Matt and Ella eventually get together in the Spring of ‘69.  But the romantic reunion does not quite live up to her expectations and on returning home she discovers the reason - he is planning to marry someone he has met in London, where he now lives. 

Her dream finally over, Ella tries to put the pain and disappointment behind her.  She gives all her concentration to setting up her business, unaware that behind the scenes her devious mother Mel is finalising her plans, pushing her towards a match with local rich bad boy Andy Macayne, the man she has always wanted her daughter to marry.  

A year later Ella is convinced she has it all - a handsome husband who loves her, a beautiful home and a thriving business.  With all of this she finds it easy to forget the past and move on.  But when ‘happy ever after’ goes wrong and Ella returns to the village where she grew up, looking for support from her grandparents, she has no idea her past is about to come back - with devastating consequences.

Love, Lies and Promises is the second book of the BEHIND BLUE EYES trilogy. 

Events unfold in Together, For Better and For Worse. A busy mother brings her children home from a gymkhana. Her boisterous sons break a display case that holds the treasured family picture of a soldier from the Great War and his devoted wife. She cuts her fingers on the shattered glass and faints. In a dream, she imagines the lives led by her great grandparents as their love for each other helps them to overcome the serious wounds that the soldier, a Royal Horse Artillery serviceman, suffers in action.

Following her divorce, a successful businesswoman spends Christmas and New Year alone in her new home overlooking the Thames. Her husband has denied her the chance of motherhood; he’s had the ‘snip’. Distracted, she resorts to a fling with a female work colleague but this is not the future. A city dealmaker asks her to accompany him to a New Year’s Eve party of mutual clients; she learns that his wife has left him; they are childless and he, she infers, is to blame. Behind The Mirror Image contrasts the private lives of the characters with what the world sees of them.

His father flew Lancaster bombers over Germany during World War II.

‘…I saw a romantic image, myself as a cycling nomad, drifting where I liked, sleeping in fields, and visiting beautiful and historic places.  Spreading the word of the bicycle and environmental awareness, and spiritually looking for a place to lay down routes for the rest of my life.’

An animated tale: chatty, humorous and moving. Reader beware…what starts out as a one-off project can become a way of life forever after!

5% of the author’s profits of this book will go to MAG (Mines Advisory Group) registered charity number 1083008

‘…I saw a romantic image, myself as a cycling nomad, drifting where I liked, sleeping in fields, and visiting beautiful and historic places.  Spreading the word of the bicycle and environmental awareness, and spiritually looking for a place to lay down routes for the rest of my life.’

An animated tale: chatty, humorous and moving. Reader beware…what starts out as a one-off project can become a way of life forever after!

5% of the author’s profits of this book will go to MAG (Mines Advisory Group) registered charity number 1083008

Churchill’s famous dictum: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”...Dictum can also be applied to capitalism.
The Smithsonian Agreement was hailed by President Nixon as the “greatest monetary agreement in the history of the world.”    
This greatest agreement collapse in a little over a year.  But it is now all too clear extreme volatility.  This volatility is the consequence of the national fiat money system. Instability and risk are the price of free market system.  The floating FX system since 1971 is powered by financial institutions that lead the world towards popular capitalism.

Giles MacTaggart is startled when he stumbles on a bundle of marijuana packets in his brother’s room.
      Was Angus, of all people, involved in drug dealing?
      The local schools have issued alerts that a gang of professional dealers are supplying drugs in the community.
      Worried, scared, and not knowing what else to do, Giles destroys the contents of the packets—a well-intentioned but disastrous move. 
      After Bud Jensen’s panic-stricken initial threats, events accelerate rapidly, culminating in a wild horse-versus-motorcycle race through dense woods. Will the gang’s brutal enforcer catch Giles?    Giles is no expert horseman . . .
      The Jensen Case is a richly entertaining combination of thrills, page-turning suspense, family warmth, rollicking humour, facts on drug abuse, and fascinating insights into the quirks and powers of a remarkable horse. 
      The unexpected ending will leave readers thoroughly satisfied.

