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Welcome to The list 2020 The LIST

is a catalogue of highly recommended books compiled by CQ International

Publishing.

All the books within this publication are those which have undergone the submission and evaluation process.

CQ International Publishing accepts nominations from selected and invited parties including professional book reviewers, publishers and literary agents.

Each nominated book is evaluated to ensure it meets the required parameters to be classed as a CQ 'Must Read'.

The successful submissions are listed, in no particular order and without classification, in The LIST, which is published annually, in November, allowing the recommended books to be purchased as Christmas gifts ready in preparation foe new year reading.

Of course, these are ‘Must Read’ books so they make wonderful presents for many occasions, such as birthdays, anniversaries, congratulations and celebrations throughout the year.

Each book in The LIST is represented by a cover image, a short description and has links to Amazon and/or other online bookstores.

Each books description is followed by up to five letter sets, they are P, H, E, A , and CD, ascertaining to the formats the book is produced in; P = Paperback, H = Hardcover, E = eBook/Kindle, A = Audiobook , CD = Audio CD Due to the complexity of listing multiple hyperlinks, only the main or prime Amazon UK links to the books are displayed with each listing. However, whenever it is practicable, other links, including a single universal link may be employed.

The stories Within the Invisible Pentacle may, at first glance, seem a rather eclectic collection, but there are several underlying unifying principles employed in their careful selection.

The titles all have a feminine association as does each story's individual focus, whether direct or implicit.

These stories explore the depths of human character, the quintessence disposition of living and of life itself.

Questions we shy from, the ones we are afraid to ask ourselves are unearthed, revealed and brought screaming into the daylight of recognition.

The prevailing factor is, they are written with consideration for our fragile human disposition, the fears, the dreams and wishes, the uncertainties and self-doubts we all carry inside ourselves, the human element of love, of life and of survival.

This is a collection of poignant, emotive, yet entertaining stories everyone should read, at least once.

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“An obsession with revenge might not be great for your mental

health, but at least it’s calorie-free.”

Private detective David Braddock is holed-up on the Thai island of Samui plotting the death of Grigory Polzin, the Russian oligarch who ordered the killing of his daughter.

Embittered and descending rapidly into alcoholism, the Englishman must find a way to exact his retribution before he

completely falls apart.

Fate, however, has one final lesson for David Braddock: the dead don’t always stay dead. ' Everyone Dies' is the final book in John Dolan’s 'Karma’s Children' trilogy.

P/E Amazon UK https://amzn.to/2M1WLHs International http://authl.it/B07T1T91HN

I have yet to decipher what the word brave truly describes, but one thing is evident to me, judging by the number of things that do scare me, I am no braver than the next person.

From his early days at Hartbeespoort Snake and Animal Park, to his military conscription during the late 70s and up to his internationally renowned TV shows on Animal Planet, herpetologist and wildlife photographer Austin Stevens takes us through his extraordinary encounters with some of the world s most dangerous creatures. Be it staring down a black mamba or trying to retrieve an escaped chimpanzee, these accounts are often exciting and hilarious in equal measure as Stevens dispels the myths surrounding these widely-feared creatures.

Running Wild, Stevens s fourth book, is reflective and personal. He touches on his relationship with his wife Amy, and describes dealing with depression after suffering a string of terrible misfortunes including a horrific car crash, a vicious knife attack and his struggle to rebuild a shattered life.

Running Wild is the captivating story of a restless adventurer as he evolves from curator of reptiles, to wildlife photographer, author and film maker.

Having faced adversity and mortality more than once, Austin shares with us his reminiscences of past experiences.

With never a dull moment, Running Wild will render the reader both fearful and elated.

P/E Amazon UK https://amzn.to/2B1U9mW International http://authl.it/B07B4BS2RK

Your blood does not define you. Harley Torrance's parents were killed in a home invasion when she was three.

Adopted by a nice couple, Harley begins to develop strange powers.

At fourteen she brews a potion so strong it gains the attention of the Coven King, and changes her world forever.She's not human, she's a witch.

Now a part of the magical community, Harley must learn to control her powers lest the Darkness already in her blood overcomes her.

Can she dampen her lust for power in order to stop the Dark from taking over the Coven and killing everyone in their way?

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Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.

In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is

crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.

The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.

Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.

