The court gave her the car keys-and your children were in the backseat.You know the feeling. The false accusations that blindside you in court. The financial recklessness designed to drain your resources and your will. The slow, deliberate campaign to turn your own children against you, while a broken family court system watches and does nothing. You are a high-functioning professional, a devoted parent, and yet you find yourself powerless, standing on the side of ...

Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. Justin Case is a well known brief case in the city centre and can often be found in the offices around the city and knows about every business deal that is happening. On the morning of the court case in Southampton courthouse, Justin discovers that he cannot open his lock. The case in question: the sabotage of the traffic light system on the city ring road which caused a lot of problems for Bennie Barrier and his Maintenance Team. Can B...

He wore diamonds to the theatre, forgot his lines on stage, and was booed off by audiences who came purely to laugh at him -- and yet Robert Coates became one of the most talked-about figures in Regency England. This is the extraordinary true story of a man so gloriously, catastrophically devoted to the idea of himself as a great performer that he turned his own failure into a kind of fame. Known across London as Romeo Coates and Diamond Coates, this self-styled Amateur of Fashion crashed ...

With so much information flooding the internet these days, it's often difficult for aspiring writers to know where to start and what advice they should take.Falling victim to this madness, I began writing a blog on Substack where I shared my own experiences of becoming an author and gave my own take on issues that I encountered along the way.Following the positive feedback from my two books, this is the third edition which continues...

Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. When Bex, the city centre's beach bus broke down by the shopping centre, Bruno Bus was asked to step in and help. Worried about all of the sand and wet feet ruining his interior, Bruno asked for Bennie Barrier's help. What started out as a day out at Keyhaven Beach ended up being a day none of the Maintenance Team ever forgot.

A military history of a group of British miners who dug attacking tunnels under enemy lines during World War I.Undermining the positions of the enemy is one of the most ancient activities. For almost 3000 years even before 1914, it was a popular siege-breaking technique. During the Great War, arguably the greatest siege the world had ever seen, it presented a conflict environment that perfectly favoured the skills of the military miner. During 1915, the Western Fron...

You’re going to get knocked down. Getting back up is what counts.Meet Tom O’Brien—disciplined, motivated, the star of his 1965 high school football team, and about to be recruited by Ohio State. But when Tom gets injured and is unable to play, he finds himself at a crossroads during a turbulent time in American history. With increasing self-doubt and uncertainty, he tries to reconcile the loss of a dream with the search for a new purpose.Tom journeys throug...

Tales of Conflict and RediscoveryThree divergent protagonists fight to surmount conflicts in their own ways. Each makes personal choices in the face of cultural forces and discovers foundational insights about themselves as memories of the past resurface to guide them on their journeys forward.Christmas 1968When Janice finds herself unhappy in her picture-perfect marriage, she begins questioning the heavy social expectations set upo...

Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. It's Halloween in Southampton City Centre and the city is dressed up for the Day Of The Dead celebrations with everyone dressing up as zombies and monsters. Whilst Bennie Barrier and his team are finishing off fixing some broken railway lines near Southampton Central Station, they see Tanya Train speeding through the tunnel at high speed and completely overshooting the platform. This is very out of character and with the help of some ne...

Lewis Ladder woke up itching from head-to-toe on a sunny Sunday morning. When Bennie Barrier and his team began clearing up the mess in the city Maintenance Yard, they discovered a huge ant's nest that had taken over the front entrance. When Highway Harry turns up with some ant killing powder, their leader, Antagonus Ant, has some important information for Bennie Barrier that could help the Maintenance Team and keep the ant colony alive.

The thirtieth-second book of the Tantalizing Erotic Stories Series. Erotic short stories featuring Men with women or woman-on-woman action all in one book. All fictional people featured in this book are over the age of 18.This installment features even more vulgar and obscene erotic stories of illustrious tales of frivolous sex action, with tantalizing tales of exquisite sexual escapades, that will be sure to whet your sexual appetite and stimulate all of your erogenous zones, leav...

A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect the most vulnerable in society, requiring social workers to often make decisions in complex and challenging situations. This book helps social workers understand their statutory duties, keep up to date with relevant law, legislation and legal processes and learn how to apply this knowledge to social work practice. Using jargon-free language, it provides a grounding in legally appropriate, rights-based social work across serv...