]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/Remembrances+Poems+of+Passions+Past/ G.S.Ling@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=871 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:06:35 GMT Remembrances invites us to find significant connections in our personal lives between the sublime and the pain of passions lost in order that we are delivered to the realization that rejoicing in the experience of pain is the key to the joy of living.

Where is the thrill in a love affair devoid of challenges? What are challenges that do not offer the possibilities of failure? We often embark upon sharing our passions with those whom we love yet never with a preconceived acceptance of the possibility of failure. We indulge in the fruits of our passion and always strive to prevent it from ending. But, should it be necessary for the end to come? Resilience and adaptation are uniquely human virtues. They give us the power and the opportunities to articulate our pathos and probe our ethos from which we rise again to a new life - to a new awakening.

Thus, this book shows that our craftsmanship and self-knowledge have accrued since time immemorial by reality-evaluation of our imaginative beliefs as to the usability of reality and the maintenance of our survival dependent social cohesion, and that this self-knowledge was progressively reflected in the deities of our imaginative belief to the reinforcement of adherence to our behaviour codes in reality. Again, this book shows that the methods of craftsmanship led to the experimentation which defines scientific method which from the seventeenth century onwards enabled beliefs concerning the underlying nature of our reality to be validated to the knowledge which inter alia transformed craftsmanship to technology.

However, this book also shows that while differences in belief have been the source of conflict from time immemorial, knowledge has been accepted by religious believers regardless of such differences; that in contrast, secular belief now opposes aspects of our self-knowledge and technology; that scientific knowledge and method are now being corrupted to pseudo-science in support of a secular belief supremacy reminiscent of the religious belief supremacy which destroyed the Roman Empire; and that it is imperative to replace our current belief-based democracy with a knowledge-based alternative before democracy itself is lost to the reality rejection of postmodernist relative belief.

PART TWO: MARIA BARSTOW OF DANZIG, AND THE STORY OF LITTLE ANN, by Elizabeth Barstow, of 'Garrow Hill', York.  Elizabeth's grandmother, born Maria Maclean in 1762, lived in Danzig. She married Michael Barstow, a merchant of York, and they had six children. Michael died in the Napoleonic wars, when his timber business was severely compromised, but he left Maria their grand house in Danzig (later the commandant's house). Maria then married Cornelius von Almonde, and they endured twenty years of wars, during which Maria went blind. As Cornelius was the Dutch consul, their house became the Dutch consulate. At different times, it was inhabited by the future queen of Holland (who gave Maria a ring), the French army, Napoleon, and the Russian army. Some of Maria's children were brought up and educated in England by their uncle.
     A shorter, second story in PART TWO tells how Elizabeth Barstow's mother Ann Jones was able to escape from Ireland in 1798, as a baby, when the French landed at Killala to support an Irish rebellion.

PART THREE: THE KELLY SISTERS OF IRELAND.  This part is about the lives, in the nineteenth century, of the four daughters of the Reverend Thomas Kelly. The daughters' grandmother Mrs Tighe engaged an artist, Maria Spilsbury Taylor, to teach them to draw and paint. The daughters wrote letters, poems, and two memoirs. Sally Kelly showed talent in art, but she died of tuberculosis. Caroline worked in charities, and started a cottage industry (tatting) in the famine. Fanny married a Webber, and Elizabeth a Wingfield, and both families reared children. An unpublished poem by the daughters' aunt, the poet Mary Tighe, is included.

PART FOUR: MY MOTHER, JOAN WEBBER.  Joan Wilkinson left Australia for Malaya in 1929 to teach English. She married a rubber planter, William Webber; they had three daughters. In 1942, while William was fighting the Japanese, Joan and her one-week-old baby escaped from Singapore in the nick of time. The two older children had already been sent to relatives in Sydney. After the war, the family lived in Malaya again, through the Emergency. The children went to boarding schools in Malaya and Australia from the age of five. In 1950, Joan and William settled in Tasmania and enjoyed a peaceful life, though not one without problems. I wrote about how my childhood was affected by war, separation, and boarding school.

