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The Merlin Destiny

The Merlin Destiny

This book is the sequel to The Merlin Legacy, in which a young man called Peter unexpectedly found himself taking on a terrifying responsibility – witnessing the deeds of dragons in their centuries-long fight against evil, and contributing to the making of history. In this second and final part, the battle against the dark forces becomes yet more terrifying as Peter, his youth now spent, must find and recruit a successor to continue his work. As time runs out, he begins to realise that his own destiny is somehow bound up with that of a beautiful, magical woman who appears to have stepped from the pages of Norse mythology to become flesh in his own world.

The Merlin Destiny will delight all those who believe there is more to the forces of nature and to life and death than science can tell us.

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It Starts with a Kiss - romantic

It Starts with a Kiss

Middle-aged Jennifer Green is living a life of quiet despair following her husband’s confession of an affair – until she encounters a half-crazed hobo who appears to know more about her than she does herself. Thanks to the tramp’s strange powers, Jennifer suddenly finds herself 25 years younger, with the figure and face of a goddess and every millionaire in New York trying to date her.

When Jennifer moves in with her own unsuspecting daughter and takes up ‘honey trapping’ to catch cheating husbands, even checking out her daughter’s dodgy fiancé. But then her killer combination of stunning beauty and mature wisdom makes her a star on prime-time TV, and she begins to realise that there is an astonishing connection between the hobo, the handsome stranger who once nearly hijacked her wedding and the rich, successful and impossibly handsome media tycoon who now sweeps her off her feet.

It Starts With A Kiss is a magical, funny, sexy story of glamour and romance, of lost youth and found love.

“On my wedding day, I committed myself to a truly wondrous man. If only he’d been my husband…”

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Islam and the West

Islam and the West

Since its origins in the deserts of Arabia fourteen centuries ago, Islam has grown until today it has one and a half billion followers, nearly a quarter of mankind. Today Islam is feared and distrusted by much of the Western world for its association with religious extremism and terrorism, although the vast majority of Muslims believe only in peace, love and service to Allah and assert that extremism has no place in their faith.

Mohammed Jabbar, a Muslim, a British civil servant and a law graduate, has made a special study of the perception of Islam in the West. He has written this book to dispel some of the myths and misunderstandings about Islam, to encourage a rational approach to its study and to look at the prospects for building a better relationship between adherents of this great religion and the rest of the international community.

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Into the Ether

Into The Digital Ether

When his parents and younger siblings leave on a 10-week holiday to Australia, 17-year-old Edmund finds himself transported to the 14th century at the beginning of the Black Death. He tries to help the people of that time with his 21st century knowledge of medical science. Along the way he makes many friends – and a few enemies, among those who do not like his interfering ways because they contradict the beliefs of the Medieval period.

Edmund travels around the area he grew up in as it was seven centuries earlier, noting the similarities and the changes. His experiences give him many pleasures and a few difficulties as he tries to fit into Medieval society. This causes him and his new friends confusion, laughter and some embarrassment – along with a promise of romance. Edmund’s influence finally becomes too much of a threat to the powers of the time, and they try to silence him. How will Edmund deal with this – and will he survive?

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Corinna

Corinna

When the wild teenage escapades of young Corinna Schopenhauer and her brother Max are discovered, their cruel and autocratic father exacts a stern retribution. He sends Corinna to live with a strict aunt and forces Max to join the Austrian army. Soon Corinna learns that her beloved brother has deserted and is on the run. Terrified that he will suffer the ultimate penalty, she sets out on a desperate mission to confuse his pursuers. But Max’s apparent desertion is not all it seems, and when Corinna meets the devilishly handsome Etienne and his friend and fellow officer Lietner, she finds her ingenuity tested and begins to realise that there is much she does not know about her noble family, her past – and herself. A stirring romance set in Austria during the years of the Habsburg Empire.

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Hawthorn’s Hill

Poor old Zawanda is in a mess, its economy in meltdown, its people unable to give up their age-old tribal enmities. The news that Britain is to cut off the country’s foreign aid looks like the last straw, until Frederick Zawutu, the intelligent, Cambridge and Sandhurst-educated new president, hits on a daring scheme – to embark on a game of bluff designed to make the West believe that this penniless Central African nation has somehow acquired a nuclear bomb. Everything goes to plan – until the English arms dealer Zawutu has set up to unwittingly play the part of the ‘supplier’ proves to be a little too good at his job… Hawthorn’s Hill is a light-hearted, cleverly-constructed novel about modern Africa, the follies of diplomacy, tribal conflict and the foibles of race and sex.

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Famous Discoveries and their Discoverers

Did you know that Christopher Columbus did not discover America, or that after a Greek scholar found a way of measuring the Earth, it was 1300 years before the rest of the world accepted his figures? Or that nitrocellulose explosive was discovered when an inventor spilt some chemicals in the kitchen and blew up his wife’s apron?

Famous Discoveries and their Discoverers, by a former career scientist deals with a fascinating range of discoveries over the centuries, related to everything from geology and astronomy to atomic theory, zoology and men who discovered continents. It also gives revealing information about the colourful lives of some of the people whose findings changed the world, and often their own lives, for ever.

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1914 First Blood – A Tommy Gunn Adventure by Mereo Books

Meet T.O.M. Gunn, a young infantry lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters, just back on leave from India as Europe catches ablaze in the chaotic summer of 1914. The British Expeditionary Force is off to France and Gunn is determined to join the war before it’s over

He joins a hastily formed mixed battalion of reservists, regular and territorial soldiers to find themselves pitchforked into the mayhem of the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and then the drawn out agony of Ypres as the high hopes of summer sink into the frozen trenches of the winter of 1914.

But by the time of the Christmas Truce with the Germans, Thaddeus Gunn and his men begin to realise that this is going to be a long war – and they will be lucky to survive.

‘This gripping novel has the triple advantage of being superbly written, true to life down to the least military detail, and very exciting. Readers will be very keen to follow the fortunes of Thaddeus Gunn through the rest of the Great War in future volumes.’

Andrew Roberts, FRSL, historian and journalist.

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The Last Goodbye

The Last Goodbye

In the summer of 1944, with the Russians advancing, the whole Ghetto population of Lodz including Edith Hofmann were herded into cattle trucks and sent to Auschwitz. She was aged only 17 and one of the lucky ones. For the majority it was their final journey. A small group of people were selected for work. So, with her hair shaved off and deprived of all her possessions, she travelled to Kristianstadt, a labour camp in Silesia to work in an underground munitions factory.

In January 1945, with the Russians approaching again, she was sent off on a Death March across snow covered Germany to Bavaria. There cattle trucks were waiting for her. Spending a week in crowded conditions without food or water she arrived in Bergen Belsen on 15th March. A month later she was liberated. In 1946, after the liberation and destruction of the death camps, she came to England, studying and becoming a teacher in London.

In the 1970s she went to art classes, which inspired her to interpret her memories in a more visual way. Her paintings are reproduced in her book The Last Goodbye, accompanied by some equally powerful and emotive poems.

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It's Hard to Believe

It's Hard to Believe

James Ryan was brought up on Humberside between the wars. After post-war army service in Germany he embarked on a career in signals intelligence which took him to Cyprus for three tours and then to Hong Kong for another two tours. On demob leave from the army he met a girl called Barbara, and they are still happily married 62 years on, with five children, 18 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. ‘It’s Hard to Believe’ is the Ryans’ story.

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