Books with author Anthony Clark

I spent years trying to come to terms with the events of my past. I struggled with unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment (and that was just to myself).Over thirty years of imprisonment and held captive to vices and bad choices that I have made. I started solvent abuse at the age of fourteen, moving on to cannabis and progressing to heroin; not to mention the copious amounts of alcohol that consumed me, my relationships and my life.Alone in a prison cell, waiting to be sentenced for 'Intent to Supply Class A drugs, I realised that I had enough of what I'd become and where I was heading. So, I sought divine guidance for the direction of my life and I found freedom.

The gavel hit the block and his mind went silent. Mark´s soul folded up small: once, twice, and once more. Until his senses were withdrawn from the reality and the numbness in his head made a dream-time of the external world. His mother´s cries echoing in the courtroom. But it couldn’t be real, could it? A violent thrust and he fell into a cage. A heavy door closing behind. The sound of the starting engine. Bang! The gavel against the block now was no more than a resonance in his head. He lost the game. It was over. From mindless delinquent to mindful hypnotist, Mark Anthony´s story take us from the criminal world of Southeast London, through many trials and tribulations to a successful career as one of Australia’s most sought after Hypnotists. A roller-coaster of family violence, children’s home, expelled and suspended from schools, child abuse, drugs, crime and loss of freedom in the form of time behind bars; cancer, bankrupt, divorce and false accusations, brother of a murderer, and the power of a man´s mind driving his way out to a brighter life of love and success. Mark´s incredible story goes beyond anything told before: a real emerging phoenix. Fatherless, poor, beaten, abused, arrested, belted, threatened, on the verge of death…Mark´s childhood and adolescence elapsed like the worst of nightmares. The brother of a murderer, he lost four friends to heroin and was employed by an underworld figure. Treated like scum but trusting there was a way out, it was when the game seemed lost, behind bars, that Mark decided to change his life. It was an arduous path, rich in disappointments and great mistakes, albeit Mark´s life tells us that nothing is fatal and never everything is lost. An inspirational but raw story showing us that, no matter where we are at, there is always a way up if we put our mind to it, “It’s all about the choices we make”.

It is spring 1535 and sixteen-year-old Sir Peter Salt sets out for his estate at Applestoke together with his friend, the poet Henry Martley and his squire, the tough old soldier, Ben Watts. Applestoke turns out to be an impoverished backwater with superstition rife. The dilapidated church contains a terrifying doom painting featuring the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Death on his pale horse.Peter determines to improve the lot of his people but before he can act he has to set out in pursuit of the sinister Gerd von Richtenberg. Peter and Ben are soon trapped and facing death.The sixteen year old Queen of Voravia, Princess Lucia, is on an informal royal tour when she hears of Peter’s predicament and, with only her lady-in-waiting, Elspeth and Henry resolves to try to rescue her friend. There are no magic swords or flying horses to help them. Lucy and Peter have to survive by the use of their brains and courage. A Pale Horse is a swashbuckling adventure story and the second in the Voravia series.Suitable for readers 12 years-old and over.

It is summer 1535 and the Great Council of Voravia are determined to punish their historic enemy, Sloronia, for the actions that followed the contest for the Saint’s Isles. Voravia’s demands are rebuffed and an expedition is mounted to seize an island. It would appear that Sloronia had been warned about the attack, for it is repulsed at great loss. Now the initiative has passed to the enemy who possess the new weapon of war, cannon and, using it, overwhelm the vital frontier fort. Seventeen-year -old Peter Salt and his friend, the poet Henry Martley are sent on a mission to acquire a cannon.Their efforts result in a series of desperate battles.With the Sloronian forces advancing and the Voravian army not yet ready, the sixteen-year-old Princess Lucia and her lady-in-waiting Elspeth raise a citizen’s army to try to delay the enemy. It soon becomes apparent there is a traitor within the Voravian court. There are no magic swords or flying horses to come to their aid. Lucy and Peter have to survive by the use of their brains and courage. Firepower is a swashbuckling adventure story and the fourth in the Voravia seriesSuitable for readers 12 years-old and over.

The winter of 1535 promises to be a very hard one. Seventeen-year-old Sir Peter Salt, accompanied by his friend, Sir Henry Martley, poet and scholar, travels to Nieuport, Voravia’s capital, to draw some funds to finance the work on the iron mine on his estate. They discover their banker has been murdered. As they investigate the killing a plot that threatens the vary existence of Voravia is uncovered.Sixteen-year-old Princess Lucia, queen of Voravia is drawn into a scheme to save her nation. She finds herself alone and in great danger.There are no magic swords or flying horses to come to their aid. Lucy and Peter have to survive by the use of their brains and courage. Winter is a swashbuckling adventure story and the fifth in the Voravia seriesSuitable for readers 14 years-old and over.

It is early summer in 1535 and seventeen-year-old Sir Peter Salt believes he has discovered a source of iron ore on his estate at Applestoke. Since it lies within the royal forest he visits the capital, Nieuport, to secure the deeds to the site of the mine. When he arrives he is pressurised to represent Voravia as its champion in a contest to decide the ownership of the strategic Saints Islands. The sixteen year old Queen of Voravia, Princess Lucia, decides to visit Trois in neighbouring Sloronia to support Voravia’s champion. Whilst there she meets the king of Sloronia’s younger brother, Duke d’Urbin and the ambitious Cardinal Bishop of Trois. The contest pushes Peter to the limit. The result is a surprise as is the aftermath.There are no magic swords or flying horses to come to their aid. Lucy and Peter have to survive by the use of their brains and courage. His Nation’s Champion is a swashbuckling adventure story and the third in the Voravia series. Suitable for readers 12 years-old and over.

Gut Instinct: Diets Missing Link teaches the skill of healthy eating and achieving healthy weight without dieting. It speaks to the quiet majority of people who are sick of the cult diets and tired of the standard dogma. The present epidemic of obesity and the current controversy over which popular diet is best, Atkins, South Beach, The Zone, Dr. Phil, and endless others is the result of an oversight at the foundations of nutrition. Gut Instinct reveals what everybody overlooked in their mad dash to the top of the diet heap. It explains why carbohydrates are so controversial, how to use them effectively, and why the popular cult diets do more obscure the problem of obesity than to solve it.

The first in a series of demolition-themed children's books, My Dad Does Demolition follows the story of Taylor, a little boy whose school is about to be demolished. The book is suitable for children from four to eight years old, and is designed to encourage children to consider a career in demolition whilst reinforcing vital health and safety messages.

“I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?” said my brother's wife. “My dear Rose,” I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, “why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know), I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady, his countess. Behold, it is enough!” “You are nine-and-twenty,” she observed, “and you've done nothing but-” “Knock about? It is true. Our family doesn't need to do things.”

The time has been, but happily exists no longer, when it would have been necessary to offer an apology for such a book as this. In those days it was not held that Beauty is its own excuse for being; on the contrary, a spurious utilitarianism reigned supreme in literature, and fancy and imagination were told to fold their wings, and travel only in the dusty paths of every-day life. Fairy tales, and all such flights into the region of the supernatural, were then condemned as merely idle things, or as pernicious occupations for faculties that should be always directed to serious and profitable concerns. But now we have cast off that pedantic folly, let us hope for ever. We now acknowledge that innocent amusement is good for its own sake, and we do not affect to prove our advance in civilisation by our incapacity to relish those sportive creations of unrestricted fancy that have been the delight of every generation in every land from times beyond the reach of history. The materials of the following Collection have been carefully chosen from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations;