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fiction

Agents of Titan
The Lunar Portal

It is twenty years since Deira and Sol MacMahon were instrumental in foiling the three-fold plot to destroy Earth by the aggressive aliens known as the Cthon. Twenty years, during which time their son, Josh, has grown to become an agent himself, and their daughter, Juliette, has entered a sub-quantal physics research lab. Now the Cthon are back, with an attack so devastating that it will test the agents to breaking point. The Eich can see no way out of the current nightmare and, in desperation, send Josh on a mission to the Cthon home world. Meanwhile Deira and Sol work frantically with the authorities on Earth to try to combat this most potent threat. It’s a race against time. A race to safeguard Earth and evacuate the thirty-five thousand inhabitants of Mars Base before disaster strikes. A race that will raise questions about the Eich, the Cthon and the nature of sub-quantal space. A race that will force Deira MacMahon to confront her worst nightmare…

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Book 1: Exiles of Titan - The Martian Phase
Published: May 2018
Paperback: 508 pages
Price: £11.50
ISBN: 9-781912-419258
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Childrens, fiction

The Spirit of Ganesh
Slum kids of Calcutta

9781911175575 Many children have a very hard life in India. They sort through rubbish heaps, work in factories and beg on the streets. This is a story, the first of three, that tells of the lives of Rupa and her little sister Amrita. It tells of the hardships they endure, the adventures they have and the many people they meet. Lonely rich girl Aisha lives in the big house. Rupa and Aisha become friends and defeat the horrible Mr. Biswas. Danva, the dog, saves Amrita and becomes her best friend. Shanti and Hamid appear at the end of the book ready to continue the ‘Slum Kids’ story in Book 2. The ‘Spirit of Ganesh’ is a mixture of fun, drama, sadness and love, all watched over by the benevolent smile of the Elephant God.
Published:May 2017
Paperback:110 pages
Price:£5.99
ISBN:9-781911-175575
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 By the same Author
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After teaching small children, for many years, I retired and now have six grandchildren and two step-great grandchildren. My early retirement was spent backpacking around India. On returning to England I had many photos but no intention of writing a children’s story. However, Shanti, who we met at a bus station, kept emerging in my memories of the street children in India. Because of this, I became obsessed with the thought that I had to write a story about four of the children, who lived and smiled in the face of horrendous misfortune. The spirit of Garnesh is the first of a trilogy. The other two being A Dance for Rupa and Shanti. I wanted a child with a physical handicap to be central to a story. Shanti and his special friend Ashiq are real children and as such were a special inspiration to me.
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The story of a married couple entangled in a life of secrets
Reinhard Tenberg

9781909644984
What are we all looking for? The illusion of a South Pacific paradise? Love, happiness, understanding – distraction from the fact that we are getting older, reliving forgotten dreams … Who knows?

What provokes Ruth to go off the rails after 25 years of apparent family harmony? Can she keep her affair secret? Can her husband, Tom, deal with her taking some time out from their marriage?
When he seeks solace from a female friend, can the couple overcome the marriage crisis that ensues?
Published:1st Nov 2015
Paperback:286 pages
Price:£7.99
ISBN:9-781909-644984

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Reinhard studied English Literature, Linguistics and Politics and taught at the universities of Bristol, Palmerston North (NZ), Middlesex and Cambridge before joining the Foreign & Commonwealth Office where he spent the latter half of his career. Reinhard writes full-time now. He also writes short stories and poetry and has now embarked on his second novel. He continues to live in Cambridge.
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Caroline Gilfillan - Poet and Creative Writing tutor at the Open University

This is an unusual, subtle book. I strongly recommend it.

