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Codeword Book Volume 9 | Back in stock 5 November 2020!

Codeword Book Volume 9, Back in stock 5 November 2020!

Not Here, But in Another Place by Ralph Barker. A true story of captors, hostages and terror.

Not Here, But in Another Place by Ralph Barker. A true story of captors, hostages and terror. https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B08M65SVLL

The Last Blue Mountain | The Great Karakoram Climbing Tragedy | by Ralph Barker

An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void, The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.

Re-released books by Ralph Barker

The Incredible True Story of Britain's 'Kamikaze' Pilots of World War Two

The Extraordinary True Story of Aviation’s Greatest Competition.

Codeword Book Volume 13 | Out Now!

Codeword Book Volume 13. OUT NOW!

Daily Mail Big Book of Sudoku 1

Daily Mail Big Book of Sudoku 1 (The Daily Mail Puzzle Books)

Myriad Acquires Graphic Memoir of Lost Iraqi Homeland by Carol Isaacs (The Surreal McCoy)

The wolf, believed by Baghdadi Jews to protect them from harmful demons, sees that Jewish life in Iraq is over, and returns the author safely back to her present home in London.

A Snowdon Stream (The Gwyrfai)

November 2018 | A Snowdon Stream by W.H. Canaway | Just published by Medlar Press

The Jack Crane Trilogy

Once a defensive position in the biggest war of the twentieth century, Sea Fort Vector One could become a staging point for a major offensive but those who fight a different kind of war in the twenty first. Part of the Jack Crane Trilogy.

Try This!

Try This! is a compendium of fun and easy-to-do experiments that will inspire children and parents alike. Any additional items required are likely to be found in the home or nearby.

Bring science to life with these clever and colourful experiments that the whole family can enjoy.

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RAF, Aviation History, Military History, World War II, Hero Stories, Stories of Endurance, British History, Crime, Ralph Barker, Ralph Barker Author

Ralph Barker

RAF, Aviation History, Military History, World War II, Hero Stories, Stories of Endurance, British History, Crime, Ralph Barker, Ralph Barker Author

Born in 1917 and educated at Hounslow College, Ralph joined the editorial staff of Sporting Life in 1934, but later went into banking. Meanwhile, he had begun writing, and several of his sketches and scenes were produced in West End Revue.

Ralph joined the RAF in 1940 as a wireless operator/air-gunner and progressed his military career until 1961 when he retired voluntarily from the RAF to write full time. He was a frequent contributor of feature stories to the Sunday Express.

RAF, Aviation History, Military History, World War II, Hero Stories, Stories of Endurance, British History, Crime, Ralph Barker, Ralph Barker Author

Horoscope, Stars, Astrologist, Petra du Preez Author

Petra Du Preez

Horoscope, Stars, Astrologist, Petra du Preez Author

Petra du Preez is a popular astrologer who has contributed over the years to various South African magazines including Fairlady, You and Huisgenoot. Outside South Africa her horoscopes currently appear in Viva (UK), Fiji Times, Manawata Standard and The Aucklander (New Zealand) and Ahlan (Dubai).

Petra lives in Cape Town where she is a consultant for a substantial clientele who value her combination of psychological insight and astrological skill.

Petra has published a number of books and has recently released her fifth book, Astrodisiacs – sexy star signs, an entertaining and insightful guide to how the star signs relate, illustrated with original work by the much admired artist Liekie Fouché.

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Puzzles, Sudoku, IQ, Games Consultant, TV Game Show, David J. Bodycombe Author

David J. Bodycombe

Puzzles, Sudoku, IQ, Games Consultant, TV Game Show, David J. Bodycombe Author

David J. Bodycombe is an English puzzle author and games consultant. He is based in London, and his work is read by over 2 million people a day in the UK, and is syndicated to over 300 newspapers internationally. The British public know him best as the author of popular puzzle columns in publications such as the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Metro and BBC Focus magazine.

