If Wishes Were Horses

I closed my eyes momentarily. What had I done? What had I started? What a mess. What a ghastly mess they were in. And it was all down to me. I wanted to turn the clock back. Start again. Save the heartache for everyone. Because that's what it would be - heartache. I couldn't kid myself. Not one of us would emerge from this unscathed or unchanged. But I also knew it was too late. What I had started someone else would finish. And I had no idea where the finishing line was or how any one of us would get there.

If Wishes Were Horses
Sallyann Sheridan
ISBN 978-1906710-90-3 UK £8.99
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The Maskmaker

'None of us can move forward in life until we have exorcised the demons that haunt us.' Ira's story is shocking. LA's most eligible bachelor and successful businessman in Hollywood's glamorous motion picture industry, has everything he wants - then he meets Martha. Across the Atlantic, Alex tells his uncannily similar story as he finds himself totally unmasked by the woman he loves - Cathy.

A drama of tangled relationships unravels - Both Ira and Alex are united by a common bond of experience - both caught up in intricate webs of sex, lies and deceit, both women wearing the mask of pretence concealing their true identities and past. Engaging, frank, sensitive, and even heart-breaking, the Maskmaker's tale is compulsive reading.

The Maskmaker
Michael Nimier
ISBN 978-1907499784 UK £8.99
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One more day to go

Tom Hall's centenary is fast approaching and the Sea View Nursing home administrator, the bossy and self-important Martha Branigan, doesn't want anyone to ruin the forthcoming birthday celebrations she's planned or, more importantly, spoil 'her' day or her plans to advance her profile. However, feisty old Tom's no pushover and if he can prevent Martha from getting her own way just once then life would have been worthwhile...

One more day to go
David Snook
ISBN 978-1906710-66-8 UK £7.99
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A Small Key to a Big Life

Despite a devoted wife and two loving sons, Bill Knight is so disillusioned with his life that he hovers on the brink of despair.

Trapped in a job he hates, Bill is consumed by his youthful desire to travel the world and taste the freedom he has always craved.

When his longing drives him to take a reckless gamble, events quickly spiral out of control.

Bill's life is certainly transformed but is it in the way he imagined?

A Small Key to a Big Life
Martin Gillard
ISBN 978-1906206482 UK £8.99
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The Importance of Being Drunk

Businessman Alan Bland is facing retirement and has devised an ingenious plan for the future of the family firm. The question is: how do Eddie and Martin – his drunken, layabout sons and heirs – fit into his manipulative plot?

In drinking holes from Brighton to Newcastle, this hilarious story follows Eddie and Martin on their endless benders – where breakfast is the contents of a hipflask and, many pints later, dinner is a packet of crisps and a pickled egg.

This is a funny yet tragic tale of family ties, corporate tricks and lives dominated by alcohol.

“Speaking as one who knows these things, never underestimate The Importance of Being Drunk” Robert Rankin

The Importance of Being Drunk
Robert Gray
ISBN 1-906206-14-7 UK £6.99
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Torquil

In 1872 Torquil and his family emigrated from Norway following the promise of a paradise land of opportunity and abundance in New Zealand.

This absorbing story, beautifully told through the eyes of a young boy deeply in touch with nature, tells of the hardship and tragedy the Scandinavian people faced in the “Seventy Mile Bush”. How they dealt with the harsh realities of a new culture, language and the challenge of transforming dense virgin forest into a viable farming landscape.

Torquil
Susannah Brobyn
ISBN 978-1906206-08-6 UK £6.99
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