Books with author Michael Frey

'A love affair through an interpreter,' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.'Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis at Moscow university to become involved in all the deceptions of love and East-West relations.

Brit Kitridge's plan was just to get her high school diploma and head to college and med school, but nobody can escape from fate, or is it history? The Beginner's Guide To Winning an Election reveals our main character’s love for history, and after a summer reading books that fuel her passion for politics, Brit decides to join TM (Team Mathew), a fourteen-member group that has helped Mathew Boltanski win every election he’s ever entered. Now he’s going for the big one—student body president. By orchestrating brilliant campaigns one after the other, TM has made Matthew a national young star and promising politician who could even run for higher office in Washington. When Brit is accused of sabotaging the team, she realizes that Hawthorn High has its secrets, and someone needs to shed some light on them. The story is set in a world six years ahead of our time. Security is a constant issue. Politics isn't black-and-white, it's not even gray anymore. Inflation is out of control and the educational system is in crisis. But what happens when you find out what’s really going on? What do you do with secrets no one but you wants to hold up to the light?

[Read by Claton Butcher] Christians throughout the world have found renewed enthusiasm to share their faith using Michael Frost's BELLS model, which is explained here in this how-to guide. Christianity is a surprising religion. It has changed the world in remarkable ways throughout history simply through Christians living out their faith. More recently, we've become afraid of a habituated Christianity, thinking that routines will rob our faith of its vitality. The net effect is that we've replaced the habits that surprise the world with habits that mimic the world and both we and the world suffer for it.Integrating the five habits in the BELLS model -- Bless others, Eat together, Listen to the Spirit, Learn Christ, and understand yourself as Sent by God into others' lives -- will help you spread the gospel organically, graciously, and surprisingly.Michael Frost, a world-renowned expert on evangelism and discipleship, makes evangelism a lifestyle that is fulfilling, exciting, effective, and easy to live out!

Just how much can happen to a 15 year old boy during a 48 hour period. Well quite a lot if he happens to inherit a time machine from his dying grandfather. Now if that wasn’t enough he finds out that not only was his grandfather a time warrior but one of the most decorated time travellers of all time. At 4 pm his grandfather dies but by 5pm he is flying solo to meet his grandfather back in time. Very soon they have to hatch a plan so that scientists don’t get their hands on the grandfather’s body and find out how old his grandfather really was and how his body was rebuilt after years of fighting through the galaxy. During their adventures they meet with well known historical characters such as Michelangelo, King Arthur and a Samurai warrior called Akeda Nobuteru. Time travel can bring about some very funny situations that will bring a smile to your face. They also meet up with colourful characters such as Wormhole Willy, a tank commander in WW2, who was accidentally transported forward in time during a battle and now surfs the time continuum in a Sherman tank, frequently crashing. A loveable old rogue who ends up playing a large role in Trevor’s life as his adventures continue. Trevor meets the Time Council for an apprenticeship hearing and leaves as they ask his grandfather ‘ you must tell us more of this Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise’. His grandfather cautions him on the receptionist ‘ She’s a Gamethon Trevor. They bite and I’ve got the scars to prove it!’ Of all the girls in all the worlds Trevor has to fall in love along the way with the daughter of Akeda Nobuteru, a renowned samurai from 15th century Japan. In the words of his grandfather ….‘Careful young Trevor she is 425 years older than you and she died 345 years before you were born. Just thought I would let you know. We have to keep things in perspective my boy.’ This relationship sparks a feud with a young evil samurai warrior during Trevor’s samurai training. The evil samurai warrior pursues Trevor through time leading to many predicaments for Trevor to deal with. How did this happen? Did someone leave the keys to a time machine in the ignition? Each day Trevor returns to his hometown of Strahan in Tasmania visiting his school, his parents and friends who begin to notice his changing appearance. Each day Trevor has actually been time travelling for some months. They see the transition of a slightly built, shy, underperforming young boy into a strong confidant young man who seems to be growing older and taller by the day. His school uniform gets tighter, his muscles firmer. He deals with the school bully in typical samurai fashion and his friends Tiffany and Snotty suspect something is going on. He then brings his new Japanese girlfriend Kimako to school. The trouble is she is from 1583. King Arthur’s court is thrown into chaos when Trevor and Kimako demonstrate some martial art that suddenly turns very serious and Trevor has to decide on the life or death of a gladiator. It gets worse when Trevor takes his school friends for an unauthorised time trip and causes the evil samurai warrior to visit Strahan looking for his betrothed Japanese bride to be. If that wasn’t all there is a secret agent on his tail and he is getting closer and closer. Wormhole Willy saves the day and meets someone who will change his life forever. ‘Here comes Trubble’, takes on a whole new meaning.

On April 17th 1951 a couple and their four children - the eldest seven and a half years old the youngest, not quite two - stood before a court in their hometown, Ballinrobe. The children were charged with 'having unfit parents' by a child welfare officer known as The Cruelty Man...an opinion shared by the presiding judge who decreed that the children be taken forthwith and placed in the care of the Irish State. With little likelihood of a marked improvement in conditions in the children's home, they would remain in the care of the State - to wit, the Catholic Church - until their sixteenth birthday.I was the youngest member of the four and so could look forward to at least fourteen years in the mammoth care apparatus overseen by veritable battalions of nuns and males of various religious orders. For reasons that defied logic - and indeed any measure of compassion - the eldest child, Anne, was despatched to a predominantly all-girl orphanage in neighbouring County Roscommon while her three brothers endured a journey to an orphanage on the country's east coast to County Louth...and a world away from her. It would be twelve years before I would see my sister again.Although the story in these pages is a chronicle of my personal experience in care - and the often bewildering period after my subsequent release - it mirrors much of what my siblings endured as a result of the Court's ruling on that long-ago day in 1951. This story also pays homage to the extraordinarily good and decent people whom I encountered on my long journey from childhood to early manhood without whose little acts of kindness and empathy life for at least one child would have be unremittingly austere.

