Peter Apps: 9 books

Believe it or not, The Sheppey Writers Group is based, on the Isles of Sheppey in Kent, UK. The first quirk of this book is to say 'Isles' instead of 'Isle', for Sheppey is a group of islands, including Elmley and Harty. They might only be separated by dykes and ditches but they are separate isles...

'Fracture Point' deals with the consequences of our dependence on electricity in general and automated systems in particular. It's set in a world suddenly finding itself without electricity or electronic communications. The title comes from a simple question. How extensive would the damage, in this...

The asteroid heading for Earth is nearly a mile wide. If it struck, it would destroy all life but diverting it is all in a day's work for Stuart and his team. Then he has to do it again on a parallel Earth, then again and again. Hoping each time is the last, Stuart despairs as yet another Earth needs...

As the title suggests the stories in this compilation deals with events when science hits back. Disasters through complacency, nuclear war through losing control of events, or just an experiment going wrong all give science or rather nature a chance to show just how far we have to go. 'Fracture Point'...

Stuart lives in a quiet village with his partner, enjoys a pint in the pub with his friends and like many young men he manages to get into trouble. What makes him different is that he commutes to a different galaxy each day and works on a space station. His way of getting into trouble is to have a...

Young people been kidnapped throughout the whole of history? It has to be stopped but where do the abductors come from? And Stuart has other problems nearer to home. Firstly, there's an ex-slave, from the time of Socrates, building a forge in the garden of the village pub. It's a shock when a village...

Tales From The Dark Side is a collection of stories that ask the question ‘What if?' when we deal with what should be normal situations. These are tales of individuals and families and their personal experiences and some disturbing insights into the realms of the underworld. Ranging from an insight...

‘Numbers’ is the third book of short stories and poems written by Ruth Partis. She is very grateful to the Sheppey Writers Group for their encouragement and continual nagging without which this book would never have been completed. (And probably not even started.) Ruth is also grateful to TAUP...

Pigeon Pie And Other Tasty Tales is as varied as it is thought provoking; with no real theme except that each has a slightly twisted tail. The book contains supernatural stories such as Elize, which is a tale of lost love set in Cornwall. The Feast of Bessie Brandon is a modern tale about the burning...