Living across cultures is not only a challenge, but also a fun and a huge discovery. One discovers social and cultural codes, systems, prejudices, conflicts and confusions. Institution Child - The Beginning, though fictional and imaginative, brings to readers the making of meanings under different contexts in real time. The ups and downs in human agencies, the trust and mistrust, the deviation and co
At twenty-something, Sophia spends six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. Spectrum of Colours follows her story as to how she ended up there.
Despite her dreams of a life onstage, Sophia's lifelong struggles are caused by a complexity of issues involving identity, conformity and difficulties forming friendships. But ultimately, it's Sophia's struggle to overcome a traumatic c
Ollie Clarke has a secret. He isn't what people think he is. He is a girl. When his mum comes home unexpectedly early, he is caught red-handed! While his mum is very supportive of his wish to become Molly, not everyone feels the same way. Will Molly be accepted into society or are her dreams just not meant to be reality?
Three different stories but each with a link to England's second city, Birmingham.
We have Dave, whose life after conscription in the army took him to Japan, Korea and Germany. Later he was paid to kill a high ranking Russian by a woman whose family he had destroyed.
Then we have Charley, whose interest and aptitude in diamonds took him to northern Europe and eventually rich pickings in the Far E
Checkmate is the story of Sofia, an Italian woman that lives with her father and grandmother. She is about to marry Nate, who is from a Jewish family she has known since childhood. She begins to question the story of her mother's death when she was an infant. The facts are not adding up. She begins a journey to discover the truth, only to uncover more lies. The road opens a Pandora's box of family secrets
Since the beginning of time, the thirst for power has dominated the world. Now, the desire is more visible than ever. Some leaders want to become masters and creators. They know that money and power rules lives. This conspiracy is not just a story. It proves that conspiracies exist.
The ideology of subordination through addiction is a new type of control extended all over the world. People do not realize th
Maggie Franklin plays by the rules but lives in a world of people driven by competing motivations, leading to conflict and betrayal, touching those closest to her. She works at a high-end PR firm in Nashville, Tennessee, owned by Richard Gadly, who occupies the gray space between legal and illegal in the intersecting spheres of business and politics.
The way she sees herself clashes with the reality of h
Faced with the loss of his ancestral home following the huge increase in death duties in mid-twentieth century Britain, Michael Montayne forges an unusual enterprise with his best man, whose family turns out to have been shamefully entangled with Michael's for generations past. The Montayne's home is transformed into a private retreat, club and grand hotel for acceptable, wealthy guests who may partake of
An adventure story that is tinged with hope, determination and sadness.
Clare, a high school American science teacher from Minnesota, is an accomplished bicyclist, hiker and has a passion for bees.
She sets off on a ride through parts of the US and Canada in preparation for a lone hiking trip through southern France to the western tip of Spain along the world renowned Camino de Comp Estela.
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When it's announced that the Pope will be saying a Beatification Mass for their town's heroine, Sister Sarah Smith, all the local Catholic schools are pressed into service. Miss Maybely, Religious Education teacher at St Jude's, is rushed off her feet preparing for the Pope's arrival.
But the only pupils Miss Maybely can bribe to participate in the mass are a delinquent group of Year Ten
This is a fictional, chaotic, humorous yarn of corporate greed and how companies, in cahoots with governments and councils, want to manipulate the people of the land into being more subservient and less bloody militant.
The plan is to change the food we eat by incorporating a special additive that will make us doff our caps a whole lot more and stop us questioning them. It will make our buying habits mor
After surviving a dreadful car crash and an inevitable divorce, Sarah Cook has to rebuild her confidence and her life.
Betraying her employer for a handsome sum, Amanda Barrett works hard to fulfil her dream to become 'The Madame' of the most popular brothel in Rotterdam.
Sally Harvey Smart is a spoilt little rich kid who has to fight for her inheritance and discovers a work ethic she d
