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Enchanted Fairy StoriesA collection of Fairy Stories for children.Maggie Moss was born in England where she spent many of her earlier years being involved with children. She is now married with two sons. Having been a keen reader herself from an early age, she has written several children's stories, and is a firm believer in encouraging children to read with enjoyment."These stories are good examples of those ideas. I hope that children enjoy them as much as I did writing them."

The East India Company is all powerful and ruthlessly determined to maintain supplies of luxury goods to insatiable markets at home. Immense fortunes are made and thousands of lives subordinated to the needs of the Company. Its rule is underpinned by an avaricious civil service and a ruthless standing army. John Deuchars sails to India in 1829 as a civil servant. He is young and idealistic, driven by the need to make his fortune to support the family he left behind. John finds the love of his life, but also faces personal challenge and a cunning adversary. It is fortunate for John that there are also people who are not motivated by greed and who love India and her people.John becomes embroiled in the opium trade, the vehicle by which the company funds the purchase of luxury goods. Amid the grandeur of the 'City of palaces', vice and corruption are woven like a silken thread into the fabric of daily life and the stench of opium fills the air.In any life there are influences for good and evil, but in the presence of such riches, who would not be tempted to shake the golden Pagoda tree?

The central theme of the book is to present a thought provoking narrative as to the essence of authenticity, and how in the 21st century, we need to regain our understanding of authenticity as a means to become true to ourselves and humanity. The book focuses on authenticity through reviewing and providing a contemporary commentary of a number influential 19th and 20th century philosophers, from Kierkegaard through to Taylor and Langergan. The book also presents the challenges faced in the 21st century which includes how we will our lives on this biosphere, the influence of technology and finally our legacy as viewed through an authentic lens.The book commences with a comprehensive review of authenticity by returning back to key philosophers Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jung, Camus, Sartre, Taylor, Langergan, Trilling and Birch. Early in the book to provide context and a more informal narrative, with the author's late Uncle introduced and then interlaced throughout the text. The book then moves on to present an argument and contention that we need to regain our understanding of authenticity in terms of how we live our lives in the 21st century. Before looking at our legacy and how authenticity needs to be regained.While the book is 'dense' in terms of the concepts associated with authenticity, the aim is to be thought provoking. To assist the reader to contextual and understand the concepts, there is a personal narrative which flows throughout the book, to contextualise authenticity and its complexities.

A children's book for 8+ yrs Juno and Venus are 11yr old twins and they have never been to school. Their parents decide to send them to different schools and Juno finds it more difficult than her sister. She needs her help to sort out a bully. She does this in a funny and spectacular way. She shows that kindness will always win the day.

Reggie Courage and the cosmic discoveryJoin Reggie Courage and the mini magnets on their latest epic adventure filled with courage, insights and knowing. Through guided meditation they all enter worlds like no other, where secrets are revealed and magic is made.In this first book of a three part series Reggie and the mini magnets transport themselves to new, exciting and adventurous realities, where they discover a secret base.Here they encounter dangerous situations that will test even the bravest of warriors. Once again the magnets show that with team work, trust and love they are capable of anything and are an incredible force when they work together.Take another trip with Reggie as he unites with the mini magnets on this enthralling adventure.

100 Artists of the FutureCurated by the Contemporary Art Curator MagazineContemporary Art Curator proudly presents '100 Artists of the Future', a collection celebrating 100 incredible upcoming contemporary artists and their work.

Join Rod and Anita as they first meet at Teachers' Training College in 1959 and gradually fall in love. Accompany them as they travel through the various stages of courtship, and follow them in their search to find a house that they can afford to buy.Be with them as they embark on a steep learning curve in which they set about decorating and furnishing the property.Go along to their wedding - a very simple and somewhat chaotic affair at a Methodist Church - and see them gradually create a home and have a family at a time when there was no central heating, no double glazing, no mobile phones, no refrigerators and washing machines were a rarity.We accompany them when, as parents of a growing family, they encounter an unusual series of events which prompt them to explore the spiritual life.As you travel with them you will see that from this point their lives move in an unexpected direction and they are led into situations and adventures which they could not have imagined in their younger days.This is a true story of love, faithfulness and trust which contains several surprises and unexpected adventures.

