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From the moment a hopelessly bored eleven year old boy watched Gower effortlessly pull his first ball in Test cricket for four, he instantly forgot the fact that West Ham were crap and had just been relegated and his life long love affair with cricket had begun.These are the recollections of how being pretty good at bowling a hard red ball at three tall sticks in the ground has allowed Stuart Simmonds the chance to travel the cricketing world, play against some seriously good players, meet some very famous people and most importantly avoid having to ever get what can only be described as a normal, sensible job.Written with huge amounts of charm, Stuart takes us on a journey around club grounds, county grounds, test grounds and an enormous amount of time coaching in playgrounds, all spent together with what seems like an awful lot of very entertaining people.Any profits from this book will be distributed between local charities.There are plenty of superstar autobiographies that tell you what its like to receive a standing ovation when you walk back through the pavilion at Lords, the Oval or the MCG having scored a brilliant hundred or a match winning bowling spell and of the boys on tour celebrations afterwards. This sadly, is not going to be one of those books.This is the tale of someone living their sporting life in the surreal world between so called professional excellence and the so called charm of the village green. There without the slightest hint of glamour, with all the frustrations and the occasional triumphs of the top flight club circuit in Sussex and its regular visits to the seaside. There are also the recollections of the seasons spent playing and coaching overseas, trying to see if you really were any good after all.Told with intelligence, humour and above all honesty, these are the memoirs of someone trying to make ends meet doing the things they love for a living, whilst occasionally bumping into somebody famous along the way.
After a highly successful career in the City of London Police, Alan Francis moved seamlessly into the realm of security, working for Eric and Julia Morley's Mecca leisure empire. But much of his working life was a juggling act - hence the title - for, as a keen judoka, Alan also organised and hosted martial arts tournaments, and put karate firmly in the public eye via television coverage.As a police officer, he had run-ins with a huge variety of characters: the National Front, Dr Chad Varah, a 'gentleman' peeping Tom, a corpse hanging under Blackfriars Bridge... to name but a few. Which of these presented the greatest challenge is left to the reader to decide, but Francis survived the attentions of the Luftwaffe and IRA to tell us his 'Copper's Tale' - and what a tale it is too!
"They were empty expressions, while at the same time full of desperation."This novel of Clemens Schlettwein has been defined by Steven Jenkins as "A beautiful story; tough, inspiring, but above all, an outcry for the ethical treatment of animals. A powerful message destined to elevate the best and most profound aspects of the reader's conscience."With fast and lively strokes, the author describes the journey, internal and external, of Hair, in a world where, just like in ours, love, pain and adventure overlap in many layers. A canvass that encompasses reality and mystery, crossing always through the spirit that aspires to calmness among the inexplicable confusion, which, being a reality, can hardly be understod. Without doubt, many readers will feel identified with the iniciatory journey of Hair. A journey which, once stripped of its fantasy, destills in us a sense of fraternity that should cheer us on, and that will not wither even in the face of brutal confrontation with pure horror.
"One Creation is an authentic and fascinating story. Anyone who has had any kind of spiritual experience can benefit greatly from reading it. I have recommended it to many people." - Wolfgang Schellhorn, AyahuasqueroWhat might happen when a man lost in his world suddenly has an enlightening experience and begins creating a new reality, consciously?He might come to understand the words of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and all the others who, like them, have been so often glorified yet rarely understood. He might come to believe in love. He might come to talk about it, act on it, even write about it.This is the book he might write.What would happen if others joined him, acting on love, and such a book became an inspiration to many?The world might taste the dream of a great transformation from which a new society could emerge.This New Age novel tells the story of such a man, and of the global awakening that transforms our world into the society that so many of us dream about. It is a beautiful dream, yet it is just one option out of infinitely many, because ultimately it is just one creation.
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