Reviewer Jessica Roberts is a book reviewer for a local newspaper and has reviewed for a national women's magazine too. She has had various articles published in magazines and has now completed her novel. Jessica currently lives in West Yorkshire and enjoys walking in the dales and woodlands as part of her hobby as well as, of course, reviewing books. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE
Author: Corvis Nocturnum
Publisher: Dark Moon Press
ISBN: 978-1448658947
Vampires throughout history were perceived as blood-drinking monsters who resided in the shadows of people’s darkest nightmare
Author: Corvis Nocturnum
Publisher: Dark Moon Press
ISBN: 0-9766984-0-4
Embracing the Darkness provides Corvis with a canvas to work on and illustrate to readers that those who embrace the dark side are not so bad after all.
Author: Vishwa Prakash
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9823140-5-0
A great book to read and enjoy, even if you are a little skeptical
Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: Guideposts
ISBN: 978-0-8249-4793-4
Author: Tracy Richardson
Publisher: Dowling Press
ISBN: 978-1-935462-25-5
Author: Richard Edward Noble
Publisher: Noble Publishing
ISBN: 978-0979808562
Author: K.J. Fraser
Publisher: O Books
ISBN: 978-1-84694-206-8
A novel about the power of love, healing and atonement
Author: Lynn Christopher
Roby
Publisher:
Outskirts Press
ISBN:
978-1-4327-3689-7
Overall a good effort by Lynn but I fear her memoir may be overshadowed by the many others of this type relating to the topic of alcohol dependency, drug addiction and personal illness
Author:
Harry Saylor with Carolyn Frisch
Publisher:
Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN:
978-0-9817805-9-7
Author: Wilson Casey
Publisher: Alpha
ISBN: 978-1-59257-924-2
This book is perfect for any of you who have ever wondered what was the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal called? Or when did the overnight mail delivery begin? It is simply filled with these facts which may not be all that useful but prove extremely interesting

ISBN: 0-9782839-1-9
Masks, it seems, present different cultures, different values and
different symbolic meanings. Every single mask is special for its own
reasons.
Garth now has over one hundred masks covering the walls of a room
in his house. This is certainly a man who is an avid mask collector!
Author: Jill Dearman
Publisher: Alpha (Penguin)
ISBN: 978-1-59257-914-3
A must for any writer - brilliant!
Author: Christina Baker Kline
Publisher: William Morrow (an imprint of Harper Collins)
ISBN: 978-0-688-17724-9
Author: Colin Harvey
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN: 1-934041-10-6
A thrilling action-packed science fiction novel
which will delight and fascinate you
Author: Allen and Linda Anderson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-141-04229-9
Author: George Dawes Green
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-446-53896-1
Author: Sally Parmer
Publisher: Book Surge
ISBN: 978-1-4392-2982-8
If you love honest autobiographies about the
sixties and the music scene this is certainly a book you can try. It is original
and compelling and leaves you feeling like you’ve just been back in time. Wonderful!
Author: Mark Richards
Publisher: Cicerone
ISBN: 978-1-85284-542-1
A splendid Cicerone guide which aims to deliver and this one certainly has. One thing is for sure: the Southern fells are worth visiting, climbing and admiring!
Author: Mark Oliver Everett
Publisher: Abacus (Little Brown imprint)
ISBN: 978-0-349-12084-3
Author: John J. Le Beau
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-933515-54-0
Author: Susan Pohlman
Publisher: Guideposts
ISBN: 978-0-8249-4780-4
Author: Joe Dunthorne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-141-03275-7
Author: Raymond L. Atkins
Publisher: Medallion Press
ISBN: 978-193475563-1
Author: Kenneth R. Lewis
Publisher: Krill Press
ISBN: 978-0-9821443-0-5
Authors:
Matthew Murrie and Steve Murrie
Publisher:
Scholastic
ISBN-13:
978-0-545-10356-5: ISBN-10:
0-545-10356-8
A truly wonderful book which will inspire and help you learn more about our planet. The authors have also included a rather helpful back page which gives us some handy tips on how to save energy and look after Earth.
Author: Mark
Richards
Photographer:
Roger Clegg
Publisher:
Cicerone
ISBN:
978-1-85284-558-2
The photographs are timeless and remind us all of our roots to nature. Who wouldn’t love this book?!

