Books published by Cambria Publishing

A Fantasy Science Fiction novel by Martyn Vaughan, author of The Cave of Shadows and Quantum Exile. Celine Dubois is a brilliant scientist working on advanced scientific research into the foundations of reality.

A jobless man thinks things can’t get any worse. He discovers how wrong he is when he is flung into a series of alternate realities in which he experiences perils beyond his understanding. Finally he comes face to face with a menace that threatens to face with a menace that threatens all that he has ever known and loved.He discovers that he has unusual abilities which of a great importance to a sinister race of beings who wish to use them to further their aim of escaping a cataclysm in their own realm and then spread to other realities. But he also encounters others who wish to help and protect him.

Sonny draws a graphic novel, much darker than he expects. Why is Max, his cartoon bread and butter, so keen for Sonny to finish it?It brings new characters into Sonny's life: Tony, newly widowed, facing retirement and with his plans in ruins; Lisa, young, capable and attractive, facing hard truths about her career choices; Elin, an art teacher struggling with negative equity and trying to do the best for her teenage daughter, Megan; And Cheryl, a young PC, haunted by a murder that hangs over all of them.But what connects them?

Loneliness.  It can lead to out-of-character behaviour.  The solitary figure who sits confined in a small room, hunched over a table and writing feverishly, knows this only too well.Young Susan Smith’s world was shattered when a freak accident killed her mother and nothing was ever the same for her again.  With this shocking event begins Susan’s struggle with insecurity, crippling shyness and guilt. Then, unexpectedly, she is given a chance to escape from these troubles.  Yet even now she feels there is something lacking.Years later another life-changing event resurrects ghosts from her past. Will she be able to untangle her past and confront her shadows? The outcome surprises Susan as much as it will the reader.  

Welcome to a world where:•Nigel Farage is sharing a static caravan with Liberace in Fishguard.•Swansea roadwork has been granted UNESCO World Heritage Status.•Donald Trump was radicalised at a holistic therapy centre in Llanpumsaint.•Kim Jong-un is funding a Godzilla nursery in Swansea Bay.•Swansea council are developing a marauding Orc army to combat thethreat from Taekwondo Godzillas.•Banksy has been harpooned out of his car by Subway staff.•The Welsh space program is being run by Vampire Elvis.The Notsogreatdictator says…I'm fascinated by fake news and by using real people as fictional characters. I also like the development of these fictional worlds over time. There's fun to be had in the challenge of fitting rapidly changing news events into a narrow world with strict constraints. Liberace/Donald Trump and Nigel Farage sharing a static caravan in Fishguard is something which brings global events right down to earth with a bump. The idea of UNESCO awarding world heritage status to a particularly long-standing system of roadworks hopefully makes people less stressed out about their first world problems.It's been great fun creating fictional worlds out of real events which I suppose is what all writers do. If I'm honest Kim Jong Un paying for Swansea's Tidal Lagoon so he can use it as a Godzilla nursery has been my favorite story line so far but then I love a bit of sci-fi.

In this, the poet expresses her inner battles and frustrations with the world, its systems and its people - dark, challenging and exciting times that give a voice to the poetry in her soul.At 16, I arrived in the United Kingdom with a combination of excitement, fears and aspiration for a better future. Poetry came to me during the dark, challenging and exciting times of discovering who I was. An expression of my inner battles and frustrations with the world - deep thoughts I couldn't share or articulate with anyone. Some of these poems came to me by divine spiritual inspiration and found their way to my soul, challenging me to give them a voice. For years, these poems were my secret therapy, my 'me' time, my friends that only came out to play when no one was watching. They have since journeyed with me these 49 years, giving me hope, joy, purpose and strengthened my faith when times were hard and I felt like giving up. My fear of judgement kept the poems locked away for so long. Now I am ready to share them with you. As you meditate, ponder and immerse yourself in these poems, may you find INSPIRATION, EMPOWERMENT, SPIRITUALITY and a MINDSET of positive energy as you make of them what you must.These poems are the 'Reflections of my Soul'.

A fictionalised philosophical history of the year 1759, and concerning a conspiracy involving the late Monsieur Diderot's Encyclopedie ou ictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers. This updated and annotated edition includes a list of personages featured, and the Author's original historical notes.

Jack is a curious and imaginative boy who loves nothing more than playing pretend.Jack loves to dress up and play pretend through his toy box. Jack can make believe he is whomever his heart desires. But sometimes, when pretending to be someone else, we find ourselves along the way.

