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Jessie Keane: a local, Sunday Times Top 10 author
Jessie Keane is a Hampshire-based Sunday Times Top 10 thrillerwriting author who has 15 bestselling books to her name, including the hugely successful Annie Carter novels and the Ruby Darke series.
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Jessie started writing nailbiting thrillers in 2008, when she sent out the first Annie Carter book Dirty Game to six agents. One came back to her straight away and said she had a publisher who might be interested – and within a week Jessie had a 3 book contract for a 6 figure deal. Fans of her books like Philip Schofield and Lorraine Kelly say they just can’t put Jessie’s books down; they’re pageturners and will keep you up all night, reading, waiting for the next plot twist.
Jessie is working on her 16th book now in her home on the South Downs National Park and keeping very busy! Follow her on Facebook and Twitter #realjessiekeane
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Poems, Piety, and Psyche
David Keighley is a retired Anglican priest a teacher, psychologist, and poet. He has retired from Winchester diocese to live in Meonstoke after a ministry of forty years in churches in Hertfordshire and Cornwall before moving to Hampshire. He has maintained his professional and lifelong interest in the relationship between psychology and spirituality and currently works as a couples psychotherapist in the Froxfield area, his career before entering the church. His performance poetry show, also entitled Poems, Piety and Psyche, combines his three main interests: poetry, spirituality and the human mind. It explores the changing face of the church and its clinging to an outmoded theology. It’s message is of hope for the future. He is a Tertiary of the Society of St Francis. Confronting the crisis facing Christianity, his anthology of post-modern, progressive Christian poems, with a rebellious tone, demythologizes Christian theology. Poems, Piety and Psyche is a brave departure from literal Christian dogma and challenges the outdated ideas of doctrine and Scripture to disclose hidden truths still valid today. This volume is an attempt to revitalize the church and reshape its future for current congregations and the missing generation of young people, scientifically literate, who are exiled from the church through its inability to absorb contemporary teaching of biblical criticism, the reality of evolution, the false idea of a God “up there”, and an institutional insistence on an unconvincing supernatural theology. Christianity must be adapted to incorporate these and change, or it will die. David Keighley reclaims the original gospel message and takes us on a turbulent and challenging journey to the heart of what it is to be truly Christian. There is in these poems an emphasis on the teaching of the historical Jesus while rejecting nature miracles, the virgin birth, and bodily resurrection. Jesus’s divinity is that we can see God in him in the same way as we see God in the lives of each other, if we look closely enough. He is the author of a school nativity play based on the Old Testament, where nativity plays originate: Christmas Past, Christmas Present, performed for the first time in 2006 at Preston Candover C of E School. “David Keighley probes beneath the surface of our faith and provides us with a basis for believing. So long as we have people like David, Christianity will live and renew itself.” Bishop John Shelby Spong, former Bishop of Newark and author of “Why Christianity Must Change or Die” “This volume of poetry is a true treasure. Poems are words so twisted and so pressed that they express the matter more densely and subtly than if they were left to their own devices. Poetry is always greater than the sum of its parts. David Keighley’s poems have a beauty and sincerity about them that sound the depths, soothe the soul, and touch the heavens.” Professor Martyn Percy, Dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford and author of “Power and the Church” “David Keighley’s word grenades - they aren’t quite verses - provoke and prod: What’s God? These gobbets of questing doubt are a lot more interesting than any virtual mass from an archbishop’s kitchen.” Quentin Letts, ‘Times’ journalist, writer, critic and broadcaster and author of “50 People Who Buggered Up Britain” Available from Amazon or with authors discount at www.davidkeighleywriter.com
A FIGHTING FORTUNE
Poems, Piety, and Psyche
Lord John Fortune pursues the French across the Peninsula.
Surviving the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz he crosses the Pyrenees.
Bonaparte escapes from Elba in 1814 and again threatens the peace of Europe.
As part of Wellington’s army, Fortune of the Rifles confronts the Imperial Guard at Waterloo in June, 1815.
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130 Progressive Poems for Rebellious Christians
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