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Umbria 1943. Nazi troops are massacring whole villages in retaliation for help being given to even a single fugitive. The injured FitzGerald, assisted by a young widow, Lucia, organises the evasion of six hundred prisoners who go on to hide in the hills or make their way out of Nazi occupied Italy.
Follow football mad thirteen-year-old Steven Garrett and his neighbour and outsider Ralf Grimmer as they journey through friendship and football.
Riley Adams has three passions in life: family, friends and football. Despite often finding school difficult, Riley finds happiness in friendships with his 'band of brothers and sisters', who play for his beloved Highfield Flyers FC.
Bronson Tullis is a highly successful London art dealer, specializing in the semi-clandestine world of antiquities. His life appears to be on a roll until he is led to Italy by an enigmatic Italian woman, where he is shown a black marble sculpture of Aphrodite that has been dredged up from the sea.
It was Tim's 9th birthday, and he'd finally be joining his brother, sister, and dad down the pit. Working down the deepest, most dangerous coal mine in the Northeast of England was his worst nightmare. Especially remembering the horrible stories his sister told him.
This book explores the reasons why women in academia earn less, are less likely to be published, cited, funded or promoted compared with male colleagues.
In the middle of the 22nd Century, a time when humanity has lost its grip on all forms of advanced technology, Sidney is one of the few people in the world who still has access to ham radio, and who is making use of this facility in order to keep in contact with three other 'hams' around the world.
The story is about a retired couple, Teddy and Jo Jensen, who decide to buy a holiday home in Fuengirola, Spain and accidentally get mixed up with some drug dealers. They try to kill Jo as they think that she is the same person that they warned to leave High Vista.
Reflecting in the Shade provides a unique mix of poems, prose, and short stories, with reflections of the pandemic that will interest both adults and children alike.
Embarking on several months of random budget travelling in S E Asia, the author takes us on a journey to several stimulating and exotic countries in this remarkable part of the world.
The Island of Animaux is a mysterious, wonderful place. Unknown to humans, hidden by fog and always on the move around the planet. It is a land of crazy, mad, funny adventures. Welcome back!
1942. The Jewish Ghetto in Amsterdam. When Jozef and Trudi's father dies in a concentration camp after being falsely arrested in 1941 as a saboteur, their mother goes into hiding, putting them in a children's home for their safety.
In this collection of stories, T. P. Nash captures the distinctiveness of a fictional village in Norfolk, with its charming confines, differences of opinion and religion amidst a tight-knit community devoid of central authority.
History is written by middle-class academics, looking down. This is history from the bottom of the pile, looking up. The evolution of life, to the evolution of man. The evolution of un-civilisation; religion, society and politics, colonialism and imperialism. This is the history we the people need to teach our children.
Stanley the bear is on a mission to help humans discover their own worth. He's been observing us and helping his own human, Annie - and now he's ready to share his wisdom with the world.
Finding Words in Whitechapel and other stories explore lives in England, France and the United States. Men, women and children experience love, passion, failure and wonder, as they follow different paths to become their unique selves.
Robert Pascall is enjoying working at a highly regarded architectural practice, but with his personal life at a low point, he is enticed by the family he spent time growing up with to leave London and return to Norfolk to work on a major project on their estate.
Maisie falls for a little bundle of fur. One day, her beloved pup goes missing. The question is, will she ever find her fluffy companion again?
Here, for the first time, a singer has created a true, line by line, translation of all the song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, along with Beethoven's An Die Ferne Geliebte (To The Distant Beloved), Mahler's Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Songs Of A Wayfarer) and the rare Eliland By Alexander Von Fielitz.
Is there a doctor who wouldn't want to work on a cruise ship sailing to Rio?Ruth sets off on the voyage of a lifetime with her husband, Tom, yearning for a blissful break away from 15 years as a hectic GP in the East End of London.
One anonymous woman... ...with a dream. Four unrelated men... ...all in receipt of the same solicitor's letter urging them to travel to the town of Keswick in the heart of England's Lake District.
It is the story of my life and the challenges and circumstances that have shaped me over the years. It is an honest and reflective account of the things that have gone right and wrong in my life and the joys of bringing up a family. Above all it captures the motivation and drivers which have shaped my career...
Ben has lived in Italy for a long time with his family and fights every day against the brutality of social racism. At forty-five he occupies a prestigious role in a hospital in Milan and is about to face the competition to crown his lifelong dream:
Little pebbles, dropped early on in the story, form the notes of the main leitmotiv of a narrative set in a small Italian hilltop town in the early 2000s, involving four main characters.
When Alfie's mother falls gravely ill, doctors say only a miracle can save her. Having only just moved to the seaside town of Tudllan, Alfie and his dad desperately search to find a cure. Almost at the point of giving up hope, Alfie hears of a local legend about a sacred cup, mentioned in an ancient book, the Book of Tudllan.
After a near-fatal crash in the Scottish Highlands, Ben, an ex-army major with a passion for protecting the innocent, dreams of previous deaths.
Two women separated by five hundred years, each with a secret - the infamous 'Blood Countess' (1560-1614), notorious for bathing in the blood of six-hundred-and-fifty women in Renaissance Hungary and Transylvania; and the woman driven to re-write her story in the present...
Edison Maksim Nathaniel Vincent knows the meanings of his names but can he become all his names make him out to be? In the second of the Edison series our hero re-enters the Eternal Forest to explore the mysterious Castle of Doubt, confront the UNKNOWN and discover enemies new and old.
A Practical Arrangement is a life-affirming, bitter-sweet tale of an ordinary family life uncontrollably descending into despair, crime and impossible choices. A sobering narrative for our times of unrealistic and unattainable life expectations.
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