Download or read book TANNADEE written by Maurice Gray and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tannadee, a picturesque village in the Scottish Highlands, finds itself suddenly forced to fight for its life when Gordon Weever, a billionaire bully, reveals plans to build an exclusive golf resort nearby. Though most of the locals oppose him, Weever pushes on, employing dirty tricks and splashing cash. He trashes a rare woodland, he annexes land. Somebody needs to stop him. But who? Step up local teacher, Chizzie Bryson with his out-of-the-box idea for the villagers to compete in a Highland Games to raise funds – with a surprising ally. Weever’s own daughter rejects her father’s rapacious antics, time after time attempting to remodel him into someone she can respect... and failing. The time of the Highland Games dawns, and a diverse range of local characters compete on behalf of Tannadee including a greasy wrestler, a hypochondriac miler, a suicidal hill runner, a pretty-boy hammer thrower, a hen-pecked cyclist, and a wild-boy sprinter. Can good morals and fairness win the day? And can they be the iceberg to sink Weever’s titanic ego once and for all?

Download or read book The Missing Links Of Tannadee written by Maurice Gray and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to be a clan chief is easy when you have the right credentials. It’s a bit more tricky when you haven’t any. But lack of proof need be no barrier when you’re absolutely brimming with all the right stuff to make a great chief. At least that’s the theory according to billionaire, ego-maniac, Gordon Weever. No one is going to get in Weever’s way. And just to make sure, he hires a pair of crooks to see off his rival. The crooks though have problems of their own, only a little dog can help them. They need to get their hands on that dog, and an increasingly desperate Weever needs to get hands on something that passes for real credentials. Standing in their way is a plucky band of villagers who are out to thwart them both.

Download or read book The Spirit and the Flesh written by T. J. Dias and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Thompson, a lapsed Catholic, is departing for a weekend away with his university housemates – Roger, a non-religious liberal interested in pleasure seeking, and Sean, a theology student and Catholic with strong religious convictions. An unlikely group, they head to the pubs of Amsterdam, debating life’s most important issues along the way.

Download or read book Common Sense written by Colin Wreford and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Sense covers the 5 year period of Government by a brand new political party elected on a manifesto of eliminating crime. The book traces the increasing influence on day to day life of the British population as harsh penalties are introduced.

Download or read book Like a Fox to a Swallow written by Ella Voss and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Kings and Alma Carneggio couldn’t be more different: Helen makes a living as a single-mum and partner in a London law firm, while Alma lives a privileged life as the wife of a Milanese industrial aristocrat. Yet, their lives are haunted by the same tragedy: the mysterious death of Luca Carneggio, Alma’s son and Helen’s lover- and the father of Helen’s teenage daughter Emmy, an illegitimate child and therefore a disgrace to the Carneggio family. While Alma drifts through her days on painkillers and tranquillizers, hiding in her family’s estate, Helen is keeping up the façade of a tough self-made woman. But in her quiet moments, only a ghost Luca keeps her company – and her resentment towards the Carneggios alive. She blames them for the dreams she had to give up. But as Emmy turns into a young adult, this truth is being challenged - until it finally falls apart. The reader follows Alma and Helen on their winded - and sometimes funny - ways to come to terms with their past, finding a new way of being after having lost what they loved the most. When Alma is suddenly stripped of her family corset, she begins to long for meeting her only granddaughter. But is it too late for a new beginning?

Download or read book The Iroko Tree written by Russ Watling and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial West Africa and the nationalists want the British out. Tom Bradley, an ex-bomber pilot, takes a job in the Protectorate of Nigeria flying cargo up country alongside a local Nigerian, and external circumstances begin to test their relationship.

Download or read book Poor Enid written by Andrew Price and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millionaire war veteran Art Schitthelm has lived through two wars, he’s determined not to see another. To ensure everyone keeps the peace he uses a bogus charity to inflict his own brand of twisted philanthropy on humankind.

Download or read book The Broch written by Graham Bullen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when the bottom falls out of your world, but dammit, no one’s gonna get to know? In THE BROCH, a wry, touching week-long odyssey into the wilds of the Scottish Outer Hebrides, we follow one man running away from answers, and towards the realities of his own mortality.

Download or read book Jane Austen s Lost Novel written by Jane Austen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the appearance in 1870 of the Memoir written by her nephew J.E. Austen Leigh, very little was known about Jane Austen beyond what could be deduced from her major novels. This had been the family’s choice. Despite this lack of information Deidre Le Faye records that following the acceptance of Jane’s novel Susan for publication in 1803, “according to family tradition, she had composed the plot of another full-length novel”. This, Two Girls of Eighteen, never previously identified as Jane’s, was published in 1806 but at some point apparently suppressed. Only two copies are known to exist - one in the Deutsch Nationalbibliothek and the one from which the present text has been transcribed, which came from a house that Jane knew and is mentioned by her in A Collection of Letters. Two Girls of Eighteen has a divided structure, involving two sisters, Charlotte and Julia, each of whom is given her own story, the one a Romance partly based on Richardson’s Clarissa, the other a Gothic confection - both set in contemporary England. Jane appears to be testing in this the capabilities of such forms for expressing what she was trying to achieve. Through the character of Charlotte, who is attempting to write a novel, she deliberates at length the sort of thing that she herself might write. Her reflections on such subjects as medicine, law, the rights of women, etc take us below the glossy surface of the major novels and show us the complex web of thought that lies beneath.

