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Of Word and Verse Converse, basic instructions before leaving earth, is a book about finding meaning and returning it to our words and verses through shared passion and romance for all things which embody life and love which have been without justice, and romance for so long.Writing needs to be meaningful.  This doesn't mean one genre has more value than another.  Simply, we have forgotten the importance of speaking properly to one another.  If words and verses, as I find them currently, meaning lost, are put out for those in a romance with words to enjoy,  then the verses and words we indulge in become meaningless because the words within the verse are not...

“Ismarus” is a historical fiction named after the protagonist, and the context of the novel is the ancient Thrace, around 300 BC. From the very beginning, the clash between the protagonist and the antagonist has been portrayed with a clear understanding of the mechanics behind this clash of interest. Tegrios is a despotic king who has a son named Ismarus and a nephew named Eumoplus. Tegrios loves both. However, because of his poor judgment, he ends up favoring his beloved nephew against his own son. Though Tegrios was short sighted, the same cannot be attributed to his queen Calysto. In this novel, Calysto has been portrayed as the voice of reason and benevolence. In the protagonist’s ...

The story takes place hundred and fifty years ago on a distant island in the Atlantic. Family feud with his father has convinced Sheldon to relocate on a distant island in the North Atlantic. Sheldon and his family are newcomers on the small French island off the coast of Morocco. From being a carpenter, Sheldon transforms himself into a respectable rancher and entrepreneur. Though an Englishman, he manages to befriend the predominantly French inhabitants of the island. The small island is run by an egoistic Frenchman named Jean Dominique. He keeps the residents of the island happy with the wealth acquired from a pirate chief. The Mayor brings in a French opera team for the Carnival which is...

In "The Homeless Diaries: Tales of a Broken Man," Siya Mchunu delivers a raw and gripping exploration of toxic masculinity in 21st-century South Africa. Follow the harrowing journey of Wolfgang Storm, a man lost in the shadows of his fractured identity. Torn between his Zulu heritage and the harsh realities of a society marked by intricate dynamics of race, class, and gender, Wolf meanders through life seeking an elusive sense of belonging. His relentless pursuit of female validation leads him into the darkest corners of existence, where happiness is a fleeting mirage. Through vivid storytelling and unflinching honesty, Mchunu invites readers to delve into a world where vulnerability and str...

The world has entered an age of robots and humanoids. The tech giant Space Race has erected a structure, eighty miles tall, to lift the elenauts (Elevated Astronauts) to the lower orbit, instead of using the conventional launch vehicles. This is about changing the rules of the game to travel beyond the solar system. The goal is to build a platform in space which could be used to build the kind of space vehicles needed to travel to the nearest constellation. Hence, Space Race has assembled and trained a dedicated team. The team consists of humans and android robots. The field is ready for inter-stellar journeys, but Cindy and Trevor are not sure where the journey will take them. Cindy and her...

"This eclectic selection of pieces penned by the author Alex Pearl, won't fail to move and amuse. Many originally appeared on his website as well as the pages of The Huffington Post. This new updated edition includes more recent articles and is fully illustrated. Whether conveying the eccentricities of village cricket, the quirkiness of British advertising, or the surprising hospitality of hotels in North Korea, Pearl's prose will draw you in and leave you wanting to come back for more."
Hugh Salmon, playwright and co-founder of Lovereading.co.uk

Award-Winner, 2022 Readers Choice Award in the YA/MG Category!Do you believe in black holes, wormholes, wrinkles in time? Are you interested in space travel and alien encounters that lead to amazing adventures? If not, do not open this book. If yes, get ready for a fun-filled adventure to thrill your imagination.Fifth-graders Hawk and his best friend Matt are fascinated by outer space and its mysteries. They even have their very own space-club. Little do the boys know that they are about to get a closer look at other galaxies and universes beyond their wildest imaginations. A radio left behind by Hawk’s grandfather opens a wormhole to outerspace – one through which the two fifth-graders ...

On an average Sunday morning in 2004, a newspaper article caught my eye and immediately took me hurtling back to 1977 to events which had seemed so innocent at the time, but which turned out to be anything but. 

My 13th year was one of the most eventful of my life, (and that's saying something) ...... 

I nearly died, my best friend nearly died, I became a man and........................I went to Switzerland!

