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This book records the buying, restoring, maintenance and running of 20 interesting, unusual, rare or eccentric cars that the author has owned in the last 25 years. Each car has a been a love affair in its own right and in consequence, like true love, they have not always run smoothly

The Sixties. The Swinging Sixties. The Beatles. Carnaby Street. Vidal Sassoon. Mary Quant. The Pill. The Permissive Society. The Simple Life is a world away from all this. It is the story of a girl growing up in Edinburgh in that decade. How am I supposed to love this cried her mother when Rosie was...

In this inspired manual, the deep calls unto deep in simple words; Angela inspires, challenges, and uplifts to greater height every soul searcher, every wondering mind and weary spirit. Be edified to edify others as you read. Mark Menda The French Ministy Pastor in Charge .. The body...

William Stocker was born in 1892 and, like most men of his generation, served in the First World War. After he died, his family found some three hundred letters written to his fiance. They present a narrative that will interest specialists in military and social history and also the general reader,...

Japanese and world kick-boxing champion, Uno, is the most brutal boxer on earth. He kills his opponents In the ring and takes delight in doing so. In his bid to stop the cruel Japaneses reign, Rtd Colonel Richard Faga of the US army flies to South Africa to train and convenience a jail fresh and poverty...

Confessions of an Alien is a story about alienation. The narrator, Josh Carew, is an alien in his homeland, Ireland. He is exiled by choice to various parts of the former British Empire, seeking to come to terms with the dilemmas in his life. On his return to Ireland, he describes his moral distress...

This second poetry collection continues the combination of universal and personal, the themes relevant to my sense of identity and agency. Symbols, abstracts, emotions and descriptions work together in these minimal poems, to create a moment, a picture in the mind of the reader. I draw inspiration...

SMALL time journalists with big time ambitions weave a trail of distress, mayhem, double standards, dirty tricks and binge drinking through the community they serve. The Knock is a work of fiction, set in the north of England, extrapolated from the realities of the work of front line regional newspaper...

This book has no plot, no start, and no finish. It is a collection from over many years of an imaginary book written by an imaginary author . . . The Hunchback by Stan Upstrate. If you dont get it, try again or get Percy Vere to help you.

Teeth of the Earth is a treasure trovea scintillating mix of fl avours with shattering experiences from a variety of locations that explore universal aspects such as love, life, birth, death, religion, disillusionment, politics, praise invocation and criticism of society and persons, as well as some...

This is VOAs third published book of poetry. Here, he explores with tremendous passion, contemporary and political matters. He also delves into the little known, and philosophically alludes to life encounters that appear to have wrestled control out of his grip. His dreams, or visions, perhaps a little...

Kathy Handsford is only a pen name, my true name is Kathleen Fleming which I used for my first book for fear of upsetting my husband. Kathy Handsford is my small contribution to women's lib, why should I have to use the same name as my husband ,or father for that matter, when poetry is a very personal...

From childhood as a patient for the VAD at the start of the Second World War. As a cadet at age ten to sixteen. Progressing through the ranks of the Voluntary Order of St. John of Jerusalem from 1939 to 1992. Full-time as ambulance driver to station officer to training officer to senior paramedic training superintendent from 1960 to 1992.

This is the story of a child of the post war baby boom growing up in those far off non-PC days of the fifties and early sixties. The scene is a northern textile town, a town thrown up by the industrial revolution. A town who's seemingly permanent way of life was about to vanish for ever, as the post...