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Britannia: Part I: The Wall by Richard Denham and M J Trow from Thistle Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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ROMAN BRITAIN STOOD ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS
The story opens in 367 AD. Four soldiers - Justinus, Paternus, Leocadius and Vitalis - are out hunting for food supplies at an outpost of Hadrian's Wall, when the Wall comes under attack.
The four find their fort destroyed, their comrades killed, and Paternus is unable to find his wife and son. As they run south to Eboracum, they realize that this is no ordinary border raid. Ranged against the Romans at the edge of the world are four different peoples, and they have banded together under a mysterious leader who wears a silver mask and uses the name Valentinus - man of Valentia, the turbulent area north of the Wall.
Faced with questions they are hard-pressed to answer, Leocadius blurts out a story that makes the men Heroes of the Wall. Their lives change not only when Valentinus begins his lethal sweep across Britannia but as soon as Leo's lie is out in the world, growing and changing as it goes.
WILL THE WALL BE REBUILT AND THE POWER OF ROME RE-ESTABLISHED?
AND WILL OUR FOUR HEROES REACH THE END OF THEIR JOURNEY?
367 AD is one of the critical dates in British history, but the year means little to most people now, and it is only rarely mentioned in historical books. Britannia: Part I - The Wall introduces the reader to this tumultuous age, as we share the adventure, confusion and bewilderment of our heroes - four common soldiers stationed at Hadrian's Wall. We find them caught up in the madness of a chain of events which will eventually lead to the fall of Roman Britain, and the descent into the Dark Ages.
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Red Alert by Margaret Thomson Davis from Black & White Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Red Alert is the story of the Price family and is set in a Glasgow fire station and in the world-famous Glasgow School of Art.
Kirsty Price is a nice, ordinary girl and works in the fire station serving food and drink to the firefighters. She’s happy in her work and her life except for the fact that she’s also the daughter of Simon Price, an artist and tutor at the Glasgow School of Art. He is a notorious bully, both to his students and his family, including Kirsty and her brother Johnny who is plagued with ill-health. When Johnny starts hanging around with a dubious couple who work as croupiers in the local casino he accepts a job from them looking after their flat and Kirsty and her firefighter boyfriend, Greg McFarlane, start to worry about him. Then Greg phones to say that he has been attending a fatal road traffic accident and the car involved is Johnny’s. The family is devastated but soon after Johnny’s funeral, there’s a knock at the door and Kirsty staggers back in shock when she sees who’s standing in the shadows outside. But it’s just the start of a chain of events that will tear the Price family apart.
Red Alert is the compelling story of a Glasgow family which, to the outside world, looks like any other normal family but is riven with tensions and problems which escalate into a nightmare for Kirsty, Greg and her family.
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Teatime Tales From Dundee: New journeys down memory lane by Maureen Reynolds from Black & White Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Maureen Reynolds was born and brought up in Dundee, a city with no shortage of intriguing characters, extraordinary events and fascinating memories. In this brand new collection of tales, Maureen looks back to a time of youth and innocence and brings it all vividly back to life once again. There are tales of street games played during the long, hot summer holidays, recollections of the noise and grime of the jute mills, great Dundee characters like James ‘Napper’ Thomson and his Lochee emporium, spookie nichts in Wallace’s restaurant, piggyback flying, ghost stories, tattie gathering, stories from the trams and family tales from a simpler time. Teatime Tales from Dundee is a warm and nostalgic new collection of stories about growing up and living in Dundee.
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