Bøger af Nick Owen

73 - nil! Those were the days: moments of glory on the school playing field on a foggy Wednesday afternoon when the final whistle went and your school mates would gather around you, beaming their small faces at you from every conceivable direction as they congratulated you fulsomely on the 23 hat tricks you have just completed in your team's undeniable slaughter of the opposition...Confessions of an Ageing Football Player relieves those glorious early footballing moments and takes you on a dizzying trip through the 2014 Brazil World Cup when everything was possible for whatever standard of player you thought you were. Illustrated by Paul Warren, has been drawing on an iPad since 2013. His drawing style is continually evolving and developing. He draws people, the human figure and adds a sprinkling of artistic license. He doesn't strictly create pictures; he's interested in facial expression, stance, form, interaction between members of society, a moment in the workaday activities.But when it comes to the journey of our story's hero... is it Brazil's Neymar? Or Argentina's Messi? Or England's Oxlade Chamberlain? Ah, dear reader, you will have to read and see to find out!

In life, most people come and go. People come and go and they are usually inconsequential. Very few people find true friends; people, most people, let us down badly and use and abuse us. A few years ago everything, and I really mean it, everything that could go wrong in my life, did go wrong. I ended up as a corpse, a shell of a man. Suffering almost totally destroyed me. Somehow I made it through and slowly slowly got myself together. I succeeded in turning my entire life around. Somehow. I don't exactly know how. I met a lovely young woman in a pub one night and she helped me to claw myself back to normality. It would be very very true to say that had I not met her my life would have been over. Yes. She saved my life. She brought me many many times back from suicide. From certain suicide. Her name is Kim. This novel is really all about that and are gleaned from experience and real time events. This novel is embellished, in parts, for the creation of a work of fiction. Kim, quite simply, changed my life - once and for all. Now was that purely by chance or a quirk, a twist of fate? My dear reader that is for you to decide.

A collection of stories, analogies and metaphors that invite us to pause and consider what is really important in our lives, our work, and ourselves.

This volume presents a collection of powerful stories designed to engage, inspire and transform you and your audience. The stories focus on values, responsibility, and leadership, and promote positive feelings, confidence, direction, and vision.