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... A MID-LIFE ADVENTURE IN THE CATALAN COUNTRYSIDETwo Scorpios with a relationship of only six months, minimal Spanish, amateur DIY skills and not catering experience - what could possibly go wrong? This story isn't just about DIY. It offers a glimpse in o life among the wonderful rural folk of Catalunya, where the author forged lifelong friendships and learned about a region steeped in history, still bearing the scars of civil war 70 years earlier."What an interesting rea...

In life, things do not always go to plan. Eva and Joy had very different plans when deciding to use Evas special time-travel powers to return to the year 1967, a time of reputed love, peace and flower-power. However, times were very different for women back in the 1960s, in comparison with the 21st century in which the girls had grown up. Travelling from their home town of Castleford in 2013 to the lovely market town of Beverley where they meet their ghostly helper Alice. With her help, th...

The national bestseller that “reads like a cross between Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms” (The Dallas Morning News).In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates the untamed landscape of the West in the 1950s.Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her. Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing...

This book starts with a murder on the London Underground station and contains intrigue, suspense,and a mystery.What begins as a simple investigation turns out deadly and quickly spirals into a tangled web of secrets, deception and danger, when a body is retrieved from the rail tracks under the train.A lot of questions are required to find out who was the person who was murdered.Who carried out the murder?There were two people on the train who are und...

A MID-LIFE ADVENTURE IN THE CATALAN COUNTRYSIDE Two Scorpios with a relationship of only six months, minimal Spanish, amateur DIY skills, and no catering experience – what could possibly go wrong? This story isn't just about DIY. It offers a glimpse into life among the wonderful rural folk of Catalonia, where the author forged lifelong friendships and learned about a region steeped in history, still bearing the scars of the civil war 70 years earlier. The story culminates in the arrival of...

To most readers this would seem like a sequel to 'Beyond the Meander' and I suppose this was my first thought but many readers of my first book told me how they were so pleased that I did not compile it as a DIY, but told of the joy they drew from the location and the stories that we told of our Catalan neighbours who became friends. So I decided that although we had to build on the success of the fishing lodge, there are details of anglers pursuing their dreams, but with Peter and Craig o...

A dramatic event has diminished Evas special powers of time-travel and she is stuck in a time-warp in the very cold winter of 1963. She is being hounded by the police who believe her to be a very dangerous Russian spy who possesses devices the like of which they have never seen before. The only people who can help her, both living and dead, make demands on Eva in return for their help in getting her safely back home to the year 2048. Their demands are far different from anything else Eva h...

Eva is a young girl whose special powers allow her to travel back in time. She embarks on a mission with John and a young terrified policewomen, returning to the 17th century in order to reunite a young Valentine with his mother. They become embroiled in the events of 1605, a very dangerous and unpredictable time to be in the City of London.

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild.Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her - a canyon 'as deep as the devil's own appetites.' Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar - the vastness of the ...

Joy is a young woman from 2015 with an attitude to match. When her ‘time-travelling’ friend Eva departs, she chooses to stay in the year 1967. This is a time when women were not always given the respect they deserved. Being kidnapped by two thugs from London, who had just escaped from a high category prison, she has to use all her wits to keep herself alive. The information that she has gives her power and money, but is this enough to keep her out of danger in a city run by notorious gangs...

After the death of his father, John is seeking answers. A trip down memory lane results in a chance meeting with Eva, a young girl with very special powers. They embark on a mission of compassion which results in them being catapulted back over three centuries into the English Civil War, where they encounter the violence, death and destruction of that time. Only Eva has the ability to save them.

Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, The Exile is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce—a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth—finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier worl...