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Dreams, are powerful things."What if, your normal life was flipped upside down, after a series of reading influenced dreams? Everything you thought you knew, everything you ever learned - a lie?Twenty-one-year-old, Hecate Crosse, was just a normal girl, from a noble family, with normal dreams. Who enjoyed lounging around reading, gardening and arguing with her hateful, older brother, Alastor. When one day those dreams, turned into dark, sinist...

A Christmas Cracker serves as a Godsend to the overstretched parson, headmaster or preacher during one of the most exciting and busy times of the Christian calendar. A collection of ready-made and readily accessible Christmas services, tried and tested over the course of Reverend Parker's 25 years as a rector, yet still very much applicable to the modern minister. This is in part a 'how to' guide yes, but it's more than that. It's about active...

¿You think you have committed the perfect murder. You have framed the unsuspecting witless person who will take the hit for you.... but in the age of social media and surveillance there's always someone watching...

Failed Times and Twisted Follies' is a collection of entertaining true-life stories in the life of one of Australia's adventurers, John Carr (1935-2021). Always striving for his next adventure and recognition, his wandering spirit takes him from Adelaide, South Australia to places many Australians never go. Each adventure is colored by the times he lived through, and the people he encountered. Winner of an Australian inventors TV show for his ...

Most people associate giving with charity and donating money. There are many ways to give and participate, and without the process of giving and taking, humankind would not exist.I would define the process of giving by first making sure we understand why we are giving, and the reason we are giving must be linked to the person or organisation we are giving to. We must listen, observe and empathise to understand the needs of the receiving party,...

Antarctica: the highest, driest, coldest and most remote continent on earth. earth. The cost of tours, even to the more accessible regions on the Antarctic Peninsula, are prohibitive for most people. In a rare case of right time, right place the author was fortunate to be engaged as a volunteer on an Adelie penguin study project, spending several months in a fi eld camp near Mawson station, Antarctica. The wilderness and wildlife adventure l...

Karl Heinrich Koch's masterpiece from 1897, written during the heyday of Mosel wine, takes the reader on a journey through the Mosel Valley. This new English translation, the first, includes an insightful foreword by David Schildknecht, extensive footnotes, essays by Kevin Goldberg and Lars Carlberg, and a short glossary of the amazingly complicated German vineyard designations. Included is a facsimile of the complete German original.

At the closing stages of the F.A. Carling Premier League season in 1999-2000, West London Football Club's continual endeavour to staveoff relegation to Division One of the Football League was looking more and more unlikely.In the seven years since its formation it had never experienced such consistent difficulty. it was hard enough competing against some of thebest clubs in the world on a level playing field but, unknown to them, an additional...

¿Grant Campbell owns a successful advertising agency in London's West End. Approaching his fortieth birthday, he takes his wife and four young children on holiday to the Spanish island of Menorca. There, one of his teenage daughters befriends Sara, a precocious 15 year old girl who has a dark and secret past. The meeting starts a cataclysmic chain of events that will shatter the lives of the Campbell family and will see Grant at the centre of ...

Pursuing the Dream' is a biopic that speaks of a specific journey by sea from the Caribbean to Britain during the early 1960s, and at a period when peoples from the various colonised English-speaking West Indian islands were being invited to join the British workforce in re-building of the country following destructions that resulted from World War 2.The specific request resulted in large numbers of mostly disadvantaged young West Indians gras...

It was an unexpected knock on a door in England, in 1955, that began a 60-year connection with St John's Community Centre in Pumwani, Kenya, for Pat Richardson, and later for her husband James. From this unassuming start they found themselves part of the story of this important Community Centre, in the heart of one of the most deprived areas of Nairobi.Pat's time spent as Warden, and James' years as a Committee Chairman, give them a unique van...

It was an unexpected knock on a door in England, in 1955, that began a 60-year connection with St John's Community Centre in Pumwani, Kenya, for Pat Richardson, and later for her husband James. From this unassuming start they found themselves part of the story of this important Community Centre, in the heart of one of the most deprived areas of Nairobi.Pat's time spent as Warden, and James' years as a Committee Chairman, give them a unique van...

NOW Living the Dream: A Tale of Surviving Cancer by Daksha Trivedi is a testament to her brave journey through an aggressive cancer which brings to light the power of hope as she learns to accept uncertainty. Daksha's story of endurance began long before receiving an unexpected and a devastating diagnosis of cancer in her lower oesophagus. She had hardly come to terms with the painful loss of her twin brother from advanced cancer only six mont...

RAMBLES ON THE EDGE continues the story of Wendy's family as they leave Kenya for new opportunities in Rhodesia at a time when the country was safe and prosperous but, unknown to them, a state of war was already brewing. They had no inkling of this at first as they adjusted to Rhodesian life and society with many novel and surprising experiences, until the ferocity of what became a terrifying conflict erupted with destabilising force and the f...

Earth to Eagle swoops down on stages and peculiarities of life andlove, hovers over ages of the planet and humans, and muddies itsfeet in nature and messy emotions. Sparsely punctuated and looselysurrealist, this collection touches on pineapples, Handel'sMessiah, a Roman scrubbing brush, a bisected cow, and of course theeagle.

They say that life is a journey. This is my part of my journey. Four occasions where my sense of self is extracted and opened for opinion. Four occasions that have, over the years, altered the way I live and impacted upon my thoughts. These stories, along with the poetry, wander through my gender confusion, my sexual dysfunction and my own way of reacting, and acting, in the world that I walk. They are periods in my life which have had a great...

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This is a book inspired by a South African Expat's passion to save the rhinos in South Africa. The idea was to create awareness about rhino poaching around the world while encouraging children (and adults!) to get creative by writing about rhinos. Raising awareness and funds for anti-poaching efforts in The Pilanesberg National Park is the ultimate goal of the Writing For Rhinos project and 100% of all funds raised through the sale of this boo...

Creativity isn't sufficient to set up an enterprise.Therefore, a creative person needs to become an entrepreneur simply by learning how to sell his product for profit.'The Creative Entrepreneurs' is focused on the A to Z requirements of how to be a successful entrepreneur.The content provides the guidelines of how products and services can be taken to the market place with a view to sell or offer services at the appropriate price, make profit ...

RIFT VALLEY RAMBLES continues the story told in Rambles with my Family as Wendy returns to Kenya at the age of twenty four, leaving behind the jumbled misfortunes of life at home as she sets out to find new purpose and direction for her own life. At this time Kenya was on the verge of independence from colonial rule, so it was into this charged atmosphere of anticipation and expectation that she arrives with her own hopes and plans. These are ...