THE HEARTSTONE CHRONICLES VOLUME IThe Allarei Heartstone has sustained the world of Lor for two thousand years. But now, as natural disasters ravage the lands and Hellsprings manifest with alarming frequency to spew murderous daemons into the Mortal Realm, one thing is becoming clear…The Heartstone is dying. And with it, the world will die, too.As an ancient evil stirs in the bowels of Hell, hope is borne from the Heavens in the form of an angelic saviour whose very touch will heal the Heartstone. However, if she is to reach her destination before the world is swept away by the terrifying might of an army of Daemon-Gods, she will have to rely on a man whose soul teeters upon a blade’s edge between darkness and light. And in doing so, she may be placing the world in even greater peril, for he is the Windchaser, Darkmalian – dispassionate, violent and unpredictable, his very soul may be the key to the destruction of the mortal races…Windchaser is the stunning first volume of The Heartstone Chronicles, introducing the myriad races of Lor as they prepare to undergo a testing: a terrible, all-consuming conflict is coming to the Mortal Realms, and only a handful of reluctant heroes will stand fast to decide the fate of Heaven & Hell – and all that lies between…

'Manning's old friend Proctor-Gould was in Moscow and anxious to get in touch with him. Or so Manning was informed. He looked forward to the meeting. He had few friends in Moscow, none of them old friends, and no friends at all, old or new, in Moscow or anywhere else, called Proctor-Gould . . .' Paul Manning, a young Englishman working on his thesis in Soviet-era Moscow, takes on a part-time job as interpreter for the enigmatic Gordon Proctor-Gould, ostensibly an honest businessman, but possibly involved in more clandestine activities. When Proctor-Gould falls for the mercurial blonde Raya, Manning finds himself in the awkward position of acting as interpreter in their love affair, a situation made even more awkward by Manning's own feelings for her. And when it begins to appear Raya may be a police spy, Manning realizes he may have gotten himself into more than he bargained for ... Featuring an unusual blend of humor and suspense, Michael Frayn's second novel, The Russian Interpreter (1966), was inspired in part by the author's own experiences in Communist Russia and won the Hawthornden Prize as the best work of imaginative fiction published that year. This edition includes a new introduction by the author. 'Altogether a notable book ... Frayn is now our best equipped younger prose-writer as well as being a very sane and very funny one.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Imaginative and delightful - zany characters who stick in the memory and have a genuine life of their own. Frayn juxtaposes the humorous and the frankly sinister into a satisfying and witty picture.' - Sunday Telegraph 'Full of quirky, quixotic surprises ... will catch your curiosity and convert it into admiration.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The true story of King Arthur! From Michael Fraley comes this history of the famous character known as King Arthur. This fully illustrated graphic novel is based on the original adventure of Arthur as written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century. Geoffrey’s work is considered one of the most important books of the medieval period and served as the basis from which all future Arthurian tales have been created. This was the original work before later authors and Hollywood added their own embellishments. In Geoffrey’s work, there was no Camelot, no round table, no Holy Grail, and no Knights of Chivalry. But there is Arthur and this is his tale... Collects comic issues 1-5.

To All Dutch CitizensThe Chief of the Amsterdam Police said that I should be “made a Freeman of Amsterdam” after I risked my life rescuing a Dutch police women hostage from an armed criminal who the German police said was a very dangerous man who would have probably killed her but the Foreign Police would not give me residence! It seems as though because I was a well known proselytizer for vegetarianism and a strong and fit icon I was thought to be a Nazi by the local police. I lived in the Derde Helmersstraat for 7 years and wanted to become naturalized Dutch.Instead what do I get for my reward? I Michael J Freeman accuse local police and criminals of conspiring to illegally deport me back to England where they knew that I would be imprisoned without a trial- not having been convicted of any crime and in the event I served three and a half years.Instead I was accused and convicted of “fighting in the street with knives” after being arrested by local police and sentenced to five months imprisonment in my absence because I was in the English Prison Wormwood Scrubs and knew nothing about the hearing or court appearance .There were lots of witnesses after a man into whom I had accidentally run into in the Overtoom attacked me with paving stones in a vicious attack. I am a martial artist and made a fool of him by jumping over the heavy objects that he was taking from some road works and throwing at me for 3 or 4 minutes. In the end I decided to scare him and I drew a knife. Just as I brandished it the local police arrived confiscated my knife and took me to the police station near the Leidesplein where I was escorted to the cells by baseball bat carrying cops who had been informed that I was a dangerous psychopath I spent the night before be released in the morning without any written charges.Read Freeman in Amsterdam to reward me...I was proud to be a 55 year Dutch hero and am now 75 and write every day. Michel J Freemanmike.freeman@eroticartist.co.ukContinuing the singular adventures of Mike Freeman as he leaves England in breach of his life license and goes to live in Amsterdam where making porn films is legal and for the first time in his life is treated as an honest man. In this episode he fights with the Mafia, breaks a CIA man's arm and is interviewed by the Dutch Secret Service who confirm that in 1976 he was an unwitting guinea pig in the illegal MK-Ultra Project when the most intelligent prisoners in Britain were moved into HMP Maidstone. An exciting and incredible read but true!