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This double collection of poetry reaches back to work from the 1980s to the present. The countryside, love of landscape, cityscape, and seascape, Celtic history and folklore, and the genuine mystery encountered in everyday life are part of its ingredients, as well as personal incidents, catharsis, grief, and joy.The poems in the title collection, Old Tracks Through Sacred Ground (2007-2018), are very much influenced by spirit of place, England, Wales, Andalusia, France, and Switzerland, including various mythic Otherworlds. Travel is often a touchstone or creative mirror reverberating between imagery, emotion, and memory.The second collection, Elegia and Other Poems (1986-2022) begins with a sequence of twenty-two poems on death inspired by modern Polish classical music. Tragedy expressed in music is translated into poetic forms, revealing that Truth is more important than art and Wisdom may often be found through mysticism. These experimental poems often employ the technique of automatic writing found especially in the closing sequence 'Apocalypsis' based on modern paintings.Zbigniew Sas delineates his poetic credo in a prose postscript titled 'Garden of Orphic Delight, ' which demonstrates the relationship between spirituality, artistic endeavour, and life itself.

Jacob Harris is returning home from a camping trip with his university friends, on New Years' Eve, when they become lost on a dark and deserted back road in the English countryside. A violent snowstorm suddenly descends and Jacob's car becomes stranded. He and his friends continue on foot to find help and shelter and stumble across the mysterious village of Blackriver which they cannot find anywhere on their map. The village is eerily abandoned, shrouded in darkness and devoid of any trace of modernity. They search for help and begin to unveil the dark tale of the Blackriver Highwayman and his brutal demise which haunts the village. The five friends soon realise that they have a tragic connection to the original villagers and struggle to understand the chilling mystery before they play out the roles cast for them which may seal their fate.

After reaching a crisis point at 40, Jenny Watson is offered her dream job running a Shakespeare festival at a Tudor pub. She can hardly believe her luck at this brilliant new start, and chance to escape her unhappy past. The job isn't all it seems, however. The pub is remote and her mysterious boss is permanently absent; there's a 400 year old skull residing in the cellar; and the local actors are less than enthusiastic over her boss's choice of play. Then there's the growing conviction that someone's watching her. Strange messages, withheld calls and shadows on the windows spike temporary attacks of stress-related blindness as she clings to her last chance to live her dream.But as the dark play she's directing starts to unravel the secrets she'd sworn never to tell, Jenny realises she's not at the pub by chance... and soon she finds herself the leading lady in a nightmare replay of her past.

Love, fantasy, humour, athleticism, eccentricity, homelessness, generosity, skulduggery, deceit and even a bit of satire can be found in this varied collection of short stories.A Kind of Magic begins with a highly unusual love story... if you can call it that... and goes on to cover a multiplicity of circumstances that perhaps only a writer of advancing years can claim to know about.The stories vary in length, pace, type and nature of outcome, and the reader is left to guess how much is based on experience and how much on pure imagination.

The first in a series of multi-cultural thrillers by the author of Silent Night and The Devil's Tears. Detective Jaswinder Singh, known as the Jazz Singher (Jazz to his friends and enemies), is leaner, fitter, smarter and back working for the Met. The nervous breakdown that caused him to be seconded to Manchester is, he believes, now behind him - but he is still battling his personal demon, drink. Jazz's first case back at the Met comes dangerously close to home as he investigates the Viets - a gang quietly setting up East End Cannabis factories and trying to stay under the radar of the holy trinity of East End gangs; the Snake heads, Triad and Bam Bam. The murder of a sweet and innocent old lady, Alice, is the catalyst for the gangs to clash, causing the biggest East End war since the Krays. For Jazz it becomes personal - Alice had been part of his Newbury Park childhood. He goes on the rampage to find her killers. What started with the murder of a little old lady spirals out of control into serial murder, lies, duplicity and treachery, culminating in the death of a rookie Detective Constable on Jazz's team. This is the first book in a new crime series featuring Jaswinder Singh, a driven and brilliant Sikh detective, working in the East End of London.