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Roscroggan

Roscroggan

When the Germans started bombing the Cornish ports in 1941, Evelyn Hugo’s parents sought safety by marching their children fifteen miles to a derelict cottage on the north coast, carrying all their possessions in the baby’s pram. Roscroggan should have been an idyllic setting for a ten-year-old to grow up in, but the hardships of the war years were compounded by increasing economic strife as the family grew bigger – within a few years she found herself the eldest of nine – and her father struggled to earn a living wage.

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Red Card - sport

Red Card

Tony Kelly was football crazy from the age of seven. At sixteen he was the youngest ever player in the first team at Bristol City and in his twenties he became a pro, playing for clubs such Stoke City and Cardiff City in the Football League, second and third divisions. But his blossoming soccer career was marred by a series of mishaps and misdeeds which drove him to disaster. Ruined by an addiction to gambling, he lost his job, his career, his partner and all his money. Now he has written his story – as Kelly puts it, to “invite the public, my family and my friends into my secret hell of racism, despair, depression, stardom, gambling addiction and ultimately self-destruction”. Red Card is a tragic yet uplifting story of a sportsman’s battle with his demons, on and off the pitch. clip_image002.pngclip_image004.pngclip_image006.pngclip_image008.pngclip_image010.pngclip_image002.pngclip_image004.png

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Random Reflections

Random Reflections

With time on her hands while she recovered from a hip replacement that went wrong, Jan O’Leary started jotting down her random thoughts in poetry form on her iPad. Random Reflections is Jan O’Leary collection of verse, it is a wry look back at a long and happy life.

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Prisoner of Japan

In the course of the Second World War, more than a quarter of a million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia, the Dutch East Indies and the Pacific. They went on to suffer years of deprivation and brutality, most of them failing to survive at all. Harold Atcherley was fortunate enough to be one of the survivors.

Throughout his time as a prisoner, from the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 until 14 September 1945, he kept a diary, which he was able to bring home with him. This book is based on that diary, along with other diaries and official documents. He was fortunate enough to count among his friends and comrades the celebrated artist Ronald Searle, whose drawings have been used to illustrate his text; they give a far better impression of what life was like for a POW of the Japanese than mere words can, though neither words nor pictures could ever convey the appalling stench of disease and death on such a massive scale.

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Pragmatic Karate

Pragmatic Karate

Can training in the martial arts help you in everyday life? In Pragmatic Karate Mark Jennings argues that it certainly can. Provided you have a thorough grounding in the principles of this ancient fighting art and take the right approach, both physically and mentally, the karate moves you learn in the dojo can prove invaluable in a confrontation, or threatened confrontation, in ways more subtle that most people realise. Your karate training can even change the way you look at the safety of your family and your home. This is a detailed, authoritative work from a karate practitioner with 35 years’ experience who is also a long-serving police officer.

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Pictures in the Sand

Pictures in the Sand

I have really had a lot of pleasure writing this book. Many a night I have spent at my table, television turned off, writing my poems, changing words here and there, moving lines around. The hours have just flown by. This truly has been a labour of love. I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I have enjoyed writing it. – Glyn Goode

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Pennies in the Grass

Pennies in the Grass

Pennies in the Grass – the title refers to those occasional, unexpected joys which sometimes come along to make a hard life seem worthwhile – is the story of a Liverpudlian woman who reluctantly followed her husband to Vancouver, Canada, in the 1960s in pursuit of a better life. The book deals with the author’s experiences as a child in England growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II, the many challenges to her health after she sailed to Canada, the sadness, stresses and terrible struggles of a homesick immigrant and her eventual achievement of peace, stability and even romance. Anyone interested in the social history of Great Britain in the mid twentieth century and the difficulties and hardships of immigrants will find much that is familiar, inspiring and valuable in this book.

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Pawprints Through My Life

Pawprints Through My Life

Christine Paradine first became involved with the rescue and care of animals when she joined the team at the Devon-based animal charity Animals in Distress on a voluntary basis. She helped to set up their rescue centre, and for more than 20 years she devoted a large part of her life to caring for abandoned and neglected animals of all kinds. Pawprints Through My Life is an account of Christine’s many adventures with the animals that came to the centre. It tells of some of the challenging, emotional and amusing and sad experiences of her years with the charity, and of some of the wonderful dogs, cats and other creatures she encountered.

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Passage of Love

Passage of Love

The talented daughter of successful parents, Zhara endures a troubled childhood in Ghana, pursued by bullies, witches and paedophiles and haunted by ghosts and nightmares. Determined to escape the persecution, she studies hard and manages to graduate with honours, enabling her to embark on a business career. Soon she is tasting success and revelling in the trappings of European high society. Her relationship with her first love, an Ashanti prince, is dogged by tribalism, class and religious prejudice, and the pressure is almost too much for Zhara. Only when a crisis forces her to consult a psychologist can she finally begin to deal with her troubled past. Through prayers and with the help of a Cardinal, Zhara manages to face and conquer her demons just in time for her wedding.

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Operation Dolby - true-crime

Operation Dolby

As a young detective constable, Constantine Buller was appalled by the corruption and the callous games some of his colleagues liked to play on unsuspecting members of the public, so he left the Force. But the bent coppers he had snubbed had long memories. A few years later his new life as a successful businessman collapsed in ruins when they set him up by fabricating evidence for a non-existent crime. The result was five years of prison hell, during which, as an ex-copper in jail, he was intimidated, beaten, humiliated and degraded. Yet thanks to his physical and moral strength, his extraordinary courage and a new-found faith in God, Constantine survived to begin a new life with a new partner and to found a branch of the Orthodox Christian Church.

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