House of Penitents

House of Penitents
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198458927X

Deja Vu........................focuses on someone in the entertainment business who is confronted by the ghosts of his past. Digging The Dirt...........sees one woman facing those who choose to be the self appointed moral vigilantes in the community. A Moment Of Grace....a fiftieth wedding anniversary that has sad undertones. Just A Passing Fancy....is a man’s self analysis of his own conscience when temptation is laid before him. House Of Penitents.....through an extraordinary experience, this is one man’s question of what lies beyond?

The Ballad of Jessie Gray

The Ballad of Jessie Gray
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524597384

The Ballad Of Jessie Gray.and other stories. Playing For Laughs - focuses on one person who, like the majority of those in the entertainment business fail to realise their dreams. The Last Page - attempts to show how the subsequent consequences of grief can affect a person. From Whence I Came - allows a man to sift through the memories of an experience created over 40 years before and to examine the impact on his life Dust On The Shelf - sees a womans struggle with impending spinsterhood and the demons she has been harbouring since childhood. A Minor Deception - asks the question, what is the affect on a hard working father, when he finally comes to terms with the ramifications of his single mindedness. The Corner Shop - seems to have been there forever, but what is the secret surrounding the latest proprietor. The Ballad Of Jessie Gray - anonymously jotted down on a scrap of paper in 1859 that starts a search with an astonishing outcome.

Betrayal of the Trinity Knot

Betrayal of the Trinity Knot
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1543490298

Set in 1938 and very much in the spirit of John Buchan and Arthur Conan Doyle, Betrayal of the Trinity Knot is a story that not only gives a unique insight into the threats of conspiracy and subterfuge by foreign agents in the final year before the outbreak of the Second World War, it is also a story of the naivety and blindness of a nation not willing to accept that the unthinkable could happen again. And intertwined within this trail of intrigue is the inner scrutiny by the unlikely heroof his doubts and uncertainties about the determined path he had been drawn into following. So what began as a relaxing break from his business in Bristol, England, merely to visit his friend, the local vicar of a peaceful parish on Exmoor, ended up for our hero being warned. In no uncertain terms that his story must never be told, that it is not in the national interest. Irrevocably linked within these events is the betrayal of the sacred meaning behind a mysterious, ancient Celtic symbol. But now, after more than seventy years, the previously undisclosed truth about this small piece of hidden history has been unearthed in a manuscript concealed away in an old wooden chest. Even so, it is more than certain that the official records will still be gathering dust in some secret government vault.

Gleameyes

Gleameyes
Author: Jeremiah Methuseleh
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2012-11-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1300643196

Is this the way the world ends? Morritz, Eroll and Alstair will say when it ends and not before!

Voices from the Wasteland and Other Stories

Voices from the Wasteland and Other Stories
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2022-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664117768

VOICES FROM THE WASTELAND and other stories. Showcase.....................................a weekend for entertainment agent trouble-shooter Ronnie Littlewood, that does not go according to his well thought through planning, in this third story about the ex-comedian. The Box.........................................is a Kodak box Brownie Camera that holds a dark, sinister secret for its owner. But it is his loyal friend who takes on the task to unravel what it all means. The Park Bench............................is a refuge, a place of solace and tranquillity for one woman to contemplate where her life has led her. It is also a place where she finally come to terms with her situation. Voices From The Wasteland......began as a Theatre In Education Project inspired by a cutting in a Manchester newspaper under the heading ‘body of an unidentified man found in alley’. From there it became a musical and then a fourteen track album. However, it has always been the wish of the author to write it as a story and now with many of the lyrics from the original musical interspersing with the narrative, his wish has come true. Cover illustration. ‘Winter Moon On Canal’ By R S Gardner. Courtesy of Clark Art Ltd

Sanctuary in the Clouds and Other Stories

Sanctuary in the Clouds and Other Stories
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2024-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1669891127

SANCTUARY IN THE CLOUDS and other stories. is a collection of three novella length stories, each dealing with a different time and setting. The Long Weekend.... is the fourth story in the series that follows Ronnie Littlewood, a retired clubland comedian, now employed by a prestigious Entertainment Agency as a troubleshooter/liaison between the various venues in the industrial area of Central England. The Seventh Key.... is not so much an ‘Who Done It’ more of a ‘We Know Who Done It....We Just Have To Prove It,’ And so, two concerned individuals take up the challenge to do just that. Sanctuary In The Clouds.... is the story of an impressionable young couple in the psychedelic 60’s, who have their somewhat idyllic world shattered by a series of strange events, which ultimately leaves them with a responsibility that changes their lives forever. Cover illustration... Wheat Field With Cypresses Vincent Van Gogh

Voices

Voices
Author: Harold Vinal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1963
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

The Templar’s Silver Seal

The Templar’s Silver Seal
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664115501

‘Will we once again find the light, now darkness has fallen’ The ‘Seal’ is a story set just weeks before the outbreak of WW2 but which has its roots in the historical Holy Crusades of some nine hundred years before. It is a story of one man’s chance encounters in a series of incidents that would not only have a profound effect on him personally but which could have led to serious consequences at a time when the security of this country was at its most vulnerable. However, within the story is also a journey, albeit over a short period of time of one man in search of his own conscience through the events in his life and their affect on the circumstances that he was to find himself in, a journey that was to have far reaching repercussions for him beyond the limits of this story.