Books published by Alliance Publishing Press

Stories by AnthonyTobias Mendelle written about people and events in his life.Spanning decades and locations from 1920s London East End,Walton on Thames,Little Venice,North Italy,The Old Bailey to a nursing home in Richmond Surrey.Covering themes of family scandal,loss,deadly wartime encounters,missed opportunities,murder and the price of lust.

Two hundred year family saga of emigration and religious discrimination based on real events and lives of a family fleeing to Sicily from the Spanish Inquisition.Mount Etna's1669 eruption destroys their livelihood forcing another migration across Europe.Differing faiths cultures and customs test the family's strength and beliefs.

In 1993 two Armenian crooks are sent to London by the KGB to stop Chechen rebels buying weapons illegally and declaring independence.They are involved in a web of spying,corrupt MOD arms deals,sex and prostitution before assassinating the Ambassadors.Based on true events this is the inside story of those murders and Russia's war against Chechnya.

Comic murder mystery set on a remote tropical island, home to 16 dead rock and movie stars including Elvis Marilyn and Jimi. Someone is murdering them in a bizarre reconstruction of their earlier deaths. Can Greece's top detective Mario Gunzabo solve the mystery before the Deja Vu killer strikes again?

In 1898 a six-year-old German boy disappears in Jerusalem. What remains is a portrait painted by a family friend. Set amongst German Templers, Zionists and Arabs and against the backdrop of two world wars, the story unfolds in Cairo, Venice and Jerusalem. Its closing pages depict the bombing of Dresden when the fate of the boy is finally revealed.

Set in the mythical village of Watersmeet, in post-Medieval Britain, two dramatic stories unfold.

In 1935 Paul Leung, a promising engineering student, finds himself attracted to the austere life of a Cistercian monk. He leaves his family and girlfriend Margaret, to join the Monastery of Our lady of Consolation in the Beijing mountains. During unsettled times, large areas of the country are under Japanese occupation leading up to World War Two. Paul and the other monks survive, only for the monastery to be destroyed by the Communists in the vicious civil war which follows. A small group of monks escape to Hong Kong where they re-found their monastery. Father Paul decides to make the perilous journey across China to join them, and on the way endures hard labour, privation and brutality. En route to Hong Kong Father Paul and Margaret meet again, and after everything he has been through, he faces one last agonising choice. Is his love stronger for God, or for a woman?

An eclectic mix of intriguing tales with unusual twists. The author covers a broad range of topics from cosmetic surgery and euthanasia to love, sex and betrayal . Amusing yet often painful these stories will appeal to people of all ages. Makes for easy holiday, bedside and travel reading.