Set in the fictional town of Nowhere and set loosely in the 1990s this parody of life in a northern town is underpinned with political and celebrity events of the time. These events will rock all preconceptions of a sleepy market town. With a whole host of characters including defrocked nuns, a cross-dressing husband and a dubious Police Inspector the novel promises to be a tantalising read. Is anyone who they first seem to be? Sinister Peter Dodd a member of the Disciples of God religious cult, living on a Folly atop Ratheugh Crag with his Ukrainian bride Tania. Head teacher Sooty and her partner Lennie, estranged lovers who are both overcome with a passion but not for each other. The Earl and Countess of Nowhere Castle. The Countess dreaming of creating her very own Versailles whilst the Earl cultivates exotic plants in his aptly named potting shed. Louisa and Joey, newcomers to the sleepy market town but soon embroiled in hidden agendas of their own. Bob the cross-dressing taxi driver hiding his love for all things silky and his wife Yvonne hiding her love for Clive the Publican. Defrocked nun Jean mourning the loss of her long time partner Lucy and looking for love in all the wrong places. Liz the private investigator arriving in Nowhere to dish the dirt on a suspected adulterer and suddenly transported into solving the biggest crime of the 1970s. As lives interweave and secrets are exposed you will never take anything at face value again.

The Training of a Medical Student in the Sixties. . . And What FollowedAnona Percy is a registered medical practitioner who trained in medicine in the 1960s. She served the National Health Service for over 40 years, 32 of which were as a Consultant Radiologist in a teaching hospital.

August/September 1939 War threatens the quiet life of Sir Charles and Lady Elizabeth in their statley home, The Hall. The IRA and Hitler Youth arrive on Tyneside at the same time. Coincidence? At The Hall Sir Charles woos rich Americans- if war breaks out will America help? Marigold Striker, one of the Americans, is the eyes and ears of President Roosevelt, a glamorous blue-stocking who it pays not to cross. Jack, aJewish refugee and George, Sir Charles and Lady Elizabeth's nephew, two 12 year olds caught up in the ensuing mayhem, culminating in a siege at Gray's Monument, Newcastle.

One day, I just couldn't stand any more of these horrors. I sat there for a long time, with the rifle loaded, wondering if I could just end it. All I managed to do was to put the muzzle to my temple, before I realized: if I pulled this trigger, the vile horrors would win.

This is my humble tribute to the hundreds of thousands of combatants who lost their lives in the Great War, the War to end all Wars, but especially to my grandfather and two of his comrades who were killed in action on the same day in 1918 and are buried together in the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium.On the 10th of March 2018, I, together with my wife and other family members made a pilgrimage to their graves on the 100th anniversary of their deaths. My wife and I had been several times before to lay a wreath at my grandfather's grave, but this visit was special, not only because it was the 100th anniversary of his death, but because I had been delving into military records, mainly the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, and I discovered in 2017 that there were two other gunners listed as being killed in action on the same day and with the same siege battery as my grandfather. I can only conclude that they were all comrades in arms and knew each other, fighting alongside each other with the same battery.What follows is part fact and part fiction. From what information I have been able to gather about my grandfather's movements in Belgium and France with the 101st and 31st Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery I have recorded here as fact, as are the accounts of battles in which he was engaged in.This is a story I have woven around these historical facts. All of the service personnel named within were real people who served on the Western Front. The places named are genuine as are all of my grandfather's wartime journey through Belgium and France. The fictional part is however based on fact and I have used my knowledge of the First World War and the Western Front to fill in the many gaps in his story.Having discovered from various sources some of my grandfather's locations with approximate dates in Belgium and France I have decided to construct around these known facts a story in diary form as he may have recorded. There are many long gaps in dates from the records discovered, so I have only covered the periods known, and as such this book covers the period of March 1916 to September 1917 when the RGA Battery War Diaries and records were destroyed by enemy action and flooding at the battery sites, indeed after September 1917 there are no known surviving records, these were all destroyed by enemy action. I have however very briefly covered a period during early March 1918 when Reginald Robert Cato, Frank Chapman and B. C. Gribble were killed in action. I have also given a Christian name to B. C. Gribble to enable the reader to identify him more readily. My apologies to his descendants for this imposition.I have faithfully tried to follow the path my grandfather and his comrades took through France and Belgium, but this has proved to be a very difficult task. Recorded place names have been spelt incorrectly and it is quite possible that after the First World War place names were changed - Ypres is now Leper for instance. Another possibility is that some of the smaller towns and villages were so totally destroyed by shellfire that they were never rebuilt, their occupants moving onto other towns to live.

