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Book Promotion 2010

BOOK PROMOTION 2010

 

Today’s author works on a powerful computer, with a fast modem for Internet access.

Special computer programs such as Scrivener, Writers Café, Page Four, New Novelist and Screenwriter Version Six can handle script formats for motion pictures, theatre, television, novels, comic books and non-fiction books.

Amazingly they keep track of characters and plots. Some advise on the structure, scene order, suggest characters’ names, personality attributes and locations

 

When the book is written.

Manuscript lying on the desk, crisp and ready to be released on to the unsuspecting world, writers start sending copies to Literary Agents, still the key-people to get into mainstream retail publishing.

The reality for the typical author who, full of hope, at some considerable cost has sent out maybe a hundred copies of the manuscript to literary agents worldwide, is the depressing sound, over the next month or two, of rejection notes flopping on the doormat.

 

Year 2010. Publishing is changing, fast.

The modern author, in this new publishing era, does not even bother sending a manuscript to a Literary Agent.

Better to send it to a professional editor, who will comment on characterization, the plot, the start, the middle section, and the end. The author will then correct accordingly or ignore comments. Then it is the proofreader’s turn, to correct spelling and grammar mistakes, change bad sentences, cut out repetitions and generally give the book a professional feel.

Book being ready, the publishing phase, is the easiest of the whole process.

Several hundred different POD (Print On Demand) companies worldwide will take on the task, creating a cover and back cover, producing an ISBN number, providing all the necessary help to get the book ready with a nice, professional feel.

Yes, one single book can now be produced with full color cover and unlimited pages – removing the cost of having stock, which could easily end up in the author’s garden shed or garage, not being sold.

 

But the publishing revolution does not stop here

Here comes www.Book-Promotion.com

It’s a fact, that the general buying public are not aware of the new book published via POD so it is absolutely essential for the author to get visibility or awareness for the book.

There are some book publicists who work independently and are not bound to publishing houses. Among them is Book Promotion Limited, who works worldwide and who has successfully promoted hundreds of books.

Book-Promotion started some years ago from the idea by one man, who put a team of experts together to research how to create awareness for an unknown author and a new book.

A year was spent focusing on the publishing world and the struggle of new writers. Then gradually the team moved on to create a proper promotion campaign, called Book Promology, which today is sold in the UK, US, Canada, Australia to POD publishers, mainstream publishers and mostly to individual authors.

In end of 2008 the financial crises hit the book trade badly and maybe more than other sections, the promotion of new authors were hit badly. Sales slumped to hardly anything. In November 2009 this changed and the trade is now nearly back to normal. 

One of the internal professional reviewers reads the book, decides on keywords, checks the synopsis and forwards the finished review to the author or publisher for comments.

Adding that to an interview with the author, a press release, a bio provided by the author, info on how to buy the book and a couple of pictures, the seven-page web site is ready. The site is focusing strongly on creating sales.

Advanced tag and keyword technology is used to attract the right people for that specific book. 

Registration on hundreds of search engines is done and a Google Adwords campaign made ready.

The book promoted is placed on the two largest book price comparison sites, together with a registering on the eight most applicable social websites with an audience of many hundred millions. Social Media Marketing is now a growing factor and some author runs their own ‘shop’ creating a steady sale of books.

The company includes a three-month one-to-one support.

 

Cannes Film Festival and new books

An interesting ‘product’ from Book Promotion Ltd is the presentation of new books at the Cannes Film Festival. This campaign ensures that the new book is placed in the hands of selected film producers, interested in the subject of the book being promoted. The books are hand delivered one by one to film producers at the Festival. A serious way of Book Pitching. No guarantee can of course be given. All negotiations are between the author or publisher and the film company.

A list is produced, a few weeks after the Cannes Film Festival has finished, enabling the author to follow up, with personal letters to hear the view of the producers, should the author not have been informed by the film production company.

Nowadays, at the Cannes Film Festival books are also considered for DVD production or for Terrestrial television production, without having been made into a main film, creating thereby a much bigger and more dynamic opening for the new author’s book.

Book Promotion representative has presented books at the Film Festival for many years and knows the way round this very busy marketing place where last year nearly a thousand films was up for sale.

 

Latest news

Amazon has launched its wireless book reader called Kindle DX with a 9.7 screen. A very impressive hand held, thin computer, able to hold over 2.000 books. Sony Reader Tactile is also on the market. A simply beautiful product. Within days Apple is expected to launch it own version based on Ipod technology. Hewlett Packard’s reader is also anticipated within days.

These new Readers are expected to be a new and very exciting market place for new authors.

Electronic Readers has been launched without success eight years ago, but then they were clumsy, heavy and very restricted.

The amazing screen on these new Readers makes it easier to read, than from a normal white page and less tiresome for the eye. Even work in strong sunlight.

Now, in 2010 it’s all different and maybe time has come for changing the way we read books, documents, magazines and even newspapers.

 

About the Author

John Eide

www.Book-Promotion.com
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Book Promotion Ltd
2nd floor
145-157 St John Street
London EC1V 4PY
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Fractured Visions – Comic Books in the UK & Ireland Part 1

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Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays $52.13 For more than 60 years, the iconic Captain America was one of Marvel Comics’ flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and an unflappable belief in justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death. Was he a casualty of the era, or was his death a Marvel marketing ploy? Was he an anachronism in tights or was he still relevant? How are his multiple deaths to be reconciled?This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the creation of Captain America in light of the Jewish American experience; the relationship between Captain America and UK Marvel’s Captain Britain; the groundbreaking partnership between Captain America and African American superhero the Falcon; and the attempts made to kill the character before his "real" death.

