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Whisper of Truth

Mary Vaudoyer was scarcely out of childhood when she observed to her mother that the only things that really mattered in life were clothes and philosophy. That statement proved to define the course of Mary’s extraordinary life. Born in 1918, Mary joined the Special Operations Executive at the outbreak of the Second World War, meeting Sir Winston Churchill and dealing with top-secret documents. She went on to carry out vital work preparing undercover agents for dangerous missions in France. After the war Mary married a member of a prominent family of French architects and spent most of the rest of her life in France. In the post-war years she developed a passion for haute couture and became a collector of fabulous garments, gowns, dresses and coats. In the 1990s she published Le Livre de la Haute Couture, a comprehensive work on fashion and the great designers, which became a best-seller on both sides of the Channel. Whisper of Truth is her story.

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Where the Road Leads

Where the Road Leads

Carol Witherington was born and raised in the sunshine of South Africa in the days before apartheid tensions led to 20 years of terrorist insurgency and guerrilla warfare. When those ‘happy, carefree days’ ended forever in the 1960s, white families had to protect themselves with guns and barbed wire. Carol and her family eventually moved to Spain and then settled in the UK, but they had not been there long before they were struck by tragedy; Renaldo, her beloved ‘gentle giant’ of a husband, was diagnosed with cancer. After his death in the spring of 2011 she made her boldest move yet – to a new life in New York State, USA. Where the road leads is her story.

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When Everything Else Fails

When Everything Else Fails

A romantic and inspirational true life adventure, this is the story of an African girl and her culture, who grew up in poverty, started smuggling to earn a living; then flew to London to ransack for the gold which she had heard paved the streets of London. Raised up under the former Rhodesian colonial rule of Zimbabwe, she found herself alone in the large city of London. Before then she had married a serial cheat who had bedded enough women to fill a double decker bus plus standing passengers. Bored of making love in the same old missionary position, she suggested something saucy to her old fashioned husband, who then labelled her a Nymphomaniac! Hurt by his spiteful words, she plotted a vicious revenge and developed the desire to do great things for herself.

This fascinating read is about Pain, Suffering, Endurance, Faith and taking Action, which determined the turning point in her life and led to her undreamt of financial success.

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What Can I Do?

What Can I Do?

What Can I Do?…. Peter Deacon started asking the fundamental questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What Can I do?’ when he was a boy. Now he feels he has reached an understanding of the truth about why we are here on Earth and what our true purpose is, and has written two books to pass on this wisdom. The purpose of the first volume, Who Am I?, was to help you to discover who you really are by enabling you to view your life from a different point of view, and from that viewpoint to learn ways to deal with your problems in life so that you can create a better life for yourself and those around you. What Can I Do? takes matters further by explaining how you should develop your relationships with yourself and others and with your own Soul and inner being.

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War Medic Hero

War Medic Hero

While at anchor in Fitzroy Sound on June 8 1982, RFA Sir Galahad was bombed and set on fire by enemy aircraft. Embarked troops included two companies of infantry and the main body of 16 Field Ambulance, men and equipment. At the time of the attack most of the troops were positioned in the tank deck, where substantial quantities of ammunition soon began to explode as the fire worked through the ship. Over the course of some two hours 135 casualties, the majority with burns and amputations, were evacuated to the Advanced Dressing Station already ashore at Fitzroy settlement. Sergeant Naya, Royal Army Medical Corp, was standing in the tank deck when he was thrown against a bulkhead by the first explosion and partially stunned. The lights went out and the tank deck began to fill with dense black smoke. A second explosion killed two men behind him, set his large pack alight and scorched the back of his head. Shrugging off the burning material, he managed to lead a third soldier by hand up two flights of stairs to daylight. There he paused to cut burning clothing from other soldiers with his scissors before mounting a third flight to the upper deck. He then helped to carry a man who had lost his a leg up to the forecastle, having first administered first aid and set up intravenous infusion. He treated many more casualties, included another amputee, and set up several more infusions, until all casualties had been evacuated, he left the ship on the last helicopter, later to be evacuated as a casualty himself. After only three days he returned to duty in the Advance Surgical Centre of the field ambulance, where he worked steadfastly through the most intense period of military activity and the passage of many battle casualties. He acted in the highest tradition of the Royal Army Medical Corps

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Unshed Tears – A Holocaust Story

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. Unshed Tears, written soon after the war, relates the authors experiences of being deported to Lodz ghetto by the Nazis where both her parents died when she was only 15. After 2 years in Lodz, she was sent to Auschwitz and then Bergen Belsen. Although Unshed Tears has been written as a novel, it details events, which were all too tragically true. Edith now lives with her husband in Hereford.  She has three children and six grandchildren.

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Ultimate Ride

Ultimate Ride

He is a loudmouth taxi driver and she is the well-dressed wife of a wealthy businessman. When their very different lives collide, neither can predict the volatile attraction that pulls them together and the intense affair that follows. Donna Deblaby thought she had escaped her violent childhood when she met and married Richard, a successful man twenty years her senior. But despite the five-star hotels and expensive clothes, Donna feels increasingly unsatisfied by her safe and simple life. Johnny Ricci’s teenage years were filled with crime, sex and violence. So when he gets involved with some ruthless drug dealers, Johnny has no choice but to abandon his hometown and attempt a fresh start in London. When they meet at a New Year’s Eve party, Donna and Johnny quickly find themselves at the mercy of an unquenchable attraction and they begin a rollercoaster affair that drags them both back into the gritty world of their past. Ultimate Ride is a passion-filled story of two unexpected lovers set in the rough and raunchy reality of urban England.

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Twisted Turban

Twisted Turban

Twisted Turban centres on a heart-rending story of hardship and unfulfilled romantic love between two people facing the inevitable approach of death and decay in a caste-based society. Through true-life accounts, it provides an unparalleled insight into the lives of Sikhs in India and the Asian diaspora across Africa, Europe and America. Full of humour, insight and keen observation, Twisted Turban is an account of a personal journey and at the same time a commentary on some of the problems of today’s society. As an intellectual and an academic, the author has never ceased to wonder at the cynical and often gullible cultural and religious assumptions of Sikh society. Naginder Sehmi was born in Kenya and has now retired to French-speaking Switzerland, but at heart he remains an Indian and a Sikh who has spent much of his life exploring and challenging the borders between eastern and western cultures and the frontiers between science and spirituality.

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Twice a Hero

Twice a Hero

Twice a Hero is the true story of hardship and horror in the blood and mud as seen through the eyes of a teenage volunteer and his comrades in the forgotten conflicts of Salonika and Palestine, during the Great War, fighting for the freedom of small nations and in particular, Home Rule for Ireland. Then testing his extraordinary courage in the Irish War of Independence, which ended 700 years of bloody struggle and helped establish a nation.

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Tremarrow

Tremarrow

Tremarrow is set in the nineteen-sixties and follows on from Julie’s Meadow. Julie and Sarah are both pregnant; Julie’s love still shines through. Tremarrow has a few new characters that come to the village, some more welcome than others. One in particular has a very sad tale to tell. The story is based around the wicked Rupert who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his and Sarah’s Mother. But has he found a loophole that will get him out of gaol? A lot happens around the village before we find out. The author has semi-retired since writing Julie’s Meadow. This has given him a little more time to write the sequel. He was overwhelmed by the feedback from many people asking him for a sequel. “I’m glad,” he says, “so many readers got involved with the characters as I did. Things haven’t changed. I still have that feeling that I know them all personally and get emotionally involved with them. Once again I hope whoever read’s Tremarrow has as much enjoyment as I did writing it.”

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