Jeff Hopkins Livres

Jayden Harnett returns in this sequel to Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon. The young star, and emerging ballet dancer, who turned his back on a movie making career to study for a teaching degree, is lured back into the theatrical world. His story is a sprawling saga that covers four continents, two new films, and the revival of a classic play. For more than a year Jayden shoots films on location in Tasmania, and Norfolk Island in Australia, and Kankara Town and Katsina State in Nigeria. He returns to the stage in a revival of a challenging play that opens in London and has seasons in New York and Los Angeles. Jayden is involved in events that are heroic, harrowing, and heartbreaking. All is revealed in Jayden Harnett's story.

Alaric Pinder Boor lived and died more than a century ago. His fascinating life has been reconstructed using historical sources including: certificates, documents, photographs, immigration, travel and shipping lists, electoral and rate book rolls, newspaper articles, letters, war records, and interpretative paintings. The literary device of 'faction' has been employed. The facts have been embellished with fictional stories and conversations that may, or may not, have occurred. The aim is to reimagine a life story that should not be allowed to fade into the mists of time, and hopefully introduce Pinder Boor to a new audience who can appreciate a life well lived, but cut short far too soon.

There have been twenty years of peace and prosperity in the known world, but the bellicose Ali-Ali from the Caliphate in the south threatens all of that. He has formulated an audacious plan to turn the young King Louis of the Great Ocean City State against his father, Lord Gnarl, and conquer the City State in the north. Two decades of rule has seen Lord Gnarl consult less and trust his own judgement almost exclusively. It is a dangerous developing flaw in his character. As a result, he is becoming increasingly distant from his family and friends and now appears estranged from both his twin sons. Lured into a trap, Lord Gnarl becomes a hostage in a diabolical scheme characterised by a striving for power and revenge. Aurelien, who is a lot more than a Head Gardener, recruits Serheed, a survivor, to attempt to rectify the deteriorating situation. In his mission Serheed gets extra security from some alchemical experiments, which allow him to turn the tide of despair, with courage and determination. Battling a bitterly cold winter, Lord Gnarl is locked in a life and death struggle to survive. He experiences heartbreaking loss, demonstrates great bravery, and remembers some important skills long forgotten. For Lord Gnarl, it is a desperate attempt, and compelling desire, to travel back home and seek forgiveness and redemption.

Charlize Thwaites is on the road home. Firstly, to South Africa, and then back to Western Australia where her beloved husband, Marnus, lies in Fremantle Cemetery. A teenage indigenous boy from Broome, Western Australia, Koen Jandamurra, is on the road to a traditional initiation, and becoming a man within his Yawuru mob. He is also displaying skills as a talented swimmer under the tutelage of Warwick Taylor. Romanian gymnastics' champion and coach, Katarina Jelkavich, thinks Koen might be an Olympic gymnast in the making. Ray Ratcliffe is training the second riding prodigy in his long and turbulent career, and is on the road from perdition to redemption. Jack Burton is experiencing the thrills and spills of a champion. A thoroughbred entire called Signs, has already sired five fillies of his own. With a distinctive white blaze and three white socks, he loves to swim and run, and is on the road back from the breeding barn to the racetrack. All roads lead to a property in Serpentine in Western Australia, where all this will play out with some unexpected results!

Jack Burton wants to be an apprentice jockey, but the 'Sport of Kings' is both dynamic and dangerous. He encounters cheats and criminals, a leviathan owner-breeder, horse trainers, other jockeys and bookmakers. Above all, there are the horses. They have the courage to run fast, especially for Jack Burton, the 'Whizz-kid'.

Frederick Charles Faulkner 1852-1924 was the longest serving Headmaster at the Perth High School, now Hale School. For 24 years, he battled prejudice, litigation, a serious health crisis and personal loss. He set up the Public Schools' Association and led it for a decade, from its inception in 1905 until his retirement.