Books with author Richard Hawley

Sometimes your day just doesn’t go as planned; sometimes a seemingly ordinary day can turn into a complete nightmare. When Janine Allthorp missed her bus, her day took an unexpected turn and set off a series of terrifying events. As the shadowy figure pursuing her grows ever closer so the mood of Janine’s day darkens, and she gravely regrets missing the school bus when she finds herself running for her life.The girl’s epic marathon is spurred on by her desperate school friends watching the scene unfold from the safety of the bus, and everywhere Janine turns for help only enemies are found. Her respite within the school gates is short-lived as whatever forces are at play start to affect her peers too. Once her nightmare appears to be over, another begins…

The opening up of huge iron ore finds in the Hammersley Ranges in the nineteen sixties has led to the need for major new infrastructure, including railways to convey the ore several hundred miles to the coast. Having won the contract to build a vital rail bridge in the Pilbara, a remote area in Western Australia, Victorian based firm Richardson Constructions experience a number of traumatic incidents severely disrupting the early work and culminating in the death, likely murder, of a senior rig operator. Senior site engineer Jim Pike believes the incidents are being orchestrated by Bull Masters, boss of an old established construction company in Western Australia to try and force him and, ultimately, Richardson Constructions off the site. In confronting Masters at his nearby station homestead he encounters an unwelcome familiar face and events that threaten his return to the bridge site, now beset with strike problems, cyclonic weather and difficult geological conditions imperilling foundation operations using a new type of piling rig vital to the success of the whole project.

This is a collection of short stories like no other as it is a Richard Hamm short story collection!Short Story count = 5 Word count = 33 thousand words—of Richard Hamm!Do you like short stories and, at the same time, love amazing deals and getting great value for money?—Then this book of short stories is definitely for you … or your friend … your family member or loved one.Now available in paperback, this short story collection showcases the first five Richard Hamm originally published short stories (for children, young adults, adults and just about anyone else who will read them).The titles included in the Five Short Stories You Will Read MORE THAN ONCE short story collection:• The Freedom to Move On • Three Bells and Boom! • Free as a Bird • Don't Go Inside • Dream PrisonThe Freedom to Move OnAn emotional short story about friendship, loss and the teenage desire for freedom.We all suffer loss, even if only the loss of our innocence and youth or simply losing friendships made in childhood or our hormone-fueled teenage years.Saying goodbye is never easy. Sometimes it takes real effort to come to terms with tragedy and move on; sometimes it seems impossible to go on as before.For fifteen-year-old Andrew this means embarking on a bold escapade, traveling abroad and ending up on a ghostly joyride in order that his friend might find eternal peace. Andrew pays a touching tribute to his friend whilst learning that positive action is a much better way to cope than his original plan of shutting himself away from the world and giving up on all that the future holds. Three Bells and Boom! One disillusioned, outcast casino worker has finally had enough. On behalf of his kind he devises a revolutionary high-tech heist, the like of which Officer Jenkins has never seen before. The Vegas retiree sets about liberating his enslaved counterparts and literally wires himself up to the AI machine that will influence technology on a global scale … the one-armed bandit prepares for detonation…Free As A BirdThe value of independence cannot be overestimated. Man, woman, child, animal, bird… No one wants to live in a cage.Graybeard the parrot valued her freedom to such a degree that she undertook a vast transcontinental journey to escape a life of imprisonment. Having been captured at an early age, she struggled to adapt to life back in her natural habitat; she encountered the harshness of living in the wild, searching for food, avoiding predators and smugglers who ensnared wildlife daily.She finally made the momentous decision to retrace her epic flight and return to the country, and the little girl, who had shown her kindness—but it had to be on her own terms…Don't Go InsideIn a world of ever-changing fashion and trends, the latest must-have was a Titan Plus pen. On the popular sci-fi TV show, it was a teleporting, communicating, laser-transmitting, all-singing-and-dancing gizmo; in the stores it was simply a tool for writing but an exact replica in appearance.It was not surprising, then, that all boys and girls between ten and twelve years of age wanted one, needed one…Dream Prison:Sometimes your day just doesn’t go as planned; sometimes a seemingly ordinary day can turn into a complete nightmare. When Janine Allthorp missed her bus, her day took an unexpected turn and set off a series of terrifying events. As the shadowy figure pursuing her grows ever closer so the mood of Janine’s day darkens, and she gravely regrets missing the school bus when she finds herself running...

Ever wondered what your pet thinks of you? Of course you have. Now, at last, we can uncover the truth about the inner life of England's grumpiest rabbit as he struggles with the highs and lows of life in lockdown with his two human staff.Along the way we'll learn the answer to some of life's greatest questions, including:What are humans for?Why are cats allowed?Where do vegetables really come from?andWhy is love tall and ugly?Experience the humour and wisdom (and grumpiness) of Ted for the first time; you'll never look at a bunny rabbit the same way again!