He also consults on many television game shows, including The Crystal Maze, The Krypton Factor, The Mole and Treasure Hunt. He was the question editor for the first 8 series of BBC Four's lateral thinking quiz Only Connect. On BBC Radio 4 he appeared on the quiz Puzzle Panel and devised the cryptic clues for X Marks the Spot. He has written and edited over forty books, including How to Devise a Game Show and The Riddles of the Sphinx – a history of modern puzzles.

In 2005 he became a leading author of sudoku puzzles, and he was the first person to have sudokus published in several major territories, including India and Scandinavia. As well as the classic 9x9 puzzle, he pioneered a number of alternative designs which have proved popular with readers all over the world. His games, puzzles and questions also appear in many magazines, and on websites, advertising campaigns, board games and interactive television.

He edits UKGameshows.com, a wiki-based web site cataloguing UK television and radio game shows.

Puzzles, Sudoku, IQ, Games Consultant, TV Game Show, David J. Bodycombe Author

Career Development, Book Rights, Presentation Skills, BBC, Jeremy Carrad Author

Jeremy Carrad

Career Development, Book Rights, Presentation Skills, BBC, Jeremy Carrad Author

Jeremy Carrad led a varied life. Born in 1932, he grew up first in Sutton Coldfield and then in London. After enjoying his national service, he stayed on in the army for another 10 years, setting up a forces' radio network and making programmes for the troops. From 1962 to 1976 he was anchor of the BBC West news programme, Points West, before deciding he'd had enough of that and quitting to run communications courses for industry. Latterly he was a playwright and novelist.

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Thrillers, Military, Fiction, W H Canaway Author

W H Canaway

Thrillers, Military, Fiction, W H Canaway Author

W.H. Canaway was born in 1925 in Altrincham, Cheshire. He was educated at Altrincham Grammar School and the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he was awarded with a B.A. and M.A. degrees. He served in the 8th Army intelligence in North Africa and Italy during the latter part of the Second World War, before coming home to lecture at Stafford Technical College. After ten years of this, he committed himself to full-time writing. He wrote fifteen novels, including Sammy Going South, a book that was translated into a dozen languages and was made the Royal Command Film Performance of 1963. He was also a keen angler and wrote two highly regarded fishing books, as well as many articles for The Fishing Gazette. However, it is probably as a screenwriter that he is best remembered - The Ipcress File (starring a young Michael Caine in 1965) being amongst his credits, as well as TV series such as Brendon Chase and Dan, Badger and all the Coal. He died on 22nd May 1988, whilst still working on a film version of an earlier work, A Declaration of Independence.

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Cornwall Fiction, Farming Fiction, West Country Fiction, Cornish Story, Cornish Dairy, Rural Humour, Regional Fiction, Humour Fiction, Rural Community, Dairy Community, Cornish Tale, Film Rights, TV Rights, Book Rights, Rural Economy, Rural Business, Rural Politics, Dairy Farming, Agricultural fiction, Animal welfare, Milk Production, Roger Courtenay Author

Roger Courtenay

Roger Courtenay is descended from a long line of Cornish fishermen and miners, so was naturally drawn to a career as an economist in the City of London. He divides his time between his home in London, and Cornwall, where he obsesses about the Cornish language and pretends to surf.

He has a first in economics from Cambridge University, a PhD in asset pricing theory, and is both a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh and member of the Cornish Language Board.

Crime, Thrillers, History, Book Rights, Film Rights, TV Rights, Comedy, Cartoons, Children's Fiction, Cycling Fiction, Newspaper Comics, Newspaper Cartoons, Guinness Book of Records, Frank Dickens, Frank Dickens Author

Frank Dickens

Frank Dickens was born in Hornsey, London 1932.

Dickens left school at sixteen and began working for his father, a painter-decorator. A self-taught artist, he began working as a cartoonist in 1959 and has since won eight 'Cartoonist of the Year' awards for his Bristow series. In 1971 he made an introduction into stage work and in 1999 adapted Bristow into a six-part series for BBC Radio 4. Dickens has also published twelve children's books and two thrillers.

