This story shows how a fifteen minute train journey changed the lives of two forty-year old people, one an American woman and the other a British man. That train encounter led to a happy marriage and what followed, the blossoming of artistic creativity in both of them. In particular, Lynn's imagination saw her produce work in different arts as she evolved into 'A Renaissance Woman.'Each chapter in this memoir reveals a heartfelt collage of life's mixed moments—its joys, struggles, ...

Owen Jones returns to the main Abermorfa Police Station as an Acting Detective Inspector. Owen's new role includes his overseeing of the Special Branch unit based in the docks who police the arrival of ships and their crews particularly those from behind the Iron Curtain. An outbreak of flu in the town devastates the police leaving Owen to accept responsibilities, like complaints about police behaviour, usually tasks for the uniformed branch. Showing his ability by managing these new respo...

Money has always been in short supply in the ex-mining village of Glanddu. Its bottom-dwelling rugby club owes its survival to the rule of its formidable chairwoman, Gloria Bowen Thomas, and the financial wizardry of its treasurer in cooking the books. Only the prize money for the leagues winners can stave off bankruptcy or worse: amalgamation with its hated neighbour, Brynddu.Three people arrive in the village during the rugby season. Wilson, a recently retired giant of English rug...

Bolshevik Russia breaks an agreement with its allies not to make a separate peace by unilaterally signing the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in March 1918, with the Central Powers. Russia thus leaves WW1 as it sinks into civil war. Germany and the Ottoman Empire ignore the treaty's terms and continue their invasion of Russia looking for natural resources. Whilst the Allies are desperate to get Russia fighting again they agree that: France will try to check the German invasion of the Ukrain...

This novel is inspired by the true events that occurred when war broke out in Europe during 1914. The economic powerhouse of the world, the USA, declared its neutrality immediately from the conflict. Britain began blockading the America's eastern ports allowing it and its allies unlimited access to US trade but restricting German trade to only non-military items. To counter and undermine Britain's position in the USA, German Intelligence began covert operations against her. This ranged fro...

In the autumn of 1961 the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union is at one of its highs following the building of the Berlin Wall in August. A Soviet submarine was seenon the surface of the sea, off the coast of Wales. A week after that the submarine sighting a on a Sunday morning a man's body washes up on a beach beside Portlava, a Welsh industrial town. The local police have sent many of its officers out to the Welsh capital to marshal marches being held there to protest a...