When Eileen Nearne died aged eighty-nine, her neighbours in Torquay knew only that she was a very private and reserved person, who loved animals. Such was her desire to distance herself from close relationships locally that council workers needed to search her flat to try to identify her next of kin.What they found was a collection of medals and documents relating to Eileen's wartime undercover work in occupied France.'Rose' - A Life in the Shadows tells the extraordinary sto...

Tu and Hine-Moana are in love, and despite Old Grandmother Hinauri's warnings they marry and start a beautiful life together. But their happiness is short-lived and after being seduced by Chieftainess Hine-Titama, Tu's world falls apart and sends him on a journey to the land of the long white cloud.Will Tu ever find happiness again?

Baracta watched the body jerk then convulse without a vestige of feeling, every now and then consulting his watch to time how long it took. After one and a half minutes, by his reckoning it was all over. Another bitch had got her just deserts. Suddenly he felt deathly tired, drained of all feeling.Shutting and locking the door behind him, he stumbled up the stairs, clicked the secret panel back into place and went home o bed, on the whole it had been a successful night.Bara...

We were the ones' who took up arms for King and country, inexperienced but eager to sign away our young lives without thought. Never really understanding the gruesome reality awaiting us; this lies beneath the heroic notion of war.'Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry on the 18th March 1893 in a beautiful family home named 'Plas Wilmot'. Four years' later, the house and land was sold to cover debts. In 1900 the family moved to Birkenhead where Wilfred attended Birkenhead Institute Gra...

This is a children's book for ages 5 and upwards.Woody has an amazing journey with dangers and adventures he meets many of his fellow wild creatures on the way. He reaches his cousin's home on the farm and finds friends and shelter- and more risky adventures, staying until the summer returns and he must make the journey home despite the dangers.The illustrations with this story are the work of the author.

When Monica meets Fred it seems as if all of her worries have melted away. Her only trouble is his demanding sister, Mary who takes a dislike to Monica straight away.But Monica has a dark past. She has just served a prison sentence for murdering her abusive ex-husband. It's not long until Fred and Monica are married and have a baby boy on the way. Other than Fred's interfering sister, everything seems to be going well when Monica's estranged daughter, Sharon turns up out of the blu...

‘He stood as usual waiting a smile touching his lips. And then from behind his back he produced one single pink rose that was perfect in every way.Placing it in my hand he said, “I picked this out of our garden, the last one on the bush, the last rose of summer especially for you.”’A heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love through the war years.

Lizzie and Fred meet in the local pub and have passionate encounters in the hedgerows every chance they get, until Fred starts to become obsessive. Lizzie meets Henry, a wealthy gentleman, who sweeps her off her feet. After becoming pregnant, the paternity of the child is uncertain and Lizzie is faced with a terrible decision. She marries Henry and Fred's heart is broken.Unfortunately, Fred can't let go of Lizzie, and even though he has a doting wife at home, he is hell-bent on winn...

Black Eagle, joins Conquering Bear and his wife, Running Water, a blind white woman, leaving the reservation behind, in search of the old way of life before the white man controlled the land.In the Black Hill lands of the Sioux they search for an old woman, who they are told might have the power to restore Running Water's sight.Many adventures follow often with tragic results as Black Eagle moves across the land, finally joining a circus where he finds a kind of peace. A movi...

'The angel sat studying them all, then he began, 'Each one of you here will be inspected on your earthly life, just like the tests you did at school. At this point in the proceedings you will remember the years you lived and how you lived them.'''The Artful Dodgems', a young street crew decide to deface some monuments in their local cemetery. Little do they know, a skeleton is watching them and it decides to make them pay for their sins.Bootlegger, The Artful Dodgems' newes...

'The Traveller' is a work of fiction.The Traveller finds himself standing on a country road and knows he has to follow it to the end. He remembers nothing of his past life or knows why he does not need to eat or drink.He starts on his long journey in autumn, eventually travelling through all seasons. On the way he experiences many situations and meets a variety of human reactions, even escaping from a prison.He finds the journey long and arduous, especially having to s...

This heart wrenching story is written around a flippant remark made by a woman whilst in hospital and her life story how she was cruelly and violently controlled. ‘Taking his time he advanced towards her. “You know that you have to be punished, Shamina. You have been a very bad girl, haven’t you?”’Shamina finally decides she has had enough of the abuse she has suffered at the hands of her husband, James. She makes the brave decision to go to a women’s’ refuge, but before long, her husband ...