RAF, Military, Crime, Thrillers, History, Book Rights, Film Rights, TV Rights, Fiction, Charles Hall Author

Charles Hall

RAF, Military, Crime, Thrillers, History, Book Rights, Film Rights, TV Rights, Fiction, Charles Hall Author

Born in London, Charles Hall lives in rural Essex with his wife Jacqueline. It was Jacqueline whose deep involvement set him on the ‘write track’ when it came to writing ‘Megaton Mornings’: a book about his experiences with twenty-five nuclear tests whilst serving in the RAF.

Now semi-retired from business life, and apart from playing boogie-woogie piano - one of his numbers featured in the soundtrack of BBC TV’s ‘Love Soup’ - Charles has found more time to write the kind of stories he likes to read: fast moving action thrillers.

RAF, Military, Crime, Thrillers, History, Book Rights, Film Rights, TV Rights, Fiction, Charles Hall Author

Journalist, Scottish Fiction, British History, British Traditions, David Kerr Cameron Author

David Kerr Cameron

Journalist, Scottish Fiction, British History, British Traditions, David Kerr Cameron Author

David Kerr Cameron was born in Aberdeenshire in 1928.

After National Service in the RAF he joined Kirriemuir Herald, a Scottish weekly, 1951. He worked at various newspapers and magazines, including the Farming Express, where he was managing editor.

In 1966 he joined the Daily Telegraph, where he was, in succession, a Features Sub-Editor, Chief Features Sub-Editor, Weekend section/Books section production Sub-Editor of both Sunday and daily pages, and finally Sub-Editor on Arts desk. He retired from the Daily Telegraph in 1993.

He never forgot the rigours of farming life in Aberdeenshire, which he wrote about with un-sentimental vividness in his books.

The Ballad and the Plough (1978), Willie Gavin, Crofter Man (1980), and The Cornkister Days (1984), all of which won Scottish Arts Council Awards, gave the social history of the North-East a readability that drew comparisons with the work of the late John Prebble.

Journalist, Scottish Fiction, British History, British Traditions, David Kerr Cameron Author

Irish Poetry, Irish History, Patrick MacGill Author

Patrick MacGill

Irish Poetry, Irish History, Patrick MacGill Author

Patrick MacGill was born in Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland in 1889. He was a journalist, novelist & poet, known as ‘The Navvy Poet.

During WW1 he served with the London Irish Rifles, and was wounded at the Battle of Loos in 1915.

He moved to Florida, where he passed away on 22 November 1963.

His works include: Children of the Dead End, The Rat-Pit, The Amateur Army, The Red Horizon, The Great Push, The Brown Brethren, The Dough-Boys, The Diggers: The Australians in France, foreword by W. M. Hughes, Australian PM, Glenmornan, Maureen, Fear!, Lanty Hanlon: A Comedy of Irish Life, Moleskin Joe , The Carpenter of Orra, Sid Puddiefoot, Una Cassidy, Tulliver’s Mill, The Glen of Carr, The House at the World's End, Helen Spenser

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Barbara Minto Author

Barbara Minto

Barbara Minto Author

Barbara began her career on the staff of Cyrus Eaton, the industrialist who founded the famous Pugwash Conferences of nuclear scientists. Working as part of the team that organised and ran the conferences, she received sound training in tackling the problems of communicating clearly on technical subjects.

In 1961 she left Mr Eaton to attend the Harvard Business School, later joining joined McKinsey & Company. Since 1973 Barbara specialises in teaching the Minto Pyramid Principle to people whose major training is in business of the professions, but whose jobs nevertheless require them to produce complex reports, analyses, memorandums, or presentations.

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Journalist, WWII, Hitler, Penthouse Magazine, Erotica, Newspaper Cartoons, Newspaper Comics, Frederic Mullally Author

Frederic Mullally

Journalist, WWII, Hitler, Penthouse Magazine, Erotica, Newspaper Cartoons, Newspaper Comics, Frederic Mullally Author

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John Palmer

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John Palmer, born in November 1928, was educated at the Heath Grammar School, Halifax, and the Queen’s College, Oxford where he read Greats. In 1952 he was successful in the written competition for what was then the Administrative Class of the Civil Service, gaining exceptionally high marks in what the Civil Service Commissioners called Metaphysics, and Present Day, and in translating Latin unseen into good English.

