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Flight of the Longboats

Flight of the Longboats

Flight of the Longboats is an adventure story about a boy and his dog, Tutu, who, a thousand years ago, landed by mistake at the bottom of the world.  Kahu is the son of the Chief of a peaceful tribe living on a small tropical island in the middle of the world. Their safety has been threatened by distant, marauding savages. Navigating by the stars, the Chief and crew sail away across the oceans to search for a safe place for the tribe to live. Guided by a friendly dolphin, they discover a fabulous Wonderland—a magic land of plenty. And best of all, NOBODY lives there. It is theirs for the taking but there isn’t time to prepare a proper migration. Evidence of the dreaded cannibal warriors preparing to attack has been discovered. They must flee!

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Far From Plain Sailing

Far From Plain Sailing

Phillippa’s story begins in India, where her mother was born a child of the Raj. In the 1960s, as a newly-married young woman, Phillippa leaves the security of England for a new life in South Africa, where she encounters delights and trials in equal measure. Far From Plain Sailing unfolds to reveal a sensitive yet determined woman who refuses to give in to a series of seemingly insurmountable problems and harrowing experiences. Phillippa’s love for her children and determination to protect them shine through as her adventures continue and her first marriage goes disastrously wrong. She ultimately finds herself on a lonely road of self-delusion, self destruction and oblivion. Emerging renewed and with a strong urge to discover her roots and her reason for being, she embarks on a search for the history of her family, discovering at last her true identity. The book ends with a transcription of her grandmother’s diary, relating the extraordinary story of a journey on horseback into the Himalayas in 1891.

Far From Plain Sailing is a book for those who have lost their way, to inspire them to look towards a happier tomorrow and to find the right path in life.

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Don't Let Me Cry

Don’t Let Me Cry

At Christmas 2009, Tina Jenkinson’s mother lost her fight with MS. Just a couple of months later came the first hint that Tina was facing her own deadly illness – breast cancer. Don’t Let Me Cry is her account of the agonising days, weeks and months that followed and how she finally managed to come through them with a positive prognosis, changed and battle-scarred but with her spirits high and a new direction to take in life. Don’t Let Me Cry will be an inspiration to any woman who fears they may be facing the same ordeal.

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Diary of a Village Boy

Diary of a Village Boy

Diary of a Village Boy is the tale of Kevin James, who was brought up in a humble home in rural Somerset in the 1950s, the son of a rabbit catcher and a farm labourer’s daughter. Despite poor health he soon learned how to fend for himself and make a bob or two by cutting the grass and doing odd jobs for wealthier neighbours. As he grew older he became something of a tearaway who had more than his fair share of scrapes in pubs and on motor bikes, but in later years he set up a successful metal fabrication company, making enough cash to buy a share in a winning racehorse. Kevin never forgot the difficult years he had grown through, years he remembers vividly for the music and the news that was current at the time. In this unusual autobiography he matches up the chapters of his life story and a string of anecdotes from the times with the news headlines and top ten hits of each of the key years of his life.

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Confessions of a Wrestler

Confessions of a Wrestler

Martin Gillott, better known in the wrestling world as Jackie ‘Glitterboy’ Evans, knew early in his career that life in the ring would be no walk in the park. Posing as a blond, Lurex-clad gayboy who liked to fight dirty was great for ticket sales, but not so good for his health. He was knocked out five times in his career – always by a furious fan, never by his opponent. Yet Martin loved the game, and wouldn’t change a day of his 12-year professional wrestling career. Now he tells all, including hilarious accounts of adventures in and out of the ring, fans violent and amorous, landladies who were scarier than Giant Haystacks and girls who were faster than Mick McManus. And then there were the many well-known names he rubbed shoulders with along the way, from Brian Glover to John Le Mesurier. Confessions Of A Wrestler will have you in stitches – just like ‘Glitterboy’.