In a vibrant orchard, two cherry twins named Rosie and Berry are always competing to see who is better. Rosie prides herself on being a top student, while Berry is passionate about sports. Their constant rivalry, from school achievements to athletic prowess, often leads to arguments.However, during the annual Fruit Festival, both twins realize that their focus on competition has made them overlook the joy of participating and celebrating their unique talents.The story teaches the importance of appreciating and valuing each other's unique strengths and talents. It highlights that competition is less important than cooperation and support, and true happiness comes from embracing individuality ...

Following his adventures in America graphically depicted in his second true story, FIVE WEEKS, David takes us again to the USA, but this time on a trip to New York where once again you will become immersed in the tension as you find yourself walking side by side with him while he attempts to make his dreams come true. 

24 Hours In New York is a story of life, dreams and reaching for the stars, but will his dreams become a reality? 

Will he fulfill all that he desires.........? 
 

'I love aliens' is a funny and entertaining rhyming adventure for little humans.

Featuring every kind of alien imaginable, they'll be torn by which ones they love the most.

'Tall ones, short ones, floating up the wall ones.'

Kids will love the characters, the colours, the quirkiness of the rhymes. It's an illustrated picture book that will capture their attention and imagination, time after time. And one they can join in with as they take in all that extraterrestrial visual magic.

Incipere Award winner (2021) - First Place, Children's Category!What happens when you have an active wormhole in your garage? Hawk finds out when he invites the new girl Celeste to the space club. The Black Hole Radio summons them down the hyperspace highway.... all the way to Pooponic's moon, Bilaluna, which is inhabited by giant cyborg insects! Mutated Earth insects - but how did they get there? And how can they stop the climate disaster that forced them to leave Pooponic from destroying their beautiful new home on Bilaluna?Join Hawk, Matt and Celeste on another intergalactic adventure as they are carried over the treetops by giant cyborg flies, race on the backs of cyborg roaches through ...

Stay tuned for another fantastic episode of Black Hole Radio – Ka’Azula!Fifth-graders Hawk, Matt and Celeste have been given special gifts by the amazing aliens they’ve met so far on their intergalactic adventures. ESP and telekinesis come in handy when they are transported to the racist planet, Ka’Azula, where only blue skin is accepted. They have an action-packed adventure in a matrix-type video game with azulanimals and azulizards and a tricky escape room finale. With help from a sweet, red-skinned alien named Teal, they prove that what counts is not outside skin color but what's on the inside. But does Matt now understand what his father’s family has to endure on Planet Earth?�...

Stay tuned for another exciting episode of Black Hole Radio-Labyrinthia!Hawk, Matt, and Celeste's adventures are just beginning! They learn to control their special powers to get on the team and win the big basketball game. They are superstars! What can go wrong? When Hawk gets stuck with Big Mikey as his science buddy, he comes snooping around the clubhouse and the Black Hole Radio . . . Beep! Beep! Beep! Not again! Can the friends survive in the deep dark caves of Planet Labyrinthia? Can they avoid the taser-wielding goons and the monstrous, screeching Hellion to free the alien children enslaved in the mine? Hawk must use his grandpa's journals to control the radio and save them all from t...

Retaking the plunge isn’t easy…After suffering through devastating loss, Lanie Kennedy doesn’t know how to move forward with her life. She’s not even convinced such a thing can be possible, with ghosts from the past continuously haunting the present. But, when her first brave step leads to intoxicating Drew, she’s reminded there’s a whole world outside her self-made prison. And, although love can come around again when least expected, doubt and insecurity will inevitably follow. Thoughts and desires long lain dormant awaken her body and heart while a darker part within her threatens to sabotage it all.…when the past refuses to remain there.With his god-like appearance, Drew Max...

From the No 1 best-selling author who brought you the Book To Movie BESTSELLER WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME, 24 HOURS IN NEW YORK and 13, another gripping true story charting FIVE WEEKS when, having already had a gun in his back in London, he soon finds himself almost left for dead in a Pennsylvanian forest. 

 

The tale of a stumped policeman, a third man, and a well-placed shot. It’s 1984. Princess Diana has just given birth to her second child. The legendary comic Tommy Cooper has died on stage (quite literally). And Angus Lovejoy and Brian Finkle are gloriously oblivious to it all as they strive to enthral the nation with their television commercials for the advertising agency Gordon Deedes Rutter. But all is not as rosy as it might seem in the frenetic world of Soho. Following a disastrous presentation to a manufacturer of diarrhoea tablets, Lovejoy and Finkle let off steam by playing cricket for an old school friend - but in doing so, stumble upon a nest of vipers involving a gay v...

