The Observers
'Your mother's dead.'
Silence. But what are you supposed to say in response to that; especially when the person who tells you is the father you haven't seen, let alone heard from, for more than ten years?

Five years ago Martin Cross left England for Spain without a backward glance. Now he has been forced to return and confront his past - an estranged father, the childhood companions he abandoned to their despair, and the secrets and emotions which destroyed his family.

The journey is one Martin hoped he would never to make - a journey from which he might not return.

Praise for Michael Corkett's Will You Let The Morning Come Soon?

"the debut of a promising young writer" - Adam Lively

"class-A literature" - The Big Issue

"a stunning debut" - London Student Magazine

The Observers
Michael Corkett
Paperback -190 pages (2002)
ISBN 1904018386 UK £6.99
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will you let the morning come soon?
When you've experienced every high available, where do you go for excitement? And when this unadulterated self-indulgence becomes tainted how do you cope with the ultimate come-down?

The explicit novella exploring the realities of unfettered hedonism marks the stunning debut of a young gifted writer in the genre of moder contemporary fiction.

"In this uncomfortably absorbing novel Corkett touches hte raw hearbeat of the clubbing generation of the nineties."
London Student

"A raw compelling decent into the miseries of youth - the debut of a promising writer."
Adam Lively - 'Blue Fruit', 'Sing The Body Electric'

will you let morning come soon?
Michael J Corkett
Paperback -125 pages (1997)
ISBN 190079635 UK £4.99
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Down Mexico Way
June 20, 1864. Young William Dawson, expelled from public school for an act of lechery he did not commit and banished from home by his bigoted father, sails into New York harbour. Alone, yet filled with timid hope, he steps ashore to taste his first slice of what will become the American Dream.
On that same day, Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and reputed to be the grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte, enters Mexico City in triumph to be proclaimed Emperor.
Years later, these two very different men are fated to meet in tragic circumstances neither could ever have foreseen.
Set against a backdrop of some of the most dramatic events in 19th century European and American history, Down Mexico Way takes the reader on a journey through the courts and high politics of Paris, Vienna and Mexico City, and the dangers and excitement of New York, Washington and Chicago.

P G Williams was born in Merthyr Tydfil, where he attended Cyfarthfa Castle Grammar School. He graduated in mathematics from the University College of Swansea and was later awarded an M.Sc. For research in the field of exponential polynomials. He then served for two years in the RAF before teaching in Further and Higher Education. In 1997, he retired from his post as tutor and counsellor with the Open University.
He has had short stories and poems published in various magazines and anthologies, as well as being shortlisted for the Open Poetry Prize in the Swanage Festival of the Arts. A collection of his poetry has been published in the 1999 edition of Peer Poetry International.

Down Mexico Way
Peter Gordon Williams
ISBN 1900796775 UK £6.99
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"WASSA MATTER MATE SOMEBODY 'ITCHYER?"
When a tearful four-year-old Tony Betts comforted by a boy over the
garden wall uttering the memorable word 'Wassa matter mate somebody 'itchyer', young Betts had a revelation: there was a world
outside of his immediate home and family, and it was brimming with excitement, fun and fascinating-people.
Wassa MatterMate,.. is a nostalgic trip to the West London suburb of Isleworth from the late 1930s to the mJdl'40s, where Betts grew up amid the horrors of the Blitz and wartime rationing. But to a curious boy, far more important were the friendships formed, street fights won and lost, visits to B(idd)s Mill with its dark, sinister pond, and all the other things that make the world of childhood so endlessly compelling.
His memories honed by affection, Belts' fluent, lively prose recalls the people, events and atmosphere of this special time and place. It is at once an absorbing piece of local history and a heartwarming reminiscence of innocence and youth.

Tony Betts was born in Isleworth in 1935, but has retired to Fareham, Hampshire where, in addition to writing, he is able to pursue his other interests of social and family history and music. His London working life included a week in the British film industry and time in the insurance industry, civil aviation, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and the defence industry.

Outside of London he did his National Service in the Royal Air Force, and furthered a career in computer systems within the defence and manufacturing industries.

"WASSA MATTER MATE SOMEBODY 'ITCHYER?"
Tony Betts
Paperback -232 pages (2001)
ISBN 1900796244 UK £9.95
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