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Blind Pursuit by Mereo Books

Blind Pursuit is the story of Detective Inspector John Steadman: Someone from the DI’s past hated or feared him enough to hire professional killers to murder him and his wife. The hit was carried out with ruthless efficiency, except for one detail. The bullet that smashed into Steadman’s skull left him blind, but still alive – and still equipped with one of the finest minds in the force. As Steadman learns to live with the loss of his sight, his fearless pursuit of the criminal fraternity continues unabated. But to achieve his ultimate goal – to bring to justice the man who robbed him of his vision and his wife – he has nothing to go on except a chilling series of nightmares and a voice; a voice he feels sure he has heard somewhere before.

Enjoy Blind Pursuit by Jake Buchan. The two plots of the book work well and do not distract from each other. Seems to have been thoroughly researched and is keeps you guessing to the end. Slightly slow to start but keep going you will thoroughly enjoy it and feel increasingly reluctant to put it down – Dr Sheila Calder

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Black Hatted Cowboys - Bryan Marlowe

Black Hatted Cowboys

The building and repair work carried out by dangerously incompetent and unscrupulous builders, often known as “cowboys,” is widely reported in newspapers and investigations into their nefarious activities are popular and thought-provoking television documentaries. This publicity helps to warn the unwary of the misery, unjustifiable costs and even death that can result by employing unskilled building workers to carry out improvements and, often-unnecessary, repairs to their homes. These Black Hatted Cowboys will always ask for “cash-up-front” before he starts to work. Later, he will ask for more cash, because he “under-estimated the work and material needed to finish the job”. If the householder is unable or unwilling to part with more money, the cowboy will leave the property in such a state that it is an unsafe dwelling. Black Hatted Cowboys tells the story of two men who are prepared to take deadly retributive action against cowboy builders.

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Bitter Sweet - Juanita Nena Rudonbeeke

Bitter Sweet

Juanita RudonBeeke’s poems in Bitter Sweet go straight to the heart and are reflections on a wide range of human relationships. She writes with love and sympathy, but never with blinkers on, for she does not conceal the injustices, the cruelties, and the betrayals, so often manifested in the modern world and as often demonstrated in her beloved country of Belize. I love the gentle wisdom, the acceptance of the ineluctable mutability of life, in ‘Those to Heaven Sing’. All of the poems have this sense of mature acceptance. The gentle probing about the mystery of life in ‘Time Without End’ leaves one with a sense of wonder. I do like these poems for they leave no dregs of anger or frustration at the bottom of the cup, as it were, when you have read them. If anything, they leave a sweetness, albeit sometimes a bitter sweetness, when you have closed the book. Also, you can read them again, coming back to them like a refreshing stream.’ – Charles Muller.

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Bite Size World - Roger Frankham

Bite Size World

The idea for Bite Size World came from a game Roger Frankham used to play with food-minded friends involving spinning a globe blindfold and throwing a dinner party based on the food of the country where your finger landed. Roger soon realised that a whole world of cuisine was out there that he knew absolutely nothing about. The idea so fascinated him that he abandoned his job and set out on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of the planet, armed with just a suitcase, some phrase books and his palate. Eight months and twenty-five countries later, there had been ‘fifty-three moments when I took a bite of something so amazing that everything seemed to stop around me’, as well as a few experiences he wouldn’t go through again to save his life. They are all in Bite Size World – along with the merely good, the disappointing and the inedible. Anyone fancy rotten Icelandic shark?

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Bird Brain Super Eagle - Karen Prentice

Bird Brain Super Eagle

Bird Brain Super Eagle is the story of Twelve-year-old Zac, who longs to be a rock n’ roll superhero, adored by billions and a big hit with the girls. The reality, though, is a lot more gross. He loses his clothes, falls down a toilet and nearly drowns in vomit. To top it all he’s got the army after him and terrorists on his trail. How does Superman make it look so easy? Join Zac and his best mate Katie in their struggle to save the world. Warning: Bird Brain Super Eagle contains scenes of evil laughter and extreme peril.

