Thames Valley Tales
(Short Stories Book 1)

Thames Valley Tales is a light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of 15 short stories by UK-based author Tim Walker. These original stories are based on the author's experience of living in London and Thames Valley towns, and combine contemporary tales with the rich history and mythology of an area stretching from London beyond Oxford into the heart of rural England. The collection includes 'Maidenhead Thicket', selected as short...

The Little Vintage Carousel by the Sea

What if one moment could change your life forever?

Ness has almost resigned herself to being single forever, when she catches sight of the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen on the train to work.

But just as she plucks up the courage to speak to him – he steps off the train and disappears into the crowds, without realising he’s accidentally dropped his phone!

It’s her ‘glass slipper’ moment, she’s sure of it, she just needs to track him down...

Sail Away

The phone hasn't rung for months. Suzy Marshall is discovering that work can be sluggish for an actress over sixty – even for the former star of a 1980s TV series. So when she's offered the plum role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest in...

Body-Hopping Hysterics
(Bonkers Short Stories Book 2)

Not all superpowers are a good thing. Especially NOT if your mum has them. Or if they’re fuelled by embarrassment. And what if you can’t find your way back home?

Jump out of your skin with these hilarious short stories, but don’t leave your body unattended for long!

A Thousand Roads Home:

Meet Tom. Or Dr O’Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don’t even give him a second glance. You see, Tom isn’t living his best life. Burdened by grief, he’s only got his loyal dog, Bette Davis, for company and a rucksack containing his whole world.Then there’s Ruth and her son, DJ, who no longer have a place to call home.But Ruth believes that you can change the world by helping one person at a time – and Tom needs her help…Why readers...

Crimes Against a Book Club

Best friends Annie and Sarah need cash—fast. Sarah, a beautiful, successful lawyer, wants nothing more than to have a baby. But balancing IVF treatments with a grueling eighty-hour workweek is no walk in the park. Meanwhile, Annie, a Harvard-grad chemist recently transplanted to Southern California, is cutting coupons to afford her young autistic son's...

The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's...

Escape From Samsara:
(Prophecy Allocation Book 1)

He thinks he's a deadly ninja. He's not. He's Barry Harris and he still lives with his mum.

Barry's been patient, but after twenty-seven years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he's had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life's not done with throwing him curveballs.

Too Young to be Old: From Clapham to Kathmandu
(Frank's Travel Memoir Series, Book 1)

At age 27, Frank Kusy is unexpectedly put in charge of an old people's home in Clapham, South London. Driven to distraction by a crazy cast of characters he seeks solace in Buddhism, only to find himself up to his ears in plasticine pigs and marathon chanting sessions. Will he make his mum happy by holding down a ‘proper' job? Will he make her unhappy by becoming a writer? And will he get to share cheese sandwiches with Kevin in India?

The Grotty Spoon: The Most Disgusting Restaurant Ever

‘The Grotty Spoon' is not what you'd call a normal restaurant.

The food is revolting, the service is slow, the chairs are uncomfortable, the dishwasher is a Yak called Fee Fee, and every night something goes disastrously wrong in the kitchen (…and it's also a holiday hotspot for jet-setting bacteria).

This grotty book, illustrated with over thirty disgusting drawings, is hands down the grottiest story in the world!