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Bev Allen

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Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Action Adventure

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I fell in love with my first soldier outside Buckingham Palace. He was a Coldstream on guard and I was four.
Later I fell in love with reading and writing and then with scific and tales of high adventure.
Later still I married a military historian and he conducted me on guided lecture tours around many a battlefield and many a musuem
Despite this, or maybe because of it, I never lost my love of all things military or of adventure stories.
"Jabin" is a result of all this.
Other published work includes a short story in a SFX Pulp Fiction Anthology and a Dr Who story published by Big Finish.
I like the challenge of short story writing, so my blog is stuffed with examples for anyone to read. ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 103 ratings · 36 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Jabin 4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who Short Trips: Christmas Around the World by Xanna Eve Chown (Editor), David Bailey, Kate Orman 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occult Detective Quarterly Presents (ODQP Book 1) by John Linwood Grant (Goodreads Author), Amanda DeWees (Goodreads Author), William Meikle (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Solemn Curfew 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lord of the Faran Hills it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Solemn Curfew and Other Dark Tales 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tattooed Tribes 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New Blog

I know telling you about a blog on a blog is a bit odd, but I am doing more and more here

https://kentishmaid.wordpress.com/

I have worked out how to add pretty pictures over there, something I never mastered here :-)

You will find news of my new anthology there, its full of weird tales like the one about the man who has an affair with his garden pond.
Also "The Tattooed Tribes" is republished with a Read more of this blog post »

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1415: Henry V's Year of Glory

by Ian Mortimer (Goodreads Author)

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The Green Enclave: Runa 7

by Jaye Sarasin

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“There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but mad men know

John Dryden”
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
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Feb 01, 2013 02:02AM

Dean wrote: "You realize I had to turn my head sidewise before I realized they are your books? You owe me for a chiropractic treatment. Me poor delicate neck..."

You would really need a chiropractor if you had been able to read the neat little brass plaque on the bookends, which proudly proclain they are made from the teak of HMS Terrible, whose guns relieved LadySmith

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