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Books recently published:

Waipori Reflections     
Contemplations in Three Locations
by Charles Muller  
UK price: £9.99   US price: $14.99
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 5.5" x 8.5" (21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm)
Pages: 350
ISBN: 978-1907294358
Published: December-2009
 

The “reflections” in this volume were inspired by the author’s acquisition of a house in the splendid isolation of a remote village surrounded by a scenic reserve. In Waipori Falls Village, about an hour's drive from Dunedin, in South Island, New Zealand, the author and his old friend and colleague Dr Garrett Evans could reflect upon life, on their experiences in different parts of the world where they had lived. This is followed by the author’s reflections back in Clashnessie, his home in the Highlands of Scotland, followed by his reflections during the summer of 2008, which he spent at his home in Nova Scotia. The book, which encompasses the three locales, constitutes, in effect, a “trilocation” portmanteau! All the reflections, wherever they are set, were inspired by his time in Waipori, which began the whole process.

Also included are a number of articles by John Kelly, being memories of the early days in Waipori Falls Village, at the time when the hydro-electric scheme was being constructed in the valley.


How to Learn English Quickly
by Michael Mitchell    
UK price: £11.99     US price: $17.99
Format: Paperback
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 390
ISBN: 978-1907294297
Published: Dec-2009



 

How to Learn English Quickly: Choose to:

  1. Have fun learning, but with serious intentions.
  2. Persevere purposefully and with persistence.
  3. Adopt an optimistic attitude: give and receive.
  4. Have a desire to listen and to communicate.

A Discerning Woman's Guide to Manhunting           
by Bel Roberts
UK price: £8.99     US price: $13.99
Format: Paperback
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Size : 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.7 cm
Pages: 324
ISBN: 978-1907294334
Published: Dec-2009 

At last, a novel a generation has been waiting for—a Bridget Jones’s Diary for the mature romantic!

Geri Jones, though old enough to be Bridget’s mother, gets a buzz from attending university lectures, while keeping an eye out for that elusive Mr Right. Her best friend has just bagged her man, while her college mate, Gloria, is about to cremate hers. Competition for men is stiff, the outcome often an anti-climax, but Geri persists. Does her barbed tongue disguise a soft heart worth saving? Who is brave enough to find out? Her attempts to find happiness via personal ads, introduction agencies and cyber-dating prove unsuccessful, but she garners enough information about middle aged men to write a thesis on them! Her refreshing honesty and dauntless courage prove that she empathises with all women, everywhere.


Movie Idea        
by Barrie David
UK price: £6.99     US price: $9.99
Format: Paperback
Published by DIADEM BOOKS
Size : 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm (6 x 9")
Pages: 108
ISBN: 978-1907294327
Published: Dec-2009

Folks who leave the Arizona interstate highway and venture into the barren mountainous interior do so for many reasons. The isolation, to capture on film the awesome scenery, or perhaps to imagine they’re walking in the footsteps of such famed Apache warriors as Cochise and Geronimo.

In his unrelenting pursuit of wealth, multi-millionaire Jeffrey Tenison loses all rapport with his fifteen year old son, Paul, a highly sensitive, movie fanatic and budding writer. To salvage their relationship, Jeffrey takes Paul on a ‘man to man’ vacation in a robust, go anywhere Recreational Vehicle.


A Bit of a Shake-Up    
by Nick Berry
UK price: £8.99     US price: $13.99
Format: Paperback
Published by Diadem Books
Size : 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.7 cm
Pages: 326
ISBN: 978-1907294266
Published: Dec-2009

Nick Berry’s tongue-in-cheek divine comedy is certainly more readable and enjoyable than The Satanic Verses! The ancient Greeks would have approved the apocalyptical themes and theatrical settings. The novel is a roller-coaster ride through heaven and hell—a refreshing change from the Dawkins Delusion, and provokes some interesting questions into the reality of divine existence.


Rogue Trader    
Memoirs of a Space Cowboy

by Steve White
UK price: £7.99     US price: $11.45
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS,
an imprint of SPIDERWIZE
Format: Paperback
Size :
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.4 cm
Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-1907294044
Published: Sept-2009



Dave Mackenzie, the man, the legend—superstar space pilot, supplier of weapons, lover of women, connoisseur of fine ales and transporter of toilet rolls throughout the known galaxy. See him on u-tube: Rogue Trader, Memoirs of a Space Cowboy


The Scent of Rain     
by Gordon Fraser
UK price: £8.99     US price: $12.99
Published by Diadem Books:
an imprint of Spiderwize
Format: Paperback
Size : 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Pages: 246
ISBN: 978-0956239297
Published: Sept-2009



A gripping blend of fact and fiction. The survival of a wild life Journalist and a Geologist in the wildest part of the African bush leads to a romance filled with irony and humour.


