This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Three Christmas Tales is a powerful and imaginative collection of modern Christmas stories that explore injustice, generosity, and love.Hunted street kids, child slavery, an explorer lost in the Frozen North. these stories re-imagine the meaning of Christmas beyond comfort and tradition. Each tale blends realism with symbolism, compassion with darkness, and hope with the Christmas messageWritten in a clear, lyri...

The diary of Thomas Dallam. Finally published 400 years late!A fascinating glimpse of the clash of Western and Muslim cultures. Translated into modern English, it reads as if its Elizabethan author were alive today.In 1598 merchants of the City of London paid for a present to be given by Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III of Turkey. She hoped to turn the Sultan's military might on her Spanish enemies. The merchants hoped to secure trading concessions.The present w...

UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTERIntoxicated with dreams of a Greek paradise, John Mole inflicts upon his family a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity, no roof, no floor, no doors, no windows and twenty years of goat dung... far away from the tourist resorts and posh hotels.Through hard work and comic misadventures a bond is formed with a vivid cast of village characters – from Elpida who cures back pain with raw eggs to beautiful Eleni yearning for ...

Meet Harley - an antiquated 50cc motorbike, top speed 25mph, who carried me on the backroads of Greece from the island of Evia to deliver the collected Jeeves and Wooster to a Moldovan monk on Mount Athos, a self-governing state run by monks.Harley and the Holy Mountain is a sequel to It's All Greek To Me! with similar humour, self-deprecation, entertaining stories, and insights into today's Greece.The road trip is based on a lifetime's love of Greece. It is seasoned with experienc...

From the best-selling author of It's All Greek to Me! comes a wild tale of life and business in the brave new Russia. John Mole went to seek his fortune in the New Russia revolution with his Big Idea of setting up British baked potato restaurants to rival McDonald's and Pizza Hut, and came back with the rights for a revolutionary biotechnology for cleaning air pollution. In between he tangled with fantasists and scientists, Stalinists and Tolkeinists, hopeful oligarchs and hopeless biznism...

Praised by Business Week as 'invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality...a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves' and named a Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Mind Your Manners has become a 50,000-copy bestseller and the standard guide to European business cultures for over a decade. Now in a fully expanded and updated third edition, this practical guide contains a further fifteen country chapters including all the additional countr...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1599, English musician and organ builder, Thomas Dallam, traveled to Constantinople to deliver a magnificent self-playing organ and clock to Sultan Mehmed III. The Sultan’s Organ is the diary of his remarkable adventure, put into modern English by John Mole.Follow Dallam’s journey through the Ottoman Empire, as he navigates the Sultan’s harem, political intrigues, and the extraordinary challenge of transporting and installing the Sultan’...

Hunted street kids, child slavery, and an explorer starving and lost in the Frozen North. The Christmas message with no added syrup But with happy endings... Rubbish Christmas - Christmas Love - The Explorer's Christmas 50 Pages

A rare insight into a Medieval mind.In 1394 Nicola Martoni made a dangerous journey from a small town in Italy to Jerusalem.He was a little, short-sighted, middle-aged provincial lawyer.He sailed through Aegean storms to Egypt, walked across the desert in high summer, climbed Mount Sinai with malaria, and finally made it to the Holy Places. Five companions died on the way.Desperate to get home and running out of money, he wandered from island to island and acros...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An ordinary man. An extraordinary journey.In 1394 Nicola Martoni made a dangerous journey from a small town in Italy to Jerusalem. He was a little, short-sighted, middle-aged provincial lawyer. He sailed through Aegean storms to Egypt, walked across the desert in high summer, climbed Mount Sinai with malaria, and finally made it to the Holy Places. Five companions died on the way. Desperate to get home and running out of money, he wandered...

Three very different stories with one thing in common - the supranatural.Maria lives in a Greek village on the Black Sea at the turn of the last century. She and her lover flee to America from a sea vampire bent on vengeance.In The Good Book the Church is keen to find the lost Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Who do they turn to? The Devil incarnate..Set in Ancient Greece Second Life is based on the oldest zombie tale in literature. A tale of Death and Sex - in th...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Three Christmas Tales is a powerful and imaginative collection of modern Christmas stories that explore injustice, generosity, and love.Hunted street kids, child slavery, an explorer lost in the Frozen North. these stories re-imagine the meaning of Christmas beyond comfort and tradition. Each tale blends realism with symbolism, compassion with darkness, and hope with the Christmas messageWritten in a clear, lyrical style, these stori...