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The A to Z of (Amateur) Golf

Golf. Learn why the game is so challenging, why so many golfers aren’t better at it and why it is sometimes such a sheer joy to play.

The Benefits of Tai Chi

14 of the benefits that practicing Tai Chi can give to you.

Carter's Commandos - Operation Tightrope

Know your enemy”. But what happens when your enemy is supposed to be on your side?

Kate Markus - Revenge

Complacency can be fatal. Kate pays the price, her past rears up ugly and brutal, tearing a hole in her safety and the security of everyone around her.

Blood, Brawn, Brains, and Broken Noses

An historical, philosophical, and sociological journey through time from Ancient Greece to contemporary times exploring the evolution and appeal of pugilism.

The Root of Fear

An in-depth examination of the origination of Fear, aided by some of the ideas and explanations contained within ancient Buddhist philosophy.

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Miracles On The Camino

Miracles On The Camino

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Fantasy and Poetry (writing as Barbara Thomas).

The Grrybhnnos Chronicles

A prequel to 'The Trouble With Magic' series - Hunted for their fur, their magic skills almost forgotten, the Grrybhñnös race faces extinction. Relocated to another world through a shift portal by an unexpected ally, they are helped and guided by the Alimanthiristine, (the Alima) a race of beautiful elementals acting as temporary guardians of Alith, the Grrybhñnös’ new home...

The Wilder

Volume 1 in 'The Trouble With Magic' - “The lingering stink of previous occupants didn’t bother Grub. That particular blend of odours was something with which he had become familiar during his short life. He’d grown accustomed to a variety of malodorous whiffs and stenches over the last few years, and recognised most of them. There was even a bizarre comfort in the skittering and squeaking of the rats who shared his cell...

Mage Prime

Volume 2 in 'The Trouble With Magic'.

Karryl’s face was thunderous. “Killers, yes. Natural born? No. Nothing could be further from the truth. When you and your men have had time to recover and made your reports, come to our apartments and I’ll show you what little information we have on these vile creatures.”

War Of Power

Volume 3 in 'The Trouble With Magic' - “The rattle of sleet lashing against his study window was doing nothing to improve Karryl’s mood. He had returned to the palace apartment after the winter holiday, keen to start work on solving the mystery of how Keril’s book and the medallion interacted...

A Minstrel's Quest

Volume 4 in 'The Trouble With Magic' - The fourth book in the ‘Trouble With Magic’ introduces a new ‘hero’ the Minstrel Corlin (although a few ‘old friends’ may appear along the way). It can be read in order - you have read the previous three stories, haven’t you? Or it can be read as a standalone tale of magic and adventure...

A Knight Out (Of Time)

A Novella set in the 'The Trouble With Magic' Universe - It isn’t every day that a knight from the past drops in for a visit, but when two arrive simultaneously and in different places they bring more problems than just that of returning them to their own time. For a while there seem to be more questions than answers...

Just a Minute

A prequel to 'The Trouble With Magic' series - Hunted for their fur, their magic skills almost forgotten, the Grrybhñnös race faces extinction. Relocated to another world through a shift portal by an unexpected ally, they are helped and guided by the Alimanthiristine, (the Alima) a race of beautiful elementals acting as temporary guardians of Alith, the Grrybhñnös’ new home...

Crime & Detective and Poetry.

Transactions

Transactions is the first full length novel, in Chris Graham's, 'Lena's Friends' series. Two middle class schoolgirls, working as prostitutes, provide the thread that ties together the lives of various characters around the city of Bristol, along with the crimes that some of them are involved in both at home and abroad...

Coincidences

The sequel to Transactions. A serving prisoner prepares to appeal against his conviction. In the meantime his other businesses, both legitimate and otherwise, continue to provide the income that will keep themselves and his household in operation...

Retributions

A 'Lena's Friends' novel. An explosion in an empty bookshop, that harms nobody, is followed by a string of murders that have no apparent motive to connect them to each other. The method of killing varies between them, and apart from those who are murdered together, none of them are known to each other...

Sharknose

A 'Lena's Friends' novel. When a man takes his final journey, it would normally be in a hearse. He’d be wearing his best suit, or at the very least a shroud. However, when that journey’s taken in a small single engined aircraft, and he’s dressed in a basque, with stockings and suspenders, and wearing women’s make up, then something’s obviously gone awry. But he’s still dead, just the same...