Stay tuned for another fantastic episode of Black Hole Radio—Furilani!Did one of the coolest girls in the school just talk to them? Hawk, Matt and Celeste are having a blast using their special powers to build their confidence and their popularity. They made the basketball championships and they’re winning over the kids at school. Hawk has been reading his grandpas journals and learning how to control the black hole radio in his garage. Unfortunately, Matt’s crystal from planet Labyrinthia reacts with the radio to send them on another wild adventure. This time to planet Furilani; a bustling spaceport planet, where intergalactic jetsetters and futuristic fashionistas use furry little cr...

Two baby kangaroos, one wacky inventor and a gigantic robot have a day at the zoo no one will ever forget!

 

With no Mummy or Daddy to teach them to hop,

the zoo's baby joeys just wobble and flop.

Dr Try builds a robot to help them bounce high,

but when things all go wrong,

will their bouncing dreams fly?

 

 

Wrong Place Wrong Time a #1 BESTSELLER around the world on Amazon.

Having lost everything, I leave memories of a London police cell behind me and head for Marbella in Spain with its promise of adventure and fun. Little do I know that I’m about to be thrust into the most terrifying time of my life. 

Wrong Place Wrong Time is a gripping true-life story of an unimaginable nightmare and how my ticket to a new life turns out to be a one way ticket to hell.

WORKING IN ADVERTISING CAN BE MURDER - LITERALLY.It’s 1983. Margaret Thatcher has been waging war on the Argentinians in the Falkland Islands. The miners are about to wage war on Margaret Thatcher. And Angus Lovejoy, once sent down from Charterhouse for shagging the Chancellor's daughter in the cricket pavilion, has now landed himself a job as a copywriter at London adland’s creative hot shop Gordon Deedes Rutter where he is teamed up with art director Brian Finkle whose neurotic Jewish parents are the bane of his life. The two are an unlikely duo, but their mischievous and sardonic take on the world makes them a brilliant creative team. Everything goes swimmingly until a bizarre and mys...

MOTIVE. MONEY. MURDER. YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP.

An aspiring author, cursed with writer's block and ridden with debt, is offered a huge amount of money to commit a heinous crime. 

Caught up in the machinations of the underworld and at the mercy of London gangland boss, Mad Dog Maddox, will this budding writer accept the money, commit the crime and leave his innocence behind him?

And will real life turn to fiction, as events inspire him to write what he dreams will be an international bestseller?

WARNING - GRAPHIC and POTENTIALLY DISTURBING SCENES.X

 

Michael Hollinghurst is a successful corporate lawyer living a comfortable, suburban life in leafy North West London. But on 7 July 2005, his life is transformed when he steps on a London underground train targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. While most passengers in his carriage are killed, Michael survives the explosion but is confined to a wheelchair as a result.Coming to terms with his predicament and controlling his own feelings of guilt as a survivor conspire to push him in a direction that is out of character and a tad reckless. In a quest to seek retribution, he resorts to embracing the internet and posing as a radical Islamist in order to snare potential perpetrators.Much to his su...

After the assassination of Winston Churchill, the new U.K. government parlayed peace talks with Nazi Germany. With no need to guard his Atlantic and North Sea wall, Adolf Hitler was able to accelerate his plans to invade Russia and it then opened the door to attack America and Canada. The United States was vulnerable, they were not ready for war, their navy was inadequate and their military was not prepared to face the onslaught of over a million trained, battle-hardened troops.How was America and Canada going to defend themselves against superior forces who had now conquered all of Europe?‘America Under Siege’ contains twists and turns as President Roosevelt, contrary to the advice of h...

Eleven-year-old schoolboy, Roy Nuttersley has been dealt a pretty raw deal. While hideous parents show him precious little in the way of love and affection, school bullies make his life a misery. So Roy takes comfort in looking after the birds in his garden, and in return the birds hatch a series of ambitious schemes to protect their new friend. As with the best-laid plans, however, these get blown completely off course - and as a result the lives of both Roy and his arch tormentor, Harry Hodges are turned upside down - but in a surprisingly good way.

Third Edition includes: a foreword by Paul Pavao (author of Decoding Nicea), updated content and also a new chapter about the Council of Nicaea explaining what did (and didn’t) happen there.Take a journey through the first 400 years of Church History in only 40 days!Over the course of this reading plan you will read extracts and commentary on 23 different early Church texts from a selection of some of the most influential Church Fathers:Didache, Diognetus, Polycarp, Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose of Milan, and Leo the Great.These people who came before us, those great men of faith, many of whom suffered persecution and martyrdom to preserve the Ch...