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|  | | A Chicken Farmer's Thoughts on Love
Bawdy and subversionary, narrator is a Chicken Farmer at odds with suburbia; his thoughts could therefore possibly prove offensive to those with quieter tastes. Starting in the early 1960s with a description of the motorbike and coffee bar culture he takes his group of friends on through their love affairs, marriages, betrayals, dalliances and disasters, divorces, successes, failures...
This period piece has its beginnings in the early 1960s, opens with a description of the motorbike/coffee bar culture then prevalent. From those motorbike days in that nameless town in southern England our narrator, the Chicken Farmer to be, takes his group of friends on through the next twenty plus years.
Giving instances from the ordinary lives happening around him the Chicken Farmer discourses on, not only Love and its many betrayals, but on most other aspects of life. Told from a young[ish] male perspective, it is yet generally sympathetic to the human condition both male and female.
| |  | | A New Acmeism
Nature poems, and all bar one set in the UK
Introduction to A New Acmeism
At about the same time, early 1900s, that Imagism - espoused by the likes of Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams - arose in the West, over in the East Acmeism was growing out of an almost identical reaction against Symbolism. Nikolai Gumilev, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova and Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam set out to rid poetry of mysticism and Symbolism’s excessive allusiveness. Anna Akhmatova defined Acmeism as “...a return to the poetic principles of clarity, concision and the precise expression of emotional experience.”
As they so | |  | | An Atheist's Alphabetical Approach to death
A booklet as reward for coming one of 3 runners-up, out of 1,250 entries, in a competition. The poems all deal with the prospect of death. Overall effect is quite invigorating.
Every poem - by title in alphabetical order - is accompanied by a quote from another author - alphabetically - and so generating random juxtapositions many of which are quite synergetic. And sometimes funny. | |  | | Anti
The full title should be, Anti pretty much everything.' And how I came to own that attitude.
Inevitably personal, and with autobiographical aspects, but as much a general view of the period I have spent almost 80 years living through.
'Anti' is the taking of a critical, questioning viewpoint, the very opposite of accepting, regardless of the subject or person. | |  | | apostrophe combe
A collection of poems about Ilfracombe, Devon, UK; with photos by Neil Carter & Gemma Dart. The original intention of the project was to make a photographic and written record of this one place, the manner conversational, thoughts arising from observations and incidents.
"...unassailable talent..." North Devon Journal
HERE
To belong here,
but not to be owned,
we deny
the false identities of place
and history.
We, here, are not
where we came from.
Nor are we, here,
where we have arrived.
We, here, don't believe
what this local council says,
let alone
government mouthpieces.
Here,
not of a nation,
not of a people,
uncertain even
of here's name, here's spelling,
we call here
'apostrophe combe.' | |  | | apostrophe combe Mk2
Part of my Last Hurrah project this new 'apostrophe combe Mk 2'has no photos this time but does have new material.
What I have come to realise 'apostrophe combe Mk2' has been of a part with my obsession with the Bristol Channel and its phenomenal tides. Covering all genres the books go from 'apostrophe combe' to the thriller 'Porlock Counterpoint' and on to historical fiction like 'The Secret Report of Friar Otto' and 'The Friendship of Dagdà and Tinker Howth.' This Bristol Channel obsession even includes the science fiction 'Futuricity' and, at a stretch, my early angst-driven 'Two Bridgwater Days.' | |  | | As Recorded
A non-confessional interview in a place of confinement: the third part of the Torbay trilogy, Paths of Error
A book in its own right, this is final book of the Torbay trilogy, 'Paths of Error'.
Told throughout in interview form, in 'As Recorded' the hero, Sniff - as he was known in 'Constant Change' and 'Undeclared War' - tells of the childhood of the trilogy's 5 main characters - Newt, Blue, Pancho, Mort and himself - from their starting school in Curledge Street to their all going on to Totnes Grammar; and of their first fights, first sex, and various escapades. And, of course, he tells of his later life too, as a boxer and a businessman, father and lothario.... And why he should be b | |  | | Balant: a beginning
3 young spacemen get marooned on a planet, have to cope with flora and fauna, savages, Nautili and slavers....
