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  • Tales From Portlaw Volume Thirteen
    William Forde
    This is a love story is about a travelling Romany who visits the home of Lizzy Lanigan in Portlaw during the year of 1955. Lizzy is a newly-wed, who was married a mere three months earlier. The peg-selling gypsy persuades Lizzy to have her palm read for the cost of two shillings. The Romany fortune teller then informs Lizzy that she will give birth to a girl child within the ye...
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    10,33 €

  • Tales From Portlaw Volume 12
    William Forde
    This love story is about a dying man and his personal assistant in his haulage firm. During the last fourteen days of his life, the dying man’s lover strikes up a new relationship in the hospital ward with a patient in an adjacent bed. After her lover’s death, she disappears and the new patient, who is infatuated with her, pursues his dream across the Irish Sea, only to discove...
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    11,43 €

  • Sleezy the Fox
    William Forde
    ’Sleezy the Fox’ is a book of four stories about the overarching theme of ’second chances’. On the surface it deals with the immigration of a married couple and their seven children into a strange country, the bullying of neighbours, the ostracizing of offenders from the community as a whole and the alienation that often exists between man and wild beast and beast and wild man!...
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    8,03 €

  • Tales of Bernard
    William Forde
    In writing ’Tales of Bernard’, I have tried to provide the reader and all dog lovers with a taste of what it is like to be homeless. Through reading about the exploits of our hero, Bernard, alongside those of Boxer and his pack of stray-pedigree hounds, the story as a whole can be productively used as a ’discussion starter’ in both home and classroom for the child reader.’Tales...
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    8,67 €

  • Afro-Indian Dreams Trilogy
    William Forde
    This book is a compilation of the 3 stories that Nelson Mandela phoned me personally to say were ’Wonderful’ at their publication in the year 2000. The stories are from the individual perspective of 3 children; one from South Africa, one from the Punjab in India and one from Falmouth in Jamaica. Each story provides an accurate historical background setting.Throughout my life I ...
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    12,34 €

  • Maw
    William Forde
    The story of ’Maw’ is suitable for any reader over 8 years. It is written in the style of the 1950s when the sport of boxing and football tended to dominate the world of growing boys and some girls. Because its story theme focuses on the sport of boxing and football, some girls may not feel it to be suitable for them.Maw is born exceptionally small and enters secondary school l...
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    7,44 €

  • Tales From Portlaw Volume One - ’The Love Quartet’
    William Forde
    ’The Love Quartet’ is a book of four romantic stories that include, ’The Tannery Wager’, ’Fini and Archie’, ’The Love Bridge’, and ’Forgotten Love’. All four stories are a mixture of ’love won’, ’love lost’ and ’love found’. ...
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    11,17 €

  • Midnight Fighter
    William Forde
    The beauty of life lies not in the physical characteristics of the world’s children, but in our indomitable spirit to survive as equals in the environment we inhabit. We are each but a mere part of a more perfect whole, endowed with differing abilities and handicaps. When we live our lives in love, we live it in constant hope. When we live side- by- side harmoniously, we co-exi...
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    6,17 €

  • Nancy’s Song
    William Forde
    Musically talented 10-year old Nancy loves to explore the nearby woodland and feels at home with all aspects of nature. The story tells how Nancy and her mother cope with the news of her father’s terminal illness. The author addresses the subject of bereavement in a sympathetic and realistic way while successfully encouraging the young reader to accept death as an inevitable st...
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    6,52 €

  • Bes - The Omnibus
    William Forde
    Bes is a story suitable for the New Millennium reader aged between 9-13 years. It tells a story that loosely links with the three character types I introduced in ’The Bear with a Sore Head’, ’Solo and Solomon’ and ’Elephants Cry Too.’ It is the first day of a New Millennium and the ’maker of all time’ who is disappointed with the humans of the earth, sends a three dimensional s...
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    9,54 €

