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Six passengers board a tiny ferry on a crossing that takes only three minutes. One of them is brutally murdered on board the vessel but neither the pilot nor any of the other five passengers admit to witnessing the crime. Police officers in… more

Written by a bestselling author, this pragmatic volume reveals the bite size strategies that helped create 47 titles in both fiction and non-fiction; strategies that are as timeless as they are tried and tested by a succession of published … more

In my time (and in an era when it was unfashionable to do so) I frequently promoted women over men into positions of authority and I did so for reasons close to the heart of the small businessman: practicality, commitment, loyalty. For exam… more

Education Sergeants Hare and Withinshawe decide to launch Ginger and Sticky as a double act in a camp theatre show. Tongue in cheek, Ginger suggests Brycreem & Brasso as a stage name and is dismayed when the sergeants enthusiastically adopt… more

National Help The Aged Week is launched at RAF Padgate by the camp padre and the only volunteers to come forward are Ginger and Sticky who view it as a good skive. Their efforts to bring succour to the elderly in the village meet with no su… more

An exchange visit between the Chiltern and Fylde repertory players results in the sudden death of an actor onstage as the cast take a curtain call at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool. The police assume natural causes but Miss Tayke thinks other… more

There are ten deadly mistakes you can make in minding your own business.If not detected and rectified, they spread like a cancer. This book starts off by identifying these insidious traps and how you can avoid their intrusion into your affa… more

The main topic of conversation in the officers mess for some weeks had been the forthcoming banquet in honour of the ministerial visit of Sir Humphrey Alcock-Flakbottom, Secretary of State for Defence; responsibility for the co-ordination o… more

New arrival in Hut 29 Len Armitage so incenses his fellow boarders with indiscriminate bragging that they band together and refuse to talk to him. Ginger steps in to alleviate the problem and he too is sent to Coventry.

Featuring the comedic adventures of short and swarthy Ginger Harrison and his tall lanky mate Sticky Albright over a two-year sojourn in defence of king and country; the skives and the scams, the conflicts with irascible Sergeant ‘Bandy’ Jo… more

Could you really paint your first watercolor this coming weekend?Yes, you could, and my unique digital instruction kit will show you how! Youwill rapidly discover that watercolor painting is not only enjoyable but highlyaddictive. When you?… more

The latrine orderlies are lumbered with a fitness fanatic as their new officer. Flight Lieutenant Alisdair McFarquhar soon wears them out with physical jerks at five thirty in the morning followed by a two mile run before breakfast. They pl… more

Sticky and Scrounger are charged by a sadistic guardroom Flight Sergeant with failing to walk on the side of the road facing but opposite to oncoming camp traffic. Ginger exposes their oppressor as a night time stalker whose devious activit… more

The vicar of St Alden’s Church, and chaplain to the Grand Theatre Clackley, is brutally murdered while at prayer. The police arrest a church committee member and charge him with the crime but a meeting with the vicar’s widow leads Miss Tayk… more

A group of officers plan a big night out for a departing colleague while a mob from the lower orders do likewise at a local club. Both sets of revellers become embroiled in a street fight leading to court appearances; civil and military.

On a wet and windy night in January 1928, Clara Bow and Gary Cooper make a belated entrance at the Brown Derby on Wiltshire Boulevard. The movie revolution is underway and history is in the making. The unexpected box office triumph of ‘The … more

At the outset of the Korean War the latrine cleansing unit is dispatched enmass to the rifle range to get in some much needed practice. Ginger excels and is awarded a marksman’s badge while the hapless Sticky gets his thumb caught in a maga… more

Miss Tayke is subjected to the shock of a lifetime when two plainclothes police officers arrive on her doorstep and arrest her on suspicion of committing wilful murder. Their only evidence is a diamond wristwatch inscribed with her name and… more

Clive Morgan, managing director of self-styled avant garde advertising agency, Morgan St Leger Ramirez, receives a telephone call late one Saturday evening inviting his agency to pitch for a twenty five million pound account. He summonses k… more

Ginger and Sticky hold their demob party the local pub and travel to Gloucester next morning to attend their last pay parade and collect their discharge certificates but as ever, nothing runs smoothly for the troublesome twosome…