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In 1888 a series of notorious murders were perpetrated by an enigmatic killer known only as Jack the Ripper who terrified the Whitechapel district of East London. Six women were murdered in a four month period with the killings ending as suddenly as they began with an unknown motive. Whitechapel tells...

My Mother, Doreen Hilda Payne (nee Jardine) executed much of this research, tracing our forebears history back to the 1800s and possibly the very late 1700s. This may not seem a long time ago but when you remember that in those early times, people rode around on horseback; motor vehicles and...

A successful career minded young couple, Tom and Pat Dalton and their 2 children, move into an old Tudor house unaware of its previous history. Jamie their young son thinks its the best place ever, especially because the house comes with a resident cat, lots of interesting places to explore, and a...

The southwest of France is beautiful in summer. Fields of sunflowers grow everywhere, the grapes hang long and luscious on the vines, and it was in this atmosphere that the author found herself indulging in one idyllic holiday where she wrote a poem every day. The collection in this book will relate...

In a remote wildlife reserve in Africa, a young girl makes contact with an unusual elephant. They share a past that is almost forgotten and find they are able to communicate with each other. Ivory poachers threaten the existence of the herd, and Erica, the young girl, starts...

When toxic waste chemicals from a secret government research centre creating DNA-changing drugs for the military start to leak into the environment, the effects on the eco-system have sudden and profound effects for humankinds supremacy of the planet. As the government dithers and delays, the crisis...

Billy Brite is a young boy with a high IQ, which has caused him to be ostracised by family and peers. It is his story of his escape from reality, into a world of imagination and solitude, with his two dogs, Ben and Scruffy, and his parrot, Anthony, as his constant companions. He lives on a farm in...

Dylan Bradwell and his wife Penny are spending Mays first Bank Holiday in their holiday cottage in a small hamlet in west Wales. On the Monday, a situation arises that concerns the coupleit is the first of several planned felonies that include murder. British and Dutch police collaborate to crack the intricate crimes.

When Clare Stimpson turns-up in Modena, a beautiful city in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, to teach English, little does she know that she will fall in love with the country and its people, and stay there for the next four years. Clare was inspired by her mother, whose stories of her hitchhiking...

Skipper Can no Longer Play... Oscar J, is a young boy devoted to his pet dog Skipper, who he has since developed a life long relationship with. Through the course of dog years, Skipper begins to age, becomes ill, and dies. Never having experienced a death of any kind, and its associated grief Oscar...

I didnt always want to be a police officer, but what a life so far. This short story is a true, and sometimes shocking account of Matthews past decade as a female officer in Londons Metropolitan Police Service. Matthews describes the ups and downs, obstacles and challenges faced on the frontline of...

" Life can be cruel but life can be beautiful too " Spoken like a true princess.. the words of this charismatic girl called Jodie. This is an interesting insight into the life of a survivor, someone who has been to the other side of nowhere and back! A devoted mother who adores her baby...

The novel covers a twenty-year period beginning in 1942. Alice, a young woman in the British Womens Army whose mother was German, agrees to become a spy. She is parachuted into enemy-occupied France and helped by the French Resistance to reach the German border, where she is met by members of the...

Advanced Strategic Energy Inc are no longer welcome in the Niger Delta after the company was responsible for causing an environmental disaster on a massive scale. Local tribal affairs and pleas to stop polluting the region were senselessly ignored and now the top executives are in deep trouble. When...