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There was no doubt that four years of war were finally taking its toil on Clementine and her family and friends. To the point that she, Jeremy and Aadhirai found themselves fatigued as many more demands were made on them.Although the once promised Nazi invasion never materialised, that did not mean that working towards a successful end of the war could stop. Women who were working as maids and cooks found themselves ordered to work in factories while those men who came of age were ordered to report for military service. Ordinary men and women made distressing sacrifices and more than a few of Clementine and Aadhirai's friends were taken one by one leaving ruptures in their lives that would not easily heal.At night, a disordered London was still a dangerous city populated by thieves and looters who took advantage of the continuing blackout. And while the arrival of American troops injected new and unexpected life into those who were so tired but who welcomed them, friends and foes were buried or never heard of again while at the same time blessings came from unexpected new life.Yet new acquaintances continued to arrive, Christmases, birthdays and other war-related celebrations were still acknowledged. And while those who lived in Clementine's three houses waited for the war to play out and end, they each knew that life would never be the same again. Moreover, when the end of the war finally presented itself, it brought both tragedy and surprises.

During the summer of 2021. Luna settled into complacency. She enjoys her job at the MusicRoom and shares Sophia's flat. However, her relationship with her parents has not thawed as they still refuse to believe her story.But, in November, Mr Quick visits her again and tells her that once she does one last trip for him, then he will never visit her again. She immediately and strongly refuses but then when Mr Quick offers her an impossible arrangement and it's one she simply cannot refuse. Therefore, with great reluctance, she agrees and as Sophia wants to go with her, they travel to 1968 to the same house in Royal Crescent where their instructions are to steal a rare bible from its library.The assignment itself was simple enough but Luna had not reckoned for Sophia to fall hopelessly in love with a disreputable man. Therefore, Luna returns by herself bringing with her a young Egyptian servant, Asim and that seems to be the end of that. Except when she visits Camille in Park Street, a shocking event takes place which must be resolved.

Supertranny lives in the heart of a great nation. Born with unimaginable gifts, she lives in the hearts and souls of those she helps. She is imaginative, humorous and spectacularly beautiful. Moreover, she has a wardrobe to die for as well!An ordinary soul, mostly doing any job she can, but a supertranny when she hears that cry for help with her super hearing. Only three people know her masculine identity and they have vowed never to reveal it.Day and night night, people go about their business soundly, knowing that there is someone here on earth who is unbreakable and who has unimpeachable moral fibre and character. She protects the innocent and saves the stupid and unworthy. Her name has become legion. Her acts, supernatural, for she is...Supertranny!But from out of the earth rises a savagely fierce and ancient monster, intent on subduing the population. His presence takes Supertranny to the edge of her capabilities.

A Faerie Tale for adults. Risteard Pheoden is a young man of limited wisdom who lives in the port city of King's Scallion on the coastline of the Vihq Ocean, which lays within the Trallaedel Kingdom.His life is uneventful until he meets, Dane Haddix, a transvestite and sexual predator who shows him that, 'there is no cure for pleasure'.Through Dane though, Risteard meets and marries the spirited and vivacious sorceress and psychic, Miss Siùsaidh Molde who is truly to change the rest of his life.Yet Risteard cannot rise above his past, and when Lort, an older, passive and sadomasochistic man insinuates himself into their everyday lives, nothing will ever be the same again.

When Peter met April in the summer of 1946, his family speculated it was a match made in heaven. Therefore,when the couple married in 1953, Miriam Barker hoped that her son would keep their large family together in Stratford. But the circumstances and excitement of the mid Nineteen Fifties overran the significance of his pedigree and, to his mother's dismay, Peter, a newly qualified policeman, bought a flat in Barkingside, historically part of Essex.Here they would meet a variety of characters quite different from the ones they had known during their time in East London. Close friends, private confrontations, a death or two, secrets and pregnancy; these became subjects that were part of any newly married couple setting up in a new home. But seventeen years later, April's very existence is threatened...Peter and April is the ninth book in the successful series about the life of the Miriam Barker family, mainly concentrating on Miriam herself.

On the 7 September 1940, the London Blitz began in ernest. This was when the Nazi Luftwaffe machine switched from daylight raids on military targets to heavy bomber raids at night focusing on large cities. Miriam's Family Blitz, already broadly conceived in, Miriam's War by the same author, places her family's first fifteen days of the London Blitz under a magnifying glass. A period in which the mundane lives of her close family and friends in the East End found themselves experiencing front-line warfare for the first time, undergoing the inconvenient blackout, general restrictions and rationing. From the family's once relatively quiet life, and with Miriam, released from Holloway prison only one year previously, the intense and very real fear of invasion, gassing, destruction and death occupies almost their every thought.

