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The Kedge Hook Files: Twenty Five Years of the L.S.T and Landing Craft Association

Price: £12.95

The Kedge Hook Files: Twenty Five Years of the L.S.T and Landing Craft Association, English Language Edition. By Colin Brian Buckenham

The Kedge Hook Files commemorates 25 years of the L.S.T. Landing Craft Association and its magazine The Kedge Hook. This book has been produced to commemorate the laying up of the National Standard and closure of the L.S.T. & Landing Craft Association twenty five years after its foundation. During that quarter century almost one hundred editions of the association newsletters were issued to members. This volume is made up of a selection of reports from those newsletters reflecting the history of the association together with a unique collection of articles written by the membership sharing some of their experiences and tribulations whilst serving on Landing Craft. To quote S/M Ray Self from his contribution to the book Sainfoin's War 'The friendship between Shipmates can be explained, but it lasts forever'. I think that this sentiment is evident when reading this volume. The book contains 260 pages of articles and photographs.

260pp
Paperback - A5 format

ISBN 9781907997013

The Kedge Hook - The Photo Files: A Unique Collection of Personal Photographs from Members and Friends of the L.S.T. and Landing Craft Association

Price: £12.99

The Kedge Hook - The Photo Files: A Unique Collection of Personal Photographs from Members and Friends of the L.S.T. and Landing Craft Association, English Language Edition. By Colin Brian Buckenham

The Photo Files is a unique collection of personal photographs from members and friends of The L.S.T. and Landing Craft Association. It all began shortly after the author took the helm of The Kedge Hook, the quarterly magazine produced for The L.S.T. and Landing Craft Association from it's former editor Jack Culshaw. While sharing a taxi to attend an association national committee meeting S/M Jack made a chance remark that he was quite often asked by association members and readers of the magazine if he was able to send them copies of photographs that had been printed in its pages. Both agreed that this would not really practical but then they started talking about how they could perhaps gather together some of the more interesting photos and put them into a small booklet which could then be offered to the association members. After some time they had gathered together a small collection but far too few to make a viable publication. By this time S/M Jack had also become ill and shortly before he 'Crossed The Bar' at the end of September 2006 they had a telephone conversation where the subject of the photograph collection was again raised. They agreed that it might be a good idea if the author was to put a notice in the Kedge Hook asking if members would like to send him their personal photographs so that an album could be produced that would be available to all. Originally they had intended to produce this in booklet form because they didn't think enough photographs would be received to set their sights any higher. How wrong they were. Over the coming months the association members contributed hundreds of photographs. Some couldn't be used because of copyright reasons and others because they were of such poor quality, but they ended up with the unique collection that has nowbecome 'The Kedge Hook - The Photo Files.'

156pp
Paperback - A5 format

ISBN 9780955126734

Sainfoin's War: The Story of H.M.S. Sainfoin 1944 to 1946

Price: £11.99

Sainfoin's War: The Story of H.M.S. Sainfoin 1944 to 1946, English Language Edition. By W.J. Mitchell, Colin Brian Buckenham, June Brooks, T. Archer

This is a revised edition of the first public release of Sainfoin's War, a living history of H.M.S. Sainfoin. Originally written by W.J. Mitchell it has been continually updated with further stories from shipmates who proudly served on her. Following the sad death of Walt the mantle has been taken up by Colin Buckenham, the editor of 'The Kedge Hook', a magazine produced for the members of the L.S.T. and Landing Craft Association. He continues the work of keeping the project alive. This is the result of their labours and is now complete. Complete, that is, until another shipmate returns to the fold to add their memories to the collection.

144pp
Paperback - A5 format

ISBN 9781907997037

Ta Ta and God Bless: Picture Postcards to and from the Trenches

Price: £9.99

Ta Ta and God Bless: Picture Postcards to and from the Trenches. By Paul Edwards, illustrated by Roger Challoner

Picture postcards to and from the trenches. It all began with an old biscuit tin. I first saw it when I was a child. It was in a cupboard in one of the spare rooms and there it stayed, forgotten. Many years later I came across it again, more or less where I'd last seen it. This time curiosity got the better of me and I opened it...........

202pp
Paperback - A5 format

ISBN 9781907997044

Please Don't Cancel Christmas, Daddy

£5.99

Please Don’t Cancel Christmas, Daddy, English Language Edition. By Chris Wildish

Please Don't Cancel Christmas, Daddy tells the story of a young family finding it hard to afford any kind of Christmas at all. The father, who is in the depths of despair, can see no way out of their situation except by cancelling Christmas. However, everything changes following a series of small acts of kindness by the father which are eventually reciprocated by the various strangers that he has helped. This heart-warming story relates a simple message which is so relevant at Christmastime.

32pp
Colour illustrations
Paperback - A5 landscape format

ISBN 9781907997051

Jimmy and the Pink Diamond

Price: £8.50

Jimmy and the Pink Diamond, English Language Edition. By Leanne Delehanty

Naughty Jimmy certainly doesn’t expect to fall from the balcony, when he jumps onto the railing to get a better look at someone in the garden. As soon as his feet hit the ground, Jimmy realizes that he has landed into much more trouble than he bargained for. Who and what is that sinister creature in the garden shed? Whether he wants to or not, he will be thrust into a baffling new world.

It is a world of cops, robbers, exquisite beauty, and terrible danger. This mystery is set in the bustling streets of modern day Amsterdam.

100pp
Colour illustrations
Paperback - A5 format

ISBN 9781907997006

Room for Improvement

Price: £8.99

Room for Improvement, English Language Edition. By David Hill

For many years David Hill wrote articles for the Eastern Daily Press and short stories for B.B.C. Radio. He has published three books about his experiences in the area of Antiques and Bygones.

After twenty years of living on the cliff at Pakefield in Suffolk, David and his wife moved to enjoy the less rigorous pleasures of rural Norfolk. They bought an old farmhouse where there was clearly, ‘Room for Improvement’.



150pp
Paperback - A5 format

ISBN 9780955126772

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Circles of Intimacy
Working at relationships

By Gabrielle Pagan

Price: £8.99

This book is written with the desire to enable couples to understand their unique relationship more consciously and to tap into their strengths, as well as recognising their weaknesses and defences. This helps couples to be able to survive change and life’s demands together. By engaging in this work, my hope is that couples can move to a closeness that is more understanding, perceptive, responsive and loving.

Over a period of thirty years counselling couple relationships, I have come to observe three main ways that couples relate to each other intimately. I call these systems the Three Circles of Intimacy. Each system works very well, often for lengthy periods, and is mostly used quite unconciously, fulfilling the needs of each partner as individuals, with all their strengths and weaknesses.

As life brings change with, for instance, maturity, children, change in circumstances, job changes, moving house, illness, bereavement, etc, so the circle system the couple are using becomes strained, sometimes disappoints and frustrates because they cannot adapt.

72pp
Paperback - A5 format

ISBN 9781907997075