He served in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government - and later for BR dealing with various litigation about the Channel Tunnel, and aspects of rail privatisation.

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Career Development, Book Rights

Greg Peake

Career Development, Book Rights

Greg is a switched on, enthusiastic Southern American Motivational Speaker and Teacher. his formal work-life began in 1964 when he joined the U.S. Army at the lowest rank of Private. He attended Artillery Officer Candidate School and left the military as a 25-year-old Captain. He is a Vietnam War Veteran and a Purple Heart recipient.

After leaving the Army, He discovered the world of selling. This journey began in the Cattle and Livestock industry where he sold Pharmaceuticals and Ranch Supplies followed by a stint in the Debt Recovery Business. Subsequently, He worked in both Newspaper Sales and Circulation and finally the Financial Services industry where he was self-employed for 31 yrs. He successfully sold Life, Health, Disability Insurance and Mutual Funds. He owned a hugely successful Automobile Insurance Agency.

In his sales capacities, he received many awards to include membership of the Wall of Fame for the Bankers Life of Nebraska. This was awarded for being one of the Top 10 Salesman throughout the whole of America. He was a member of John Hancock Mutual Life’s President's Conference, achieved by only 2% of the sales force of this prestigious, 175-year-old company.

With his wonderful wife’s encouragement, he decided to make a career change. For many years, he longed to be a Motivational Speaker. He had a unique approach to the highly emotive business challenge of getting sales people to consistently make business development calls and accordingly wrote his first seminar, ‘Let’s Talk About Talking’. Following the huge success of this offering, and at the suggestion of a client, he then followed it with ‘A 'Check-Up from the Neck-Up'. To date, he has successfully conducted in excess of 400 of these Seminars worldwide, among a wide variety of local as well as multinational companies.

He is enthusiastic and passionate about his Seminars as he knows that they really do help people. He considers himself a very genuine and down to earth person and his love of people is easily felt.

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Hollywood, Celebrity, Addiction, Prescription Drugs

Nicola Pittam & Harrison Cheung

Hollywood, Celebrity, Addiction, Prescription Drugs

Nicola Pittam and Harrison Cheung are the authors of the well-reviewed, award-winning biography, Christian Bale: The Inside Story of the Darkest Batman (BenBella, 2012, ISBN 1936661640). The two are fast becoming their own dynamic duo of the Hollywood scene.

Hollywood, Celebrity, Addiction, Prescription Drugs

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Workplace Humour, The Perfect Boss

Real Bosses Don't Say Thank You

Workplace Humour, The Perfect Boss

A guide to being the perfect boss.

Ellen Nevins

Workplace Humour, The Perfect Boss

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World War II, Stories of Endurance, British History

When the passenger liner City of Benares sailed from Liverpool on Friday, 13 September 1940, she was carrying 90 evacuee children from the bombed cities of Britain, bound under a government-sponsored scheme for a safe haven in Canada. Her sinking by U-boat four days later, without warning, in total disregard of the plight of survivors and in defiance of international law, shocked and horrified the civilised world.

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David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award

When British servicemen were observing nuclear tests in the Pacific during the 1950s, the Prime Minister of the time, Sir Anthony Eden, was warned that they risked a lingering death from cancer. His response is reported to have been, 'A pity, but we cannot help it.'

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award

London Pleasures, From Restoration to Regency

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Journalist, History of London, City of London, Regency Batch

The year 1660 witnessed not only the restoration of the monarchy but also the beginning of a new lusty and licentious age. Under the Merry Monarch, Charles II, London shurgged off Puritanism and launched itself into debauchery to enjoy two centries of uninhibited pleasure. This richly evocative portrayal of the capital will take you on an unforgettable historical pleasure trip.

