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A Bouquet of Fish Bones
The unhappy narcissist is threatened by the loss of beauty. The sophisticate takes reward from the geometry of desires. The eccentric form defective passions. The restless spirit seeks out a series of liberating falls. The daydreamer is charmed by planetary coincidences. The womanizer falls victim to fatal attractions. The loner finds amusement feeding his inflated imagination with scenes of mystery. The awareness of mortality leads them to the expression of passions, and mistakes.
The carousels of all these people’s little panics perpetually rotate, each circle closes for another to open and the tyranny of existence continues to be summed up in the agonizing question: the eternality of the temporary or the temporary eternity?
Against a background of the universe’s vast mirror, to what extent can the instantaneous, the insignificant and the random leave any trace on time’s relentless flow, giving another dimension to eternality?
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A Bridge in Time
Maddie Coles, disillusioned, 40-something housewife, wakes immobile and in darkness, unaware of the catastrophic illness she has suffered.
During this static time, Maddie recreates subconsciously her life from the very first day of birth in 1965. A life created from real memories and forgotten youthful hopes and dreams, which lead her to question and re-examine every aspect of her life so far.
When medical science reawakens her 25 years later in 2037, the world as she knew it is unrecognisable and alien to her. She must come to terms with the devastating losses and extraordinary surprises, and reacquaint with family and friends of an almost forgotten past. She must also learn to live in the real world again. As Maddie travels this deeply personal, sometimes funny, heartwarming and often painful journey she finds inner wisdom which gives her strength to overcome the difficulties of her new life and determination to value everything she has regained by returning to it.
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A British War Dance
James Ashfield is a young man from Birmingham, sent to Germany to fight alongside his brother in WW2. The events that took place led to his return home with haunting memories he could not erase.
His mind in turmoil, James was left feeling hopeless, until he is given a life-changing opportunity to pursue a dream that had remained his secret since childhood.
Life finally seems to start getting better for James until forbidden love, heartache and a pursuit for revenge turn his whole world upside down once more.
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A Call from the Garden
Rafael had to answer the call from the garden--but never did he know that this call will make him experience a spiritual and mysterious journey. A journey of a lifetime, a journey towards the truth, a journey that started from an unexpected taxi and landed onto the quest of finding The Lord. Through the eyes of Rafael, the author, Sean Thomas, explores the benevolence of faith through touching upon the mother-son duo living in the 'House of Martha'. Stressing upon the belief on 'the name of righteous' and Jesus, this biblical fiction is a promising and gripping story that invokes inner consciousness and a desire to seek spirituality.
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A Cape Town Decameron
The plague struck the City of Florence in 1348. A contemporary poet and writer, Giovanni Boccaccio, imagined a group of fashionable young people fleeing the plague and spending a “lockdown” on an estate in the Tuscan countryside. They entertained themselves by telling stories. Of course, the tales were all written by Boccaccio himself and he published them in 1354 under the title The Decameron.
When the Covid-19 pandemic produced lockdown in Cape Town, author Stanislas M. Yassukovich decided to emulate this idea, and wrote a collection of over 20 stories which he circulated to a group of family and friends – all in lockdown in various parts of the world. These are the ones his first readers liked best.
Boccaccio’s Decameron contains some one hundred tales. This collection is more sparing of the reader – just as the Covid-19 pandemic has fortunately been more sparing than the 14th century Plague.
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A Careful Death for Some
Merrydale is a small village. Nothing ever happens there.
A fundraising team of six villagers decide to hold a summer event of a Safari Supper. Selected houses hold different meal courses but Death visits one of the houses on the night of the supper.
More deaths follow. How are they connected and what do they have in common?
With the help of some of the villagers, the fundraising team decide to hold their own investigations as the police appear to be at a loss in finding any connection between the victims, who have died in completely different ways.
In the meantime there is a bail absconder who is hanging around the village. Is this person connected with the deaths?
The village sleuths need to find some answers before anyone else dies.
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A Case of Gravity
To Christian Simpkins, time was of the essence. His old friend, a rather eccentric rotund scientist had been abducted from his own facility in Cornwall, England.
Simpkins was on the trail, piecing together tiny snippets of information to steer him onward into the unknown. Others also desperately wanted this scientist, they wanted his knowledge and they wanted a particular little prototype that could seemingly defy gravity.
Slowly, too slowly, Simpkins begins to unravel the workings of those that took his friend and their murderous intentions. Highly skilled in their deadly arts, they turned their attention to this worrying thorn in their side. Simpkins’ survival plan was based on luck, circumstance and very little else except his strangely tuned mind, a strategy somewhat lost to the seasoned professionals on their deadly errand.
A fast-paced windmill of twists of thought and cryptic subterfuge.
A tale of intrigue, death, love and unerring friendship set in today’s world of unforgiving hard truths.
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A Certain Kind of Sense
Sanity gives way to madness. Madness brings with it another form of sanity. The question is, if you could do it all again, would you change anything… even knowing how the story ends?
Chris Curran is a wildly successful sales executive whose life has taken a turn for the worse. He’s lost his home, his wife, his career – everything that mattered to him, only to discover that it really wasn’t worth all that much to begin with.
A Certain Kind of Sense tells the story of a man coming to terms with a changed reality, waking up on the first day of the rest of his life, over and over again. Tragic, darkly comic, insightful – can redemption be found, or does it have to be earned?
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A Chance Encounter
The story from which this book takes its title sees a young man in a London bar enjoying a last drink before setting off home, when a young woman passes by, dropping her handbag as she does so. The retrieval of the bag and the subsequent brief relationship leads the man into life-changing circumstances.
The remaining stories all follow a similar line, with an unusual twist in the tale.
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A Cold Moon
Will Shakespeare finds a photograph, hidden in a cigarette case, buried in the local park grounds. The picture presents him with a dilemma of what to do with the discovery.
In London, Martin De Granville, a successful hedge fund manager, decides he wants to enter the political arena and stand as an independent candidate in the forthcoming 2010 elections.
After a whirlwind romance and marriage to Madeleine Verity, he chooses the constituency of Kenilworth and Southam to make his stand.
Madeleine is uninterested in her husband’s political ambitions, and so, he buys a flat in Kenilworth to use as his campaigning base.
A chance meeting in a Coventry pub leads to complications in his bid for election and in his marriage.
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A Cold Wind From The North
In seventh century Wales, a young man must fight to prove himself. As the kingdoms of post-Roman Britain struggle for a new order, his chieftain father is called away to war and Rhun is left to care for his people. But soon he is tasked with a dangerous mission of his own. Gathering a small band of friends, he sets out into the unknown to face a deadly enemy, battle, and death.
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A Collection of Reflective Poems
Every poem tells a story, and the poems in this collection are no exception.
A poem like ‘Jessie and Josh’ is based on the author’s early memories, while he and his friend – both passionate writers – were the inspiration for ‘Two Old Boys’. ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ is a loving message to his wife, and ‘The Old Man’ was written for his children, The poem ‘I Never Noticed’ is based on a friend’s comments during a country walk; ‘Joe’, by contrast, came from conversations overheard while sitting on a park bench in Windermere.
With poems that are by turns powerful, emotional, passionate, personal, funny and thoughtful, this is a book to carry with you for those moments of personal contemplation.£6.99
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