Recensori in anteprimaRoger Leslie Paige

Bookbound is a collection of sixteen short stories which include:

A private detective employed to protect the daughter of a third party Presidential candidate

A journalist discovers the unexpected truth about his recently deceased father’s wartime service

A First Nations Canadian ice-hockey team take on the mighty touring Russian team

A janitor in a New England paper mill faces losing his job and home to developers

A young residential worker describes the ups and downs of the lives of those staying in an after-care hostel

A long dead famous French jockey has an unexpected secret revealed

And several stories about Chopin, Boris Vian, Bobby Fischer and other historical persons are set in the world of chess.

Dreamageddon is a collection of ten stories—six short and four longer—which include:

• The first case of a now-famous private detective and his new secretary.
• A jaded reporter sent on holiday to a small, mid-North Atlantic island finds a story worth reporting.
• A famous chess champion plays a renowned philosopher.
• A series of strange dreams plaguing a man.
• A detective from the future with the help of a young girl, attempts to arrest a fugitive who has escaped back in time into the body of a potential Presidential candidate.

The games in this book are from the years 1963 to 1974 when I was active in the local leagues (Portsmouth and London) and various South of England Open tournaments (e.g. Bognor Regis and Hastings). Most of the games I have not collected (or annotated) before and many were played at a rapid rate (e.g. 10 or 15 minutes each with no increment). It also contains my recollections of my friend Mike Dymond, chess player, painter, and photographer who died this past year.