]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/Ambitious+for+Glory%3A+The+Career+of+a+Victorian+Naval+Officer/ James.Saumarez@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=868 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:29:33 GMT Thomas Saumarez was in many ways a typical Victorian naval officer – self confident, proud and quick to take offence. In a period of relative peace, he was fortunate to achieve distinction through active service in the Argentine, the West African Station and the Second Chinese Opium War, reaching post rank at an early age but retiring shortly after this following discord with his superior officer.

By good fortune he left his ‘Private and Public Journal’, and through this and other original correspondence his grandson and great-grandson have been able to piece together his service life to produce this book, consisting largely of direct transcription of Thomas’s writing.

This period was one of great change, with sail to steam and wood to iron, and the book provides an important record of the ships and actions during ‘Pax Britannica’. Perhaps more importantly it also gives a fascinating insight into the mores and opinions of an officer of that age, who is revealingly frank in his judgement of those with whom he served.

We ought to be building the bridges of love and tolerance
Rather than stocking the flame of hatred and long-held prejudice
Humanity is one giant family
Kindness and understanding is what we need
Not clinging to sentiment that divide and breed hostility.

In the world of today
We need each other
In the world of yesterday
It was hostility and isolation.
In the world of tomorrow
We will stand together or sink together
Creating a new world order.

A story about a woman who never seems to get her well deserved promotion, three letters that find their destination after forty years making many feelings unfold, the Projectionist who gets too involved in his own little world,...

From the imagination of a mysterious London author comes a collection of short stories for the adult in you. Covering the many faces of black sensuality Mr Oh has written tales to open your eyes, mind and thighs. Each story is a slice of relationships, love, hate, desire, lust, experimentation and the fantasies we deny ourselves. Real stories for real people.

'Holding on to her hips, Donald was as smooth as chocolate going in and as slick as grease coming out...' ]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/Their+Fathers+Lied/ James.Thurbin@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=862 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:46:46 GMT ‘Do you remember Billy Mercer?’
‘Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. Yes, I remember Billy Mercer. There was a time when I thought of that man every single day.’
He returned his gaze to his friend with a smile that held tenderness and a little regret.

Billy Mercer, a man of indomitable spirit and character joins the Great War and witnesses the death of everyone he cares for, in battles of horrifying carnage, time and time again. Repeatedly promoted and decorated due to his fighting ability, Mercer finds more tragedy and approaches despair until the love of an attached woman almost saves him.
Upon discovery he is sent back again to face his demons at the front line. Can his knack of surviving death hold out this final time?

‘Their Fathers Lied’
A novel on love and death during the Great War

Rock 'N' Roll Mercenaries not only supports the big names but up and coming bands too, including the British metal band Nex, the Swedish AOR group Work Of Art and the Canadian melodic rock outfit Sonic X.

There is also a bonus chapter featuring interviews with a small number of highly-acclaimed and well-known rock scribes, namely, Alan Clayson, Chris Charlesworth, Colin Larkin, Dave Thompson, Jerry Hopkins, Joe Ambrose and Mick Middles ]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/A+book+called+Eric/ Jonathan.Handiman@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=859 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:47:01 GMT Albert Einstein was one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century. He gave to us his famous theory of relativity, and he was instrumental in bringing us into the nuclear age. His genius we know extended beyond Science and he left as his legacy to the human race many profound philosophies. Including one that could have huge influence on our lives, and an even more profound effect upon the future of life on this planet!

