Merlin's Crystal      Complete Trilogy by Frances Pawley

UK price: £11.99     US price: $16.99 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback Size : 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm Pages: 412 ISBN: 978-0956239273 Published: 11 August-2009

 

"It dropped from the wall like a giant fireside pussycat, but this was no pussycat, this was a black panther.  Its nose lifted upward, sniffing the air.  Stealthily the animal walked towards her following her scent, its powerful legs covering the ground in seconds.    Knowing there was no escape, her instinct was to run.  Sylvie turned and with her best efforts she ran...."

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A Scream From the Shadows by Saul Ruthven

UK price: £6.99     US price: $10.40 Publisher: SPIDERWIZE Format: Paperback Size : 20.3 x 12.7 x 0.7 cm Pages: 124 ISBN: 978-0956239259 Published: July-2009

 

Book Description

Alone in the chasm of a fractured mind, sits a solitary figure. This man has seen beyond the horrors of madness to a place where shadows have a voice. That voice is heard only by those who are lost to reason. That voice is A Scream, from the Shadows.

Diadem Books visits Luxembourg for Diana Button's book-signing.

Do you believe in angels?                         Thought of buying your own hotel?

These pages not only make available books for you to acquire for your own reading pleasure. They also constitute a forum for writers to air their views on writing and publishing, and a place where they can tell the world about their books and show samples or tit-bits from their works. Above all, Diadem Books presents an opportunity for writers to publish their own books in an attractive paperback format through Writers Club Press. The publishing package, which includes editing, will enable your book to become available on a world-wide basis through Amazon Books, Barnes and Noble, as well as various on-line bookstores. 

Various pages in the web site may be of particular interest:

• THE NEWS PAGE.  We will be especially pleased to hear from small presses and self-publishers. If you are a writer or a self-publisher, the  News page (see the button at the top) will help you learn from others in the same field. You may wish to use the News page yourself to tell others about yourself and hand out some helpful advice! The News page is in effect a "Newsletter"  where you might learn of helpful organisations such as the Author-Publisher Network, or find lists of other sites on the world-wide web where you might glean some good advice or get some help about your own publishing venture. You might like to tell us about your own site, or exchange banners

• NOVELS.  The Novel pages are where you have the opportunity to say something about the novel(s) you have written (or about the novel(s) you are selling). This may be in the form of a brief summary of the plot or by way of a synopsis. This can be followed by a sample chapter, usually the opening chapter, or some extracts from the novel which illustrate some of the main themes or action. Naturally you'll want to select samples that will display your writing at its best. A reader or prospective purchaser will have the opportunity to sample the book, just as he or she would if picking up the book and glancing through it in a bookshop or library. An illustration of the cover may help to catch the eye!

• POETRY :  SELECTIONS OR ANTHOLOGIES. The pages devoted to poetry may be for displaying specific poems you have written, or for samples from an anthology which you have had published or which you may have self-published. Poetry anthologies are the most difficult to sell, so this is a good opportunity to advertise yourself as a poet! You may like to say something about your poetic vision or style, and what has driven you to write.

• SELF-HELP OR  SELF-IMPROVEMENT BOOKS.  Self-help, self-improvement or "how-to" books are perhaps the easiest to sell. People will want to read your book if you have a specific skill, or special knowledge, to impart. You may have written a book on fly-fishing, or on how to acquire and manage your own hotel! Or perhaps you've developed a business plan that's made you a lot of money! People will want to know how you did it.

          These pages will also list a number of works currently available in inexpensive soft-cover form.

Some recent titles from Diadem Books

Jesus, I Trust in You      by Domo Qui  UK price: £8.00    US price: $14.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9 Pages: 154 ISBN: 0-595-43658-7 Published: Apr-2007 Other Formats: Hard Cover (£13.00)| Adobe eBook     Cover shows Jesus Christ as depicted by Saint Sister Faustina – a Catholic Nun whose vision of Christ was given to her by JESUS himself. The book brings together devotional poems inspired by Thomas à Kempis and a cover picture of Christ as seen by Sister Faustina in 1931 with the following promise of Our Lord: “I promise that the soul that will venerate this picture will not perish. I further promise to that soul victory over its enemies."

Of Laundries and Rabbits: Growing Up in England and Scotland        by John Waddell & Ellen Waddell

UK price: £7.00     US price: $12.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9 Pages: 112 ISBN: 0-595-52039-1 Published: Jun-2008

The captivating story of two people who grew up in two very different environments—one in the harsh economical conditions of urban London, the other in the picaresque countryside of rural Scotland.

THE WAKING & MAKING OF PAUL GAUGUIN         A Play for Voices by Roy Holland

UK price: £8.33     US price: $15.02 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 98 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-3-7 Published: July-2008

It was during his illness, in 1887, when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the battle dramatised in this play – a battle imagined in his body, and in his mind, and in his moral nature – could have taken place

	THE NOWHERE MAN by Roy Holland
	UK price: £9.89     US price: $17.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 262 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-0-6 Published: July-2008

A young man in Birmingham, in the sixties, escapes the humdrum mundanity of life through fantasies, tries to find himself, and finally escapes his dead-end lifestyle by gaining a place at a university.

In this battle between good and evil, the author hasn’t lost her magical touch and proves once again that she has a special knack for weaving a fascinating and spellbinding tale of witches and wizards.

Other formats: HARD COVER:   UK price: £15.00     US price: $28.95

The author, a medical doctor in the UK, revisits his native Ghana after 13 years' absence to find many positive changes and developments in spite of lingering economic and social problems. The book is a fascinating journey of discovery for the reader new to Ghana, but will be enjoyed by Ghanaian readers

A collection of poems of praise and supplication. The verses remind us that the Lord's grace, strength and love are sufficient for our needs and will sustain us throughout any difficulty.

An autobiographical account of the author's life from 1940, when he left England for Southern Rhodesia until his return to England in 1999. A highlight is the entertaining account of his colonial service in the Somaliland Protectorate.

Rhodesia was once a prosperous and thriving country, and the story of the author's enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit in that land, followed by his desperate escape from the country when, as Zimbabwe, it became ruled by a tyrant, imparts a realistic perspective of the present desperate plight of many exiles from a country that was once a paradise and the breadbasket for so much of Africa.

HAVE   ANYTHING  YOU  REALLY REALLY  WANT!   -  A  CHRISTIAN   TESTIMONY    by   Charles  Muller ,   MA  PhD   DLitt  DEd        Diadem Books      33,312   words     U K Price:  £10.27

This is a thought-provoking study about the power of positive thinking and the Christian faith.  It follows the author's own personal journey of faith and discovery as he details how his Christian faith unleashed a positive power - in the attainment of personal, even material goals (including the acquisition of university degrees and a Rolls Royce!), but more significantly in the realisation of far-reaching goals: the discovery of his wife and ultimately the transition from university professor in South Africa to successful hotel-owner in Scotland and to author. An important lesson in the experience of mid-life change is seen in the close dependence on God's love and boundless supply for all needs, material and spiritual.