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A Fantasy Science Fiction novel by Martyn Vaughan, author of The Cave of Shadows and Quantum Exile. Celine Dubois is a brilliant scientist working on advanced scientific research into the foundations of reality.

A jobless man thinks things can’t get any worse. He discovers how wrong he is when he is flung into a series of alternate realities in which he experiences perils beyond his understanding. Finally he comes face to face with a menace that threatens to face with a menace that threatens all that he has ever known and loved.He discovers that he has unusual abilities which of a great importance to a sinister race of beings who wish to use them to further their aim of escaping a cataclysm in their own realm and then spread to other realities. But he also encounters others who wish to help and protect him.

Sonny draws a graphic novel, much darker than he expects. Why is Max, his cartoon bread and butter, so keen for Sonny to finish it?It brings new characters into Sonny's life: Tony, newly widowed, facing retirement and with his plans in ruins; Lisa, young, capable and attractive, facing hard truths about her career choices; Elin, an art teacher struggling with negative equity and trying to do the best for her teenage daughter, Megan; And Cheryl, a young PC, haunted by a murder that hangs over all of them.But what connects them?

Loneliness.  It can lead to out-of-character behaviour.  The solitary figure who sits confined in a small room, hunched over a table and writing feverishly, knows this only too well.Young Susan Smith’s world was shattered when a freak accident killed her mother and nothing was ever the same for her again.  With this shocking event begins Susan’s struggle with insecurity, crippling shyness and guilt. Then, unexpectedly, she is given a chance to escape from these troubles.  Yet even now she feels there is something lacking.Years later another life-changing event resurrects ghosts from her past. Will she be able to untangle her past and confront her shadows? The outcome surprises Susan as much as it will the reader.  

Welcome to a world where:•Nigel Farage is sharing a static caravan with Liberace in Fishguard.•Swansea roadwork has been granted UNESCO World Heritage Status.•Donald Trump was radicalised at a holistic therapy centre in Llanpumsaint.•Kim Jong-un is funding a Godzilla nursery in Swansea Bay.•Swansea council are developing a marauding Orc army to combat thethreat from Taekwondo Godzillas.•Banksy has been harpooned out of his car by Subway staff.•The Welsh space program is being run by Vampire Elvis.The Notsogreatdictator says…I'm fascinated by fake news and by using real people as fictional characters. I also like the development of these fictional worlds over time. There's fun to be had in the challenge of fitting rapidly changing news events into a narrow world with strict constraints. Liberace/Donald Trump and Nigel Farage sharing a static caravan in Fishguard is something which brings global events right down to earth with a bump. The idea of UNESCO awarding world heritage status to a particularly long-standing system of roadworks hopefully makes people less stressed out about their first world problems.It's been great fun creating fictional worlds out of real events which I suppose is what all writers do. If I'm honest Kim Jong Un paying for Swansea's Tidal Lagoon so he can use it as a Godzilla nursery has been my favorite story line so far but then I love a bit of sci-fi.

In this, the poet expresses her inner battles and frustrations with the world, its systems and its people - dark, challenging and exciting times that give a voice to the poetry in her soul.At 16, I arrived in the United Kingdom with a combination of excitement, fears and aspiration for a better future. Poetry came to me during the dark, challenging and exciting times of discovering who I was. An expression of my inner battles and frustrations with the world - deep thoughts I couldn't share or articulate with anyone. Some of these poems came to me by divine spiritual inspiration and found their way to my soul, challenging me to give them a voice. For years, these poems were my secret therapy, my 'me' time, my friends that only came out to play when no one was watching. They have since journeyed with me these 49 years, giving me hope, joy, purpose and strengthened my faith when times were hard and I felt like giving up. My fear of judgement kept the poems locked away for so long. Now I am ready to share them with you. As you meditate, ponder and immerse yourself in these poems, may you find INSPIRATION, EMPOWERMENT, SPIRITUALITY and a MINDSET of positive energy as you make of them what you must.These poems are the 'Reflections of my Soul'.

A fictionalised philosophical history of the year 1759, and concerning a conspiracy involving the late Monsieur Diderot's Encyclopedie ou ictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers. This updated and annotated edition includes a list of personages featured, and the Author's original historical notes.

For Kitty, getting a place in the 1992 London Marathon is a dream come true. When by chance Kitty meets Malcolm, another new marathoner, they decide to train together. And so begins an unlikely alliance that not only affects them but also draws in Kitty's husband Rob, who is the landlord of the local village pub, and Malcolm's unhappy wife Celia.The relationship and emotions between these two couples, separated by class, age and life-experience, becomes more complex as the marathon training builds, escalating to the climax of Marathon day itself and its aftermath. Key elements of each person's struggles are exposed and brought to a head as the story unfolds: Kitty's dissatisfaction with her role in the pub, Rob's ingrained deference to his overbearing mother, Malcom's and Celia's grief and breakdown of communication.

