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Roddy returns to his childhood family home on the Isle of Wight to attempt to restart his life after a disasterous breakup and hopefully also create a new business. His main priority though is to help his daughter Polly financially so that she can get through her finals at uni. However things aren’t as they first appear on the island. The love, romance and happiness that he seeks are interfered with when he encounters lies, deceit, drug smuggling and threats. Still emotionally scarred, somehow, someway, Roddy has to cope with all of this while attempting to hold it all together. Full of ...

None stop action in this comedy adventure story of three old school friends who find themselves caught up in an incredible web of intrigue and espionage. Mike Hardcastle never envisaged that twenty years ago his life would be turned upside down by a series of unforeseen events. Now, thirty-eight years old, Mike has made his peace with his turbulent past and is content with his modest lifestyle.Then, everything changes when Edith, his aunt, announces that she needs Mike to look after her dog, Hemingway, while she visits a sick friend. Mike’s mundane and predictable life is about to be put ...

The happy, tranquil, traditional way of life on the remote, little Scottish island of Skran far out in the Firth of Clyde is threatened with unwanted upheaval along with an environmental disaster by big business. Can Bonnie and Clive Sutherland help prevent it or will money speak. Drams, Jams and Scams follows on from where our previous book Daydream Believers left off. Drams are the moonshine peatreek that is illicitly distilled on the island, that they are continually being offered. The jams are what they get into when they encounter tight spots; including ghosts, a mysterious station ...

Hilarious misadventures involving unexpected twists including murder, drug running and an inheritance as newly retired Jack and Susie buy their first caravan. Jack and Susie Morton have had their fill of the daily grind, bored and tired of their jobs. And Jack has been ill, a heart attack and triple bypass. It was time to spend some quality time together. So they go ahead and retire early. Buy a caravan they call Daisy. Only problem is that the hapless couple know absolutely nothing about caravanning. It's a steep learning curve. Can Jack overcome his terror of towing? Will they master the ...

Oliver Hetherington’s girlfriend, Fleur, suspects he’s having an affair, but even worse, that he’s involved in a terrible crime. She leaves him and goes home to her parents, taking the enormous but gentle Irish Hound, Duke, with her and wonders what to do about the dreadful secret she has uncovered. She despairs that she’ll never find a trustworthy man to love. While she’s achieved success in her career, her love life has been a shambles. When a mysterious man unexpectedly turns up on Fleur’s parents’ doorstep with a truly shocking story about Hetherington that confirms ...

Funny Goings On At Cliffs View was previously published as Cliffs View and has now been amended slightly and updated. Hilarious misadventures when Cliff has a mid life crisis and decides that he needs a new direction. Accepting redundancy from his boring job, he then late one night after too many drinks recklessly bids online for a remote old hotel, sight unseen. Perched precariously on a cliff edge - big mistake. Little does he know - it's but the beginning of his problems but also a new love in his life. Cliffs View turns out to be the hilarious "Hammer House of Horrors”, in the middle ...

Mac had it all - a single, care free life, living on the shores of Southampton Water in his own detached property. Ok, so it was just a rusty old Winnebago affectionately known as Minnie Winnie, but it was the first home Mac has actually owned and he loved it. A perfect existence – nights out with best friends Roger and Malik at The Wicked Parrot – sea swimming every day – and his artist’s studio in the magnificent Beauham Grange Arts Centre just a stroll down the lane. And the bad time in Mac’s life was firmly in the past – something he didn’t allow to disturb his equilibrium...

Hilarious misadventures when Cathy suddenly decides that it's time to set about achieving the things that she's never done before. To prove to herself and to others that she can do them. To stretch herself. To do things that she wants to do. Travelling, exploring new places in her caravan. But she ends up encountering more than she ever expects. It's three years now since her beloved husband Adam died. They both shared a love of caravanning in Rosie their caravan. But Adam did all the towing. Does Catherine sell her? Or does she summon up the courage and go on a training course to learn how...

Hilarious misadventures. Christmas at Hill Top Inn, is a light-hearted tale that captures the spirit of Christmas and the warmth of a group of coach travellers unexpectedly thrown together in a snowstorm. The unexpected arrival of the guests leads to a series of comic situations, highlighting Molly and Dave's naivety at running a pub and the eccentricities of the guests. The situation is saved by the ever talented, Jack. A local handyman who lives in a caravan down in the valley, who comes to their rescue time and time again, becoming a good friend in the process. Unexpected twists and ...

