1907, Sylvia’s mother, worn out by hard work, poverty and giving birth to six children, dies unexpectedly. Sylvia’s father forces her to leave school at twelve years of age to look after her brothers and sister, crushing her ambition of becoming a teacher. Against her will, Sylvia spends the next seven years caring for her family and denying her own dreams and hopes for the future until she finds herself attracted to George, a refined, handsome Englishman. Even though she has sworn never to marry and end up like her mother, Sylvia begins to contemplate a future with George, but it is 1914, and the world is about to be thrust into the turmoil of World War One, which will change the world forever. George, determined to fight for his country, joins the Australian Imperial Forces, leaving Sylvia behind in Tasmania. Will George and Sylvia’s relationship survive the upheaval and changes brought about by the war, or does fate have other plans for them? “Sylvia” is the gripping tale of a woman’s fight to realise her ambitions against a background of poverty, war and change. A story of love, family, loss and hope.

    £3.50
  • My War Hero
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    My War Hero
    Rebecca Perry

    It’s 1943, and the world is at war. With countries in turmoil and lives turned upside down, Daisy finds her own glimmer of hope. After moving to London, she attends a Women’s Institute dance to help raise morale for the soldiers. There, across a crowded hall, she locks eyes with a young man named Jimmy, and the two of them dance the night away.

    Though the war separates them, Daisy and Jimmy keep their love alive through heartfelt letters. Their bond becomes a light in the darkness, a promise of something beautiful beyond the chaos.

    But just when Daisy begins to believe that nothing could go wrong, the unthinkable happens. Now she must face the trials of war with courage and determination.

    Will Daisy and Jimmy make it through to the end of the war, still holding on to each other and the hope that first brought them together?

    £3.50
  • In the Trenches
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    In the Trenches
    Megan Wright

    The summer of 1939: the last moments of international peace.

    Arthur Sutton is getting ready to be deployed, leaving his wife, daughter, parents and farm behind.

    Follow Arthur and his friend Richard, as they face the devastating impacts of a world at war.

    £3.50

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