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Journalist, History of London, City of London, Regency Batch

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Scottish History, Rural Life

David Kerr Cameron has captured and recorded for future generations a culture and a landscape that have now gone forever

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Scottish History, Rural Life

The Ballard And The Plough | A Folk-History of the Scottish Farmtouns

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Scottish History, Rural Life

Quoting generously from bothy ballads, David Kerr Cameron has written a book rich in anecdote and insight.

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Scottish History, Rural Life

The Cornkister Days | A Portrait of a land and it rituals

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Rural Life

With a knowledge and a skill that reveals his passion for the land and its people, David Kerr Cameron picks his way through the rural upheavals and developments of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries towards the landscape we recognise today. In doing so he provides a wide-sweeping and unforgettable view of our rural history and completes his great rural trilogy portraying the old farming landscapes of Scotland's North-east Lowlands.

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Rural Life

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Funfair

Colourful, boisterous and often bawdy, the old-time fairs punctuated the routine of the year like exploding stars in the firmament. They were also a vital part of England's economy. This comprehensive and readable study examines a long neglected subject and its impact on trade and everyday lives.

David Kerr Cameron Author, Scottish Author, Scottish Literature, Scottish Journalist, Scottish Arts Council Award, Funfair

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Coarse Fishing, Wales, Snowdonia, Carp Fishing, Barbel Fishing, Pike Fishing, Roach Fishing, Angling

A Snowdon Stream (The Gwyrfai)

Coarse Fishing, Wales, Snowdonia, Carp Fishing, Barbel Fishing, Pike Fishing, Roach Fishing, Angling

William Canaway was a game ﬁsherman who didn’t mind the immaculate calm of chalk waters, but preferred the smash and grab of the mountain or moorland stream.

Coarse Fishing, Wales, Snowdonia, Carp Fishing, Barbel Fishing, Pike Fishing, Roach Fishing, Angling

Celebrity, Addiction, Prescription Drugs

Hollywood Body Count

Celebrity, Addiction, Prescription Drugs

There’s a serial killer in Hollywood and its name is Fame. Its weapon of choice is a prescription pad. You can be rich and famous in La-La land, change your name, your nose, your bra size, but you can’t escape the pressure of trying to get to the top, and staying a star. The Fame Game has no rules and just one end.

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The English Fair

David Kerr Cameron

Colourful, boisterous and often bawdy, the old-time fairs punctuated the routine of the year like exploding stars in the firmament. They were also a vital part of England's economy. This comprehensive and readable new study examines a long neglected subject and its impact on trade and everyday lives.

London Pleasures

David Kerr Cameron

A Creel of Willow

W H Canaway

A Snowdon Stream (The Gwyrfai)

W H Canaway

Expert observations and practical information on angling Gwyrfai.

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Merlin's World of Marvels

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Ian Anderson

Facts, Horror

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Life Lessons for Moms

Parenting, Family

Anthony Rubino Jr

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Parenting, Family

Anthony Rubino Jr

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Rich and Splendid Gifts

John Palmer curates twenty splendid ambassadorial gifts.

This is a book about diplomatic gifts, that is gifts carried by ambassadors from one sovereign to another. These embassies were sent for a political purpose – to seek a dynastic marriage or a military alliance, to congratulate a new sovereign or announce a victory, or to solicit an agreement on trade.

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Barbara Minto

The best-selling method to structure documents logically.

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Easy Speaking

Business, Communication, Career Development, Book Rights, Presentation Skills, BBC

Jeremy Carrad

‘EASY SPEAKING’ is written for all those millions of us, in whatever corner of the world we inhabit, who dislike – even dread – the thought of standing on our two hind legs and talking to an audience. It is directed to every age group from the teenager seeking a university place or attending a job interview, through the masses of amateur officials of societies and groups, to business people enduring the agonies of presenting to others.

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Let's Talk About Talking

Business, Communication, Career Development, Book Rights

Greg Peake

Let’s Talk About Talking is built upon sound psychological principles as well as Greg’s 28 year’s of personal sales experience. His approach is easily and quickly embraced and is a must read for all sales people who use the telephone as a business development tool.

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Glenmornan

This is a strong, poignant account of MacGill’s hunger to return to the place of his birth, and his tragic expulsion.

