Henri Lord lives his life trying to manage mountaineering, money and his own sexuality, while death keeps stalking his decisions. Only when trying to emulate his mountaineering parents can Henri find stability within himself. Climbing brings him joy and peace of mind. His professional career as a financial investor excites him with a passion, especially with other peoples money. However, there is always additional financial pressure as Henri can not understand or accept the Lord family cul...

Dear Reader, enclosed you will find a set of short stories. It includes actual events from the authors life, and imagined events from the authors mind. Fact and fiction so to speak. As with most books, except those heavy serious textbook tomes, the tales tell of personal and interpersonal emotions and actions. As the saying goes, we are not alone. Each and every one of us affects both each other and the world around us. Moreover, each and every one of us have talents, and unlike the servan...

This is the fifth novel portraying the life of a Lord family member, and it brings us up to date, well to 2010. Peter Lord is turning twenty-one, and as the heir to Fotheringham Manor he needs to decide both the future direction for the estate and a future for his own life. While pursuing his own future in green energy sources Peter tries an experiment on the estate to diversify the present list of activities. This change, this attempt to help a group of dis-advantaged teenagers by giving ...

Samantha returns to the Lord family home in Somerset to recover from the traumatic death of her husband.As a form of catharsis Samantha starts to peacefully tell her son James about the Lord family. A vicious attack on Samantha interrupts this peace and then there is a second attack on a close family friend. The two attacks force Samantha to look within herself to determine exactly wants she needs to do, for both her own life and that of James. She regains her old character, finds a new ma...

Michael Lord is the second son in a wealthy family where the father believes in primogeniture. Set in 1990 on the Lord family estate in Somerset where the family manages their forests and Brainware, their software development company, the story describes Michael's strategies at age twenty to become the inheritor of the Lord family fortune by his twenty-first birthday.In a family brought up to ride, to sail and to rock climb Michael manages to demonstrate how he is a survivor and an...

Novo livro do autor do best-seller O milagre da manhã que já vendeu mais de 300 mil exemplares no Brasil.Os milionários sabem que tudo o que acontece no presente é resultado do que foi feito no passado, e que o controle do presente está nas nossas mãos. Neste revolucionário manual para o sucesso, você descobrirá a conexão inegável entre as manhãs e a riqueza, como o sucesso financeiro não pode ser uma busca sedentária e quais escolhas você precisa fazer para alcançá-lo.

In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. This volume includes some of the early plays which launched his career along its startling trajectory, as well as his much later play, Dejavu, which brings us Look Back in Anger's Jimmy Porter thirty-five years on, older and wiser, but no less indignantly eloquent.

Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956.'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing force of love . . . Jimmy Porter could...

This third collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century.A Patriot for Me'It is a landmark play in its open treatment of homosexuality and in the breadth of its historical canvas... few post-war plays have dealt so brilliantly with the way the individual, in rejecting the ethos of his society, also uncannily reflects it.' Guard...

Noah Phelps has grown used to having life disrupted since meeting his fairy friend and soon-to-be wife, Willow Brown. After all, when you live in a houseful of fairies, you come to expect unending chaos. But he didn’t anticipate falling in love with one of the residents, mysterious Claire Greene. A beautiful half-fairy with magical powers, Noah promises to help her explore her abilities while keeping her secrets. Determined to resist Claire’s charms, Noah recruits Willow’s best friend, Row...

Book Three of the Willow Brown Stories.Noah Phelps is living a dream when he moves into a woodland mansion with a rich, beautiful woman, his fairy friend and lover, Willow Brown. The only downside is the guests: Willow has opened her home to twenty-one wayward fairies. Old and young, friendly and aloof, a houseful of fairies ensures daily bedlam. To keep his sanity, Noah befriends the only other human resident, mysterious Claire Greene.Noah has adjusted to the Big House rou...

This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present.'A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether of the Right or Left, he took no hostages, expecting from other people the same unyielding, unflinching commitment to their view of the truth which he took for granted in his own. Of all the British playwrights of the twentieth century he is the one who risked th...