In her younger days Author JULIA MOWERY was a beautiful member of a team of dancers that toured leading theatres.  Her intimate knowledge of the relationships, loves, flirtations, and lives of a theatrical troupe allows her characters to come alive and hold your attention throughout KRANZWEG CASTLE.
Her Amy & Tom are a vaudeville act touring American Variety Theatres in the late 1930s.  A talent scout recruits them to join a troupe playing leading theatres in the Cities of Europe and their adventure begins.  The troupe perform successfully at theatres in England, France and Germany, before receiving an invitation to KRANZWEG CASTLE where they are to entertain members of the German High Command.

War is declared whilst they are at the Medieval Castle and they find themselves trapped.  They overhear the plans of Germany’s High Command.  Can they Escape? Can they get news of the Castle to the Allies?  What is to be their fate? In a brilliant development of the plot JULIA takes them through twists and turns that leaves the reader eager to read on and find out what their fate will be. 
This a novel we are proud to publish and thoroughly recommend to all readers of all ages.


Kranzweg Castle – By Julia Mowery
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ISBN  978 1 907953 51 4
ISBN eBook 978 1 907953 17 0

One-time scooter Mod, Ryan Keith looked towards retirement as an opportunity to do stuff that he had previously had no time to fit in, due to work and other commitments. Since he still had a Vespa affectionately known as Ernest in the garage, and had never attempted a long run since the time his throttle cable snapped on the way to Margate back in 1964, he began to line up possible adventures. For a variety of reasons, the North of Ireland came out tops. This book is the result, and tells how he got on. A beautiful written book full of the interesting Characters he met and his reflections on the divisions of today and the days of the Spanish Armada.







Travels with Ernest - By Ryan Keith - Paperback Price £12.99
ISBN Paperback 978 0 9560618 81
ISBN eBook  978 1 9078953 12 5

Alfie Dodd was born in 1939 at the start of WW2 of a Jewish mother in Stoke Newington, an area then well-known for its mixed population of mainly Christian and descendants of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. 
Through his father’s infidelity he was raised in a Christian home and was often involved in the conflict that was present between the different religious and ethical groups who lived in the East-End of London.  His mother’s new partner was operating outside the law.  Young Alfie suffered the consequences of being taken into care and loosing the love and security every lad needs as they grow to maturity.
However Alfie was bright; he won a place at the prestigious local grammar, Hackney Downs School but Alfie was a rebel and remained at the Grammar thanks to the far-sightedness of teachers Joe Brearley and Leslie Mitchell who saw a spark in him and campaigned for him to remain on the roll!   Later in life, Alfie successfully qualified as a Civil Engineer before becoming the author of ‘Alfie’s Yidl’.
This is the tale he wrote to describe his life.   Some names and dates were altered by him and other parts have been fictionalised, but the story nonetheless gives a true picture of growing up in the East-End of London in the late 1940’s and 1950’s.   Sadly, Alfie was not able to build on his life through ill-health and died at the age of 54. This is Alfie’s story and his book gives a very vivid and accurate view of how life was in the East-End of London in the 1940s and 50s.


Alfie's Yidl - Memories of an East-End London Family - By Terry Gasking
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ISBN  978 0 9547236 99
ISBN eBook 978-1-907953-09-5

Joe Brearley taught English with inspiration, never without a sense of theatre and rarely without an idea of fun. Among those influenced by his teaching were the renowned internationally acclaimed playwright and Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter and his friend Henry Woolf who were taught to love the English language, through rehearsal and performance, in poetry and Joe's play productions whilst at the (now closed) Hackney Downs School.

Following his retirement he moved to Germany and to conserve his pension took a job teaching English in a German School.
This is an original edition paperback - 591 pages including photographs.
Date of Publication 15 March 2008.
Publisher Twig Books
Language English
Dimensions 28 x 21 x 3.1 cm

Fortunes Fool - Joe Brearley
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ISBN 9978 0 9547236 82
ISBN eBook 978-1-907953-07-1

Seen From The Wings
Volume One: 1942-1944 From England to the Middle East

A second World War journal compiled from the letters of Joe Brearley.
Whilst he was not in the fighting, Joe performed valuable service in The Sudan, Egypt, Libya, manning the Supply Lines to support the effort against Rommel and the Africa Korps.

This 305 page paperback, with contemporary illustrations (many taken by Joe himself), includes an account of being torpedoed and of riots in Cairo, alongside descriptions of Khartoum and the Nile. Joe visits the Roman City of Sabratha and enjoys some humorous moments whilst in command of a convoy from Sudan to Libya.

Volumes Two and Three are in preparation, and include further service in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, with visits to Palestine.

Seen From The Wings - Compiled from the letters of JOE BREARLEY by G.L.Watkins -
Paperback Price £12.99 plus postage & Packing
ISBN 978 0 9560618 43
ISBN eBook 978-1-907953-11-8

‘I was put on a double-decker bus and was whisked off to Ivinghoe Aston, Buckinghamshire, in the middle of England.’
‘My parents must have been distraught at sending their son away to total strangers in a place they knew nothing of, for who knows how long, but they kept up appearances for our sake and assured us that ‘you will be going somewhere safe where someone will look after you and we will come and visit you whenever we can’.
We were herded on to a steam train, waved our parents a cheery good-bye, they with tears streaming down their faces, and off we went on this marvellous adventure!
‘I’ll have him’, and ‘that two there will do’, ‘that little girl with the curly hair’. The voices sounded strange, difficult to understand but they were obviously speaking English.

So start some of the stories captured in this book.  Stories that need to be preserved and read.   
When you feel the pressure and stress of modern-day living - pick up this book and read one or two of the stories of the evacuees.  The charm and resilience of these evacuee children will fill your soul - Your stress will evaporate with every page.

Evacuees - Stories of the Children - Written by the evacuees - Edited by Terry Gasking - Paperback Price £9.99
ISBN 978 09560618 05
ISBN eBook 978-1-907953-06-4

 - is a 'curio-shop' of a book full of fascinating information that will keep the reader and their families and friends intrigued for hours.Did you know that -Tom Cruise's real name is Thomas Malpother IV?
Gone with the Wind' was originally titles 'Baa! Baa! Blacksheep'
Maltesers were originally called Energy Balls
There is only one Premier League football club that has both an African Owner and an African Manager.






Everything You Never Wanted to Know and Never Bothered to Ask – By Brian Ariel - Paperback Price £12.99
ISBN  978 0 9560618 74
ISBN eBook 978 1 907953 13 2

Often we hear songs and are curious to know who wrote them. This book attempts to satisfy that curiosity with a goldmine of information.
The main section is devoted to the songs themselves-who wrote them, when and why they were written as well as the shows and films in which they have been heard. The second and third sections are devoted to biographical details of the composers and lyricists respectively.
Some other songs of theirs which are deemed unsuitable for the main content are mentioned. Although it is a book of popular song, references are made to many classical composers from Bartok to Mozart and from Debussy to Stravinsky. References are also made to eminent literary figures from Bertolt Brecht to James Joyce and from Thomas Mann to Mark Twain.

'Songs' is a reference book for anyone interested in American popular song in particular, and song-writing in the 20th century. It offers a comprehensive guide to the composers and lyricists behind best-loved 'standards', as well as information on more obscure songs. The book also provides a host of fascinating anecdotes about the personalities and lives that helped forge the history of popular songs.

Songs of the 20th Century – By Brian Ariel - Paperback Price £19.99
ISBN  978 0 9560618 98
ISBN eBook 978 1 907953 14 9
Publication Date:3/1/2011

Terry Gasking has had an outstanding career.  His Lectures & Seminars have been enjoyed by many thousands of Managers and Students.  He began to write books on Financial Management at the end of the 1990s and even that early he could foresee and indeed forecast the massive recession to hit the Developed World!  He documented the years it would occur as 2008-2010.

In 2004 he wrote a book to steer the reader away from the worst ravages of the catastrophes that he named as 4 years ahead.  His forecasts were accurate even to documenting that the collapse would emanate from the way the Banks were operating and detailing why the auto industry could not possibly survive without a complete change of management thinking and methology. Time after time in over 400 businesses his forecasts proved to be amazingly accurate.

In this book he turns his attention to the next 10 years with his wealth of knowledge and his insights into the financial future. He guides the reader to the steps that he believes will allow them to DOUBLE THEIR MONEY.

He also describes the steps that made the Recession inevitable and why the mistakes made by the USA and UK Governments will serve only to push the worst ravages of the 2008-2010 back 5 or 10 years rather than solve the underlying problem. He includes text of his letters to the Government in which he warned of the upcoming disaster and recommended actions that would have solved it.

Finally he reveals the actions that should have been taken to cure the crisis – actions that will still prove to be necessary if a solution is to be found.

Double Your Money – By Terry Gasking - Paperback Price £9.99
ISBN  978 0 9560618 12
ISNB eBook 978-1-907953-04-0