Stephen Brown

In Book Two of the Cripplesby Diaries Trilogy, Elliot and Geeza are thrown together once more, travelling through Africa in a race against time to stop a mysterious, but hideously evil entity. As ancient as the Earth itself, it has remained dormant for millennia, but is now shaking free.Together with a maverick scholar, an expert in archaic forms of writing, they discover that the fate of the World somehow revolves around the three Great Pyramids...

Sadness is a horse who has lost herself in the grind and drudgery of a hard, working life. She is alone, listless and without hope. Having outlived her usefulness, her owner puts her on a truck and sends her away on what it is to be her final journey, but something happens along the way... A short story.

A JUMBLE OF DOGS completes the author's initial trip to the subcontinent. Another six months' worth of highs, lows, moods and musings captured in song and verse.Titles include The Hunchback of Premam Beach, Turtle Bones, The Temple Dancer and King of the Cliff and range from doggerel to rap to hard rock with all sorts in between.

Burley village in the New Forest, England – hardly the place you would expect to find a pagan cult meeting in secret to discuss kidnapping, ritual and sacrifice. But it's all true, or so a maverick film-maker would have Professor Jeremy Saddleworth believe.A mysterious tooth found by Saddleworth's daughter defies identification by all conventional means, but can it really be from a monster of Irish folklore as a friend's computer program and a self-confessed...

Following the success of Glitterville's Handmade Halloween, Glitterville is back for the sparkliest holiday of all! Glitterville's Handmade Christmas is as bursting as a mantle-hung stocking with twenty new whimsical, winter-wonderful craft projects that will fill your home with sleighfuls of cheer. Hundreds of beautiful, easy-to-follow, step-by-step full-color photos and how-tos make the crafting fun and the results foolproof. From a Jolly Dolly

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Mengeling is something of a mixture – less a collection, it is more a disparate group of individual poems all drawn together into one bubbling pot. From the ridiculous Bilgeby Sprite to the deeply introspective Waking Up, these poems offer a slightly more personal glimpse into the writer's psyche.Burnt Cakes & Opening Up, like many others titles in Mengeling, display a kind of disarming honesty, allowing the reader to get a little closer to the...

In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). As the government is rethinking Canadian aid and its relationship with other foreign policy and commercial objectives, the time is ripe to rethink Canadian aid more broadly. Edited by...

Songs From A Wooden House is a collection of more than forty poems which will provide both light-hearted amusement and thought-provoking distractions for people in all walks of life.With titles such as Love Is..., The Tribulations of a Hungry Buddhist Spider and Desert Island Vegetables, these poems can be read anywhere at any time, whether on a packed commuter train on your way to work or curled up with a glass of something before the fire late at...

A covering of snow drifts down across a valley in rural China, stirring up feelings in an elderly monk residing in the local temple. Frustrated at his inability to form any lasting relationship with the Tao, he decides to set out for the hermitage on Orange Blossom Mountain, hoping the seclusion will help him achieve his long sought after state of bliss. A short story.