George and the Briton

Mark is a young British sailor who is deployed to Antioch in Syria as part of a delegation to brief the Emperor Diocletian on the liberation of Britain from a usurper. By coincidence, he meets the Tribune Constantine who introduces him to a fellow Roman Army officer, George. Mark can write in Latin so George appoints him as his clerk.

Mark is tasked to keep an account of the operations of the ‘special forces’ unit that George commands on the front line of the Eastern Roman Empire. He also keeps his own private diary and is required to provide Constantine, who is a member of Diocletian’s personal staff, with periodic accounts of operations.

As George achieves some extraordinary results and Diocletian manages to stabilise the Roman Empire following a generation of chaos and uncertainty, a new problem arises. Diocletian’s deputy, Caesar Galerius, starts seeing Christianity as a subversive religion. This becomes a challenge for George, his family, and some members of his unit.

This is the tale of Constantine and George, told through the eyes of a young soldier’s diary.

German Girls

Paul is totally smitten by the lovely Heidi during a holiday encounter in Swanage in the summer of 1978. Will their holiday romance become something much more serious when he sets out to see if his love for her blossoms in her home city of Frankfurt?

German Girls 2 - Secrets

German Girls 2 – Secrets is the sequel to ‘German Girls’ in which Paul Gardener (19) meets Heidi Wortmann (17) while on holiday in England and falls in love with her. He believes that she loves him too as she has said so in several letters; however, things are not that simple!

Paul flies over to Heidi’s home city of Frankfurt for a week’s holiday with her to develop their relationship but is dismayed to find that she seems to have changed her mind about him and he cannot understand why.

Can Paul unravel the reasons for Heidi’s strangely cold behaviour towards him? What will be their future together?

Getting Even

Alex Feldon is the proposed inheritor of his family’s company and has plans to modernise the business, much against the wishes of his father, Peter, who is both founder and chairman. Father and son have been at loggerheads ever since the terrible accident two years ago in which Alex’s mother was killed and Peter left in a wheelchair.

A mysterious, dark stranger suddenly appears on the scene, thrusting Alex into a deadly struggle for ultimate control of the business as he becomes the victim of two near-death experiences. He is baffled by the uncanny force driving his enemy, Logan, who stealthily takes both Alex’s job and his fiancée, Sanchia. Logan ingratiates himself with Peter as part of his plan to steal the company completely.

Alex fights back by investigating his foe in both UK and Malta, where he exposes Logan’s murky business connections. He doggedly pursues several leads uncovering some unwelcome family secrets, which threaten fatally devastating outcomes for many lives.

Ghost Hunters

A young Australian tourist is brutally murdered and dismembered in the grounds of a historic British manor house. A man is convicted of her murder on the flimsiest of evidence, and the distraught owner sells the house. The new owners – keen to profit from the gruesome history – open the house up for ghost hunts, and it is on one Halloween night when a group of people searching for paranormal activity come face to face with the building’s past. What starts out as a night of fun, evolves into a battle of survival as one by one the hunters become the hunted.

Ghost Tours of Hertfordshire and Essex

Ghosts are ubiquitous! This guide has 62 tours, which incorporate over 280 towns and villages, and more than 800 sites. Directions are given in each tour to enable the investigator to find the sites. Map references have been included using Ordnance Survey Maps, together with the map numbers, to enable the investigator to find the haunted sites. The purpose of the guide is to enable the enthusiast to seek and observe. There are notes of interest and history notes as the counties are awash with fascinating stories and legends. 

So decide which tour you are going to tackle first. You may wish to meet the phantom army at Thundridge Church ruins, the screaming woman in Water Lane, Bishop's Stortford, the Witchfinder General, Mathew Hopkins at Manningtree, or maybe the ghostly monks carrying a coffin at Belchamp Walter.

Giant Footsteps

Bill Milton’s poetry is a tour de force and is never far away from the experience of every day life and treads a fine line between the sublime and humourous. Most readers will be able to identify with many of the subjects covered, as Milton’s poetry manages to vividly paint a picture of daily life in postwar Britain.

Many of the poems have hidden depths intended to invoke a smile with some clever wordplay. This is Milton’s second collection in his trilogy of light-hearted poetry.

Ginton Abbey

Set on a Friday in May, 1903…

Lord Dickie has a rather odd way of dressing for his early morning strolls around the Ginton Estate. Her Ladyship has a few secrets, and a member of staff is plotting to blackmail her. The Head Butler is the epitome of what a true English butler should be, but his love for her Ladyship goes unnoticed. The buxom maid is a bit too free with her services, whether it’s with staff, trade or the postman… until she falls in love. The dog-ugly cook has unusual nighttime activities and her lumpy gravy is blinding, literally! Will the blackmailer be successful? Will her Ladyship requite the butler’s affections? Is anyone safe from the cook’s lumpy gravy?

Ginton Abbey: Volume Two

It’s Saturday and after yesterday’s shenanigans, what could the occupants of Ginton Abbey get up to today?

His Lordship awakes with an urge (no, not that one!) “Let’s all go to the seaside!”

This goes down extremely well with most, but Mrs Spanner has too many bad memories and sulks. Kitty is smitten, for real this time, and not just a quick fumble in the bushes, coal shed or wash house… oh, you’ll get it!

Will her Ladyship and the butler be able to keep their hands off each other?

Will Mrs Spanner’s gravy maim or kill anyone?

Will the secret of Molly finally be revealed?

Glass and Keys

Glass and Keys is the first book published by Samuel Rankin. It features the very first poems he ever wrote as well as the latest. To read this book is to travel through the evolution of Sam’s poetic journey from writing behind a till on the back of receipts to his most recent and most developed material. This, above all, is an insight into the mind of a young writer who does not shy away from talking about his miseries, fears and views on the modern world. Whether you like fast-paced rhymes, laid-back first-person commentary or thought-provoking literature… Glass and Keys has it all.

Goldberg Hall

Who haunts Goldberg Hall? Could it be the past owners? Or did someone from more recent days meet a cruel fate there? Could it be the woman and child who Ava saw walking along the road towards Waterfall River? Or Jack Armstrong, the builder who renovated the Hall? He was discovered frozen to death in a solid block of ice inside his car. Or could it be Lord Goldberg himself who raped his own daughter and died from a revenge killing. There are many theories as to whom or what haunts the manor. Nevertheless, the locals stay away from Gallows Hill where the old hall used to stand.

They know the rumours of the hanging Goldberg judges and the orgies there. The remaining part of the Hall has now been refurbished and sold to a young couple with three children. Unknown to the new owners is the fact that not everyone leaves the Hall alive. The only people who could explain the inexplicable events there are the dead souls themselves who haunt Goldberg Hall.

Good Boy Joe

Vicky Bhargav has fallen.

When India’s famed film industry turns its back on one of the brightest stars of its past, it takes a slum dweller, riding his rundown scooter, to save the day for him.

One unusual road trip and a series of comical misadventures later, the two men end up bringing a glimmer of joy and hope in each other’s downtrodden lives.