Graduate authors

Will Turner Brett

The Movie Wheel: How to Choose What to Watch Using Colour

Date of Publication: 2023

Do you ever get fed up of scrolling through categories on streaming sites? Then this is the book for you! Why not try selecting a movie by using The Movie Wheel to better predict the emotions you will experience? The aim is to outline which genres go well together, and to offer a brand-new method of selecting the movie you want to watch.

Don't fall victim to the algorithm. Instead of doom-scrolling the evening away, grab your copy of The Movie Wheel and become better-equipped to make a free choice. This book explores the connection between cinematic genres and emotion, using the colour wheel as a visual reference.

Yvette Vanson

Making My Mark

Date of publication: 2023

Yvette writes about her careers as she lived them – with boundless energy in an open and vivid style. In a unique approach, her story is interspersed with revealing conversations she recorded with many of her close women friends. First, Yvette was an actor, then an award-winning documentary and BAFTA drama filmmaker, and later an exhibited artist, plus book co-author/editor.

She unveils behind-the-scenes insights into her remarkable careers. She is a woman with a clear agenda for change who embraces life with passion. Her commitment to socially-relevant filmmaking, to equality and human rights campaigning is undisputed. Life was not straightforward. Yvette honestly explores her personal failings and achievements, whilst juggling a complicated personal life. Her drive to make order out of the chaos around her, her appetite for justice, along with her great warmth, are all there on the page!

Elisa Marcella Webb

Darkling Park

Date of publication: 2016

Darkling Park is a Gothic crossover novel set in a Tooting graveyard. Fin and her eccentric family move to Blind Twin House. Fin befriends an odd boy and his weird dog (which turns out not to be a dog at all). The three misfits discover underground tunnels and tidal pools while fighting bullies and making a whole new gang of friends.

Menesh Patel

Brain Meets MotherMe & Her Little MiniMe's

Date of publication: 2023

This is the first tale in the Brain The Super-Cat series. It's about an adventurous cat who gets whirled into a foreign world, where he meets a beastly dragon and her little mini-me's. Find out what happens to this very very special MogWol creature called Brain on his most delightful adventure.

Menesh Patel's Brain Meets MotherMe & Her Little Mini-Me's is a rhyming story of a special cat and a beastly dragon that will excite children for years to come.

Lucie Arnoux

Je Ne Sais Quoi

Date of publication: 2022

A funny, heartfelt graphic memoir about living in foreign countries, and finding one's place both at home and abroad.

In this delightful graphic novel, Lucie Arnoux chronicles her adventures around the world. Growing up in Marseille as a misfit with a passion for drawing, she decides to settle in London to pursue her dream career as a comics writer. Je Ne Sais Quoi shows us London through the eyes of a mischievous and clear-sighted young French woman, the joys and pains of being an outsider and, ultimately, how to live life to its fullest.

Kate Wickers

Shape of a Boy

Date of publication: 2022

Shape of a Boy is a hilarious and eye-opening travel memoir by the mother of three boys as she documents her travels with her family around the world. From the jungles of southeast Asia to the waterfront in Havana and the blazing heat of Egypt, Shape of a Boy captures the essence of being a parent in the thick of it and learning on the hoof. Inspirational for anyone who has dreaded travelling with a baby, toddler, or teen, it is a life-affirming read for every wannabe-traveller. Kate's vivid evocation of the highs and lows of family time make you belly-laugh and bring a lump to your throat.

Michael Loveday

Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash

Date of publication: 2022

Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript is the first ever full roadmap for creating your own novella composed of flash fictions, or very short stories. Whether you've written a novella-in-flash before, or are a beginner newly experimenting, this flexible, step-by-step craft guide will support you to produce a high-quality manuscript of linked narratives.

Pamela Haynes

Loving the Sisters

Date of Publication: 2022

Course: BA Criminal Justice Studies, DipHE DipSW

Loving The Sisters is about love, sisterhood and loyalty. The aim of this book is to raise awareness of the different forms of domestic abuse and the role the probation service plays in safeguarding victims of abuse.

Pamela R Haynes is a retired senior probation officer. She has previously worked as a domestic abuse programme facilitator and with survivors of domestic violence. The author says: ‘Stories are written about the police service and other criminal justice agencies. It is about time somebody wrote about the probation service and the crucial work they do to safeguard survivors of domestic abuse'.

