BLOOD ON THE BALLOnce upon a time back in Nazi occupied Ukraine in the summer of 1942, a football game took place the likes never witnessed either before or since. It was a contest between Dynamo Kiev and their German overseers. One where the prize for victory was no medal or trophy. Just death by firing squad. And yet the Ukrainians of Kiev still played to win? Blood on the Ball is a novel based on this fascinating and uplifting tale. That rare time when football was actually more important than life and death. Where all that mattered was to win despite then being forced to pay the ultimate price of so much blood on the ball.WOODEN SWORDFrom the killing fields of Bosnia and Afghanistan Wooden Sword tells the story of two childhood friends from Birmingham. Alan Howard and Ali Asif. As young boys they both spent many a summer enjoying magical holidays on Llandudno's West shore in North Wales. Together with their wooden swords they would fight off invisible enemies of black knights on the vast deserted beach. Come their teenage years the boys grew apart. Because of a love of animals Ali trained to be a vet, whilst Alan joined the army and served in Bosnia. But years later whilst home on leave Alan met up once more with Ali. On of all days September 11 2001. Alan and Ali argued over different opinions regarding the attack on New York. They again go separate ways, only for their paths to cross in frightening circumstances in Afghanistan. Where Ali was fighting for the Taliban and Alan was serving as a British soldier. This dramatic and tragic story reaches a crescendo in a place where it all began. West Shore, Their short lives ripped apart by war and religion, they found themselves surrounded by real dark knights. A friendship tested beyond all limits faced its last and greatest hurdle.DRAGONFLYLondon: Soho: 2015: My name is James Michael Pearson. I am forty-two years old and a former Lieutenant in the British Paratrooper regiment. I saw action in Bosnia, Kosovo, two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was recently contacted by a former Paratrooper. Someone who told me the most extraordinary tale. A story of two young soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan, but before doing so experienced out in the midst of battle an incident so strange, it left senior officials in the British army seriously contemplating mystical forces were at work in that place, a cemetery for the greatest military powers the world has ever seen. But there was something else out there in the killing fields. Not just The Taliban, but a neutral force possessing a power so profane, the reality of it left hardened soldiers on both sides, that thought they had witnessed all the horrors of war, as broken men. For this thing gave peace in death and the chance to love a last time before the lights went out and you travelled on. I am talking about Dragonfly....THE SYRIAN SEVENLoosely based on the classic sixties western, The Magnificent Seven, a band of mercenaries head to modern day, war-torn Syria, in order to help defend a village under attack from the Islamic Militants of ISIS. But all is not as it appears. So unfolds a gripping tale of courage, friendship, treachery and in the end ultimate sacrifice, as the need to defend loved ones becomes all over-riding. No matter what the cost. Seven good men on a mission of mercy are finally forced to make a decision on whether to cut and run or fight. They stay and all hell lets loose in the Syrian Desert. A battle at the end of the world. In a place called Khalifa.