The Herb Girl is a psychological novel set in and around Purfleet in Essex in 1923 and concerns the great divide; spiritualism, the complication that may be the after-life and our relationship with it. By way of a damning gypsy's curse, a Scots-born female rogue, savage inexplicable accidents, murder and two of the oldest sexual dysfunctions known to civilisation, The Herb Girl chronicles a few months in the life and close family of a bewitching, heavily-pregnant, Cornish-bred herbalist, whose life is not entirely guiltless. The Herb Girl is a self-contained maze, a story involving poisoning, manslaughter, spiritualism, explosives, and rage. But who is the narrator? What is his wholly abhorrent secret and why is he so personally judgmental?

Lara Everett is a sensitive, childless widow of twenty years. She is settled, has buried her childhood dreams, is financially solvent and addicted to being alone. She would not call herself depressed, just unhappy. However, in her forty-third year, fate allows William (Bill) Lee, a shrewd and resourceful man, a man entirely unsuitable for any woman, to cross her threshold and take hold of her heart.Hypnotised by his sheer physical presence, Lara has no choice but to take the hardest path and realise that it is not the superficial fleshly oddities that are important but something far more formidable and ultimately satisfying.Set in 1969 and with memories going back to World War Two, The Bitter Rose and the Thorn is a narrative account of a woman choosing to abandon her catastrophic past and move towards a more self-fulfilling life.

Harry Whittle is a sixteen year old son of an emotionally frustrated butler working in London. He fails in his attempt to join the army in 1916 because of his age.As a punishment for his recklessness, Harry is sent to work on a wealthy estate in Devon where he befriends the owner's sixteen year old daughter, Blanche who is slightly deranged due to her younger brothers abruptly disappearing five years previously.While walking in the woods, miserable and homesick, Harry and Blanche are unaccountably and instantaneously catapulted into the unsolved misadventure of what happened to Blanche's brothers.Henceforth, they are forced to endure a fantastic and inexplicable agenda of unimaginable circumstances, so scarcely credible that madness threatens to engulf them as they hope to return to normality.

Obsessions is an irregular glimpse into the pennilessness life of Miss Hester Martin-Compter, the only child of a once wealthy banking family, destined by a deranged mind to live amongst the poverty of the Whitechapel area of London during the interwar years, World War Two and the nineteen fifties.A bewildering, self-obsessed passion, infatuations by others and a tenuous, bizarre connection with Whitechapel's most infamous murderer, Jack the Ripper shapes her life and destiny as she and her mother, Cecelia learns to live amongst the impoverished residents about which the child previously had no knowledge.At first, living a hand-to-mouth existence, and becoming friends with a variety of idiosyncratic local characters, as decades pass, Hester's introverted self disappears as through marriage and friendships gained, she learns to trust herself as she embraces the opportunities of the middle of the twentieth century.

Miriam's Early Years tells the beginnings of her Edwardian, East London family. From her welcome birth to her newly married parents in the summer of 1907, we follow her through her early childhood, her schooling, the Great War, and the births of her three sisters, Emily, Sarah and Penelope.Upon reaching the gay twenties, she meets, Ray, her first husband, and gives birth to Peter. Then, with World War Two approaching, darkness settles over her once happy life. When the electrical accident occurs, her life disintegrates until the fateful Saturday when two policemen knock at her door...

When purity is not enough. North London 1936. Father Forrest is an inherently decent priest consumed by impure corporal thoughts. He has little possibility of ethical growth. When his secretary's young daughter dies, the tragedy stimulates a series of events which contribute to obsession, misfortune and blackmail.It will take a chance meeting with an unscrupulous young woman, the sudden reasonless death of his demented mother, a fortuitous brush with an elderly ex woman prisoner and combating an evil and vicious thug before he is able to come to terms with his moral struggle.This is a character-driven novel. You won't get any cute Hollywood endings here!

The Angel From The Sea is a supernatural story and describes the events which occur after an Edwardian young lady called Clara pleads for assistance against a member of her family who is brutal towards her. Whereupon, one of the oldest feminine forces in the world appears as the uncontrollable Moganna.However, having demanded the presence of this ungovernable intelligence, Clara and her heinous family find themselves at the mercy of Moganna's ruthlessness and inhumanity.Moganna refers to herself as an angel, but as the innocent Clare soon discovers, a better name for the power she has unleashed is, a Cacodaemon.

1938. Mrs Miriam Baxter, an ordinary housewife and mother of two small children, committed a misdemeanour in the form of theft. Her punishment was to be imprisoned in the infamous woman's gaol, Holloway, House of Correction, North London. Placed with the type of women, with whom she had never been in contact, Miriam has to learn to survive in a harsh environment that took away her freedom, her family and everything she had ever known.Written with the help of authentic documents of the period, A Year In Holloway, details exactly what it would have been like to suffer imprisonment in a woman's prison just before the beginning of the Second World War.

