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The Grown-Ups Wouldn’t Like It

The Grown-Ups Wouldn’t Like It

“For the first five years of my life I was brought up by someone my mother happened to meet on the beach. ‘I’m going back to Nigeria next week to rejoin my husband,’ she mentioned to this woman, ‘but I’ve got a baby of six months and I don’t know what to do with her…” Delia Despair, as she is now known to her many blog fans, survived a turbulent if privileged childhood as the daughter of a globe-trotting diplomat and was blessed (or cursed) with a confusion of mummies and a string of convents and smart schools before attending a Swiss business school (pursued by suitors of several nationalities) and managing to become an extremely junior journalist on the Daily Telegraph. After that came a nightmare experience with a tyrannical millionairess boss, followed by encounters with terrorists in Cyprus and finally, a loving marriage to a man dismissed by her parents as beneath her. Delia has penned a fascinating, warm and very funny memoir, replete with encounters with the great and good (and some not so good), from Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward and John Gielgud to Fanny Cradock.

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The Great Gale

The Great Gale

On 10th February 1871 a storm of fatal severity swept into the calm coastal port of Bridlington Bay. With it rode dozens of helpless ships and it fell to local lifeboat crews to brave the implacable sea in attempts to save the floundering crews. Many of those heroic souls never returned to shore. In his detailed examination of the events of The Great Gale of 1871, Richard M Jones shows the horror of the disaster alongside the selfless heroism of those rescuers. Among the individual stories of the storm is that of the Harbinger lifeboat and its crews’ ultimate sacrifice for their fellow sailors. The Great Gale of 1871 presents the events and the legacy of that fateful day.

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The Goddess Virgo

The Goddess Virgo

A series of traumatic experiences in his youth drew Peter Howe to the spiritual side of life. After he developed an illness and became dependent on medication, he began to experience supernatural encounters. These episodes were so vivid and detailed that he has decided to record them in a book. The Goddess Virgo and Her Relationship with Christianity is a ‘supernatural biography’, which recounts Peter’s spiritual experiences, from his encounters with the Goddess Virgo to visitations from alien spirits, which subjected him to interrogation, and contact with creatures he recognised as representatives of the Devil. A spiritual experience linked to the iconography of ancient Egypt led to his joining the Fellowship of Isis, an international spiritual organization devoted to promoting awareness of the Goddess Isis. Peter’s experiences intensified after the death of his mother in 2003 and they still continue today. They have led him to some personal conclusions about the nature of the connection between Christianity and the Goddess Virgo, whom he believes is a merger between a woman from ancient times and a spiritual person of an alien race, and a reinterpretation of the Old Testament’s Book of Revelations.

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The Flying Sportsman

The Flying Sportsman

When Peter Minto first discovered the name of F N S Creek, he began to unravel a forgotten legend of British football. He soon found that there was far more to this man than it seemed. When the First World War broke out, F N S Creek found himself battling in the squalid trenches of Flanders and soon transferred into the Royal Flying Corps performing dangerous aerial reconnaissance and bombing missions behind enemy lines, eventually earning a military cross for his contributions. Despite the short life expectancy of aircrew, Creek returned to England to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, and there he first discovered his talent for football. F N S Creek quickly grew to celebrity status with his spectacular scoring ability, earning caps for England and later going on to coach the Olympic team for sixteen years. Throughout his career he revolutionised the coaching of football throughout the nation whilst also becoming a successful cricketer, writer, journalist and broadcaster. In this extensively-researched biography of a forgotten legend of English football, Peter Minto presents the remarkable life of F N S Creek.

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The Five Hundred Year War

The Five Hundred Year War

In 1415, two noble Kentish families, the Wallers and the Hollands, were united by the courage of their sons in triumphant battle against the French at Agincourt. Five hundred years later, their descendants found themselves fighting shoulder-to-shoulder in France once again, this time united with the French against a new enemy in the First World War. Edward Tovey has built on centuries of history to weave a romantic and moving story of peace and war, love and courage, set against the backdrop of northern France and the battlefields of the Somme.

Carefully researched and imaginatively written, The Five Hundred Year War tells the story of a brave young English officer who is determined to serve his country on the front line, and the conflict of loyalties he faces when he falls for a stunningly beautiful French girl.