]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/%C3%96zvegyek%2C+%C3%A1rv%C3%A1k%2C+foglyok/ Otto.Bixler@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=858 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:08:37 GMT Végre! Írott alakban! Fedezd fel és tedd magadévá, amit ezrek kaptak Istentől konferenciákon, iskolákban és gyülekezeti imaszolgálatok során. Ez egy „Hogyan csináljam?” könyv, amelyet azzal a céllal írt a szerző, hogy szellemi szabadságra juthassanak azok, akik családi örökségének része az orosz kommunizmus vagy személyesen átélték azt. Nem számít, azonban melyik országból jössz, az itt tárgyalt, a való életből vett példákkal illusztrált szellemi alapelvek számodra is érvényesek. Ismerd meg, amit fontosnak tart Isten, és fedezd fel, hogyan távolíthatod el életedből a legfőbb szellemi akadályokat! Újra tapasztald meg Isten szentségét és Szellemének erejét, hogy végezhesd Jézus munkáját! Halld meg Isten hangját, ahogy még soha nem hallottad! Peter Horrobin, az Ellel Ministries alapítója mondta: „Ez a könyv kulcsfontosságú mérföldkő Isten népe szabadulásában.”  Három könyv egyben: a személyes és családi gyógyulásról, a kommunista befolyás alól való szabadulásról, valamint egy függelék olyan, a hiteddel kapcsolatos kérdésekre adott válaszokból, amelyekre az egyházban általában nem kapsz választ.

Otto Bixler, korábban egy Vineyard Gyülekezet pásztora és felesége, a kaliforniai Sharon Angliában segítettek megalapozni egy gyógyító szolgálatot, az Ellel Ministriest, amikor a Vas Függöny szakadozni kezdett. Az első hullámban siettek Kelet-Európába segíteni. Amikor megérkeztek az oroszok által megszállt Magyarországra, katonák, géppuskák és őrkutyák árnyékában kezdtek hozzá gyógyító szolgálatukhoz, és tanították a magyarokat Jézus szolgálatára. Miközben terjedt a gyógyító szolgálat híre, Otto és Sharon bejárták a világot, 28 országban szolgáltak. Ma mindenki magán viseli, az elmúlt 25 év történéseinek következményeit: azok, akiknek nem örökségük a kommunizmus és azok is, akik az üldöztetés elöl Ausztráliába, Kanadába, az USA-ba, az Egyesült Királyságba és hasonló helyekre menekültek, de tudtukon kívül szellemileg továbbra is sérültek attól, amit szülőhazájukban: Romániában, Oroszországban, Ukrajnában, Magyarországon és még rengeteg országban elszenvedtek.

Azok, akik részt vettek konferenciákon, iskolákban és gyülekezeti imaszolgálatokban, melyeken Otto szolgált mondták: „Tanítása oly egyszerű és mégis annyira mély. – (Egy magyar pásztor) Megérintett az Úr Szent Szelleme és megszabadított a bálványoktól. Él az Úr! (Egy orosz hívő). 60 éves vagyok… mélyebb bűnbánatra és többek között a kommunizmustól való szabadságra volt szükségem. Nem tudtam mit kezdeni vele. Belső gyógyulást éltem át, és megszabadultam a félelemtől. – (egy orosz hívő).Otto és Sharon Bixler egyedülálló stílusban, lefegyverzően egyszerű módon, de a Szent Szellem jelenlétében és vezetése alatt tanít és szolgál az emelvényről. Az elmúlt 17 év során létrehozták az Ellel Ministries 11 egy időzónán átívelő, a volt szovjet blokk országait átfogó szolgálati hálózatát, ami által 450 millió ember számára tették elérhetővé Isten életmentő igazságát és gyógyítását.

John Martin reveals that contrary to current opinion, and the notion that Swift was asexual, Swift had long-term relationships with many women and had children by some, including Stella and Vanessa. Swift’s ambition was to become an English Bishop. He failed because in ‘the knowing part of society’ in London and Dublin he was regarded as a debauched priest. His clerical ambitions had to be satisfied by becoming the Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, far removed from the glittering society of London and his friends among the wits of the age: Pope, Addison, Arbuthnot, Gay and Prior.