  • Tales From the Allotments
    William Forde
    ’Tales from the Allotments’ is my favourite story that I have ever written from the 50+ books I’ve had published. It is suitable reading for any teenager and adult. Although set in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it is a timeless story that is just as relevant today as it was 150 years ago.It tells the story of a mining village where the local pit is the sole employer. The p...
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    9,45 €

  • Tales from Portlaw Volume Eleven - Two Sisters
    William Forde
    Nellie and Nora Fanning are the ’Two Sisters’. In fact, they are the two most important sisters ever to come out of Portlaw. Their entrance into the world was as momentous as their influence upon it and as mysterious as their departure from it. They were two sisters with one mind, who in their later years dedicated their existence to preserve the life of Portlaw.The story of ’T...
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    10,42 €

  • Robin and The Rubicelle Fusiliers
    William Forde
    When countries wage war on each other, there are no winners. The price of all war is paid for with the blood of people, soldiers and civilians, adult, child and creatures alike.In times of struggle, a war-torn country, which is being heavily bombed by a more powerful invader often finds itself bonded in greater unity of purpose and with a greater instinct for survival than one ...
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    7,84 €

  • Indian Dreams Come True
    William Forde
    Kulwant is a girl who was born and reared in the Punjab, India. From being a young child, she has a recurring dream about the man that she will one day marry in the Sikh tradition. She is an only child and has a very happy upbringing until tragedy strikes the family and her father loses a leg in a landmine explosion. From there it is downhill for the family. Experience the tria...
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    4,79 €

  • Four Crude Dudes and The Land of Hope
    William Forde
    ’Four Crude Dudes and the Land of Hope’ tell the story of how the lives of a thief, a bully, a cheat and a liar negatively impact upon each other during the days of the ’Californian Gold Rush’; leaving the hero of the story, Farmer Hope, with all the wealth, despite him having never sought it.The story essentially shows that when greed becomes one’s god, then all goodness goes ...
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    6,54 €

  • Two Crude Dames and Horace Catchpole
    William Forde
    Horace Catchpole and Two Crude Dames is one of my most favourite stories. It gave me enormous pleasure to write and it is suitable for any reader from twelve to adulthood. It is set in Wigan in the early 1960’s. The two monstrous women in Horace’s life are a composite of every horrible and obnoxious woman that any man has ever come across. Imagine the worse kind of mother a cha...
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    10,96 €

  • Butterworth’s Brigade
    William Forde
    The worlds of 12-year-old Axel Tyler and 73-year-old Brigadier Butterworth couldn’t possibly be farther apart. While one is content to live life to the full in the fast track of 1990’s Britain, the other yearns for the day when the country regains its senses and returns to those pre-war values that made Britain ’Great’.When events conspire to bring the 12-year-old rebel and the...
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    14,74 €

  • Greed
    William Forde
    ’Greed’ contains two stories: one set in the days of ’The Californian Gold Rush’ and the other in Wigan during the 1950’s. Both stories illustrate the triumph of the good person over that of the greedy one who seeks to get what want through thieving, cheating, lying and bullying. The stories have a thief, cheat, liar and bully and an honest person as characters whose lives impa...
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    16,03 €

  • Tales from Portlaw Volume Eight - The Life and Times of Joe Walsh
    William Forde
    ’The Life and times of Joe Walsh’ is Volume Eight in my ’Tales from Portlaw’ series. It is a story of failed relationships, broken promises, unfaithful marriages, lesbianism, betrayal, murder and revenge. Joe Walsh is an only child whose father rejects her at birth. Her mother always dreamed of becoming a writer but her husband forbade such. Joe’s mother is abandoned by a cruel...
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    8,35 €

  • Tales from Portlaw Volume Three
    William Forde
    I grew up on my mothers stories. Although an Irish woman of small stature and imaginative mind, stories didnt come any taller than those tales told by my mother. They would stretch the bounds of ones credulity beyond the realms of possibility, and yet, she always made me want to believe them. Having been persuaded to return to writing, I decided to recount some of the stories t...
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    5,41 €

