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Four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory: In Hunter's Moon, the travellers visit Leisure Platform 9, where gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. In Touched By An Angel, the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon - and the Doctor, Amy and Rory must stop them. In Paradox Lost, an ancient android is dredged from the Thames, with a message that can only be delivered to the Doctor. In Borrowed Time, by Naomi Alderman, the three friends go undercover at a bank where time is the commodity on offer for loan.

Sexy Thai Bar Girls / Sex Adventures / Hookers / Ladyboys / Bars / A Go Gos / Pattaya Freelancers / Walking Street / L. K. Metro / Massage Parlours / Discos / And More (From An Author Who Has Been Living In Pattaya For Ten Years And Still Thinks He’s Compos Mentis!) Reviewers have claimed that Finch writes with “apparent lightness and liquidity” and that he is “a true navigator”, gifting his readers with a “very well written memoir / travel book”. “Sexy Thai Bar Girls And Me / Sex Adventures In Asia”, an updated version of “Collected Selected Words”, includes ...

Thailand, the land of smiles and golden dreams, is languishing, and Pattaya, its biggest fun city, is succumbing to a thousand ills. Pattaya Pains is about living in Pattaya over the long term. Even though the collection of essays, stories, and observations herein would relish the golden dream of painting Pattaya as a romantic hotspot where Thais and foreigners bond, it can’t do so - not only because East is East and West is West, but also because Thais just don’t see foreigners in a good light.

Commissioned to write titillating letters to Franz, a friend in Austria, with the intention of enticing him back to Fun City as soon as possible, the author sets out to create a Pattaya full of fun, bargirls, sensational sex, and more, but at a certain point the author runs out of steam. He commissions his friend, The King, a man who is never wrong, to continue writing but The King gets hospitalised. Desperate for another writer-narrator, the author asks old friends back in the UK to look around. They send over a criminal cook attached to a social worker, and The Cook continues stimulating ...

Literary short stories about love, madness, delusion, romance, loneliness, isolation, science, metamorphosis, and more. The settings for these short stories are England, Ireland and Italy. The protagonists are generally outsiders who are trying to regain or maintain mental stability without much success. There is first person narrative and third person, too. The narrator is occasionally omniscient. The stories show the influences of Gogol, Kafka, and Dostoevsky as well as Mansfield and Beckett. The tone is serious overall but with some humour. The collection will appeal to readers with ...

“Great Tits I’ve Known (And Other Species)” is the new edition of “Collected Selected Words” and is a combination of travel, memoir, autobiography and fiction, taking in three countries on its travels. It is also a book for ornithologists. Its humour and satire travel the world even ending up on the island of Cuba. Cambodia makes an appearance, too, and its hornbills get noisy. Overshadowing the book are the grim islands of Great Britain and the long Italian peninsular, but undaunted Jonathan Finch sings a song few birds can sing which embraces Thailand and especially Pattaya and ...

A novel about adolescent love and trauma set in London and Scotland. Jim, the protagonist, tries to escape his past but finds it catches up with him. Love, sex, virginity, and adolescent and adult understanding are explored against a background of stunning scenery and formidable weather.

Reginald Washington, a lonely, politically correct, rich, and highly esteemed English civil servant, nearing retirement age, meets by chance a strangely attractive Asian lady in an English pub. She is young enough to be his daughter and comes from the poorest region of Thailand, the Isaan. They begin a passionate love affair and despite many differences and family conflict, they fall deeply in love. She has a well buried past which she does not want him to know anything about.

The people who liked these poems were editors. All the poems were published in books or small magazines. Some of the poems won prizes. Nature, love, loss, creativity, crime, and revelation are some of the subjects. Poetry has always been near and dear to the author's heart. He recently published an autobiographical novel or travel memoir entitled Great Tits I've Known (And Other Species) where similar subjects are explored, and where the prose of the novel aspires to but never quite achieves poetry.

Theodore feels isolated and unloved. His parents are too busy to help him feel wanted. One very snowy day a miracle seems to begin, and helped by a magic snowman and the snowman's gentle companion, Theodore begins a journey which sees him accepted by his school friends and loved by his parents.

Mixed Massages (II) is the second volume in a collection of short stories, essays, and articles about Pattaya, Thailand, and expat life. The author Jonathan Finch sets out to depict a Pattaya very different from the one advertised or vilified. His Pattaya is inspirational and sends out messages night and day but those messages are very mixed. Pattaya is alluring and may massage you into a false sense of security but in Pattaya’s underbelly are the seeds of bedlam.

These love poems interlink and tell the troubled story of obsessional love. Lyrical and elegiac, they will please poetry lovers and will also interest people who wish to plumb the psychological depths of obsessional passion. Over a mere, few months, the poet Jonathan Finch wrote more than 100 love poems for and to his femme fatale. "Love" Poems for Kathy: Green. Laced. Leaves. is a sequence of interrelating love poems that tell the story of the poet's love and then hate for the woman who infatuated him.

Essays, observations and stories about Pattaya and Thailand - humorous, satiric, observational.

Sayings, mottos, "pithies", & provocations in poetry & prose, aiding & abetting popular philosophy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This small collection of thought-provokers exists because thought does but happiness doesn’t. If determinism, free belief, possible causes and education get your goat, so will thought and its provokers. If you have worked hard you will have got lucky (or “someone” got it wrong). If we get knowledge through experience, why do we have to get it on our own, ...

“The Light Of Day (II)” is the second in a series. Prize-winning poet and published short-story writer and translator Jonathan Finch has collected these poems he put away over the years. His published work can be seen in “Poems People Liked (1)” and “Poems People Liked (2)”. More of his previously unpublished poems are here, in “The Light Of Day (II)”. Because of Kindle Direct Publishing and Createspace these poems have been able to see the light of day. Poetry was Finch’s passion, and over the decades he wrote hundreds of poems. Many were published in literary magazines ...

Set in the London of the 1970’s “Darkest Kiss” tells the story of troubled love and poses the question : “How far is it possible for the reader to believe in the narrator and his narrative”? Tracing events a man tries to make sense of his lost love, but descends into the depths of paranoia…Or does he? Is the story, his story, very different? Is the heroine Katharine really out to destroy her lover? “Darkest Kiss” poses questions which seem to have no answers. Using innovative language, “Darkest Kiss” takes its reader on a journey from work in a block of London flats ...

Prize-winning poet Jonathan Finch has collected some poems which he never submitted for the appraisal of editors and has published them via KDP and Createspace. Poems which editors approved of, liked and published can be read in "Poems People Liked (1)" and "Poems People Liked (2)". In this series, "The Light Of Day", previously unpublished verse can be read and assessed by poetry-lovers everywhere. Finch's poems cover a variety of subjects like family, nature, society, criminality and the loss of positive direction. Although his muse is generally speaking silent these days, "The Light Of ...

This is the second book in the series "Poems People Liked". The poems were previously published mainly in small-magazine format. Liked and chosen by independent editors, some were also highly commended. They are dedicated to people who don't feel free and to expats the world over. Like the first volume, the poems explore nature, mortality, emotion, creativity, imprisonment, deviance and endless device. They work on words in right places which attempt to make sense of a confusing array of conflicting experiences in a world where the blacks, the whites, and the greys really are mingling and ...