Bøker av Alan Baxter

Alan began beekeeping in the Loire Valley in France, where he lived and worked for 23 years. His apiary there was the target of heavy predation by Asian Hornets.He moved to England in 2020 and now manages 20 colonies and breeds queens in 3 apiaries in Hampshire.He serves as Hampshire Beekeepers Association Asian Hornet Coordinator and is the author of the Hampshire AH Contingency Plan.Alan writes regular blogs and articles, and gives talks around the country on Beekeeping, the Asian Hornet, the Wines of the Loire Valley, and the 1982 Falklands War.He is blissfully married to the disability advocate, speaker, author and blind baker Penny Melville-Brown OBE.

From cosmic terrors in underground caverns to warrior nuns protecting humanity to invisible aliens decimating a faraway world, within these pages you'll find six stories of military horror. Taken from the pages of (or inspired by) the SNAFU anthology series, where the remit is for stories crammed with extreme action, monsters, and military mayhem, everything here will leave you breathless.Lock and load, people. It's going to be intense.This volume includes: "In Vaulted Halls Entombed" - originally published in SNAFU: Survival of the Fittest, Cohesion Press 2015, Winner of the Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction 2015, translated into German in Best of SNAFU, (Festa, 2018), and adapted for S3 of the Netflix Original Series LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS"Raven's First Flight" - originally published in SNAFU: Black Ops, Cohesion Press 2016, Finalist for the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella"The Throat" - originally published in SNAFU: Last Stand, Cohesion Press 2019"The Demon Locke" - originally published in SNAFU: Medivac, Cohesion Press 2020"And Fire Poured Forth" - original to this collection, previously unpublished"Under Calliope's Skin" - originally published in SNAFU: Future Warfare, Cohesion Press 2016

Strange things happen in The Gulp.The residents have grown used to it.Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems.

Gay For Pay, Arlene's Descent and Casting Stones are contentious plays. In our daily lives, most of us go out of our way to avoid explosive, crass and bigoted people. But in these plays, such characters are fascinating to watch. In one play, A San Francisco father, Justin Scott, finds out that his 19-year old son has probably run away from home, only to find out that he has become lost in the pornographic world of Montreal, Canada. When Scott arrives in the Quebecois city, he has an encounter with a film producer, Jack Hemmings, whom he had a strange relationship within his California high school. In the other, Arlene Price never recovered from her Best Actress Oscar defeat twenty years ago. Determined to be celebrated and remembered by the Academy and her fans alike, Arlene begs her friend Jeff to write another script. Yet such a request has devastating results. In the last play, The Reverend Paul Keebler, a minister of a progressive Christian Church in 1968 in Washington, D.C., is caught in a tight dilemma. Located in the ground zero of the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination, Paul must contend with very vociferous protestors, as well as a dysfunctional marriage in his own personal life.

"Alan Baxter's poetry explores with clarity our deepest and most personal feelings-----the right touch of nature laced with human nature." -Evie Ivy, author of The First Woman Who Danced and host of the Green Pavilion Alan Baxter's poetry is a delightfully eclectic, enlightening smorgasbord of humor, pathos, and social commentary----with spicy, often playful variations of rhythm, rhyme, precise imagery, and poetic form. Alan's poetry always leaves me with a heightened sense of the spirituality and ethics of everyday life, everyday people, extraordinary moments in life, and extraordinary people. Wonderfully subversive yet sincerely compassionate, this book is sure to inspire." -Robin Small-McCarthy, Co-founder and Co-host of Kairos Poetry Café, Poet, Singer-Songwriter