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- No Need to Look for Love
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The Priest's Calling Card
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- Chapter One - The Irish Custom
- Chapter Two - Patrick Duffy's Family Background
- Chapter Three - Patrick Duffy Junior's Vocation to Priesthood
- Chapter Four - The first years of the priesthood
- Chapter Five - Father Patrick Duffy in Seattle
- Chapter Six - Father Patrick Duffy, Portlaw Priest
- Chapter Seven - Patrick Duffy Priest Power
- Chapter Eight - Patrick Duffy Groundless Gossip
- Chapter Nine - Monsignor Duffy of Portlaw
- Chapter Ten - The Portlaw Inheritance of Patrick Duffy
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Sean and Sarah
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- Chapter 1 - 'Return of the Prodigal Son'
- Chapter 2 - 'The early years of sweet innocence in Portlaw'
- Chapter 3 - 'The Separation'
- Chapter 4 - 'Separation and Betrayal'
- Chapter 5 - 'Portlaw to Manchester'
- Chapter 6 - 'Salford Choices'
- Chapter 7 - 'Life inside Prison'
- Chapter 8 - 'The Aylesbury Pilgrimage'
- Chapter 9 - Sean's interest in stone masonary'
- Chapter 10 - 'Sean's and Tony's Partnership'
- Chapter 11 - 'Return of the Prodigal Son'
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The Life of Liam Lafferty
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- Chapter One: ' Liam Lafferty is born'
- Chapter Two : 'The Baptism of Liam Lafferty'
- Chapter Three: 'The early years of Liam Lafferty'
- Chapter Four : Early Manhood
- Chapter Five : Ned's Secret Past
- Chapter Six : Courtship and Marriage
- Chapter Seven : Liam and Trish marry
- Chapter Eight : Farley meets Ned
- Chapter Nine : 'Ned comes clean to Farley'
- Chapter Ten : Tragedy hits the family
- Chapter Eleven : The future is brighter
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The life and times of Joe Walsh
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- Chapter One : 'The marriage of Margaret Mawd and Thomas Walsh’
- Chapter Two 'The birth of Joe Walsh'
- Chapter Three 'Marriage breakup and betrayal'
- Chapter Four: ' The Walsh family breakup'
- Chapter Five : ' Liverpool Lodgings'
- Chapter Six: ' Settled times are established and tested'
- Chapter Seven : 'Haworth is heaven is a place on earth'
- Chapter Eight: 'Coming out'
- Chapter Nine: Portlaw revenge
- Chapter Ten: ' The murder trial of Paddy Groggy'
- Chapter Eleven: 'New beginnings'
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The Woman Who Hated Christmas
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- Chapter One: 'The Christmas Enigma'
- Chapter Two: ' The Breakup of Beth's Family''
- Chapter Three: From Teenager to Adulthood.'
- Chapter Four: 'The Mills of West Yorkshire.'
- Chapter Five: 'Harrison Garner Showdown.'
- Chapter Six : 'The Christmas Dance'
- Chapter Seven : 'The ballot for Shop Steward.'
- Chapter Eight: ' Leaving the Mill'
- Chapter Ten: ' Beth buries her Ghosts'
- Chapter Eleven: Beth and Dermot start off married life in Galway.
- Chapter Twelve: The Twin Tragedy of Christmas, 1992.'
- Chapter Thirteen: 'The Christmas star returns'
- Chapter Fourteen: ' Beth's future in Portlaw'
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The Last Dance
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- Chapter One - ‘Nancy Swales becomes the Widow Swales’
- Chapter Two ‘The secret night life of Widow Swales’
- Chapter Three ‘Meeting Richard again’
- Chapter Four ‘Clancy’s Ballroom: March 1961’
- Chapter Five ‘The All Ireland Dancing Rounds’
- Chapter Six ‘James Mountford’
- Chapter Seven ‘The All Ireland Ballroom Latin American Dance Final.’
- Chapter Eight ‘The Final Arrives’
- Chapter Nine: 'Beth in Manchester.'
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‘The Postman Always Knocks Twice’
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- Author's Foreword
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- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
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- Chapter Twelve
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- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
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Douglas the Dragon
These are abridged versions of my four 'Douglas the Dragon' stories, which were recorded in the early 1990s for the original purpose of radio transmission.
The theme of the stories are Anger, Fear and Love and the stories identify the 'Anger Management Process', which I, William Forde founded in 1971 and freely gave to the world.
When Princes William and Harry were 9 and 7 years old respectively, their mother contacted me and requested that I send her a copy of my 'Douglas the Dragon' and 'Sleezy the Fox' stories that she wanted to read to her sons at their bedtime. It is a nice thought to know that the next King of England was read this book as a child by his mother, the late Princess Diana.
They are free to download and I hope you will enjoy them. The full stories are also available as e-books from www.smashwords.com or can be purchased in hard copy from www.amazon.com and www.lulu.com. All profits from booksales is given to charity. There is also a 'Douglas the Dragon Musical Play' that is a composite of these four stories that can be freely downloaded along with the five originally composed songs professionally recorded that accompany it. There is also a musical backing track to the songs that enable musical versions to be staged by children, young persons and adult actors. This musical play was funded through the National Lottery in recognition of my long established involvement with 'Anger Management' and was freely distributed in hardbook and video form to one thousand schools and libraries in Yorkshire.
The theme of the stories are Anger, Fear and Love and the stories identify the 'Anger Management Process', which I, William Forde founded in 1971 and freely gave to the world.
When Princes William and Harry were 9 and 7 years old respectively, their mother contacted me and requested that I send her a copy of my 'Douglas the Dragon' and 'Sleezy the Fox' stories that she wanted to read to her sons at their bedtime. It is a nice thought to know that the next King of England was read this book as a child by his mother, the late Princess Diana.
They are free to download and I hope you will enjoy them. The full stories are also available as e-books from www.smashwords.com or can be purchased in hard copy from www.amazon.com and www.lulu.com. All profits from booksales is given to charity. There is also a 'Douglas the Dragon Musical Play' that is a composite of these four stories that can be freely downloaded along with the five originally composed songs professionally recorded that accompany it. There is also a musical backing track to the songs that enable musical versions to be staged by children, young persons and adult actors. This musical play was funded through the National Lottery in recognition of my long established involvement with 'Anger Management' and was freely distributed in hardbook and video form to one thousand schools and libraries in Yorkshire.
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