His consolation was that over a relatively short period of time he became the leading satirist of his age, a reputation cemented down the ages by his authorship of Gulliver’s Travels. Swift mixed with most powerful politicians of his time. They were eager to have him on their side and to use his formidable political and religious journalism in the support of their causes. A satirist makes many enemies and Swift was never short of them; but he made long-lasting friendships with friends and opponents alike who found in him the joy of conversation and the laughter of repartee.

In the opinion of the publisher, John Martin gives a unique insight into the character and behaviour of Swift. The publisher writes: ‘not since Norman O’Brown’s Life Against Death has such insight been granted into the mind, art and being of Jonathan Swift.’ ]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/In+the+Shadow+of+the+Wheel/ Geraldine.Farren@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=856 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:21:37 GMT Mercia Emma Harrison was born in 1912, The youngest child of twelve to be delivered from the worn and prolapsed womb of her mother Emma and to her father Francis Harrison, a coal mine manager.
             Based on truth, this is an account of the family’s constant struggle for survival against all the odds in a small mining community based in the midlands of England.
             But as time went by and with unfaltering ambition, Frank turned their fortunes around.
     Mercia herself, being the youngest, didn’t see the harder times her eldest siblings had. But she goes on to tell a captivating story of the twists and turns of her own life, and those of her family members.
             She tells of how her sister Marian was saved from drowning in the reservoir by the family dog and how her brother Jack, always the comic and prankster, cut off the cat’s tail, at the request of the doctor. She recalls the everyday events that shaped her childhood. Including how a psychic farmers wife, told her about the man she would eventually marry, and their eventual meeting.
             From a community full of poor, but larger than life characters, and of a life filled with happiness, sadness, tragedy, near tragedy, intrigue, and humour Mercia proves that it wasn’t all bad, living in the shadow of the wheel.

Dealing with The Documentary 50% and The movie 50% of the “The Director”. Taking the concept of Adharma and Dharma of ‘AVATAR’. Finally the concepts Adharma and Dharma failed between Prophets and Gods as well.

Taking the same ‘AVATAR’ concepts and proves that the ‘AVATAR’ is 50:50. That is ‘AVATAR’ is God 50% and Prophet 50%, the way ‘AVATAR’ appears. Avatar is 50% human body and 50% other bodies based on the timely happenings. So, ‘AVATAR’ is God 50% and Prophet 50%.     

Avatar = God 50% + Prophet 50%.

Bhaga was an Indian Aditya God.
He was hijacked to Persia and called Baga.
He was hijacked to Russia and other Slavic lands. Their God is Bog.

Mitra was an Indian Aditya God.
He was hijacked to Persia and called Mithra.
He was hijacked to the land of the Romans. Their God was Mithras.

Korkus, a central Indian tribe, have believed for thousands of years that Mahadeo (Lord Shiva) created man and woman from red earth of an anthill.
Christian Old Testament God created man from red earth collected from four regions of earth.

Hebrew keenah means ‘lament’.
Gaelic (ancient English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh) keen is a ‘period of mourning’.

 Hebrew stone pillow of Jacob was brought to Ireland by the Milesians. It is at Tara and called Lia Fail (Fal Stone).

Many more stories
Read the connections inside.

It is 1938 and newly married Australian Tom Field takes his young bride Mary to live on the copra plantation he manages in British North Borneo. Here she meets the stuffy colonial British, the friendly Chinese shopkeepers and the proud and colourful indigenous people who live in traditional longhouses.

Soon after the outbreak of war in Europe they return to Sydney for the birth of their second child. While they are away Japan invades Singapore and then overruns Borneo virtually unopposed. The Europeans are herded into internment camps and the Australian and British forces captured in Singapore are taken to Borneo and subjected to inhumane treatment in the POW camps in Kuching and Sandakan.

