Bøger af Stephen Curtis

Throughout times people have told stories and tales. At first these tales were told orally. Oral tradition, or oral lore as it may be known, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another. This transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales and fairy tales. They were passed on from father to son or mother to daughter. One generation after another could enjoy these tales. These stories that we heard as small children, were usually folktales and fairy stories. Tales that our parents and their parents heard when they were young, passed down through the generations. They were stories of hopes and dreams, of meetings with giants, wicked witches and goblins that inflict harm. Or kind fairies and dragons who restore peace and order. But not all these stories were faithfully reproduced. Some, for one reason or another, were changed and one could even say twisted. Was it to protect the guilty? Unfortunately the reasons are lost and we may never find out. It was only by being diligent and refusing to give up the pursuit of truth that I stumbled on these few accounts of what really happened. I can only hope that you the reader can understand the agony these persons, who were falsely portrayed, suffered in their lifetime. I can only present the truth here and let you be the judge.

Serial Killers that roam the night taking life as it pleases them. Vampires from the dawn of time to now. And tales that will take you on a journey to who knows where and why.

This story begins a long, long time ago, almost at the beginning of time. Think of times when dinosaurs roamed the earth then go back even further. Actually it was so long ago that very few people even remember it, lost in the annals of time almost. It happened in a little village called Hamburg, in a place far, far away, in a country called Germany. To call it a village is being very generous as it consisted of crooked ramshackle houses scattered higgledy piggledy everywhere. In between the houses the pigs foraged for food digging their snouts into the ground churning up the mud even more. Then they would, mud and all, go traipsing through the houses. And so begins the story that becomes a legend.

This is poetry by some of the most amazing modern Poets.

This is poetry by some of the most amazing modern Poets.

Inside my father's bowler hat/ Once lived a most peculiar cat.So begins The Thinking Cat, a long poem, composed in rhyming couplets, about a young boy and the mysterious talking cat living in the attic of his family's home. The family uses the attic as a place to store unwanted items, including the less-than-desirable trinkets bestowed upon them by a great aunt. When the aunt comes to call, the boy volunteers to go up to the top of the house to fetch down all the unwanted gifts so that they can be on display during her visit.However, the boy opens the trapdoor to the attic to find a large pair of green eyes staring back at him-eyes belonging to a cat who not only speaks, but claims to be a great thinker. The boy fetches the cat some milk, sits down to listen to his tale, and a very special relationship is born. Exploring the differences between real life and imagination, growing up, and the role animals play in our lives, The Thinking Cat will delight anyone who has ever wished their pet could talk-and makes an excellent bedtime story for adults and children alike.

This is an amazing collection of poetry from sixteen different poets

A fairly ordinary man re-encounters a fairly extraordinary woman whom he had previously known at university. Nigel Anderson is buying his mother a scarf in Liberty's store in Regent Street, London when he is chanced upon by Bea Williams, the wonderful piece of work of the title. His life is changed from that moment.Funny, sexy and sad by turns, the novel follows their relationship through to its dizzyingly swift conclusion.

We are all on a journey. A journey of discovery, whether it is a physical journey that takes us to the next street to see what is there or it takes us around the world. Then there is the inward journey of discovery. What do we find there? This is such a journey. What we find there may not be reality, but then again there may be some elements of the real world intruding. After all, all fantasy has a beginning in this world and it is how we see that reality that makes us shape the fantasy. This is a journey through a poets mind.

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