The Cypress Branches Trilogy
Pegasus Falling
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Top 5 Finalist, The Kindle Book Review Best Indie Books of 2012
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Arnhem, 1944. Captain Stanley Adam Malcolm Parker, Sammy to his friends - and his platoon have fought bravely, but it was always a losing battle. The bridge was unwinnable. After he and his men are forced into cattle trucks and transported across Germany on a three day journey without food or water, Sammy finally lashes out at an SS officer with brutal and devastating consequences.
Instead of spending the rest of his war as a POW, Sammy is sent to a concentration camp.
Spared an immediate death, Sammy discovers firsthand the full horror of the final solution. Amongst the desperation and destitution of the camp, he encounters Naomi, a Jewish housewife from Dresden. Having seen her family murdered, Naomi has learned to survive by making the most unimaginable of sacrifices. She is the woman who Sammy comes to depend on to survive himself.
But when the camp is finally liberated, the couple are separated and Sammy embarks on a journey across a continent devastated by war and wracked by ongoing tensions to find out what happened to the woman he loves.
"Powerful, raw and emotive" The Kindle Book Review
"This is an extraordinary, vivid novel which combines love and history while not shying away from politics...an intriguing story, gripping from the first page to the last and full of sorrow, happiness, kindness and heartbreak." Zohar Laor, ManOfLaBook.com
"Thomas has succeeded in creating an emotionally powerful novel which is full of wonderful characters" Beth Townsend, thepiecesofme.co.uk
"...a marvellously panoramic story of how individuals dealt with the devastation of war." Damaskcat, Top 50 Reviewer, amazon.co.uk
RRP: £8.99 / Paperback
Publication date: 26th March 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9562299-1-5
It Never Was You
Harry Williamson is an ex-merchant seaman, a successful businessman and a loving family man. When he disappears from a ferry in the middle of the Irish Sea, his grieving family are left with more questions than answers.
Who on earth is Mary Robinson?
Why did Harry leave her a small fortune in his will?
Had he been unfaithful to his beloved late wife, Lesley?
As they delve into his past, they discover he’s been harbouring a secret which threatens to tear apart the very fabric of their history.
What unfolds is the heartbreaking story of a quiet, middle class merchant seaman and his unexpected and tragic relationship with a beautiful, exuberant waitress from the Liverpool docks as they struggle to reconcile their feelings for each other with the ever changing attitudes and culture of post-war Britain.
Part two of the Cypress Branches trilogy, It Never Was Youis the eagerly anticipated follow up to the acclaimed Pegasus Falling, continuing William E. Thomas's epic and panoramic saga of how ordinary people coped with some most extraordinary and devastating events of the 20th century.
"If you want to read excellent examples of independently published novels which have well drawn and believable characters, marvellous dialogue and a fascinating background then try `Pegasus Falling' and `It Never Was You.' I am looking forward to reading the third part of the trilogy." Jill Weekes, aka Damaskcat, Amazon Hall of Fame reviewer
"We travel with wonderfully drawn, full-blooded characters through landscape that is closely sensed. I felt that the author had lived much of this story - I was spellbound." Harry Nicholson, author of Tom Fleck
RRP: £8.99 / Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24th April 2013
ISBN: 978-0-9562299-3-9
The Silence Of The Sea
The saga concludes
Harry Williamson, still devastated by the break-up of his relationship, retires from his life at sea.
Mary Sullivan, trying desperately to escape her past, starts a new life of learning.
Lesley Carrington, angry and lost, returns home to face a frightening and uncertain future.
The Silence Of The Sea is the long-awaited conclusion of the acclaimed Cypress Branches trilogy, William E. Thomas’s hugely ambitious and emotional tale of a family caught in the ebb and flow of 20th century history.
ARRIVING EARLY 2020
Before the trilogy…
The Cypress Branches Hardback Limited Edition
This is where it all began.
Containing the entire story, from beginning to end in its original format, The Cypress Branches Hardback Limited Edition was printed back in 2009 for William, his family and friends.
Only 108 were made and the book will never be published or printed in this format again.
The book is 691 pages and measures 6 inches by 9 inches - quite a hefty tome! It has been printed to the highest possible standards, with a clothbound hardcover, colour laminated jacket and silver lettering on the spine.
Each copy comes with a certificate confirming that the book is one of the limited print run copies.
RRP: £24.99 / Hardback
Publication date: July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9562299-0-8
Includes Limited edition certificate
It had been thought that all copies had been sold, but two boxes were recently discovered and a very limited number are now available again. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this unique book, please fill in the form below. We are offering these lost copies for just £15 each (plus postage at cost), with all proceeds going to the Alzheimer’s Society.