Mar 4, 2013

Alexander and the Alien

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Alexander and the Alien

Synopsis:

It was just before lunchtime on the sunniest of sunny summer days that an alien knocked on Alexander Smile's front door. He said his name was Mr. Thompson and he was terribly sorry but he'd crash-landed in Alexander's garden during the night and had to make a few repairs to his ship before he could take-off.

Almost reluctantly, and certainly not intentionally, Alexander finds himself drawn into a hunt for the most famous horde of treasure ever to have been lost out among the stars. Along the way he learns of the Big Pig in the Sky, and of the terribly sad tale of the Lost Walumba, to say nothing of the terrors of the Skroffle, the Muzzlewhucker and the Splonk. Together with a Bogwoggler and a terribly polite Zombie, Alexander and the Alien discover that the most valuable treasure is that which can't even be seen

Jul 24, 2013

Feeding Friends is Fun

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Feeding Friends is Fun

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Cooking for students, singles and those who would like to cook. This book is about understanding some basic ingredients and how to use them to produce simple, tasty, attractive meals.

You may not have been around people who cooked good and interesting food but you'd like to try. More and more young people are setting up their own dining clubs with friends.

In these difficult financial times cooking with and for friends is much more satisfying and sociable than eating out. Cooking has always been my most satisfying and creative hobby. It is an accomplishment and set of skills that adds significantly to your image. Tasting, feeling understanding and preparing food is also a truly sensual experience sensual experience, Do just sit around, take the plunge, give it a try......... you'll never regret it.

Nov 27, 2013

1015 Copenhagen K

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Re-formatted and updated in July 2013, this is the best selling and controversial book on Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary and her dysfunctional royal in-laws. This book made headlines around the world, when it was first published in Danish in 2007. This English version contains never before published information about Crown Prince Frederik’s troubled childhood.

It also contains an apology to a senior member of the Danish Royal family!

Crown Princess Mary spoke out in support of those stores, who refused to sell this book.

This book is a cautionary tale for the likes of the Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, on how to make the transition from commoner to princess.

Apr 8, 2014

The Poppy Fields

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Fate intervenes when they least expect…

Emily is still struggling to come to terms with her tragic loss two years on. Her entire being has been taken hostage by the poppy fields. The only place that reminds her she was once truly happy. James a military physiotherapist for the British Army has thrown himself into his work avoiding love at all costs. With several tours to Afghanistan under his belt he is fighting his demons daily. The loss of his unit during his last tour always at the forefront of his mind, until one day his eyes lock with the most beautiful and fragile woman he’d ever seen. From that day forth his life is changed forever.

Dec 29, 2014

Ted Friend and the Magic Jumper Part Two

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The second and final part of the first book sees Ted Friend and Dan go much deeper into the strange World in Between in their quest to get back the Magic Jumper and save his home, Snowflake Mountain, from the evil witch Blacky and her army of bad tempered Ex-Men. The journey is bound to be dangerous and difficult, and help will be needed for sure, but could it be the witch has her own race against time? All secrets will be revealed as the strands of our action packed story join. Please read part two of Ted Friend and the Magic Jumper for the ride of a lifetime.

What some people said about part one:

“I loved the book and I’m a grown up (albeit with a vivid imagination and a love of fantasy)! From start to finish it is a fun adventure and I really wasn’t expecting to enjoy it quite as much as I did. I review many different types of book and thank the author for making this one so enjoyable. A truly fun read” (Maria Fitzgerald, Teddy Bear Times , May 2014)

“I was enchanted by this story, a real roller coaster adventure and I can’t wait to read part two” (Falkirk Herald, August 2014)

“Huge fun… I can see it’s funky and tongue-in-cheek and I’m sure Ted Friend will find many admirers among its target readership” (Tim Bowler, Carnegie Medal winning children’s author of twenty books, via email September 2014)

Oct 26, 2015

The Humorous History of English Football. Vol.1

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A humorous history of English football from its invention as a festival activity in the streets of England until the moment in the 1950 World Cup when the nation that created the game lost their dominance of it.

