Arena Books: 108 books
The Bear Pit
a Medieval murder mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
This is a Royal murder mystery set in the early 15 century. England’s princes are portrayed as born in a ‘Bear Pit,’ their lives a ruthless struggle for power. This book explodes the romantic myth of the age of chivalry. Betrayal and rebellion, murder and revenge, Hopkin ap Griffith ap Rhys...
Divided by Words
a case for a new literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This book fosters an appreciation of the world around us. Illiteracy is failing to do so. Three types of illiteracy are explore: the 3Rs, functional and that of food, soil and water, climate and energy. The latter is regarded as a foundation subject that is not part of our education. Given their importance...
Purely Academic
A Satire
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Gurney Sleep wants three things in life: ‘recognition, promotion and sex but not necessarily in that order’. When his highly successful boss and mentor, Professor Nigel Williams suggests he takes charge of the Department of Contrastive Linguistics’ end-of-year Centenary Celebrations Gurney diffidently...
The Chill From Siberia
a story of Poland in the 19th century
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This is a moving tale about mid-19th century Poland, based on the experiences of the author's forebears, during the time when her country was under the yoke of Tsarist oppression. The story is about a young noblewoman, Kamila, in the struggle to retain her inheritance, following the arrest and deportation...
by Debra Baker
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Set in a time unknown and a place indiscernible, The Tower follows the story of an unnamed female character as she goes about her mundane life in an extraordinary world. Living inside a great and towering stone wall, she is invited away from her daily routine of cleaning the dirty kitchens and bathrooms...
Demons and Dragons
Time, Space and Magic
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This enjoyable and humorous fantasy follows the adventures of Laurence, a Master Magician, Elizabeth his wife, an Elfin Queen, who is also a White Witch, and their twins, Victoria and Matthew, both of whom are junior magicians.
To help Laurence, Bern, a Cornish Pixie, Patrick, a Leprechaun,...
Stanley Young is Planning a Murder
in a very prccise and intricate manner
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Those who are kind to Stanley Young call him an obsessive compulsive perfectionist who cares about the little details of life. They would point out that reliability and punctuality, together with consistency and uniformity, are qualities which Stanley displays in abundance. They could point to a system...
The Wolds' Old Ways
country life in 1930s England
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
‘This book will bring back old times, take care of it,’ wrote Florence Hopper, freelance journalist, in the front of her cuttings book. Found in the depths of a dark cupboard crawled into by her niece, after her aunt died, and now edited by her, it is a fascinating read.
At first it was...
Dreams and Illusions Revisited
of dreams that make us and dreams that break us
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
While this book has been written in such a way as to stand by itself unaided, it explores some of the basic themes of The Gods of Our Time by the same author and can therefore also be taken as a sequel to it. Our lives consist, in large measure, of dreams, particularly those of our waking hours....
by Richard Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
In A Premature Affair, Richard Joyce’s new novel, readers are transported to North Texas in the 1960s for a story about the precarious and fragile nature of young love and early friendships.
“A Premature Affair” depicts an abortive love affair between Adam, a young English writer/teacher,...
by Christopher Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
When Thandi Dladla undertakes to coach a young soccar team in a rural school in South Africa she little realises how it will change her life. When levelling the terrain to make a field she discovers two skeletons wich reveal how ninety percent of people become right-handed.
The leads Thandi...
Footprints in The Snow and Sand
a story of Eastern Poland in the wake of the Soviet Occupation in 1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This is the personal story of the author’s early childhood and that of her family leading up to and following the Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland in September 1939, a political move made in conjunction with the simultaneous Nazi invasion of the country from the West.
Eastern Poland (as...
If Only
a tale of love at first sight
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
It was love at first sight for 14-year old William when he stopped pedalling his bike to allow Joanne to cross the road and go into the shop opposite. In an instant he was struck by her beauty. By the time he had pedalled to the top of the road and returned back to where he saw her, she had gone.
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by Newland Berry
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The sun barely rises on Newland's day.... So he up sticks to pursue a beautiful Chinese actress, and to seek some ease under a heaven roiling with creation stories. Yet what Newland and his motley fellow-travellers unearth soon makes it too perilous to stay.
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