Annabel Abbs

Windswept

Date of publication: 2020

While recovering from a life-threatening accident, Annabel Abbs rediscovered a lost love of long, wild hikes. Consequently fascinated by the art, literature and philosophy of walking in nature, she realised it had never before been told from a woman's point of view. In Windswept, Annabel explores the story of extraordinary women who lost their way – their sense of self, their identity, their freedom – and found it again through walking in the wild.

David R. Bradshaw

Fledging and Learning to Fly

Date of publication: 2017

Field of study: Law

A memoir of a young Afro-Caribbean man's Kingston, Cambridge and barrister student days, as well as his early working and ('inter-racial') married life, at Leeds University and elsewhere in 1970s England.

No less than 12 chapters of this memoir – the third in a series of three, so far – are devoted to the author's career at Kingston Polytechnic (as it then was) from September 1972 until July 1976. During this time he read for his CNAA law degree, captained the ''International Law Stars'' 5-a-side football team, and attended lectures in Penrhyn Road, Kingston starting at 9am, five days a week. He commuted via London Underground to Waterloo and British Rail to Surbiton, from his home with his then-fiancee, Philomena, in Highgate, North London.

The author also took a year out to work at a law centre in the Old Kent Road, south-east London, and wandered all over the European Continent (mostly by inter-rail and hitchhiking). He travelled from Scandinavia to Spain and from France to Yugoslavia and Greece (often with Philomena in tow), during the several vacations he enjoyed each summer whilst an undergraduate.

Published by Kingston University Press.

Lamyae Bennani

Portrait of Heroes

Date of publication: 2020

Course: Graphic Communication

In aid of NHS Charities Together.

As a lasting tribute to celebrate those who fought for our survival and continue to do so.

Forty-five portraits of frontline heroes were created in the Coronavirus pandemic during lockdown 1.0.

An art challenge that raised money for the NHS Charities Together. Many of the heroes kindly contributed personal stories in their own words to this book, and the original pastel drawings were donated to them as a gesture of gratitude to those on the frontline.

Nicole Plumridge

Healing House

Date of publication: 2020

Course: MSc Psychology

Sophie wants her old life back. But she knows that is no longer possible. No matter how hard she wishes it, she will never be able to bring back her late fiancé, Daniel. In order to escape her memories and start afresh, she moves out of central London into a faraway seaside cottage in Dover. Expecting to find peace and serenity by the sea, she is horribly mistaken.

Little does she know that she has run from the ghosts of her past into something much more sinister. Alarming occurrences leave Sophie shaken and in fear for her life. Just as her nerves are about to snap, she decides to find answers. She needs to peel back the layers of time and uncover the dark secrets nestled within the heart of the house she now calls home.

Rita Leone

The Red Door

Date of Publication: 2020

Course: BA Law

Who wants to be like Mamee, an impoverished cook with a band of fatherless children? Not Jessica Cummings! Ambitious and smart, Jessie vows to escape her mother's fate and sees education as her way out.

However, it is not that simple, as in the small Caribbean island of Grenada in the late 1960's, social connections entwined with status trumps education and Jessie's hopes are thwarted early. Therefore, Jessie resigns herself to life as a live-in maid to a middle-class family in the capital city. But even in that privileged household she must make choices. There, lured by the promise of an easy life held out to her by a wealthy man she becomes his secret mistress - a not dishonourable profession, she thinks, and far more exciting than housework.

Jessie's choices ultimately take her to the Virgin Islands, to a carefree, pampered but ultimately stifling existence. And, years later when her lover decides to end their relationship, Jessie feels uprooted and lost- how can she continue without his support? Alone, angry and betrayed she decides to take matters into her own hands. The fascinating red door slams shut. There is no going back to her old life.

Pamela Haynes

Loving the Brothers

Date of Publication: 2018

Course: BA Criminal Justice Studies, DipHE DipSW

Patti is a busy senior probation officer working in Camden, London, with a teenager off to university, Charmaine is a stressed out mum of twins and Rose is the Pastor's wife with five daughters. Life gets complicated when they meet and marry three brothers, Manley, Marcus and Junior Morgan, who are from a close-knit Jamaican family. All are hoping for "Divine Intervention" as they plot to leave their abusive relationships on the same day.

