This is a chronicle of my journey through life's trauma including experiencing emotional abandonment, sexual abuse, PTSD and divorce, my opportunity for metamorphosis (conscious state change) to the metaphysical (finding spirit within).A journey whee I have come to realis that my story is just my story - it is not me. I can now consciously choose to be the best version of who I am and in the process I have peace in th vitues of kindness and humility.

Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name. He's always retained a fan's perspective which, combined with an exceptional knowledge of music, meant he was at ease around musicians and never happier than spending time with them. During the later '60s and throughout the '70s in particular (working at the legendary United Artists), he had a knack of being one step ahead ...

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams?These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past; a novel with a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century ...