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If only he’d told her – Katherine Markland

Author: Katherine Markland
Release Date:  Aug 2021
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1914083-1-98
RRP: £9.99

If only he’d told her is the story of Emma, who at the age of 32, loses her boyfriend to cancer. Their relationship before his death, though, was difficult, and Emma is left with one important unanswered question – did he really love her?

Beginning at the funeral, the story moves forwards in time as she comes to terms with her loss, and backwards in time as she untangles a complex relationship overshadowed by a terminal illness. Tested to breaking point, they demonstrate the courage and kindness they have for each other, but also the courage and kindness that they both need. Finally, recognizing a tenderness in him, she finds the strength she needs to move forward.

This is a story of the strength and tenderness in us all, but the need for strength and tenderness too.

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Mountain Biking Adventures: Multi-day routes in northern Britain – Hugh Stewart & Tony Wragg

Author: Hugh Stewart & Tony Wragg
Release Date: 12th December 2017
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781-912014-87-3

 

Over the last two decades, mountain biking has developed enormously as a “sport”. We greatly admire the technical and athletic capabilities of modern day mountain bikers and recognise that many excellent mountain biking guides have been written and custom-built trails set up. However, in this guide we try to reopen a sense of adventure and wilderness to mountain biking, providing multi-day routes with a remoteness, continuity an d“arc” missing from many modern guides with their focus on day and half day outings. Sixteen are in Scotland, three in Northern England, and a bonus track is on southern chalk. The Scottish routes include well-known through routes and some passes previously restricted to those on foot. This is where the adventure and wilderness come in, and although some of the easier routes could be for any able bodied biker, the harder ones require mountain craft as well as cross country cycling skill and fitness.

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Hazardous Areas For Technicians – Ian Staff

Author: Ian Staff
Release Date: 19th June 2017
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-912014-95-8

 

This Handbook is aimed at Electrical, Instrument and Mechanical Technician Level. This advisory book sets out to complement the essential E.E.M.U.A. Handbook by going down to the basics of how the equipment fits into a modern day Hazardous Area by showing easy to understand sketches and drawings throughout with explanations on why and how the equipment works.
Modern European and International Regulations and Standards are also explained including properties of gases, vapours, dusts and types of cables and glanding. There are also details of protection systems such as flameproof and intrinsic safety.
The author is an Electrical Training Consultant for a Training Company Humberside Offshore Training Association (H.O.T.A.) based in Hull, in the North East of England.

 

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Hit the Road, Jack – Frank English

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Author: Frank English
Release Date: 13th March 2017
Format: Paperback and also available as Ebook
ISBN: 978-1-912014-51-4

 

A chance meeting in a cemetery in his home town throws Jack into a turmoil, as he tries to come to terms with his ailing marriage to Lee. Emotions and feelings that he thought he had buried, are thrust to the surface again, as events spin him into an entirely unexpected direction.

Close family life never runs smoothly for him, as problems with his grandparents’ health take him back to those times he experienced with his mam only a few years before.

Life definitely is not an easy rite of passage for this likeable and resilient young man.

 

 

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Maritime Mail

Author: June Tower

Release Date: Originally 2009 / release through 2QT 30th May 2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-908098-25-2

When June Kellet was only 15 she fell in love with a young naval officer and over the next four years they were to live their lives through letters and brief stays, when John had leave ashore. The letters, now held in the archives of the Cairn Library of the National Maritime Museum are considered by the then Curator of Manuscripts as being, ‘… very important – to naval historians – they stand, still, as our most important collection from the mid-twentieth century.’

In this journal June Towers shares with us some of the letters which portray the lives of two young people – a junior naval officer and a schoolgirl of 16 years of age – their every day lives, family and friends, dreams, hope and above all love. The letters contained within the book start in October of 1946 and cover a period of four years  – the final entry being 29th November 1950. They married in April 1950 but married life was short lived as tragedy hit a year later, the day after their first wedding anniversary. June was 20 years old.

There has been much debate about the submarine the HMS Affray – still considered to be one of the Royal Navy’s worst peacetime disasters.

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