Bøker utgitt av Michael Terence Publishing

Alan, a school leaver, had failed his examinations at college. His mother, Mrs Watkins, forced her son to go to church. He went as a last resort. During Bible Week, one night Alan saw the heavenly sky. It was the dark night he had dreamt of.As a boy, Alan played soldiers. He dreamt he was a king. Having a vivid imagination, he also liked to write stories.One day, Alan's aunt has a visitor at his uncle's big house. Alan meets Jeanette and her mother and befriends them. Alan refers to himself as a "King" while Jeanette calls herself "Queen"!Was Alan reliving his childhood fantasies and dreams as a King of a Castle?One beautiful summer night, Alan and Jeanette go to the garden. Alan dreams of Jeanette. Both Alan and Jeanette are King and Queen. All the subjects that night were forbidden entry into the marquee...

The Thames Never Sleeps unravels life in Britain at the end of eighteenth and early nineteenth century...A love story of a man from poor background and the unloved daughter-in-law of a lord. Their love at first sight turning into a lifelong struggle to find a life together.This intriguing story offers a taste of the challenges in Britain at that time. A heart-breaking narrative of the children who had to work in the mines and factories. Crime, smuggling and destitution being the dominant part of life. The introduction of the railways, industrial revolution and inventions of the time, changed the direction of life itself. The Battle of Trafalgar and a decisive win over Napoleon which helped Britain to shine in the world.

Safe from the horrors of war a German soldier makes the ultimate sacrificeHaving survived the hell of Stalingrad and two years of bitter fighting on the Eastern Front, Sergeant Franz Mayer found he was now a deserter. Not by choice but a reality nevertheless. Faced with the prospect of an SS firing squad, convinced that the war was in its final death throes his only hope lay in returning home. If fate had condemned him it now came to his rescue and aided by an elderly couple who had lost their only son in the war, he was able to return to his family. But fate hadn't finished with him just yet.Although it was purely by chance that the convoy of lorries' passed through the village it changed everything, and plagued by his conscience Franz knew he must return to the war. But before leaving he writes a letter to the old couple who had saved his life, instructing his wife to post it should he not return. A letter that would ultimately unite the two families and give them the strength to face the hardships which lay ahead in a country ravaged by war.

A fictional novel, not a romance, detective or crime thriller. Just everyday life in a select community in London in 50s and later. Please do not apply current-day norms to people''s behavior as it would lead to a big disappointment.