Muswell Press Digital
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Joe (17) is locked out of his house and pursued by a crowd determined to kill him. He escapes and finds shelter among a group of dissidents fighting a dictator. He is in a parallel world like and unlike his own and here, over a period of two life-changing years, he learns to survive and he falls passionately in love. But will he be returned to his own world?
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A London house. A warren of rooms. The tenants refuse to budge. A comic novel about a tragic, and grotesque world presided over by an elderly showman with delusional plans about the future. A Captain Ahab in an attic flat caring for a younger woman, he tries to enlist the help of another tenant. This anarchic young man records his every move and the lives of those around him. Like England, the house is built on shifting foundations and shaky dreams.
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A collection of short stories about children in a referral unit, the book also charts the relationship between a young man and woman who meet, part and come together again in and woman in unusual circumstances.
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Three novellas of which the the first 'Going Over' won the National Novella Competition in 'New Writer Magazine'. A young man walks across the north of England and, remembering his relationship with his father, wonders if he could have prevented what happened to the family. 'The Tarnished Muse' is a satire on show business and 'The Night Everything Happened' a riotous London comedy.
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A collection of moving, witty and passionate poems about love, loss and landscape, about men and women struggling to find meaning in a land reeling from urbanisation. Here too are beautifully crafted homages to Donne, Arnold, Clare, Betjeman and many more.
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A novel that charts a passionate story about the losing of innocence and the bitter gaining of adulthood. It is also a painfully acute account of a young man's attempts to redeem himself from the ravages of guilt. The period is the early sixties. The Twist the latest dance craze has just arrivd from America and is taking Britain by storm.
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The dangerous intersection between ecological and economic crisis leaving humanity with a stark choice: maintain capitalism or save the planetThe dangerous intersection between ecological and economic crisis leaving humanity with a stark choice: maintain capitalism or save the planet
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A diary kept by journalist Alan Mackie in Cairo in 1973 during the 7 Day War with Israel and the effect it has had on present Egyptian politics and attitudes to the WestA diary kept by journalist Alan Mackie in Cairo in 1973 during the 7 Day War with Israel and the effect it has had on present Egyptian politics and attitudes to the West
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The cream of Britain's poets are getting murdered. Victor Priest takes on two assistants to help investigate. In a hilarious and dramatic denoument the criminal is discovered. Priest hires two assistants to help track the criminal. Despite their unconventional and hilarious behaviour they bring the case to a dramatic conclusion.The cream of Britain's poets are getting murdered. Victor Priest takes on two assistants to help investigate. In a hilarious and dramatic denoument the criminal is discovered. Priest hires two assistants to help track the criminal. Despite their unconventional and hilarious behaviour they bring the case to a dramatic conclusion.
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Written in rhyming couplets 'Losing It' is the story of Lucy , a luscious young virgin who goes to London to try losing her virginity.Written in rhyming couplets 'Losing It' is the story of Lucy , a luscious young virgin who goes to London to try losing her virginity.
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Cleaning Up is a gritty, contemporary, urban drama told through the parallel and intertwined lives of its three main characters; a teenage boy adrift on the city s drug raddled estates; a young ambitious policeman assigned to investigate local organised crime s link to the city s drug trade and a youth worker whose job brings him into constant contact with aspects of both worlds.Cleaning Up is a gritty, contemporary, urban drama told through the parallel and intertwined lives of its three main characters; a teenage boy adrift on the city s drug raddled estates; a young ambitious policeman assigned to investigate local organised crime s link to the city s drug trade and a youth worker whose job brings him into constant contact with aspects of both worlds.
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The Gardens That Mended a Marriage
Moloney Karen
- Muswell press digital
- 28 Janvier 2014
- 9780957556867
A spirited and comic account of developiung a dream Persian garden in the dry soil of Spain. Undserlying the trials and tribulations is a story about love.
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An emotional poetic narrative of love lost, love regained.
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A comic novel written in the 1st person by a GP recovering from forms, not just drink and drugs but the lethal lures of gambling, power, lust and love.
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A gallery of famous and eccentric figures animate this entertaining and informative autobiography. Not least is John Jesse who treats life as fun yet established himself as a respected specialist in his field of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. The book is richly illustrated with some of the works he has collected and sold.
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A highly personal collection of poems written by Virginia McKenna, the star of Born Free, recollecting the people, places and animals that have inspired her.
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Samuel Beckett watching the final rehearsal of Krapp's Last Tape and its effects on the production team, climaxing in a final tragic event. A psychological drama of great intensity.
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Narrated in the first person this is an account of the savage journey of a man who has not only been brushed by mortality but who is still in the process of trying to wrestle it to the ground
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Czechoslovakia 1938-39. The annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany, its catastrophic effect on a family living in Prague, the political fallout of appeasement. The book ends with the invasion of Czrchoslovakia in March 1939.
