Books by Stephen P. Smith:
Walking it Through: An asthmatic’s walking diary
Published by Amazon 2022.
Kindle £1.25, paperback £13.49.
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What do you do when you were the shy, bullied asthmatic who was always last to be picked during team selection at school?
Give up and accept you’ll never be good at sport?
Not Stephen Smith. As a young man he donned walking boots and set off on an adventure to climb The Munros – the 282 highest mountains in Scotland. Having completed that he hoped to settle down. But unable to 'find the one', he set himself a new challenge – to complete all the 1432 mountains of the British Isles. After twenty years of walking, and achieving 960 of the mountains, he met 'the one'. Then another life changing event led to him work through his obsessive workaholic nature and retire his walking ambitions.
In this second volume of Stephen's hill-walking diaries you can follow his adventures from New Zealand's Milford Track and Australia's Wilsons Prom, to walking all the Welsh and English Nuttalls, the Scottish Donalds, half the Corbetts and seven coast to coast adventures across Scotland on the TGO Challenge.
From 111 miles in five days catching up after a stomach bug to the sweltering heat of the Australian bush, Stephen recounts his walks, his life and his loves.
'Stephen has a quirk to his style of narration with little anecdotes in among the description of place and adventure or misadventure that makes this easy to read and enjoy.' Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, Winner of the Bath Short Story Award 2013.
ISBN-13 : 979-8845944085
The Munros: An asthmatic’s walking diary
Published by Amazon 2020.
Numerous 5 star reviews. Kindle £0.77, paperback £7.49.
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The inspiring tale of how one man conquered his demons and lived the dream..
What do you do when you were the shy, bullied asthmatic who was always last to be picked during team selection at school?
Give up and accept you’ll never be good at sport?
Not Stephen Smith. As a young man he donned walking boots and set off on an adventure to climb The Munros – the 282 highest mountains in Scotland.
In this moving, inspirational, witty and sometimes tragic account of the lows and highs of hill walking, Stephen reveals how he conquered his demons and lived the dream.
ISBN-13: 979-8650856085
Deriving Prime Numbers by Set Theory: With Programming Examples in SQL
Published by Amazon 2020.
Five star reviews. Kindle £0.77, paperback £2.99.
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In this short book, written in a chatty style, the author discusses deriving prime numbers using set notation and the set based features of the SQL computer language. The Gauss and Riemann prime counting functions are discussed and SQL scripts are provided to generate prime numbers, count prime numbers and generate the next prime number, from a given prime number, using sets.
The author provides his own translation of his work into a set notation formula for deriving Pn+1 from P1 to Pn.
ISBN-13: 979-8698069317
The Veteran and The Boy
Published by Amazon 2018.
Five star reviews. Kindle £0.77, paperback £3.49.
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“A bewitching novelette about a homeless First World War soldier and a bullied schoolboy with a dark and powerful ending."
⭐ 'Highly recommended: Michael Morpurgo (War Horse) meets Ken Loach's Kes.' J.S.Monroe, bestselling author of Find Me
⭐ ‘A compelling and well written piece.’ Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, Winner of the Bath Short Story Award 2013
⭐ Kindle chart topper in 'Historical Fiction : Military & Wars'
It’s the 1930s and the Great War still casts its shadow over rural England. One ex-soldier, ‘The Veteran’, is suffering from shellshock and spends his days wandering between the market town of Devizes and the surrounding villages.
He’s as outcast as the bullied schoolboy, Billy Shelton, who he befriends and protects. But when The Veteran is accused of a crime can Billy protect him?
ISBN-10: 172928423X
ISBN-13: 978-1729284230
The Unsound Convictions of Judge Stephen Mentall
Published by Amazon 2018.
Numerous 5 star reviews. Kindle £0.99, paperback £6.99.
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“Hilarious. A comic genius is born. Thoroughly British with scurrilous but likeable characters. Laugh-out-loud funny. A must for fans of Tom Sharpe.”
HE’S A JUDGE WITH A PAST
Meet Stephen Mentall. He’s a judge, a hypocrite and he’s been a very naughty boy – the kind of man who thinks the world, and all those that inhabit it, are there to serve him and him alone.
BUT HIS PAST IS ABOUT TO CATCH UP WITH HIM
Life is going well for Judge Mentall, he’s just managed to get shot of his wife and Madam Suzie’s House of Pleasure now regard him as their best customer.
But, with forces at work to bring him down, he finds himself the victim of a botched kidnapping. As a result, he is locked-up and seemingly forgotten in a seedy care home for the elderly by kidnappers pretending to be his concerned offspring.
His protestations that he’s actually a crown court judge and not senile prove as futile as his attempts to escape. Meanwhile, the three Chief Constables charged with finding him spend more time bickering with each other than they do investigating his disappearance. Only a chance piece of evidence reveals his whereabouts.
His freedom is short-lived, however, when the crimes he has committed and those he hasn’t soon catch up with him. As his own trial looms, will Judge Mentall also become the victim of an unsound conviction?
SO WHO WILL LIKE IT…
Smith’s debut novel is a laugh-out-loud satirical romp, it’ll will remind you of the novels of Tom Sharpe (especially 'Blott On The Landscape' with its similar power mad corrupt officials). Perfect too for fans of Viz, Private Eye and Have I Got News for You. Click on the ‘Look inside’ button and read the first chapter for free.
ISBN-10: 1721802258
ISBN-13: 978-1721802258
The Charlie Chaplin Walk
Published, by Sigma Press, in 2010
The Charlie Chaplin Walk is targeted at fans of Chaplin, those interested in film history, people with a connection to the Lambeth and Kennington areas of London and anybody with an interest of the social history of London’s poor of the late Victorian and early Edwardian era.
Unlike other biography of Chaplin, where his entire life is described with the occasional reference back to his tragic and impoverished childhood, this book concentrates on the story of his formative years and the influence they had upon his films. Chaplin once said that anything anybody wanted to know about him could be understood by watching his films.
The title “The Charlie Chaplin Walk” is a play on words between his ataxic walk and the content of the book which explores the streets of his childhood. It is a chronological tour that can be taken on foot or in the comfort of an armchair.
Available on Amazon
ISBN-10: 185058852X
ISBN-13: 978-1850588528
Thinking About Computer Programming?
This was first published in the year 2000.
A Book For People Considering A Career In Computer Programming
Thinking About Computer Programming? has been written specifically for people considering programming as a career or hobby, and has been tailored for people who may either have no previous computer experience or are just familiar with using a computer.
The objectives of this book are to equip the reader to think in a way that would be required of a successful computer programmer. Therefore, it bridges the gap between books aimed at users and those aimed at programming, by getting the reader to think logically about things that can occur in everyday life, and apply reason and logic to them. It is not aimed to directly teach programming, but instead to teach the frame of mind needed to become a computer programmer.
Anybody who reads and understands the book has the potential to take up computer programming as a hobby or career.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. What Is Computer Programming?
3. Sorting
4. Conveyor Belt
5. Bases
6. Standards
7. Calendar
8. Indexes
9. Validation
10. Semaphores
11. Fault Fixing
12. Truth Tables and State Transition Diagrams
13. More Bases
14. Tables
15. Handshaking
16. Logic
17. The Seven Segment Display
18. What Next?
19. Conclusion
20. Answers to Exercises