Charles Blankson

Branding and Positioning in Base of the Pyramid Markets in Africa: Innovative Approaches (Routledge Studies in Marketing)

Date of Publication: 2019

Course: PhD Marketing

"This is an important book. Why? It focuses on Africa, the "last frontier" in business, with insights for all BoPMs as well; it covers a lot of territory on brand positioning strategy, in contexts from retailing and social networks to corporate reputation and nation branding; and it is written by two eminent scholars who know both Africa and positioning better than most. Therefore it is a must-read for anyone interested in its theme." Nicolas Papadopoulos, Chancellor's Professor of Marketing and International Business, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Shemi Esquire

Human Rights and Housing Estate Expropriation: The Human Impact on Communities

Date of Publication: 2020

Course: LLB

The aim of this text is to assess whether human rights law is an effective mechanism to challenge the harm caused by housing estate regeneration effected by the use of compulsory purchase orders in the United Kingdom. The focus of this text relates to the actions of local authorities or public bodies that attract the jurisdiction of the ECHR and the applicable international human rights law. The book analyses any potential or existing human rights breaches associated with estate regeneration under the ECHR regime and briefly discusses the relevant international human rights law.

Cassandra Di Rossi

The Dark Evolution Chronicles

Date of Publication: 2020

Course: BA Applied English Language and History of Art and Architecture

Once considered Gods for their mystery and beauty, the Vampyr are gradually being relegated to dark mythology. Having recently escaped the vicious Trojan War, Cassandra arrives in ancient Egypt right at the moment of the biblical Exodus. It seems that pain and destruction follow her everywhere, but over the next millennium her sadness and cynicism turn to strength and confidence, and the darkness in her soul turns to amusement and passion. Packed with adventure, lust, a dash of violence and a dollop of humour, the Dark Evolution is a compelling series of vampire adventures in the ancient world.

Liah Thorley

Hidden Doorways

Date of Publication: 2016

Course: BA Applied English Language and History of Art and Architecture

To her family, Catherine is lost in time, lost to her friends and lost to the 21st century. To her, she is a Tudor woman with a new husband, a business to run and no memory of who she really is. But Catherine's life is about to change in more ways than she could ever have imagined.

Half a millennium in her future is her father. Michael is a professor of physics, racked with guilt for accidentally sending Catherine back in time when she was only six years old. As he determines to find her, he unwittingly leads her through hidden doorways of time to passions and sorrows on the most unusual of adventures.

Sophie Marsh

The Stay Home Superheroes

Date of Publication: 2020

Course: BSc Psychology and Spanish

The Stay Home Superheroes is a beautifully-illustrated children's book which empowers children to understand the pandemic and the important, powerful role they can play in stopping the spread. Written by a Play and Creative Arts Therapist, this beautiful book helps children to move from feeling stuck at home, worried and unsure, to feeling excited about becoming Stay Home Superheroes and saving the world! All profits from sales of the book are going directly to a children's charity, supporting more children to access the therapeutic support they need to thrive.

Allen Peppitt

Killer Queen

Date of Publication: 2019

Course: PGDip Professional Studies in Education

Killer Queen is a dark and amusing satire of the state of education in England's secondary schools, from the mid 1980s to the current day. Kingswater Comprehensive School, in a post-industrial working-class district on the outskirts of London, is rebranded Kingswater Academy. The re-structuring of staff and curriculum is an opportunity too good to be missed, and becomes the scene of Candy Regent's ruthless Lady Macbeth-like rise to the top. She is a veritable force of nature, sweeping all before her. Powerless classroom teachers like Paul McSmart, senior teachers like Duncan Knight, a policeman, and of course the children, are merely pawns on the chessboard of her career, as she moves towards a final checkmate!

Martin Ouvery, a teacher of creative writing at City, University of London and Kingston University, described Killer Queen as ‘a brilliant little piece of satire on the state of an education system rife with Machiavellian chicanery and wrong headedness.'