List of Chapters:
Shrovetide Football
Public Schools Football
The First Football Clubs
Chaos
The Formation of the FA
Charles Alcock: Father of the FA Cup
The First International Match
Preston North End: The Invisibles
Football Innovations
The FA Cup Stolen!
The Maximum WAG
Alf Common: The First £1,000 Trancer
Cigarette Cards
Th Howarth Affair
The White Horse Final
Back to Square One
Herbert Chapman: Football’s Greatest Innovator
England Are Out of This World
Ronnie Dix: Boy Wonder
Coloured Sports Newspapers
1950: Below Horizontal

Excerpts:

FA Rules 1863:
1. Hacking is forbidden. Indeed, any attempt to gain information about future opponents will be frownd upon.
5. A player will be banned for life if he is caught throwing a match, especially if it is thrown at FA Headquarters, having first doused the building in oil.
13. Players must not use deodorants or perfumes in the players’ tunnel otherwise it could become confused with the Chanel Tunnel.
(From The Formation of the FA)

Instead of playing on a green surface, a giant flag of the host country shall be painted over the entire pitch (this idea was dropped when it was realised that all Isle of Man home matches would have to be played over three legs).
(From The First International Match)

Preston became the first Football League Champions. They negotiated all 22 league matches without defeat (from the observations of their fans they seemed to negotiate them without dehands, dearms, delegs and deheads too).
(From Preston North End: The Invisibles)

It was agreed to engage the services of The Archbishop of Canterbury to bless the grass as then the Wembley pitch would be considered hallowed turf. However, they needed to ensure that his Holiness was not standing in an offside position otherwise it would become dis-hallowed turf.
(From The White Horse Final)

‘Funnier than an England World Cup campaign…and that takes some doing!’

Oct 4, 2016

Sons of the Citadel

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Did you think the gods would leave you alone, Pacorus? Did you truly believe the Romans would forget the humiliation of Carrhae and not rest until they had won back their lost eagles?

Pacorus had believed the defeat of Crassus would signal the end of Roman interest in Parthia and for many years his kingdom knew peace and prosperity. But the vindictiveness of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt draws him and the Parthians into a new war, one in which they would be fighting for their very existence when her husband Mark Antony invades the empire at the head of over one hundred thousand men.

At first the new high king of the Parthian Empire refuses the assistance of Pacorus and his famed army, but as disaster follows disaster only Dura’s soldiers can save the empire from being swallowed whole by the Romans. An older, wiser Pacorus is forced to take the field against the might of Rome once more in a war that will be a turning point for him, the empire and his family.

A map of the Parthian Empire at the time of Pacorus (the 1st Century BC) can be found on the maps page of my website: www.peterdarman.com

Dec 22, 2017

Between the Shadow And Lo

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“A voice that was strong and cruel came from somewhere deep within me. When the voice split away and talked to me all by itself I started calling her Lo…She’d watched me at my lowest points and saved up a thousand slights, a million minor offenses. She forgave nothing, and now she wanted revenge.”

Leah is an alcoholic. She’s antisocial, self-destructive, and deeply damaged. She’s also battling a voice in her head she calls Lo, who wants to take over her body. Lo is everything Leah isn’t—beautiful, charming, confident, and ruthless in her desires.  She commandeers Leah’s will whenever Leah gets too drunk, and acts as her escort through the rainy Seattle underworld.

As a misfit bibliophile, Leah’s conception of reality has never been rock solid, but as she spirals deeper into addiction the “real world” of bars, bikers, dealers, and addicts slowly dissolves into Lo’s dark vision. As Lo steadily tightens her hold, Leah prepares to make one last bid for survival, knowing her only chance is to transcend Lo’s terrifying drive toward death.

An addiction memoir from Lauren Sapala, Between the Shadow and Lo is a new addition to the gritty and hilarious transgressive fiction tradition of Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Bukowski, and Joshua Mohr.

Oct 9, 2018

Soul Boundary

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Can a soul be transferred? Should it?
The Ark Project is the well-funded startup that techies dream of joining. Seeing dollar signs behind biophysicist Tensel Brown’s idea, Ark woos him with flashy technology, the promise of human testing, and even an expensive transgenic cat. But Ark’s investment in their star scientist is nothing compared to what they stand to gain if his soul-transfer technology succeeds.

