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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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  Pushing the Leaves Aside - A...

  Lauren Bartleson

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  There’s only one word to describe Amara’s life: picturesque. From her complacent husband and their cookie-cutter house to her impeccably-timed morning routine, Amara has what appears to be the perfect life. 
  During one of her runs, Amara veers off her set path, leaving her routine and expectations behind. What starts as a search to find a neighborhood cat in the off-limits forest turns into an unexpected adventure filled with countless ups and downs. 
  Designed to listen in one sitting, Pushing the Leaves Aside is an inspiring story of finding your way through the darkness when doing so feels impossible.

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  Electric Trees

  Melissa Bobe

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  There is a mermaid in this book.There is a sea monster.There are sirens.This book has monsters and murders, elephants and polar bears and wolves, of a kind. It has crappy jobs and happy escapes. It has funerals and hospitals and hope.Its homes are haunted by people haunted by the things they cannot face. Its halls are quiet, its colors are loud, and it will take you on a journey if you're willing to stay the course.Are you?

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  Exchange is Robbery - From their...

  Richard Marsh

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  Richard Bernard Heldmann was born on 12th October 1857, in St Johns Wood, North London.  
  By his early 20’s Heldmann began publishing fiction for the myriad magazine publications that had sprung up and were eager for good well-written content.  
  In October 1882, Heldmann was promoted to co-editor of Union Jack, a popular magazine, but his association with the publication ended suddenly in June 1883.  It appears Heldman was prone to issuing forged cheques to finance his lifestyle.  In April 1884 he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour. 
  In order to be well away from the scandal and the damage that this had caused to his reputation Heldmann adopted a pseudonym on his release from jail.  Shortly thereafter the name ‘Richard Marsh’ began to appear in the literary periodicals.  The use of his mother’s maiden name as part of it seems both a release and a lifeline. 
  A stroke of very good fortune arrived with his novel ‘The Beetle’ published in 1897.  This would turn out to be his greatest commercial success and added some much-needed gravitas to his literary reputation.   
  Marsh was a prolific writer and wrote almost 80 volumes of fiction as well as many short stories, across many genres from horror and crime to romance and humour.   His unusual characters, plotting devices and other literary developments have identified his legacy as one of the best British writers of his time.   
  Richard Marsh died from heart disease in Haywards Heath in Sussex on 9th August 1915.  He was 57.

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  The Episode in Room 222 - Short...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Enoch Arnold Bennett was born on the 27th May 1867 in Hanley, one of the six towns that formed the Potteries and that later joined together to become Stoke-On-Trent.  
  After passing entrance examinations for Cambridge University his solicitor father instead decided that he should work for him, unpaid, in his thriving office.  In the evenings the young Bennett wrote or studied and one skill he developed was Pitman’s shorthand which gave him entrance to a position as a clerk at a solicitor’s office in London.  From there followed various jobs but none seemed to be able to ignite his career as a full-time author. 
  By 1903 he had moved to live in Paris; he was 35, unmarried and keen to settle into his new life.  In 1908 he published his first remarkable novel; ‘Clayhanger’, that drew on his earlier life in the Potteries.   
  A prolific writer he was able to deliver very fine works but also write many that were described as ‘potboilers’.  Despite this disclaimer many were lapped up by an audience eager for his prose and helped turn him into the most financially successful author of the times.    
  As the First World War drew to a close, he was appointed to run the Ministry of Information.  During the 1920s he was reputedly the highest paid literary journalist in the land and continued to write novels, plays and short stories.   
  Arnold Bennett died in his flat at Chiltern Court on the 27th March 1931, from typhoid after drinking water in France on his last holiday.  He was 63.

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  Men Alone - Stories

  Özgür Uyanık

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  "Poised between melancholy and yearning, this wry, moving, and beautifully crafted collection of stories is a rich and multilayered meditation on aloneness in all its complex shades and metamorphoses." – Tristan Hughes
  "A powerful and poetic new voice in the art of storytelling." – Selçuk Altun
  From Özgür Uyanık, novelist and film director, comes a debut collection of audacious, darkly wry and compassionate short stories. Driven by universal themes of desire, mortality, loss and yearning, each story evokes both the melancholy and the hope inherent in all stages of life, from childhood through to maturity.
  Artists, writers, lovers, killers: all types of men walk these pages, along the streets of Cardiff, İstanbul, London, Paris, Odesa and Lisbon. All seeking to find a way to belong in the world.
  Men Alone is a meditative vision from a unique voice that explores the many – often confounding – permutations of modern masculinity.

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