Each of the 5 novels of the series Towards the unMaking of Heaven takes place within an intergalactic civilisation known variously as the Supreme Civilisation, or, more often, simply as Space.
The first novel, Balant, has Dag Olvess, Malamud Bey and Pi Pandy marooned on the very edge of the known universe. Narrator is the priggish Pi Pandy. En route from his mother's substation to university in another galaxy, the ship he was travelling upon encountered a storm of cosmic proportions. The ship about to implode, he escaped in the ship's shuttle with two other young men, Malamud Bey and Dag O | |  | | Canoe
A chapbook collection of poems concerning water and a circus
An obtuse look at the possible effects of global warming. | |  | | Confessions of a Village Idiot
This mix of poetry and prose tells of my upbringing in the village of Stoke Gabriel on the banks of the Dart estuary, of my early schooling at Hayes Road in Paignton and later in Totnes, also of my before-school work as a milk boy - there my real education - and jobs and so-called career after leaving school and Devon. Most telling poem here is probably 'Education of an Anti-Establishment Man.'
This is a gathering together of material published in various periodicals and stitched together here and there with prose explanations of how such came to be. Very much of a time and place. | |  | | Constant Change
The second part of the Torbay trilogy, Paths of Error, Constant Change charts the disillusion of Blue, through his various loves, from Western society and into Buddhism. That Buddhism, his version, he brings back to England, and has it thoroughly tested - through more love affairs, politics, grief, parenthood....
More a triptych than a trilogy, Paths of Error gives us 3 views through the same window of time. In this the second book, Constant Change, the main character, Blue, begins as an idealist with no ideals. His way is found through women. Rejected by his first girlfriend he drifts into the Merchant Navy, jumps ship in Sri Lanka. Through an American girl there he discovers Buddhism. In London, through an Irish girl, he comes back to boozy earth with a bump . The mother of his children, met in a squat, leads him to a brief rural idyll...
| |  | | Everyday Objects Repurposed as Art
A writer’s two sons, script about Edward Bibbins Aveling: Everyday Objects Repurposed As Art adds up to 130,000 words
Everyday Objects Repurposed As Art is a big book, 130,000 words, and at least 3 stories in one. A neurotic scriptwriter, his two sons’ different tales, his script coming to the defence of the much-maligned Edward Bibbins Aveling, who was responsible for first translating Das Kapital into English and in part for the formation of the British Labour Party. A scriptwriter himself the free-loving Aveling was also charged with making Eleanor Marx deeply unhappy. | |  | | Futuricity: Out of Time
Futuricity is my loveletter to science fiction in novel form. Begins with a history of Futuricity the SF website/forum. Slightly pretentious, the website has occasional sundry contributors but by the start of this tale is down to just four nerds – one in Cumbria, one in North Devon, another in South Wales; with the webmaster/narrator in Somerset. The four are of different ages and professions.
Julian in Ilfracombe is an inventor as well as antique dealer and fixer of things electronic. In his loft laboratory Julian accidentally invents a cage that takes him into space. Unable to figure out just how the cage works he seeks the help of his three friends. With the workings once understood he hopes to patent the cage and sell it as spyware. (This comes later when they discover that once active they and the cage are invisible.) In each their cages all four make it into space, meet up - invisibly - on Saturn's rings. Travelling at the speed of light they go no further than the solar syst | |  | | Happiness: a planet
A moon goes missing. People get killed. Police investigate. There's political skullduggery, a love affair, naked ambition, and some odd goings on...
Each of the 5 novels of the series Towards the unMaking of Heaven takes place within an intergalactic civilisation known variously as the Supreme Civilisation, or, more often, simply as Space. The second novel is called Happiness, which is the name of a planet, whose moon one day disappears.
