Books with author John Clement

30 Bedtime Stories Your Child Will Love is comprised of short stories with colorful characters and positive messages designed to present and instill wholesome values which will enrich children's lives as well as those whom they interact with throughout their lifetime. It is a known fact that a happy and content child rests better and is healthier emotionally and physically as well as nourishes the mind, body and creativity which all children deserve to experience. It is our intent to provide this opportunity to as many children as possible, May each child who hears or reads these stories rest well and be abundantly blessed.

The First 40 Years of John Clement's autobiography - from September 1939 to October 1980 - and filled with memories, anecdotes...and more than 150 photographs (definitely a greater collection than in most Kindle books!).Son of a M&S Manager and born in Barnstaple at the outbreak of World War II; initially educated at Belmont College then moved to Folkestone and Westbrook House prep-school, followed by Mill Hill public school, before starting working life with Manifoldia, West Bromwich.Formulated early life in Walsall, then decided to 'sow wild oats' working in seasonal hotels in Torquay (with winters in the swinging London of the sixties).Then M&S junior management for two years, back to hotel management (including a senior post at the impressive Selsdon Park Hotel in South Croydon) and finally away to sea, circum-navigating the globe five times and providing a host of stories, some amusing, some quite terrifying!Indeed, one of the latter stories forms the background to a new Kindle book, hopefully to be published later this year, called 'My Dark Angel' - a true story which centres on a black taxi-driver who saved John's life by making him miss a doomed flight to Amman (the taxi-driver was never traced - was he really an Angel?) and moves on to the horrors of Sierra Leone during the late 1990s!Incudes a unique annual record of world events from 1939-1980

The second part of my life story, from when I left the sea in 1980 (and got divorced, married again and had a daughter!) to when I met my future third wife, in 1998.Gambling activities in Upper Norwood (where I wrote 'Down at the Bookies'), a mixed life in Camberwell, Brixton and Herne Hill - moving to Rochester, Kent; life as a Company Director, an Estate Agent GM, and unemployment disasters, before leaving my second wife (and my daughter) - Door-to-door canvassing in Hampshire, a Company Director again, then Bankruptcy and finally, I take a lodger who will one day become my new son-in-law!Interspersed with numerous photographs, like Book One, and (also iike Book One) with the fantastic News-lines feature, recording all the main historical events in the world, for every year!A MUST for those who like reading biographies.

Can a humble toymaker win the most famous competition in the kingdom?Famous craftsman Imlan has chosen Ghiblin, a nobody, as his opponent in the grand contest.Why choose a toymaker?No-one knows and Imlan's cronies are outraged.For Ghiblin the pressure is on.He must compete with Imlan to invent the best answer to three challenges.The snubbed merchants want him to fail.The rich courtiers are horrified by his simple clothes.He's not sure he should even be here...But who is Lyria, the scarred artisan that Imlan has sent to help?Together, can they beat Imlan at his own game?The townsfolk are about to find out....A great inventor.A humble toy-maker.A girl with a scarred face.Who will emerge the winner?If you loved the 1001 Nights and are charmed by fairytales, this short story is for you!>

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