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This is a love story that compels like no other: a tour de force of impressive linguistic invention and laugh-out-loud playfulness ‘In the year of who-knows-when’. Sheer delight! Robyn Bolam
Original, inventive, with linguistic somersaults taking centre stage on every page. Who’d imagine a humble scarecrow being raised to such literary heights? Chris Sparkes has created a heart-felt tour de force in his Life in the Day of Yevich Romanov. Scaretits, hold on tight to your straw hats! Maggie Sawkins
A feast of tactile rhythms and chewy language. Oracular lines of poetry flow in a vernacular speech spiced with grandeur, honouring a great resonant subject, the birth of perhaps a redeemer. Extraordinary. George Marsh
Epic poetry might be considered a prehistoric art form, the stuff of long dead white authors, such as Homer, Virgil, Dante and Milton, the dread and terror of English A level students. It is no accident that much of such epic poetry takes place physically inthe realms of the dead, with visitations to Hades forming key components of The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Divine Comedy, and, of course, Paradise Lost. In his new work Christopher Sparkes seeks to revive the Epic and imbue it with the breath of modern life, much as the 19thFrench poet Baudelaire exhorted pictorial artists to abandon the customary fêtes galantes, relegate them to the Neiges d’antan of Villon, and focus instead on the rich seam of potential offered by the dynamic vibrancy of modern life.
Modern life overwhelms. Stress, chaos, and self-doubt hold you captive. “The Caveman Principles” isn’t just a book; it’s a raw, unfiltered guide to reclaiming your power. Strip away the layers of societal pressure and rediscover your inherent resilience.
- Forge an unbreakable mental resilience.
- Master change with confidence.
- Develop deeper, more authentic relationships.
- Break the chains of stress and anxiety.
More than theory, these are actionable principles, born from real-world experience, designed to ignite a fundamental shift in your life. Stop surviving. Start thriving. Embrace your primal potential.
Carl Jones, a stress expert, developed these principles after witnessing and experiencing the devastating impact of chronic stress. He has transformed his own life, and now he’s empowering you to do the same.
This book is your weapon against stress. Use it.
Love's Cauldron - by Jennifer J Lehr
This book is for all those who wish to honour the parts of us that are not logical, that are open to magic and intuition. A fascinating challenging, and hopeful book, exploring the human condition. I was excruciatingly sensitive – seemingly to my detriment. It was only when life forced me to deal with my brokenness that I started on the journey to healing myself and began to be able to manifest my potential.
We don’t always take this journey.
Sometimes we get caught in the mirage that only the external is real and is exclusively where our focus needs to be. We may lose sight of the value of inner exploration and so settle for a much smaller world and much more limited possibilities for ourselves.
Rev Andy Roland, a retired Anglican vicar living in Earl’s Court, is launching his most ambitious book to date, The Church has a Past – does it have a Future?, at age 80. The launch takes place at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, on Monday 7th July at 6.30pm, with support from Bishop Rob Gillion, who has written the foreword, and publisher Chris Day of Filament Publishing.
This compelling 330-page work is a bold and far-reaching exploration of Christianity’s historical journey and its contemporary crossroads. Rev Andy, as he likes to be called, takes readers on a sweeping pilgrimage through 2,000 years of church history before plunging into the turbulent cultural and ethical shifts of the last 25 years — from artificial intelligence to CRISPR gene editing, transgender identity, social media, surrogacy, and beyond. The third part is a hard-hitting and thought-provoking challenge to much of the Church’s traditional ways of thinking about the faith, but also exposing some of secular society’s blind spots.
