Books published by Xlibris UK

The Ballads of Pog is a total change of direction for Ian with it not only being a semi children''s novel but with a totally different layout design

The book reflects the divergence between the medieval religions (including classic Christian religion) and the Modern Christian meanings. Modern Christian Religion associates science with religion and discovers the meta-informational explanation of divine creation. We live in intelligent projected and guided creation and have a superior mission to achieve. We need become intelligent participants of the divine project.

THE NAKED ASSASSIN is a political thriller set in Ireland. It is full of spills and thrills, twists and turns, sex and drama. Eric Smith is a professional assassin. His motto is have gun - will kill if the money is right. He has no morals. He will kill anyone, anywhere. M15 and the UVF have regularly availed of his services. Eric has never left them down. He had carried out successful operations in Africa and all over Europe but this is the strangest assignment yet. He smiled. The target is a well-known clergyman.

A whole class of boys disappear without trace from their school. Another set of boys apparently witness what happened but are physically prevented from describing what they saw for some months. This latter group of boys separate to follow their own careers, marry and raise children, but are eventually all brought together again in an engineering capacity - despite earlier interests. Working together they devise new alloys and electronic communication devices. They build a model of machine they believe will travel through space - at the same time secretly building the parts for a full size machine. The model is tested in front of witnesses and performs perfectly but disappears from all monitoring systems for most of the test flight. While testing the new communication device a message is received from their old school friends who vanished those years ago. It takes some convincing of others that these boys (men now|) are still alive but permission is given for the full size machine to be built. Whole families are smuggled aboard the machine which, rather than going for a test flight, heads for the planet where their old friends are waiting. On arrival they find that all the people there have to be underground at night and in well lit places; any person, or animal, left outside at night is found dead the next day. They explore the planet, make friends with unknown animals, but are caught outside at night. A call for help is answered and they all survive, but now have a mission to destroy the darkness. They return to Earth to pick up people versed in ancient magics and return to Paxlene where, after adventures the darkness is defeated. An attempt is made to return the special people to Earth but fails as the Earth is about to be hit by a giant Asteroid. They are able to cocoon parts of the Earth and shield them from the catastrophe, but it all happens too quickly for anyone to be returned home. They try return to Paxlene, now free of evil, where they plan to help to build new societies out in the open, but something takes over their controls.The story continues with 'Wormhole' , and will conclude with a third tale which has a working title of "Restitution".

This book is about my Uncle, Mr Norman Moors who was in the Royal Navy in the secondWorld war.He was on the M. S. Rodney Battleship the only surviving ship in the Mediterranean.He received a Malteasse medal from Sir Whinstan Churchhill and became a Hero of his time.He asked me to promise to write and have this book published in his honour after he passed away in 2015. So I promised to do as he requested and to include my testimony to share with people that our God is a loving and faithful God. This book is the result.Wishing every blessing to all who read it.Yours TrulyCatherine J M Hughes

Guido Roberts, a young man in London in 1967, is fascinated by the libertine philosophy of Aleister Crowley, the notorious Victorian practitioner of the Black Arts. Crowley''s use of hallucinogenic and mind-altering drugs like mescaline, hashish and heroin, make him a prophet, Guido believes, for the 20th century. Guido becomes entangled in a growing enthusiasm for the occult and for witchcraft, as young English feminists reclaim witchcraft as a form of female spirituality. Wanting to distance himself from a hostile witch coven, while at the same time anxious to evade a criminal gang, he persuades his father, a petty criminal known as ''the Major'', to send him on a journey to the Far East. He accompanies the old man''s girlfriend in a group travelling to the kingdom of Afghanistan, where his father claims they can buy fashionable goatskin coats, and arrange to export them to the West. Unfortunately, he is deceived by his father, and by his father''s business associate, the ''Afghan Hound'' Kamal Pasha, who is a guard at the British Museum. The Major and Kamal''s real purpose is to conceal Afghan miniatures, stolen from the British Museum, in Guido''s suitcase. The historic miniatures could then be sold by Kamal in their country of origin. Guido discovers the smuggled pictures in Iran, in time to bribe the local police, and avoid prosecution for suspected heroin possession. The Iranian police deport him to Afghanistan, where he survives an attempted murder by Kamal, before witnessing his father''s friend being shot down in the street. Guido is then free to travel on to Pakistan, where he manages to sell several valuable miniatures. He then returns the remaining pictures to the British High Commission, so they can be given back to the British Museum. He is finally repatriated to London, a museum benefactor, he believes, and a British patriot, who has outsmarted his father.

On a cold winter''s night amongst the many snowflakes that fell, one special Snowflake carry a gift of life, fell gently down from the sky, landing on the shoulder of a snowman and passing through its precious possession.It is for the Snowman to choose how to use this gift and who to share it with.The Snowman is faced with a choice, to accept his fate by staying on his spot or run away and see where his new life, takes him. He inspires a Scarecrow, a garden Gnome and a Puppet to also join him to escape and to seek the dreams they each yearn for.The journey they all embark on takes the reader with them, on an adventure, thwart with danger, into a world they don''t know, but through it all can they all really find what they are looking for.