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Sheila and Derek Boyd's marriage is falling apart but the attempt to fix it by introducing 'Hughie' the non-humanoid HU robot into the household goes spectacularly wrong. And when Derek Boyd gets his own robot, Andie, the beauteous humanoid robot, the results are even more disastrous.

Green Shoots Rising is an exciting and stimulating collection of poems aimed primarily at primary age children. It's full of thought provoking and amusing poems which children, and adults will love.

Making Money in Forwarding provides a road map for how to be a successful forwarder, and make a great career in forwarding and logistics. It covers all aspects of what a freight planner must know, and do, in order to be successful.

In 2040 artificial intelligence poses a growing challenge to society.Kerry Tracker, a newly qualified teacher is appointed to oversee a US high school production of Romeo & Juliet for end of year open day.It's a tall order, the 10th grade kids in the cast previously caused an emotional meltdown.

He can't believe what's just happened! In his love life, he has made a complete fool of himself. At work, his promising career is in tatters. It is only when he connects these unfortunate events, to a memory which had haunted him since childhood, that he realises he has been making the same mistake over and over again.

Tamara is brought up in a dangerously unstable Baltic state. Her government parents are always pre-occupied with their attempts to save democracy and she no longer feels safe. In imminent danger, Tamara attempts to escape to Sweden with a friend, but is captured.

Tom Brown, disgraced former Home Secretary, is missing presumed dead. The police had been seeking him in connection with the deaths of several people, and his disappearance affectively closes the case.

A DNA ANCESTRY TEST OPENS UP A PANDORA'S BOX OF SECRETS. When a fragile Elsa Watson takes a DNA ancestry test out of idle curiosity she little imagines the devastating consequences she is about to unleash.

If I Ever Get Out Of This World Alive is a collection of short stories and poetry exploring themes of rock and roll and death during the Covid19 pandemic.

My hand, guiding me along the wall, fell into nothingness. A shadowy blackness, deeper and stronger than any yet, opened before me, like the mouth of a cave.

The story picks up with Janie Arnold making a life changing decision to help her cousin Megan and hopefully to leave Janie free to start her own life. Whilst on holiday in Lanzarote she meets Adam, a boat builder from back home in Wales and Alison another holiday maker from Derbyshire. Life is finally starting to look up for Janie.

Craig Edmonds and his young family are awoken at 2 AM by someone banging at their front door. On their doorstep they find an unexpected delivery... a large crate with a generic label addressed to his family.

A story of loss, love, guilt and ultimately hope and redemption, MILLER STREET SW22 follows a year in the lives of five neighbours who move into the road in the autumn of 2005, each brought to the urban south London location for a new start.

The year is 2159. Generations of consumption ruined our world, eventually leading to a total collapse of society. As each territory prepares for war, they must choose whether to accept help from their neighbouring territories or go it alone. Will England return to feudalism or will it bounce back and prevail?

One Man's Journey is a re-imagining of events that occurred from the day of Tony's resignation in 2007. The story is a satirical take on our hero's search for meaningful employment from that date onwards.

Like "Aladdin," but with shell shock, "Charlie Echo" is a story about wishes - the last wishes of a dying soldier on the battlefields of Normandy in 1944. Verbal wills of this sort are only valid if there are two witnesses and the first men on the scene in this case happen to be radio operator Charlie Goodman and his assistant, Sid Saunders.

Twelve-year-old Symphony Strange has had enough. Enough of the 'gruesome twosome' Phyllida and Suzette's mean 'tricks' because they don't see her as being posh enough, enough of St Bartholomew's School for Girls and most of all, enough of having no friends.

Finally released from gaol, Will Crosby, quits England for a new life in Queensland, hoping to regain self-confidence, and the lost esteem of his former 'wife', Alice. However, his hopes are soon dashed when a typhus epidemic breaks out on board The Emigrant which is then re-directed to the ill-prepared quarantine station on Stradbroke Island.

Marie is brought up as a country girl on the West coast of France, but world events catch up with her and life has more in store for her than her family ever expected. As a teenager working in a bar, the Resistance movement makes use of her local knowledge to help Jewish youngsters to escape the Nazi threat.

In the 1970s computers were just beginning to have an influence on the Secret Services.Quickly, too much information was coming into G.C.H.Q and things were being missed The Collation Unit was set up underground in six floors beneath some old hangars at Mannington airfield just outside Cheltenham to make connections and prioritise everything.

Reuben's grandfather (Gramps), a retired professor of neuroscience, builds a machine that can be programmed to change people's behaviour. To make Reuben 'Believe' in the machine, 'Gramps' tries it out on a pompous next-door neighbour. Apart from a few glitches, the machine seems to work successfully.

The wide-ranging plot straddles four continents as the main characters' lives are driven by love, ambition and the desire for a Legacy.

Henry Oxshott is a cat of medium intelligence, lazy but well bred. He lives in a flat which was left to him by one of his relatives who spent most of her time buying antiques and paintings which now fill the flat. It is the 1980s. He has no job and no income and is down to his last few pounds.

The Optimum You guides you through a series of actions, behaviours and thoughts which will help you to achieve your own, unique potential.

Some years ago, for no obvious reason, Paul Whiteman felt compelled to analyse the mystical number 666, also known as the number of The Beast. His little mathematical revelation was followed almost immediately by a violent thunderstorm, and by a severe attack of asthma requiring urgent hospital admission.

The Actors' Orphanage was a home for the abandoned children of struggling or incapacitated Actors. In 1934 it was a harsh and brutal institution. Meanwhile however, the playwright and cultural phenomenon, Noel Coward, was looking for more meaning in his life. After success after success, he would always ask... "What now?"

Michael J. Vincent uses his life story to illustrate how experience, no matter how trivial or intense and life-changing, becomes a deep well of learning for us to draw upon in our search for truth.

During my MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University we followed a module on the short story. I wrote a story published in the Lightship Anthology 1 by Alma Press, winning a GBP1000 prize. The story is included in this collection under the title A Fish out of Water.

The book is divided into two sections. The first contains 'nature' poems but with the underlying meaning of how we are connected to the earth. The second section contains more personal poems.

I wrote about dreaming during the pandemic which brings us back to our childhood memories and wishes because we were confined. We dreamed a lot more and more vividly.