Disillusioned after a disasterous relationship, Jennifer Wren returns to her home town in Norfolk, hoping to quietly rebuild her life and help sort her brother's life out as well. A hilarious feel good comedy, full of twists and turns, which leads Jennifer to reappraise her life. Does she want another relationship so soon after her break-up? On top of that, crime lurks the streets of Staithesby and inadvertently she become involved in trying to solve it. The Marigold Café and Bookshop is written in our usual light-hearted, tongue in cheek, heart- warming, feel good style. We hope you enjoy...

Book Three. The Abbey Mice and the Haunted Castle. For children who love to let their imaginations run free. With a haunted Castle in Cornwall, smugglers, ghouls and ghosts.

A funny, fast paced, feel-good comedy keeping you guessing to the end. When Ellie and Ben strike up a friendship and decide to travel to the Lake District together in a campervan called Brienne neither of them mentions that they are escaping from their pasts. What follows is a fast-paced farcical adventure with hair raising encounters as Ellie and Ben, try and keep one step ahead of their pursuers. This hilarious romp has laughs, tears, nail-biting suspense and romance. Camping on the Run is written in our usual light-hearted, tongue in cheek, heart-warming, feel good style. We hope you ...

Liam, in between jobs, is suddenly gifted the opportunity of a lifetime running his uncle's pub in Tenerife. Hilarious misadventures when Liam is able to leave the rut of a boring life he's living in Bristol behind and help his Uncle Eric run his pub in the sun - The Elephant on the Creek, in Las Americas. Love, romance and happiness are on the horizon for him when out of the blue, Liam's past love and a new love interest both enter his life at the same time, with unexpected consequences for him. Fate, however, lends a hand and things don't always go as planned.

The sequel to Daisy Days. It's three years later... Enjoying their retirement, now back on English soil after another six month stay in their second home in France, mayhem begins again for Susie and Jack Morton. Plain sailing isn’t a regular occurrence for them as their previous adventures revealed. Towing Daisy, their beloved caravan, proves a challenge for Jack after his six-month break from caravanning – and the journey home from the port across to Eastbourne is far from straight forward…with a surprise for Susie. Will Susie be pleased with her birthday present from Jack? It’s ...

An hilarious, feel good comedy starts when Sadie Braithwaite, single handedly bringing up her gruesome twosome teenagers, Josh and Lucinda, finds that the empty house next door has finally sold. Who is her mysterious new neighbour? Sadie is desperate to find out. How will she react when she finds out the shocking truth of who has moved next door? That's not the only change in Sadie's life. An amazing job offer promises an escape from her low paid job as a carer for the elderly. Should she take it? Or is she signing up to something she would later regret? New Neighbours on Lavender Lane is ...

Book One. A bedtime story about the Adventures of the Abbey Mice. For children who love to allow their imaginations to run free.

Hope Brown’s mundane life is turned upside down when:-she unexpectedly loses the job she loves; runs into big trouble with the police when she’s implicated in an unexplained death; finds herself the target of a notorious local drug gang - out for revenge; and discovers dark secrets about her past that she is determined to uncover. Hope takes flight from the dreary London council flat that she shares with her slovenly stepfather Charlie, and stepbrother Joel, looking for a fresh start in Northumberland, in the peaceful, coastal town of Amble, where she was born. She's determined to ...

"Previously published as MYSTERY IN THE APPLE ORCHARD: Hilarious misadventures when, completely out of the blue, caravanning mad Val and Geoff inherit a mysterious, old apple orchard on the Isle of Wight. By GUMBLETON, LYNNE AND CHRISTOPHER (AUTHOR)." Another fun packed comedy adventure when caravanning mad Valerie and Geoff inherit an old bungalow down on the Isle of Wight from a mysterious uncle. Little do they know, they have also inherited a mysterious, old apple orchard to go with it - hidden away, down at the far end of their garden. The orchard contains a secret that changes Val and ...

More fun with the mischievous little Abbey Mice who live high up in a tower of a medieval abbey and their exciting adventures. A trip to visit their cousins in the Caribbean is the venue this time. For children who love to allow their imaginations to run free.

"Previously published as THE CRANMOUTH MANOR HEIST: Hilarious misadventures in a comedy drama with plot twists, romance, friendship, and betrayal. by GUMBLETON, LYNNE AND CHRISTOPHER (AUTHOR)." A thrilling, comedy adventure story of crime, suspense, daring rescues, family drama, love, friendship, and heartbreak. When Rob Holmes meets the mysterious and beautiful Jane Smith, he finds that it’s more than his gardening services she’s interested in. Should he date Jane even though he’s secretly still in love with his ex-girlfriend Helen Collins? Rob, still single at the age of fifty-five,...