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Can Life Get Better?
Dear diary...This is the most awful period of my life. It's been an up hill struggle with all my health problems and no end in sight. I try to keep...
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Heir of Icarus
Blood beckons from these broken rocks, where the seabirds meet their destiny in flocks. In the sweat of the sea, the sea-made mist, where waves and...
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Taking Care 2
I had a phone call next day from Malcolm, asking me if I could come back in for a second stage interview. This was new to me. Was something amiss? "...
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Chapter 4: Yannis
Helena sat by the window of her small flat in Palmers Green, staring out at the street below. The familiar sounds of the neighbourhood drifted up -...
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The Tide Is High (Dead Reckoning series - Part 24)
Samantha and the Detectives are getting nowhere fast with Jeannie, and Josiah and Archibald are in deep water, and it's getting a lot deeper!
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Taking Care 1 (ii)
The home, Remus Lodge, was a large Victorian house on the corner of a road, just up from the lights at the main junction in the town. It was five...
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Taking Care 1 (i)
In early 2004, my life - which had then been flying on one engine for some time - finally came crashing to earth. I was almost 45. My marriage was...
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Blink into a nightmare
A few moments ago I was simply marking papers trying to get as much work done before the days end. I had closed my eyes thinking of being anywhere...
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The Man Who Almost Saved The World by Alfred N.Muggins
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18/7/24 And the Pied Piper leads his adherents and the whole nation into the jaws of transatlantic capitalism, On both sides of the pond! The Buffoon...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Facing up
Another extract from my memoir of my time as mum's full-time carer at the end of her life. Although mum had recovered from her kidney injury, her...
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