Ship to Shore    
The Autobiography of a Royal
Naval Signalman 1889—1981

Sidney Hill
Publisher: SPIDERWIZE
UK: £9.99
US: $13.45
Euro: €12.79

Type: Paperback 6" x 9"
Pages: 396
Publisher: Spiderwize
Language: English
ISBN-10: 095605191X
ISBN-13: 978-0-9560519-1-2

A remarkable insight in 19th and 20th century social and naval history through the eyes of a self-styled 'ordinary man'.


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...."

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.


THE ROSE & THE VINE
by Lydia Harman      
UK price: £15.88     US price: $22.30
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
ISBN: 978-0-9559852-1-8
Publisher: Diadem Books
Edition: First Edition
This is the terrifying and nail-biting story of the de Quatreaux family and friends as they attempt to survive the violent political changes of the French Revolution—and the guillotine.

 

The Healing Tent
by James Kaye    
UK price: £7.89     US price: $11.50

Publisher: SPIDERWIZE
Format: Paperback
Size : 20.2 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
Pages: 296
ISBN: 978-0956239204
Published: June-2009 


Have you ever really considered what is important in your life? In today’s non-stop world of fast food, technology and credit, where people have become trapped on the ever-turning hamster wheel of life, sometimes you just have to say, “Stop! I need to get off.”

Worlds Apart                    
Poems of Contrast

by Beth Richards & Charles Muller
Our price: £7.00     US price: $13.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 134
ISBN: 0-595-50302-0
Published: Apr-2008

Two poets - two worlds: poems of deep and humorous reflections (set in England) contrasted with poems of stark reality (set in South Africa and elsewhere).

Rail to the Isles    
by Iain Findlay
  • Published: December, 2008
  • Format: Perfect Bound
  • Softcover
  • Pages: 144
  • ISBN: 9780595502714
  • Size 6 x 9
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • The story behind the construction of the railway in the West Highlands of Scotland in the 1890s. A triumphant blend of Scots railway engineering know-how and vision with Irish initiative, determination, luck and muscle.

    THE MIRACLE OF PENELOPE JANE
    & Other Stories              

    by Lesley Drinkwater
    UK price: £8.50     US price: $23.00
    Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
    Format: Paperback:
    ISBN: 978-1-4092-7921-1
    Publisher: Diadem Books
    Edition: First Edition
    At last—at long last—here is the return of the short story. Collections of short stories, as a genre in their own right, have long since disappeared from publication in the UK.

     

    Easy Cook Book For Dads
    Who Don't Have a Clue!

    by Shirley Wheeldon     
     
    UK price: £6.64    US price: $12.08
    Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
    Format: Paperback:
    Perfect binding , cream interior
    Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
    Pages: 111
    ISBN: 978-0-9559741-8-2
    Published: September-2008

    These recipes have been designed by our chef Tim, and are for the guy who, until now, has left the cooking to everyone else! Suddenly things have changed and the responsibility to provide healthy meals is all yours. This book contains all you need to know, easy quick recipes including the shopping list and step-by-step guide of what to do and make. You might surprise yourself and really enjoy cooking!

     

    EVER WANTED TO RUN OR OWN YOUR OWN HOTEL OR B & B?
    This book tells it like it is - warts and all!


      So You Want to Buy Your Own Hotel will prove that Fawlty Towers isn't a myth!

    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 hBANNER SmallDisplay21.gif (3234 bytes)and 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

     

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    • 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.

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    • 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.


    The Elf-Witch Chronicles   
    by Helen Cardwell 
    UK price: £15.00    US price: $30.95
    Format: Paperback
    Size: 5.5 x 8.5
    Pages: 610
    ISBN: 0-595-50991-6
    Published: May-2008

    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.


    Three Cheers for Ghana!   
    by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi
    UK price: £10.00     US price: $18.95
    Format: Paperback
    Size: 6 x 9
    Pages: 224
    ISBN: 0-595-48523-5
    Published: Jan-2008

    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


    Be Encouraged in Jesus   
    by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi
    UK price: £6.56    US price: $9.35
    Format: Paperback
    Size :
    21.6 x 14 x 0.7 cm
    Pages: 252
    ISBN: 0-595-32298-0
    Publisher: Xulon Press
    Published:
    31 Jan 2007

    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.


    Memories from Good Hope to Guardafui (1940-2000)    
    by Michael Fergusson
    UK price: £8.00    US price: $15.95
    Format: Paperback
    Size: 6 x 9
    Pages: 168
    ISBN: 0-595-49828-0
    Published: Mar-2008

    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.


    The Rape of Zimbabwe      
    by Ricky Wilson      
    UK price: £11.40     US price: $19.95
    Format: Paperback
    Size : 6 x 9
    Pages: 250
    ISBN: 0-595-38308-4
    Published: Feb-2006 

    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.