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Death Wreck $91.42 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Death Wreck is a fictional character who appears in the comic books published by the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics. Created by Craig Houston and Stewart “Staz” Johnson, he first appeared in Death Wreck volume 1, #1 (January 1994). Death Wreck is a cyborg, a prototype built by A.I.M. scientist Doctor Evelyn Necker in 2018 as part of the Minion project. Constr

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Derry Musical Groups: The Divine Comedy $9.91 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Divine Comedy are a chamber pop band from Northern Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon. Formed in 1989, Hannon has been the only constant member of the group, playing, in some instances, all of the non-orchestral instrumentation bar drums. To date, nine studio albums have been released under the Divine Comedy name. The group achieved their greatest commercial success in the years 1996-99, during which they had nine singles that made the UK Top 40, including the top ten hit National Express. The tenth Divine Comedy album, Bang Goes the Knighthood, is scheduled for release on 31 May 2010. Neil Hannon has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its founder in 1989 when he was joined by John McCullagh and Kevin Traynor. Their first album, the heavily R.E.M.-influenced and now-deleted Fanfare for the Comic Muse, enjoyed little success. A couple of equally unsuccessful EPs – Timewatch (1991); Europop (1992) – were to follow, with newly-recruited member John Allen handling lead vocals on some tracks. After the commercial failure of the Europop EP, this line-up soon fell apart. Hannon, however, was not deterred in his efforts and re-appeared in 1993 with Liberation. Featuring a fairly diverse musical outlook that goes from the tongue-in-cheek synth pop of ‘Europop’ (nearly unrecognisable from the previously-released version) to the classical stylings of ‘Timewatching’, it is also characterised by a plethora of literary references: ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ recalls a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald; ‘Three Sisters’ draws upon a play by Anton Chekov; and ‘Lucy’ is essentially three William Wordsworth poems abridged to music. This led to a degree of critical acclaim, but commercial success still proved elusive. Indeed, it was only some min… More:

Dez Skinn $84 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Derek “Dez” Skinn is a British comic book and magazine editor and author of a number of books on comics. Headhunted away from editing MAD UK Magazine and House of Hammer for Warner Bros, he became editorial director for the UK arm of Marvel Comics, where he reported directly to Stan Lee and launched Doctor Who Weekly and Hulk Comic, among other titles. After leaving Marvel for his own company, Quality Communications, Skinn founded and edited the

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Digitek (Comics) $92.4 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Digitek (Jonathan Bryant) is a fictional character appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Digitek #1 (Dec. 1992), the first issue of a limited series published by Marvel UK. The strip was also published in Marvel UK’s weekly anthology title Overkill. The character was created by writers John Tomlinson & Andy Lanning and artis

Expatriates In England $27.46 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Richard Cordray, Dylan Moran. Excerpt: Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is an Irish comedian , writer , actor and filmmaker . He is most famous for his observational comedy , the television sitcom Black Books which he co-wrote and starred in, and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run . Moran is a regular performer at national and international comedy festivals including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe , Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival . He was also voted 14th on the 2010 ‘100 Greatest Stand Up Comedians’ by Channel 4.Biography Early life Moran was born in Navan , County Meath , Republic Of Ireland. He attended St. Patrick’s Classical School , where he experimented early on with standup, (with fellow comic Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin ) and left at age 16 with his Leaving Certificate . After leaving school, it has been said that Moran spent four years unemployed “drinking and writing bad poetry”. At one point, Dylan worked as a florist but quit after a week because he hated the job. Career Moran fell into comedy at age 20 after watching Ardal O’Hanlon and other comedians perform at Dublin’s Comedy Cellar, a small fifty-seater comedy club with no microphone in the upstairs of The International Bar on South Wicklow Street. He began his stand up there in 1992 and, although nervous, got a good reception. In 1993 he won the So You Think You’re Funny award at the Edinburgh Festival . He went on to become the youngest person to win the Perrier Comedy Award in 1996 at the Edinburgh Festival at age 24. Gurgling For Money was Moran’s first major one man stand up UK tour in 1997. He went on to perform at many other festivals including the Hay

Fictional Sports Teams $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Viz is a popular British comic magazine which has been running since 1979. The comic’s style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with incongruous language, crude toilet humour, black comedy, surreal humour and either sexual or violent storylines. It also sends up tabloid newspapers, with mockeries of articles and letters pages. It features competitions and advertisements for overpriced ‘limited edition’ tat, such as a cat which “shits its own weight in gold”, as well as obsessions with half-forgotten celebrities from the 1970s and 1980s such as Shakin’ Stevens and Rodney Bewes. Occasionally, it satirises current events and politicians, but has no particular political standpoint. Its success has led to the appearance of numerous rivals crudely copying the format Viz pioneered; none of them has managed seriously to challenge its popularity. It once enjoyed being the fourth most popular magazine in the UK, but ABC-audited sales have since dropped to an average of 76,408 per issue in 2009 (from 1.2 million). This is mainly because its comic remit has become broader and its format more commonplace, but also partly due to the factthat price has increased sharply to £3 (as of issue 178) and it is now published ‘monthly’ ten times a year.The falling circulation and rising cover price are often referenced in the comic itself, often by disgruntled contributors to the letters page. Some of its comedic devices, for example, generating the illusion of an entire comic-strip “universe” with a “one-off” strip, often based on a surrealistic pun, were widely employed in the earlier and now-defunct American humour magazine National Lampoon, which was itself more or less a sophisticated version of … More:

