The Fires of Lilliput

The Fires of Lilliput

Michael Martin

Michael Martin

A Jewish Holocaust survivor is the only living witness to the life of a man the Vatican is investigating for sainthood. This is her story. _____________________________ TWO REMARKABLE SOULS. ONE UNIMAGINABLE JOURNEY. The Vatican wants to declare Polish farmer and stigmatic Jakub Chelzak a Catholic saint. His miraculous healings and Crucifixion wounds brought true believers—and die-hard skeptics—from across Europe during its darkest hour. But before the Pope can canonize Jakub, the Church must hear from the most important eyewitness of all: Shosha Mordechai. Then a young Jewish woman, Shosha and her family disappeared after she and Jakub resisted the Nazis and helped each other survive. Only the second Catholic saint to emerge from the Holocaust, Jakub's canonization is critically important to Church officials, whose predecessors turned a blind eye to the Jewish people during that time of their greatest need. The...
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And Then They Were Dead

And Then They Were Dead

Michael Martin

Michael Martin

A child killer stalks the north west of England. He hides in plain sight whilst all around him are in a state of panic. Lives are ruined and families are torn apart. Nobody is above suspicion. The killer injects himself into the investigation and befriends the family members of the loved ones he has savagely murdered. DCI Small and his team of crack detectives are on the case. Mistakes are made and more innocent lives are lost. As this gripping thriller closes to its gruesome end, will anyone survive? **
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A Year Near Proxima Centauri

A Year Near Proxima Centauri

Michael Martin

Michael Martin

When a creature and his wife decide to up worlds and go and live permanently on their perfect holiday planet, they little realise what a feast of food, fun, and fantasy awaits them.Provender was a dream of a planet, with a fascinating population (comprising several types of aliens, all quite delicious to eat) and a lovely landscape. With their own halmatrope grove (not always necessary to uncork your halmatrope three hours before a meal - just let it hyperventilate for five minutes, then wring its neck and squeeze it into your glass), their own lagoon, and their charming house made of Couth skins, life seemed idvllic.From their first gargantuan evening meal which took until noon the following day to complete, to the removal of the delicious Grebble spawn that was clogging their bathing lagoon, it was obvious that life on Provender was one long epicurean feast. Indeed, it had been said of the planet that if you survived the first year without being eaten, you would probably become a permanent fixture...
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