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Destiny and time are the themes of this novel. Can we really alter
time? Would we-or could we-change any details of our lives if we
had the opportunity to go back in time? Michael Grant, who flirts
with suicide, is given this opportunity. The ending may be
surprising! "This work is meaty and sustaining and could in no way
be termed lightweight or frivolous. It's a good, square meal and
two veg which will give the reader much food for thought and no
little enjoyment." - Pat Miller, The Jedburgh Courier, Sept 2000.
Like James Joyce's character, Stephen Daedalus, Denton searches
deeply into his soul, seeking to communicate and understand the
consciousness of his race. Questioning his reason for living,
Denton preaches the Gospel to prisoners in Pretoria Central Prison.
The author's blending of narrative and stream of consciousness,
interspersed with poetic epiphany, captures the complex climate of
Denton's spiritual journey. The author writes on a high, dramatic
level, never in danger of losing the tension of a conflict that
leads his character away from a fundamentalist belief in Christian
doctrine to a wider acceptance of Christ and salvation through
grace. Charles Humphrey Muller, MA (Wales), PhD (London),
DLitt(UFS), DEd (SA), was Professor and Head of the Department of
English at the University of the North in South Africa for ten
years. He is the author of numerous academic textbooks and literary
studies. Now living in Spain, he continues to write.
A clear and concrete goal is the first step in the realization of
your dreams. It's the foundation upon which all your actions - all
your consequent actions - will be established. It's the first
ingredient of a magic formula. There's no magic about it, of course
- it just works like magic. It's the first step that unleashes - or
begins to unleash - a creative force available to every human
being. From establishing an objective, working out a strategy, and
using faith and initiative, this detailed thesis explores the
essential principles for personal success and achievement and
guides the reader step-by step through the practical process of
attaining his or her goals. More important, the book describes a
spiritual journey, and asks whether it is the individual, or the
invisible hand of Providence, that engineers the success - even to
the extent of changing one's original goals, and changing one in
the process.
Harry Denton is a middle-aged professor who leaves his secure post
at a London university on account of the sense of failure and
embarrassment caused by his wife Anne's mounting debts. An
inheritance left to him by his father enables him to start a new
life by buying a small hotel in the Scottish Borders. But in this
new context his marriage to Anne proves to be just as hopeless and
loveless. He escapes through flights of fancy, frequently
contemplating suicide, and becomes obsessed with one of his
guests-Eleanor. Although, ironically, she comes across as a pretty
simpleton married to an uncouth double-glazing salesman, she
expresses the thinking which, in time, will transform Denton's
life. The ruins of a twelfth-century Augustinian Abbey in the
Scottish Borders play a significant role in the initial evocation
of atmosphere, providing the fantasy of a 'time-gate' to the past.
TOUCHED BY ANGELS brings together several inspirational stories of
God's supernatural intervention in the lives of Christian
believers. They constitute extra-biblical proof of God's divine
power and love. The contributors are ? or were ? remarkable people
whom the Lord had touched in one way or another, manifesting His
divine love and miraculous power. It was the editor's own
unexpected experience of the Lord's power and presence that, in
1984, changed his life and caused him to forsake his academic
career in South Africa and move to the United Kingdom where he
could obey his mission to write. It was also that remarkable
experience of His power that made him seek out others whom the Lord
had touched ? while he was still living in South Africa. This
little book is the result of that quest.
1984 proved to be a seminal year in the lives of my family because
it triggered my decision to move permanently from the country of my
birth-South Africa-to Scotland. There was something magical about
the remote Scottish glen where we spent the year, some ten miles
south of Oban, in Argyle. In contrast to the gathering political
storm clouds and tensions in South Africa, my sabbatical year in
the Bragleenbeg glen that cradled the still waters of Scammerdale
Loch that reflected the open sky and the green hills around, all
speckled with white dots of sheep, was like a breath of fresh air,
and we breathed freely. We realised we needed to find a new
direction in life, though my obsession with acquiring a Roll-Royce
Silver Shadow was probably more of an obstacle than a blessing The
musings that follow convey our progress and experiences in the
ensuing years, and these include memories of the eleven years
running a small hotel in the Scottish Borders, a sea voyage to
Australia, life in the Great Glen of Scotland and on the wild
coastline of Sutherland, followed by the short sojourn in Fife
before we settled in the Central Belt of Scotland. -Charles Muller,
2013.
1984 proved to be a seminal year in the lives of my family because
it triggered my decision to move permanently from the country of my
birth-South Africa-to Scotland. There was something magical about
the remote Scottish glen where we spent the year, some ten miles
south of Oban, in Argyle. In contrast to the gathering political
storm clouds and tensions in South Africa, my sabbatical year in
the Bragleenbeg glen that cradled the still waters of Scammerdale
Loch that reflected the open sky and the green hills around, all
speckled with white dots of sheep, was like a breath of fresh air,
and we breathed freely. We realised we needed to find a new
direction in life, though my obsession with acquiring a Roll-Royce
Silver Shadow was probably more of an obstacle than a blessing The
musings that follow convey our progress and experiences in the
ensuing years, and these include memories of the eleven years
running a small hotel in the Scottish Borders, a sea voyage to
Australia, life in the Great Glen of Scotland and on the wild
coastline of Sutherland, followed by the short sojourn in Fife
before we settled in the Central Belt of Scotland. - Charles
Muller.
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