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Working with Compass Children's Charity in Kettering, Northants, (registered charity number-1073903) and P4TH in Nottingham (www.punk4thehomeless.com) you can help save not only the lives of homeless kids all over the world but in particular help feed, clothe and educate 73 girls in an orphanage in Sierra Leone whose parents were all victims of the Ebola virus of 5 years ago. These girls, without the care and help of schoolteacher Abdul Sessay and his family, would be sentenced to an ignominious end in a battle-scarred country. 100% of royalties from any of these following ten titles goes directly to those charities.
They will tell you this book has to be categorized under memoir and they may be right but for me it's a working journal that straddles the end of the 20th century and shows how to create something... more>
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All this is mine (formerly A Teesside Voice) is set in London in 1994 and is a strident commentary on the perils of unbridled Thatcherism. Money is designed to buy things but to Rob Barlow, a... more>
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The Summer of '89 charts a slice of the life of itinerant northerner John following his return to the UK after a self-imposed exile working on an Israel farm after quitting London, his home for.. more>
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In 2006, when I arrived in France from Britain, determined to stay, it really was a different geopolitical landscape - not that it made much difference to me – I was too busy trying to make a living to give much of a damn about the global picture... more>
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This is a book for those who smoke and want to stop and for those who’ve stopped but need reassurance. I’m the latter. I started and stopped four times and this final time was the last... more>
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Fragments is a collection of thirteen short stories that somehow miraculously survived the long journey I took them on, some from as far back as 1989, two from 1997 and the others from 1999. more>
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In June 2014 one of my closest friends died of acute liver failure brought on by alcoholism and cocaine abuse. He was 52. He and I were raised in a world where knowledge of certain drugs, legal and illegal, was very limited. more>
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This is a collection of my 96 poems composed between 1982 to 2020. At the start I was living at home with my parents and my main influences were classical poetry and Nature but as I moved on the subjects became more political and radical to reflect a growing self-awareness. . . more>
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A wonderful and detailed diary of what it was like to be young and innocent in a small northern English town in the early 1980's and in a world which was just a little less complicated than today. Wallow in lost innocence and nostalgia and glimpse a world that could be again, if only . . . . Also includes This is where we live, first published Jan 1985 and The Bond Letters - exchanges from 1983 to 1985 with British playwright legend Edward Bond. more>
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Being the uneventful and rather plain story of the childhood and youth of one Jethro Anson Nowsty, an ordinary boy from an ordinary working class family in an ordinary town in north east England, from his first tentative steps into the adult world in the summer of 1979 ... more>
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Other Books by Antony J Stowers
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The 200th anniversary of the S&D railway is happening in 2025 so the build-up has begun. £1 of every copy sold of these three titles, goes to the Friends of the S&D FB Group to help them preserve the heritage.
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Set in Regency England 1810-1825, No. 1 draws on the real and the imagined from the North East of England present at the birth of the railways, starting on 18th September 1810 and finishing there... more & reviews>
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A fantastic time-travelling adventure story that takes the reader back to the opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway on 27th September 1825 as seen through the eyes of Lewis Noble... more>
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The ghost of French painter Paul Gauguin finds temporary sanctuary in the imagination of obscure British writer Antony J Stowers... more>
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