Taking Time Out is a compelling novel that takes a long, hard look at a couple whose marriage is in crisis. Ruth and Tom have been married for twenty-five years, and have it all: good jobs, a comfortable lifestyle, and two healthy children almost fledged from the nest. But there are seismic shifts beneath the shiny surface. Sharp, clever Ruth misses the passion that was present in their early years. Tom, working for a government department on matters he can't discuss with Ruth, longs for a more creative element to his life and embarks on a novel. But just before they're due to return to the South Pacific island paradise where they spent their honeymoon, Ruth vanishes. What will Tom do without her acerbic presence? Suzanne, a friend and editor, is everything Ruth is not, and Tom is tempted by her warm, sensual presence. The reader knows that Ruth plans to return, but will her marriage to Tom survive? The book slowly unravels the answers to these and other questions, in fresh, vivid prose that draws the reader into the lives of these characters.

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darkroom
My Parents’ Darkroom - Developing the Past

When his mother moves into a care home, Jonas, an expatriate German history teacher, inherits an old cigar box containing relics from his childhood. However, on closer inspection, it also contains more sinister items. Will the page torn out of his mother’s 1944 diary and his father’s undeveloped negatives and his old cine film of 1938 reveal any clues about his parents’ role in the Nazi party? And where is the rest of the diary? Who has hidden it all these years and why? Jonas finds himself at the start of a journey which will lead him to discover some unsettling secrets. Should he have opened Pandora’s box?



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The Fireman
Benjamin Walker

cover 2 A novella, inspired by real events; Ben Walker was a man who seemingly had the world at his feet. A Firefighting Officer at one of the UK’s busiest fire stations, he had just commanded one of the largest live rescues of public from an apartments block fire for generations, and had the enduring love of his faithful Golden Retriever Barney.

Within 18 months, following three life-changing tragedies and encountering an adversary more cunning & dangerous than any fire he’d ever attended, he was homeless, unemployed and penniless. Publicly and professionally disgraced, including doing prison time, on remand, in one of Britain’s toughest jails for a crime of which he has always maintained his innocence.
Publication date: April 15th 2018
UK Price: £12.00
ISBN: 9-781912-419227
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This is the story of how a man, once reviled - now revered, rebuilt his personal & professional reputation to become "in terms of kindness & contribution one of the mos influential Fire Service leaders in the world today" (Chief Bobby Halton- USA), create 3 bestselling textbooks and teach Firefighters globally, And how he found love and learned to trust again by following the “Firefighter's Code” of Bravery, Loyalty, Courage & Compassion.

Featuring scenes set in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Buenos Aires, Chicago, London and little Burton-on-Trent, this story has already been subject to film development offers & described as:
“Any Human Heart meets Cool Hand Luke”
“The most uplifting ‘Rocky’ type story in Firefighting history”

With startling real-life evidence documents appended, this book shows how betrayal, injustice & prejudice can be championed by love, integrity and one man’s refusal to give up, desire to do the right thing, to rebuild his honour, to do his duty as:

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Duped X3 Liars
Alice-Rose Trent

9781911175872 Nottingham born, middle-class, Belle Windsor, had life mapped out (she thought). Turned a different corner for the sake of motherhood. Married “The Psycho” in error! Left unemployed, evicted, homeless, women’s refuge, injunction orders couldn’t keep him away, not even beyond the grave. Moves onto rough council estate, Sissy, comforter and friend, high-class, respectable whore, exposes unconventional means to an end, juicy erotica sexual upper-class scandal, with some wry sense of humour including connotations of questionable Jamaican patwa accent poetically written into the effing pot! Toff’s supply the assignments, she controls the agreements? Belle meets her soulmate, successful businessman, New Yorker, Jenson Lancaster.
Published: Nov 2017
Paperback: 280 pages
Price: £9.99
ISBN: 9-781911-175872
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“The Doctor” robbed her of baby and womanhood without consent, left barren! Cover ups, closed ranks, lawsuits. “The A-list Celebrity” steals Belle Windsor’s life script, ends up on life support. Paparazzi circus say, “Stealing for healing” colossal fanbase, “Just want to fix her?”. Psychic left trails of dirty knickers, shabby tea stained tarot cards revealed: “Take heed, one, two, three! “Don’t judge a book by its cover!” Includes an array of poetic converse that will inspire. Captivating and utterly gripping Author’s survival kit: “University of Life”
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Fantastic read keeps you rushing through the pages. Can not wait for the next one

Tony David Williams

Excellent good read. Covers contemporary issues. Easy to read. Not to be missed.