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Birch - The Beginning - George Alexanda

Birch – The Beginning

Birch – The Beginning, book 1 in the Trilogy. In the ancient land of Modania, gods and demigods create three wizards to protect the elements, the land and the people and keep them safe from the powers of evil, and particularly the scheming tyrant Lord Zelfen. Little do any of them know that the fate of all of them lie in the hands of a simple forest boy and a strange and terrible beast to which he is mysteriously bound. Birch – The Beginning is the first in an enthralling trilogy involving savage conflict, ancient spells and heroic bravery.

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Birch - Shadow of the Cat - George Alexanda

Birch – Shadow of the Cat

Birch – Shadow of the Cat is book 2 in the Birch Trilogy. Fifty years of peace has cast a mirage of safety over the lands of Modania. Lord Zelfen, stripped of his power and imprisoned after bringing terrible war to the world, becomes a distant memory for those who endured his dominion. For many, tales of war are merely stories told by the old to scare the young. But in the woods of the world, mysterious guardians with unbelievable magical powers watch and wait for the inevitable return of war. For Aluen, the skinny son of a blacksmith, magic has always captured his imagination. Tired of petty trickery and dull illusions, when he hears of a mystic fair visiting nearby, he jumps at the opportunity to see some real magic. Befriending another traveller on the journey there, he soon finds himself increasingly involved in a world much bigger, stranger and darker than the quiet life he left behind. When Lord Zelfen tricks his way out of the prison known as The Watch, his terrible dominion once again threatens the lives of everyone in Modania. Aluen finds himself swept into danger and together they seek the help of the guardians known only as Birch and Timber Cat in a quest to stop Zelfen’s terrible vengeance. Birch – Shadow of the Cat is set in an immersive fantasy world of dangerous magic, incredible creatures and intricate plots for peace and power. Fast-paced action and enthralling visions of another world make it an exciting read.

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Aviation At The Edge by Mereo Books

John Flexman knew he wanted to be a pilot from moment he saw an RAF flypast as a boy of eight. At sixteen he joined the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, getting his ‘wings’ in 1961 at the age of 18. From there on he never looked back. His flying career took him around the world, from the Far East to Africa and back again. John came within seconds of disaster on several occasions and often encountered tragedy, losing several friends and colleagues in flying accidents. During his years as a private pilot in Africa he flew the dictator Idi Amin several times, while on the ground he was able to witness the barbaric results of the dictator’s régime. He went on to fly an assortment of prominent businessmen, politicians and pop stars, from Norman Tebbitt to Phil Collins and Paul McCartney. John finally retired at 60, having survived a 42-year career spanning 17,800 flying hours. Aviation At The Edge is his story.

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Autumn's Colours - Nick Holloway

Autumn's Colours

Nick Holloway’s nursing career was spent working in care homes in South Wales. His many experiences, sad, shocking, harrowing, uplifting, depressing and amusing, inspired him to write Autumn’s Colours, his first novel. This light-hearted story is set in an imaginary care home in the Dorset town of Dorchester, the town in which Nick trained as a nurse. The people and events in the book are based closely on real care homes, real people and real towns. They squabble, chat, fall out, banter, make friends and attempt to seduce each other – just like people in the outside world. The events described in Autumn’s Colours will be familiar to anyone who works in a care home, or who visits somebody in one.

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Aspects of Marriage - Oghenethoja Umuteme

Aspects of Marriage

All around the world, marriages are failing in their millions. Yet God can help, if you let him into your life. Aspects of Marriage will help you to understand why your marriage is failing and how, with God’s help, you can make it work. It will also help you to know what to do when you are called to provide wise counsel to a couple experiencing a failing marriage. When Pastor Oghenethoja Umuteme heard God calling him to write a book on marriage he set to work without delay. Having spoken to many people enduring marital problems, he found that problems often start at the beginning with a marriage which was not founded properly in God’s eyes. Aspects of Marriage goes to the heart of all kinds of marriage problems and will help any couple to understand what is going wrong and why, and how they can take the path to a happier and more fulfilling Christian marriage.

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