Harry is a salesman and he uses his Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow as a prop to help him attract new business to buy his screws, nut and bolts. Then he meets a female managing director, rare in 1975, named Mrs Gina Tremblett, who decides to use him as an escort to help cope with the prejudices of a male dominated business world. Harry agrees to help in the spirit of altruism, but will the Spirit of Ecstasy intervene?
Jackie the narrator is a common young thief, reporting back to his Fence, having gone outside of his comfort zone. He's a successful ram-raider. His hero is The Panther, a cat burglar with a reputation on being Old School. Can Jackie emulate his hero and rob softly softly?
Harry Harris was a simple man, a loner comfortable in his habits, happy to observe with interest the world around him with minimal social contact, that is until a woman with a twinkly top caught his interest in his local tea shop. A gentle romance story that almost wasn't a romance, of ships that pass in the night, over a brew and a toasted tea-cake.
A half-drowned stranger suffering from exposure and speaking a foreign tongue is brought to shore in an isolated fishing city at the height of the Cold War and mistaken for a Russian spy. Meanwhile, his girl mourns for him.
Dr Cameron has been reduced to supplying locum cover after a messy divorce, where his bride traded up her hospital doctor for a successful businessman who managed to successively accuse the good doctor of marital abuse, hence his present unfortunate temporary employment status. Then, before his situation has a chance to improve, it suddenly gets a whole lot worse.... / (Reviews)
When my ex-co-pilot disappeared without explanation on a planet on the outer rim of the Galaxy, I felt obligated to visit my old home planet to find out why. Warning, this story contains one of the worst puns in the known universe.
John Jolly is recently divorced, homeless, unemployed and depressingly unemployable. Doing voluntary work at the local Manor has opened up possibilities, a roof over his head where he can at least have his 9yo daughter stay with him overnight. It’s Friday night, he has worked voluntarily in the Manor gardens all week and Her Ladyship has insisted on rewarding his efforts, to borrow a suit and immediately drive to her local restaurant for a meal at her expense. Reluctantly he agrees.
The youngest labourer in the construction crew, Wayne, has organised a craic for his mates, Gaffer, Donkey and Bodge, a trip from rural West Ireland to the last day of the Cheltenham Festival. They are all doing a "Super Heinz", a way of betting on every combination of 7 races at a meeting, including trebles and accumulators. A great craic is on the cards, but does Wayne have something else in mind? A gentle, humorous road trip with added romance, nothing serious, just the craic.
Penny and I witness a woman, who has all the appearance of being an upstanding citizen, wheel a trolley past the tills without paying, loaded up with booze.