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  • The Adventures of Jackson
    Dr '. Bob' Stowers
    Join Jackson, the mouse in the house, in one of his adventures as he needs to escape the clutches of what he calls a monster cat. Jackson’s creativity inspires and shows that big challenges can be overcome with imagination and resolve. ...
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    18,77 €

  • Shoot, Ask...and Run
    Chris Stowers
    Shoot, Ask ... and Run!' The advice given to aspiring British photographer Chris Stowers, at the start of his travels, has never seemed so valuable. Buffeted by tempestuous forces of both personal and international affairs, he flees from the Jakarta mafia through the jungles of Borneo, is tear-gassed by riot police in Manila, and crosses an imploding Soviet Union by train, only...
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    23,47 €

  • Box of Birds
    Stephen Stowers M.D.
    In this fascinating memoir, cardiologist Stephen Stowers eloquently captures the various changes that he has lived through over a lifetime spent as a caring and ethical medical professional. With sadness, he watched as a profession he loved became more and more focused on the bottom line, while working as a doctor in the United States. He unpacks for the reader exactly what has...
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    13,00 €

  • Bugis Nights
    Chris Stowers
    Travel the trade winds from far east Indonesia to the Lion City aboard a Bugis spice ship named God Bless. A young English backpacker runs into a bunch of French adventurers on a remote Indonesian island and gets swept up in their madcap scheme to buy a traditional wooden sailing ship from a people once famed as pirates-the Bugis-and sail it to distant Singapore.Bugis Nights ha...
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    22,26 €

  • Catch 2022
    Antony J Stowers
    A re-cap of the last twelve months (give or take a few weeks) covering all that went on in and around it as seen through my eyes. A year full of great independence and artistic expression, of travel backwards and forwards between France and England, of pain in purse and wallet for the British, three terrific book tours, blistering live poetry performances, the death of a Queen,...
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    12,62 €

  • Michaela’s Miracle
    A. D. Stowers
    Michaela’s Miracle is a true story of love, despair, disappointment, pain, resolve, faith, hope, and joy. Michaela was abandoned first as a child, then by her husband. When she least expected it, a man walks into her life. From him, she learns that love and honor do still exist. Their love grew into something even more vast than the stars they enjoyed observing, even amidst the...
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    15,54 €

  • Key to the door
    Antony J Stowers
    Teaching in France, vaccinations, Locomotion Number One, Covid-by-the-Sea, four UK trips in six months, French theatre and film projects, model railway displays, book printing, promotion and sales, exercise and old age, Delta and Omicron, Darlington, Manchester and Nottingham, a change of career and re-connecting with the past - follow the modern adventures of Jethro Anson Nows...
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    16,50 €

  • Summer Holidays
    Antony J Stowers
    Every year for one week in July or August, the Nowsty family peers suspiciously from the windows of their terraced house in Darlington as if the weather is about to play yet another intentionally cruel deception. They pray for sun but prepare for rain, slaves to a typically unpredictable British summer that sometimes seems intentionally malicious rather than casually reassuring...
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    14,26 €

  • The Degas Complex
    Antony J Stowers
    ’Imagination links with memory’ is a quote attributed to the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and one which he passed on as advice to many apprentice artists including Paul Gauguin, the title chosen to reflect this quote as it sums up what this book of short stories is: memories mixed up like colours on a Degas palette with liberal sprinkling of contemporary adult ...
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    12,03 €

  • Ghosts
    Antony J Stowers
    ​It’s peculiar to know that some solid objects have been demolished or destroyed and people have died and can no longer be seen or touched apart from through photographs, films or memories. They’ve become ghosts. For some, anchors are important and for others unimportant. Cutting the chains can free us to move on to new waters but cutting too many can see us drifting in a way w...
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    11,93 €

  • 20/20 Visions
    Antony J Stowers
    Continuing the adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, a not-so-innocent Englishman abroad in France, entering a dark period for humanity as the first global pandemic for a century bursts upon his world. Like most, he tries to take it in his stride and carry on as normal but what is ’normal’ in a world where human contact is dramatically reduced and human mobility is vastly restrict...
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    11,84 €

  • My Father’s Secret
    Vicky Stowers
    Sarah’s father was mean and hateful. So hateful that her mother had left when Sarah was twelve years old and Sarah had never seen her again. When he died, someone suddenly began calling her demanding a key. She had no idea who the caller was or what key they were talking about. She searched and finally found a key that had been hidden for years. The caller told Sarah that he...
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    19,86 €

  • All glory is fleeting
    Antony J Stowers
    Plunge head-first into the mad adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, our ordinary and modest English hero, an innocent abroad, doing daily battle with the (often) frustrating but (equally) fascinating workings of modern France from 2016 up to the present date. Embracing teaching, motoring trips to Holland and Belgium, Catholic hypocrisy, gilets-jaunes, strikes and stoppages, absur...
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    14,59 €

  • Fragments
    Antony J Stowers
    Fragments is a collection of thirteen short stories that somehow miraculously survived the long journey I took them on, some from as far back as 1989, two from 1997 and the others from 1999, until very recently, that’s to say I wrote them under adverse circumstances and managed to cling onto them by putting them all into booklets. The first six, from the spring/summer 1989 whil...
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    11,27 €