P / E / H / A / CD Amazon UK https://amzn.to/30YfRmc International https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/223161/thenickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead/

Robotics and A.I. is moving at lightning speed, which allows us to delve even further into what will eventually become a reality. Ice involves the racier side of robotics and our artificial intelligence companions, while a threat against all of humanity looms on the horizon.

Thirty years after Pseudosynths were produced as robot slaves, they are now revered by the human race as heroes. Humanity is living a dream existence sideby-side with their new artificial intelligence counterparts, Robokopias, which look, act, and talk like anyone or anybody you choose. Only the Pseudosynths remember the time shift to set the planet on the correct course in 2075 and the warning that went along with it before the Robokopias were produced. Why is this warning so important?

In Ice, if you or one of your family members die, it is your choice is to have your thoughts and memories transferred into one of these ‘Robokopias’ so you can

continue to live. Almost a billion Robokopias live, work, and play next to humans around the planet with the ‘Ten Commandments of Robotics’ keeping them in line. These commandments cannot be modified, erased, or overridden.

Nothing can go wrong, ever.

Join Jaesa, Ray Nelson, General Cooper, Athana, the Xanthes, and some surprise artificial intelligence characters with a brand new cast of unique Robokopia characters who will lead the fight in the most chilling and icy Pseudoverse novel

to date.

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The power of the sense of smell as a trigger for memory is explored in the title story. In another story, an unexpected relationship on a Connecticut beach develops between two

women who have lost their husbands.

A further story explores a disturbed adolescent boy’s path to resolution.

These are some of the themes in the eight short stories in this little book by novice writer Richard Newell, a retired physician with ‘an incredible gift for writing and story-telling’.

“Beautifully written – I hope a novel will be next.” Sylvia Whu. “Loved the raunchy bit! Not cheesy at all. ”Erica Ling “Sensitive characterisation.” Bartholomew B. These interesting and intriguing short stories show an incredible gift for writing and story-telling; the author is clearly proficient in the art and technique of both with a rich imagination and life experience.

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The time: Not long from now The place: Close to where you live.

In a world where health and medical costs have skyrocketed due to obesity and related illnesses, an authoritarian government takes drastic measures.

The overweight have their food purchases strictly monitored. They are provided with a Cal-Card which must be presented every time they buy groceries and other

food. Attempting to purchase non approved items results in severe disciplinary measures.

The overweight are given three attempts to loose and maintain a healthy weight.

Failure to do so results in the overweight being rounded up and send to internment camps.

Lynda Whittaker has just failed her third weight lose attempt.

Inside obesity camp Clinton, the inmates are consigned to work for various multinational companies as virtual slaves with few rights and very little privileges.

Any infringement of camp rules result in summary execution.

But apart from these draconian conditions, Lynda is about to stumble upon a secret.

Something so frightening, so abhorrent, it will push her to the brink of sanity.

Michael J Elliott presents a frightening vision of a future society where to be thin is not only an aspiration, it could mean saving your life and where the overweight have become the 21st Century pariahs.

K Amazon UK https://amzn.to/2VwFych International http://authl.it/B07RZNXH9X @open24 http://bit.ly/EEbooksonOPEN24 An Electric Eclectic book

The Pussers Cook Book contains the most popular and loved traditional dishes from the Royal Navy’s Galleys.

Woven between the recipes are facts and tidbits about the food, the cooks and general life aboard ship.

Along with the recipes, this book aims to preserve a segment of British history that is fading, all too quickly, into the grey sea-mists of oblivion.

The Pussers Cook Book has been revised and updated, this is the 2019 edition.

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Randall didn't know he had a destiny until it interrupted his lunch one day; and it was bigger than he could possibly have imagined (his destiny, not his lunch).

That's when he met the mysterious Marcus Han - brainier than a clumsy butcher's floor, and secretly the richest man in the world, he would be Randall's companion and mentor through the challenges they must face in their struggle to stop the entire Galaxy from vanishing.

With supporting cast of talking trees, mutant psychics, bungling

cops, extremely refined resistance operatives, military trained birds, enlightened muschrooms, hallucinating AI units, cutlery collecting crabs, and his definitely EX-girlfriend to help him, he must travel back in time to the twenty-first century and begin again in a new, less tyrannical timeline.

If his departed day, the World Police the Planimals, or the ancient

aliens doesn't stop him first that is...