Author: Kia DuPree
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ( Hachette Book
Group)
ISBN: 978-0-446-54775-8
A very intriguing, disturbing but realistic novel from the Fiction Honor Book Award winning author, Kia DuPree.
Authors: Steve Murrie and
Matthew Murrie
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 978-0-439-90887-0
I loved this and couldn’t put it down. I even finished it in less then three hours….is that a new record?
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-06792-8
In book four of this stunning saga we join Bella once again as she struggles with the problems life throws her way.
Author: Lucinda Rosenfeld
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 978-0-316-04450-9
Author: Jack Adler
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN: 978-1-934041-40-6
Author: Karona Drummond
Illustrator: Estelle Corke
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 978-0-310-71508-5
A really delightful book to own and treasure.
Author: Steve Moore
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN: 0-446-67934-8
The Best of In The Bleachers: A Classic Collection Of Mental Errors is a classic collection of sports cartoons complete with funny captions and jokes all composed by TV and feature animator Steve Moore.
Author: R. L. Geerdes
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1202-0
Author: Charrie Hazard
Publisher: Spoonbill Cove
Press
ISBN: 978-0-9815410-2-0
A clever, gripping and almost memoir-like novel which will keep you talking about it for years to come
Author: Gail
Graham
Publisher:
Jade Phoenix Publishing
ISBN:
978-0-692-00100-4
Sea Changes is a very poignant, moving novel about love, loss and life. Anyone can pick this up and enjoy it but do have those tissues on hand!
Author: Carolyn Rubenstein
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 978-0-7653-1778-0
Carolyn Rubenstein is the author of Perseverance-a true account of children and young adults who have been diagnosed with cancer. She is the founder of the charitable organization, Carolyn’s Compassionate Children which was inspirational in her desire to put this book together.
Author: Ronnie Lee
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-3581-4
Mr Lee’s hypnotic way of thinking pulls you in with every page you turn and fills you in with more knowledge you ever thought existed
Author: Zoey
Dean
Publisher: Grand
Central Publishing
ISBN:
978-0446697194
A bright, breezy novel to read on a warm summer’s day to help pass a couple of hours
Author: Mary Richardson
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-9799666-8-2
Mary Richardson's Truckers highlights the life truckers lead
This book is great if you love anything strange or perhaps even if you’ve been lucky enough to read some of Sharkchild’s other stories. When will the next volume be out? Fans will have to wait and see!
Author: Darryll
Sherman
Publisher: Dog
Ear publishing
ISBN:978-159858-690-9
Do you remember eating space dust and chasing your mates with stick guns? These were the times of the 70s and compared to today they seem so dated.
Author: George
Franklin Feldman
Publisher: Alan
C. Hood & Co Inc
ISBN:
978-0-911469-33-2
Headhunting cannibalism and human sacrifice was not uncommon hundreds of years ago and even in some parts of the world today it is still practiced.
Author: Colin Harvey
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo
Books
ISBN: 978-1-934041-66-6
A very unusual, scary and at the same time un-put-down-able book to delight fans of the paranormal and the grizzly!
Author: Storyheart
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 978-1-4363-7176-6
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-16020-9
The exceptionally talented Stephenie Meyer provides us with another book in this series of vampire romance.

Author: Bill Fallover
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 978-1-84744-256-7 (UK AMAZON)
Author: Carl David
Publisher: Nightengale
Press
ISBN: 978-1-933449-66-1
This memoir begins with a phone call and the words “it’s all over.” Carl’s world came crashing down early that morning and he feared for his mother - could she ever get over what had happened?
Author: Philip Glenister
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 978-1-84744-266-6
Author: Emilio
Gil
Publisher: Mark
Batty Publisher
ISBN:
978-0-9817805-6-6
Another
brilliant Mark Batty title which celebrates the cultural scene of
Spanish design.
Author: Alberto Ferreras
Publisher: Grand Central
Publishing
ISBN:
978-0-446-69789-7
My first thought was: what an odd book. What are these lessons we are supposedly meant to learn? The author clearly wants to teach us something but what?
Author: Andy
Andrews
Publisher:
Thomas Nelson
ISBN:
978-0-7852-2921-6
Twenty-something Andy Andrews is homeless and living underneath the Gulf State Park Pier. He is at a loss as to what his life means and how he arrived here.