Martyn Colebrook, reviewing Killer Queen in The Lady, concluded that the novel was ‘a delicacy and delight, leaving the reader hungry for more.'

Wendy Perriam

The Tender Murderer

Date of Publication: 2017

Course: Honorary Graduate in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Anthony Beaumont is a golden boy and the sky's the limit! Public school, Cambridge degree, high-flier in the City and with a wife to die for - what could possibly be better? Well, his sperm-count for one. And when Anthony arrives home early one day after falling sick at the office, his life starts to unravel.

Catching his highborn wife Deborah in flagrante delecto, he lashes out at the surrogate stud. A thump to the face, a fall, and a blow to the head - and before Anthony can blink he is banged up in jail for murder. To add insult to injury, he is about to discover that Deborah is pregnant - with a dead man's child.

And in the notorious Wandsworth Prison his real education is about to begin...

Wendy Perriam's The Tender Murderer charts the shocking descent from rich boy to pauper and paints an uncompromising picture of society, where the privileged few know nothing and care less about the disadvantaged many. 

Kingston University also holds an archive collection, including research notes and hand-written drafts, relating to all of Wendy Perriam's books.

Faith Ruto

Transform Within - 7 Strategies for Professional Resilience and Growth

Date of Publication: 2019

Course: BSc Business Information Technology

In times of constant changes, fears and uncertainties in life and in the workplace, many people are seeking a sense of purpose, career direction and fulfilment. From Faith's own career and life transformation, this book has been written with authenticity to share practical strategies to help you build resilience and personal growth. In this book, Faith shares examples from her own life, such as growing up in Uganda during a time of wars, overcoming adversities to taking a leap of faith decision to start her own company - Transformation21st.

Faith is a mum, a wife, an international change catalyst, a coach, an entrepreneur mentor and a speaker who helps people thrive during change. Let this book empower you to take massive actions to increase your resilience to change and to grow in both your career and life.

Clive Marsh

Business and Financial Models (Strategic Success Series)

Date of Publication: 2013

Course: MA in Strategic Financial Management

A good business model should describe how an organisation creates and delivers value, meaning that financial modelling is a vital tool for business strategy, allowing hypotheses and scenarios to be translated into numbers. It enables a company to experiment with different ideas and scenarios in a safe, low-risk environment, to consider what it is aiming to achieve, and to prioritize accordingly.

Business and Financial Models provides an accessible introduction to these essential strategic practices, with guidance on using Microsoft Excel for projection and analysis.

The book takes you through the process of building your model from the initial phase of formulating questions through modelling cash flow, budgets, investment appraisal and 'dashboard' tools for monitoring performance.

Diana Thomson

A Story for the Children of Today

Date of Publication: 2019

Course: BA Fine Arts, (1979)

A boy and his dog go on an extraordinary and enlightening adventure into the past and discover a cleaner and less polluted world, where they meet some extremely intelligent girls with clever and inspiring ideas. Getting home presents a practical problem, but with the help of the creative Goddess Freya, and his own ingenuity, the boy manages the seemingly impossible. A Story for the Children of Today will engage, educate and excite readers both young and old.

Kathryn Jackson

Resilience at work - practical tools for career success

Date of publication: 2018

Course: MA Human Resources

Whether you are working in a turbulent field of work, navigating a complex job market or simply trying to achieve your career ambitions in a world that won't stop changing, then this could be the perfect book for you. Packed with stories, resources and personal coaching to support you, this book has grown from the authors own experience of working under extreme circumstances in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand.

David Lindsley

Far Point

Date of publication: 2009

Course: Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1958) HND; HonFellow (2013)

Far Point is the first book in a trilogy featuring Dan Foster, a swashbuckling forensic engineer. Here, he reluctantly agrees to investigates a massive explosion at a power station in China. It seems that only he knows what's necessary to determine the cause of the explosion and to spot the wider risks of a looming world-scale disaster. The author creates a realistic and compelling story, combining his experience of the Far East with his knowledge of major engineering projects. Far Point is currently being turned into an audiobook for publication on Amazon's Audible platform. The intention is to attract a new audience of bikers, joggers, ramblers and commuters.