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Ace Hart was entrusted with some of the government’s best kept secrets, working with Special-Ops, she was revered by heads of every agency around the world, until her entire unit was killed. The ambush was planned, she knew that much, but how?

And now her world is shifting, slipping under her feet quicker than she

can stop it.

She’s thrust into a world full of secrets, guns, espionage and The Agency.

Ace Hart’s no longer the Special Forces soldier she once was but a chance encounter in Central Park with a mysterious man and a mugger has her kicking her four inch stilettos right into her attacker’s shin.

She's faced guns and knives, bombs, and soldiers but she’s never faced a superhuman opponent like Agent Lazarev.

When Ace is invited to join Agent Lazarev in his world where Sensitives work for the Government, she discovers she is part of a superhuman race descended from an ancient line of Celestial Beings, and when the balance of power is being threatened, their only hope of keeping the scales balanced is in the hands of a prophesied warrior; a Divine Sensitive, Ace. Will Ace be able to fight the dark forces that beckon to her, or will she succumb to them?

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Elena Murphy is left devastated when her fated mate rejects their union. She believes Gabriel is embarrassed to be paired with a weak, half-breed vampire from Earth. But when two human

children under her care are abducted by alien Slavers, Elena will do anything to get them back, even swallow her pride to beg Gabriel for help to rescue them.

Gabriel, an ancient Hunter from the planet Laizahlia, has spent thousands of years searching for his fated mate, his eillelĂŠ, the one who carries half his soul. He finally finds her in Elena, but she is also

half human. If he claims her, his Council will force him to convert her fully to vampire, and he knows she might not survive with her mind intact. Rather than risk her life or sanity, he chooses to walk away . . . until two children under her care are taken by Slavers.Gabriel’s Council and Slavers won’t be the only dangers they face in their quest to find the missing children.

When Gabriel learns Djinn are involved, he knows their odds for success will be extremely low.

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A ‘feel good’ tale of fortune and hope and love entwined with ancient magic in the modern world.

The Amulet is an Electric Eclectic Novelette.

Marks life was on a downward spiral and he was wondering if it was worth carrying on.

On the way home one evening he found a small metal object in the grass.

That is when strange things started to happen.

Join Mark as his life changes, a strange hooded man appears and he enjoys music in the park

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FINALIST - 2018 Breakthrough Novel Awards United Nations’ sanctions are crippling North Korea. China has turned her back on her malevolent partner.

The North Korean military machine is crumbling, unable to function. Oil reserves are minimal and the government seeks new alliances.

Cargo and tourist ships are disappearing along the Somali and Kenyan coastline at an alarming rate.

Speeches abound, but inaction emboldens Al-Shabab to seek their next prize: Kenya.

The terror organization controls land but requires weapons.

Bedlam Bravo team leader Colonel Trevor Franklin (Ret.) leads the small international team into East Africa.

Tempers flare as the team is embroiled in a political quagmire.

The axis must be stopped to avert an international crisis but at what cost?

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Aedan, an immortal sidhe, must journey through the land of mortals in pursuit of the one who has cursed him: a mysterious creature known as Linet. Aware that Linet’s sanity is quickly deteriorating, it is a race against time to find her before she becomes something that can bring ruin upon the lands of Eriu. On his journey, Aedan must come to grips with the culture of Milesians, mortals whose ways seem primitive and futile to his sensibilities, a race that still harbors resentment after the war between the two peoples a centruy ago. Still, Aedan must study their mannerisms, in the hope that he can understand the spark that so drives them, a spark that his own kind had lost long ago.

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Dark Words, Dark Tales, Darker Poetry Dark days come to us all at some time in our lives.

Heartbreak, grief, fear, loss, pain and anxiety collide and conspire,

individually and collectively to bring us down.

We feel the battles rage within ourselves; they fight and scream in a tortured anguish of emotional turmoil.

Solace is often found alone, in dimly lit rooms, with mellow songs playing over and again.

Reading Dark words, sharing the pain within these tales, help us dry our own tears, to drive away the clouds of uncertainty and crush the demons which haunt our souls.

To accept and acknowledge the blackest days of our lives often reveals the pathway from the shadow maze of obscure reflection, into the sunlight of possible future.

Dark days come to us all, at some time in our lives.

They are not the place for us to dwell for too long.

