Books published by publisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

Forest Green is a very special place to visit.All you need to do is use your imagination!Pretend you are kicking a ball, picking berries, toasting marshmallows, riding on a bus, taking a boat ride, or even experiencing a winter storm.All the while you will be making new friends.Forest Green friends are polite, kind, caring, and always willing to help others because all friends can agree that it is better to give than to receive!The journey begins in Forest Green, but the adventures will take you to many other interesting places.Rich in detail, this book will charm young and old alike.Your Adventures in Forest Green are waiting for you.

Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six presents the biographies of six movie actresses from the 1920s to the 1970s, with a single actress representing her decade of activity: Louise Brooks 1920s, Jean Harlow 1930s, Hedy Lamarr 1940s, Barbara Payton 1950s, Jean Seberg 1960s, and Sondra Locke 1970s. The synchronicity between the lives of these women is phenomenal, and their stories are as dramatic and exciting as any to come from that town, stretching all the way from complete ruination to thrilling triumph. Along the way, the story of movies in the Golden Age unfolds as six movie actresses try to survive in the most artificial place on Earth. The power elite of Hollywood could transform unknowns into movie stars or erase the famous into oblivion. Since beauty has its own innate power, it is inevitable these two entities would face off.

Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Niloufer's love for food combined with extensive world travel from a young age inspired her to experiment with world cuisines. Niloufer gave her first cooking class to a group of school girls at the age of 17; loving the opportunity to meet new people who share her passion for food, she has gone on to give many, many more cooking classes in Dubai, UK, and Canada - where she has lived for the past 15 years with her family. In 2013, Niloufer decided to start a recipe blog Niloufer's Kitchen where she loves to share old and new culinary creations to a following of 100,000 from around the world. Author of 10 e-cookbooks, she also writes for the Huffington Post, assorted magazines and journals from around the world.

Melisa P. Waterloaf is an adventurous, fun-loving, and very imaginative young girl. She and her best friend, Suzy, spend hours playing, riding bikes, dancing and singing, and having adventures that usually come with lots of excitement but sometimes can get them into trouble. Join the girls as they take their imaginations for a ride in an old green truck that is parked in the Waterloafs’ driveway. The girls find themselves in a bit of a “pickle” as things don’t quite go as planned. Sit back and buckle up for a ride that is in and out of control!

Olives Where Are You? is an invitation to let go of what is familiar and try something different. It explores what happens when Emily decides that there is one and only one food she must have at each meal. Designed for young readers and their parents, Olives Where Are You? is a contemporary family account of a child’s insistence and her parents’ patient persistence. Emily rejects her parents’ attempts to get her to experiment with new foods. In fact, she digs her heels in with any suggestion that she change her mind. Emily does eventually come around and accept an alternative to her beloved olives, but only through her own process of self-discovery.

In 1962 Robin is forced by the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire to undergo psychiatric treatment in order to be cured of his homosexuality. Instead of turning him into a heterosexual, his psychiatrist turns him into a schizophrenic. He has a beatific vision and gives a written account of it to the German theologian Paul Tillich, who then proclaims in Harvard's Memorial Church: The Son of Man is in our presence.Robin thereupon goes in search of the Second Coming and discovers Mark Frechette, who will later have the star role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point. Mark is later crucified in prison at the age of twenty-seven.

Dimitri Yassukovich is exiled by the Bolshevik Revolution, builds a new life and career as a Wall Street investment banker, and lays the foundations in Europe for one of the great investment banking houses of the City. His son Stanislas, after an inglorious youth in the Gatsby land of Long Island, joins his father's firm White, Weld & Co., finds himself at the epicentre of the City's revival from postwar doldrums, and becomes an architect of the Euromarkets.His highly personal and anecdotal chronicle of these two lives leads us through the history of high finance and its revival, and the heady days of the internationalisation of the City, through the ‘Big Bang' and its aftermath.Two Lives is a serious, and yet light-hearted account of a critical period in 20th century finance and of two unusual personalities.

