Your need to be liked is holding you and your clients back from succeeding at your highest potential.Over 1000s of hours of coaching multiple seven and 8-figure businesses worldwide, Chris Marr has figured out the path to owning your authority and why it’s critical if you truly desire your work as a coach to lead to transformation for your clients.In Become an Authoritative Coach, you will follow a 5-step framework that will guide you to creating an authori...

An octet of stories in which interesting characters are tested to their limits. In the opening story, what will happen when a teenage girl, who feels constricted by her family and her Muslim faith, develops a crush on a white classmate? Will she be able to withstand the pressure not only exerted by her parents and grandmother but also by her overzealous aunt? In 'To Old Times!', two university friends bump into each other after a long break. Was the friendship genuine or were they both kee...

The theme of murder runs through these six tales. In the title story, Josh, an eleven-year-old boy, discovers a notebook in which an anonymous diarist describes his search for his wife's killer. Is it possible that Josh knows the characters depicted - friends of his father's - even though they are bizarrely named after different animals? Similarly intriguing is 'The Distant Shore', in which a hospice nurse hears confessions from not one but two of her patients, and 'The Long Night', about ...

Eight enjoyable stories to enthral and entertain the reader. In the first, 'A Special Bond', a man is shocked to receive a letter from a stranger whose existence he had always known about but whom he had always thought would remain hidden away. In the second, 'A Hunch', a psychic is tested by a couple of clients who are more of a challenge for her to read than normal. In the third, 'The Wedding', a guest is heartbroken to attend the nuptials of a woman with whom he is in love. Five further...

A sextet of stories in which shocks abound and secrets are laid bare. In the title story, 'Mine to Avenge', a man with Christian beliefs is consumed with thoughts of revenge. In 'St Patrick's Day', a teenage cleaner begins an affair with her married employer. In 'The Close', a woman is stunned by something she discovers about a neighbour's past. Each of these scenarios, and the three others, can be resolved in different ways. But which way? Tragedy, mystery, suspense and humour all combine...

A Hampshire estate in 1903. George Erskine, a young man invalided out of the Boer War, falls desperately in love with Emily Delsey, a debutante. Although he persuades her to marry him he remains insecure, convinced she is being unfaithful or at least hiding some terrible secret. Why is she writing letters to another man behind his back? Why is she so reticent about the past? And why, just as a matter of interest, does she refuse to countenance physical relations between them? One evening h...

Three novellas portraying love at different stages of life. In 'Nineteen', a middle-aged man reflects on his first year at university, the characters he encountered, and the event that continues to haunt him. In 'Celeste', a couple in their thirties meet through a dating site after corresponding for weeks online. She likes him and he likes her. But is it as simple as that? In 'Old Romantic', a man in his forties is dismayed to discover his father is dating a much younger woman. Should he i...

Clara Brownacre’s life is shattered when she discovers her husband David, a popular history lecturer, has been shot dead on their doorstep. Who could have done such a thing? There is one clue – a newspaper article he is holding about a girl who died after swallowing an ecstasy tablet – but the police are unable to connect the two deaths, and Clara, heartbroken from her loss and the chief suspect in the murder, decides to investigate the matter. It is a difficult, not to say dangerous, unde...

A potpourri of stories about murder and the mystical interspersed with moments of mirth. A fortune-teller makes predictions that turn out to be uncannily correct – to the misery of all. A couple write to each other after a long break and spar over what secrets to reveal. A woman discovers she has the power to kill whomever she wants by supernatural means. Marr often explores the issue of time. How trapped are we by the past and particularly by certain key moments? Suspenseful, surprising a...

DCI Michael Janaway has borderline Asperger’s syndrome and a unique perspective. Awoken late at night at his home in Cambridge, he is disturbed to find a neighbour has been stabbed to death on his doorstep. An investigation ensues but immediately Janaway is confronted with whether he should remain as the investigation’s senior officer, living as he does opposite the murder house, or indeed whether he is emotionally stable enough to cope after the recent death of his baby daughter. One memb...

A care assistant, Fiona Tidy, has gone missing and DCI Michael Janaway sets out to find her, encouraged by one of her service users, a young autistic man called Stewie. Janaway, who has autistic traits himself, is working against time, since two women have already been murdered recently in his home city of Cambridge, and the more he looks into Fiona’s disappearance, the likelier, it seems, the outcome will be tragic. Fiona has written in adoring terms about her therapist, the mysterious ‘B...

Camden, North London, 1991. Two idealistic men in their mid-twenties are looking for love. Gareth is heartbroken when his girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal and decides, in order to distract him from his maudlin thoughts, to help his hapless housemate, Reece, acquire a partner. Reece has already been meeting women through a lonely hearts advertisement but, unfortunately, has a habit of saying the wrong thing and a history of dating disasters. How difficult can their mission get? V...