The Red Horizon

Patrick MacGill, Rifleman No. 3008, London Irish, was one of many thousands of Irishmen who fought in the First World War, and he articulates the experience of that tragic generation, conveying the horror of war but also the resilience of the men.

Moleskin Joe

Patrick MacGill

Filled with superb characterisation, humour, poignancy and eloquence, Moleskin Joe is a vivid portrayal of the hardships of Irish immigrant experience,

The Rat Pit

Patrick MacGill

The book’s appearance proved deeply divisive owing to its fierce anticlericalism and unflinching portrayal of social conditions in the early years of the century. In the intervening years it has lost none of its power to shock

The Great Push

Patrick MacGill

A classic of war literature, a compelling book which describes the fear, resilience, humour and fatalism of those who fought at the raw edge of one of the most terrifying wars ever to have been waged.

Children of The Dead End

Patrick MacGill

Peopled with extraordinary characters, suffused with humour and yet unflinching in its portrayal of the near slavery of the poor in Scotland and Ireland, Children of the Dead End sold 50,000 copies a year in the 1920s.

The Navvy Poet

The collected poetry of Patrick MacGill

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Thrice Around The Mulberry Bush

The Biography of Frederic Mullally

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The Cricketing Family Edrich

Biography of the distinguished cricketing family, including Bill, John, Geoffrey, Eric and Brian Edrich.

One Man's Jungle

A penetrating biography of a truly exceptional man - F. Spencer Chapman DSO

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The Final Verdict. The Life and death of an aviation Pioneer

RAF, Aviation History

Ralph Barker

The story of Bill Lancaster and Chubbie Miller.

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My Dancing Bear

Hélène de Klerk

The Story Of Reg Smythe, creator of Andy Capp

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The Grey Seas of Jutland is a classic naval adventure that will keep readers gripped to the last page.

'A treat for fans of naval fiction.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Cold Kill'.

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Frederic Mullally

A compulsive international story that starts with a British actress’s love affair in the late Twenties with a royal prince, then the world’s most eligible bachelor. From there, Frederic Mullally’s longest and most imaginative novel takes the reader first to New Providence Island, then to Bronxville to observe the blooming of the two singular daughters from childhood to womanhood.

Roger Courtenay

A humorous detective-style caper set in an alternative version of the present day, where Cornwall is very prosperous, the Cornish language spoken around the world, and, of particular relevance to the story, cows are transported into Cornwall for short periods to qualify their milk as Cornish.

W H Canaway

A fight for survival in Victorian Snowdonia.

W H Canaway

The story of Sammy is an odyssey of innocent fortitude. As he inched along, he took up with a succession of companions, among them a Syrian trader, a band of pilgrims, an American lady, an Italian press correspondent looking for a story.

Coll MacSorley

McQaid is a sword - and occasionally dagger - for hire in the turbulent Highlands, as disillusionment grows against the Hanoverian regime. On a fine summer night in 1745 he is summoned to the bedside of the dying laird of Auchlour and commissioned on the most secret errand of his life ...

A fairytale thriller by Frank Dickens

Maverick British agent Simon Waggoner is ‘sprung’ from a Russian labour camp by feared Police Chief Major Igor Mikulitsin to investigate why a thousand of the world’s richest people are invited to take a secret sea trip.

W.H. Canaway

The Hunter and the Horns tells of an English schoolteacher who is stranded in this bizarre world of the East and his peculiar fascination for the oryx. To the Arabs, this graceful animal is a prized symbol of manhood, and through his personal failures the Englishman comes to identify his own future with its fate.

"....a little masterpiece" DAILY TELEGRAPH - Peter Green

W H Canaway

Certainly Don Everett was not expecting such an outcome when he set out from Thailand to fly his mission of mercy - taking cholera serum to our Chinese allies. And a couple of landmines, too. When the plane was shot down and Don baled out, the landmines exploded on a native village, leaving only one survivor: a fourteen year old girl, whom Don feels bound to take with him. It’s a sort of moral obligation.

