Mardibooks: 11 books

The Second World War – Joe and Louis Monopoli, sons of Italian immigrants, are embedded with the US Army fighting a desperate rearguard action as panzers surge through Belgium in a final German offensive. They survive and, after a hazardous sea voyage, are fêted as heroes back in New York....

I started writing this poem in 2004 and finished it in 2007. It’s taken 8 years to reach its fruition. It is a journey through the London underground over to Portugal and back. I’m exploring memory and everyday life. It has taken time for me to let go and release it to the world. It’s a poem...

Poetry is for me about observation and story-telling.  The poems in this collection have been culled from a daily experiment in writing covering the last year. A variety of topics see the seasons unfold against a backdrop of local and world events. Tales of scandal, debacle, Jubilee,...

Christa Pearce's book, Insight Out, is the story of her work as a spiritual healer in West London and details the startling encounters with people whose lives had taken them to the brink of desperation, until they made contact with her. The subject matter ranges from regression to out of body experiences,...

A slim edition of poems reflecting the spiritual catharsis of today accompanied by a selection of short stories The collection is based on the Seven States of Modern Man – a modification of Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages” from “As You Like It”. For each age, the poems and...

Based on a true story, this is the disturbing tale of a young boy’s struggle, growing up with a dysfunctional family on a south London council estate where violence, alcohol, drugs and a complete disregard for a young child’s feelings and interests were commonplace. It is the tale of a nightmare...

Matt, an undergraduate in 1950s Liverpool, moonlights in Jazz bands for beer money and to meet girls. He becomes intimately involved with Yvette, sexy young city girl, and Harry, wayward daughter of landed gentry stock. The girls, Matt and their friends enter tangled relationships. Yvette or Harry? Eventually Matt must decide or the girls will decide for him.

What do you do when you discover your child has been mis-diagnosed for years and now has a life threatening condition? Every mother’s worst nightmare is sympathetically treated in this heart-wrenching tale from Benjy’s diagnosis and subsequent treatment. We follow his family on this emotional...

Abby leaves her family traditions behind when she gets married; her brother has gone and she has lost her closest friend. When the marriage ends, Abby runs away and a local girl disappears. Abby finds the past is not what it seems and she will now have to come to terms with a new reality to stop...

Nigel P.’s The Loners is a brutally honest (and honestly brutal) autobiographical account of being in a band and having to perform in the Medway Towns in Kent during the arse-end of the 1970s. Sometimes funny; sometimes sad; sometimes neither, The Loners is Nigel P.’s first novel, although he was helped a little bit by his English teacher, Dr Arbuthnot.

A collection of short stories and tall tales culled from around the world. The focus of this compliation is unexpected outcomes from otherwise mundane and ordinary circumstances. Dark humour is derived from Kafkaesque situations and cultural juxtapositions.