Fishboy (Comics) $92.4 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fishboy: Denizen of the Deep was a black and white comic strip appearing in the British comic book Buster between 1968 and 1975, written by Scott Goodall and drawn by John Stokes and others. As with most UK comic books, neither the writer nor artists were credited. The title character is a British boy who was abandoned on a desert island as a baby and survived as

Fowlers End $13.99 An amazing comic novel by Kersh (Night and The City). It’s the tale of a young man who enters the peculiar underworld of Cockney Theatre, and quickly finds himself wrapped up in scams, treachery, nitro-glycerine and midgets. This bawdy, rollicking novel, featuring in Sam Yudenow the most fittingly peculiar dialogue since Sheridan’s Mrs. Malaprop graced the stage, is the last to be written by Kersh. Published in 1957, only a year after The Ginger Man’s runaway success in London, the work may have suffered by its release from a mainstream UK publisher. (Where were the censors?) So to guarantee success this time around, when we print Fowlers End, we’re going to go the extra mile and make sure to have ads in the back for some of the most spectular Olympia titles. Kersh deserves no less.

HERD : How to change mass behaviour by understanding our true nature $19.95 In 2003, the first white-painted bicycle shrine appeared on the streets of St Louis, Missouri, to commemorate a fallen rider. Soon, cities in other US states had their own versions; but today, we see these shrines in more than 80 cities around the world. Like the ‘cellotaphs’ – the rash of floral tributes that mark the site of road-accidents in the UK with cheap flowers and sentimental prose – this phenomenon seems to have come from nowhere and yet suddenly it is everywhere.How do you explain the explosion of cultural phenomena of things like this? Like the adoption of text messaging when there has been little or no active promotion of the behaviour? How a Mexican wave happens? The emergence of online communities? Unless you have a good explanation of how these kinds of things arise, you won’t have much chance of altering them.HERD explains that most of us have misunderstood the mechanics (the ‘how’) of mass behaviour because our thinking is shaped by misplaced notions of what it means to be human. This is why so many government initiatives struggle to create real change, why so much marketing money fails to drive sales, why most M&A programmes end up reducing shareholder value and most internal change projects don’t deliver lasting transformation.Mark Earls uses a diverse range of different sources, anecdotes and evidence –  from the comic Peter Kay and urinal etiquette, to international rugby and the rise of new musical stars – to show that we are at heart a ‘we-species’, but one suffering from the ‘illusion of I’. In doing so, Earls challenges some of our deepest ideas to reveal the truth about who we are and what marketers, managers and governments can do to set about influencing mass behaviour. Bold in its conception and engaging in its execution, HERD offers the most radical new theory of consumer behaviour in a generation.This revised and updated edition

Judge Dredd Characters $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Judge Dredd, List of Minor Characters in Judge Dredd, Chief Judge of Mega-City One, Mechanismo, Chopper, Judge Anderson, Chief Judge Fargo, Devlin Waugh, Judge, Judge Cal, Dark Judges, Judge Death, Council of Five, Rico Dredd, the Dead Man, Pj Maybe, Judge Hershey, Judge Solomon, Judge Giant, Judge Kraken, Judge Grice, List of Judge Dredd Characters, Angel Gang, Judge Silver, Psi Division, Judge Mcgruder, Judge Edgar, Judge Niles, Judge Sinfield, Galen Demarco, Judge Goodman, Dirty Frank, Mean Machine Angel, Jack Point, Judge Child, List of Organizations in Judge Dredd, Shojun the Warlord, Judge Francisco, Judge Volt, Detective-Judge Armitage, Shimura, Judge Lopez, Judge Shenker, Mayor of Mega-City One, Missionary Man, Judge Beeny, Otto Sump, President Robert L. Booth, Sov Judge Orlok, Walter the Wobot, Judge Buell, Judge Karyn, Red Razors, Morton Judd, Judge Griffin, Kleggs, Fergee, Judge Guthrie, Vienna Dredd, Armon Gill, Stan Lee, Yassa Povey, Judge Janus, Oola Blint, Johnny Woo, Satanus, Jacob Sardini, Banzai Battalion, Space Corps, Don Uggie Apelino, Spikes Harvey Rotten, Robert Krush, Judge Castillo, War Marshal Kazan, the Creep, Judge Logan, Murd the Oppressor, Sabbat the Necromagus, Father Earth, Nero Narcos, Dan Francisco, Psi-Judge Feyy, Judge Herriman, Raptaur, Monkey, Judge Greel. Excerpt: Angel Gang The Angel Gang is a group of villains in the Judge Dredd comic strip , published in 2000 AD magazine in the UK. History The most infamous and feared band of thugs ever to come out of Texas City, the Angel Gang were responsible for a near endless string of crimes with one overriding common factor – they were all quite unnecessarily violent. Never ones to commit a murder when a vile atrocity would do, the Angels were led by the father of the Angel family, Elmer “Pa”

Knights of Pendragon $44.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Knights of Pendragon was a superhero team published by the Marvel Comics imprint Marvel UK in a self-titled comic from 1990 to 1993, and in the anthology title Overkill. It was written by Dan Abnett and John Tomlinson with art by Gary Erskine. Pendragon is an alternate name for King Arthur. The comic was created during a period of attempted expansion by Marvel UK, trying to build on the critical success of Captain Britain. Knights of Pendragon was initially a highly political and environmental comic, its themes borrowing heavily from British folklore and the growing New Age and neopagan subcultures. Later issues dropped or downplayed these elements and the series became a more standard superhero title. The comic was printed in Scangloss – an environmentally friendly paper using half the trees and minimum whitening bleach.

