Bøker av Victor Canning

HOW TO STOP GAMBLING AND FEEL LIKE A TOTAL BADASS will show you how to stop gambling easily, immediately, and permanently. It expels the myth that gambling is an addiction and provides proof that it's nothing more than a bad habit. However, Society tells us we're hopelessly addicted to gambling, it's near impossible to quit, and if we do quit, we'll likely have to fight the urge to gamble every day for the rest of our lives. That's complete and utter B.S. Gambling isn't an addiction and you're not an addict! You don't need Gambler's Anonymous, or any other program to quit gambling, and if that's what you're looking for you're in the wrong place. Victor Canning is author of How to Stop Smoking Without Withdrawals, How to Stop Drinking Without AA, and How To Stop Smoking Marijuana. Canning's innovative approach to breaking the habit of Gambling allows people (not addicts) to take back control of their lives. By explaining why you feel the need to gamble, it outlines a simple process that doesn't require willpower and removes the desire to gamble forever.

Millions of people worry that smoking is affecting their health, yet are hesitant to quit because of fear of withdrawals, weight gain, boredom and failure. This book asks you to forget everything you've heard, everything you've read, and everything you've been told about how difficult it is to quit smoking. All your past failures, all your past attempts to stop smoking, put them aside; you only failed because you didn't have the right solution. This book gives you that solution. How To Stop Smoking Without Withdrawals is an innovative step-by-step process, backed by science, that allows you to stop smoking forever. It exposes the myth that quitting has to be difficult, painful, time consuming, or impossible. By explaining why you feel the need to smoke, it outlines a simple process that doesn't require willpower and removes the desire to smoke forever. The process allows you to stop smoking easily, immediately, painlessly, and permanently. This book, without scare tactics, pain or rules, give you permanent freedom from cigarettes. I hope you read this book. It truly is the only book you'll need to stop smoking.

Millions of people worry that smoking marijuana is affecting their health, marriages, relationships, and careers. We desperately want to quit, but fear of withdrawals, boredom, lifestyle changes, and failure keep us from taking action. This book asks you to forget everything you've heard, everything you've read, and everything you've been told about how difficult it is to quit smoking pot. All your past failures, all your past attempts to stop smoking, put them aside; you only failed because you didn't have the right solution. This book gives you that solution. How To Stop Smoking Marijuana is an innovative step-by-step process, backed by science, that allows you to stop smoking weed forever. It exposes the myth that quitting has to be difficult, painful, time consuming, or impossible. By explaining why you feel the need to smoke marijuana, it outlines a simple process that doesn't require willpower and removes the desire to smoke weed forever. The process allows you to stop smoking marijuana easily, immediately, painlessly, and permanently. This book, without scare tactics, pain or rules, give you permanent freedom from marijuana. I hope you read this book. It truly is the only book you'll need to stop smoking marijuana.

For many of us, drinking has become a destructive force in our lives, affecting our health, marriages, relationships, and careers. We desperately want to quit, but the thought of support groups, AA meetings, and lifestyle changes keeps us from taking action. To make matters worse, society labels us alcoholic, and we immediately feel a sense of hopelessness and impending doom. We imagine, or at least I did, a lifelong struggle, a daily fight, a constant vigilance to not take that first drink. If you want to free yourself to live life as you see fit, with passion, freedom, and excitement, free from thoughts and desires to drink forever, this book offers the solution.How To Stop Drinking Without AA was written to help people like you stop drinking without Alcoholic Anonymous. The solution is simple and the only one of its kind. It exposes the myth that quitting has to be difficult, painful, time consuming, or impossible. By explaining why you feel the need to drink, it outlines a simple step-by-step process that doesn't require willpower and removes the desire to drink forever. The process allows you to stop easily, immediately, painlessly, and permanently. I hope you read this book. It truly is the only book you'll need to get sober.

The setting is "Wearemouth", a fictional blend of Plymouth and Dartmouth. We are introduced to five children who, on a walk to the cinema, pass a local landmark, the Wooden Angel, made from a ship's figurehead and stand holding hands, making a wish. The rest of the book follows their careers to see how far the wishes come true. This was the only book written by Victor Canning under the pen name Julian Forest. The time is during and immediately after the Great War, and the book tells us a great deal about social attitudes and class in a west country city of that era. It is one of the best of Victor Canning's early novels.

Smiler flees to the farm of the 'The Duchess' in North Devon, where he stays and tends to circus animals housed there for the winter. All is going well until a peregrine falcon, Fria, escapes.

Still on the run, Smiler hitches a train to Scotland where he finds work as an animal caretaker within the grounds of a castle occupied by 'the Laird', Sir Alec Elphinstone.

On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures - a 15-year-old boy, Smiler, and a cheetah, Yarra - escape from captivity. Their lives become inextricably bound up as they fight for survival on the edge of Salisbury Plain.

A collection of light-hearted short stories about a group of amiable criminals, evoking the very best of humorous classic crime fiction.

In this series of pen-portraits of England in the 1930's, Victor Canning vividly captures the pattern and colour of the great fabric of English life from Cumberland to Cornwall from a bygone era.

A life-affirming story of family and personal self-discoveryWhen George, the eldest son of Matthew Silverman, announces he won't follow his father's footsteps as editor of the family-owned local newspaper, the family finds itself on a course for change. Can Matthew do what's best for them all?

In a mid-life moment, Paul Morison travels from America to England to discover his mother's roots. A chance encounter and uncanny resemblance leads him to agree to assume the identity of a famous singer for a while. But it's not just the unnerving attentions of the adoring public that he must deal with.

After a spur-of-the-moment day out with his boss' daughter in celebration of his 21st birthday, Polycarp Jarvis decides to quit his Bristol-based junior government worker job. Newly emboldened, he embarks on an erratic, engaging and not always strictly legal course through life. But what kind of person will he be by the end?

Mr Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan and sets out to explore the countryside. He encounters a band of eccentrics and it gradually emerges that the caravan contains a secret, and Mr Finchley finds himself in real trouble.

An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose to a lady he rescued from mishap when he is sent to Paris by his firm. This gentle comedy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal.

Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor's clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to Margate. But Fate has other plans in store... This gentle comedy trilogy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal today.

What's going on behind the doors of Fountain Inn? This beautifully observed thriller marked Victor Canning's entree into crime fiction, and rewards with a thrilling finale - sure to delight fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence.