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Retirement and the impending move to his new family home will be challenging for workaholic Headmaster John Stevens after years of being at the top of the professional tree with considerable influence and responsibility. How will he cope with no longer being the "bee's knees"?

Follow Bertie Bottle as he is swept away into the ocean after being discarded on the beach. He meets Thom the Turtle who is experiencing first hand the problems with litter, which causes harm to himself and other spectacular sea creatures.

The what-ifs in life are often misunderstood. We mourn the path we did not take, the lover we did not kiss. We believe we are unhappy, or just Almost Happy, because we are missing out or have not achieved what we planned and desire so strongly.

This present offering is a selection of my verse written during the past twenty years. I have kept the rhyme and metre simple, on the whole, but have tried to add just enough variety to avoid monotony. Whether or not I have succeeded is for the reader to decide.

Angela has always been the unwanted one, the odd one out, and the one who doesn't fit in. She dreams of making her family pay for how they treat her but is held back by hoping that things will change. Instead, it was she who changed.

London is being haunted by a serial killer who is beginning to evolve. Sam Stirling is the psychologist building the criminal profile to help catch him. To complete his work, he will have to decipher the bizarre clues displayed with the victims. As he closes in, the killer reverses the roles. Who is the profiler now?

"Don't Tell a Soul" is a crime thriller which captures the mood and atmosphere of the 1980s. It's a page-turning whodunnit that keeps the reader guessing.

Lily Page, fifty years of age, biddable, amenable, has lived her entire life in the family home in North London's Islington, brought up after her mother's early death by her indomitable aunt and classicist father with an implied sense of obligation.

Young Bartholomew, just out of university, finds himself charged with the task of going out to Thailand to sort and possibly edit and publish the papers of his dead grandfather. Whilst he knew that Ta (the name his grandfather was always known by, it means paternal grandfather in Thai) was gay.

Petula is a friendly bookling, who adores the children who visit her library. Upon moving to a brand-new home, she catches the eye of an important visitor. Petula is taken away to a grand house, where she makes a new, special friend.

"How do I go about renovating, decorating and designing my house?"âEURoeHow do I keep my house clean and organised?âEUR?âEURoeWhat is the correct way to launder clothing?âEUR?âEURoeHow do I make house repairs efficiently and safely?âEUR?

Once told 'fit only for climbing trees' by his father, Philip George's determination to succeed saw him travel on an Aeroflot to England in 1970, aged eighteen, functioning only on adrenaline.

Set in London in 1998, a year after the death of Princess Diana and just as Harry Potter mania is erupting, Still Small Voice is an emotional rollercoaster which looks at a fractured marriage, love, lust and obsession, and the extreme circumstances that might lead an ordinary person to kill.

It is 2048. Isabel and her friends have moved to Wellowfern, a select healthy ageing cluster with its own world-class research institute focused on longevity, rejuvenation and human enhancement.

A story of a rebellion against the fashionable mores of our time. A young American is stranded in Scotland without any idea of how it has happened. She fights to discover the hidden forces which were attempting her abduction.

TWO ISLANDS AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY. TWO PEOPLE WHOSE BACKGROUND ARE WORLDS APART MEET AT BARBADOS INTL AIRPORT. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER GRANDMOTHER TEACHER LAURA STEVENS DISCOVERS SHE SPENT HER EARLY CHILDHOOD IN BARBADOS.

Unbeknownst to him, a chance discovery of something unimaginable will steer Detective Patrick Gutteridge's life down a path littered with memories of his past, memories he's spent a decade trying to forget.

Marie is six years old in 1944 and lives with her mother, father and brother in Baden-Baden, a spa town in the German Black Forest. Her home town hasn't been bombed, and her father, an orchestra musician, hasn't yet left to fight in the war. For five years, German musicians stayed at home to keep up the people's spirits.

Hannah, a woman in her sixties, still healthy, active, intelligent and attractive, meets Joe, a man of her own age. Believing him to be her last chance at finding real love, she moves to Ireland to live with him.

Who's Walking Me To School Today? is a story about a little girl's walk to school and the power of imagination! Imogen's walk takes her along a canal and, on the way, she meets lots of characters - some ducks, a tall grey heron, a big noisy dog and an old man.

In More Common Sense we find TV presenter Sara Molan severely injured by Prime Minister Bob Godwin. Do we know if she'll survive? Who is Sara's ex-partner, Nic? And will the Prime Minister pay for his brutal actions? Police officer Paul Melville is left to deal with the baffling mystery.

Zena traces snowflakes down the window of Scott's Detective Bureau. Far below, young boys vie for trinkets in bombed out houses. Why did her father call her?

"Go when you can, don't save it for later..." "or else you'll be eaten by a green Alloogator!" The Alloogator is an amusing -if somewhat sinister- tale about a "little one" who refuses to use the toilet while the opportunity is present, only to then find himself at the mercy of the porcelain-dwelling alligator...

Having a passion for ponies along with a rather brilliant mind meant that winning a scholarship to a school which had such fabulous stables was exciting but scary for Taren.

From post-war rationing to bus travel-sickness, from playing tricks on the local tramp in the "Jungle" to chasing outlaws through delapidated prefabs, from conkers and cricket in the park to blackberry-picking on the Downs.

James finds himself in his late twenties realising he has failed to engage fully with the world, being distanced from it by his comfortable financial circumstances and his lack of close friends. Nearly a decade after his father's death he discovers a letter to him which re-awakens his memories of a Kenyan childhood.