Covid and Corona

Today is going to be a fun day! Zoe is looking forward to going to kindergarten where she will play all day with her friends and then later, Granny is going to come to visit her. But suddenly, Mum comes and tells her that none of this will happen today and Zoe has to stay at home! It’s a special holiday for all kids. Two uninvited guests are lurking around the corner – Covid and Corona, a little boy and a little girl. These two tiny creatures can do a lot of damage and things are about to change, and they need to protect themselves and everybody else around them…

Covid-19 Life

The impact Covid-19 has had on the world was something that no one in our lifetime will forget. While living through this, I have documented my experience in this area to help this era and the next to look back and see if my experience is something the human race can benefit from. I want to share my own life with the reader, detailing what I had done daily – to show the positive and negative impacts the Covid-19 crisis had on me. This was something everyone had to go through together – united. Everyone has a different story to tell and this one is mine. If you move forward and read my story, there will be a great deal of heartbreak in my journey. Perhaps you can relate? But one thing is for sure, Covid-19 has taken a great deal of time and that reminds us to enjoy the time we have left.

Crab Apples

The Last Lady De’Ath is determined to keep her estates and villages as they have been for centuries. Her lion and tiger are not going anywhere either. She eventually theoretically sells out to a company that tells her they want to buy up historic sites, but all is not what it seems on the surface, neither in the villages nor in the company.

Battle lines are drawn at the Village Fete and war is waged in the High Court. The village and Lady De’Ath emerge triumphant as victory is based on hidden skills and by not judging books by their covers.

Crack and Other Short Stories

Four compelling and visceral tales – very different in their settings and characters, but alike in their vividness and intensity. 

Crack is about the narrator's peculiar encounter with a man he meets smoking crack-cocaine in a phone box. The Prototype is a send-up to late nineteenth-century gothic horror and tells the story of a woman's mayfly resurrection. Our Fathers takes place on the day after the UK EU referendum and it explores the impacts this event had on many people's personal lives. The final story, Etchings on a Stone Wall, is a surreal tale about four people imprisoned in a monolithic structure, who are taunted by the sunlight that shines down from above the wall.

Bart Lambert’s debut short story collection is an energetic and vibrant read, written in a style that is witty, suspenseful and sometimes even shocking.

Crash-Landing in the Unknown

One stormy night, the curious flower Hugleaf got pulled out with his roots and flew out in the dark night, leaving his peaceful home next to the old wise tree. Hugleaf smashed into Rainspider and together they flew over valleys and crash-landed in a country beyond what they had ever seen. Injured and surprised, they looked around to see only grey, or is it them that can’t see colour anymore? Follow Hugleaf and Rainspider on a journey where they meet serene lilies and scary dragons, in a world where each intelligent flower has something to say and give. Will the grey country regain its colour?

Creatures from Beyond

Jake, a curious teenager from a small town, has a close encounter with extraterrestrial beings. However, he quickly realizes that these creatures are not friendly. Despite his efforts to convince his skeptical mother, Janine, she brushes off his claims until she witnesses the creatures herself. As danger looms, Jake and Janine embark on a perilous journey to find refuge at the hospital.

But the road to safety is fraught with danger, and their fight for survival becomes more challenging than they ever imagined. With every passing moment, the threat to their lives grows more severe, and they begin to question if they will ever make it to the hospital alive.

As they struggle to stay alive, Jake and Janine must face their fears and find the courage to confront the unknown. Will they be able to escape the alien threat and reach the hospital before it’s too late? The answer remains uncertain as they embark on a treacherous journey into the unknown.

Creaturmals Adventure Series Book 1: Making Friends

When Leon the possum falls asleep after one of his Nanunci's stories, he finds himself in the world of Big Adventures.
Leon is greeted by Ty, a ‘Creaturmal' with the body of a penguin and legs of a kangaroo!
The pair become friends and head off to explore.
What other fantastical Creaturmals will they meet along the way?
And what will they find at the top of the big hill?
Join them on their fun-filled BIG ADVENTURE and find out!

Crossing the Bridges

At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and Russian, whose borders promised to be set in concrete. The Austrian Empire was a multi-ethnic entity of countries that had been absorbed over time. Among these were Polish lands annexed by Austria in the eighteenth century, which became the Austrian province of Galicia, where Zofia Neuhoff was born in 1905 into an upper-middle-class family. Victorian manners reigned supreme, young ladies were coached to gracefully alight from the carriage and ‘culture’ was a magic word, socially distinguishing people who possessed it from those who did not. That haute bourgeoisie morphed into the central-European intelligentsia.

Zofia’s childhood was upended by five years of WWI which she spent in the picturesque environs of Innsbruck. By 1918, the three imperishable empires disintegrated and several sovereign states emerged from the ruins. After the Neuhoffs returned to independent Poland, Zofia’s life continued on an even keel with a happy marriage and a law degree unusual for a woman in the 1930s. In September 1939, Poland was invaded by both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Overnight, Zofia’s existence was shattered. Alone, with an 18-month-old toddler, in the midst of mass arrests and deportations of civilian population, how could she cope with this new harsh reality for which her sheltered life had not prepared her?

Crossroads in Time Philby and Angleton A Story of Treachery

A never-before-told account of the infamous relationship between the notorious British spy and Soviet agent Harold “Kim” Philby and the CIA’s Associate Director of Operations for Counter Intelligence, James Jesus Angleton. Readers will be drawn into the plot and story line of this historical thriller and real-life spy story. It’s an exciting and fast-paced retelling that promises to shine a light on this major moment in the Cold War. Readers are invited to draw their own conclusions about the events revealed in this book.

Crushed

William Ferguson had willingly followed the footsteps of his father into the family business, accepting the challenge to continue to enhance the reputation and fortunes of the highly respected Ferguson Trading Company.  

The legacy was daunting – his father, Sir Charles Ferguson, a Victoria Cross winner for bravery during WW2, had returned to New Zealand after the war to, in a short time, become the Commonwealth’s pre-eminent businessman, confidant to successive prime ministers and governments and most importantly, a beloved husband and father. All of these accomplishments were achieved without blemish, incident or notoriety.

With such a stellar backdrop, what could possibly go so wrong that would crush William Ferguson’s life?

Cry Baby

Colette, affectionately or otherwise known as Teeny (Teeny Bash) to most, battles with her sense of worth and identity in the small village she grew up in. Spending most her time working in the local pub, she falls in love with an older man and begins to hope for a more adventurous life for herself. This idea quickly fades into a tense, controlling and abusive relationship which inevitably rocks Teeny’s mental health. Simultaneously, she is haunted by disturbing memories from her childhood which ebb and flow into her conscious and subconscious on a regular basis, forcing her to look directly into the past and towards these traumatic events. Her growth and journey between her 20th and 21st birthdays proves to be one of the most crucial and painful periods of her life.

Culloden

As Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Scotland, intent on regaining the British crown for the Stuarts, Gregor, a young, ostracised Highlander, has fallen in with a gang of murderous outlaws, whose actions lead him ever closer to a date with the hangman…

Meanwhile, Flora, a young, beautiful Scottish girl, finds herself visited by a ghostly and sinister hag, who wishes to involve her in the fate of the prince.

Both Gregor and Flora find the paths of their lives dramatically altered by the Bonnie Prince, and their futures dependent on the success or failure of the Jacobite rebellion. Futures which would ultimately be decided at the battle of Culloden…