Bøger af Michael Barton

Harrisburg was the capital of an increasingly urban and progressive Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century, with the remnants of an older, more diverse city thriving in its midst. As the streets were paved for the first time and the new state capitol building rose over a humming industrial city ready to embrace change, Harrisburg's Eighth Ward clung to its rambunctious past. When the Old Eighth stood in the way of the new Capitol Park, one journalist asked his readers to take a stroll through the streets one last time.J. Howard Wert's Passing of the Old Eighth articles-awash in images of decrepitude and vice-appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot in 1912-1913 and introduced readers to such cheats, fools, and boozers as Harry Cook and Billy Jelly. This volume presents the complete series of 35 articles chronicling the adventures of people who lived through some of the most sweeping changes in American history. More than 100 photographs-most never before published-evoke Wert's tales of a turbulent Harrisburg now long gone. Through the captivating, rarely objective voice of turn-of-the-century journalism, readers visit vanished churchyards, stroll the halls of forgotten hotels, and walk with the ghosts of gangs through crumbling alleys to brothels, gambling dens, and speakeasies. No history of Harrisburg can match this one for detailed stories of the successes and scandals of the city's good old days.Noted educator, journalist, and Civil War veteran J. Howard Wert's articles bring to life the colorful characters and day-to-day grit and drama of his time. By turns pious, hard-nosed, and folksy, Wert's prose veers wildly among literary modes but never fails to entertain. A melding of nineteenth-century moral sensibility and modern appreciation for progress makes this work as accessible to today's readers as it was to Wert's contemporaries.

Jack Hudson, the UK Government's Foreign Secretary, is brutally assassinated in his home.His brother, Peter, in attempting to discover his brother's murderer, uncovers a secret society known as Schengen that has been working toward realising the prophecy of the Fourth Reich since the end of the Second World War.Hudson is framed for his brother's murder, and as Schengen's net draws tighter around him, he enlists the help of his ex-wife in a race against time to save himself and Europe from the grips of Schengen and an Al Queda plot that would see the continent changed forever.

Keep Write On is a collection of inklings and musings on the craft of writing and the English language from the founders of WordPlay Writers' Forum, Ian Govan and Michael Barton. The Spanish based group was formed at the beginning of 2010, and within three years had gained recognition by winning the UK's Writing Magazine's Writers' Circle Anthology of the Year Award, 2012 with their collection of fiction Shorts for Autumn. Five of the writers featured in the anthology had completed a WordPlay Creative Writing Course and never before been previously published. Unfortunately Ian passed away before he saw the reward his writing, enthusiasm, and mentoring of others so richly deserved. In this book, posthumously published, his words and his spirit live on.

Freelance Your Way to Fun and Financial Freedom is the ideal companion for all freelance writers at every stage of their career, whether just starting out or already with a successful business but looking to go that one step further.Within just a few months of starting out as a freelancer, this book's author was ranked inside the top 0.5% of writers on the world's largest global freelancing platform.By reading this freelance writing book. a novice will learn how to build and execute a successful business plan, find a market niche and build long lasting client relationships through perfecting partnerships.Freelancers struggling to make it past 'newbie' stage and build a solid business foundation will find out how to win new clients, and then build business through recommendation and referral.And for the experienced freelancer, this book discusses how to expand product range and put in place the strategies needed to excel in the modern competitive world.Freelance your way to fun and financial freedom is the one book any serious freelance writer cannot afford to be without.

On a journey from the comfort of his familiar surroundings into the hectic environment of London, Michael Barton observes the world around him from the rational perspective of someone on the autism spectrum, complete with quirky illustrations and humorous anecdotes about contradictory signage, hidden meanings and nonsensical figures of speech.