Showing results by publisher "Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd" in Literature & Fiction

Geoff is having a biblically bad day. For a start, his car gets written off and he loses his job at a call center in Manchester. Then the Devil tells him he’s the antichrist and unless he delivers the apocalypse, he’ll be tortured for eternity at a call center in Hell. With the help of the Devil; his best friend, Rob, who turns out to be an infamous duke of Hell; and Mr. Sox, a hellhound trapped in a cat’s body, they are chased by the forces of good, and that’s when all the fun starts….

What if you were given a life-altering diagnosis at 57? One that meant you aren’t who you thought you were? But one that explained everything? These poems vibrate with intensity and curiosity about life, and because she came to this knowledge so late in life, many of Clare Smith’s poems focus not so much on what it means to be autistic, but on what it means to be human. Throughout her life, as she struggled to fit into a world that to her was utterly strange, she poured her hopes, her joys and, at times, her despair into words.

It seems easy to understand. Just don’t eat anything made by animals. That’s easy to do, right? Shirley feels she needs to do this to attract the best-looking ram on the field. We are all sheep anyway, moving around in herds, whether physically or in thought patterns. Could a change in widely accepted diets be undertaken by the herd?

Each and everyone of us has our own human emotions. Days can be filled with happiness, whereas other days can be full of sadness. The uniqueness of one’s emotions can very rarely be understood by others. It is really difficult, if not impossible, to tell others how you feel or for them to understand how you are feeling. I have tried, in this book, to cover the inner most boundaries of human emotions, splitting my poems into different realms of human thought. Hope, fate and destiny, joy, life, the world, loneliness, love, regrets, religion, and the future are all covered.

A mountain that fills the horizon, a dream that becomes a nightmare, a woman in search of her forgotten past and a king looking for his future: These separate but related parts are all brought together when a stranger appears in their midst, asking for help. As the story unfolds, the landscape and its inhabitants come to life with the tale moving slowly toward its inevitable climax.

Tom Hartley retires, and soon afterward, his wife dies. After years of happy marriage, he is left alone in the large family home. Realizing that he has to build himself a new life, he moves into a smaller house, tries new activities, and makes new friends among other lonely senior singles. He takes Spanish lessons and tries yoga, singles holidays, dancing, and tennis, and crosses America along Route 66, all with hilarious consequences as he throws himself into his new lifestyle. After gaining and losing one love, he finds another very unexpectedly.

When a teenage boy with raging hormones and a strong desire for freedom clashes with the regime implemented by an increasingly narcissistic father, things take dramatic and, sometimes, terrifying turns. Follow a year in the life of Kevin and his friends as they fight and try to understand their own demons at the same time as forming unbreakable friendships during adventures with often hilarious highs and the consequences of the dire lows.

At the end of his working life, a vicar in the city of London thinks of himself as a failure. No one now seems to treasure the beliefs and religious practices of his youth, the church hierarchy is seemingly obsessed only with modern marketing and business methods which he doesn’t appreciate, and any love between him and his wife has long since vanished.

A woman's quest to rescue the child victims of human trafficking leads her on a perilous journey fraught with danger. Will her faith and the gift of "sight" inherited from her beloved grandmother be enough to sustain her on an epic voyage of self-discovery and good conquering evil?

Samantha and Emma’s late afternoon shopping trip was interrupted by a sudden attack to their town by an unknown enemy. The instinct to reconnect the broken family amid chaos and fear led them back home. Just when you think they are safe something else happens. The unexpected happens.

Two conflicting weather systems, after wreaking havoc in North America and the West Indies, come across the Atlantic, the first in the far north, the second moving swiftly past the Azores. Both are held up by a massive anti-cyclone over Northern Russia and intensify, the first in the North Sea off Norway, blowing a hurricane southward, the second centred over Oxford, blowing a hurricane up the English Channel.

Ever seen a flying cow, a horse that knits, or an eel that rides a bike? Well, welcome in to a world where your fantasy and imagination can bring them all to life.

Do you want to hear a story that will blow your mind? If yes, you have chosen the right book. You will indeed be lost in the book with the characters. Have you ever just wanted to be in a book that you are listening to? You will be enchanted and pulled towards every poem without even knowing it. In It Haunts Me, you will indeed be haunted by every poem, for you will love, cherish, remember each poem like the back of your hand.

Life According to Brian chronicles 44 stories of mishap and misadventure of a scale unparalleled in modern man. Disguised in comedy to protect the seriously guilty, the story follows Brian’s escapades traversing the world and captures not only the lunacy of life but the luck involved in avoiding one’s own death.

There is nothing exciting about young Victoria Plant’s life. But this is all about to change with the finding of an old key. The key unlocks the door to a secret and supernatural world. Victoria encounters the wicked Count De Ville and his faithful black cat; they are as old as the hills and transcend time, and their goal is to bring about the end of what still remains of the Rock Hollow clan. Can Victoria help to defeat the dastardly army of fiends before it is too late?

The perspective of danger changes when reality floods through the dark. It takes wild events of immense forbidden love for Christopher to realize he’s been living life all wrong. Christopher has to make serious changes in order to become the person he’s always wanted to be. Unfortunately, his biggest enemy is always close in his mind.

The story of Isaac Marcu Moritz and the great affliction of his childhood caused by a lightning bolt launched by Jupiter, god of the sky, the father of gods and men, and the patron of Rome. The bolt kills his aged mentor, whose knowledge of history and languages is transferred to the traumatized mind of the boy. He is plagued throughout his life by visions and torment of Rome’s ancient rulers and gods.

Nellie was brought up by her grandparents and lived in the East End of London. At the age of 19, she was able to start the job she had wanted—in a large J. Lyons & Co. Corner House tea room in London, where she became a "Nippy’", as the waitresses were called. Here, she also met her lifelong friend Connie.

The meanderings and twists and turns of real-life told through the poetry of a crazy mind…. Or am I sane? You decide….

Ever wondered about the mystery of creation? Do you often feel like there’s more to life than what you’ve been told? There is! Dive deep into the magical stories of love, adversity and adventure. Join the journey of a Sun named Shine as he asks the Very First Question and is presented with a peculiar answer.