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Despite the efforts of respectable parish and police constables, the magistrates and court officials in their fine new jail and the Industrial Revolution on the horizon, this dip into Argyll's history tells how crime in the county was just as bloody and violent as in former eras.

I wrote The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need for the younger me that could have done with some better advice, earlier in life. I also wrote it for you, so you don't have to go through 40 years of trying things and feeling that it's your fault when they don't work out.

Ru-um and his younger brother Cali, on holiday in the far Northwest of Scotland, go missing while on a walk to an ancient, ruined broch. Last seen with the girl, Amelia, they are eventually found several days later, unharmed, but with Cali now inexplicably older than Ru-um.

Three Vampires: Oscar, 550 years old, white, and upper middle class, Errol, 70 years old, black, and working class and Terry, 100 years old, white, and working class, share a basement conversion in Fulham, London.

As a parent I believe in the focus on kindness, gratitude, optimism, curiosity and confidence that lead children to success in life and to a happy fulfilled personality. Along with good academic results these characteristics enable children go much further and be more successful.

Many books claim they will change your life. The Healthy Living Handbook may do it. In the UK nearly one in four deaths are avoidable. The top six killers cause most of these deaths: a healthy lifestyle cuts the risk of all of them. What's more, a healthy lifestyle benefits every part of our lives.

Two detectives embark on a relentless pursuit of justice through the world of drug trafficking in their local town on a dark evening in the middle of winter.

Have you ever struggled with your mental health, your terrible relatives or a dysfunctional relationship? Or simply wondered what the hell is wrong with you? This story is for you.

Juliette, a young mother of two, teaches piano and flute whilst also helping with the family antique business. Needing extra income, Juliette is drawn into a dangerous money laundering operation.

A mystery disease has broken out on an Indian Ocean isle and on the east African coast, wreaking fear and death as it spreads westward across the continent. Vying to report the story are the big international news agencies. France-Depeches broke the news, but trouble's brewing among its staff, threatened by a government bid to privatise the agency.

The Dartington Bride tells the extraordinary story of Lady Gabrielle Roberda Montgomery, a woman who, after a childhood in war-torn France, came to England to marry into one of Devon's most prominent and well connected families. Like most women of her time Roberda must be a good wife, run a large household and produce a son and heir.

A broken heart and scarred mind can be healed with help from another world. This story explores the power of love, place, family and community. It tells of a threeway journey: in the present, into the past and into the mind.

Pinecraft takes the reader on a wonderful trip to Ochtermuddy in Scotland. Whilst there, Josh meets a beaver a called Timb. Through their adventures they discover that although very different, they have lots in common, including the same hobby - building!

Whoever heard of a dragonfly that could not fly? Well, Wilber thought just that, until he found himself swept out to sea on an adventure far away from home. He was caught up in a bubble washed out to sea, tossing and turning, thrust here and there, infact he was thrown almost everywhere.

Angel Eyes, chronicles the adventures of Grace Scott, as she attempts to become an independent woman in a business dominated by men.

'Magenta' Herdwick strives to enliven his multi-ethnic classes against the egalitarian, ie same for all, theory of socialist education current at the time, with its hostility to elitism and the grammar schools. He lives with his forsaken mother. Dad never came home from his last posting abroad.

The Very Now Poems are exactly that: war in Ukraine, Global warming, the cost-of- living crisis, a visit to A & E, stress, insomnia-yes, they're there. But it's not all doom and gloom: even the direst situations can be leavened with humour.

There is a magic to be behold from simply sitting around a campfire with friends. Toasting marshmallows under dappled shade, whispers of the wind rustling the leaves, hammocks swinging idly, a cacophony of birdsong, the gentle trickle of a stream and mud, glorious, mud.

Searching for My Shangri La is the second of my two books on the region, after Midlife Meanderings in SE Asia. It is about continuing an independent and unstructured journey through this fascinating part of the world.

Freedom was the goal Karel Werner was sure of achieving at the start of his third life. As one of the 'bouncing Czechs given refuge by Britain after the 1968 Moscow-led invasion of his homeland, he was at last free to teach, soon becoming a lecturer at Durham University and remaining there until he retired.

Freedom to Roam is a unique hybrid book that shows how Wil Gesler's academic pursuits in the field of Health Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill intersect with both his leisure time activity as a dedicated walker in the English Lake District fells and his personal life.

In a future England, governed by the authoritarian Party of Order and Nation, individuals are selected at random to live in enforced poverty. The policy is called 'the Price': in order for the majority to live well, the policy states, a minority must go without. Equality is impossible.

A light-hearted and illustrated account of the experiences of a British baby-boomer and his family in coping with the cultural differences living in continental Europe.

When struggling journalist, Ollie Moorhouse, is offered an intriguing lead by his editor, he is hopeful that it will boost his career and help pacify his restless girlfriend. His investigations lead him to an eccentric peer of the realm, a grieving philanthropist, a homeless drug addict and an aristocratic household. But what connects them?

1938. Rhiannon is a happy scholarship student at a High School in Cardiff. But when times become hard, she is forced to leave school and work as a nursery and kitchen maid.

Join Holly and Sam and the rest of the Wilson Family on their caravan adventure!

In the summer of 2022, feeling disillusioned with working life in London and in search of an outdoor challenge, Matthew Bowmer set off alone to walk the Grande Randonnee 10, a 900-kilometre footpath through the French Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

A humorous memoir of a young life in colonial Africa, with occasional interludes of sombre reflection by this son of German Jewish refugees. Set in Rhodesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, the author allows us a glimpse of his idiosyncratic family, the oddities of a vibrant Jewish community in the heart of Africa, schooling clothed with the trappings of Empire, holidays in apartheid South Africa and doomed attempts at athletic prowess.

'Mine to Die' is a work of historical scholarship with a difference. My tale is faithful to the historical record - indeed my research into local newspapers has brought to life new material - yet at the same time I have written so readers can be present in that past.

The nineteenth century saw the growth of commercially available solutions for dealing with the problem of domestic infestation by mice and rats. Promising a reliable means of destroying the 'furry detestables', such products as Battle's Vermin Killer were sold cheaply over the counter, as well as being sent through the post.