This story is told in the third person from the viewpoint of its many different characters - a young girl called Belid Keal, a bureaucratic Head of Department called Munred Danporr, the young policeman Drin Ligure, Petre Fanne an over-the-hill gymnast, Anton Singh a mysterious businessman, 'Dr' | |  | | Hit and Run
one of life's plodders becomes embroiled (thinks he does) in events beyond his ken
.... three things happen to turn Somerset divorce detective George Hawkins' view of life upside down. On the same day that he witnesses a hit'n run, his house is burgled and his live-in girlfriend disappears. As a psychological novel, this has the detective subsequently projecting his inner histories onto the puzzling events around him. While on another level 'Marks' becomes an historical novel, with its roots in the Japanese arena of WW2 and in post-War Japanese industrial success... | |  | | in the hand
A collaboration between myself and comic book artist Mal Earl
It's a small limited edition booklet, poems on the one side Mal's drawings on the other.
| |  | | John John
The writing of this had its genesis in my falling off my bike, getting knocked unconscious, and losing all memory of myself for a whole hour or more....
I started blogging this novel on Blogspot and Bibliophilia, where halfway through it got picked up by the writers co-operative Turner Maxwell Books and turned into a paperback.
As for the tale... A man awakes in a hospital bed not knowing who he is. An aurora borealis wends its way into Southern Europe. Electrical activity interferes with life in general... | |  | | John the Explorer
an everyman's journey into bodily, mental, emotional and spiritual states of being...
'...a fine imaginative account of how we discover and cope with (or not) the mysteries of existence. Beautifully measured poems, they, too, deserve the attention of all those who appreciate good poetry... All I can say is, "Buy it!" It will join Vuyelwa [Carlin]'s collection on my shelves as one of my most valued poetry books.' Kevin Bamford Borderlines #25
John the Explorer Ventures into Bodily States (4)
Pain is reptilian.
A blunt-tailed skink
sits round-nosed in the head,
is a squatting ache that
allows no thought.
Sciatica is an alligator
forefeet outspread across
the back edge bowl of
the hips; while its long snout
presses maliciously
grinning into the nape.
Panic
of a heart murmur
is the skittering
of a lizard's
fingered feet.
Backwards through the gut
a viper coils,
scales catching
at every crease
and turn.
br | |  | | Local Colour
Each poem in the collection is based on a character. From characters large and small and colourful.
‘Local colour’ is the catch-all expression used to describe eccentrics inhabiting any one area, be it country village or city quarter.
The characters herein are people, or types, Sam has known. He was tempted to say his ‘misfortune to have known,’ but then would he have been able to write of them?!
| |  | | Marks
one of life's plodders becomes embroiled (thinks he does) in events beyond his ken
.... three things happen to turn Somerset divorce detective George Hawkins' view of life upside down. On the same day that he witnesses a hit'n run, his house is burgled and his live-in girlfriend disappears. As a psychological novel, this has the detective subsequently projecting his inner histories onto the puzzling events around him. While on another level 'Marks' becomes an historical novel, with its roots in the Japanese arena of WW2 and in post-War Japanese industrial success... | |  | | Marraton
Dead and eviscerated cats stuffed with old snail shells are being left in gardens around town. Police Community Support Officer Howard Dawson sort of investigates.
Howard Dawson is a Police Community Support Officer. Less respectful schoolchildren call him Not-a-Proper-Copper, even Tosser-Copper, his seeming function to offer a reassuring uniform presence to the less discerning citizenry. Both his in and out-of-uniform life is drift, losing his days and nights in reveries - on the true purpose of the offshore turbines, what goes on in a chapel with no posters, on shops left empty, the noises coming from strange allotment beasts....
Howard is stuck in small town Marraton caring for his epileptic and disputatious father. Then a dead cat, then another | |  | | Mirror Mirror
Poetry And prose to tell of my years working as a psychiatric nurse.
Poetry Quarterly Review said this of Mirror Mirror - "...the language is clear. He manages to demystify psychiatry, its processes and management, and invoke strong emotional responses. ...what strikes is the poet's genuine compassion for the plight of those stripped of dignity, of belonging..." | |  | | Not Now: Death, Dreams & Reasons for Living
Young poet Okinwe Orbinson is persuaded to investigate a spate of suicides among hybrids on a secret planet. Several death and strange dreams all become involved with the solution. And of course there is love.