Lists Of Songs By Reality Television Contestants $10.37 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pop Idol is a British television talent show that ran for two series, in 2001 and 2003. The show was produced for ITV in a reality television format and aimed to unearth a previously undiscovered singer who could become an international success. Will Young was the winner of the first series and was awarded with a £1 million music recording contract. Young became the most successful contestant with a series of top-five hits, including his debut single “Anything Is Possible” / “Evergreen”, which peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart in 2002 and broke chart sales figure records. During the next seven years he recorded two further number-one singles (“Light My Fire” and “Leave Right Now”), while two of his four albums were number-one in the UK Albums Chart. In the second series, Michelle McManus emerged victorious. Her debut single “All This Time” charted at number one in January 2003. Her second single, “The Meaning of Love”, charted at a peak of number 16 and an album of the same name reached number three in the UK Albums Chart. A number of artists who did not win either series of Pop Idol have also had success in the British charts. Gareth Gates, who finished as the runner-up behind Young in the first series, scored a number-one hit with a cover of “Unchained Melody” in March 2002, replacing Young’s debut single at the top of the charts. Gates’ subsequent releases “Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)” and the double A-side “The Long and Winding Road” / “Suspicious Minds” both reached the top of the charts in 2002. After “What My Heart Wants to Say” ended this run of number-one singles, Gates was joined by The Kumars to record the Comic Relief single for 2003, “Spirit in the Sky”. He achieved several more top-20 hits in 2003. After three yea… More:

Lists of Comics by Marvel Comics: List of Marvel Comics Publications, List of Marvel UK Publications, $15.32 New – Chapters: List of Marvel Comics publications, List of Marvel UK publications, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marvel Comics is an American comic book company. These are some of the publications it has released in its history, while this is a complete list of published titles. See also Timely Comics and Atla

Lists of Comics by Marvel Comics: List of Marvel Comics Publications, List of Marvel UK Publications, $15.32 Used – Chapters: List of Marvel Comics publications, List of Marvel UK publications, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marvel Comics is an American comic book company. These are some of the publications it has released in its history, while this is a complete list of published titles. See also Timely Comics and Atl

Marvel Comics $22.63 Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l’essai gratuite au club de livres de l’éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d’un million d’ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d’articles Wikipedia sur : Epic Magazine, Atlas Comics, Marvel Knights, Marvel Uk. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Marvel Comics (originellement Timely Comics, anciennement Atlas Comics), subdivision de Marvel Enterprises est l’une des principales maisons d’édition de bandes dessinées américaine appelées comic books. En France, les revues de Marvel ont été diffusées par les éditions Arédit/Artima et les éditions Lug devenues Semic et enfin par Panini Comics. Les mensuels ou trimestriels (Strange, Titans, Spécial Strange, Nova, etc.) étaient composés de plusieurs histoires de personnages différents, à la différence des magazines américains, où un seul personnage ou groupe avait droit à sa propre revue. Parmi les personnages possédés par Marvel figurent les célèbres Spider-Man, X-Men, les Quatre Fantastiques, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, Ghost Rider et de nombreux autres. La plupart de ces personnages évoluent et interagissent dans le même monde fictif appelé Univers Marvel. Marvel Comics est aussi le titre du premier comic book publié par Timely Comics en octobre 1939. Le logo de Timely Comics, inspiré par Captain America.Martin Goodman, éditeur de pulps depuis 1933, fonda en 1939 Timely Publications dans les locaux de sa société afin de profiter du succès de Superman. Il en fut le directeur éditorial et le gestionnaire, Abraham Goodman en étant officiellement l’éditeur. Les comic books sont édités sous le nom Timely Comics. Goodman ne

Marvel UK: Jaspers’ Warp, Pete Wisdom, Simon Furman, Panini Comics, Dez Skinn, Earth-120185 $24.92 New – Chapters: Jaspers’ Warp, Pete Wisdom, Simon Furman, Panini Comics, Dez Skinn, Earth-120185. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US produced stories for the British weekly comic market, though it later did produce original material by British crea

Marvel UK: Jaspers’ Warp, Pete Wisdom, Simon Furman, Panini Comics, Dez Skinn, Earth-120185 $22.62 Used – Chapters: Jaspers’ Warp, Pete Wisdom, Simon Furman, Panini Comics, Dez Skinn, Earth-120185. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US produced stories for the British weekly comic market, though it later did produce original material by British cre

Mobile Telephone Broadcasting, Including: Nunet, Mobisode, Dvb-H, Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service, Mobile Television, Daniel Tibbets, Mobile Comic, Dvb-Sh, ATSC-M/H, Oma Bcast, Comedy Time, Mobitv, 3 Mobile TV (UK), Nmtv $15.49 Used – Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