Tom is recruited to help the newly formed SRD (based on the British Special Overseas Executive) and returns to Borneo to work covertly behind the lines. He contacts his head-hunter friends and they embark on a series of audacious missions against the hated invaders. After a close personal encounter with the enemy he eventually leads his fierce band of warriors to assist the Australian 9th Division in the liberation of his beloved adopted country.

Mark Yelland has been at the cutting edge of revenue assurance for over ten years, working with a number of blue chip clients in a variety of locations, delivering sustainable bottom line improvement. He is not afraid of challenging conventional approaches to stimulate discussions on the future of the discipline. He combines practical advice with technical knowledge and sound business sense. His philosophy is that if action or inaction by the team could result in a drop in revenue, margin or cashflow, then Revenue Assurance is involved - because he cares about the bottom line.

David Sherick is one of the founding fathers behind Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance having started by implementing it in Hong Kong in the 1990's. He was subsequently involved setting up and running a number of Fraud and Revenue Assurance teams in different locations around the world. He has extensive experience in general audit and specialised for many years on computerised systems. Mr. Sherick has had a career in law enforcement in the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force. He was the founding Chairman of the Forum for International Irregular Network Access, an anti-telecom fraud body. He is also a Chartered Accountant.

]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/Barmy+Bedfordshire/ Dick.Dawson@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=848 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:35:33 GMT This book concentrates on the humorous side of some of the odd and unusual people who have lived in Bedfordshire and describes the scrapes they got into and some of the strange things they did.
       The attitude of people in the county has changed over the years from the days when thousands flocked to see executions carried out, to the present time when courts hand out trivial sentences and the very mention of a smack is regarded with horror.
       The book covers all types of people ranging from itinerants and tramps to vicars and squires and peers of the realm. Among them we find one squire who hated the working classes so much that he put a plaque up on his house which said in Latin: “I hate the common people.”
       There was also the case of a peer who built a concealed walkway in the tall trees of his estate so that he could hide and listen to what his guests were saying about him and spy on courting couples.
     The worst behaved vicar stole lead from his own church roof and displayed pornography to his shocked parishioners. We also learn about the most boring man in Bedfordshire, and a pedlar called “Old Ointment” who sold his own home-made ointment for treating corns, and if he had any dubious customers would produce a large corn from his pocket which he said had fallen off his toe after it had been treated with the ointment.
       An unusual feature of the book is the section on the local press which gives information on various stories that  have never previously been publicised.
      
Footnote: The Bedfordshire clanger pictured on the front cover was popular in Bedfordshire in the last century and before, but now is considered something of a joke. It is a suet pudding with one half filled with savoury and the other half with jam, and was used by farm labourers to make their lunch more palatable.

Jim Smith was born James Charles Smith in Bexhill, East Sussex in March 1909 and moved to Burwash, a village some 15 miles north of Bexhill, with his mother, father and brother Jack on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.  He has lived in the area ever since and experienced at first hand the very many changes over the 20th and now the 21st century. 

On March 19th 2009 Jim celebrated his 100th birthday

In 1909 the son of Queen Victoria, King Edward the VIIth was on the throne, cars were only just beginning to make their mark on society – the Ford factory in the Midlands was set up in 1910 - , no cinemas, radio or TV, no National Health Service and children could leave school at twelve.  The average manual worker’s wage was £1.15 a week.  In this year the keel of the Titanic was laid, Robert Peary became the first man to reach the North Pole and the Old Age Pensions Act came into force in the UK.  This provided a pension of 25p a week for people over the age of 70 but to be eligible they had to be earning less than £31.50 a year and pass a “good character” test! Although towns were industrialised and there was a good network of railways, transport in country areas was still highly dependent on horse power, the bicycle and “shanks pony”.  

