Nick: 3195 books

In the summer of 1989 the Iron Curtain was unravelling, and Daisy Hayes had just become a pensioner who liked to do her ironing while listening to the latest news on the radio. The doorbell chimed. A police officer handed over a summons—printed in Braille. Daisy was being asked to testify about...

In 1946 Daisy and her friend Beatrice decided to move to Paris, because they were fed up with limping London, still crippled and depressed in the aftermath of the war. And indeed, in the spring of that year, Paris was the place to be—isn’t it always? In particular, some very interesting things...

There is something special about meeting an old acquaintance by chance. A reunion with someone you were close to a long time ago always seems a bit miraculous. But for the blind especially this is a very unlikely occurrence, as you might as well pass one another by without even knowing it. So in 1984,...

World War II. During the attacks on Berlin in the winter of 1943-44, wave after wave of British bombers swept over northern Europe and dropped their lethal loads on the German capital. A fair percentage of the bombers would fail to return from these operations, and RAF planners calculated the life...

Stuffed inside this ebook are relatively copyright free dinner theaters to spice up your boring spaghetti dinner fundraisers, skits for Fine Arts Festivals and other competitions, monologues to improve your acting abilities, and several bushels of ideas on how to best edit and warp my precious creations...

To this day The White Hart and The Red Lion are two of the most popular names for a public house in England – both talismans that served as the insignia for Richard II and the banished Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, who usurped the throne in 1399. Nick Asbury acted in the Royal Shakespeare...

Nick Hurst was working in London when he threw in his job in advertising to train for four years in Malaysia and China with a kung fu grandmaster, Sugong. This is a mix of Nick's experiences in South-East Asia and the story of Sugong's extraordinary life. Initiated into kung fu by an opium-addicted...

Five short stories of wonder, desire, and mystery from writer Nick Hayden (worksofnick.com), bound together by a sense that something exists beyond the natural that we haven’t quite found yet.The stories include: The Memory – It was a memory more precious than any other she had, and it...

This is Nick Armbrister's new short story collection featuring a variety of stories. From war with Russia in Red Empire and Final Flight to the horror of Loss Of The Icequeen to varied romance like What Could Have Been and Tattoo Me A Smile, this book introduces Nick's work and varied story telling. Other stories cover topics like life and human behaviour.

This is Nick Armbrister's third aviation based poetry collection bringing together poetry and prose from his books from 2015-16. His aircraft poems are on many types ranging from old to new, piston engine to jet, fast to slow, flying and combat and much more. Unlike his earlier two collections, this...

Visions is the first poetry collection by Nick Zakharia written from the ages of 15 to 18. It focuses on the concept of raw emotions such as heartbreak and loss which are explored in the chaotic downfall that is followed throughout the collection's entirety. The collection's dark premise aims to present...

New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bomb electrocution, no—the boy stood in the hot-hot room stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did I did. —from...

"The king of children's horror..." Sunday Express Voices in my head. It's driving me mad. It's like my skull's splitting open from the inside. They're talking to me. Laughing at me. Telling me what to do. I'll have their tongues. That'll shut them up. Danny is terrified of...

"Another great teen thriller." Spot On Matt's home life is falling to pieces as his mother seeks refuge from divorce by returning to the seaside town where she grew up. Separated from his friends, bored and discontented, Matt gradually becomes aware that his mother's family are the...