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  • A Cautionary Tale
    Richard Sloane
    This novella is about an English girl, born in the early sixties, who has Bi-polar disorder, which isn’t diagnosed until she’s a teenager when her parents are forced to section her in a mental hospital in Paris where they are living. There she marries her doctor and has a son, Michael. This is followed by another son but, after her first-born is killed in a terrible road accide...
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    10,35 €

  • The Plane Crash
    Richard Sloane
    ’The Plane Crash’ is the third in the series, after ’This Forest is Ours’ and ’Just Leave us Alone!’, about the fairies and leprechauns who still exist in a remote corner of the far west of Ireland. The novella is about a rude awakening by the modern world when a light plane crashes on the fairies’ lovingly tended fields. There is only one person in the plane, the pilot, who i...
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    15,59 €

  • This Forest is Ours
    Richard Sloane
    In this modern fantasy, two tribes of leprechauns and fairies live next to one another in a remote corner of Ireland. But, when the humans decide to build an airport on their land and start cutting down their forest, the leprechauns and fairies have to go into battle to get them to change their minds. They must deal with two corrupt but important people, one a minister in the g...
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    19,73 €

  • The Nuclear Pulse Threat
    Richard Sloane
    After Jack Sanderson is called to an extraordinary meeting of the COBRA committee, he discovers that the PM and the President of the USA have been sent letters, purportedly coming from ISIS / Al Qaeda. They claim they have acquired two nuclear missiles capable of totally destroying the electricity grids of Britain and the USA if their outrageous demands are not met within two w...
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    13,42 €

  • Teen Spirit
    Richard Sloane
    Anna is a fairly typical 15-year-old girl. However, her entire world is brutally torn apart when, after a terrorist attack in her city, her mother ends up in hospital, very seriously injured. Anna’s father is not around and she is forced to grow up very quickly but then she meets a boy..... Read on! ...
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    12,38 €

  • Brace Yourselves!
    Richard Sloane
    A massive power cut hits London and Jack Sanderson is called unexpectedly to a COBRA meeting. There the Prime Minister tells the Committee about a warning she has received that climate activists will close down the national electricity grid - unless she starts taking steps within the next two weeks to reverse climate change. Soon though, he’s desperately trying to prove blackma...
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    18,26 €

  • The Double Conspiracy
    Richard Sloane
    When an operation by the government and MI5 to replace the Queen with a double after she dies is leaked to a ruthless criminal mastermind, the Prime Minister calls in his oldest friend, Jack Sanderson, to sort out the mess. In a desperate race against time, Jack is sent on a delicate and highly dangerous mission to retrieve some incriminating tapes and must use all the skills h...
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    11,94 €

  • The Drone Attack
    Richard J. Sloane / Richard JSloane
    When Jack Sanderson’s boss at MI5, Sir Maurice, tasks him with interrogating an IRA defector, he uncovers a mind-boggling plot to destroy the entire Royal Family in one blow with Novichok, one of the deadliest nerve agents known to man. This is supposed to happen in a mere ten days while they are all celebrating Christmas at Sandringham, using a special drone designed by the de...
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    12,34 €

  • The Dirty Bomb Affair
    Richard J Sloane
    After some truly worrying intelligence is received at NSA headquarters in the USA, Jack Sanderson is sent over there to find out more about it as it involves Britain as well as America. He discovers that ISIS, the terrorist network, has managed to get hold of the material used to make two `dirty bombs which, when primed, have the power to devastate both London and New York. No...
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    21,59 €

  • Traitor in Our Midst
    Richard J. Sloane / Richard JSloane
    When the serving Prime Minister is assassinated, Jack Sanderson is sent by his boss, Sir Maurice, head of MI5, on a desperate mission to find out who did it and why. With the help of an old police friend and his counterpart in MI6, he quickly discovers the assassins name: Yuri. Hes a foreigner and when hes shot dead in his home city, it strongly suggests that Russia might be be...
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    15,56 €

  • Cassandra, the Magic Pony
    Richard Sloane
    Cassandra is a very special pony. She has many amazing magical powers such as the ability to make herself tiny, down to the size of a toy pony, which is what she usually is except when she’s being ridden by her owner, Julia. Together they have a lot of fantastic adventures but, as you will see if you read this collection of ten illustrated short stories about them, Julia can ne...
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    16,10 €

  • Teen Spirit
    Richard Sloane
    Anna is a fairly typical 15-year-old girl. However, her normal life is smashed to pieces when, after a terrorist attack in her city, her mother ends up in hospital, very seriously injured. Anna is forced by her new situation to grow up very quickly but in the end finds happiness. ...
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    17,84 €

  • Forward Into the Future!
    Richard Sloane
    Our five adventurers, adults now, are together all spun on their great horses to a distant, alien planet where they meet a race of creatures that collectively have all the knowledge of the universe at their disposal. Most of their questions about their adventures are at last answered, and they meet the creatures? leader, who sets them on what seems to be an impossible task. In ...
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    16,08 €

  • Back to Louis Braille in 1823 France!
    Richard Sloane
    This story, the fifth in the Back to …. Series, takes us with Philippe, the blind French boy, and his sister, Sophie, back to early 19th century France. They are spun there by the magic carousel and their great horses lead them to meet Louis Braille, the inventor of the writing system for the blind. He is only a boy himself and he introduces Philippe to life in that period befo...
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    17,96 €

  • Back to the Sioux in 1876 America!
    Richard Sloane
    Join Billy Brighteyes, a modern Sioux native-American boy, on an astonishing adventure as he is whirled back on a magic merry-go-round to South Dakota in 1876. There he has a crash course in Sioux culture, getting his own spirit symbol and being blooded before playing a crucial role in Custer’s Last Stand. When he is, finally, spun back to the present, he finds he has brought s...
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    17,88 €

  • Back to Joan of Arc!
    Richard Sloane
    Join Sophie and her blind brother, Philippe, two French children, on an amazing adventure as they are whirled back on a magic carousel to France in the Middle Ages. There they meet 16-year-old Joan of Arc who they help with her momentous decision to leave her family and ride off to do battle for her country. They then accompany her on a dangerous journey right across France to ...
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    17,89 €

  • Back to Medieval Times!
    Richard Sloane
    Join Augie and June again, who are now twelve, onanother fantastic historical adventure! This time theyare spun back on the magic carousel to 1209 AD. Therethey help a special group of scholars to get to Cambridge andon the way meet many dangers which they have to overcomeusing a mixture of ingenuity and brute force. They also meetsome very famous people who turn out to be not ...
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    16,17 €

  • Back to the Dark Ages!
    Richard Sloane
    Join two eleven-year-old children, living in England, on theadventure of a lifetime who are spun back on a carousel to the8th century AD. There they meet the Venerable Father Bede,a famous scholar and monk, who educates them for a while in thecustoms and lifestyle of the period. Then they are sent by him ona perilous mission to take two valuable manuscripts to a king forsafekee...
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    15,22 €