The Sentinel Publishing

Very funny, and surreal story about a man and a woman on their first date: Bolton Brady and Veda, set in London, November 2001. Bolton is forty, not into assets, has never lived with a woman and looked into the future and seen loneliness. So he decides to do something about it. He advertises in a lonely-hearts column, and receives six replies, but after experiencing one disaster after another only Veda remains between him and his sanity. As the day unfolds the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred, building to a surreal, yet poignant, conclusion.

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This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback.

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Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.

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This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince’s Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince’s Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate. The publisher’s fees have been donated to the Save Prince’s Parade Fighting Fund

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Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s. 
They say if you can remember it, you weren’t there!

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Drfting Stories is a prequel to Jim Brown’s Seaside Stories and sort of explains it all really; an apprentiship served around the world.

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As a young journalist, Reg Turnill met most of the prewar political personalities and later became the BBC’s space correspondent being the only one in the press room when the historic Houston we have a problem message came from Apollo 11.

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The title of the book hints at how, as a ‘loose cannon’, Ted’s risk-taking got him into trouble on a number of occasions whilst being a considerable advantage in his working life.

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Janet Holben. Paperback. Folkestone Cemetery has around 15,000 graves (27,000 people) there are stories of skulduggery and innocence, murder and bravery, grandeur and squalor – but mostly there are stories of everyday people living their lives.

This account brings some of those stories back to life and will perhaps bring an understanding of how Folkestone was shaped by terrible wars, widespread disease, the unforgiving sea, the new railway and fashionable society – but mostly, by the people who lived, loved, made their livelihood and finally died here.

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When you run things happen. When you change your environment, things happen. Mostly the details are mundane, but I have been a witness in certain places and moments in time to things that I found interesting, intriguing, amusing, poignant and memorable. Through my career in the global sports industry, mainly in athletics, for the best part of thirty years, I have had opportunities to run and race in some interesting places around the World, in the UK, and close to home. Those thirty “working” years were a unique time of dramatic growth for global sports with many fundamental changes and I wanted to capture the flavour of living in the goldfish bowl of world sport in a unique period of time. I have chosen 160 different locations in which I have run and raced over the years and let them become the framework for the tales that I tell in these pages. I wanted to allow each tale to be a door into memories and associations with a time and place; sometimes quite straight forward, others are more labyrinthine, with connections leading off at tangents. I wanted to share them; I hope you enjoy the journey?

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