Bücher von Roger Jones

The pastoral poems of Shared Spaces explore people, location, events, critters, and time, through which run a common connection reflecting both community and conflict, and the consciousness of specific life cycles at various points. Technically the poems mix traditional free verse with Japanese haibun, melding together both form and the overall awareness and unity of place.

Sir Roger Jones OBE is a pharmacist, businessman and public servant of great note. In addition to his ground-breaking work in pharmaceutical innovation, he has been highly successful in his business dealings across three continents. He was a governor of the BBC, chairman of the Welsh Development Agency and chairman of the Training and Enterprise Council. He was also chair of the governing body of Swansea University and of a number of other public bodies. In this eminently readable account of his life, Roger shows how he was motivated, despite a fairly modest background in Bala in North Wales, to achieve great heights in all his chosen fields. At the same time he gives us an engaging picture of a proud Welshman and family man with a passion for fishing and field sports.

This is the story of three families of Joneses who grew plants, bulbs and flowers for the Melbourne market over a period of about 70 years. It starts with James Jones, son of a nurseryman in England who came to the victorian Goldfields in 1852. The book follows the live of the decendents, documenting the land they purchased and farm they developed. It tells the story of the people and their lives.

In the heart of the Australian Outback, a ball of flame marks the crash of a Zeppelin into the rim of the Arltunga caldera where rare threnium is harvested. The disaster grounds the gliders towing nets of Belgian lace through the threnium-laden mists. Sought after by the Allies and Germany alike, threnium gives steel astounding tensile strength. But the Zeppelin's flames bring more than a momentary halt to production. Ginna MacReedy, the burned but lovely sole survivor of the crash, turns camp life upside down, threatening the double-dealing strategies of the camp's overseer and pitting two brothers against each other as they grow to love her. A tale of romance, death, intrigue, chemistry, and flying, set in the Outback between the two great world wars.