A hilarious short story involving academia, thespians and shenanigans. Caught In the Act describes the escapades of an overworked university don who takes a hobby to help relax and forget his academic woes. He joins a local amateur dramatics group with the intention of serious acting but taking the lead role in 'A Inspector Calls' leads to all manner of disasters. Eventually the 'Inspector' falls - into the world of oversexed sirens, a lisping homosexual, drunken brawls and police callouts...

Approximately one hundred hilarious limericks and non-sense verses to help you giggle through the day. Essential bedtime fun for parents and children.

Following the success of ‘A Pocket Full Of Limericks, the present title ‘Another Pocket Full Of Limericks’ is the second in an ongoing series of limericks and nonsense poems for children and adults. It includes a introduction to the limerick genre and over one hundred hilarious limericks and nonsense verses to help you giggle through the day. Essential bedtime fun for parents and children alike.

A hilarious short story set in a fictitious university, describing the dubious late night exploits of members of academic staff. Caught is the first in a series of "Caught" short stories and introduces some of the main characters. Possibly built on genuine events and moulded from real characters, the ‘Caught’ stories are embellished with a ‘Moretti’ magic that disguises their true origins and personas whilst keeping them tangible and side-splittingly believable. Possibly built on genuine e...

This volume is a compendium of almost 400 limericks and nonsense verse for adults and children. Following the success of ‘A Pocket Full Of Limericks’ and ‘Another Pocket Full Of Limericks’, it includes all of the limericks from those first two volumes with more than 100 additional new contributions. Though the origin of the term limerick is often associated with the city of Limerick or the county in Ireland, the limerick style of poetry was developed in England from the early 18th century....

The year is 1841 and Grayson Sherbrooke, a popular author of gothic paranormal mysteries, lives on the coast of Northern England with his 4-year-old-son, Pip. He's asked by a neighboring little girl, P.C., to come to Wolffe Hall because something terrible is threatening her and her mother. She's come to Grayson because she's confused him with his fictional hero, Thomas Straithmore, who overcomes all obstacles and always triumphs over otherworldly evil. Thus, to her mind, Thomas is the only...

SECOND in a new paranormal mystery series!When Tess Callahan, new owner of Dead End Pawn, meets her grandmother the banshee, life is about to get complicated. When Tess’s partner Jack Shepherd, tiger shapeshifter and P.I., gets involved to help them investigate a banshee-kidnapping spree, life is about to get deadly. Because nothing is ever simple in Dead End, Florida, and sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.This novel is a paranormal mystery ...

The Light of Evening is a reissued edition of the novel by award-winning author Edna O'Brien.In Edna O'Brien's twentieth work of fiction, an elderly widow on her deathbed in rural Ireland tells the story of her life—a story of love, family, estrangement, and motherhood."O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." — Newsweek

A delightful short story from Jane Gardam, revisting that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Edward Feathers (known to many as Old Filth) in the days after he loses his beloved wife, Betty.

A dream of desolation and death. A nightmare vision of a looming end, surrounded by hidden enemies and desperate strangers.His love taken. His hope lost. His life forfeit because of his failures, his inadequacies.How can this end be a beginning? And how can a dream seem so real?

‘Give me the boy and I will show you the man’ the saying goes. In this warm, tender, wonderfully evocative and often hilarious memoir one of the best-loved men in Britain, Alan Titchmarsh, brilliantly recalls his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire.Growing up in the beautiful landscape that surrounds Ilkley in Wharfedale inspired Alan’s early passion for nature.In a time of post-war austerity, hard work and ‘making do’ was not just the lot of the grown-ups; for the young Alan it was...

A young woman finds herself is a precarious situation after a night that is sure to haunt her. During a silent, tear filled ride home with her friend, she finds that the earlier events of the night are nothing compared to what she is about to encounter.