Nelly Songs: Dilemma, Call on Me, Hot in Herre, Body on Me, Party People, Stepped on My J’z, Nasty Girl, Country Grammar, My Place $20.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dilemma, Call on Me, Hot in Herre, Body on Me, Party People, Stepped on My J’z, Nasty Girl, Country Grammar, My Place, Tilt Ya Head Back, Shake Ya Tailfeather, 5000 Ones, Ride Wit Me, Grillz, Wadsyaname, Girlfriend, Over and Over, Pimp Juice, Work It, Batter Up, Flap Your Wings, ‘n’ Dey Say, Air Force Ones, E.i., Errtime, Iz U, Get It Poppin’, Warrior, Number 1, Heart of a Champion, Tip Drill. Excerpt: “‘n’ Dey Say” “‘ N’ Dey Say ” is the third and final single by Nelly , released in 2005, from the album Suit . In the UK it came up to number 6 in the chart, but 64 in the U.S chart. The song uses a musical sample of “True ” by Spandau Ballet . Music Video The video directed by Chris Robinson presents comparison of different lifestyles while putting an accent on their similarities (like war is equal with street gang rivalries in the civil life). It is brought into effect with a comic like city background with strong strokes that seems like a merge of a photo and a drawing. This “in-between” feeling is realized by masking the background with a non life-like orange pattern. Using Bluescreen technology to separate the actors/artists from the background the performers remain realistic and stand out from the whole picture. The casting includes Gabriel Casseus (from Lockdown ) as the patron of a homeless and Faune A. Chambers (from White Chicks ) as the mourning widow and the St. Lunatics as cameos. Charts Chart (2005): Peak position References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at “5000 Ones” item Nelly singles chronology item “Wadsyaname ” (2007): ” 5000 Ones ” (2007): “Party People ” (2008) item T.I. singles chronology item “Hurt ” (2007): ” 5000 Ones ” (2007): “For a Minute ” (2008…

Nothing Like A Dame: My Autobiography $1.99 “How did I end up here?” A question Elaine C. Smith asked herself when sitting in the dressing-room of a top theater in London’s West End, about to go on stage with one of the UK’s most successful plays. In Nothing Like a Dame, Elaine reflects on a 50-year journey that took her to the peak of the entertainment world. She recounts her long struggle to make it in a male-dominated, working-class society when women were supposed to just shut up and stay thin, especially in the sexist worlds of theater and television, where she was told, “Look, women just aren’t funny.” Despite many highs and lows, she proceeded to forge a stellar career in show business, hosting her own TV series and becoming a household name thanks to her comic portrayal of Mary Nesbitt, the long-suffering wife in the award-winning BBC comedy Rab C. Nesbitt. Nothing Like a Dame is a heart-warming memoir: candid, outspoken, hilarious, and at times, deeply sad.

Panini Comics $51.6 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy. The company publishes comic books in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as manga in several non-English-speaking countries through the Planet Manga publishing division.It obtained the Marvel UK license in 1995, enablin

Psylocke $85.2 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Psylocke (Elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock, sometimes spelled as Elisabeth) is a fictional character depicted in comic books published by Marvel Comics, most notably those comics featuring the superhero team the X-Men. The character has also appeared in licensed adaptations. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Herb Trimpe, she first appeared in the UK comic book Captain Britain #8 (Dec. 1976), by the Marvel imprint Marvel UK. She was initiall

Publishing Companies Of Denmark $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Book Publishing Companies of Denmark, Comic Book Publishing Companies of Denmark, Magazine Publishing Companies of Denmark, Newspaper Companies of Denmark, Egmont Publishing, Gyldendal, Zmag, Det Berlingske Officin, Aarhus University Press, Jp/politikens Hus, Fyens Stiftstidende A/s, Aschehoug. Excerpt: The Egmont Group is a publishing corporation founded and rooted in Denmark. Until 1992 kit was known as Gutenberghus. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally. Since 1948 Egmont has produced and published a local Scandinavian version of Donald Duck magazine, featuring all the well known Disney Characters, from Mickey Mouse to Little Hiawatha under license from Disney. From the late 80’s the Egmont Group used the close connection with Disney to expanded their Scandinavian focus to a global focus, being the producer of Disney for the new Eastern European market, as well as for the Chinese market. Egmont has a number of local country branches: China, Sweden, Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, Denmark, Czech Republic, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, India, Hong Kong, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, UK, Turkey, Hungary. In 2008 they acquired the minority stake in magazine publisher Hjemmet Mortensen which they did not already hold, from Orkla ASA. EgmontUK publishes books and magazines for children in the United Kingdom, for example Toxic. They also own the Fleetway archive from 1970 onwards. EgmontUK is divided into divisions: Press is Egmonts author and illustrator led list. It includes fiction novels, picture books, novelty books, illustrated books, fantasy adventures and Egmonts own Banana books (for five to nine year … More:

Scheibenwelt $14.14 Kapitel: Terry Pratchett, Figuren Und Schauplätze Der Scheibenwelt-Romane, Einfach Göttlich, Schweinsgalopp, Weiberregiment, Discworld Noir, Das Licht Der Phantasie, Wincanton, Der Fünfte Elefant. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948), more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett’s first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (The Colour of Magic) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. Pratchett was the UK’s best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read non-US author in the US. In 2001 he won the Carnegie Medal for his young adult novel The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. Pratchett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998. He was in addition knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours. In December 2007, Pratchett publicly announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, subsequently making a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, and filming a programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC. Pratchett was born in 1948 in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, England, the only child of David and Eileen Pratchett, of Hay-on-Wye. His family moved to Bridgwater, Somerset briefly in 1957, following which he passed his eleven plus exam in 1959, earning him a place in John Hampden Grammar School. Pratchett described himself as a “non-descript student”, and in his Who’s Who entry, credits his education to the Beaconsfield Public