This is a harrowing personal voyage into the 1960-80s childcare system as experienced first-hand by the author and many like him. It was a brutally horrific system, that made countless victims of the very children it was designed to protect. These brutally horrific regimes, founded upon extraordinary levels of inhumanity, cruelty, violence, fear, and intimidation, brought children to their knees, brutalised, cowed and often in fear for their very existence. It was a stark, depressive, and oppressively dysfunctional system, that imposed perpetual physical suffering and mental hardship, upon its most vulnerable charges. It was a pernicious cycle of ritualised systematic abuse, inflicted on some of the most vulnerable children society could offer up. This was the environment that the 'Unfortunates' found themselves embedded in during the 1960s. It was a system that lacked care, thought, and all things humane. A system where the imposition of brutal physical and sexual abuse had become normalised, legitimised, embraced and ultimately, forcefully accepted. This was life in a local authority home. These were the homes of 'the Damned', where a catalogue of daily horrors were inflicted for the personal pleasure of those charged with the care of this hidden, and often forgotten, sub-culture of children who, through no fault of their own, were forced to embrace these traumas, and endure a fight for their very survival.

This book explores the fascinating interface between economics and politics together, with a heuristic approach, starting with a current First World conundrum with dynamic ramifications - Brexit. It then researches the ubiquitous nature of rent-seeking and government policy implications. The next section of the book considers a peculiar modern trend in atypical employment vis-a-vis Human Resource Management in the UK; and finishes off the expedition of discernment with a revealing paper on the International Trade of a developing nation of interest.

A heartwarming story of a lonely boy's battle to overcome his many fears and problems. In the shadow of his precious Penshaw Monument, on the banks of the river Wear, Billy finds friends - and enemies - who help him come to terms with a life-changing event. Funny, realistic, a must-read for everyone.

A Chill Wind off the Tynefirst takes you back to the early 1900s in the Tyneside town of South Shields (Sooth Sheels to the locals). Amin and Ali, Yemeni seamen, arrive on the quayside and feel the bite of the north-east wind. The influx of the Arabs has begun. Their story is one of many that takes you from bare foot street urchins, fish and vegetable hawkers, young lads working in the shipyards and pits, to the years of the great depression after the Great War: the pit lockouts of 1921 and 1926; the race riots of 1919 and 1930 when Arab and white sailors fought in the streets. Seen through the eyes of characters who some readers may have met in the Five Stone Steps (the memoirs of Station Sergeant Thomas 'Jock' Gordon), the tales of life and love, of boozas, and pitch and toss schools, of bare knuckle fights in the back lanes, of tripe,brawn and cow heel pie ('well, when you were hungry you'd eat owt'), recreate the lives of ordinary working folk, when people survived hardship by sticking together. Old photos are used as illustrations so that you can see 'auld Sooth Sheels' for yourselves.

Reggie Courage and the mini magnets set off on a camping trip to Redwood Forest, when they discover the Monn family's treetop adventure course, 'Monkey Mates', has been damaged in a forest fire. Reggie and the mini magnets take on the gigantic challenge of rebuilding the Treetop adventure and breathe life back into the forest. Join Reggie and the mini magnets on this epic adventure filled with bravery, creativity, wisdom and self-discovery. In order to rebuild Monkey Mates, they have to test each tough high-rise challenge on the course, and some prove trickier than others. Reggie and the mini magnets are faced with the challenge of overcoming their fears and finding creative solutions to overcome these obstacles. Each challenge brings new lessons and once again the magnets show that with teamwork, trust and love they are unstoppable. Take another trip with Reggie as he unites with the mini magnets on this enthralling adventure.

London, 2022 Tracy Meller, the UK's Conservative Prime Minister, is facing an unprecedented crisis.Having halted the endless negotiations to leave the European Union four years earlier, Prime Minister Meller chose the most uncompromising of all possible exits, a "Brexit XXL" with serious consequences. The economy is at a standstill, the financial markets are panicking. The opposition Labour Party launches an attack on the Prime Minister with a promise of a return to the European Union. The country's morale is at rock bottom: everyone is afraid for their jobs and losing faith in the future. As for Scotland, its thoughts are increasingly turning back to independence. Prime Minister Meller herself is beginning to doubt the wisdom of her decision…Will the UK survive this historic crisis? Brexit XXL is a work of fiction about the most risky Brexit scenario, based on a detailed analysis of British political culture. Both realistic and instructive, the plot of the novel has a particular resonance today, encouraging reflection on the sovereignty of nations and the future of the European project.