The book consists of a miscellany of historical narrative and idiosyncratic reminiscence about a variety of different individuals associated with Christ College, who have distinguished themselves one way or another in a particular field of endeavour. It is, in essence, a personal selection; it makes no claim to be a comprehensive historical account.We start with the origins of the foundation and of the School, so there are introductory chapters on the Dominican Friary founded on the site and on Henry VIII, the School's founder. The author then highlights the contribution of Breconians to the Church, the military, to culture, including the visual arts, to the legal profession, to politics and to sport, predominantly rugby football. Alongside these chapters there are more personal reminiscences on families. The only female highlighted in this otherwise exclusively male story is represented in the personal account of her unique experience by Tori James, the first Welsh woman to climb Everest.All this is presented with sensitivity and affection. The author's pride in the achievements of Christ College is evident on every page. With an introduction by DP Davis.

Serving Policeman Hywel Griffiths, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, started to write poems in response to people coming into the office everyday complaining about trivialities. Rather than shouting "Get a Life" - Hywel thought that poetry might encourage them to see life from a different perspective.These poems illustrate what can be achieved simply through a positive outlook and they convey a zest and love for life even when suffering from a debilitating illness such as Parkinson's.

"Some people have a disposition for the macabre. Some prefer fantasy to an unfulfilling existence. Some find that a single moment injects itself into their lives repeatedly until all they live for is that moment. Is that me?"In this extraordinary thriller a man with an unnatural obsession is in pursuit of his perfect victim. A chance encounter with a young woman then challenges his patience, perspective and strict lifestyle. Misunderstandings transform the relationship between two unique characters while they both face danger neither suspect. This disconcering story will provoke your emotions as the killer's personality is revealed and his victim's plight is uncovered.

This is a story about a boy named Ryan who has one hell of a kick!The story of the lost football follows Ryan's wish to join in with the game of football and how the children work together as a team to help to find the lost football and how restorative practises are used.

The object of desire at the heart of 'The Jaguar Men of Kiziba' is the last King of Rwanda's Jaguar Mk5 coupé. Based on a true story, it includes Princess Margaret's state visit to Uganda. The main character's weakness, envy, leads to a dramatic ending. 'The Lungfish Man of Mbazi' has a relatively happy dénouement. It involves a research programme at Bat Valley linked to space exploration that almost ends in disaster for the researcher. 'The Mount Elgon Waiter' culminates, in a Fawlty Towers-like scene in a tourist hotel, in a reference to witchcraft. 'The Moth Lady of Tororo' finds an ageing British lawyer almost falling for a glamorous young post-grad student in a swimming pool situated in a hotel near the Uganda-Kenya border. 'The Kampala Shopping Mall Ostrich Man' examines the disgraceful behaviour of a married Lothario. 'The Owl Man of Mukuno' is a dark tale involving an Englishman, his Mugandan wife and his mother-in-law. 'The Bat Valley University Praying Mantis Man' delves deeply into a work by the surrealist artist M.C. Escher: 'Dream'. 'The Snake Lady of Nakasero' involves a man's deep fear of snakes, his efforts to overcome it, a doomed relationship and a fatal snakebite suffered during curfew. A fear of spiders is the subject of 'The Spider Man of Gulu'. It features the spoiled daughter of a member of the British Establishment who overcomes her fear only to meet an unexpected end in the north of Uganda. 'The Congolese Warthog Man' relates how a man from Katanga, turning his back on the ivory trade, learns how to love a warthog. Finally, 'Bat Valley' tells the story of a man whose all-consuming interest in bats leads to near-disaster. ... and many more humorous tales.

Historical Fiction.Hayti is the novel of the adventures of a Florentine nun who leads a mission to the newly discovered island of Haiti in the 16th Century.

In his book A Night in Buganda, Tales from Post-Colonial Africa (2014), consisting of one hundred and forty-four tales, the author struggled to make sense of the years he spent in Uganda in the nineteen-sixties. Democracy in that newly independent country was moving inexorably towards dictatorship. You could feel it happening. He and his fellow aid workers were told they were doing a good job but doubts assailed him. Things were falling apart. Was the effort invested about to be wasted? Writing the first book helped him to put some of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together. In this book, Absurd Tales from Africa, he makes no such attempt to go any further. He explores gleefully the genres of the grotesque and the absurd. The reader is invited to go with the surreal flow and, perhaps, to enjoy the humour.