The Beano: List of Beano Comic Strips, the Beano Annual, Beanomax, Bash Street School, the Beano Summer Special, Beanotown, Foo Foo $15.39 Used – Chapters: List of Beano Comic Strips, the Beano Annual, Beanomax, Bash Street School, the Beano Summer Special, Beanotown, Foo Foo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dennis the Menace spinoff with Dennis as a baby Ken Wilkins19571958Comic http: //www.paulmorris.co.uk/beano/index2.htm An outdated and incomplete

The Beano: List of Beano Comic Strips, the Beano Annual, Beanomax, Bash Street School, the Beano Summer Special, Beanotown, Foo Foo $16.97 New – Chapters: List of Beano Comic Strips, the Beano Annual, Beanomax, Bash Street School, the Beano Summer Special, Beanotown, Foo Foo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dennis the Menace spinoff with Dennis as a baby Ken Wilkins19571958Comic http: //www.paulmorris.co.uk/beano/index2.htm An outdated and incomplete

The Book of Shrigley $24.95 Pop artist David Shrigley’’s work is immediate, sometimes rude, and very funny, like a psychotic version of Matt Groening’’s ”Life in Hell” cartoons ( The Guardian ). His darkly brilliant, addictively hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have already made him a star in the UK, with a growing legion of fans around the globe. The Book of Shrigley is the most extensiveand the first widely availableshowcase of his edgy but accessible off-kilter vision. Here are bad-tempered pets, strange attractions, work, S-E-X, knitting, wrestling, and a host of other everyday activities, dangers, and amusements laid bare in Shrigley’’s urgently illustrated panels and wickedly mischievous punch lines. Made up of almost entirely new work and bursting with color and unsettlingly funny truths, The Book of Shrigley is the ideal introduction to this comic genius and the book fans have been waiting for.

The Book of Shrigley $5.7 Pop artist David Shrigley’s work is immediate, sometimes rude, and very funny, “like a psychotic version of Matt Groening’s ‘Life in Hell’ cartoons” (The Guardian). His darkly brilliant, addictively hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have already made him a star in the UK, with a growing legion of fans around the globe. The Book of Shrigley is the most extensiveand the first widely availableshowcase of his edgy but accessible off-kilter vision. Here are bad-tempered pets, strange attractions, work, S-E-X, knitting, wrestling, and a host of other everyday activities, dangers, and amusements laid bare in Shrigley’s urgently illustrated panels and wickedly mischievous punch lines. Made up of almost entirely new work and bursting with color and unsettlingly funny truths, The Book of Shrigley is the ideal introduction to this comic genius and the book fans have been waiting for.

The Bumper Book of Roy of the Rovers $19.95 Collecting together – for the first time ever – 20 years’ worth of the best material from the golden age of British annuals. Featuring classic comic strips, vintage UK soccer features and thrilling short stories all taken from Roy of the Rovers annuals of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (Radio Series) $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: the Original Radio Scripts, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Excerpt: The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhiker’s series, from a late 1990s printing. The cover features the 42 Puzzle devised by Douglas Adams . The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by English writer, dramatist and musician Douglas Adams . Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon. Adaptations have included stage shows, a “trilogy” of six books with the first five published between 1979 and 1992 and the sixth by Eoin Colfer published in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996. There were also two series of towels, produced by Beer-Davies, that are considered by some fans to be an “official version” of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , as they include text from the first novel. A Hollywood-funded film version , produced and filmed in the UK, was released in April 2005, and radio adaptations of the third, fourth and fifth novels were broadcast from 2004 to 2005. Many of these adaptations, including the novels, the TV series, the computer game, and the earliest drafts of the Hollywood film’s screenplay, were done by Adams himself, and some of the stage shows introduced new material written by Adams. The title is the name of a fictional , eccentric, electronic travel guide

The Veronicas Songs: 4ever, Everything I’m Not, Take Me on the Floor, Hook Me Up, This Love, When It All Falls Apart, Popular, Leave Me Alone $10.75 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 4ever, Everything I’m Not, Take Me on the Floor, Hook Me Up, This Love, When It All Falls Apart, Popular, Leave Me Alone, Revolution. Excerpt: “4ever” item The Veronicas U.S. singles chronology item “Take Me on the Floor ” (2009): ” 4ever ” (re-release) (2009): item The Veronicas U.K. singles chronology item “Untouched ” (2009): ” 4ever ” (2009): “Everything I’m Not ” (2009/2010) item Alternate covers item Digital Cover item Alternate covers item UK/Re-release Cover item Alternate covers item US/Re-release Cover ” 4ever ” is a pop rock song written and produced by Max Martin and Lukasz Gottwald for The Veronicas first album The Secret Life of… (2005). It was released as the albums first single in Australia on August 15, 2005 as a CD single . The song reached number two on the ARIA Charts and number seven in New Zealand. In the U.S. , the single was promoted early in 2006 by Archie Comics through a mention in issue #167 of the group’s namesake Veronica’s comic, which featured a guest appearance and cover picture of The Veronicas and a card containing a code that could be used to download an MP3 version of the song free. It was also featured on the first episode of the third season of the MTV series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County . The song was released as promo for the 2008 Ashley Tisdale ’s movie Picture This! . Similarly, it was also used in the film She’s the Man . “4ever” was released as The Veronicas second UK single in late Summer 2009. The track was included on the UK version of the album Hook Me Up which was released shortly afterwards. The song debuted on the UK singles chart at number 197 on September 28, 2009, and moved up one hundred and eighty places to a new peak of 17 the following week. It is being re-released in the US as the