Soo Kyung Cho

Me and Me

Date of publication: 2018

Course: Communication Design: Illustration MA, 2015

This book consists of two parallel stories of a child and an adult. The first one is about a boy who, exhausted by study, finds a hope by meeting himself in the future. The child and the man in the future lead to a string. The child follows the man into the forest, under the sea, and in the space. I focused on the fact that adults wear social masks and hide their real face and emotion. It made me start thinking we are losing our real-self and childlike innocence.

Carina Pellius

Band-Aids, Bullet Holes and Bleeding Words

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Date of publication: 19 November 2015

Course: Forensic Science and Investigative Analysis BSc, 2012.

This collection of poems I've chosen to share, are pieces of my emotional journey; they show how I've grown as a poet from the tender age of 11 to a young adult.

Nathan Holder

I Wish I Didn't Quit: Music Lessons

Publisher: Holders Hill Publishing Ltd

Date of publication: 9 May 2018

Course: Music Performance MA, 2017

Your child starts playing an instrument. Then they grow frustrated, impatient and bored. Then they quit and years later wish they didn't. Why does this happen to so many people? Bad teaching? Boring music? Is playing the clarinet not cool enough? How can you stop this from happening? What can you do to help? I Wish I Didn't Quit: Music Lessons gives you the tools and ideas to help your child succeed along their musical journey. By understanding your role in their journey, your child's musical environment and what really made Mozart a genius, you can help your child to love their instrument and never regret giving up.

Jessie Cave

Love Sick

Publisher: Dark Horse

Date of publication: 2 July 2015

Course: Foundation Diploma Art & Design, 2006

Jessie Cave is a successful actress, comedian, writer and artist. But just like all other young women in the 21st century, she suffers from self-doubt, jealousy, a fear of failure and constant worry. In 2010, Jessie decided to take up a self-tasked mission – to draw a doodle a day for Twitter. No matter what the subject, and no matter how personal, she would post a new drawing each day without fail, with it soon becoming a cathartic compulsion.

Lewis Alderson

The Naughty Seagulls

Publisher: A.H.Stockwell Publishers

Date of publication: February 2018

Course: Business with Law BA (Hons), 2010

A children's picture book, for ages 3 to 5, about two magical seagulls which have until sunset to get up to mischief around the bay. Meet a cast of colourful characters and discover a tale of friendship.

Nick Thripp

The Code

Publisher: Troubador

Date of publication: March 2018

Course: Creative Writing MA 2012-2014

A successful career, marriage to a high-flying and attractive partner, the narrator's life seems to be going well until he becomes professionally dependent on a successful entrepreneur he knew at school, who secretly bears a deep grudge. A fast-paced story of revenge, abusive relationships (both personal and organisational) imposter syndrome and sibling rivalry, told with wry humour.

All author's proceeds from this novel are donated to African Revival, a charity transforming schools and providing equal access to quality education.

Matthew Broadway-Horner

Chapter 9: Ageing, Sexual Orientation and Mental Health: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Intersex Older People.
In: Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Mental Health for Older People, Tribe, R., & Lane, P. (Ed) (2017)

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Year of publication: 2017

Course: Nursing, 2003

Short description: The chapters explore the issues involved in working with individuals such as LGBT, learning disabilities, black and minority ethnic communities, homeless people and people with dementia. The chapters cover important theory and research into discrimination, ageing and identity. Contributions from experts in the fields of mental health and working with minority groups provide practical insights into developing anti-discriminatory practice.

Richard Eaton

Business Guide for Health Therapists: How to find out what you need to know, Second Edition

Course: Law LLB, 1975

CreateSpace independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Information for prospective health therapists and practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine, including practical suggestions and more than 150 links to online information that will help you to start-up and manage your own health practice.

Alan Long

How to live with a designer without killing them

Publisher - Sane Press
Year of publication - 2017
Course - Graphic Design BA
Graduation year - 2002

If you are thinking of living with, working with, or being in close proximity to a designer for a prolonged period of time then this explanation of some of their habits will make you understand a little more about what they're like and why they're so crazy. They may seem like normal people - just with more facial hair and an underlying coolness. But on the inside they are more like a child crazed on sugar, flitting from one thing to another and always up to something. For both of you to stand even a remote chance of surviving in a con ned space together, whether a lift, office or worse, actually sharing a home, you must read this book before it's too late. Remember: they are not like ordinary people.