Author: Michelle
de Kretser
Publisher: Little
Brown
ISBN-13:
978-0-316-00183-0
Author: Kris
Saknussemm
Publisher:
Overlook Press
ISBN:
978-1-59020-176-3
Author: David
Foster Wallace
Publisher:
Little Brown
ISBN:
978-0-316-06822-2
This little book, This Is Water contains important thoughts that the late David Foster Wallace learnt about life. It was first given as a commencement address and widely discussed before the author’s death. D F Wallace says the ordinary things that we talk about - those day- to- day things in many cases have a life or death importance.
Author: Paul
Hutchins
Publisher:
Imagination Publishing
ISBN:
978-0-9817123-3-8
Have you ever considered our planet to be like a spec of dust? Apparently, this is what Earth looks like if you try and imagine space and the cosmos in clearer perspective. It is so small, Hutchins explains, that Earth looks so insignificant among the vast realms of space.
Author: Tom Gauthier
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1234-1
In 1996 a young Benjamin Wade set out on a voyage in a tiny sea kayak. His dream was to travel across the seas for 6,000 miles and discover what really lay deep inside his very soul.
Author: James Beverly
Publisher: Nightengale Press
ISBN: 978-1-933449-76-0
This delightful children’s book by James Beverly is the perfect “tail” to read. It has been awarded and is said to enlighten readers about the values our pets bring into life.
Author: Richard
Phillips
Publisher:
Synergy Books
ISBN:
978-0-9815462-6-1
Perry Symons first heard the voice of the Lord as his knife sliced through the flesh of Vanessa. There was plenty of blood of course which bubbled out across his arms hot and slick making holding the body difficult.
This is the start of this novel which promises to uncover the shocking discovery of an alien ship. Do aliens even exist? The answer perhaps lies beneath the surface.
Author: Herman
Wouk
Publisher: Back
Bay Books (Little Brown)
ISBN:
0-316-95511-6
This novel was not well received when first published in 1948 and a few years ago a new publisher reincarnated it. It has now become a classic of the Bronx and Herbie Bookbinder and is now a legend.
Author: Martha
A. Taylor
Publisher:
Outskirts Press
ISBN:
978-1-4327-3471-8
Authors: Nicey
and Wifey
Publisher:
Time Warner
ISBN-13:
978-0751537659
England
in particular is perhaps most renowned for its love of tea and
biscuits. If it wasn’t for us Brits then all the tea and biscuit
makers would probably be out of business. So it seems fitting that
there is a book which finally gives our tea-drinking, biscuit
crunching British culture its due.
Author:
James Alexander Protzman
Publisher:
Kitsune Books
ISBN:
978-0-979200-7-9
Author: David
Artuso
Publisher:
Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN:
978-1-934041-54-3

Author: Sandee
Sgarlata
Publisher:
AC Publishing
ISBN:
978-0-9800824-2-5
Author Sandee Sgarlata experienced her own share of problems when she herself started High School. Trouble seemed to follow her and for most of her time she felt lost, alone and afraid. She hopes that by writing The Day After Tomorrow she can show others a simpler more fulfilling way to live through the eyes of Julia Monroe.
Author: Sheryl
Letzgus McGinnis
Publisher: Oak
Tree Press
ISBN:
978-1-892343-54-3
McGinnis has decided to write The Addiction Monster and the Square Cat for ages 10 upwards to help educate our young generation to just say no to drugs and to “be smart, don’t start”.
Author: Michael
R. Brown
Publisher:
Petrarca Press
ISBN:
978-0-9820402-0-1
Author: Janson
Manchesk
Publisher:
Bridgeway Books
ISBN:
978-1-934454-28-2
The Chemist (A Cale Van Waring Adventure) is a thrilling, chilling and mystifying whodunit, which you will not be able to put down.
Author: Sheryl
Letzgus McGinnis
Publisher:
BookSurge Publishing
ISBN:
978-1-4392-0901-1
Drugs turn sane into insane, rational into irrational, nice into nasty and love into pain. They tear families apart, ruin once good friendships and most of all leave ripples that reach out and affect everyone.
Author: Cheryl Saban
Publisher: Hay House
ISBN: 978-1-4019-2395-2
What is your self-worth? Find out with psychologist Cheryl Saban’s new book.