They are not our home.

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Franky the Thirsty Flamingo is about a flamingo who is searching for something to drink.

He searches different places but when he finally finds what should be a beautiful pond, it is full of litter.

Come on Franky's journey as he searches for his favourite drink and help save our planet.

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Unlike the civilian nicknames we get labelled with; those our classmates called us at school, the one's various work colleagues may apply to us from time to time, or the ones our siblings find

amusing, a military nickname has greater significance, it holds a value only fully comprehended by our contemporaries.

Arguably, the Royal Navy has the most entrenched tradition among the services for bestowing nicknames, names not only for each sailor but for places, equipment and actions.

This book, The Andrew, Jack & Jenny, focuses primarily on the names given to each skin and essence the moment they became a matelot.

Royal Naval nicknames are not chosen by the recipient, they are bestowed, irrevocably, by custom and tradition. Yet, each sailor soon becomes attached to their 'new' name, which grows into a large part of their identity, even influencing their character.

It soon becomes the name which is spoken with pride in answer to the question "Who are you?"

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From fitting wheels to wheelbarrows in a builders' merchant, Brian rapidly climbed the business ladder and became a Xerox salesman. He was unaware that the professional selling skills he was learning would one day propel him in to the glamorous and overtly commercial world of F1. A disastrous debut at a racing driver school was the spark that lit his passion for motor racing. Aware of the need for some serious financial backing to be able to take part, Brian embarked on a variety of highly innovative and often extremely entertaining ways of securing

sponsorship, including working with the cast of a top 1970's BBC sit-com, as well as with John Cleese, of Monty Python fame. A chance meeting on a plane with Max Mosley offered an opportunity of managing one of the most popular F1 Grand Prix circuits. This, in turn, led to the heady heights of a factory drive for Mercedes and the establishment of South Africa's first racing driver school. It was only a matter of time before Brian's exceptional sponsorship-acquisition skills took him to F1, where he quickly made a name for himself by securing multi-million pound deals with three of the most sought after global corporations. However, Brian's greatest achievement in motorsport was to establish the Motorsport Industry Association in 1994, in a bid to secure Government recognition of the industry in its own right.

Once again, Brian's sales skills played a key role. Without ever becoming a household name as a motor racing champion, Brian's story of how he most definitely became a winner is not only inspirational, but highly entertaining, amusing, often irreverent and informative. You Don't Have to Be a Champion to Be a Winner is the story of Brian Sims, who left school in 1963 with just 5 GCE O-

Levels and a shattered dream of following in his father's footsteps as a Royal Air Force pilot.

P Amazon UK https://amzn.to/2VBQfuj Amazon USA https://www.amazon.com/You-Dont-Have -Champion-Winner/dp/1528934059

This is the third Tanka poetry collection of Rika Inami.

She originally composed Tanka in Japanese and translated them into English.

You can read this book in a bilingual manner, Japanese & English.

She lives in Akita Prefecture, Japan, which is rich in nature, so she has mainly written Tanka in praise of nature. Throughout her daily life she is inspired by beautiful mountains, flowers and rivers. She experiences the mysteries of nature. Her existence itself is reflected in her description of nature.

While compiling this book, she felt that the publication would fall in the season of the cherry blossoms.

It inspired her to include the works of or relating to cherry blossoms. Thus, among fifty-one tanka poetries, readers will find more than ten works of cherry blossoms.

Furthermore she, as a WEB Tanka poetess, composed Tanka lines from her Internet life such as Emails. They have romantic moods.

It is just expressed in this book that we have to respect and share with nature even in this science-technology age.

It is sure that readers who love Tanka poetry since the time of “Manyoshu 万葉集 ” and respect traditions in the scientific times will empathize with this book.

作者自選の第三歌集です。 日本語で詠った短歌を英訳した日本語と英語の2カ国語で書かれた短歌集になってい ます。自然が豊富な秋田県に在住する作者の短歌の中心は主として自然です。山、 川、花々、日々の生活のなかで目にした自然のなかにある個々の事物の内に見てとっ た一瞬のきらめき、永遠の神秘に作者自身を投影させて、一気に短歌として詠い上げ ました。 編集時期が桜開花の頃と一致したということもあり、本書には桜にまつわる歌が10首 以上収められています。 またインターネット時代に生きる作者はWEB生活から題材を得て、携帯メールのやり とり等の科学技術時代に乗じたロマンあふれる短歌も詠っています。 本歌集は、科学の時代に生きつつも、万葉の和歌の時代からの伝統を愛し踏襲する現 代に生きる短歌を愛する皆様の共感をきっとよぶことでしょう。

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A New Summer Garden is a long awaited ’crime story from Paul White for ‘Electric Eclectic Books.’