W H Canaway

As mature judgement takes the place of accepted notions of childhood, a boy grows up against the background of the spirit of Snowdonia.

Scottish History, Victorian Life in Scotland, Crofting Community

David Kerr Cameron

Time has mellowed the stones, as it has sutured the hurts of the heart; hallowed them as the last reminder of the folk who once had their life and their being here. They rest, stilled forever in their coffin'd sleep, and now on the hill nature has reclaimed her own...

Scottish History, Victorian Life in Scotland, Crofting Community

Ralph Barker

At this Inquest, and at the trial that followed three weeks later, prejudice against the three accused boatmen seemed likely to overwhelm them. But the evidence was circumstantial, and the trial judge was about to dismiss the charges, ruling that so far as rape and murder were concerned there was no case to answer - when the prosecution produced a surprise witness.

W H Canaway

Gold was the need of the Ring Giver and the power of the vast gold hoard king Froda, which had an uncanny influence on men's fates, binds together the mythical, historical and some fictitious elements in this book, in an attempt to bring the Heroic Age to life. It was clear that the old ideas and aspirations were growing inadequate; and Beowulf, seeing clearly though belatedly that peace was best, was forced into war, simply to live up to the ideals of the Ring Giver.

W H Canaway

A young man growing to maturity in the English countryside, bedevilled by his father's reputation.

Cycling, Velo, Tour de France

Frank Dickens

A fast-moving thriller.

One of two two thrillers centred around the world of cycle racing: A Curl Up and Die Day and Three Cheers for the Good Guys.

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Thriller, London

Frank DIckens

An Elizabethean Thriller.

Thriller, London

David Kerr Cameron

The previously unpublished sequel to A Kist Of Sorrows

W. H. Canaway

The farce of war, fuelled by Italian passion, oil and spirit!

W H Canaway

A conflict is resolved in a moving and unexpected climax which combines comedy with pathos. The whole novel evinces a deep knowledge of wild life and a sharp eye for situation and character.

Evil, Horror

W H Canaway

'Do-gooders', says Harry Eckington, 'do better'. And as he sets off for a holiday in Snowdonia with his oddly assorted group of young friends rescued from the youth club and its supposedly homosexual leader, all seems set fair for a healthy, invigorating, uplifting week in the mountains....

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W H Canaway

The discovery in the Holy Land of a helmet and a gold box belonging to a Roman centurion begins and epic story that blends biblical mythology and high adventure, and seeks to unlock a mystery that stretches through to the 20th Century and beyond.

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W H Canaway

Its inscrutable smile promised many things to many men - but for 700 years none had dared to take the ultimate prize... until now.

Crime, Robbery

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W H Canaway

At the turn of the century in England the Wynne family, like so many others, are paying little attention to the shadows cast by the coming war.

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Crime and Thrillers

Part of the Jack Crane Trilogy by Charles Hall

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Bad Faces

The police cannot act without hard evidence, but Crane will get it come what may. Whilst striving to obtain that evidence, he re-discovers his lost love, but is she to be trusted?

Sea Fort

When a letter arrives asking for Jack Crane’s help, both his curiosity and his sense of duty lead him from his quiet retirement to the East of England and immediately into trouble.

The Stealers

It will take all of Crane's SAS skills to stop his murderous intent....

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Great Mysteries of the Air

'In seeking to establish the facts and unravel the secrets of these and other famous air mysteries, Ralph Barker brings outstanding gifts of graphic description to a subject of compelling power' - The Aeroplane.

Not Here, But In Another Place

This true story of a hijacking and hostages. A disturbing fact-filled book of extreme human experience.

The Drowning of Christina Collins

Ralph Barker has taken a story fictionalised by Colin Dexter for an Inspector Morse novel, and exhumed and reconstructed for the first time the true story of the colourful life and mysterious death of the 38-year-old Christina.

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Act of Treason

A member of the Duke of Norfolk’s illegal private army, George Bullen's 1593 story begins with lost love, and twists its way through death and war to uncover a horrifying secret of the Virgin Queen.