Humour
and
irony
combine
to give
piquancy
to these
15 short
stories
which
fall
into
three
different
genres—Life’s
Tapestry;
Village
Tales;
Strange
Happenings
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Life on the Farm
by Robert Nice |
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UK price:
£7.98 US price:
$13.77
Publisher: Diadem Books
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 4.25 x 6.88
Pages: 84
ISBN: 978-0-557-04271-5
Published: Feb-2009 |
“Big
Bob” has big dreams of retirement
income as his intentions to learn
all about Christmas tree farming
quickly give way to the realities of
merely coping with everyday country
problems. This book takes the
reader through scenes of hilarity in
his naïve approach to living Life
on the Farm.
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Light Reading
Reflections in Poetry and Prose
by Beth Richards |
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UK price:
£8.96 US price:
$16.95
Publisher: Diadem Books
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 140
ISBN:
978-0-9559852-9-4
Published: December-2008 |
Beth
Richards
writes:
‘I’ve
always
maintained
that
writing
poetry
(and
other
forms of
creative
writing)
is a
gift
from
God.’
Here,
again,
the
creative
muse
continues
to
inspire
Beth—hence
this
latest
book of
short
stories
and
poetry
entitled
Light
Reading.
(Discerning
readers
will, of
course,
appreciate
the pun
on the
word
Light,
hopefully
made
clearer
by
Beth’s
oil
painting
of the
Baccaro
Lighthouse,
in Nova
Scotia,
on the
front
cover!)
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The Alphabet Wars
by Raf Erzeel |
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UK price:
£6.95 US price:
$12.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 9" x 6"
Pages: 128
ISBN: 978-0-9559852-0-1
Published: Dec-2008
Publisher: Diadem Books |
Imagination runs riot in these
unexpected tales without human protagonists. Objects
and concepts seem more than willing to share their
emotions, though.
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A Nation In Flames:
Short Stories WITH A
GOTHIC, MILITARY & SF FLAVOUR
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UK
price:
£6.00 US price:
$10.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 118
ISBN: 0-595-47889-1
Published: Nov-2007 |
Startling stories with a Gothic flavour in the
tradition of the Hammer House of Horror
movies! Vampires, death, pain, darkness, war and a
bit of hope combine to make these stories gripping
and memorable.
This
is a rich collaboration of personal stories, which
will provide some insight, entertainment and
information for the all-expectant mothers. These
personal baby stories written in the mother’s voice
share actual issues of concern and provide
recommended solutions and survival tactics.
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Tommy One
by Tom Morgan |
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UK price:
£7.99 US price:
$12.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 108
ISBN: 0-595-37447-6
Published: Nov-2005 |
A
collection of hilarious tales about the actions and
reactions of a ‘cockney kid’ to his imposed life in
a rural landscape during his six years of World War
Two. His thoughts, fears and imaginings, broken by
loss, lust, brutality and learning.
A
collection of short stories that touch your heart
with laughter and tears, delight and despair. A
journey through life in one small book.
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US price:
$10.95 UK price:
£9.49
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 108
ISBN: 0-595-29980-6
Published: Oct-2003
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A collection of
short stories of romance, violence, bigotry,
self-discovery and therapeutic genealogy set over a
century-and-a-half of British industrial history!
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Life’s not all Wine and
Roses!
A collection of tales from Southern
France
by Bruce Watson |
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US price:
$9.95
UK price:
£8.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 100
ISBN: 0-595-27703-9
Published: Apr-2003
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A Year in Provence
was an excellent read, but here are slices of life
from a market-town in Southern France, seen from the
inside.
The
stories in this collection are
eminently entertaining
and amusing, conveying the
considered verdicts of a Yorkshire
Judge well past retiring age with a
sense of humour that is both
exquisitely dry and nicely
understated.
Long Skis // Short Stories
by
Kurt Larson
US price:
$13.95 UK price
£11.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 204
ISBN: 0-595-23618-9
Publication Date: Jul-2002
These are
absorbing stories that crystalize the essence of
skiing, from the spectacular winter wilderness of
Upper Michigan, the Rockies, the Highlands of
Scotland and the Alps.
Rooikraal
Revisited: Farming During Apartheid.
Writers Club Press.
ISBN
0-595-09180-6
PRICE:
$10.95 U.S.
£9.41 U.K.
Though Dylan Weston
now lives in California, the colorful and often
humorous stories she has written in
this collection come out of her
direct experience of life on two
farms in South Africa during the
Apartheid years. They
are interesting not only for the
characters and situations they
describe, but for the light they
shed on an historical era now
forever (many will say thankfully!)
consigned to the past.
Roy
Holland:
News From Parched Mountain: Tales
from the Karoo in the new South Africa.
Publisher:
Writers Club Press
ISBN
0-595-14612-0 US Price
$13.95 UK
Price: £9.75
These
stories eloquently portray the life of a small
Afrikaner town - with humour and pithy comments on
the ills of modern society. Holland's style is a
combination of P G du plessis and A C Bosman.
Roy
Holland:
Pivot
of Violence :
Tales of the New South Africa
Publisher:
Writers Club Press
ISBN:
0-595-15821-8
US Price $12.95
UK Price: £11.13
Short
Stories highlighting the tensions and dramatic
racial conflicts in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Roy
Holland:
Flakes of Dark and Light: Tales from Southern
Africa and Elsewhere
Publisher: Writers Club Press
ISBN:
0-595-17423-X
US
price: $14.95
UK Price: £12.85
Pithy stories that cover the England
of the Thirties to the South Africa of the Nineties.
Roy
Holland:
Just A Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective.
Publisher: Writers Club Press
ISBN: 0-595-15874-9
UK
Price: £8.55
US Price: $9.95
So many of Roy Holland's characters
seem to be 'a bit touched', as one of them says of
his family. That's why his tales are so colourful,
amusing and absorbing. The stories themselves are
'touched' by many perspectives - historical to
anti-utopian.
Filton
Hebbard:
Memories of Kalgoorlie
Publisher:
Writers Club Press
ISBN: 0-595-19134-7
UK
Price: £17.10
US Price: $19.95
Picaresque and vivid
stories told with humour and pathos, which reveal
the stark realities, the swift, sometimes cruel
justice of the bush in the old mining days of
Western Australia.
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