Christmas Presents for Everyone
December 18, 2023 by Doctor Vernon Coleman
As a small Christmas gift I’m making the eBook versions of two of my books available FREE over Christmas.
First, the kindle eBook version of my novel `Dr Bullock’s Annals’ will be available free of charge to all readers from 23rd December to 27th December. Just go to your local Amazon between those dates, type in `Dr Bullock’s Annals’ by Vernon Coleman and you should be able to download the kindle version free of charge. If the download doesn’t work please don’t blame me. As you can probably imagine, things do happen outside my control. `Dr Bullock’s Annals’ is subtitled `A Revealing and Sometimes Shocking Account of a Year in the Life of a Young Victorian Doctor’. The book is meticulously researched and absolutely accurate. Everything that happens in the book could have happened. Please be warned: Because it is historically accurate, `Dr Bullock’s Annals’ is not very politically correct. In fact it is undeniably politically incorrect. But I hope it makes you smile and, at the very least, make you grateful that you do not live in Victorian times.
Second, the kindle eBook version of my book Memories 1 will be available free of charge to all readers from 23rd December to 27th December. Just go to your local Amazon between those dates, type in Vernon Coleman and `Memories 1’ and you should be able to download the kindle version free of charge. Again, please don’t blame if the download doesn’t work. `Memories 1’ is the first volume of my autobiography and it is a mixture of recollections, anecdotes, confessions, personal impressions, experiences, feelings and regrets.
You can download either or both of these books. If you enjoy them please leave a review. If you don’t enjoy them please forget you ever read them.
(Both books are also available as paperbacks but I’m afraid you’ll have to pay for those.)
Now Available – Mrs Caldicot Omnibus Edition
Dr Vernon Coleman
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of `Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War’ we have put all four novels about Mrs Caldicot into a single volume.
The omnibus edition of Mrs Caldicot novels is called `Mrs Caldicot – Omnibus Edition’ (we spent a lot of time devising that title) and it contains the uncut, unexpurgated, un-bowdlerised versions of all four books: Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, Mrs Caldicot’s Knickerbocker Glory, Mrs Caldicot’s Oyster Parade and Mrs Caldicot’s Turkish Delight.
Mrs Caldicot – Omnibus Edition is available as a paperback and in a hardcover edition and you can buy a copy from Amazon. It’ll make a superb gift.
To purchase a copy CLICK HERE or go to Amazon.
All four books are also available individually, both as paperbacks and as eBooks.
After I exposed the covid fraud in March 2020, Wikipedia completely removed the page for the four books about Mrs Caldicot (in a successful attempt to remove their existence from the internet) and so here, just for balance, here is a tiny selection of the reviews of Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War (and the film that was based on it):
`It's poignant, funny and `socially relevant'.' - Daily Telegraph
`...funny and poignant film about a woman pushed into a home who decides to fight back, transforming the lives of those around her.' - The Times
`Its mouse-that-roared scenario is always charming and entertaining. It also takes quite some talent to bring the character and story so close to a dark abyss - and keep the audience smiling.' - Empire (`UK's No 1 Movie Magazine')
`...destined to be regarded as a typically understated British classic.' - Express & Echo
`An endearing fairytale quality...There are some serious points about society's ill treatment of the elderly, but they come neatly packaged in the kind of gentle comedy that should please devotees of Last of the Summer Wine.' - Daily Express
`It's a gentle sub-Ealing comedy starring Pauline Collins as a feisty inmate of an old people's home leading a revolution against the unfeeling powers-that-be. Collins shows her usual warmth, and people over 60 may be uplifted by the theme of grey power.' - Daily Mail
`Pauline Collins leads a revolt by the residents of an old people’s' home in this amusing tale, almost a throwback to the Ealing comedies.' You can't help but root for her as she gets her own back on the nasty home manager, played by her real life hubby John Alderton.' - Daily Star
`Pauline Collins as a widow puts up a feisty struggle to retain her independence when parked by her son in a twilight rest home. Humour, pathos and sympathy as she opposes John Alderton and all the rules making life miserable for senior citizens.' - Alexander Walker, Evening Standard
`Feelings of solidarity aren't hard to summon for Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War, a little British film about a woman unjustly imprisoned in a penny-pinching retirement home.' - Metro London
Vernon's Laughter Prescription Goes Down Well. `Multi-million selling author Vernon Coleman is behind a big new film comedy. The story, published by Great Fiction in its paperback novel form, has been lauded as a comedy with an important social message.' - Huddersfield Daily Examiner
`...a film you can't help liking...' - TV Times
`...cranky but spunky crusties in a One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest revolt against the tyranny of boiled cabbage.' - Evening Standard
`Cabbage flick leafs competition standing.' - Plymouth Extra
`...a little British comedy with a big heart.' - Financial Times
`After 30 years of thankless marriage to a sewage engineer, Pauline Collins is shipped into a nursing home by her obnoxious son and his greedy wife. Tired of eating boiled cabbage and sedatives, she decamps with a squad of half-dead incumbents and ends up on national TV. Viewers will applaud the sentiment...' - The Times
`The potential for a provocative hilarious look at old age and its attendant problems are all here in the script...' - What's on in London
`Doctor in the picture house.' - Sheffield Star
`Doctor's orders for film - Coleman highlights battling pensioners.' - Birmingham Evening Mail
`A genteel comedy with a subtle social message. Superb cast of seasoned professionals. An amazing job considering it probably cost 1/20th of most Hollywood product.' - The Guardian Unlimited
Our Christmas Break
Dr Vernon Coleman
Having worked pretty well solidly for many years now we have decided to take a small break over Christmas, and so there won’t be any new articles on www.vernoncoleman.com for three weeks after Friday 15th December 2023. We hope to start putting up fresh articles on Monday the 8th January 2024. The keenest of keen readers will find a wide variety of books available via the bookshop on www.vernoncoleman.com and these will be available for sale throughout the holidays.
We’d both like to take the opportunity to thank all our readers for their support, and a special big thanks to those who have bought books and/or written lovely reviews. You have (literally) helped keep us alive.
We hope you all have a peaceful and healthy holiday period over Christmas and that your holiday is either restful or exhausting according to your wishes.
Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to you all.
Vernon and Antoinette Coleman