Thief of Time $148.92 The phenomenal 20 million copy bestselling author and king of satirical fiction delivers another ingenious novel. The 26th installment in Terry Pratchett’s worldwide bestselling Discworld series — published concurrently with the UK edition. Discworld is a topsy-turvy, magical place, carried serenely through the Universe on the back of the Great Turtle. In the comic tradition of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide.

Thief of Time (Discworld Series) $7.99 The phenomenal 20 million copy bestselling author and king of satirical fiction delivers another ingenious novel. The 26th installment in Terry Pratchett’s worldwide bestselling Discworld series — published concurrently with the UK edition. Discworld is a topsy-turvy, magical place, carried serenely through the Universe on the back of the Great Turtle. In the comic tradition of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide.

Titan Entertainment Group: Titan Books, Titan Magazines, John Freeman, Forbidden Planet, Nick Landau $8.87 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: John Freeman is a British writer/editor/designer known for his work with Marvel UK, and on Doctor Who Magazine and The Really Heavy Greatcoat. Freeman began his media career editing the Lancaster University student newspaper Scan in 1981. Freeman’s first professionally published comics work was The Science Service, drawn by Rian Hughes, which Knockabout reprinted in 2007 as part of a larger collection of work by Hughes titled Yesterday’s Tomorrows. After university Freeman launched On the Beat, a listings magazine for Lancaster, England, which eventually morphed into Off the Beat (not to be confused with the a cappella group at the University of Pennsylvania). After Freeman left Lancaster to work for Marvel UK in 1988, Off the Beat was run by a co-operative, until Freeman returned in 1993, where he took up the editorial reins of the title, turning it into a monthly free publication. While working for Marvel UK between 1988 and 1993, Freeman designed and then edited Doctor Who Magazine, and comics titles such as Death’s Head II, Warheads, Overkill, and others. Freeman became group editor on Marvel UK’s superhero range while Paul Neary was editor-in-chief at the company. The titles were set in the existing Marvel Universe Marvel’s U.S. editors were expected to approve submitted plotlines (some, such as Bobbi Chase were more responsive than others). The first of these, Death’s Head II, written by Dan Abnett and initially drawn by Liam Sharp, was a recreation of Simon Furman’s cyborg bounty hunter (who first appeared in the Transformers comic). As well as editing some of the Marvel UK titles, Freeman also wrote issues of Warheads and Motormouth and Killpower. He also wrote Shadow Riders, with Brian Williamson, and Gene Dogs, dra… More:

To Be or Not to Be $8.57 IllustratedIn To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernest Lubitsch brought his legendary comic “touch” to the most unpromising situation:life in Nazi-occupied Poland. The film brought light and warmth to wartime calamity, but without trivializing reality. A group of ham actors have to abandon a theater production set in Nazi Germany as Poland is invaded. Instead they bring their dubious talents to the work of resistance, role-playing and inveigling their way under the noses of the Gestapo led by “Concentration Camp” Erhardt (Sig Ruman). The central roles of Joseph and Marion Tura are taken by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard and their performances are marvels of comic acting. In this study Peter Barnes considers what it is to make comedy out of tragedy. To Be or Not to Be tells us that in the face of the brutality and unimagined ignorance of men in power, one must never lose one’s style. If everything is lost, but lost with style, despair can be kept at bay and turned into a small victory. Barnes also shows how the comedy is achieved and in so doing sheds light on the enigmatic “Lubitsch touch.” Author Biography:Peter Barnes is one of the UK’s most respected dramatists, with numerous stage, screen, and radio plays to his name. His work has been performed by Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud and Paul Scofield (among others). He won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award for The Ruling Class in 1969 and the Olivier Award for Best Play in 1985 for Red Noses. His screenplay for Enchanted April (1992) was nominated for an Academy Award.

Torchwood: Rift War $14.95 Torchwood is the action-packed sci-fi series from BBC America, following the adventures of a team of investigators, working for the secret organisation that uses scavenged alien technology to solve present day crimes – both alien and human.Now the smash hit Doctor Who spin-off comes to graphic novels! When Torchwood-3 comes under fire in an all-out attack by extra-dimensional shock troopers, the team are torn in all directions. And with a deadly rift bleeding through into their own reality, time itself could be destroyed if the Torchwood team isn’t able to stop it!Written and illustrated by some of the UK’s top comic creators, including Paul Grist, Ian Edginton, D’Israeli and Simon Furman – Torchwod: Rift War is an unmissable epic!

Transformers $14.94 GALVATRON’S BACK – AND THIS TIME, HE’S REALLY MAD! Continuing Titan’s bestselling Transformers collections, this never-before-collected reprint of the extremely hard-to-find Transformers UK comic material collects the Fallen Angel storyline, which relates directly to the events of the DVD smash-hit Transformers: The Movie! Galvatron has yet again managed to jump back into Earth’s past – but it looks like this time his circuits are really fried, as he initiates a plan to harness an explosion of unimaginable destructive power, and make himself a god! Now, it will take the combined power of the Dinobots, Ultra Magnus, Rodimus Prime and the Decepticons to stop him and save Earth – not to mention a certain crazy bounty hunter from the future – named Death’s Head, yes?

Wallace & Gromit the Bootiful Game $8.95 From the Publisher: More all-new comic strip adventures from the Oscar-winning, animated superstars Wallace & Gromit as they turn their hand tosoccer! When Wallace takes over the running of a local soccer club, he uses all his inventive skills to set it on the road to cup glory. But all is not as it seems at Growther AFC, and soon Wallace and Gromit s dreams of success are hobbled by foul play and outright sabotage! Someone get the referee! Wallace & Gromit have featured in three films which are adored by all ages A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave and are now amongst the UK s best-loved characters, appealing to children and adults alike.

Wallace and Gromit: The Bootiful Game $8.95 More all-new comic strip adventures from the Oscar-winning, animated superstars Wallace & Gromit as they turn their hand tosoccer! When Wallace takes over the running of a local soccer club, he uses all his inventive skills to set it on the road to cup glory. But all is not as it seems at Growther AFC, and soon Wallace and Gromit¹s dreams of success are hobbled by foul play and outright sabotage! Someone get the referee! Wallace & Gromit have featured in three films which are adored by all ages ‹ A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave ‹ and are now amongst the UK¹s best-loved characters, appealing to children and adults alike.

Wikiproject Television: Unaired Television Programs, Wikiproject Star Trek, Wikiproject the Apprentice Uk, Star Trek: Phase Ii $26.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Unaired Television Programs, Wikiproject Star Trek, Wikiproject the Apprentice Uk, Star Trek: Phase Ii, List of Television Series Canceled Before Airing an Episode, Buffy the Animated Series, Bruce Wayne, Defiant Class Starship, Garbage Pail Kids, Planet Relief, Cartoonstitute, Eight Days a Week, Millennium Live, Welcome to the Neighborhood, Robotech 3000, Men of Crisis: the Harvey Wallinger Story, Fearless, Roman’s Empire, Snip, Transylvania, Misconceptions, Bad Dads, Apo 923. Excerpt: The Apprentice is a BAFTA award-winning British reality television series in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a £100,000-a-year job as an apprentice to the British business magnate Lord Sugar (previously known as “Sir Alan Sugar”). Winners have gone on to work at Amstrad, an electronics manufacturing company founded by Sugar (but since sold to BSkyB), or one of Sugar’s other companies, Viglen, Amsprop or Amshold. The Apprentice, billed as a “job interview from hell”, is very similar in format to the American series of the same name, which stars entrepreneur Donald Trump. The first and second series aired on BBC Two in 2005 and 2006 respectively and the third series ran on BBC One in early 2007, the success of which led the BBC to commission two more series. The fourth series began in March 2008 and the fifth began in March 2009. A sixth series has been commissioned. The programme has spawned three spin-offs, The Apprentice: You’re Fired! (a studio-based programme which acts as a companion to the regular series), plus celebrity versions for Comic Relief and Sport Relief. Occasional 60-minute special episodes, often concentrating on particular candidates and their stories, also air. Apprentice-related merchand… More:

Works by Dan Abnett (Study Guide): Dan Abnett Bibliography $13.55 New – This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dan Abnett Bibliography. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dan Abnett has been writing comics and novels since the mid-1980s. In comics he has worked on the biggest UK titles at 2000 AD and for Marvel UK, before for the largest American comic book published like DC Comics and Marve

Works by Dan Abnett (Study Guide): Dan Abnett Bibliography $13.55 Used – This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dan Abnett Bibliography. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dan Abnett has been writing comics and novels since the mid-1980s. In comics he has worked on the biggest UK titles at 2000 AD and for Marvel UK, before for the largest American comic book published like DC Comics and Marv

Worlds Within A World $24.98 This book is about the varied life experiences of Geoffrey Ralph Wood born in rural Hertfordshire UK in 1926. Each chapter is complete in itself recounting a time period or theme. There is a rich mix of romance, grief, humour, hope and faith. He received no formal schooling from before the age of eleven but had the confidence to make life work whatever the obstacle. A simple quiet faith exploded into a vibrant spirituality by an out-of-this-world visionary experience at the age of sixty-six, which is the climax of Geoff’s story. Geoff was the youngest child of four born into a farming community. Life was tragically disrupted aged four, when his parent’s marriage ended. The family, of two boys and two girls, was divided and he moved with his mother and eldest sister to urban Newport S Wales. There were many changes of address.Farm life – horses – romance – employment situations – comic episodes – air-raids and three impressionable years in the army are remembered. In midlife his life totally collapsed; he lost his wife, home and employment. But he fought back with a natural faith and sense of optimism to rebuild his life in a brand new beginning. No children came but in 1993 aged sixty-six years old, after moving from N Wales to N Shropshire, he had a fantastic unsought for visionary experience that wonderfully and totally changed his life. Prior to this he had no religious background. He retired with his second wife Dorothy to Ellesmere Shropshire.This book is written to inspire hope and faith, with much human interest and a laugh or two!