Ian Ashley: 8 books

With her next door neighbour snooping around in her past and Social Services watching her every movement, the last thing Maureen Truscott needs in her life is a celebrity medium with an ego problem, especially one hell-bent on revenge or worse, to find herself the prime suspect in a murder case.Has the door between the Living and the Dead swung open and why is it up to Maureen to close it?

Once again Maureen and her friends are back and in this collection of festive short short-stories, as related by the author, and they are up to their usual tricks on the run up to the Big Day itself.Unwanted gifts, badly cooked Brussels sprouts, same-sex nativities and dialling 999 in case of fire are only a small part of celebrating the Christmas holiday in Biddermouth on Sea.

It's Christmas in Biddermouth on Sea and the inhabitants of this small English seaside town are getting ready for the BIG DAY only as usual the lives of Maureen, Beattie and their friends and neighbours never run as smooth as they would like. This collection of short stories follows them through...

When failed psychic Maureen Truscott isn't attending funerals with her neighbour Beattie Hathaway she lives a peaceful life styling her collection of diva wigs and singing along to her back catalogue of Dusty Springfield records. But that has all changes when an attack by a vengeful ghost threatens...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...

The greatest gift to us is caring. What would the world be like without someone to care for or to care with? Would love survive if we don't care? From the world of twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors comes a world that can be funny, heartwarming, strange, or sad. Or not what we expect....

The Manual of Museum Management presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the principles of museum organization, the ways in which people work together to accomplish museum objectives, and the ways in which museums, large and small, can function most effectively. This new edition offers updated...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...