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  • May 1940
    Michael E Wills
    It was a routine day for the crew of the motor barge. They were unloading a consignment of steel sheets in Portsmouth Dockyard. When they had finished, the ship would sail for their home port on the Isle of Wight. They were surprised when a man in Royal Naval officer uniform climbed aboard. He said to the captain:'I have an urgent message for you from the Admiralty. I am ordere...
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    11,03 €

  • Trouble
    Michael E Wills
    The lives of the four children at Clifftop Farm become very difficult and dangerous when their beloved collie, Billy, gets into serious trouble. The youngsters are compelled to devise a plan to rescue their dog. However, to get the crucial evidence they require, they must outsmart a group of criminals. Unexpected assistance emerges from two surprising quarters: an Italian priso...
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    9,63 €

  • For the Want of Silver
    Michael E Wills
    A novel based on the true story of a Viking raider who, over 30 years, acquired a fortune in English silver. In the churchyard of the village of Orkesta, just north of the city of Stockholm, there are two eleventh century rune stones. One of them, in a few brief words, tells the world of the extraordinary achievements of Ulf of Borresta, who lived nearby. During a long career a...
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    12,56 €

  • The Wessex Turncoat
    Michael E Wills
    Aaron Mew is a seventeen year-old apprentice blacksmith living in a small English village, in the late eighteenth century. His life is simple yet secure, until the day when he volunteers to take the place of his father on an errand for the squire. The country boy is wrenched from the environment in which he grew up and thrust into a world of ruffians, drunks, criminals and disg...
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    13,58 €

  • Bound for Home
    Michael E Wills
    After three years in the service of the emperor of the Greeks, Ahl and his Viking friends have become very rich. Now the crew longs to return home with their wealth, their problem is that the emperor will not permit them to leave. They make a daring plan to escape. The route home is perilous as they navigate uncharted seas. They must overcome robbers, storms and hostile strange...
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    9,60 €

  • Bounty
    Michael E Wills
    The young crew of the Viking ship Eagle set out on a new journey when they are given the task of delivering a message in the land of the Rus. But fate has a surprise in store for them when they are ordered to travel on the Viking trading route south to Constantinople, a route fraught with danger.They must face warring tribesmen, deadly rapids and a host of other dangers before ...
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    8,65 €

  • Banished
    Michael E Wills
    When one of their friends is captured and sold into slavery in the land of the Rus, the children of the old chieftain and their comrades decide to risk everything to rescue him. Little do they know what awaits them when they embark on the Viking ship, the ’Eagle’. In addition to the dangers of the sea voyage, they must face the villainy of a traitor, marauding pirates and robbe...
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    7,95 €

  • Treachery
    Michael E Wills
                   In the Second World War, hundreds of thousands                of children were evacuated from British cities and              sent to areas of the country where it was                regarded that they would be safer from bombing.               They went to stay with complete strangers, many                of whom were unenthusiastic about having a young        ...
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    9,60 €

  • Izar, The Amesbury Archer
    Michael E Wills
    This is the story of a man who lived 4,500 years ago. He was born in the region of the Swiss Alps and died nearly a thousand miles away in the south of England near to Stonehenge when it was being built. The mystery is how this could have happened, for the man’s skeleton shows that he was physically disabled. He lived at the end of an era, when human curiosity was pushing the b...
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    11,53 €

  • A Collection of English Wild Flowers
    Michael E Wills
    This book is the product of a group of brothers, sisters and cousins who got the idea that perhaps grandma and grandpa could run an on-line school for them during the lock-down in Spring 2020.  In Nature Studies the teachers and children researched the names and descriptions of the wild flowers they found in field work. The presentations were edited and are collected here. ...
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    12,92 €

  • Finn’s Fate
    Michael E Wills
    In 2009, road builders working on a new road to Weymouth, UK, discovered a shallow grave. In it were fifty-four headless skeletons. Research showed these were the remains of men from northern Europe who were buried in the 10th Century. Who were they and what happened to them? Finn’s Fate is a novel which attempts to solve the mystery. It tells the story of three brothers in ten...
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    10,46 €

  • Sven and the Purse of Silver
    Michael E Wills
    Sven’s father is a Viking ship's captain but is taken prisoner in a faraway country. There is a way to free him and Sven knows how to do it, but he will need help. An offer of assistance comes from a very unexpected and frightening source. Will Sven be brave enough to accept it? A story for 5 - 8 year-olds. 3 ...
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    7,07 €

  • Children of the Chieftain
    Michael E Wills / TBD
    The year is 950 AD and the story starts in the town of Birka on an island in the great lake which covers a vast area inland of what is today Stockholm. It was a wealthy town at the centre of an international trading network where merchants from as far afield as Turkey, Russia and Ireland met to buy, sell and barter.The wealth of the island also attracted unwelcome visitors and ...
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    7,96 €

  • The Red Slippers
    Michael E Wills
    Maia is an Egyptian girl who lived at the time of the pharaohs. Her normal happy life is interrupted when she is kidnapped and made to work as an unpaid home help in a house very far from her own. Her only possessions are the clothes she wears and her very special red slippers. When one of these is stolen she is desperately sad. But help comes from an unexpected place and her p...
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    8,07 €

  • One Decent Thing
    Michael E Wills
    Scottie, a decadent university administrator with a weakness for drink and women, visits his daughter Tina who is studying in Aberystwyth. She wants nothing to do with him because of the shabby way he has treated his ex-wife. After a heavy drinking session, he murders an injured IRA man he finds on the beach and steals the documents the man was carrying. The IRA cell try to hun...
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    9,97 €