]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/Maurice%27s+little+book+of+HUGE+Questions/ Graham.George@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=846 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:14:06 GMT Introduction: ‘Maurice’s little book of HUGE Questions’.
    The latest editions in Graham George’s series of esoteric books are dedicated another book, ‘A Course in Miracles’. Such books are known as ‘Miracles Studies Books’.
    ‘Maurice’s little book of HUGE questions’, is the first children’s book associated to the ‘Course’ since 1975.
    The ‘A Course in Miracles’ was written by Helen Schucman, a New York clinical psychologist working for a College of Surgeons. She heard a voice instructing her to write the book. Today we might refer to this as ‘channelled’.
    Graham’s ‘Maurice’s little book of HUGE Questions’ and his other recent work ‘The Bridge-Glimpses of Light’, are from the same source as ‘A Course in Miracles’. (The guidance is Jesus speaking through the Holy Spirit, although Graham describes it similar to thinking in the normal way, except you’ve never had those thoughts before!)
    ‘Maurice’s little book of HUGE Questions’, is a richly illustrated book created specifically to aid parent’s of the ‘Course’ who wish their children to understand their perspective on life.
    The works are not religious yet contain references to Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God.
    Graham explains: “You could call this source, the Light, or the Knowledge, or as quantum physicists refer to it ‘Zero Point Energy’. It’s not important, the concepts are!”

Synopsis:
    Set out as short stories, Maurice asks his father huge questions, which were his father not somehow in receipt of the type of information contained within the ‘Course’, would be impossible to answer.
    The illustrations play a large part as an aid to understanding the concepts whilst the images themselves are delightfully colourful and detailed
     This is the first children’s book on the ‘Course’ since 1975.
    For parents and children alike it explains some of the more difficult concepts of the ‘Course’. It can be read as an interactive book, with parent taking the role of the father, whilst the child can read the part of Maurice.
    The author would like to point out that these books are as a support to ‘A Course in Miracles’, known as ‘Miracles Studies Books’. They do not take the place of the ‘Course’. Also that they in no way set out to promote a religion, sect or belief system that in any way challenges the beliefs of any present religion.

Synopsis:
    The first part called ‘So None of This is Real Then? - Afraid Not!’ is to clarify our universal history, how we came to be here in the first place!
    Part two, ‘The Bridge’, was given specifically to aid readers who wish to literally bridge the gap between life and the concepts of the ‘Course’.
    It explains how we are surrounded by the beauty we make in our world, yet take no time to observe and wonder at its magnificence.
    Explained simply, that our universe and all we know is locked in time, our minds too, past, present, and future, all created by our ego to prevent our knowledge of our Home, Heaven.
    Much of the text has a solid ground in today’s Quantum Physics, in the belief that we literally manifest the world we see.
    The style of writing is the same as the ‘Course’, in that much of it uses a meter and language not dissimilar to that of Shakespeare’s period.
    The author would like to point out that these books are as a support to ‘A Course in Miracles’, known as ‘Miracles Studies Books’. They do not take the place of the ‘Course’. Also that they in no way set out to promote a religion, sect or belief system that in any way challenges the beliefs of any present religion.

The book traces Mary's life from a child in Richmond, to years in South America with her father, her return to England and her friendship with three woman. at school, at Oxford and for the next twenty years: Diana Fortescue a writer, Tiki Randall, a scientist and Marjorie Lowther, an art historian and notable woman athlete.

Mary is very upset by the death of Diana and although offered work in No 10 Downing Street and other senior positions in education decides to write the autobiography of her friend who had been an international literary figure.

Reading Diana's diaries she is distressed to find that her friend missed her support and depended on two men Peter Gorringe and John Favel, her publisher in the last years of her life. The two men assist Mary in handling Diana's estate and feel responsibility for Mary as part of their Diana enterprise.

Gorringe who has three different jobs, a charity, an director of an electronic firm and teacher at an College in North Carolina keep in touch with Mary by e-mail, He finds her lonely as she works long hours on the book and he takes her out from time to time, to international rugby at Twickenham and flying in an ancient Tiger Moth. She takes him around the Lake District to the places he has roared over in his very noisy jets. She visits him in his college in America and they visit Charleston.