Sandra Amos

Very well written, leaves you on the edge of your seat . A must buy & read kinda book . You won’t be able to put it down !
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A tale of sibling love, jealousy and betrayal
Carl Lafferty

9781912419036 When Lucy falls for the possessive Lee Darbyshire, a handsome schoolteacher, her adoring but mentally fragile sister Diana is horrified to find herself ostracised from Lucy's life. Decades later, Diana's dreams of reconciliation seem to have come true when Lucy greets her with open arms on the doorstep. Instead, the ensuing journey uncovers buried secrets with the potential to shatter all their lives. Other books by Carl Lafferty... Collateral Nuclear Damage
Published: 1st Dec 2017
Paperback: 308 pages
Price: £12.50
ISBN: 9-781912-419036
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Carl was born in 1960 in a Welsh Marches market town. Having studied at a West Country university, he spent a brief period teaching in a Berkshire state school, before returning to his home town to pursue a career in international education. Carl gave up his business interests in 2014 to focus more fully on his writing; The Darkness that Lies Beneath is Carl's second full-length novel. He continues to work from home, supported by his wife and three university-based children.
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The Conspiracy behind the Shropshire Hills Vanishings
Carl Lafferty

9781911175933 A mysterious light appears in the sky over the south Shropshire hills; four teachers from a nearby school inexplicably disappear; a West-Midlands MI5 outpost is closed without notice; its boss - the beautiful Julia Anderson, mysteriously vanishes without trace. It seems that Julia's former colleague, misogynistic ex-policeman Brian Humphries, is the only person interested in discovering the whole truth. But is Brian quite the person he seems to be? And can he save Julia and expose the conspiracy of silence which surrounds the disappearances before The Service gets to him? Or will his efforts instead be thwarted by Julia’s ex-flatmate, recovered paranoid schizophrenic Peter Williams? With every twist and turn, the intricacies of this intriguing and darkly humorous thriller take the reader further and further into the murky depths of Peter’s mental illness and MI5’s determination to keep their secret – whatever the collateral damage to those who stand in their way. Other books by Carl Lafferty... The Darkness That Lies Beneath
Published: 1st Dec 2017
Paperback: 336 pages
Price: £12.50
ISBN: 9-781911-175933
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Carl was born in 1960 in a Welsh Marches market town. Having studied at a West Country university, he spent a brief period teaching in a Berkshire state school, before returning to his home town to pursue a career in international education. Carl gave up his business interests in 2014 to focus more fully on his writing; Collateral Nuclear Damage is his first full-length novel. He continues to work from home, supported by his wife and three university-based children.
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Josie
Catherine Trimby

9781911175308 Josie, a quiet and timid thirty-two-year-old, lives alone. It is a boring and predictable life but overall it suits her - until she meets Mike. His unexpected and unwanted advances cause her to panic and the result is a devastating accident. Josie is prosecuted and receives a prison sentence of twelve months. Finding herself serving her time in a women’s prison in the Midlands, she is initially terrified of the other inmates and tries to keep her head down, but things don’t work out as planned. To her surprise she makes friends but she is also subjected to further trauma. While dealing with the aftermath of a hostage incident she has to face up, for the first time, to events in her own past. The resulting self-knowledge empowers her. She approaches the end of her sentence and begins to look at life differently, envisaging a new and rewarding future.
Published:July 2016
Paperback:196 pages
Price:£10.00
ISBN:9-781911-175308
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Catherine Trimby was born in Shropshire. She spent five years at boarding school in Surrey and then trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She worked for several years in repertory theatre before joining the BBC Television Drama Department. She has three grown-up children and lives with her husband in Shropshire.
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Shropshire Star 22 September 2016
In more than thirty years as a magistrate in Shrewsbury Catherine Trimby faced many difficult decisions, some of the most agonising of which were whether or not to send a female offender to prison ... Josie is not based on anybody but is an amalgam of 100,000 true-life events, drawing on thirty-four years in court.