Written in 1997, this entertaining account of the author's life and colourful career - from gravedigger's apprentice, student and deputy headmaster to highly successful stamp dealer - is a fascinating read from beginning to end. The author's infectious humour is peppered liberally throughout as he shares anecdotes about his early days including a hilarious insight into the council workers' politics and perspectives, his teaching career, and how he transformed his kitchen table stamp dealing hobby into a lucrative business, Benham, Britain's biggest First Day Cover company in its day, which he...

Corruption, armed robberies and grisly murders; the kind of things that could churn anyone's stomach used to make up an average day on the beat for ex-Chief Inspector Sandy Neil. However, after a nasty divorce and one too many bureaucratic headaches took him out the game, Sandy is forced out of his life of peaceful mundanity when a series of murder victims make national headlines. In a tale that blurs the line between the unapologetically insidious criminal underworld and the shiny furnishings of the most publically respected police departments, Tony Buckingham's Valentine's Day sees Sandy,...

What starts out as another day in the seemingly innocuous life of a family of stamp dealers quickly spins out of control in a tale of deceit and secret cover-ups. Initially an honest venture and a way to kill time for the Cheshire family, their dealing sees them caught in the centre of a web of power-hungry outsiders. Money doesn't make the world go around, but in the most deprived of communities, it certainly helps. In fact, around these parts people will do whatever they can to ensure they aren't left wanting, even if it means orchestrating a series of grisly "accidents" to get what they're...