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Megan Cyrulewski is an ordinary person who has faced extraordinary challenges and now wants to inspire people and show them that hope gives them the power to survive anything. Who Am I? is about her journey into post-partum depression, anxiety disorder, panic attacks, visits to the psych ward, divorce,...

The Reverend I. M. Jolly always has a few wee problems, but life goes from bad to worse when he finds out he may soon be out of a job, thinks his beloved wife Ephesia is having an affair and that his parishioners want rid of him. And if that's not enough to wipe the smile off his face, he then gets...

Never to Return is the extraordinary true story of Sandy Reid and his big sister Maggie and what happened to them when they were taken away from their parents and their way of life. It was the middle of winter when the authorities swooped on the travellers' woodland camp, determined to take the youngest...

This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements – from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries – that take...

The last thing she needs is another man she can’t afford to trust... When Cherry Bender discovers her father’s been fatally wounded, she vows to find his killer and stop the constant trouble on her ranch. Very short-handed, but unsure who to believe, she reluctantly hires a tall, gray-eyed...

Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds grew up in wartime Scotland, a young girl surrounded by adult concerns. There was the endless queuing for rations that never seemed to stretch quite far enough, the blackouts and the air raids. But, if times were hard, they were also simpler, and in Voices...

The hilarious adventures of Harry the Polis, the self-appointed Chief Constable of funny stories. Harry the Polis is based on the true life stories of Harry Morris, who spent twenty-nine years with Strathclyde Police. Even the Lies are True! Is packed with funny stories to make you laugh out loud....

The hilarious adventures of Harry the Polis as recalled by ex-polis Harry Morris, the self-appointed Chief Constable of funny stories, continue with the publication of his tenth book, The Last Night on the Beat. Full of brilliant anecdotes, oddball characters, quick comebacks and unlikely excuses,...

The adventures of Harry the Polis - the self-appointed Chief Constable of funny stories - continue with this hilarious new collection. Join Harry on his new adventures as he tackles speeding motorists, visits the Blackhills of Glesca, calls time on some barking dogs, gets some Devine intervention...

The camp centres on a couple, who, though living through one of the longest & hottest summers on record believe themselves to be stuck in a house, in a snow-storm, that like the summer, is never going to end. They have no food and can't stay where they are through fear they will be killed...

Mae Stewart picks up where she left off in the hugely successful Dae Yeh Mind Thon Time? and continues her delightful memoirs of growing up in Dundee. In 'O' is Fir Ingin, Mae recalls life in the 1940s, 50s and beyond, recounting stories from school; days spent singing songs in the streets with her...

Cedar Rivers is on a strange errand. A doctor sidelined into the strange world of the first dot-com boom, he has come to Albany, New York, in between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, to meet a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty years. Then a Chuck Taylor–shod proto-Goth with chipped black...

After rescuing Annette Funicello’s stand-in from the amorous clutches of Guy Williams, Stan Wade, young, LA-based PI, gets a new, but secret, assignment from his number-one client, Walt Disney. The elder cartoonist and filmmaker wants Stan to investigate a death at Edwards Air Force Base. The victim,...

Jackson Hurst lives his nightmares with his eyes open. Only the heroin he’s been addicted to since Vietnam keeps the horror at bay. A poster child for losers, Jackson’s addiction has cost him his job, his girlfriend—and unless there’s a change soon—his life. That change comes in the form...