Each of the 5 novels of the series Towards the unMaking of Heaven takes place within an intergalactic civilisation known variously as the Supreme Civilisation, or, more often, simply as Space. And the fourth, Not Now: Death, Dreams & Reasons for Living, is an sf exploration of desire, dreams and self-deceit. A clever and conceited young poet, Okinwe Orbinson, is recruited from his artificial city world - part of a moribund space civilisation - by a small mysterious stranger calling himself Leon Reduct. Only when Okinwe has accepted Leon's challenge is he told that his mission is to save a, by | |  | | pieces
an exploration of 21st century attitudes to genocide
'...one of the best books to have appeared in [the] UK so far this century...' Jeremy Hilton Fire #19
'...Smith's language has an abstract and untethered feel, but his descriptions of the natural cycle of life continuing beyond and without reference to the prisoners are compellingly precise...' L. Kiew NHI Online Review '...prose-poetry items which stand alone, or as a landscape of observations... This is a new approach; you need to read it yourself.' Geoff Stevens Purple Patch #101 Rip Bulkeley said - of some of those already published, in this case in the River King Poetry Supplement (USA) - '...suddenly I ran into something not just good but great, a poem which I hope has already gon | |  | | Porlock Counterpoint
Drug smugglers and petty thieves cross paths.
About Porlock Counterpoint has been said, "Never have I read a crime story with more levels than this - above and below ground. You rush through the pages to reach the conclusion... but the conclusion is your own. Magnificent. What a storyteller, what an interrogator is Sam Smith..." - crime novelist Alistair Kinnon
One
On this still day Porlock Bay curves, in a grey sweep of pebbles, from the steep wooded slopes above Porlock Weir around to the haze-speckled cliffs of Hurlstone Point.
Behind this ridged bank of pebbles, sea-breached, are three fields that are being slowly reclaimed by the Bristol Channel. And behind these overgreen fields are the chocolate dark houses of Porlock. Above a lit garage and tourist shops, steep wooded valleys climb to the bald, cloud-touched, moors.
The few buildings of Porlock Weir, at the wooded end of the bay, are separated from Porlock itself by several | |  | | Problems & Polemics
Concerning mental health issues, Problems & Polemics follows on from to be like John Clare, about which was said...
"...the language is clear. He manages to demystify psychiatry, its processes and management, and invoke strong emotional responses. ...what strikes is the poet's genuine compassion for the plight of those stripped of dignity, of belonging..." Poetry Quarterly Review #6
"...Combining a persuasive polemic with lyrical prose poetry... adopts a language that is considered and a lyricism that is crafted... this work is a unique insight into the sad reality of mental illness... Smith's power lies in his simplicity and sincerity..." Somerset County Gazette 14.2.97.
"...These poems, which tell directly, honestly and with unsentimental compassion, of the daily lives of the patients and those whose task it is to care for them, are very powerful... This is an impressive collection of poetry, skilful, often quiet, sometimes shocking and well worth getting to grips with." SCENE
Most Often
First and foremost, for most of us,
the mentally ill are unpredictable
- in so far as we have come to expect
reactions from a whole range of people
who are said not to be mentally ill.
The different are always considered dangerous;
danger equals excitement; thus the different
come to attract and repel in equal measure.
Those writers of fiction, who are unconsciously
confident of their sanity, exploit this
inner otherness. Not, though, to depict
mental illness. No, their use becomes
a celebration, a glamourisa | |  | | Rooms
Every Room described has its own 'Notes for reading.'
ROOMS is getting a publishing history along the lines of Leaves of Grass. This will be ROOMS 4th and updated edition. Who'd have thought a concept would carry this far and be so popular? | |  | | Sam Smith's prose pieces
A collection of short prose pieces, some of which could be prose poetry, the longer possibly short stories.
A collection of oddities gathered together over 50 years of writing. | |  | | Sick Ape: an everyday tale of terrorist folk
The Sick Ape of the title dwells in the mind. Although that's not the first consideration of this tale. First there's the accident of meeting of two divorced and embittered fathers, then comes a cooking and eating of meals, followed by a marriage of disgruntled minds. The consequence of which leads to the pair of them getting labelled terrorists - all within a book dedicated to non-terrorists - with them finally, and during, seeking to resolve their campaign in different ways. One being death. One being this eBook.
