Before the Swallow Dares is a story of two former school friends, Ted Bryant and Jim Fletcher, who meet again by accident after a gap of almost fifty years and decide to renew their friendship. It is only later that Ted realises that his friend is married to Dilys, a girl with whom he had fallen in love when they were both only eighteen and still at school - a vivid flashback shows us, how they first met, how matters developed, and, more importantly, how they lost touch. Once they meet again, Ted and Dilys recognise that they still have a great deal of interests in common, and still feel a...

If you have ever been to one of the tourist traps basking on the French Riviera, you will undoubtedly have asked yourself the question: why don't they do something about these awful traffic jams? Alain Simondi asked himself the same question, but it was his job to do something about it, and when he did, he found that he had opened a can of worms... The Heat of the Kitchen is a fast-moving, exciting story. Alain Simondi is Mayor of the town, whilst the leader of the opposition on the Town Council is an attractive single mother - who is much closer to the Mayor than her position would imply....

Billy Frecknall is an instinctive fighter, a fighter against injustice of all kinds, even if the odds are heavily stacked against him. He learns quite early in life that many people in this world claim to believe in a fair and just society, but behave quite differently - choosing for themselves which categories of people will benefit from fairness and justice, and excluding the rest. Billy describes prejudice as 'a disease, a virulent and malign disease, a disease of the mind. I have a vision of a brain, ' he says, 'encircled by barbed wire. And barbed wire, I might remind you, has barbs that...