Author: Kris King
Publisher: BridgewayBooks
ISBN: 978-1-934454-31-2
Author Kris King advises us there are five different ways to view this book, ensuring you’ll find a way that suits you. I chose to go with the third option - this meant opening the book at any page and seeing what you could “find for yourself in the moment.” This way is called synchronicity and worked well for me.
Author: David
Foster Wallace
Publisher: Back
Bay Books (Little Brown)
ISBN:
0-316-92528-4
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again is a book of essays authored by the late David Foster Wallace who also authored Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System. Detailed inside are essays ranging from David Lynch to tennis players and human completeness.
Author: Bruce
Cooke
Publisher:
Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN:
978-1-934041-44-4
Be warned: not a book for the easily disturbed but a fairly good tale if you can take it.
Author: Dawn Beaumont-Lane
Publisher: RealTime Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-906806-56-9
Fairy Glade and Other Enchanting Tales is a book to delight children of all ages. It is one of those books which never really gets “old” and can even be enjoyed by an adult.
Author: Rick D. Niece
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9815462-0-9
As I finished reading this novel, in under a day, no less, I had a tear in my eye. This is truly a wonderful book describing what childhood was like as a boy back in carefree times with sunny afternoons and penny sweets and a friendship that in the end, were never broken.
Author: Rebeca Seitz
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 978-0-8054-4691-3
This story is based on the author’s own experiences about the other woman in a relationship and she could do this to another woman. The novel is a manual of how to cope, understand , forgive and move on in relationships. It is about how book clubs, knitting clubs etc can unite women through common hobbies to find emotional support.
Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Center Street
ISBN: 978-1-59995-195-9
A really enjoyable novel that will grab your attention from the first page and not let you go till the very last.
Author: Walter Krumm
Publisher: Bridgeway Books
ISBN: 978-1-934454-22-0
My first thought as I read this book was what a brilliant idea for a story. Cameron has been having an affair with a woman named Emily who he met on the internet. She has brought excitement back into his life and what’s more she fulfils his deepest, darkest fantasies; stuff he wouldn’t tell his wife.
Author: Alex Gray
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 978-1-84744-025-9
Being a river man is no pleasant task. Occasionally river men find that the river conceals not only rubbish and man’s unwanted junk but more sinister things. Pulling dead bodies from the watery depth is far more obnoxious then just dredging for rubbish.
Author: Barbara Worton
Publisher: Great Little Books
ISBN: 978-0-9790661-1-5
My first impressions of this book were of
astonishment! What a lovely children’s book it is with beautiful,
groovy illustrations that young girls will love.
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Atom
ISBN: 978-1-905654-35-2
New Moon is the poignant sequel to Twilight and again an absolute delight to read.
Author: Larry C. James. Ph.D
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-446-50928-2
This is a book authored by someone who has actually been
in Guantanamo Bay and this account reveals all the things that transpired.
Author: Larion Wills
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN: 978-1-934041-30-7
Author: Josh Bazell
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-03222-3
Beat the Reaper is a novel laced with dark humour and suspense. An absolute must if you are looking for a fresh new voice in the comic-suspense genre and once you start it, you won’t put this one down.
Author: Dr. Frank L. Johnson
ISBN: 9781419691973
Publisher: BookSurge
Author: Lady Annabel Goldsmith
Publisher: Sphere (an imprint of Little Brown)
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3820-5
Copper - a wonderful
tale about a mongrel recounting his adventures that took him all over
the place.
Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: Guideposts
ISBN: 978-0-8249-4771-2
Author: Lauraine
Snelling
Publisher:
FaithWords, Hachette Group
ISBN:
978-0-446-58210-0
Christmas was going to be no different for Nora. She and the twins were going to dress the tree even though she so much missed their father Gordon. He had been held up in Germany because of the weather conditions. It would probably be the last Christmas the twins would be at home…and still Gordon didn’t ring.
Author: Ronnie Ka
Ching Lee
Publisher: OutskirtsPress
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1148-1
Ronnie Ka Ching Lee is back with his latest volume of philosophical poetry. Lee studies economics and business, a book that all students of philosophy have been waiting for to add to their collection. It is also a tome for anyone interested in deep thinking and how we ourselves can improve our own lives and the lives of others.
