BOOKS

First Book by Local Arthur Cheyenne Kai

Cheyenne lives in the Pondtail area of Fleet and started writing All The Lost Souls when she was just thirteen years of age, she is now 22. The text has been revised, changed, re-edited and reconstructed many times as Cheyenne went through the learning curve of taking her GCSE’s, “A” levels” and then her Degree.

This long period, finally leading to this completed book, has resulted in a fascinating mix of her incredible imagination and colourful English as a young teenager, and her more mature writing later as a student taking her degree. Put the two together and you have this wonderfully creative, and unique novel.

This book is perfect for the young adult/teenager but will be enjoyed by anyone with a love for imaginative and colourful writing.

Cheyenne is now working on the sequel "All The Lost Souls - Redemption"

Synopsis: Kaelem is just like every other teenager struggling to come to terms with his life and homework. Then there is a knock on the door that changes his whole future.
He gradually discovers his true identity and is drawn into a destiny he doesn’t want. It leads to a struggle to discover the truth about his role in what he is convinced is the redemption of the human race, leading to conflict within his family and between three very differing worlds. Kaelem was not only unknowingly born into a war, he also finds out that he is the son of parents on opposite sides: two worlds, one with the power over ice, one of fire. The two powers fused in Kaelem, causing him to be unique in his ability.

This ultimately leads to a horrific path that will leave in its wake devastation, desolation and death.

To find out more go to www.cheyennekai.com 

Note: Initial orders for this book from buyers living in the GU51 and GU52 areas of Fleet and Crookham will have their copy signed and delivered FREE OF CHARGE - will make an ideal Christmas gift. Phone 01252 629420 for more details.
NEW BOOKLET: FLEET POND SOCIETY - THE FIRST 30 YEARS by Society President Peter Martin.

Available from:

Peter Martin 17 Longmead,
Fleet, Hampshire.
GU52 7TX
(Tel: 01252 684828)

at £3 per copy (add £1 if you want it posted).

In order to avoid using Society funds, which are raised to help protect and enhance Fleet Pond Nature Reserve, the printing costs were raised by sponsorship and special thanks are due to the following:

  • Waitrose Fleet Branch
  • The Rotary Club of Fleet
  • The Rotary Club of Hart
  • Hart District Council
  • Saunders, Wood & Co - Accountants (www.saunders-wood.co.uk)
  • W. C. Baker & Son (Hardware suppliers in Fleet for 100 years)
  • TM Roofing & Building Contractors (Tel: 01252 851719)
  • Roy Hewett (Member of Fleet Pond Society)

The booklet begins with a Foreword by the Society’s Patron, Chris Packham.

The booklet is a “must have” for all who have supported the efforts of the Society over many years and would like a reminder of its achievements. For newer Members, it will help to paint a picture of what our volunteers have done. It deals with the reasons for forming the Society, what happened in the early years, how the footpaths were constructed, the installation of the bridges and landing stage, pollution incidents, wildlife rescues, voluntary wardening, fire fighting, fund raising, the Twinning and the conservation working parties. It is not only a historical record of what the Society has accomplished; it is a tribute to all that the volunteers have done to make sure that the flora and fauna within the Reserve is protected, whilst still providing an area for quiet enjoyment for local residents.

All monies received from sales will go into the Society’s funds for the protection and enhancement of Fleet Pond Nature Reserve.
Crookham author spotlights the 1960s pop legends.
 
THERE was a time when stars like Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens, The Walker Brothers and Engelbert Humperdinck strutted their stuff before fans in Aldershot.
In fact, that diverse collection of pop talent shared the very same stage at the ABC cinema in High Street, Aldershot, on the very same night in April 1967 when they were in the middle of a month-long UK tour.
The cinema staged seven shows between 1965 and the end of 1967 featuring the top names on both sides of the Atlantic and those concerts provide the central spine of the book Legends On Tour - The Pop Package Tours Of The 1960s penned by Martin Creasy, who has lived in Church Crookham since 1988.
The book follows those seven tours across the country with anecdotes from 21 pop stars and dozens of local fans who attended the shows. The stories are illustrated by dozens of previously unpublished photographs from the files of the Aldershot News of stars like Hendrix, Roy Orbison and The Small Faces, both on stage and relaxing in their dressing room at the cinema.
Legends On Tour is published by Tempus Publications of Stroud www.tempus-publishing.com  and is also available from  www.amazon.co.uk 
More information is available on Martin’s website at www.martincreasy.co.uk.
Martin is pictured at a signing session at Maher the Bookseller at the hart centre in Fleet. Picture taken by David Searchfield
The following books are available from amazon.co.uk. If you wish to purchase them simply click on the appropriate link and you will be taken to the exact page 

Back to '66

Local Author Bob Cox's book "Back to '66. 

