Alan Place: 77 books

This story is fictional, but the man in the story was a real Yorkshire pirate, and the inn he owned still stands on Saltburn beach. The book containis a sample of the book "The Love of the Sea," for sale here. Which will become a novella later this year, if this book sells.

At a major jazz festival, a stranger comes across a lonely club which holds many secrets as well as the spirit of the music.

This short story has been entered in the Wells Festival of Literature, Short Story contest 2014. It will be read on BBC4 in the New Year too. The story is a fictionalised version of a flood which occured in Clevedon, North Somerset in 1974.

This is the second of my short stories about dragons for children, and is written to show the enchanting creatures at their most beautiful.

This 10 page ghost story is fiction based on factual events. The ghost in the story resides in Casle Menzies in the Scottish Highlands.  Another true ghost is Yorkshire pirate John Andrew, who features in my story "Sea Ghosts."

Will these be the final chapters in the life of PI Patti "Pat" Canella, as she takes on the Colderone gang in Withcborough? You can decide her fate.

In the town of Frilleydown, dragons and elves gather for the annual Dragon Bowl tournament- but things are about to change.

This is the story of Darius, the Drakanarc, and his search for children's stories about dragons.

This is a chapter book for a future concept e-book which will be a mix of Ray Bradbury, Mad Max, and my own brand of Sci-Fi.

This is the story of a love which crossed the age barrier. Faye was 16 ys older than me when we spent her final summer together at her cabin (seen here), in Lac La Biche, Alberta.

A new science fiction series from the creator of the bestselling series (Forgestriker) that is selling four years after it's launch. Read about the struggles of a group of writers calling themselves The Word, as the combat The Game Lords who are corrupting young minds with video games.

Two brothers tied to one curse; one brother is trying to forget the family history, and the other is embracing the Dark Ones from past ages.

Can Donovan find a new love, and bring to an end the curse put on his family, or will his evil twin - Domonic - live out their grandfather's prophecy?

After returning to free the trapped spirit of a lost friend, an old soldier on holiay in France, tells his story to a group of young men.   My grandfather John Oliver fought with the East Yorkshire Regiment in World War 1; during the campaigns which included Ypres he was stabbed...