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A story of broken dreams, bloodshed and betrayal'The Kurd requires a beating one day and a sugar plum the next.' British Government official 1921 'Saddam throws a little gas, everyone goes crazy, "e;oh, he's using gas!''' former President Donald Trump 2019 Delving into history and mixing eye-witness accounts with compelling anecdotes from his journalistic career, John Cookson examines the Kurds' eternal quest for independence. He tells of his encounters with Kurdish guerillas in their mountain hideouts and of his travels with Kurdish smugglers. He documents survivors' stories from Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign and reveals for the first time how Iraqi Kurdistan was saved from being overrun by murderous jihadis in the summer of 2014. He also digs through secret archives to discover why Sir Winston Churchill and Middle East titans like T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell made a fateful decision to leave the Kurds landlocked and doomed to an eternity of conflict.

This collection of poems is engaging, amusing and sometimes downright hilarious. An occasional dip into nonsense provides a wonderful distraction from everyday worries! I wrote this bookSo you could lookTo see what I had written,And that in a whileYou would smileAnd with its characters you'd be smitten.

A schoolteacher's memoir

A crime thriller set in Belfast, Northern Ireland

A collection of three short stories for children.

The Orchid House' is a stunning and unforgettable novel about the relationships of three friends, Ginny, Bella and Leila, and climatic developments in their personal lives that change everything.Ginny and David Sinclair, aware their marriage is now on the rocks, visit the moors of Devon to try to recapture the feelings of their earlier years. Instead of peace and resolution, extraordinary events take place where David rescues a young girl trapped in a fast-flowing river. Meanwhile Bella Boswell, back home in Sandwich in Kent, is trying to escape her tyrannical husband, Steve. Befriended by Ginny and by Ginny's friend Leila Mistry, a legal advocate for women, Bella at last finds the courage to speak out. However, no one could have foreseen the disastrous consequences to follow. Leila herself is faced with an unwanted arranged marriage, and is made to choose between her family and the man she loves.

Welcome to the fascinating world of small creatures living in and around a garden pond as they enjoy their far from ordinary daily lives.The stories will introduce you to charming animal and insect characters who will entertain you with their experiences. They each encounter their own challenges as they become involved in exciting adventures. All of them contemplate something of life's big mysteries from a remarkably human perspective. There is something to learn here about biology and the environment and perhaps one of these little things may carry a message for you.

A Young Adult thriller

In a world where shadows can sing, where the moon is flying around, and everything is being swallowed by night herself, one man wants to fade away but can't. In a Journey from dusk till dawn, everything is lost, no one was saved.Stuck in an impossibly escapable limerence, tortured by riddles and cryptic metaphors, surreality takes over with its only witness spiralling out of control. Constantly combining and contrasting the romantic with the grotesque, all that's left is a bitter taste, disguised as a reward for thelonely poet.

This story will not just grab you. It will get you by the throat and chuck you down the staircase.An authentic portrayal of life on the streets. A struggle for survival. Triumph over adversity and prejudice, against incredible oddsLiving in a brutal and savage world with minds destroyed by psychosis and addiction. You could be killed or maimed for the price of a drink.But even in the cruellest of places you can find love, hope and friendship. Danny was that beacon of light in Magda's dark and violent existence of criminals and misfits, who slept on the cold hard pavements at night.Could he save her from the gates of insanity or death? Perhaps she could only save herself.

Looking for her wayward son in 1960s Italy, an English widow encounters revelations and begins a dangerous romance. In Venice Lillian Rutherford meets the ex-gigolo who has shared the last four years of Andrew's life; his disclosures force her to confront a side of her son that she never suspected. Going on to Amalfi, she meets the charismatic Prince Massimo Monfalcone, whose playboy son is being held to ransom in Corsica with Andrew. Massimo distracts Lillian with his life story: his first wife was murdered in a Sicilian blood-feud; his second wife killed herself because of his infidelity. As they wait for news of their sons, a bond grows between Lillian and the Prince...

'The Silent Owl' explores a world of danger, courage and the power of friendship through a story which holds readers spellbound.World War Two veteran David Price lives as a hermit in the woods to hide the destructive torment caused by his horrific memories of war. Then two ten-year-old pals befriend him and decide they can save his sanity. That decision leads to a dangerous adventure which places their very lives in peril. So can David find the courage to rescue them and even win back control of his own damaged mind?

The Ice-Floe Girl' is a delightful, beautifully-written and wonderfully observed true story about a nineteen-year-old boy who meets an innocent, angelic Swedish au pair and then hitch-hikes across Europe to join her in Sweden, where she lives at the top of a forbidding villa. She proceeds to take him along with her as an unwitting spectator to her mysterious life in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki.If good writing is about capturing an inexpressible paradox in words - here it is. This account of an ephemeral beauty presents in precise photographic details a remarkable true tale of people and places, retrieves eternall meaningful passing moments that would otherwise have been lost forever and fixes them to the banner of eternal love. The Ice-Floe Girl is an unforgettable, enigmatic quest stretching from a north London suburb to a small wooden town on the shores of the Baltic.

Crime thriller set in 1970s Manchester

'Buying Your Granddaughter' is a gripping story of women wrestling power for themselves in First Century Palestine in order to survive at a time when women are traded and sold like chattels.Tabitha needs a man to save Miriam, her granddaughter, but not just any man. She needs Ezekiel, the man she hates most. Ezekiel sold Tabitha's maid, Tira, into slavery to another Hebrew tribe and Tira was killed. The Romans are hunting Miriam as her husband was a Zealot in the Judean Revolt. Tabitha plans to have Miriam bought as a slave and supposedly sold to a Gentile so that she can be taken to safety. Ezekiel is the only person short of a real slaver who can believably do this. Can they pull off Tabitha's audacious plan or will their personal enmity destroy the mission?

A novel imagining what is like to enter Paradise

A memoir by a narrator who chronicles the effect she believes her father has on her life after his death.

A historical novel set during the dying years of the Roman Empire

A science fiction novel

A romantic comedy

A football memoir

A comedy thriller set in 1979

A thriller about young women

A Young Adult thriller

A screenplay for a crime story

A helicopter pilot's memoirs

A book about new ways of breeding garden varieties

A historical novel set in the nineteenth century

A thriller set by Loch Ness in Scotland

A thriller set in Bangkok