Fleet Street Map
Family Walks Around Fleet, Crookham, and Crondall (Family Walks Series)

Written by Bob Rose.

Ashes Book from Local Journalist Rob Wightman

Rob Wightman’s exciting new cricket book has been published to coincide with the Ashes. Match of My Life - The Ashes relives 12 classic matches from past series through the eyes of the men on the pitch.

 

The book features exclusive contributions from 12 Ashes heroes: 2005 Ashes winner Ashley Giles, Geoff Boycott, David Gower, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer, Merv Hughes, Bob Willis, Ray Illingworth, John Emburey, Mark Taylor, Jeff Thomson and Neil Harvey.

 

Match of My Life - The Ashes, edited by Rob Wightman and Sam Pilger, (Know the Score Books, £16.99), is available from www.amazon.co.uk and major bookshops, including Maher and WH Smith in Fleet. 

 

 

                                                          Blog: http://ashes200607.blogspot.com/

                                                          Website: www.RobWightman.co.uk

 

About Rob Wightman

 

Rob Wightman has lived in Church Crookham, Fleet, since 2002. His first book, a biography of footballer Eric Cantona, was published by Virgin Books in the same year.

 

Rob was brought up in the village of Long Sutton, Hampshire, and returned to the county in the late 1990s after spells living in Exeter, New Zealand, Spain and Hertfordshire.

 

His latest book, Match of My Life - The Ashes, is the product of a summer of toil.

Local Author Malcolm Noble

Author Malcolm Noble spent his teenage years in Crookham Village (Veronica Drive -- then a new house) and kept close ties with the place until his parents moved away in the 1980's.  He spent his wedding night in the Oatsheaf

 

Malcolms first novel "Liking Good Jazz" has been taken by a number of libraries in the area -- Fleet, Aldershot, Yately and Farnborough -- suggesting something of a local readership.  

fleethants.com thought that his readers would find it useful to keep in touch with the series of books -- 

 

 

Timberdick is back in Malcolm's second novel "Piggy Tuckers Poison"  She's living in a church vestry and working nights in the Curiosity Shop, when a stranger is murdered at the top of the stairs. Timberdick's girls are the likely suspects.


Setting out to find the real killer, she is soon on the run herself from the Police and the pavements of Goodladies Road offer no hiding place. It's 1965 and the world has gone crazy... her favourite policeman is moonlighting as a DJ on a pirate radio ship, and Bugger McKinley's ghost is loose on the town. Timbers is arrested, but she has no time to waste in a police cell -- she has a murder to solve... and a bun in the oven.

 

 

 

 

In Malcolm's book "The Case of the Dirty Verger" the story has some extra Hampshire ingredients -- a night ride down the old Meon Valley branch line and the ghost of Sweet Fanny Adams from Alton!

1947 brings no peace to Goodladies Road. Men without a war and girls without homes is a cocktail for murder...

When Ned Machray, an out of work policeman, is dispatched to help an old soldier flee the country, he finds that the old tavern has been bombed, Ma Shipley is working her girls from a smutty tearoom, and the manor is controlled by an embittered Chief Inspector who works from the back of a taxi office. 


A body is found beneath the railway arches... the Dirty Verger holds the key to the mystery, but who would deal with a man like that?

Well, Timberdick might. A teenage runaway, who can't escape the lies and treachery of her childhood. "Every grown up comes with a cakeload of cruelty," she says, and the Case of the Dirty Verger is no different.

This latest Timberdick Mystery explores our protagonist's first nights on the Goodladies Road, and offers clues to many of the characters who have already appeared in her later murder cases.

Another Timberdick novel The Parish of Frayed Ends

 

 

 

 


Malcolms Latest Book - It's 1937. Ned Machray has been a policeman for only a few weeks when he finds his first murder. But five nosey housewives think he is too much of a tenderfoot to solve the crime on his own. These women are sure that one of them is guilty,A" Ned explains to his superior. But they can't agree which one.A" His investigation takes him into the city's slums, illegal dogfights and a back street clinic for particular diseases. He gets to the bottom of gossip and cracks a murder that has baffled Scotland Yard, Whitehall and the local CID. A Mystery of Cross Women is a prelude to the author's Timberdick Mysteries.

 

Malcolm would like to thank local residents for their continued support.

To check out Malcolm's books visit his website at www.bookcabin.co.uk/news or amazon.

Basingstoke Canal - a new book by Dieter Jebens and Roger Cansdale both from Church Crookham.

Priced £12.99and available from local bookshops - also from Amazon click here