Typical and atypical of our time, we both of us felt that we were owned. Owned by our jobs, by our debts, by our responsibilities; our lives enclosed by the usual circles — had to have the car to get the job, had to have the wage to pay for the car; and, to live within commuting distance of the job, we had to buy a house, had to have enough of a wage to pay the mortgage; and, to earn that kind of money, we had to put in the hours, as well as — to keep the job — demonstrate 'commitment' to our employers.
Both of us, thus, were running hard to stay in the same place; and the place we were in | |  | | Sister Blister
A grieving gangster writes to his still-born twin. Two fathers go seeking their sons.
(Entered for the 2000 Booker Prize)
His wife and youngest children killed in a bomb attack, this gangster becomes a grief counsellor. At the same time two teenage boys fail to come home. Their fathers suspect that they have broken into the gangster's woodland garden. | |  | | Skin&Bones
a collaboration between poet and artist, Lyn Sutterby
"Sam Smith is a poet who uses imagery, more than other poetic techniques, to good effect and uses it... to illuminate the harsh, livid beauty of places where humanity literally scratches the earth to live. Other poems are mental landscapes of equal harshness but they are not barren of emotion. The poems are well amplified by Lyn Sutterby's woodcuts reminiscent of Eskimo and other native carvings on slivers of whalebone and wood.... These poems are mirrors in which some readers will not like the reflected truth of what we really are by instinct... Sam Smith is a much more interesting social poet than many others in this respect..." Martin Holroyd, Poetry Monthly #20
Rhythms
From the skyscraper advantage of the ship's bridge
I look out over line upon line
of date palms,
line upon line receding into
an indigo infinity of dusk. Under
this steel sky these too are orchards;
and down on the inky grass
of the water-convoluted banks
boys squat in groups.
Their white robes folded in
between brown legs
they take turns to clap
clap
clap-clap
delighting in quick and complex
syncopations,
incorporating even
the passing thrum
of the ship's big engi | |  | | Something's Wrong
Robert is a paranoid schizophrenic in a seaside residential home. Feeling that something is wrong he buys a handheld recorder to secretly record his suspicions.
Aside from an explanatory prologue and an epilogue in summary the whole of the book is a transcript of Robert's recordings as he tries to discover what he feels is wrong without the staff thinking his behavior is deteriorating and having him returned to secure. Not knowing what is wrong he records any observation he thinks significant - about the staff, his fellow residents, the town and its people. And very slowly it starts to make a kind of sense. There is a murder.... | |  | | Son & Daughter of O/V
Subtitled Analysis of a Sub-literary Cause Célèbre herein a book within a book, a metamorphic tale, a mongrelisation. Herein a history atop a history, Son & Daughter of O/V tells, with only descriptions of the pictures, of a comic book character's growth, his adventures and changes upon Earth and in space.
A book within a book Son & Daughter of O/V purports to be an analysis of, and a page by page description of a fictional graphic novel, child of time. Soon after its first publication child of time got condemned by a quasi religious group and copies publicly burnt. Defenders of free speech came to the book's defence. In the ensuing brouhaha the child of time's author, having published the novel privately under a nom de plume, had his real identity 'exposed' and his studio/office attacked. To be left in peace he gave up all rights to the book, let whoever wanted to copy and publish. Other groups | |  | | Speculations & Changes
Opening section contains Speculations on uses of text in contemporary art, the rest on Changes, difference.
Speculations began as Speculations on Contemporary Art; subsections include Speculations on Uses of Text Within Other Media, perceptions of, the practising of, variously numbered, et cetera.
Changes began as Changes to Your Terms & Conditions, and changed…
The publisher thought this '…exceptional and challenging poetry' | |  | | The 7th Man
A group of men walk unchallenged out of a refugee holding centre in the UK. A public announcement declares one of the escaped to be a terrorist. They disperse.
Somewhere to the west of London a group of men wander unchallenged out of a refugee holding centre.
A refugee is a person who: ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country’
This group of disparate individuals almost immediately disperse. The Seventh Man tells of their journies within the UK. | |  | | The Care Vortex
Based on my experience of working in 'Care', all of my royalties are being sent directly to Child Aid Direct. The book is life-changing. But don't take my word for it.