Author: Tamara Pray Frazier
Publisher: Julian' s Legacy Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-615-22488-6
Author: J. Namdev Hardisty
Foreword by Michael Leon
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-9799666-9-9
The front cover of this book featuring skateboard graphics is simple and sophisticated and the pages within are simply amazing.
Author: Norman Adams
Publisher: Black and White publishing
ISBN: 978184502208-2
Blood & Granite is a chilling book packed with the most grizzly and notorious homicides to have been committed in Aberdeen over the last hundred years. Even if you weren’t alive during those horrific times this book will certainly show you what it was like.
Author: Linda Rader Overman
Publisher: Plain View Press
ISBN: 978-1-891386-62-6
This story is touching, tender and compelling. It is quite an involved poignant story of growing up in the sex, drugs and rock and roll era of the sixties.
Authors: Aviva Yael and P.M. Chen
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0446582077: ISBN-13: 978-0446582070
For anyone who has ever considered getting a tattoo or even for those of you who have them, this is the book for you.
Chronicled inside are the most insane, ridiculous and shocking tattoos to have been inked onto the skin of the anonymous, the insane and the down-right stupid.
Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316035904: ISBN-13: 978-0316035903
David Sedaris has now expanded and updated Holidays on Ice -
his original book which was published back in 1997.
This will appeal to those of you who have read his first book and I can safely guarantee there will be a few stories in this new addition that you will love!
Author: Laurie Dean
Illustrated by Kevin Collier
Publisher: Big Tent Books
ISBN: 978-1-60131-035-4
If you have a child who has a dog or loves dogs then
this delightful little story- book would be the perfect present to
give them. It is aimed at children aged 3-9 years but could cater for
“kids and dogs of all ages”.
Authors:
Peter R. Holmes and Susan B. Williams
Publisher: Authentic
ISBN: 978-1-86024-603-6
A really well-written, honest and useful book that can also double up as a self-help guide to help heal those who have suffered any sort of abuse in their lives. Fantastic and well worth investing in.
Author: Rita Carter
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-73088-4
Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality was very interesting indeed and takes an inside look at
the behaviour and personalities we all have within us.
Author: Dandi Daley Mackall
Illustrator: Deborah Chabrian
Publisher: Zonderkidz (Zondervan)
ISBN-10: 0310713285: ISBN-13: 978-0310713289
Jack is making his journey home on Christmas Eve when he hears the cry of a train whistle and is reminded his Dad will not be able to make it home in time for Christmas. Yet, as soon as Jack arrives home he can smell cookies…does this mean good news?
Author: Philip Carlo
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 978-0-06-142984-2
Author: Neil Killion
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 978-1-4343-6603-0
This book immediately claims to be different from all the others
of its type. The author tells us that once you have read Life Cycles
he guarantees you will look at your own life and the life of others
in a totally different way.
Author: Jen Blackert
ISBN: 978-1434811721
Seven Dragons is a self-help book aimed at giving you a “limitless mind” through a series of self-coaching questions and tools.
Author: Gwendolyn Zepeda
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0446698520: ISBN-13: 978-0446698528
However, if you are looking for something a little deeper and more impressionable then maybe this isn’t the right choice for you. While the story is very enjoyable, I do fear there just isn’t the right ingredient for the more well-read bookworms out there.
Author: Margaret Thomson Davis
Publisher: Black and White publishing
ISBN: 978184502221-1
This novel is a family saga filled with dramatic events, mystery and of course, romance.
Author: Karen Kingsbury
Illustrator: Daniel Brown
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN-13: 978-0310712121
A fun book to read with its rhyming verses and an underlying light-hearted theme.
Author: Lauraine Snelling
ISBN: 978-0-446-58208-7
Publisher: Faith Words (Hachette Book Group)
If you love horses, dogs and enjoy a happy ending then this story is one for you. It has a huge feel good factor about love, loss and second chances in life.
Author: Michael Shilling
Book title: Rock Bottom
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 978-0-316-03192-9
Rock
Bottom is the a tale of a disgraced rock group called Blood Orphans who
were once the next big thing and then one day found themselves at, yep,
rock bottom.
Author: Joseph Niezgoda
ISBN: 978-0942257458
Publisher: New Chapter Press
On a bus ride home from school eight year old Joseph Niezgoda first learnt about The Beatles. They were going to be appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and Joseph was determined to watch it. Niezgoda, who was an instant a fan, writes fondly of his love for the band. It seemed that the fresh-faced boys from Liverpool had not only built up a huge fan base in Britain but also in America.
