The 50+ poems amid these pages span such an incredible array of subjects as to nearly defy description. From main-stream topics like fear, dreams, frustration and love, to adult material that will offend the delicate sensibilities of many, Richard Sloane's debut will most assuredly shock little old ladies straight into a coma with his vulgar confessions, taboo hilarity and his own custom genre, 'vigilante horror'. Using numerous rhyming schemes, thematic patterns and perspectives gives thi...

The patent system was originally designed as a noble contract: in exchange for publicly sharing the details of their invention, creators were granted a temporary monopoly to profit from their work. This was meant to fuel human progress. Today, however, that system has been weaponized into a multi-billion-dollar extortion racket that actively suffocates innovation and protects corporate monopolies. Welcome to the world of patent trolls, or "Non-Practicing Entities." These shell companies pr...

Peter Kempinsky (if that’s his real name) is a highly skilled Russian assassin who is in England to try to assassinate the new American President who is here on her first official tour abroad. Jack Sanderson, Head of Operations for MI5, is assigned to stop him. But this is easier said than done. After two weeks of intensive searching, he is tracked down to Windsor where his plot is finally exposed, aided by a brilliant young hacker on his team. But he still manages to escape back to London...

Anna is a fairly typical 15-year-old girl. However, her entire world is brutally torn apart when, after a terrorist attack in her city, her mother ends up in hospital, very seriously injured. Anna's father is not around and she is forced to grow up very quickly but then she meets a boy..... Read on!

After Jack Sanderson is called to an extraordinary meeting of the COBRA committee, he discovers that the PM and the President of the USA have been sent letters, purportedly coming from ISIS / Al Qaeda. They claim they have acquired two nuclear missiles capable of totally destroying the electricity grids of Britain and the USA if their outrageous demands are not met within two weeks. Then it is a race against time first to find out if the letters are hoaxes and second, if not, to foil the p...

In this tense thriller Jack Sanderson, Director of Operations for MI5, gets information that the Russians are preparing to fl ood Britain with cheap, very pure cocaine from Colombia in order to destabilize the country. He goes into action, chasing a will-o-the-wisp female Russian agent, Natalya, who becomes what he thinks of as his nemesis. After an exciting operation, he manages to retrieve half of the drugs and arrests the biggest drug dealer in London. But he still has to fi nd the rest...

‘The Plane Crash’ is the third in the series, after ‘This Forest is Ours’ and ‘Just Leave us Alone!’, about the fairies and leprechauns who still exist in a remote corner of the far west of Ireland. The novella is about a rude awakening by the modern world when a light plane crashes on the fairies’ lovingly tended fields. There is only one person in the plane, the pilot, who is very badly injured and in a coma. He is clutching a metal case to his chest and has no identification on him. But...

This novella is about an English girl, born in the early sixties, who has Bi-polar disorder, which isn’t diagnosed until she’s a teenager when her parents are forced to section her in a mental hospital in Paris where they are living. There she marries her doctor and has a son, Michael. This is followed by another son but, after her first-born is killed in a terrible road accident, she goes completely to pieces. But then, when she has recovered after a couple of years and her husband has go...

In this modern fantasy, two tribes of leprechauns and fairies live next to one another in a remote corner of Ireland. But, when the humans decide to build an airport on their land and start cutting down their forest, the leprechauns and fairies have to go into battle to get them to change their minds. They must deal with two corrupt but important people, one a minister in the government and the other a big property developer. It is not an easy journey.... The novel is aimed at young people...

A massive power cut hits London and Jack Sanderson is called unexpectedly to a COBRA meeting. There the Prime Minister tells the Committee about a warning she has received that climate activists will close down the national electricity grid – unless she starts taking steps within the next two weeks to reverse climate change. Soon though, he’s desperately trying to prove blackmail, murder and cyber terrorism by a rich businessman with Russian connections. Can he do it in time to prevent ano...

Join Billy Brighteyes, a modern Sioux native-American boy, on an astonishing adventure as he is whirled back on a magic merry-go-round to South Dakota in 1876. There he has a crash course in Sioux culture, getting his own spirit symbol and being blooded before playing a crucial role in Custers Last Stand. When he is, finally, spun back to the present, he finds he has brought something back with him! This book is ideal for children aged about nine to fourteen and adults too who may be inter...

Join Sophie and her blind brother, Philippe, two French children, on an amazing adventure as they are whirled back on a magic carousel to France in the Middle Ages. There they meet 16-year-old Joan of Arc who they help with her momentous decision to leave her family and ride off to do battle for her country. They then accompany her on a dangerous journey right across France to see the heir to the throne where her amazing abilities convince him to let her lead his army against the English!