"The Care Vortex is a vitally important book. It should be read by anyone who has responsibility for children and young adults, whether they be parents, teachers, care workers, police, administrators ... it's all too easy in environments of near-isolation - family homes, care institutions, schools - to sweep the truth (and the children) under the carpet." Neil Marr: author of 'Bullycide: Death at Playtime'
Chapter Three: Introducing The First Of The Girls
Barry leans backwards as he walks: compensatory fat man posture. When he gets out of the bath these days he can slap his hands on the sides of his stomach. It doesn't hurt. He does it to test it: all his flesh feels remote from him, padded out by deadening layers of fat. His personality is the bouncy smaller man he once was, not this ponderous roly-poly.
The bridge gate is a small picket gate with a pull back latch. He has to rest his underbelly on the gate's spikes to open it. Curtains of all the bedrooms are drawn. No b | |  | | The Complete Pieces
poems describing moments in twenty first century prison camps and and life after
'...This powerful book is well worth the money not only for its unassuming psychological insights but for the exquisite sensual images that pervade, all of which are startlingly English. Don't be deterred by the subject matter, this is not a squeamish book; it is a book that explores our values of life and it is a book about endurance and beauty. About 60 pages long, its unshrinking, forthright style make it quite quick to read (I didn't want to put it down) but the images therein linger long after the turning of each page. Pieces should not be left sitting on any publisher's shelf; it shou | |  | | The End of Science Fiction
Just when the end of the world is announced a young woman is killed
(The End of Science Fiction was shortlisted for a 2001 EPPIE)
Begins with a murder along with the announcement that Earth will be destroyed in a few days. Is the death worth investigating? Does civilisation depend on maintaining the rule of law right to the end? How do ordinary people cope with the unimaginable? Or is it all a hoax or a mistake? | |  | | The Friendship of Dagda & Tinker Howth
Elizabethan intrigue and skullduggery had the last leper colony in England - in a hidden away combe on the Devon/Somerset border – suspected of harbouring more than the misshapen and misfits dumped there. Tinker Howth was tasked with discovering just what its dark secrets were. It was there he met and befriended the non-leper Dagdá, so named for his physical peculiarities…
One time called Kitnor, now Culbone, three miles west of Porlock is a steep combe further concealed by close-grown sessile oaks. Isolated, and on the Devon/Somerset border it has been variously used over the centuries as a place of refuge and of banishment. Latterly it has become a destination for poetaster pilgrims - Kubla Khan having been written in the vicinity. Could ‘The Friendship of Dagdá & Tinker Howth’ however be the true origin of Culbone’s pretty little church? Or could Tinker Howth’s tale, set in the first Elizabeth’s reign and in the one-time leper colony, be the underlying reason | |  | | The Secret Report of Friar Otto
Sir William de Marisco and 16 of his followers are sentenced to death by public execution in 1242, for crimes including treason and piracy. As this seems excessive even for the times a noviciate friar is sent to investigate. This book is a contemporary reinterpretation of friar Otto's report.
Rather than quote from the work itself I will give here the publisher's blurb...
The Secret Report of Friar Otto is Sam Smith's reinterpretation of the classic text, The Report In Confidence On The Imprisonment & Execution Of William de Marisco & 16 Of His Followers. Eschewing a traditional, academic translation, Smith has produced a contemporary, very much 21st Century reading that aims to weave into the prose the contextual meaning of what in reality is arcane language, an approach that makes a fascinating story at last accessible to the general as well as academic reading public. But th | |  | | the unMaking of Heaven
this is the 5th book in the SF quintet, 'towards the unMaking of Heaven'
Relates the corporeal states beyond biological death.
".....one of the most intricate and ambitious science fiction books that I have read in recent years, and in almost all areas it pulls off being incredibly detailed and "Sci-Fi geekish" while having a page turning quality that draws the reader in and pushes them to learn more of this new creation, this new mythos almost .... this is science fiction with a mainstream approach, satisfying Sci-Fi buffs but not alienating others." Anthony Lund | |  | | The Wall
A grieving gangster writes to his still-born twin. Two fathers go seeking their missing sons.
His wife and youngest children killed in a bomb attack, this gangster becomes a grief counsellor. At the same time two teenage boys fail to come home. Their fathers suspect that they have broken into the gangster's woodland garden. | |  | | Trees: The Tree Prospectus
This is what Liberty Rowley put up on Amazon after reading the short-lived Safkhet e-edition: "Wonderful book exploring the nature of writing, of love, of grief and also giving details on trees in the way that Moby Dick has chapters on different species of Whale."
We know from Trees' opening chapter that the narrator’s adopted daughter, Hazel, is going to die. But when? After the steroid treatments that make her into a slip-slopping bag of water? Or after discovering that her biological father is the millionaire Gustaf Eriksson, a man obsessed with the reforesting of England? Or will it be when her mother gives up her café and herself becomes involved with The Tree Prospectus?
Gustaf Eriksson made his reforesting fortune as a pop-music promoter, now in his tree-planting retirement he writes and occasionally performs haiku with one of his old b | |  | | Undeclared War
Tells of a young man fighting to find meaning to his life. Leads him from Paignton, England, to Cyprus, then Crete, ends up in London...
'Undeclared War' is the first book of the 'Paths of Error' trilogy, which is more a triptych than a trilogy, giving us 3 views through the same window of time. 'Undeclared War' sees rebel-born Tom Newson fighting his way out of Paignton, into the army, through Cyprus and out of the army. In 60s Brixham he discovers drugs. In Crete he finds a life worth living. Then he finds an old girlfriend. But he ends up, lost, dealing in 70s London... | |  | | Vera & Eddy's War
Vera was a hairdresser. Eddy was a bricklayer. Just married, and along came the Second World War
Europe - the Second World War was a war that involved everyone, not just a few generals and politicians, but every member of every family. Devon, England - Vera & Eddy meet and get married but are soon overtaken by extraordinary events of war. From almost comical preparations to repel an invasion and grim reality of enemy air attacks, to the almost surreal spectacle of D-Day and the fighting that followed; Vera & Eddy lived through it and dealt with it in their individual ways. For Eddy, the breakout from Normandy and the advance through Belgium and Holland to the German border was a time tha | |  | | We Need Madmen
Post WW3 novel of dubious morality wherein a camp survivor acquires the means for revenge
With his arm tattooed Henry, a camp survivor and petty thief comes upon a case full of money belonging to supporters of the deposed fascistic government. Buying a gun he goes on a revenge spree, which to begin with seems righteous, but then.... | |  | | We Us Our
The Rampagers were active light years before in a corner of the galaxy, their rampaging brought to a temporary halt by a global intelligence. The students' task, their research, is to bring together a few partially recovered recordings, already decoded and translated. The greater part of material available to them however is the book-like testimony, We Us Our, the singular publication of that global intelligence.
All the animals and humans are approximations.
It took a global intelligence to bring even a temporary halt to The Rampagers. Why would the creatures who comprised that global intelligence have allowed themselves to be driven from existence? Or opting for battle, use every cunning ploy and device at their disposal? We Us Our relates their resistance. | |  | | You Human: the Leander Chronicle
The Supreme Civilisation has a passive rebellion on its hands. Talkers, hybrid human/Nautili, are going missing. Promiscuous poet Farley Judd investigates....
Each of the 5 novels of the series Towards the unMaking of Heaven takes place within an intergalactic civilisation known variously as the Supreme Civilisation, or, more often, simply as Space. And the third novel, You Human, is in 3 parts, Prologue, Leander Chronicle, and Epilogue. Prologue and Epilogue are told by the randy poet Farley Judd. He is also Director of Communication on his Station. Free of any sexual hypocrisies himself, he tells of other station inhabitants sexual obsessions with his Talker. Talkers are telepaths in instant communication with all throughout Space. The result of i |
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 Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead. |
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Marooned
by Jennifer Miller
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 Marooned is the 1860's saga of Justin Radcliff, a young American, who is beaten and thrown overboard by his evil twin brother, Edward.
Kolya, a handsome Black man and new leader of the transplanted Zulu tribe there, finds Justin caught in hi |
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