Edith Thompson-Executed consists of two books:The Following Years is based on the true and tragic events, which occurred during 1922-1923 and ended in the deaths of two men and a woman. The Thompson and Bywaters Case. It is a semi-fictional story about how the family dealt with the the horror, guilt and shame of having a family member executed.A Live Lived is best described as counterfactual. It is based upon true events. Stepping into Edith's unchallenged life, we meet that which could have been. A life authentic, emotionally moving and even humorous.A Live Lived is a family saga centering on the life of Edith Thompson had she been allowed to live. It focuses on her one child, her new husband, her family and profession. We see she remarries, moves out of the country, and finds refuge from the publicity she has generated all her life. The publicity of the woman who was nearly hung.

Waterleigh Care Home is primarily about a young carer, Ms Erin Fylnn and, Sarah Graham, a new type of patient who is forced to take up permanent residence due to early onset dementia.Although Erin is regarded as one of the best carers in the home, she is not without personal family problems. However, the elderly and confused Sarah brings out more than the caring side of her, proving that even during our last days, all of us can be useful as we connect with each other. Because of where it is set, there can be no happy ending. What happens is logical and unavoidable. Yet life continues.

In 1975, Mary Park, the only daughter of a wealthy and respected dynasty whose family accommodation is in Bloomsbury Square, London, is being driven beyond endurance by domestic and marital responsibilities, financial pressures and intellectual frustration. A separation from her philandering husband and the concern of her teenage daughter taking drugs occupy a large amount of her time.However, rumours, arriving from an unprincipled and grievous mathematician, a man desperate to redeem his own family heritage, informs her that her grandfather once built an extraordinary machine which offered the possibility of changing the entire world.Mary will need to confront her family's shadowy past and endure obscure and repugnant painful memories before she can unravel the mystery of what her mother used to call, 'Bleak House'.

Miriam's Silver Years (part one) is the fourth in a series of novels describing the life and family of Miriam Barker, née Baxter, a busy East London woman who was born in 1907.This edition deals with the years 1948 to 1955, a period when rationing and coupons still applied, and the long shadow of the Second World War still hung over Britain.Through Miriam and her three sisters, we see how they cope with their increasingly complicated lives; the introduction of self-employment, marriages, births, deaths, moving house and television, as they embraced the second half of the twentieth century, and the radical changes which followed World War Two.

The fifth story about Miriam B takes place between the turbulent year of 1955 and the stimulating one of 1963. During this crucial time, a previously unknown family member shockingly makes himself known, she enjoys the holiday of a lifetime, the hub of her close family falls apart and she makes a final decision whether to stay in the East End or live out her years by the coast.The Second World War and her time in Holloway Prison is now a distant memory. However, apart from the changes in her family, particularly as the decade of the, 'swinging sixties' arrive, she retains the love of her loyal husband, Roy, and still enjoys her enduring friendship with Rafa.Miriam is now a dutiful grandmother, an extraordinarily fabulous aunt of an ever-increasingly large family, a servant of the community, and as a woman proudly moving from middle age into the remaining years of her life, a matriarchal force to be reckoned with.

Miriam's Golden Years takes us from 1963 until the nineteen nineties. A period when she bore the many deaths of her family and friends with dignity, but is more than pleased to welcome the beginning of her grandchildren, great grandchildren and great nephews and nieces, despite all their singular problems.Equally remarkable, as the rest of her life had been, Miriam finds herself wrestling with the problems of social and political violence, the rise of female emancipation, decimalisation and the acceptance of becoming elderly while still caring deeply for her extended family and her beloved husband, Roy.She has now gone beyond a matriarchal figure. She is host to memories long forgotten, a contributor to a decent way of life fast disappearing and part of a proud East End dynasty that her descendants will never forget.

A four part novel set in Clifton Buildings, Carter Lane near St Paul's cathedral. The landlord is a miserly and deliberately cruel money lender called, Mr Scrooge.Mr and Mrs Percy Radcliffe are an impoverished, newly married couple struggling to run a funeral business in 1843. Their descendants run the same business in 1892, and during the December blitz of 1940 as well. And finally there are eight people living their solitary lives in 2009 in converted flats.On their Christmas days, over the centuries, what have these people in common? Is their good fortune because they happen to live in the same house, or is there a more spiritual and indefinable reason? Have their Christmas experiences anything to do with what happened to the old money lenderone Christmas morning all those years ago?

The reason the transgendered man, Margaret 'Bill' Allen became a murderer has confounded criminologists. Since his execution at Strangeways Prison in January 1949 for the brutal murder of the eccentric Nancy Ellen Chadwick, sociologists (particularly those working in the sociology of deviance) and those in the behavioural sciences, such as psychologists and psychiatrists as well as lay authors have attempted to understand why.In this short book, a transgendered woman herself, Molly Cutpurse attempts to cast some new and personal light on what has become known as a tragic and misunderstood case. Of Bill's guilt, there is no doubt. But upon examining the details of his life, there remains a degree of shame over the way he was treated at his trial and after in prison, and of the lack of mercy afforded to him.