It's Gerald's wedding night. He's just married James, but he doesn't feel the way he thought he would. His usual tactics of sex, drink, and drugs have failed to fill the void, and after his daddy issues lead him to misinterpret an offhand remark made by his estranged father, Gerald sets off on a night of self-sabotage, confronting the demons that have left him feeling emotionally detached his whole life. Only when he addresses his need for gratification and tendencies to act out can he hea...

Another weekend at Garton Grange, and Violet has Biology prep, but with Kitty playing at 'Film Director', the house is filling up with extras, and a snow-storm on the way, all she really wants to do is hibernate.

A children's book for grown-ups or a grown-up book for children? Either way the perfect confluence of romance, comedy and literature.A chance discovery in the back of a drawer pulls Violet back to her thirteenth year, to memories of a student exchange between 'The Abbess Etheldreda School for Girls', and 'Ecole Irene Nemirovsky'. Even before her pen-pal Albert arrives outside the school gates, Violet has decided to fall in love, but how can she make Albert understand, and be sure he...

Alcoholic, aristocratic, reckless, and horny as a goat, Penelope Tickham is the female secret agent you have long been promised.Her first solo mission sees her sent to a volcanic island off the edge of the Indonesian archipelago to comfort a young woman imprisoned by the island's grotesque ruler.

A country house murder mystery of sorts, for Daughters and their Mothers, and anyone else who wants to learn the correct way to eat a scone.Violet has to prepare for her Home Ec assessment, but her Mother is running a murder mystery weekend. With a house full of guests and her sister Tabitha 'Kitty' Tickham playing at detectives, how will she ever get the work done? And if the dog did not destroy Mother's cake, who did? Did she really see someone lurking down at the gatehouse? Which...

In each of four parts, each a grafted onto a Hoffmann short story, in four historical periods and reflecting the literary style of its period, the reader is invited to accompany a young man on his frustrated journey to rescue a young woman, variously assisted and obstructed by fathers, mothers, brothers and his personal demons. The structure is cyclical. Each story is hung on the skeleton of the others. Themes of transcendence, desire for and disgust for the flesh, the need for acceptance ...

A free introduction to life in the village of Hapeney Fen, filling the space between 'Home Economics for Girls' and 'The Elasticated Waistband'. An unfortunate connection between Violet's slipper and a steaming sign of the old dog Marcus's passage, and finding an old bike in the shed, gives Mother a mysterious thoughtful look. Kitty is despatched to the Vicar's Invitational village baking contest, where the old bike will be auctioned. She does not solve the mystery, but she does eat a lot ...

The nature of money as gates and letters revealed gives light to the nations of humankind to find in troubled times a historic luxury and modern necessity in the FML FIREs: these are the first constitutional centers of foundation money law governance and the prize of digital revolution. Through the architectures in the top layer of the double blue ON/E Divide, Intel-Modernized Governance from each city center in vertical international parallel selects for the lettered gates of economic FRE...

This 2019 anthology contains writings, in English, about Galicia by writers from all over the world, including Galicia itself. Most of the content comes from entries to The Good Life in Galicia competition for the 2019 year.Galicia is a fascinating part of Green Spain, the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and sits in the north western most part, surrounded on two sides by the sea, on a third by Portugal, and on the fourth by the Spanish principality of Asturias.This ...

Here is a short, sharp, free introduction to Penny Tickham, ahead of her first full-length outing, '110 Degrees East'.In her errant student days, Penny comes across a German student fraternity practising the old, brutal tradition of Mensur: a ritualised sabre duel. The leader of the group is a charismatic, menacing figure; his girlfriend a glowing, golden woman with a scent of fresh hay and buttermilk. Why choose, she reasons, when you can have both?