A theme that Diana wanted to take up in a new book was the enormous illegal trade in drugs. Two of her friends had died from drug overdoses. Mary Barnett takes up Diana's interest in drugs and the law. She forms a powerful group of able and eager people that she and Peter lead. They start a five year campaign with research, specially written books and television programmes.

The story is in the period after the ending of the Cold War up to the disaster of the Iraq War in the time of Bush and Blair. It is against a background of television and the press, the empty cult of celebrity and the rare recognition of real quality. stardom.

Besides the principals there is rich collection of characters, A Minister of the Crown, staff from No 10, two bishops , a Law Lord, Peter's sister Jude, his son and daughter and grandchildren. Young and old Doctor Sawbones, a vulnerable lawyer, Mrs T the housekeeper, Rosie the Nanny who gets a degree and makes a fortune in the City, headmistresses galore, teachers good and bad and children all blessed. An Air Commodore, called Jumbo, tennis and squash players. and many who have no names like the slight girl from Kew who rides a very large motorcycle and runs the gardens at Trawley.

The book begins with, Savage Surgical, a Victorian fantasy play emphasising the motives of the Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper.
But what makes this screenplay interesting is that the narrative is told from the
deathbed of the alleged killer, some thirty five years after the murders.

Pandora’s Bag is another tangible piece about an old jogger who finds a woman’s bag on the heath whilst out jogging early one evening. What is so disturbing to read is how the jogger deals with his find.

State of Mind is a one act play, not only of which focuses on the intrusion of CCTV, but also spotlights a happily married couple whose lives have been perfectly normal up until what takes place on the night of the Switch Off.

Boiling Point is a short play featuring two successful rock musicians and their quest for a better standard of living. But is this luxury block of apartments right for them?

Scorpion is another short piece which features two ruthless henchmen who are played off against one another whilst their victim regrettably realises his fate.

Nightshift is a short moralistic narrative which focuses on a particular fare for a frustrated London cabbie. And this takes place on one very wet miserable Monday night.

Read how it all began with injured swan Theo…

On the other hand his hopes and endeavours for a decent education were never quite realised and in 1946, he left full time education when he received his call up papers and was recruited into the Royal Engineers. Two years in Germany, serving with the British Army of the Rhine ended with demob and return to civilian life – a world to which he didn’t belong.

He describes his efforts from 1949 searching for a career and finding a social life, resulting in his discovery of the girl to whom he was eventually married for 53 years.

Now a widower with a career behind him, he describes his joy at being pater familias to an extended and close knit family.

With enthusiasm and curiosity about the world, the author takes the reader on his journeys, both near and far: childhood, teenage years and adult memories are not simply narrated in chronological order. Experiences thoughtfully arranged — dream flights — make it possible to navigate between different times, worlds and spaces.

]]> http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/What+Happened+to+The+Population+Problem%3F+-+and+other+questions/ S..N..Afriat@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=833 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:21:11 GMT http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/The+Spirit+of+Meta-Physical+Paradox/ Seth.Laurence@authorsonline.co.uk http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/viewbook.php?bid=832 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:02:32 GMT This anthology of essays begins with a practical Christian based philosophy, for the purpose of interpreting spiritual reality. Then continues with three autobiographical portraits of the writer’s early years: from his mystical experiences in rural County Durham, just after the war; then on to boarding school in Warwickshire, where he had his first never to be forgotten, spiritualist experience; later, rejecting family pressure to take up an academic career, he moved to Glasgow and became a hard drinking navvy.
This evocative and atmospheric narrative tells mystic tales and of how Laurence eventually became a spiritualist medium, of sorts. Aye, this eccentric, anarchic rebel, really did do it his way.

Captain James P. Hughes. Lecturer in Nautical Science, South Tyneside College

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