Imran Mahmood

You Don't Know Me

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Publishing date: May 2017

Course: Law (LLB), 1990

Description: An unnamed defendant stands accused of murder. Just before the Closing Speeches, the young man sacks his lawyer, and decides to give his own defence speech. He tells us that his barrister told him to leave some things out. Sometimes, the truth can be too difficult to explain, or believe. But he thinks that if he's going to go down for life, he might as well go down telling the truth. There are eight pieces of evidence against him. As he talks us through them one by one, his life is in our hands. We, the reader - member of the jury - must keep an open mind till we hear the end of his story. His defence raises many questions... but at the end of the speeches, only one matters: Did he do it?

Christopher Naughton PhD

Art, Artists and Pedagogy: Philosophy and the Arts in Education

Christopher Naughton PhD, PGCE (Music Education) (1978)

Routledge, 2017 (October 23rd)

This book provides educators with new ways to engage with arts, focusing specifically on art, music, dance, drama and film studies. At a time when many teachers are looking for a means to re-assert the role of the arts in education this text provides many answers with reference to case studies and in-depth arguments from some of the world's leading academics in the arts, philosophy and education.

Nicole Robinson

Let's talk about the Church!

Publisher: New Generation Publishing 2017
Course: Drama, 2016

Short description: Let's talk about the Church! explores the realities of the church and Nicole's personal encounters with manipulation, betrayal, hypocrisy, jealousy, deception, being thrown out of church and how these issues in the church impacted on her Christian walk because she did not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Richard Eaton

Owning A Business: Things you need to know

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015
Richard Eaton, Law LLB, 1975
Second edition 2016
eBook available from digital stores

Information for prospective entrepreneurs, including practical suggestions and more than 70 links to online information that will help you to start-up and manage your own business.

Ardi Kolah

Improving the Performance of Sponsorship

Routledge, 2015
Ardi Kolah, Law LLB, 1983

Also a special 20% discount for all Kingston University students by adding the code FLR40 when purchasing the book at checkout on the Routledge website.

Stefan Mohamed

Bitter Sixteen

Salt Publishing, 2015
Stefan Mohamed, Creative and Film Studies BA(Hons), 2010

This award-winning book features the adventures of a 16-year-old superhero with powers of flight and telekinesis – plus his remarkable sidekick Daryl the talking beagle.

Menesh Patel

Brain

M.B. PATEL, 1st edition 15 June 2015
Menesh Patel, Pharmaceutical Science MSc, 2000

Brain is an extraordinary kitten. Born in the slums of an Indian village, he is forced to discover just how special he is when he and his family are kidnapped and taken to a circus. There he meets and befriends an assortment of amazing animals. However, his relationship with his family is soon tested, and Brain begins a quest to set things right. Will he be able to save his family and friends?

Gerald Wasley

Prelude to D-Day: Devon's Role in the Storming of Hitler's Europe

Halsgrove 2014
Gerald Wasley, Arts & Social Sciences Research PhD, 2013

In November 1943 the authorities announced that an area of more than 30,000 acres in South Devon was to be evacuated to allow realistic battle training, displacing more than 3,000 residents just five days before Christmas. In Prelude to D-Day the author portrays life in Devon before the war and what took place up to the arrival of the US Forces that led to the evacuation of the South Hams.

Dr Bridget Duckenfield

College Cloisters – Married Bachelors

Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Dr Bridget Duckenfied, Arts and Social Science Research History PhD, 2009

This traces the origins of Oxford and Cambridge University colleges as places of learning, founded in the 13th century for unmarried men who were required to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the majority of whom trained for the priesthood.

Patrick Shanahan

Cupid's Pursuit

Bright Pen
Patrick Shanahan, Management Studies PgDip, 1997

Matthew Malarkey is a man on a mission – to find a soul mate. Following the breakup of his marriage he has searched in vain for a new relationship. Encouraged by his good friend Cecil Delaney, he has lived a hectic social life, trawling bars and clubs, but with no success in finding that meaningful connection.

