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USA kindle bestseller in Brighton daily

‘USA kindle bestseller in Brighton daily’. Read all about it – click on the header above. Also, incidentally and as you know, it’s available in paperback – www.theflowerinthedesert.com and Amazon. A very nice piece, and only a couple of minor anomalies. Thank you very much Argus. x http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14178209.Writer_s_fairytale_for_adults_focuses_on_anorexia_and_childhood_traumas/?ref=fbshr…

Number 1 in USA Kindle

I’m very proud to report that my book The Flower in the Desert recently reached number 1 bestseller in four kindle categories in the USA – ‘mythology and folk tales’, ‘mental and spiritual healing’, ‘new age, religion and spirituality’ and ‘fairy tales’. It was only for…

What piece of advice would you give the 16 year old you?

Over the past four years (and ongoing) Barry Durdant-Hollamby and I have been interviewing some of the world’s most interesting and inspiring ‘spiritual’ teachers including: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, MarianneWilliamson, Mooji, Gabrielle Roth, ByronKatie, Matthew Fox, Satish Kumar, Lynne McTaggart, Leo Rutherford, Philip Carr-Gomm, Charles Eisenstein, Steve…

Anorexia and recovering from it…

My latest book The Girl with a Deer on a Lead – a fable for adults (and teens) – has a range of underlying themes as this recent Amazon review illustrates: A truly wonderful book that will touch and open hearts. This is a story that…

New book is ‘heartbreakingly, gut wrenchingly, unputdownably beautiful’

Press release: November 2015 New book is ‘heartbreakingly, gut wrenchingly, unputdownably beautiful’ Neil del Strother’s just-launched second novel, The Girl with a Deer on a Lead is already receiving very enthusiastic reviews. His first novel, The Flower in the Desert, a short fable, continues to sell well…

Come to the edge – Feeling all, Healing all

“Come to the edge,” he said. “We can’t, we’re afraid!” they responded. “Come to the edge,” he said. “We can’t, We will fall!” they responded. “Come to the edge,” he said. And so they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.” Guillaume Apollinaire I have found that when people come to The…

A few words on melancholy….

I have recently read an excellent piece about the creativity of melancholia. This is something I understand. There is such a tender beauty in melancholy, in that unfathomable moment of dusk, in the otherworld of transition. It is a place of letting go, there is…

Archbishop Desmond Tutu interview

The Mystery Bar interview with ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU is now live. We’ve chosen today, 11th February 2015, as, at 4.14pm (local SA time), it is 25 years exactly since Nelson Mandela was released from prison. (Where did those years go?! Seems almost like yesterday). Tutu…