This fast paced novelette twists and turns like a snake, leaving the reader guessing about ‘what happens next’.

Sam was a down and almost out, with little prospect for the future, when he meets Rachelle, the beautiful wife of the philanderous Peter, the kingpin of an international criminal business empire.

When Peter catches Sam 'in flagrante' with Rachelle, he ensures Sam's simple life becomes complicated.

What happens from then on takes Sam on a surreal path, where the only plausible outcome is for Sam to end up in prison or dead... most probably both.

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"Life is what it is, There's no going back, and no one

gets out alive. Some things are out of our control so you might as well enjoy the ride."

With a quick wit and biting, irreverent humor, Mean Jeanne Gioia recounts her life thus far.

From the challenges of growing up with a handicapped brother, to the struggle of raising two boys alone,

Jeanne shares the darkest and brightest moments of her life.

Readers will love the unfiltered wisdom of this spirited woman who has lived her life with no regrets.

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I am young, in love and dead.

It’s hard to imagine that people or things like me come from somewhere, but just like every superhero or villain, we all have an origin story.

This is mine.

My name is Derek but you can call me Death. #deadisthenewsexy

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While out exploring the old barn, the kids run across Joe, the foreman at the estate, and he tells them about Amanda and Eli Smith, past owners of Smith Orchard.

Amanda was home alone one stormy summer day while Eli and Joe were out working. She fell from a stool while cleaning a chandelier and hit her head, and though she managed to crawl out to the deck, Amanda died before help could arrive.

Eli was left devastated, especially when he couldn’t find the special locket his wife had always worn. The kids believe the ghost of Eli is behind the strange happenings in the house and they go on a quest to find this missing locket before school starts in the fall.

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'Gritty and gripping' - Colette McCormick, author of Things I Should Have Said and Done The first chapter in a dark and gritty crime series Brought up believing that sex is the devil's work, a killer only finds release once he has saved his victim's souls. Abiding by his vision, he marks them as his. A gift to guide his chosen ones on the rightful path to redemption.

Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling is out to stop him, but Paolo has problems of his own.

Hunting down the killer as the death toll rises, the lines soon blur between Paolo's personal and professional lives.

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This book gives away secrets, the secret desires of men and how any woman can use what a man needs in order to get what she wants.

Political correctness aside, this book is a MANual that will show you how to operate a man in a way he will LOVE and LOVE YOU for doing so.

For the first time ever, you have that tool within the pages of this book. All you need to do is read it and act upon it.

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The Orb is a fast-paced, urban action, speculative fantasy adventure novelette written for Electric Eclectic books.

After stealing the Orb from the Librarians, she is on her way to meet the Cardinal who has promised to pay fifty thousand pounds to lay his hands on the Orb. But the Librarians what their treasure back and are willing to go to great lengths to ensure that happens.

However, they are not the only ones chasing the Orb.

Both the Paladin and Mamluk would like the opportunity to taste the secret powers the Orb holds.

They and others are going to make her journey north a very interesting road trip.

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Student Alistair Minton is missing, and his parents want Sam Dyke to find him. He does … and subsequently learns the reason Alistair disappeared. It's because his parents, Carol and Giles, have been hiding something from others - and from themselves - since Alistair was a child. As he delves deeper, Dyke uncovers two murders separated by fifteen years. And he learns they're connected by people who are blind to consequences and act as if meeting their ends always justify the means.

Racing to solve the case before his client stands in an important election, the question Dyke must face is how he can preserve his own integrity and still bring the murderer to justice.

Written in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, The Lonely Grave examines how damaged families can extend the hurt and shame experienced by one generation into the next, with results that are damaging to all.

Keith Dixon is a two-time First-place winner, private eye/noir category, in Chanticleer Reviews’ CLUE Awards for crime writing.