Deadweight

A 'Lena's Friends' novel. Weight loss is big business… So is pornography. If you can combine the two, then there could be serious money to be made. But when expectations are high, and when corners are being cut, while at the same time changes are occurring in the supply chain, things can so easily go wrong...

Disrespected

A 'Lena's Friends' novel. GUNS, STUDENTS, RELIGION, RAPE, MURDER, GREED, AND REVENGE, A recipe for a deadly cocktail. A story of deception, abduction, violation, and murder, as we take a journey from crazy plans and forlorn hope… to betrayal, revenge, and ultimately a deadly justice...

Selected

The bloody bodies of convicted or suspected pædophiles are being found, butchered in the most painful and humiliating manner, while others are still having their cravings fed by unscrupulous pimps. A bizarre religious cult, with its origins in California in the heady days of nineteen sixties’ flower power, has set up home on a West Country farm. But is the kind of peace and love they preach really as innocent as it seems? ...

A Walk on the Mild Side

The bloody bodies of convicted or suspected pædophiles are being found, butchered in the most painful and humiliating manner, while others are still having their cravings fed by unscrupulous pimps. A bizarre religious cult, with its origins in California in the heady days of nineteen sixties’ flower power, has set up home on a West Country farm. But is the kind of peace and love they preach really as innocent as it seems? ...

This is Lena

This is Lena - is a FREE compendium of Recreation and Payback: Recreation - "Yes, you do look a little familiar…"

A short story prequel to Chris Graham's, the 'Lena's Friends' novels. Payback - “Does that make me a bad person?”

Payback is the second, novella length, prequel to Chris Graham's, 'Lena's Friends' series.

Martial Arts and Biography.

Mordred’s Victory & Other Martial Mutterings

Mordred's VictoryHaving been born into a travelling circus family, Jamie Clubb offers a fresh and unique insight to the world of martial arts. In his preface to this book, Geoff Thompson says, “The writer is erudite and extremely well read and practised, the writing is literary and compelling and the prose is articulate and challenging for all the right reasons”...

When Parents Aren't Around

An up-to-date and well researched book that is easy to read for 8-13 year old children and their parents. The aim of the book is to teach children basic behavioural skills for self-protection, designed with a proactive approach that switches them onto survival without making them paranoid. It is written so that information can be learnt and retained with a special introduction and a chapter for parents to help in their child’s self-protection education...

Wrong Fu

Turning the critical eye inwards, Jamie asks vital questions that highlights how far irrational thought has permeated the martial arts subculture. Other essays focus on logical fallacies that are often used to promote individual styles or schools, the dangers of narrow-mindedness, the many mistakes of martial arts documentaries, the cult of many so-called reality-based combat systems and finally the power of embracing one’s mistakes when training in martial arts...

The Legend of Salt & Sauce

Salt and Sauce were the strange names of two of Britain's most celebrated performing elephants. Stories of their exploits have become the stuff of circus folklore. Captured in India at the turn of the twentieth century, they were exported to Britain on the orders of George Lockhart, a world famous music hall elephant trainer, to form part of his ‘Cruet’ of elephants. By 1904 a tragedy at Walthamstow railway station left their new owner crushed to death and the reputations of the elephants forever the part of an infamous legend...

Science Fiction, Humour, Biography, Mystery & Adventure, Crime & Detective, Personal Development, and Business.

A Commando’s Story - A son’s tribute to his father

BIOGRAPHY:

What would you call a bloke who lay up to his waist in a freezing Norwegian fjord with a smouldering pack of explosives strapped to his chest and German rifle fire zipping past his head? I called him Dad...

I Want That Job

BUSINESS:

Don’t just try harder to get that dream job; tilt the odds in your favour by unlocking the secrets of successful job hunting. From writing your CV, through interview skills, to negotiating your starting salary, build on the knowledge of an experienced interviewer to make sure that you know what he knows....

Writing A Book That Sells

BUSINESS:

Don’t just try harder to get that dream job; tilt the odds in your favour by unlocking the secrets of successful job hunting. From writing your CV, through interview skills, to negotiating your starting salary, build on the knowledge of an experienced interviewer to make sure that you know what he knows....

