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Grace Barnes, living in her subterranean one-room flat at the nether end of Earl’s Court, feels out of tune with striving, self-seeking 1980’s London. Meeting Archie Copeland, she is gratified to have found a man who shares her obsession for reading and seems more fascinated by Shelley than shifting...

Inside the Merging of Dimensions I have documented the amazing new changes that are now starting to take place, and also transform human kind into a new level of conscious awareness and new understanding of who we really are, and our place inside this vast dimensional multiverse that we all inhabit...

The Secret of the Wooden Chest follows a girl named Hannah, who lives with her parents in a flat above a nursing home. As an only child, Hannah loves to make friends with the people who live in the nursing home, and so she is excited when one day she hears that a new lady is moving in – a mysterious...

Take a recipe for disaster… Start with an illicit love affair in 1952, add a painful parting and three deaths in 1953. Leave to settle until 2009. Then add a crumbling mansion (Epton Hall), which harbours a scandalous secret... Gradually combine young librarian Katie Nicholson – an incurable romantic...

Lights in a Western Sky is a collection of twenty short stories encompassing a wide variety of genres, settings and historical periods. With themes ranging from romance to horror, and with settings in the most exotic of locations, the tales contain twists and turns and plenty of unexpected denouements....

Set in the mid-nineteenth century, Legacy of Van Diemen’s Land is the latest installment in the ‘Heart of Stone’ saga. The story follows the lives of the Stone and Dryer families, focussing on the children of Violet, fathered by Richard Dryer and Matthew Stone – the protagonists from the previous...

It’s 1989, East Germany. When a British exchange student at Leipzig University goes missing, her friend Karen must delve into state secrets to find her... Students Karen Martin and Isobel Donaghay, arrive in East Germany to begin their cultural exchange programme. However, the lecturer in charge...

**A story about the healing power of landscape. ** **Set within the dramatic landscape of the Isle of Skye ** **Deals with how the sport of running can be used as part of a healing process. ** In Out of the Mist a woman with a traumatic past eventually fulfils her lifelong...

The continuing saga of the Park Family, Valerie follows on from her cousin Lauren’s story. Valerie Chisholm is a teacher with a difference... She is a Mistdreamer. Valerie and her cousins, Lauren and Mairi, were hidden by their parents from Ambriel, the angel of communication. They wished a life...

Four children and their family live together with Robbie, a Scottish friend, in Leicester. But a family turmoil turns their lives upside down, and eight year-old Dunsay starts to have bad dreams.

Return to Genesis is the fifth book in the ‘Angels Cry Too’ series – which examines the consequences of falling in love with a guardian angel. A virus breaks out in an African refugee camp and swiftly spreads. Within days it crosses the world and almost all human life is extinguished… The...

St Cadfan's Church, Tywyn, is said to be "as remarkable a church as any in Wales, despite the ravages of time" (Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd). Its unadorned Romanesque arches, and the Cadfan Stone on which is carved the oldest known written Welsh, draw visitors from all over the world. But...

In this age of reality TV, where the shallow pursuit of celebrity seems to be at the expense of talent and sincerity, this book comes as a breath of fresh air. Dr Moody’s prose unwittingly, but most wittily, takes a swat at these ‘fly-on-the-wall’ shows. Following on from the relative success...

Chris Dunning overcame the after-effects of polio to win some of the world's biggest ocean racing competitions, including captaining the British Admiral Cup team to victory in 1977. Throughout his life, Chris has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune while literally sailing through...