  • Tales from Portlaw Volume Ten - ’The Woman Who Hated Christmas’
    William Forde
    It was the marked contrast between people who loved and the people who hated Christmas, which inspired this story. ’The Woman Who Hated Christmas’ tells the story of one such person, Beth Malone.As a child of ten years around Christmas Day Beth’s mother dies in childbirth along with the stillborn infant. Sickened with grief, her father becomes emotionally unstable, is committed...
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    10,11 €

  • Tales from Portlaw Volume Five - ’Sean and Sarah’
    William Forde
    ’Sean and Sarah’ is a story of romance that starts in Ireland, then moves to England and concludes back in Ireland. Sean and Sarah seemed destined to marry, but tragedy prevented this occurring. So often in life, love is found by two people and is then lost because of circumstances beyond their control. Each of us inwardly love to hear and read about stories between couples tha...
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    10,75 €

  • Tales from Portlaw Volume Two - The Priest’s Calling Card
    William Forde
    I grew up on my mothers stories. Although an Irish woman of small stature and imaginative mind, stories didnt come any taller than those tales told by my mother. They would stretch the bounds of ones credulity beyond the realms of possibility, and yet, she always made me want to believe them. Having been persuaded to return to writing, I decided to recount some of the stories t...
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    6,62 €

  • The Valley of the Two Tall Oaks
    William Forde
    The true test of any great nation is not what it achieves, but how it endures. Africa is a great nation and the endurance of its people over many centuries is a testament to their capacity to survive with dignity within an all-too-often cruel and intolerant world.For many centuries, the people of Africa experienced colonisation, enslavement, economic exploitation, apartheid, di...
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    5,82 €

  • Bucket Bill
    William Forde
    A Jamaican story from the land where the sun shines down on every man, woman and child in equal measure; a safe harbor where hope springs eternal in the hearts of all good people and where the river of respect runs deep.This story is set in Trelawney, sometime between 1950 and 1962. The story is one of three stories that Nelson Mandela praised as being wonderful. I extend my ap...
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    4,59 €

  • Tales from Portlaw Volume Nine - ’The Last Dance’
    William Forde
    ’The Last Dance’ the story evolves around the love of ballroom dancing by widower Nancy Swales and the new dancing partner in her life, married man Richard. Both dearly have one aim, to win the ’All Ireland Ballroom Dancing Championship’. Nancy and Richard pursue their dream; even at the risk of Richard becoming paralysed for life. Through their joint love of dancing, both Nanc...
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    8,49 €

  • The Kilkenny Cat - Book Three
    William Forde
    The Kilkenny Cat Trilogy is an allegorical story of all manner of discrimination practised throughout the world; particularly in Ireland, Jamaica and England. Told through the eyes and experiences of travelling gypsy cats, it is a ’must’ for all cat lovers and students of the ’Northern Riots’, Ireland, Jamaica, ’Black v White’ and ’Good v Evil. ’It is suitable for reading by te...
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    23,13 €

  • The Kilkenny Cat - Book Two
    William Forde
    The Kilkenny Cat has been written as a trilogy. Book One deals with the theme of ’truth’, Book Two with ’justice’, and Book Three on the theme of ’freedom’.All three books seek to show that truth, justice or freedom cannot exist in isolation, and that the only way one can experience any one of them is when one is able to experience all three.Book Two’s setting begins in Falmout...
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    15,97 €

  • Action Annie
    William Forde
    This is a collection of all 12 ’Action Annie’ stories. Annie is an imaginative and very active seven-year-old whose mind and body is always on the go. She never seems to stop. Even as she sleeps, she is dreaming about the things she plans to do tomorrow. Annie is always thinking up new ideas and inventing things. There’s a little bit of Annie in every child. Are you like Annie ...
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    12,89 €

  • Rebecca’s Revenge
    William Forde
    ’Rebeca’s Revenge’ was written by me many years ago, but until now, I did not feel comfortable publishing it as it would have greatly conflicted with the image that I had established over a fifteen year period with my child readership audience. Now however, in the autumn of my life where I write only for adults, it feels appropriate to have this ’strictly for adults’ story publ...
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    19,41 €


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