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- Strictly for Adults Novels >
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Tales from Portlaw
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- No Need to Look for Love
- 'The Love Quartet' >
-
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
- Bigger and Better >
- The Oldest Woman in the World >
-
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'
- The Alternative Christmas Party >
-
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'
-
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'
-
The Last Dance
>
- 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.'
- 'Two Sisters' >
- Fourteen Days >
-
‘The Postman Always Knocks Twice’
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- Author's Foreword
- Contents
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Chapter Twenty-Two
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Celebrity Contacts
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Thoughts and Musings
- Bereavement >
- Nature >
-
Bill's Personal Development
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- What I'd like to be remembered for
- Second Chances
- Roots
- Holidays of Old
- Memorable Moments of Mine
- Cleckheaton Consecration
- Canadian Loves
- Mum's Wisdom
- 'Early life at my Grandparents'
- Family Holidays
- 'Mother /Child Bond'
- Childhood Pain
- The Death of Lady
- 'Soldiering On'
- 'Romantic Holidays'
- 'On the roof'
- Always wear clean shoes
- 'Family Tree'
- The importance of poise
- 'Growing up with grandparents'
- Love & Romance >
- Christian Thoughts, Acts and Words >
- My Wedding
- My Funeral
- Audio Downloads
- My Singing Videos
- Bill's Blog
- Contact Me
'Books I have published'
For over 50 years, I have used my life experiences to teach me how to be happy with the person I am and at peace with the world in which I live. Towards this end I must claim success. As I reflect back upon my life, I can now see the common threads throughout which have shaped my beliefs, influenced my behaviour and moved my soul. I now know that all I have done over the past half century has been ‘the same thing done in different ways and represented in different packages.’
My life is reflected in five distinct stages of learning that has involved me: working with myself, working with trade unionists, working with offenders, working with children and writing short stories for my adult readership under the umbrella title of 'Tales from Portlaw.' Each of these stages have involved the examination, expression and control of those feelings and emotions that humans find so difficult to cope with: such as Fear, Anger, Jealousy, Bereavement, Separation, Loss or the inability to express Love etc.
When I started working with children around 1990, I chose the medium of storytelling to convey my own particular knowledge in these areas of human behaviour. I predominantly chose to use animals as the chief characters in most of my children’s books because ‘children find animals easier to identify with.’
Subsequently, most of my books for children will have animal heroes and heroines and the story themes will invariably address those themes which produce problem situations and behaviours, along with those feelings and emotions that children find very difficult to healthily express. As the founder of the process of ‘Anger Management’ in 1971, I have been able to employ this knowledge through all my books. From all of the books I have ever had published for children, my stories of, 'Sleezy the Fox' and 'Douglas the Dragon' encapsulate the whole of my purpose and learning upon this earth and are my most popular children's stories and the best-selling publications over the past twenty five years.
All of the stories highlighted below with the book cover illustrations, are now available as E-books from www'smashwords.com or if you prefer to read in hard copy, they are avialable from www.amazon.com and www.lulu.com in that format. The prices of all books sold have the smallest of profits, with all the profits going to charitable causes in perpetuity. Since I started writing and publishing books in 1990, I have never taken a penny profit from my writings and between 1990 and 2005 all two hundred thousand pounds profits (£200,000) from the sales of my books have gone to various charities and charitable causes. A number of my books have also been recorded and they are available to freely download in the Audio Stories section of this website. Some of these audio stories have been recorded by famous people. Also; forty years ago, I recorded a special relaxation tape to assist people who could not sleep beneficially. That tape is freely available to download. It is entitled, 'Relax with Bill' and since it was first produced, many thousands of copies have been given away. It was never made to be sold and never will be. Please click here for more information.
My life is reflected in five distinct stages of learning that has involved me: working with myself, working with trade unionists, working with offenders, working with children and writing short stories for my adult readership under the umbrella title of 'Tales from Portlaw.' Each of these stages have involved the examination, expression and control of those feelings and emotions that humans find so difficult to cope with: such as Fear, Anger, Jealousy, Bereavement, Separation, Loss or the inability to express Love etc.
When I started working with children around 1990, I chose the medium of storytelling to convey my own particular knowledge in these areas of human behaviour. I predominantly chose to use animals as the chief characters in most of my children’s books because ‘children find animals easier to identify with.’
Subsequently, most of my books for children will have animal heroes and heroines and the story themes will invariably address those themes which produce problem situations and behaviours, along with those feelings and emotions that children find very difficult to healthily express. As the founder of the process of ‘Anger Management’ in 1971, I have been able to employ this knowledge through all my books. From all of the books I have ever had published for children, my stories of, 'Sleezy the Fox' and 'Douglas the Dragon' encapsulate the whole of my purpose and learning upon this earth and are my most popular children's stories and the best-selling publications over the past twenty five years.
All of the stories highlighted below with the book cover illustrations, are now available as E-books from www'smashwords.com or if you prefer to read in hard copy, they are avialable from www.amazon.com and www.lulu.com in that format. The prices of all books sold have the smallest of profits, with all the profits going to charitable causes in perpetuity. Since I started writing and publishing books in 1990, I have never taken a penny profit from my writings and between 1990 and 2005 all two hundred thousand pounds profits (£200,000) from the sales of my books have gone to various charities and charitable causes. A number of my books have also been recorded and they are available to freely download in the Audio Stories section of this website. Some of these audio stories have been recorded by famous people. Also; forty years ago, I recorded a special relaxation tape to assist people who could not sleep beneficially. That tape is freely available to download. It is entitled, 'Relax with Bill' and since it was first produced, many thousands of copies have been given away. It was never made to be sold and never will be. Please click here for more information.
Here's a direct link to Smashwords where you can download all my books in e-book format. All book profits from sales go to charity. If you prefer any of these books in hard copy, they are available from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, CreateSpace and Lulu with all book sale profits going to charitable causes in perpetuity.
Click here for the list of my books with their themes and reading age.
Click here for the list of my books with their themes and reading age.