An Alternative Christmas Carol

HUMOUR:

When Charles Dickens wrote his morality tale, A Christmas Carol, he couldn’t know about the banking crisis, fat cat bankers with six figure bonuses or the selling off of state owned assets at knock down prices, so I’ve had to take his story of misanthropy and redemption and update it a little bit...

The Warriors: The Girl I Left Behind Me

MYSTERY & ADVENTURE:

Volume 1 of The Warriors. Danger, deception and warfare, three and a half thousand miles from home. The Warriors: The Girl I Left Behind Me, tells of the adventures of a soldier and his wife, and a terrorist and his girlfriend. Lofty is a soldier in the British Army, posted to Afghanistan for a tour of duty. Youssef is a British born Muslim whose parents are killed in an accident of war and who joins the Taliban seeking revenge...

The Warriors: Mirror Man

MYSTERY & ADVENTURE:

Volume 2 of The Warriors. Be afraid, London, be very afraid. Radioactive nuclear waste is smuggled into the UK to manufacture a “dirty bomb”. In the wrong hands it will mean a slow, agonising death for hundreds, possibly thousands of people. Who can stop this from happening? ...

The Charity Thieves

CRIME & DETECTIVE:

When did working with a TV company become an invitation to risk life and limb? Andy Mirren can’t believe his luck when he is appointed to work as the liaison between his charity and the TV company that runs its annual telethon. But his dream turns to a nightmare as he discovers that the producer and his girlfriend are on the take and that the glittering array of celebrities he must look after are a bunch of idiots (and that’s putting it politely). And that’s even before Andy meets their agents...

Operation Absolom

MYSTERY & ADVENTURE:

Carter's Commandos - Book 1 - There’s an old saying in the Army, ‘Never volunteer for anything’. It has been said many times, so why on Earth did Steven Carter ignore it? After volunteering for the Army Commandos, Carter finds himself cut off in enemy occupied Norway. It’s winter, it’s cold and the enemy are hunting for him. Can he survive against all these odds? ...

The A to Z of (Amateur) Golf

SPORT:

Golf. Learn why the game is so challenging, why so many golfers aren’t better at it and why it is sometimes such a sheer joy to play.

Operation Tightrope

MYSTERY & ADVENTURE:

Carter's Commandos - Book 2 - Know your enemy”. But what happens when your enemy is supposed to be on your side? Operation Tightrope is the second book in the Carter’s Commando series and takes Lucky Carter to occupied Jersey and northern France in the dangerous service of his country.

New Earth

SCIENCE FICTION:

Volume 3 in 'The Magi' series. Everyone has heard of New Earth, but if you aren’t human you probably haven’t been there. And once you’re there, you’d rather not be. And if you think New Earth is bad, try its older brother...

Cloning Around

SCIENCE FICTION:

Volume 4 in 'The Magi' series. Marty and Davina tell a strange story, while An Kohli and Den help a primitive tribe to settle old scores against their neighbours, at the same time as stealing the egg that they worship. Then An Kohli finds herself in bed with the mysterious Max Wallfly. It's all go when you're a bounty hunter...

Timeslip

SCIENCE FICTION:

Volume 5 in 'The Magi' series. There are two things you have to remember about time; the first is that you never have enough of it and the second is that there is too much of it...

The Return of Su Mali

SCIENCE FICTION:

Volume 6 in 'The Magi' series. You know those nice, friendly sea mammals that people love to swim with? Well, maybe they aren’t always as friendly as you think...

The Magi

SCIENCE FICTION:

You really don’t want the best bounty hunter in the galaxy on your trail, and you certainly don’t want to make her mad! The wise members of the Galaxy’s rulers ‘The Magi’ are lost, and law and order is breaking down. The evil Fell are trying to take over and it needs someone special to stop them...

Genghis Kant

SCIENCE FICTION:

Volume 2 in 'The Magi' series. When you upset the Fell, they don’t just kill you. First they bankrupt you, then they ruin your reputation, then they kill you...

Parallel Lines

SCIENCE FICTION:

Volume 8 in 'The Magi' series. Chasing suspects across the galaxy is a complicated business. But if the suspect is you, then it makes it even more complicated.

Robinson Kohli

SCIENCE FICTION:

Volume 7 in 'The Magi' series. Anyone who drinks alcohol knows what it's like, sometimes, to wake up and not be sure where you are. But to wake up and not even know which planet you are on, that's a real hangover...

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