Coach styles at the start of the 1950s were still very traditional. All that was about to change with the introduction of the new underfloor-engined chassis and an increase of maximum length. Improvements in technology helped styles become more adventurous and flamboyant as the decade progressed. The 1960s heralded the motorway age, coaches becoming bigger from 1961 and capable of cruising at much higher speeds. Styles moved with the times and by the end of the decade the maximum length in...

When the words Buses of North Staffordshire are used most people will think of PMT, and later First, running through the urban areas of Stoke-on-Trent, with additional vehicles from a few medium-sized family-owned operators thrown in for good measure. Our journey, taken over the last fifty-or-so years, will also feature the vehicles of the many smaller rural operators. Schools services and works contracts have always been an important part of the bus scene, and many of the vehicles feature...

Until the last quarter of the twentieth century Maltese buses had generally had locally constructed bodywork, often a modified chassis of UK or American origin. A variety of liveries was carried. By the mid-1970s, out went the traditional liveries to be replaced by a uniform ‘spray green’ with white roof for route buses, while coaches initially carried a livery of buff and white. The start of the 1980s saw the importation of complete vehicles from the UK. AEC Swifts were sourced from Londo...

“Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp.” –– The Globe and MailFinalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour AwardIn this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhashyistan declares war on Canada after a limo bearing its visiting delegation is blown sky-high in snowy Ottawa. The suspected assassin, Abzal Erzhan, a Bhashyistani revolutionary, disappears. Was he ...

“It’s a surefire winner.” — Publishers WeeklyArthur Beauchamp is mortified. A biography of his early career as a lawyer paints him as a dissolute womanizer. So he sweats over a memoir that he hopes will set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a starry-eyed young lawyer in 1966. A trial that seemed bound to mark him as a pathetic loser.The background: a young housemaid is violently sexually assaulted by her employer, a call...

Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered.Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon, he receives an anonymous email telling him to log on to a certain website. The screen opens on to a web cam - and it is Elizabeth's image he sees.As Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive, and what really happened the night she disappeared, the FBI ...

Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed.From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal’s famous mountain, and a buxum brunette whose embrace brings treachery. Add a large dose of vicious gang warfare and a slice of underworld life. Mix these ingredients well and you have a large helping of spicy, fast-paced adventure.An excerpt from the book:...

Space explorers Captain Tim and Gordon travel aboard their spaceship STARLIGHT to a far away planet. They’re on a mission to collect rocks of different shapes, sizes and colors and they can use some help, especially when their ship gets hit by a meteoroid and they must repair it before they can continue their journey!

Marc Seidman's idyllic world is brutally ripped apart when he is gunned down in his home. Twelve days later he wakes up in hospital to learn that his wife is dead and his baby daughter Tara is missing. A ransom demand is made and agreed to. But something goes terribly wrong. The kidnappers escape, and Marc remembers the ransom note's ominous warning: there will be no second chance.An agonising eighteen months pass with no word. And then, as Marc has just about given up all hope of ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Are you an HVAC technician tired of making someone else rich while you do all the skilled work? Or maybe you are already running an HVAC business but struggling to break through the income ceiling that keeps so many contractors stuck at survival mode?The HVAC industry generates over $150 billion annually in North America, yet most technicians never learn the business systems that separate six-figure HVAC owners from those who stay trapped ...

What is The Nightmare Machine? Think Silent Hill meets Inception and Monster Hunter International.Five millennia of suffering. A pilgrimage steeped in terror. Will her quest bring redemption or only a false promise of salvation?Bangor, Maine. Sara Holcomb knows what she must do. Raised within a secret order devoted to protecting humanity from a malevolent god, the dutiful seventeen-year-old prepares for a terrifying expedition through a w...

In The Black Veil, Jack the Ripper terrorizes Victorian London with ritualistic killings that are linked to ancient magical artifacts. Blind occultist Miranda Griffin is plunged into a chilling mystery that blends history, literature, and the horror found in the arcane myths of Britain. Made invisible by a cursed ancient relic, Miranda steps into the darkness to uncover the truth behind the legendary Thirteen Treasures: objects that wield terrible power. Those who seek them leave bloody tr...