Author: M. Ann Jacoby
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-446-19971-1
This book is poignant, sharply written and with a brilliant ending. It is an incredible first novel and I can't wait for M. Ann Jacoby next novel.
Author: Dr Randall Green
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-2492-4
Stepping into Joy: Your Guide to the Life You've Always Wanted was written to help people recover
from alcoholism or any other ism you may possibly be addicted to:
e.g. gambling, work, religion, chocolate or anything at all.
Author: Linda Wagner
Illustrated by: Pearl L. Ollie
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-3233-2
Linda Wagner works as a nurse and has been inspired by her grandchildren to write books, especially those that focus on the wonders of nature.
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-979554674
Author: Glen E. Page M.D.
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-1-933538-96-9
Glen E. Page is a physician and surgeon who found it very difficult getting to sleep. As a result and as he had more time alone with his thoughts, he was motivated to write The Last Plague. Page lives in southern Idaho with his wife Jane and nine children and he is currently working on his next book in the series.
Author: Kate McLaughlin
Publisher: Behler Publications
ISBN: 978-1-933016-49-8
If there is one woman who knows all about Bipolar Disorder then it should be Kate McLaughlin, mother of two children who suffer from this medical condition. She is the author of the touching book Mommy I’m Still Here.
Author: Reg McKay
Publisher: Black and White publishing
ISBN: 978-1-84502-145-0
This book features page after page of murder accounts written by author Reg McKay so if you like your novels grizzly this is the one for you.
Scotland has been home to a number of murderers, including the world’s first serial killer, Peter Manuel, who was hanged for the murder of seven people.
Author: Toby Smith
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-4196-9665-7
From childhood Carrie has suffered terrifying nightmares and particularly remembers one of her most vivid ones at a time when she was just seven years old.
After seeing the deteriorating carcass of a small lamb while out on a visit to a friend, Carrie was plagued by a dream in which a connection was made between the dead lamb, a human skeleton and her very own closet.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-0-595-40777-4
Susanna Barlow was born into a family who believed in the religious sect “Work”. There were two other sects called “Gentile” and “Apostate”.
Author: Ronnie Lee
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-2542-6
There may be many people who have been anxiously waiting for this new book of Ronnie Lee’s to be published. His previous works may have indeed been helpful to them immensely with Ronnie’s great knowledge and zest for the meaning of life.
Authors: Nathan Troi Anderson & J.K. Putnam
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-979554674
What does beauty mean to you? It may be as delicate
as a newly sprung flower or as stubble as a puddle of rain dew.
Author: Jim Hewitson
Publisher: Black and White publishing
ISBN: 1-902927-84-2
Jim Hewiston’s Scottish Miscellany is full of anything and everything a Scotsman (or woman!) or indeed anyone else needs to know. From off-the-wall observations to the most unusual tales of the highlands, this is laugh-out-loud funny and absurdly interesting.

Author John Adam
Illustrator Barbara L. Gibson
Publisher: Feather Rock Books
ISBN 13: 978-1-934066-12-6
Author John Adams decided to write The Dragonfly Door after he learned about the Dragonfly project, a non-profit organization started by an 11-year-old. His book gained much praise and a group actually performed The Dragonfly Door as a play.

Author: Francis T. Perry Williams
ISBN: 978-1-934454-00-8
Publisher: Bridgeway Books
Chapter one begins by saying “sparkling lakes and streams, a small but very regal looking waterfall, and gorgeous green vegetation made up the Edenic landscape. The air smelled clean, and you could almost taste the freshness of it. Life here was always in perfect harmony, as the higher powers that be intended.”

Author: Joseph N. Chappelle
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-2584-6
Author Joseph N. Chappelle is a retired social worker who plays cello for the Albany Area Senior Orchestra. He has served the Peace Corps in Namibia and with Habitat for Humanity as an International Partner in Malawi.

Author: Cheryl Peck
Publisher: 5 Spot
ISBN: 0-446-69229-8
This hilarious book has been compared to the writing
of Erma Bombeck and written in a series of mini-essays by a woman who
clearly feels confident, has a good sense of humour and “does not
grow tomatoes and rarely sits in lawn chairs”.