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Coming in to Land

Coming in to Land

Coming in to land is the story of an Oxfordshire farm boy who went on to fight for his country as an RAF pilot in the Second World War. The early chapters tell of working dawn to dusk in the fields with horse-drawn ploughs and steam-driven threshing machines, narrow scrapes with unruly farm animals and a disastrous fire, which burned the family farm to the ground. The poverty and simplicity of the time is beautifully evoked, while the eye-witness accounts of old farming practices and life in the workers’ cottages and workhouses, along with tales of hay-tyers, gleaners, threshers, fruit-pickers and rick-builders, bring the story vividly to life. When war threatened, an appetite for hard work, a fearless attitude and a record of sporting success helped Bill to win selection by the RAF for officer training. He went on to see active service over England, France, Belgium and Italy, rising through the ranks and earning a Distinguished Flying Cross for his bravery.

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Close to the Edge

Close to the Edge

A precipice haunted by a figure without a shadow; a young man whose obsession with a beautiful girl leads him to an alarming discovery; a dragon legend which turns out to be not entirely legendary; an extraordinary tropical plant which turns out to need rather more than water and sunshine for nourishment. All these twenty tales of the extraordinary, never before published, contain subtle twists in the tail, which will have the reader on the edge of his chair.

Close to the Edge is a collection of finely-crafted tales in the tradition of Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells and M R James. If you like short stories, read on.

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Cheating Death Twice

Cheating Death Twice

Cheating Death Twice poses these questions: what exactly is the Human Mind? Unique in this entire world, yes, but how exactly does it work, what exactly is it made of? Where exactly is it? And the question the author poses is—is your thinking mind actually what the Bible refers to as your spiritual soul? And if it really is a spiritual soul, can it really survive mortal death? What force powers it? Just flesh and blood, or is there some other invisible divine force behind its incredible powers?

Michael Page, author od Cheating Death Twice confesses to having been born into this life complete with memories of several previous lives. It was after these previous lives that he also remembers being born, literally remembering being squeezed out of his mother’s womb! And if that is not amazing enough, he also truly believes that he can remember being conceived in his mother’s womb. A dramatic out-of-body experience has given the author confirmation that your id, your inner being and your purest spiritual form, can and will survive outside the-body, quite independently, without any body mass.. The author was once a sailor on a Tall Sailing Ship and recalls drowning in the cold sea, and later, in another life, he recalls serving as a Solider in the First World War, and so is able to theorise how, when the time comes, one can cheat Death..

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Bibury Seasons – by Mereo Books

The stunning village of Bibury in Gloucestershire has always been a real jewel in the Cotswold crown and ‘Bibury Seasons’ with 88 pages of beautiful images spanning all 4 seasons takes you on a photographic journey throughout the year to help show you why. Produced in English and Japanese it makes an ideal gift for anyone who wants to relive memories of a visit past or look forward to a visit in the future. Born in Bibury in 1965 and the youngest of three brothers, Ray spent his first seven years of childhood years in the village, where home overlooked a cornfield and although memories of stubble bombs, straw bale houses, pram wheeled go-karts are now distant, he still visits the village frequently to capture it through the camera. His local knowledge of the village and expert eye for a landscape photograph is evident throughout Bibury Seasons pages.

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Arvor’s Schooldays

Arvor’s Schooldays

Arvor’s Schooldays tells the story of Arvor, who is a dragon. He is actually a very nice dragon who would much rather play on his guitar or work on his science project than fly around breathing out fireballs. You see Arvor is a pupil at Caderbrith – the well-known school for dragons on Cader Idris in Wales. Arvor is also a little clumsy and quite small compared to the other dragons so they don’t want him on their team when they play Egger. This means Arvor has a bit of time to do other things, like stay out of trouble. It’s just that sometimes he’s in the wrong place at the right time…

Join Arvor and his friends Will, Percy and Cedric on their adventures at Caderbrith, the boarding school for dragons.

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