A H Stockwell imprint: 77 books

This exceptional collection of poetry combines humour and tragedy, skilfully weaving a pattern of life, from the Greek epic and the battlefields of the Second World War, to a portrayal of social graces and emotional turmoil, combining an infectious sense of fun with the most stirring passions, as...

A fantastical children's story based around the Laugherty family and the adventures they have when visiting the Musty Old Magical Curiosity Shop, which sells anything that anybody wants. "The shopkeeper looked very strange to Miles. He was wearing a pointed purple hat decorated with stars that twinkled...

The thoughts of Harold Smith, team priest/curate of the parish of Crispin Parva, are always stimulated by medieval carvings. In particular, a carving he has seen of a holy man being tempted by a harlot returns again and again to his mind. As he journeys into Scotland after a visit to a cathedral in the...

Everybody is excited. It is the day of Monkhamstead Village Fair and no one wants to miss a thing. Tommy Tramp wants to win a coconut and Daddy wants to show his skill at throwing the welly. Grandpa is hoping to make a stir in the knobbliest-knees competition and Scamp, the farm dog, will have a lot...

This is the second book of poems by Iris Therese Smith Reid inspired by the experience of caring for a dementia sufferer and the high and low points of their home life. Her husband was diagnosed with dementia more than seven years ago, and since then Iris has chronicled the impact his illness has had...

At first Snowflakes is just like any other snowman made on a snowy afternoon. He can only stand, cold and stiff and silent in his borrowed hat, scarf and coat. But then Santa Claus arrives on his sleigh and shows Alanna the way to bring him to life with a wave of a wand. Together Alanna and Snowflakes...

Omalvus is a snail who loves to draw with his rainbow-coloured slime trail. He is very proud of his beautiful, brightly coloured pictures. His peaceful life is one day disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious brown slime that is ruining his colourful drawings. Each day he creates a new drawing and...

Spring Down on the Farm is the second in this series of children's books set on a small farm in Wales and in the nearby village of Rosehill. Fluffy the rabbit has settled in happily with Tiddles the cat, but he misses his family and longs to hear news of his missing parents and brothers. Meanwhile the...

A second children's story about the little dog called Royal Piper of the Glen. In this adventure Piper buys a car and travels through the wonderful hills of Wales meeting new friends, including Mr and Mrs Swan, Mr Warthog, Mr Giraffe and Mr Horse.

The UK threat of mainland attack, as we stand today, remains at 'substantial'. This means that a terrorist attack remains a strong possibility and could occur without warning. Figures revealed that the number of terror arrests had risen by sixty per cent in the year to September 2012. Hellfire Landing...

This is the story of an ordinary person who had a journey within her relationship with Jesus. It was a journey full of pain, joy, fear and peace, during which she was by turns labelled, understood, teased, loved, crushed, hugged and encouraged. Time moved on, and with the reassurance of Jesus and friends...

Hiding in the undergrowth at dusk just before the school holidays begin, Joe and Alex were waiting expectantly for the badgers to emerge from their sett. Instead the two brothers see a sinister fisherman making his way stealthily up the cliff path towards the disused aerodrome. They decide to follow,...

The sooty, bellowing, clattering steam trains of another era gave every journey an atmosphere of excitement and expectancy. The whole course of a traveller's life might depend on whether he caught the nine fifty or the ten ten; his fate might be decided by his choice of compartments. In each of these...

Beth had decided that today she would walk further up the lane and see what there was to see. As she walked she noticed the beautiful wild flowers and marvelled at the trees just starting to bud. Suddenly she came across a house set back from the lane. Beth picked her way carefully up the rough track,...