Who was it said a week is a long time in politics?Sir Godwyn Lydate, the most permanent of Permanent Secretaries, has a lot on his plate. What with ensuring key Government ministers are not caught with their pants down whilst others, who have outlived their usefulness, are caught with their pants down. Then he has to keep on top of his own extensive list of conquests. Add to the mix his bete noir and the new People's hero, Jack Bellingham, who is enjoying a PR triumph with 'A' lister Oscar nominated actress, Amelia Sedley. Yes, a week is indeed a long time in politics.A satirical, biting expose of politics, celebrity culture and the Establishment, as we venture into the murky world of Westminster's fixers and beyond.

Suburban Surreal: A collection of dark talesFormer South Shields born Pro Wrestler, Gary J Davison, takes us on a journey through darkest suburbia in this surreal collection of his short stories.

While Zenith Earth was never the most peaceful place, it hadn't before been faced with a "world-ending" event, nothing that threatened every man, woman, and child at once. Those where the times before the Demons first began to appear. It was left up to mighty warriors like Marcus of the Vipersnake Clan to turn the tide, to protect the people, even to his dying breath. As the battle of the century looms in on Humanity, everyone will take up the sword to defend their homes from this new, mystical threat, but can Marcus learn to embrace new powers and heightened abilities to protect those he treasures, or will everything he fights to protect be destroyed under the boot of the Demon hordes?Following along with the events of Great Y Comics' SnakeByte Series in this all-new novel adaptation of the comic's pages. While the comic follows events from Marcus' perspective, this novel collection will be exploring deeper into the lore and backstories of both the world and its characters, including the main that appear in the pages of the comic, as well as the supporting roles with little to no "screen-time".

From the author of Abigail's Secret comes another delightful tale set in Newcastle, mostly in the period between the two World Wars. Samuel has grown up in a happy home, but leaves the North East most abruptly, without saying goodbye to his parents or sisters, for a new life in London. Why did he leave so suddenly without a trace? What heartache is he trying to shield his mother from? And will he ever find his own happiness?

This book centers on World War II and the men that served during that period. The prelude to the Battle of Britain saw the squadron patrolling the skies above Dunkirk during the evacuation from the beaches of the British Expeditionary Force and French Forces; the air war in the sky over Southern England; taking the war to the enemy before the Normandy invasion, and through to the Liberation of Europe. During all of these momentous events No. 266 (Rhodesian) (Fighter) Squadron and its personnel were there. No other Squadron has possibly had such a colourful history in operational sorties and aircraft types as this squadron.

This tells the story of England's greatest bowler the world has ever seen. A man years ahead of his time and in many respects brought professionalism to sport. This is about the life and times of a man born into Victorian poverty and in the squalid slums of northern England who was determined that his own family was never going to suffer. A talented cricketer who challenged the Establishment with all its 'toffee nosed' social conventions. He helped to win the Ashes for England and, as well as playing for Wales later in his career, he continued to succeed for many years afterwards and not only on the field of play. "You pay and I will play for you" (and they did) that was his motivation to do well. He was actually paving the way for working-class people to have the opportunity for a much better life.

My story begins with my amazing conception against all the odds. I have an idyllic childhood in post WW2 Britain and grow up in a lovely Surrey village. I enjoy my school days, complete a secretarial course at college and find myself a good job in London. I become a teenage bride in the swinging sixties! My daughter is born in 1971 and life is good for over 44 years. In 2008 I am diagnosed with clinical depression that becomes increasingly severe while I wait for counselling, culminating in an attempt to take my life. I have absolutely no recollection of events but discover I was rescued from the train tracks by the Kent Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance. I survive with severe electrical burn injuries to my skull and side of my face resulting in the loss of an eye and ear. My left arm has to be amputated in order to save my life. I spend five months in the Royal London Hospital where the trauma team exercise their expertise to save my life and the amazing care of the medical staff aids my recovery. I am delighted to discover that I have a life completely free of pain, worry or anxiety: I not only survived I am cured! I become a public speaker and as a volunteer for the KSSAA and the Katie Piper Foundation tell my story at amazing venues including The Chamber in City Hall, London, a University and a Women's Prison; I join a club for disabled swimmers and win medals in their galas; I sing with an amazing gospel choir. None of these interests had ever been on my radar yet now I have confidence to accept and relish new challenges. Life is very good for eight years but then a tragic event shakes my foundation and familiar symptoms begin to plague me; depression had returned just like before, leading me to another attempt on my life. Even more miraculously I survive again but with the loss of a leg. Unlike the first time I have to work hard at dealing with guilt, shame, panic and anxiety to reach a full recovery. In the end with support and love from my family and friends I come through and face up to my new challenges. I return to my choir, my keep fit class and my swimming club. I also accept requests to tell my story. Life is good again and I now have all the steps in place to keep it that way.