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  Job Stories Vol 1 - Companions -...

  Nick Messerli

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  In this audio book, people from a variety of professions talk about their everyday working lives, their experiences, feelings and insights.The reader of the lively short job stories has the impression of standing face to face with the interviewees and listening to them. The stories are as entertaining as they are informative and serve as career guidance for some, while for others they provide fascinating insights into the life and feelings of the workforce.The job stories are intended to invite you to browse through them by looking over the shoulders of other people at work and finding out what they do all day and how they experience their everyday working life.This book attempts to provide a snapshot of working with all its social, economic and political conditions in an inspiring and entertaining way. Many of the statements made by the people who report here touch on topics that I encounter again and again in everyday conversations. No statement is made up. Every statement is truthful.The stories are as entertaining as they are informative and serve as career guidance for some, while for others they provide fascinating insights into the lives of the working population.What does a midwife do all day? What does a dentist experience and how does one become an mortician? What does a taxi driver think about his colleagues and what does a teacher think when she has difficult pupils? What type of person do you have to be to become a pub landlord?

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  Benediction - From their pens to...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack.

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  The Bookkeeper

  Robert Raff

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  The Bookkeeper presents a gripping trilogy of short stories, each emerging from the shadows to serve as a stark warning for the intrepid reader.
  In 'The Exchange,' we delve into the life of a hitman longing to leave his lethal career behind. Yet, as he teeters on the brink of retirement, his path crosses with an aspiring investigative journalist—a young college student who inadvertently entangles him back into the perilous world he seeks to escape.
  'Tserof' unfolds the eerie tale of a brother and sister embarking on what should have been a typical camping trip with their parents. However, their weekend getaway takes a sinister turn, as the familiar turns frighteningly strange and increasingly creepy.
  Concluding the collection is 'Thanksgiving,' a story that takes a futuristic twist on one of the world's most traditional holidays. This 21st-century science fiction narrative offers a unique reinterpretation that's sure to captivate.

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  The End of a Show - From their...

  Barry Pain

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  Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. 
  He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta. 
  Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’.  This opened the way for Pain to advance his literary career on several fronts. He became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, as well as joining the staff of both the Daily Chronicle and Black and White.  
  In 1897 he succeeded Jerome K Jerome as editor of To-Day but still contributed regularly, until 1928, to the Windsor Magazine. 
  It is often said that Pain was discovered by Robert Louis Stevenson, who compared his work to that of Guy de Maupassant.  It’s an apt comparison. Pain was also a master of disturbing prose but able to inject parody and light comedy into many of his works.  A simple premise could in his hands suddenly expand into a world very real but somehow emotionally fraught and on the very edge of darkness as many of these short stories demonstrate.   
  Despite applying his talents to several genres and forms today Pain is more readily thought of, especially during the first decade of the 20th Century, as perhaps the leading British humorist of his day.  These stories reveal a darker side and beg to differ. 
  Barry Pain died on 5th May 1928 in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

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  Tree of Death

  Dawn Blair

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  Spencer walked through the night as if he were death itself. 
  Some souls get tangled and lost. they need to be gathered and the energy gently released back into the ether of the All. 
  Spencer collects the souls of the dead who have not yet crossed over. That mission brought him to the cemetery tonight. 
  Most people can’t contemplate this task, let alone do it. Yet Spencer enjoys being a soulcolist. 
  But tonight, no souls wait for him. Unnatural and unkind, this absence of death leaves Spencer to uncover the reason why. 
  If you enjoy endearing characters and fateful twists, you’ll love this metaphysical fantasy about life, death, and rites of passage.

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  The Lie - From their pens to...

  Holloway Horn

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Holloway Horn.

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