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The Family Who Are Living Their Dreams

The Family Who Are Living Their Dreams

When the children are not sleeping through the night, it creates unrest in the family and also makes them feel tired and unhappy. Then Daddy has a bright idea and something magical happens: they all start using the power of positive thinking and change their negative habits into positive results.

The Family Who Are Living Their Dreams is a delightful true story that teaches young children and adults about the benefits of positive thinking in all areas of our lives.

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The Elf War

The Elf War

Thousands of years in our past Light Elves fled to our world pursued by the Dark Elves. They stayed here until we began to use iron in large quantities. Keeping to the unwritten law that Elves do not harm Elves, they moved on, taking Neanderthal man with them when the Dokka’lfar opened a rift into our world. The Ljo’sa’lfar are pacifists and have managed to evade the Dark Elves who would indulge in their cannibalistic tendencies once they had the Light Elves in their power. Now after thousands of years have gone by the Dokka’lfar have found the Ljo’sa’lfar again, on another parallel Earth. They have been trying to pierce the poisoned brier, grown by the Ljo’sa’lfar for two centuries, inside the great gorge, entrance to the lands of the dinosaurs. At the center of this giant crater are the Ljo’sa’lfar who live inside a castle with small towns spreading down the mountainside. After getting the High King’s daughter pregnant, the punishment meted out to an elf called Peterkin sets in motion a chain of events that propels him into the annuls of history. He becomes the legend foretold by a dwarf dream-seer long ago after Abaddon the Dark Lord and his forces killed and ate a thousand dwarves before the brier closed.

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The Diary of Private AA Bridges

The Diary of Private AA Bridges

Alf Bridges, a modest, unremarkable Hertfordshire lad, was rejected for military service several times before in 1916 the Army finally decided he was good enough to fight for his country. It was a late decision but a wise one, because in the face of danger, Private Alfred Arthur Bridges proved to be as brave as a giant. Throughout his time serving in South Africa and the wastes of Siberia, Private Bridges kept a diary, supplemented by a collection of newspaper and regimental magazine articles of the period. Always modest and unassuming, often quietly amusing, it offers a vivid picture of the horrors and hardships of the Russian campaign and a fascinating perspective on a long-ago war.

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The Crocodile's Teeth

The Crocodile's Teeth

The evil thugs of Idi Amin’s Uganda and the fanatical bombers and machine-gun-toting terrorists of Mumbai make The Crocodile’s Teeth a gripping tale of one man’s survival and resourcefulness set against a background of tyranny, terror and hardship on two continents. Sam Thaker was born to Indian immigrant parents in Uganda in the days when it was one of the most beautiful, fertile and contented countries in the world.  Then Idi Amin swept to power, and under his tyranny Sam’s paradise became a hell on Earth.  Having been forced by Amin’s thugs to give up their home and most of their money and possessions, as well as Sam’s thriving airfreight business, he and his family began a new life in England as near-penniless refugees. But Sam was a survivor. Ignoring his bank manager’s patronising advice to open a corner shop, he decided instead to build on his experience in the cargo business to start up a London-based air freight company. Realising the immense potential of the Indian import market, he returned to the land of his fathers to develop business there which eventually led to the company opening offices in eight Indian cities.  Along the way he and his wife were caught up in the wave of terrorism which struck Mumbai in 1993 and again in 2008, and narrowly escaped the floods which engulfed the city in 2005 and drowned more than 5000 people.

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The Cockney Commando – revised and updated for 2020

Life wasn’t easy for Tony Collins as he grew up in the mean streets of the East End of London in the years before the Second World War. After his mother died when he was still only seven years old, his father, unable to hold down a job while coping alone with four young children, was forced to send them to an orphanage. But Tony came through the hardships and graduated with flying colours from the school of hard knocks, to head straight for a career as a commando with the Royal Marines. During a stint in Malta Tony fell head over heels for a local beauty, and after marrying her he soon began to regard the island as his home. He went on to rise rose through the ranks to become a warrant officer, turning down the opportunity to become a regimental sergeant major back in the UK because it would have meant uprooting his family from the island he had grown to love.

The Cockney Commando is a heart-warming story of triumph in adversity and of challenges overcome through love and courage.

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