Ricks Place - UK Author John A Rickard

Welcome to Rickpress.com!

The www.Rickpress.com site is mainly dedicated to promoting the work of John A. Rickard – novels, short stories, plays and poetry.

Visitors can read excerpts from my two novels and other work.

‘The Golgotha Gate’ is described by some readers as beginning where Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ ends. The book can be ordered from the publishers www.Xlibris.com of Philadelphia or from booksellers everywhere and on Amazon's Kindle.

For a free read, two chapters can be downloaded here (Prologue), here (Chapter Two) and here (Chapter Twenty One).

‘Beyond Pride and Prejudice/Lydia’s Lives’ – is a tale of the ups and downs, so to speak, in the turbulent life of Lydia Bennet, Jane Austen’s wild but not so wicked anti-heroine. Men are her passion and her partners in the pursuit of pleasure range from the young and unworldly, to mature gentlemen with bank balances; from political radicals to royalty. Lydia loves them all.

For a free read there will be regular snippets (see below) and two chapters can be downloaded here (Chapter One) and here (Chapter Seven).

For more information click onto BOOKS.

LYDIA'S SNIPPETS

Our flute tutor seemed nervous, but came and stood to one side. I moved in front of him, opened my arms in silent invitation and held my flute in the ready position. In order to reach my hands his body moulded with mine, his arms enfolded my bosom as his hands moved to demonstrate the fingering. That recently discovered strange warmth surged through my body and I cried out: ‘Oh, Mr Prinkston!’

With that he uttered his first sound since the start of the lesson. ‘I do beg your pardon!’ he squeaked, a note of fear in his voice. As he went to remove his arms and move away I swiftly trapped one arm against my bosom, turned and clasped him tight against me then drew him with me to the couch, he moaning piteously all the while, ‘Oh, Miss Lydia, what are you about? Oh, Miss Lydia, what are you about?’

I made no response for arousal had made me breathless and I felt any simpleton would be aware of what I was about.

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Wickham wrote: Many people will assume that I played the villain and that the seduction of Lydia was my doing alone. It is true that when we first came to Brighton I had considered a dalliance with Lydia. She is after all a beautiful, energetic girl – no, a woman, whatever her age! – and I felt from the beginning an attraction to her.

In public Lydia is, by and large, a sweet, sometimes decorous, young lady. In private, I have had difficulty maintaining my dignity as a male – for her hands often seem everywhere at once, and stemming their swift advances is as difficult as catching hold of a snake – while at the same time avoiding a bite from its fangs.

I have to say I look forward to life with Lydia with very mixed feelings – for as I have already indicated during our stay together in London I have found her carnal appetites grow apace. I am already exhausted – and wonder what my future is to be!

There are times when I feel that I am a fawn closely stalked by a leopard in heat!

(For more Snippets click here)

The site has a number of other features – including an occasional news feature column ‘The Foreteller’—‘TNT: Tomorrow’s News Today’. What our descendants (if we have any) may be reading about us in the years and centuries ahead. Another occasional feature will be ‘Postcards to Planet Edo-Andromeda’ – an alien sent to Earth on a fact-finding mission writes home to his wife. There is a regular bits and bobs column As I Was Saying to Joe and Saigo. Much of the content on the site is free to read.

I hope you will drop in regularly and browse as we add more new content.

Kind regards,

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