Not far from Ark headquarters, Rachel Deimos supports her family as a human-voice worker, a job that exposes her to soul fabric every day. After illegally mining psychological and spiritual data about Rachel and others, Ark coerces them to join an interstellar expedition that will serve its own questionable purposes.

But no one grasps Ark’s plan in full, and soon Tensel, Rachel, and others must connect with one another in deep and subtle ways to break free of Ark’s intricate control over their lives.

Soul Boundary explores the hidden costs of technology, and how high a price humanity is willing to pay in an increasingly depersonalized world.

For more about Soul Boundary, visit soulboundary.com.

Praise for Soul Boundary
“Hands down the best literary sci-fi novel I’ve read in years. Fans of Bradbury and L’Engle won’t want to miss this.” — Lauren Sapala, author of The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World’s Rarest Type

Sep 18, 2019

The Angus McKinnon thrillers: A Trilogy

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“Nick Elliott delivers in spades when it comes to fast-paced, intelligent, international thrillers. You feel, smell and touch every authentically crafted location; you’re expertly drawn into a maze of shadows and sinister organizations and characters where nothing is what it seems. This really is thriller writing of the highest calibre.”--Craig Russell, award-winning author of the bestselling Jan Fabel and Lennox crime thrillers.

SEA OF GOLD
MONEY, MURDER AND LOVE ON THE HIGH SEAS. IN THE WORLD OF SHIPPING THE RULES ARE BLURRED AND THE OCEANS LAWLESS
When instinct tells maritime claims investigator Angus McKinnon that a wave of frauds must be connected, he thinks it’s just business as usual. Instead, he uncovers a ruthless conspiracy born of greed and the lust for power.
As he starts to unravel a trail leading from the post-Soviet drabness of a Black Sea port to a sweltering anchorage in the Gulf of Thailand, a devastating explosion in the Indian Ocean changes everything.
Facing down terrifying childhood memories, torn between two very different women and doubting old friends, McKinnon must navigate a precarious path between secretive government agencies, shady syndicates and avaricious crime lords, towards an unpredictable endgame.
A gripping page-turner, Sea of Gold draws the reader into a world of extremes, the casual affluence of the super-rich contrasting with the dignified poverty of the desperate. Meanwhile, McKinnon’s two loves – the enigmatic Claire and his devoted long-term lover, Eleni, vie for his attention.

DARK OCEAN
A WORLD WAR II WRECK LIES BENEATH THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. IS HER CARGO WORTH KILLING FOR?
Marine claims investigator Angus McKinnon is summoned to Hong Kong, his personal city of ghosts, where a local shipowner and his beautiful daughter need his help.
But their claim on a mysterious cargo lost during the War is not as simple as they say, and the cold case abruptly heats up when Angus’s old friend and mentor is violently murdered back in Greece.
Haunted, obstructed and plagued by self-doubt, Angus soon finds himself trapped in a web of international intrigue that draws him to the typhoon-lashed South China Sea and the shocking discovery of a plan to attack Hong Kong and hold Asia Pacific – and the world beyond – to ransom. But the trail doesn’t end there …
Amidst relentless danger, Angus’s resolve is once more tested down to the wire.

BLACK REEF
A SHIP’S CAPTAIN IS FOUND HANGED IN HIS CABIN: SUICIDE OR MURDER?
Marine claims investigator Angus McKinnon is assigned to the case, but when he discovers a falsely declared cargo of military equipment in the ship’s holds, alarm bells start ringing in the intelligence world.
What looked routine becomes a perilous mission to thwart a coup d’état that threatens to pit two global superpowers against one another, while a secretive bank with Nazi gold glimmering darkly in its vaults attempts to derail the investigation.
And as questions and misgivings mount, what motivates the beautiful Mariana da Cunha to help Angus in the troubled land of her birth?
From the Atlantic Ocean to the jungles of West Africa and a final face-off in the vast emptiness of the Sahara, McKinnon must finally join with a daunting array of military resources, and marshal his own wits to bring down a psychopathic war criminal and those playing him as their proxy.

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