Mind Bending Puzzles and Fascinating Facts by Paul Williams

For all Ages!!How many legs does a harvestman have? When does part of a forward-rolling wheel travel backwards? When is something neither true nor false?

Paul Williams’ personal collection of interesting facts, puzzles and conundrums will fascinate all ages. It is divided into five sections according to the reader’s likely ease or familiarity with the concepts and processes involved – from Easy through Moderate and Tricky to Difficult and Fiendish. Some brainteasers involve maths, while some relate to language; others are simply curiosities. Children will enjoy the Easy section, while the Fiendish section presents a challenge to the reader’s knowledge of mathematics and philosophy.

Along the Thames and Book Guild Publishing have teamed together for your chance to win one of three copies of “Mind Bending Puzzles and fascinating facts” by Paul Williams

For your chance to win one of these copies, please send an email to Competition@AlongTheThames.co.uk by the closing date. The competition closes on 16th September and the winners will be announced on this web-site as well as being published in the October/November issue

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Maelstrom by Chris Todhunter – A Fast-paced thriller that moves slickly backwards and forwards through time

Jack Ross is in the rough end of Glasgow late one rainy Monday night having his head kicked in. As the blows keep coming, he regrets everything that happened six months ago in Hong Kong, where a terrible error of judgement seemed to mark the start of all his problems.

Forced to reassess his life, Jack persuades his wife and family to support him in pursuit of his dream – which involves the West Highlands of Scotland, a fast boat, and a lot of hope for the future. After a promising-looking start, things slowly unravel for Jack. His charter clients are not what they appear to be, his daughter makes a ground-shattering announcement one night over dinner before apparently disappearing from the face of the earth, and the money’s in danger of running out. Soon Jack and his son Tom are fighting for their lives, and the police are staking out a Glasgow flat with an armed response team. The maelstrom is taking them all down.

Cry of the Machi by Alan S. Blood – A Suffolk Murder Mystery

Murder most foul in the Morris Dancing community of Suffolk!

Like all English villages, the quiet and charming Thorpe Amberley in the heart of the Suffolk countryside has its secrets, its mysteries and its legends. It also has its traditions, such as the Tamberley Morris Men, a dysfunctional band of ‘blow-ins’, mainly professionals, who rehearse every Thursday and drink in the local pub.

Nothing much has served to disturb the tranquillity of Thorpe Amberley for centuries. Until now. A stunningly beautiful American woman comes to the village to teach at a nearby school, and her arrival coincides with the resurrection of deadly seeds of jealousy, evil and murder.

When the village is rocked by a series of gruesome and apparently ritualistic killings, it soon becomes clear that the local police are up against dark forces which they are wholly unequipped to deal with. Unlikely help comes from the shamanistic connection with a Patagonian ‘Machi’ through the Morris Men’s ‘Squire’ and the unexpected assistance of an ex-NYPD policeman. A hunt for not one, but two serial killers, is on, and Thorpe Amberley will never be the same again.