The Pictish Symbol Stones have intrigued people for centuries. These enigmatic structures appear mainly in the north east of Scotland, but unlike other standing stones, megaliths and the like, these stones have symbols carved into them, which may represent a whole hitherto unknown message. Norman Penny's investigation of the origins of writing, together with his study of the Mithraic statuary in the Museum of London, led him to realise that there is a previously unrecognised connection between Pictish symbols and Mithraism. This discovery of a possible link between the Roman invaders and the Mithraist god leads us on a fascinating journey with an enthusiastic guide, where the reader learns about how the symbols on these unique stones forge links with concealed temples and appear to have been used as a means of communication, bringing together two ancient cultures and an unknown, hidden religion.

This is a time-bending tale of magic and self-exploration. Niamh finds herself unintentionally thrust into the eternal fight between light and dark. After receiving a horse for her birthday, Niamh sets off on a journey to discover more about herself and what caused the disappearance of her missing mother. Along the way, Niamh meets a wide range of magical characters including gypsies, mermaids, and the Sea King. Niamh and her band of friends must face danger and fight against evil dragons, werewolves, and the tireless plotting of Moira, discovering that she is behind all of the horrible things that have been plaguing Niamh’s family. In a distant future, we meet Trini who also finds herself on a voyage from the United States to Ireland. After her mother’s passing, Trini voyages alone and finds that her life and future are intricately entwined with people she has never met, yet shares a history and a future with. As Moira and her dragons threaten everything, the group must come together and learn to have faith in themselves in order to survive.

Sterling was another soul lost to addiction. He was a schizophrenic plagued by the little devil man. Heroin saved him from that reality so many times. Most people aren’t plagued by creatures, but what are they plagued by? What reality are they escaping? Sterling’s story gives us some of the answers we seek. One thing is for certain, his story teaches us the importance of human connection and how to love. Not to love the addiction, but to love the person behind the addiction. It teaches us to the importance of helping others through dark times without judgment. This emotionally riveting story shows how good can triumph over evil in ways we never can anticipate. Expect to both cry and laugh.

It wasn’t meant to be like this. I won student of the year at college and then was nominated for national awards in the first year of my apprenticeship. I had come from inauspicious beginnings, but I was motivated and hard working. I had every intention of going places. And I did.It seems like every other week, another celebrity is diagnosed with bipolar disorder by the tabloid media. The public are led to believe that the latest superstars’ fall from grace is more deep-seated than over indulgence in drink or drugs; or is this sometimes just canny image management to remove any responsibility for bad behaviour?Mark Lucas takes us on a real journey of a bipolar life, as experienced by an everyman, complete with the humour and wit to balance the heartache and crises of this rollercoaster ride. Having been effectively labelled second rate at the end of his teens, Mark has had to fight for everything he has achieved and gritted his teeth through illness, ridicule and unfair treatment at work, and ostracism due to occasional incidences of illness and asks why, in a world obsessed with celebrating the self and individual rights, do the sufferers of mental health problems often have to live a lie whilst hiding in plain sight?

Fourteen-year-old Dorothy Alston had to grow up fast when her father’s alcohol-induced carelessness resulted in a house fire that claimed her mother’s life. She finds a new life on her uncle’s farm in Florida…but not for long. Now, thirty-four years later, Dorothy’s in a permanent vegetative state and it’s up to Ellen Steward – the hard-working, slightly jaded administrator at an upscale rehab facility – to unravel the mystery that landed Dorothy in this condition. With some unexpected help, Ellen unwinds Dorothy’s fantastical narrative. It begins with a strange glass key that leads Dorothy to worlds that exist between time and space. She awakens a dark creature who feeds on the pain of the young. Ellen discovers that even she is wrapped up in Dorothy’s strange saga. If she wants to save her, Ellen will have to give up everything. But if she fails, much more is at stake than anyone could have imagined.