Patrick Shanahan

Clive Smith

Lancaster Bale Out

Tucann Books
Clive Smith, Electronic Systems Engineering BSc, 1986

This is the true story of Fred Smooker of Bomber Command, the only surviving member of a Lancaster Bomber shot down in Cambrai, France during the night of 8 July 1943 until liberated from a POW camp in May 1945. Clive's second cousin was among the crew – all reported missing presumed dead – and this book is a memorial to him.

Hannah Vincent

Alarm Girl

Myriad Editions
Hannah Vincent, Creative and Critical Writing MA, 2012

When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in the foreign landscape and confused by the family's silence surrounding her mother's recent death.

Maximillian Hawker

Breaking the Foals

Course: BA (Hons) English Literature with Creative Writing (Graduated 2010) and MA by Research English Literature (Graduated 2012)

Breaking the Foals, set in Wilusa – the historical Troy of myth – follows the story of Hektor, son of the town's despotic ruler, as he decides whether to defend its oppressed people or remain loyal to his irrational, dangerous father. And he must do this while trying to rebuild a fractured relationship with his own young son. This is a tale of family drama and political uprising, with a fresh take on some of the key events in Homeric mythology.

David P. Doyle

Cost Control – a strategic guide

CIMA/Elsevier: London
David Doyle, Kingston University honorary doctorate

The current challenging economic climate has triggered the re-emergence of cost control on the corporate agenda. This edition, authored by Kingston University doctorat honoris causa graduate in Business Administration, maintains that all too often, costs are cut in a way that is actually detrimental to the company in the short and long-term.

Heidi James-Dunbar

Wounding

Bluemoose Books
Heidi James-Dunbar, English Literature and Creative Writing PhD, 2011

Cora has everything a woman is supposed to want – a career, a caring husband, children, and a stylish home. Desperate for release and burdened with guilt she falls into a pattern of ever increasing violence and sexual degradation till a one-night stand tips her over the edge.

Richard Heath

The Stone Age Invention of Science and Religion

Richard Heath identifies four megalithic ages during which our Stone Age ancestors created an exact science of measures. The first age used only counted lengths and simple geometries; the second successfully measured the Earth using metrological ratios; the third saw a perfecting of monumental architecture; and in the fourth, the pyramids spread to Mexico and the Far East.

Richard Heath

Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness

Exploring how ancient myths are shaped by sacred proportion, this book shows how stories enable us to identify the spiritual aspects within our material world and to participate in the evolution of human consciousness.

Richard Heath

The Harmonic Origins of the World

Sacred Number at the Source of Creation

Exploring the simple mathematical relationships that underlie the cycles of the solar system and the music of Earth, Richard Heath reveals how Neolithic astronomers discovered these ratios using megalithic monuments like Stonehenge and the Carnac stones. He shows how this harmonic knowledge inspired the earliest religious systems and spread around the world.

Richard Heath

Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization

Sacred numbers and ratios can be found throughout history, influencing everything from art and architecture to the development of religion and secret societies. From Solomon's Key to the Templar design for Washington, D.C., as New Jerusalem, Richard Heath reveals the origins, influences, and deeper meaning of these synchronous numerical occurrences.

Richard Heath

Matrix of Creation

Sacred numbers arose from ancient man's observation of the heavens, and represent the secrets of cosmic proportion and alignment. The ancients understood that the ripeness of the natural world is the perfection of ratio and that the planetary system – and time itself – is a creation of number. We have forgotten what our ancestors once knew: that numbers and their properties create the forms of the world.

Barrie Hyde

A Higher Authority

Safkhet Publishing
Barrie Hyde, Economics BA, 1977

A young Oxford graduate with a gift for languages joins MI5 and is seconded to 'a higher authority', an organisation funded through government sources from around the world which nobody wants to admit to. Code-named Jonathan, he is trained at an old British Army camp in Kenya where he meets and falls in love with Zan, a fellow operative.

Mark Kirkbride

Satan's Fan Club

Omnium Gatherum
Mark Kirkbride, Modern Arts & English, 1989

Rebellious twins James and Louise meet a man while out for a night of fun who invites them to join a dangerous and exciting club. Entrance to Nick's club requires they commit a crime tailored just for them. The twins find themselves trapped in a shadowy world they only half-believe is real and contemplating horrible acts that no sane person would consider.