For Kitty, getting a place in the 1992 London Marathon is a dream come true. When by chance Kitty meets Malcolm, another new marathoner, they decide to train together. And so begins an unlikely alliance that not only affects them but also draws in Kitty's husband Rob, who is the landlord of the local village pub, and Malcolm's unhappy wife Celia.The relationship and emotions between these two couples, separated by class, age and life-experience, becomes more complex as the marathon training builds, escalating to the climax of Marathon day itself and its aftermath. Key elements of each person's struggles are exposed and brought to a head as the story unfolds: Kitty's dissatisfaction with her role in the pub, Rob's ingrained deference to his overbearing mother, Malcom's and Celia's grief and breakdown of communication.

The book consists of a miscellany of historical narrative and idiosyncratic reminiscence about a variety of different individuals associated with Christ College, who have distinguished themselves one way or another in a particular field of endeavour. It is, in essence, a personal selection; it makes no claim to be a comprehensive historical account.We start with the origins of the foundation and of the School, so there are introductory chapters on the Dominican Friary founded on the site and on Henry VIII, the School's founder. The author then highlights the contribution of Breconians to the Church, the military, to culture, including the visual arts, to the legal profession, to politics and to sport, predominantly rugby football. Alongside these chapters there are more personal reminiscences on families. The only female highlighted in this otherwise exclusively male story is represented in the personal account of her unique experience by Tori James, the first Welsh woman to climb Everest.All this is presented with sensitivity and affection. The author's pride in the achievements of Christ College is evident on every page. With an introduction by DP Davis.

Serving Policeman Hywel Griffiths, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, started to write poems in response to people coming into the office everyday complaining about trivialities. Rather than shouting "Get a Life" - Hywel thought that poetry might encourage them to see life from a different perspective.These poems illustrate what can be achieved simply through a positive outlook and they convey a zest and love for life even when suffering from a debilitating illness such as Parkinson's.

"Some people have a disposition for the macabre. Some prefer fantasy to an unfulfilling existence. Some find that a single moment injects itself into their lives repeatedly until all they live for is that moment. Is that me?"In this extraordinary thriller a man with an unnatural obsession is in pursuit of his perfect victim. A chance encounter with a young woman then challenges his patience, perspective and strict lifestyle. Misunderstandings transform the relationship between two unique characters while they both face danger neither suspect. This disconcering story will provoke your emotions as the killer's personality is revealed and his victim's plight is uncovered.

This is a story about a boy named Ryan who has one hell of a kick!The story of the lost football follows Ryan's wish to join in with the game of football and how the children work together as a team to help to find the lost football and how restorative practises are used.

The object of desire at the heart of 'The Jaguar Men of Kiziba' is the last King of Rwanda's Jaguar Mk5 coupé. Based on a true story, it includes Princess Margaret's state visit to Uganda. The main character's weakness, envy, leads to a dramatic ending. 'The Lungfish Man of Mbazi' has a relatively happy dénouement. It involves a research programme at Bat Valley linked to space exploration that almost ends in disaster for the researcher. 'The Mount Elgon Waiter' culminates, in a Fawlty Towers-like scene in a tourist hotel, in a reference to witchcraft. 'The Moth Lady of Tororo' finds an ageing British lawyer almost falling for a glamorous young post-grad student in a swimming pool situated in a hotel near the Uganda-Kenya border. 'The Kampala Shopping Mall Ostrich Man' examines the disgraceful behaviour of a married Lothario. 'The Owl Man of Mukuno' is a dark tale involving an Englishman, his Mugandan wife and his mother-in-law. 'The Bat Valley University Praying Mantis Man' delves deeply into a work by the surrealist artist M.C. Escher: 'Dream'. 'The Snake Lady of Nakasero' involves a man's deep fear of snakes, his efforts to overcome it, a doomed relationship and a fatal snakebite suffered during curfew. A fear of spiders is the subject of 'The Spider Man of Gulu'. It features the spoiled daughter of a member of the British Establishment who overcomes her fear only to meet an unexpected end in the north of Uganda. 'The Congolese Warthog Man' relates how a man from Katanga, turning his back on the ivory trade, learns how to love a warthog. Finally, 'Bat Valley' tells the story of a man whose all-consuming interest in bats leads to near-disaster. ... and many more humorous tales.

Historical Fiction.Hayti is the novel of the adventures of a Florentine nun who leads a mission to the newly discovered island of Haiti in the 16th Century.

In his book A Night in Buganda, Tales from Post-Colonial Africa (2014), consisting of one hundred and forty-four tales, the author struggled to make sense of the years he spent in Uganda in the nineteen-sixties. Democracy in that newly independent country was moving inexorably towards dictatorship. You could feel it happening. He and his fellow aid workers were told they were doing a good job but doubts assailed him. Things were falling apart. Was the effort invested about to be wasted? Writing the first book helped him to put some of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together. In this book, Absurd Tales from Africa, he makes no such attempt to go any further. He explores gleefully the genres of the grotesque and the absurd. The reader is invited to go with the surreal flow and, perhaps, to enjoy the humour.