“Dixon’s somewhat surly, often cocksure crime fighter, Dyke, is a marvelous creation. His investigative skills rival that of any intellectual British parlor sleuth, while his tendency to get in the face of dangerous characters shows he is no stranger to backroom brawls. Throw in a few sarcastic zingers to add humor to some otherwise very tense moments—and you have the essence of Dixon’s anti-hero. There’s no word out of place in this practiced writer’s prose; he knows how to pressurize a plot to the point of near explosion, then reins it all in and sweeps up the loose ends. Highly recommended.”

Extract from Chanticleer Review of The Innocent Dead.

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When Lexi-Jo Lyman, a Freelance writer, and Herbert Duvane, a mysterious computer technician, find themselves caught up in a bizarre takeover of the tranquil city of Margate, Florida, the heat is on.

Personalities and behaviours are changing in the locals against their will, and no one can figure out why. Crime, murder and promiscuity are on the rise, and the gentle city is in utter chaos.

Looking through some curious journals, Lexi-Jo and Herbert discover that the only hope to extinguish the gripping phenomenon is to

recover a lost amulet in the Everglades ? the key to the hostile invasion. An expedition is set up, and the search for the amulet is on.

Staggered by the dark web that is closing in all around them, Lexi-Jo and Herbert realize they are in way over their heads and reach out to Kellie Sierra, a Margate detective, for help.

Will it be too late, or will they crack the dark puzzle that is

threatening their lives and tearing the city apart?

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Neptune and the Pollywogs is an in-depth study of the most traditional of seafaring initiation ceremonies, Crossing of the Line, which is performed when one of Her Majesty’s Ships crosses the equator.

Neptune and the Pollywogs examines the rites historical roots, follows its chronological evolution, formalities and observances, the parts and origin of the characters used in the ceremonies historic and modern-day practice.

Published in conjunction with the Royal Navy Research Archives.

The ceremony plays an integral role in fostering a sense of identity, camaraderie and brotherhood among ships companies, by initiating novices or ‘pollywogs’, the sailors who have not yet crossed the equator, into ‘the Ancient Order of the Deep.’

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2017 Winner of the Marie M Irvine Literary Excellence Award for

Historical fiction.

The harshness of 19th century life for women as seen through the eyes of a young bride.

Margery Blake is nothing but a pawn in family affairs, and her marriage is seen as a good match. Margery has no power, or control over her life and endures her husband’s rights to her body in order to produce an heir. Margery soon realises ‘husband’ is merely another title for owner, beater, brute, bully and evil.

She finds friendship in the unlikeliest of places.

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DI Alan Williams is called to the recovery of two bodies from the sea at Trearddur Bay, during a storm. The lifeboat crew suspect they're fishermen, washed away by a wave but they’re wrong. Alan and his detective sergeant, Kim Davies, realise the men were beaten and tied together before they entered the water. Two miles along the headland at Porth Dafarch, a third victim is found but there are no obvious links. As the number of victims increases, a major investigation team battles to unravel a deadly puzzle which, appears to have links to a series of historic murders from the 90’s. In 1995, Peter Moore owned and operated the cinema in Holyhead. It is thought he assaulted over 40 men and he was arrested and charged with four murders, which he’d committed in as many months. He was jailed for life in 1996 and is still the only recorded Welsh serial killer. Fast forward to today and Detective Inspector Alan Williams is investigating a series of murders with uncanny similarities to the Peter Moore attacks. Is there a copycat on the loose or are the murders connected to the local underworld, which controls the supply of narcotics across North Wales and the North West? Finding a motive, is the challenge he might not win. ALL THE TIME THEY’RE TRACKING THE KILLER, THE KILLER IS STALKING THEM… WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT CONRAD JONES "If you’re looking for something to open your eyes, break your heart, and look to take action to promote change, start with The Journey." Tiffany Hall - Beyond The Stars "I have never read a book before where I have had to stop reading because I couldn’t cope with the emotions the book engendered in me but the author writes so powerfully that I HAD to finish." Joanna Lanum - Guest Reviewer

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"Before this decisive night, I’d not fully appreciated the subtle line between inspiration and insanity. But now, with all our lives at risk,

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he’s sent to work in Charleston, where he loads ships and learns to pilot a cotton steamer. When the Civil War erupts and his cotton steamer becomes a confederate warship, Robert seizes the opportunity to pursue freedom for himself and the people he loves.

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