Download or read book Almost Human written by HC Denham and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No human being is perfect. But suppose we were able to create machines which are like humans only better? Cleverer, more beautiful, more empathetic, more rational....

Download or read book No Number Nine written by F J Campbell and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel with a strong female lead character who’s flawed but who readers will take to their hearts. A story about grief, family conflicts and first love, with a dramatic background of sport and the Olympics. What do you do when your amazing, beautiful, beloved sister dies? Hide in your room for two years. Sleep with a very, very wrong man. Leave home and start a new life, lying to everyone you meet including your kind employer, your curious friends and the man you love? Pip Mitchell’s an expert at making seriously bad decisions. But when her past, present and future collide at the Sydney Olympic Games, she’s going to have to decide whose side she’s on – or she’ll lose everyone she loves. No Number Nine is a coming-of-age story about an 18-year-old girl who has put her life on hold for two years after the death of her sister. Pip leaves her home in England and tries to move forward with her life, taking a job in Germany as an au pair to the von Feldsteins, a family which is full of surprises - and not good ones. Set in Munich, the story follows Pip for a year as she crashes from one embarrassing, awkward mistake to the next. Finally, as she starts to emerge from her fog of grief, she travels with the von Feldsteins to Sydney where, amid the drama of the 2000 Olympic Games, everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. Can Pip protect herself and the people she loves? Does she have the courage to tell the truth, even if it destroys her?

Download or read book Don t Bother To Dress Up written by Maly Sayle and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie was an army child, growing up with a strong sense of routine and order. She went on to marry an army officer fully believing in marriage, babies and carrying out her duties as "wife of..."

Download or read book The Boy Made the Difference written by Matt Bishop and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rex, a husband and father, makes an unintentional error. Will Rex get away with his terrible, taboo-busting mistake? This opening premise is the starting gun to a rollicking ride through London of the late 1980s and early 1990s, in a literary novel that focuses on human frailty, love, marriage, family bonds, gay sex, betrayal, alcoholism, illness and death. Although aspects of the novel are richly ironic and even comedic, it also deals with challenging themes, not least HIV/AIDS. Matt Bishop wrote The Boy Made the Difference because very few (if any) literary novels are set against the narrative backdrop of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which had a profound and lasting impact on the gay community. All of the proceeds from the book sales will be donated to his late mother’s charity – the Bernardine Bishop Appeal (part of CLIC Sargent – a charity that helps children, young people and their families who are suffering the effects of cancer).

Download or read book A Human Condition written by Lyn Miller and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion’s life should be getting easier. It hasn’t been simple juggling her busy job as an Edinburgh GP and caring for her daughter, Rose, single-handed. But, as Rose sets off for Bristol and student life, it becomes apparent that Marion’s mother is failing. Deteriorating Alzheimer’s disease makes her vulnerable and increasingly dependent on Marion. Marion’s strength is tested as she copes with her mother’s illness and deals with a startling discovery about her family’s past. Nyaga has moved to Scotland from Botswana with the hope that she would find more opportunities in her work as a nurse and be able to make a better living. But missing her home, lonely and unhappy, Nyaga begins to feel ill and her anxiety mounts. A growing friendship with Marion helps to brighten her outlook. In Bristol Rose is soaring, on a high. She’s in love and hopes to star in the forth-coming drama society production. But not everything continues to go smoothly for Rose. A Human Condition follows the three women’s paths through life events and focuses on their relationships. Lyn Miller uses experiences from her own career working as a GP to add colour and detail to the narrative which will appeal to fans of women’s and contemporary fiction.

Download or read book What s Left Unsaid written by Deborah Stone and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sasha is just about managing to hold her life together, dealing with family struggles as well as holding down her job. But when her son begins to suspect that he has a secret sibling, Sasha realises that she must relive the events of a devastating night which she has done her best to forget for the past nineteen years.

Download or read book Bound by the Scars We Share written by Vivien Churney and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930s Antwerp, having fled a pre war Poland with her family, Zoshia, a young Jewish girl, battles to survive intense persecution from the Nazis and bravely endangers her own life in order to help save others.

Download or read book Playing For Keeps written by Chris Pullen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every player that makes it into the ranks of professional football there are many thousands of others that don’t. Many drift into semi-professional football, or ‘non-league’ as it is known.