Tsl Publications: 35 books

WOKEN is a second collection to follow RAVELLED. In these ten varied stories, whatever the style or context, Sue Hampton’s focus is love. You’ll find love of earth, love not hate and love not war. She explores romantic love: sudden, unrequited, fractured or selfish. There’s love as action for...

I have seen her angry many times, never like this. Her fury was unbridled, saliva dribbled from the corners of her mouth. Her eyes, how can I describe them? Dead. ‘Leaving ... why?’ ‘Of course he’s leaving, the poor sod is terrified!’ ‘Terrified … of what?’ ‘Why you! – who else?...

Rodney the Chimney Sweep lives in Sweeps End farm with his wife, Ma, and their seven-year-old daughter, Jemima. As you may know, chimney sweeps are renowned as being lucky. Rodney has a special luck which means he can speak to all kinds of animals and birds. Jemima “Four Foot” helps her father at...

A collection of poems light-hearted, a bit silly sometimes, and now and again with a twist at the end. A few serious poems are included and there are a couple of brain teasers (not at all easy) to test your little grey cells. Illustrated by the author.

At the end of a day already fraught with trouble nine years old Rhys is devastated by the news of his missing brother. Firstly he has school problems. With his best friend Giddy, he chases grasshoppers and gets his clothes very dirty. He experiments with kissing a girl, April who does not react like...

Rhys and Giddy have to raise money to afford going to London to watch Wales play Rugby at Twickenham. Will they do it? And how do they save April from having to move to Swansea?

Rhys and his friend Giddy, allow their girl friends, April and Ruth, to join their Society – sometimes. Between them they decide on certain rules. The rules prove to be very useful. When Rhys’s mother is injured in a kitchen fire he resolves never to leave her side again. With his birthday coming...

How do you cope with girl friends, weddings, Christmas and chickenpox ? In his third book of adventures, Rhys gets advice from granddad, gran and Uncle George who is visiting from Australia

Father Andrew Compton is a village vicar with a waning faith. His ‘good vicar’ persona keeps him going in the job, but inside he is full of doubts. His life is thrown into turmoil when he has a dream in which God asks him to go and visit Paul McCready, a convicted paedophile. While trying to decide...

The original settlement of Gatooma (derived from the Kadoma Hills), situated in the Midlands of Southern Rhodesia (97 miles from Salisbury and 190 miles from Bulawayo) owes its very existence to the rich gold reefs which were discovered by prospectors and miners in the late 19th/early 20th century...

A collection of short stories by author Sue Hampton. Reviews include "I loved the underlying story of beauty not being in the eye of the beholder. The Brute and the Beast is wonderfully written with an abundance of fantastic details and adjectives to let the mind visualise the scenes and personalities in the book."

In 1997, three Polish immigrants come to London and find themselves sharing a house in Greenford: Maja, an overqualified assistant librarian; Adam, a hard working, hard drinking carpenter; and Kuba, a London cabbie who has shelved his promising physiotherapy career. They all have different reasons...

Sai-Ko is a collection of twelve stories that will take you to the depths of human nature, a scuba dive incursion into the unconscious mind. Deliciously dark, savoury and funny, this book is written with undisguised frankness, offering a glimpse into the post-Communist society in a country sentenced to live with the scars of war.

Sally, a typist at NAAFI HQ in Famagusta, is one of 300 volunteers recruited during the 1958 State of Emergency to replace Greek-Cypriot staff after a bomb incident at RAF Nicosia. She meets Edward, a war veteran and Army Schools teacher. Trouble looms when police discover his boat has been ‘borrowed’...