When Malcolm Winmill wed Linda Harrison, daughter of Hannah K. Williams and William Harrison, he simply did not anticipate the dynasty that he was marrying into.Linda's maiden name and her seemingly ordinary life gave no clue of her descendants' tragically true journey from kings and princes to paupers. Upon closer inspection much later in Malcolm's retirement, a partly buried paper trail going back to Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD of Thracian-Illyrian ancestry, and cataloguing figures that we thought only existed on the pages of history books, was collated, thus beginning a journey that uncovered a family history dipped in deceit, murder, missing millions and mystery - an unfortunate story that has, despite many family members' vain efforts across the centuries to uncover the truth and expose the frauds at the very top of the food chain, no fairy tale ending.Whilst many of the hundreds of thousands of people who call Wales their home have traced back their family history through several generations, Malcolm simply wasn't prepared for what he exposed on that fateful day in 1993when he began his quest, an expedition that many of Linda's ancestors that are now long gone looked to finish and that was, for Malcolm, set to continue right up until the present day.This book is based on facts researched by Malcolm Winmill between 1993 and 1998, and also those relayed to his wife, Linda, by her grandmother Matilda Williams (née Davies) from 1891 to 1962.

This book by Myrddin John traces the history of the Commonwealth Games.His involvement with the Commonwealth Games commenced with his selection to represent Wales at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Cardiff following which he gathered considerable experience as secretary, coach and ultimately as General Team Manager of the Welsh Team.This is a treatise of the history of the Games since its inception at Hamilton,Canada in 1930 up to the XVI Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998. The volume records many matters of interest connected with the Games in the20th Century with an emphasis on the contribution of Welsh athletes and officials in its development.The Commonwealth Games or the "Friendly Games" as they have been affectionately known since 1970, have grown to be one of the foremost attractions in the sporting calendar. The Games have expanded from 6 competing sports in 1930 to 16 in 1998, and they continue to encourage young people to participate in sport, to develop confidence by participating in friendly rivalry.

Teams have the power to increase productivity and morale or to destroy it. When teams work effectively, they can make better decisions, solve more complex challenges, are more creative, and prepared to go the extra mile.'The Secrets to Motivating your Team' is a practical, empowering, no-nonsense book, that explains why teams are often demotivated, and the subsequent cost to the business.This guide provides you with practical and easy to implement tools and techniques on how to get - and keep - your team highly motivated, which will make a significant contribution to the'bottom line'.

It is probably a fact of history that, when a small country stands as an adjunct of a big, powerful country, the collective unconscious or psyche of that small country probably has the characteristics of an inferiority complex. In terms of the Welsh, the defeat and demise of both Prince Llewelyn and Owain Glyndwr have probably given them the role of victim or glory in defeat. Regarding military prowess, it has been perceived that the Celts have sometimes been used as cannon fodder, coming from small impoverished countries while the British Army is run primarily by the English establishment who have wound up the Celts to prove themselves in battle. Hence the huge proliferation of gallantry awards acquired by the Celts. The difference in some ways between the Welsh and the Scots and the Irish is that at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 Henry Tudor, a self- acclaimed Welshman led a primarily Welsh army to defeat the English King Richard III and his army.The Irish were terrorised partly by the Welsh in that Elizabeth Tudor put some of the Scots settlers into Ireland. Oliver Cromwell came from a Welsh brewing family called Morgan Williams who changed their name to Cromwell to curry favour with their powerful maternal uncle Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII's reign. Latterly, it was Lloyd George who was instrumental in putting the dreaded Black and Tans into Ireland. The Scots had the tradition especially in the Highlands of following the Pretenders, and they were defeated by the English. The Welsh therefore, certainly, should not have an inferiority complex. The Welsh, like the Irish, have been great warriors and this book is a series of essays which praises their valour. There are themes that run through the book, one that is of chivalry started by the great King Arthur and which goes through many of the soldiers especially those in the Royal Welch Fusiliers with their great tradition of the war poets continued to this day by artists such as Sir Kyffin Williams, Major General Morgan Llewelyn and his son Glyn. There have been exceptions of course, notably Captain Sir Thomas Picton who was a very cruel governor of Trinidad. There were great men like Lawrence of Arabia who attended the Welsh college of Jesus in Oxford, which was founded by a Welsh butcher's son, Hugh Price. Wales is England's oldest ally; the Welsh archers fought with Edward I against the Scots. The archers were one of the great weapons of the English monarchy and won so many battles against the French. Today we celebrate 600 years since the Battle of Agincourt was fought, where 500 archers from Wales supported Henry V. The Welsh have made their contribution in the navy over the years, and it is said that there were proportionally more Welshmen at Trafalgar than Englishmen. We all love freedom, but the Welsh, in particular, have nailed their colours to that mast.