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Trust – Colin Green


Author: Colin Green
Release Date:  13th October 2018
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 9781-912014-98-9

Retired DCI Geoff Sutton now works as a civilian at Parton Constabulary. Life is quiet as he follows his usual routine of golf and watching his beloved Upper Parton RFC – but all that’s about to change…

Walking home one evening, Geoff sees a familiar van. When it’s still there the next morning he decides to act – and what he and his colleagues find inside is beyond their worst nightmares.

Geoff’s experience is needed and he soon finds himself playing an integral part in an investigation that rocks the local force.

A dead prostitute, a missing foster child, a senior police officer whose love affair makes her careless… Geoff and his colleagues reveal blackmail, murder and kidnap as they untangle a web of deceit and corruption.

And Geoff is forced to ask himself: who can you really TRUST ?

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My Reign in Spain – Michael Giddings

Author: Michael Giddings
Release Date:  14th September 2018
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 9781-912014-46-0

Spain, January 1974. In the dying days of General Franco’s dictatorship Michael Giddings travels from a small town deep in rural England to Madrid to take up a post teaching English to the locals at a private language institute. He plans to stay for six months before going up to university in Oxford. His experiences with a colourful cast of characters as he adapts to his new life form an hilarious narrative: strange and eccentric pupils, flatmates and new acquaintances populate his story against the backdrop of a society on the brink of change -all set amid the varied land- scapes of Spain.

He discovers not only much about himself and his ability to survive alone but also about the adult world which he has now joined – a world where not everything can be taken at face value and complicated emotions and relationships intrude into his simple and naïve world picture.

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Caste in Half – Susan Robinson

       

Author: Susan Robinson                                                                                           Date: 28th September 2018
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 9781-912014-43-9

 

The fog comes towards my mother’s village early in the morning, a floating mass that moves towards the hills and vanishes in the blue sky. Then we see a beautiful view of the Sigor Valley below, a vast plain of game country that stretches as far as the eyes can see…

After leaving England with a double first from Oxford University, Susan Robinson’s father moved to Kenya to work for the colonial government. Her mother was Pokot, from a small village of grass-thatched houses on the African plains.

As Susan and her siblings grow up in the knowledge that they are half-white, half-black, they struggle to establish their identities in a society that can be ruthlessly cruel to outsiders. Emotionally, intellectually and culturally they are torn between their mother’s and their father’s worlds. This is the story of their survival and their journey to freedom in the rapidly changing world of the 1960s.

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Monty and friends save Christmas

Author: M T Sanders
Release Date:  5th October 2018
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 9781912014415

When Santa visits Monty’s house, things don’t quite go to plan.

Cookie has managed to scare the reindeers away and they are nowhere to be seen. Children around the world are waiting, but who will pull the sleigh?

It’s going to take a massive effort to save Christmas… and time is running out.

A magical festive story of friendship and overcoming the odds.

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History of a Farming Family – Peter Phillips

Author: Peter Phillips
Release Date: Oct 2018
Format: Paperback
ISBN:9781912014361

This book tells something of the life and daily happenings of a farming family living in Bentham, North Yorkshire in the first half of the 20th century. It was written in diary form by Francis Hesleton and his son William who farmed at Beck Grange, Mewith, and covers the period from 1890 to 1946.
Farming has never been an easy occupation and before mechanisation it was a lot harder than we could now imagine. The horse was invaluable, not only as a worker to till the soil or to pull a cartful of supplies from Bentham or Ingleton back to the farm, but also as a companion for the farmer in what was often a solitary existence. The weather always played a large part in the proceedings and winters were a lot more severe than we experience today.
The diaries documented every local farm sale, recorded local births, marriages and deaths, and kept records of expenditure for supplies of coal, feedstuffs, livestock and machinery. There is no flowery language, just blunt comments every day. As an ‘offcumden’ I would say they were real Yorkshiremen!

 

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