Bücher von Glen Pearson

With his life as a newspaper editor behind him, Callum Griffiths moves back to his childhood home in England's Lake District. There is much to recover from, but any chance of peace is brushed aside as the district is overrun by nationalism that little resembles the hopeful land he had known in his youth. Forming a meaningful friendship with a South Korean entrepreneur introduces him to the harsher realities of modern living. Callum decides to use his writing as a way of fighting back against the harshness of the age, and in the process he discovers a new destiny for himself surrounded by the beauty of Cumbria. Bassenthwaite tells the story of a man travelling backwards and forwards at the same time. The past and the future come together in a fashion that reinterprets the present for a better day.

Two great continents intertwined on the world's stage. And two larger than life characters determined in their separate ways to tell their stories.Chen Chang-Jin - the wildly successful Chinese billionaire working to utilize Africa's vast natural resources in ways that would be benefit his homeland and raise his profile in the process.Achol Madut Yek - one of the poorest of the poor, trekking from south Sudan, through Darfur, and into Chad, in a journey that will captivate the eyes of the world and cause it to see the strength and potential of Africa and its people in a new light.Dualities is ultimately a story about humanity - its scope, its inequities, its potential - and how the welfare of its most vulnerable members is often more vital than commonly acknowledged.

A young New Mexican senator caught in the designs of a manipulative White House and the draining world of political partisanship, Truth Shapers is the story of how Jonathon Oldfield fights back against a Washington political system that keeps America from being good and not just great. And through all of it he must seek a way of keeping his family from becoming one of the fallouts of modern political life. ÒNo president alone can alter our decline and democracy can never survive that is based upon secrets, private enrichment or naked ambition. I only require my peers - all 300 million of them - to make the best choice on the basis of the information available to them.Ó OldfieldÕs plea to the nation continues to be a rallying cry for a better politics throughout the world today. DemocracyÕs only way forward is through the striving and sacrifice of the average citizen determined to build a better world out of the ashes of self-serving political designs and a rampant consumer culture.