  • Mixed-up kid
    Antony J Stowers
    Being the uneventful and rather plain story of the childhood and youth of one Jethro Anson Nowsty, an ordinary boy from an ordinary working class family in an ordinary town in Darlington, north east England, from his first tentative steps into the adult world of work in the summer of 1979, aged 15, then backwards in time, via his youth, education and family, recalling the many ...
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    19,76 €

  • Hooray4Ray
    Antony J Stowers
    In 2006, when I arrived in France, it was a different geo-political world - Blair was British Prime Minister and Chirac was President, not that it made much difference to me - I was too busy trying to make a living to care very much about the global picture. After hanging on by my fingertips, it was with relief that I landed myself a part-time, nine month teaching job assisting...
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    14,48 €

  • Appointed
    Walter H Stowers / William H Anderson
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    40,23 €

  • No. 1 - Limited Edition
    Antony J Stowers
    Set in Regency England 1810-1825, ’No. 1’ draws on the real and the imagined from the North East of England present at the birth of the railways, starting on 18th September 1810 and finishing there on 28th September 1825, the day after the first ever railway trip between two towns, a first that changed history. History didn’t record it inadvertently carrying a boy fleeing from ...
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    26,58 €

  • Killing It
    Antony J Stowers
    This is a book for those who smoke and want to stop and for those who?ve stopped but need reassurance. I?m the latter. I started and stopped four times and this final time was the last. I?m never going to take the crown from Allan Carr for writing a practical book about quitting smoking so I?ve written my own, consisting of cold facts, personal memories, home-spun philosophies ...
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    11,19 €

  • All this is mine
    Antony J Stowers
    ’All this is mine’ (formerly ’A Teesside Voice’) is set in London in 1994 and is a strident commentary on the perils of unbridled Thatcherism. Money is designed to buy things but to Rob Barlow, a young but inexperienced, northern-born drug-dealer who has wads of it lying around his upmarket but unfurnished Camden Town apartment, it’s only use is to generate more of the same. De...
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    14,03 €

  • The summer of ’89
    Antony J Stowers
    ’The summer of ’89’ is the rough-and-ready, rapidly-paced first novel from Antony J. Stowers charting both thick and thin slices of the life and times of northerner ’John’ from May to August 1989 in London, having returned from a self-imposed six-month exile in Israel after ten hectic years in England’s capital. Based on the author’s first-hand experiences, it’s a portrait of ...
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    16,89 €

  • Gauguin’s Ghost Story
    Antony J Stowers
    The ghost of French painter Paul Gauguin finds temporary sanctuary in the imagination of obscure British writer Antony J Stowers. ...
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    17,36 €

  • A Body of Work
    Antony J Stowers
    They will tell you this book has to be categorized under ’memoir’ and they may be right but for me it’s a working journal that straddles the end of the 20th century and shows how to create something from nothing how to turn a dream into a reality and how to make simple live theatre that challenges and inspires. It takes in my humble beginnings when I was on the dole back in Now...
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    16,90 €

  • Lewis & Number One
    Antony J Stowers
    A fantastic time-travelling adventure that takes the reader back to the opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway on 27th September 1825 as seen through the eyes of Lewis Noble, 12. ...
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    12,04 €

  • Plays
    Antony J Stowers
    Somebody Up There Likes Us - In a country of much water but little fertile land and the other of abundant crops but limited water, two border guards diligently guard the frontier between them. With no common language, they maintain a fragile peace until one day an unidentified aircraft drops a small wooden box by parachute, inside is a bottle that contains a strange liquid. ...
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    24,18 €

  • Plays
    Antony J Stowers
    The Dishwasher - A worker in a nameless, faceless, basement kitchen begins his work as a dishwasher and relishes informing us of every fine detail of his job. A disturbing, nightmare-ish study of the uneducated, unqualified and oppressed workers of the world finding their voice. . . .Confessions Of A Rock ’n’ Roll Star - The world has ...
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    15,23 €

  • Plays
    Antony J Stowers
    A Horse With No Name - Iraq, the spring of 2003. The Battle of Baghdad rages. One retired Iraqi soldier - Ali - and one active American soldier - Rick - are trapped by rubble in a secret basement bar. Rick and Ali somehow make it through the two acts without killing each other but getting to know each other instead, finally ending up on the roof where they play a real-time game...
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    15,41 €

  • Plays
    Antony J Stowers
    Volume 2 of 5, for young people and family audiences, features ’Harry’s Dream’ 1997, the story of an unhappy young Harry who suffers bullying in school and an alien who crashlands near his school and helps him overcome his fears. ’My Brother Jake’ 1997, is the story of teenager Jake who betrays the trust of his younger brother and their single Mum by dealing drugs. ’Harry’s Dre...
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    18,87 €

  • Plays
    Antony J Stowers
    Volume 1 of 5 features The Waiting Room - 1983 in a deserted railway station waiting room. A stranger waits, but is he waiting for a train or is there some other, more mysterious reason? . . .The Bond - Kick-started by certain scenes in Harold Pinter’s ’The Homecoming’ on British television around 1984 and by regular trips to Mancheste...
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    19,01 €

  • Forthcoming Dawn
    Sylvia C. Stowers / Sylvia CStowers
    It is 1980 and David Hearst is a white-collar thief who lives a double life as a bank president, only embezzles from the wealthy, and thoroughly revels in every personal financial victory. Intertwined with his professional life is Carol Wilmore, a San Diego district attorney with lucrative offshore accounts and a deep-seated need to erect barriers for all who cross her.Susan Ba...
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    20,76 €


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