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A gritty story, served up with Scouse dialect, and retro sweets and food aplenty.  A life long and symbiotic friendship between two men begins in 1960s Liverpool when they are children: their early experiences in the nineteen-sixties and seventies having lasting effects on their adult lives and relationships.

The Fruit Woman has appeared to Helen - a quirky and naïve twenty-seven-year-old - at important times in her life, particularly in relation to her own sexual and spiritual awakening. In the context of the family holiday, where games of cards, scatological worries, and deep discussions abound, the...

Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father's favourite daughter. Then tragedy strikes in a holiday narrowboat accident having far-reaching consequences for the surviving family and so follows...

  Psychology graduate, Heidi Harper is appointed to work with Professor Mala, pioneer of a new project to rehabilitate dog-reared feral child, Nicki. Heidi is soon asking questions and her mission takes on sinister overtones. As the truth outs, the lives of all concerned begin to unravel....

This bittersweet collection reflects themes for our time, be it the angst of reaching fifty, emerging sexuality or sexual experimentation. In other stories, patterns of behaviour across generations or within a lifetime are explored. Other stories look at life from unusual viewpoints, while others still have voices of a generation.

In 1927 a chance encounter in a public house with the person who found a solid gold bangle whilst walking his dog was to be a life changing moment in the life of Captain Cornelius Wood. His journal written in 1956 was found only a few years ago by his grandson, it is a fascinating document, it tells...

Somewhere in the former USSR lies a place called the Zone of Alienation: a secret area where physical laws are outright broken and mysterious phenomena manifest. In 2011, Al Qaeda detonates nuclear warheads in Kabul. In the wake of devastation another Zone is apparently created. A scientific expedition...

Table of contents Chapter one Chapter two Chapter three Chapter four Chapter five Chapter six Chapter seven Chapter eight Chapter nine Chapter ten Chapter eleven Chapter twelve Chapter thirteen Chapter fourteen Chapter fifteen 1 Jim was a twenty years old boy. His house was near...

Caught up in the mix of a custody battle and race tensions of the early 1960s America, Richard Gino DiAngi found himself in the middle of a terrible crossfire of ignorance and intolerance from a community he loved so much and intense jealousy from his fiance's ex-husband and paid the ultimate price. ...

Loving the wrong person can sometimes turn out right.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) (also known as "Alice through the Looking-Glass" or simply "Through the Looking-Glass") is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this...

When an airliner crashes in Paris Sam Painter finds himself contracted to investigate the phenomenon of aerotoxins.  But he is soon confronted with a wall of silence.  No one wants to talk....

Samantha Brooks and Police Chief Harley Crouch, Dr. Daniel Murray, and new arrival to Clanwallace, Juta Finnley—a tech savvy boxer—are caught up in a new hair-raising murderous tale of deception and greed. Sam is on a morning run when she stumbles across two bodies in a house owned by a world-renowned...

More From Grinding Halt carries on from where Grinding Halt left off. Nobby and Nigel are now well established in the viallge and it is generally idyllic, but trouble is brewing. Nigel's wife has heard that her ex-husband has inherited a lot of money from an uncle - Nigel usew most of it to...