Product Description

Over two thousand years ago the Romans came, saw and conquered
Britain.
They stayed for a few hundred years, give or take, until rising Villa
prices, the ferociousness of the local lions and the quality of home brewed

wine convinced them to take all roads back to Rome.
No Romans remained. Britain, both sides of Hadrian's Wall, became a
Roman-free zone.
Except....
There was one little town where the Roman bugle-song anthem of retreat,
'Legitus Quickitus', was not heard. One town where the Romans and the
locals, ears full of soap, were so busy splashing around together they
missed the thunder of the departing last night chariots of fire. And as
there were no cabs due for another 15 hundred years - and that's if you
believe the cab office - the town's Romans decided to stay.
The town grew, thriving on the naturally occurring spa waters, nurtured by

the river Fons and hardened by the combination of original Brits and Roman

bath lovers. The last bastion of the Roman Empire, it is now a mighty town

indeed.
The town's name? Spawater, home of the legendary Spawater Baths.

The Spawater Chronicles are the tales of its citizens, and how they take on

the world and win.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #175914 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 7
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Publisher
The Spawater Chronicles are either serious books with added
comedy, or
comedic tomes poking fun at the pomposity of the serious.
We are not sure which, so we gave the author a seven-book contract to find

out.

From the Author
This book is for all who love blackjack, for all who want to
know how card-counting actually works and for all who want to be cured of
gambling addiction. It show both sides of the gambling world.

Casino is volume three of The Spawater Chronicles, a
series of seven, relating the adventures of a group of friends, descendents
of the Romans, in the old Roman town of Spawater. It tells how the local
Health and Safety zealots have torpedoed that hitherto unsinkable
institution, The Lifeboat Club. By bottom-of-the-pack dealing the council
intend to purchase it for peanuts and flatten it to make the car park for
a government approved supercasino - Unless Jady and his friends can turn up
trumps.

Odds on a good, dirty fight.

Youth Market is volume one of The Spawater Chronicles, a
series of seven, relating the adventures of a group of friends, descendents

of the Romans, in the old Roman town of Spawater. It tells how they handle

cruelty to battered chickens and cruelty to intelligent television viewers.

Volume two sees the introduction of Identity Cards to Spawater. Up with
this the Romans shall not put.
Volume three and the government wish to build a Super Casino in town. This

entails flattening Lifeboats', the friends' drinking club, for a car park.

It also means demolishing the Spawater Refuge Centre, home of victims of
gambling, drinking and drugs, world famous locally as Losers' Corner. The
friends object - Lifeboats' is their second home.
Volume four (to be published 2008) tells the story of the government's
attempt to build a nuclear power station in the Spawater hills just outside

town. It's a power thing.
Volume five (to be published 2009) finds Jady inviting Alison, everyone's
favourite Spawaterian, to be his candidate to run for Member of the
European Parliament.
'But I know nothing about politics and nothing about the European Union,'
protested Alison, baffled.
'Then you are the perfect candidate.'
Volume Six? well, I have not finished writing it yet, but it involves the
usual gang.

From the Inside Flap
Blimus!

Customer Reviews

Filling the bathroom slippers of the great Douglas Adams.
Just finished book three, CASINO. Easily the best researched and engaging of the Spawater series. Jady and the crew have grown up to the realities of the world but not let realities corrode their plans and ideals. Barry Tighe is shaping up to fill the bathroom slippers of the great Douglas Adams. Enjoy :-)