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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
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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
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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.

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The Shropshire Stalker
Nick Jones

9781909644380 A tense psychological thriller… Mild-mannered book dealer Anthony Metcalf, and his actress wife Barbara, are receiving unwarranted attention from a sinister source: a witch. Their supernatural visitor is not the conventional hag with a black pointed hat, but the stunningly-glamorous millionairess Eva Carlssen. And her broomstick is a silver German sports racing car. Initially dismissing her claims of magical powers as bombast, Anthony begins to take them more seriously when he witnesses a tragic accident at a local motor race meeting. He is convinced it has been caused through Eva’s spectral interference. With the stability of his marriage undermined by Eva’s relentless pursuit, intrusive text messages and phone calls, Anthony Metcalf’s life is suddenly shattered with a late-night visit from the local police ...
Published:July 2016
Paperback:180 pages
Price:£8.99
ISBN:9-781909-644380
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Nick Jones has spent his life connected with buildings. Initially working as a surveying assistant on a major tunnelling project under the City of London, he moved into architectural journalism, working for a publishing group which was part of Express Newspapers. He first edited specialist supplements for the weekly newspaper Building Design then later became Editor of the conservation monthly Building Refurbishment. He has contributed to many other architectural publications. His debut novel ‘King’s Cross’ was published in August 2015. The writer now lives in Herefordshire. Contact the author at www.ampersandworld.co.uk
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Home, I Remember Forever
John Adams

9781912419104 Holy Island, 1963. In the aftermath of a powerful winter storm, a damaged chancel reveals a secret, hidden for over 600 years…a testament to a love between a condemned kitchen maid and the soldier that saved her. In turbulent times, Hugh and Agnes embark on a journey across cities, marshes and oceans, but will they ever be able to return to their Northumberland home?
Published: February 2018
Paperback: 276 pages
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ISBN: 9-781912-419104
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A romantic adventure told over different eras. Hugh, a handsome and reluctant young soldier in the English army, travels north on military duties where he has a chance encounter with Agnes, a kitchen hand maiden at the newly constructed Dunstanburgh Castle. In turbulent times their destinies become entwined and as their journey unfolds before them events will test their very own survival.
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Shimmer – Werewolf’s Curse
Petra Thorn

9781911175148 One doom-laden day, a young woman called Paige journeys home. She has received a phone call that drags her back to her Nan’s cottage, the cottage where she spent much of her childhood and where she grew up after her parents split up; Paige chose to live there with her father alongside her Nan. Unbeknown to her, the village had hidden secrets, secrets that are connected to Paige’s family. Can she unravel the dark mystery in time? Or will she be placing herself in the path of peril? If she cannot work out who can be trusted, she could be placing herself in serious danger...
Published:29th February 2016
Paperback:176 pages
Price:£7.99
ISBN:9-781911-175148

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Petra is currently living in the Shropshire area. Her daughter hopes to follow in her mother's footsteps and is working on her own books.
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Songs in the Key of Death
Seamus Carron

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The subject is MURDER.
The players include the Metropolitan Police, the FBI, a satirical journalist and a professional musician.
In the background a mysterious hidden manipulator pulls the strings of the establishment. More of a ‘why done it?’ than a ‘who done it?’ the story reveals a twisted thread of music, riddles and missing girls. A trail of smoke & mirrors leading toward an end game that questions: is anyone safe, will justice be done, can law and order prevail?

This compelling book paints a rich and unusual reflection of the characters & events, their unfolding meanings filled with irony & satire.
Published:1st Nov 2015
Paperback:742 pages
Price:£14.99
ISBN:9-781909-644700

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Seamus Carron studied Linguistics at University in Dublin then worked in the Foreign Office including several overseas postings with the Diplomatic Service. Leaving his career behind, he turned his hand to a wide range of adventures. He died at the young age of fifty-seven.
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R Gilbert - A Pacy Thriller - 30th August 2016
An entertaining and pacy thriller from a first-time author with obvious talent as a storyteller.
Sadly the novel is published posthumously meaning that this is the only glimpse readers will get into the mind and imagination of someone who clearly had a gift for writing and story development. Recommended.

D A Grieve
Not the genre of book I would normally read (ie murder mysteries) but I am glad I picked it up.
It is a big book that keeps you engrossed from the first page right through to the last.
A true 'Hard to put down' book .

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Flamingos over the Yorkshire Moors
Fay Carr

Fay Carr_Flamingos over the Yorkshire Moors_Cover As a young child living in Rome, Gabriella knew only the comforts of life and the love of a dedicated family. But her cosy world was disrupted by events that at her tender age she could not understand. During her growing years she recaptured in far away Africa the joys and happiness of life that also paved the way to a happy marriage and the fulfilment of motherhood. But another chapter of life was to begin and in Yorkshire she fought the hardest battles of them all.

Fay now lives in Yorkshire which she has made her permanent home. She is a keen club bridge player which takes her to play in different parts of England and Scotland. She now enjoys holidays mainly in Europe.
Published:15th July 2015
Paperback:208 pages
Price:£9.99
ISBN:9-781909-644762
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