J. H. Joof

A novel which celebrates the delicate and sensitive nature and balance in the relationship between people and our beautiful but threatened home Earth. It also looks at what can happen to us and our great and wonderful planet earth if we don t do better than we are currently doing to look after and preserve it. The novel is about people and how the environment we live in and have inherited needs to be loved and looked after with a touch of the care, concern and sensitivity which have maintained the delicate, complex but simple and unified systems, scientific, artistic and aesthetic which keep our planet hanging on those invisible threads which have lasted billions of years. Under our watch as human beings will that continue? Are we doing what we need to do to keep it so? Are we committed as human beings to keeping it so for billions more of those years ahead and pass it on to our future or are we hell bent on scuppering it? Human beings need to look after our beautiful but delicate planet Earth and take good care of it now and in the future so that it can in turn look after us, those who come after us and other species.

This is a volume of nice and relevant poems on everyday life, work, and other activities around the world, internationally, nationally in everyone s local area

Story of a young woman struggling and rising slowly, very slowly in a company traditionally the preserve of men. The trials, tribulations and successes of a young and growing woman in a man s world and how she manouevres her way to the top. A sight we see everyday but always different in its details and twists and changing slowly, very slowly but perhaps surely thanks to the tireless efforts, drive, tenacity and commitment of a lot of women and many men. A traveloscope round our world today.

A novel about families affected by the recent financial meltdown and how they are getting by in the aftermath. Former moneylenders in major financial houses in New York and elsewhere who now have to grapple with living lives and in times and bringing up their families in a more difficult financial environment without their erstwhile access to the financial and money markets, institutions and connections they had before the money markets came tumbling down and without their connections in these financial institutions. It s also about their offspring and families as Borrowers and Lenders have to face and marry into families and with people whose lives and times were deeply and negatively affected by the actions of parents and grans whilst these were moneylenders and operatives in financial and mortgage houses before the financial and mortgage meltdown. Some of these offspring try to build new and different lives from their forebears and make amends for these people s mistakes and wrongdoings as they face the sons, daughters and families of those who were badly affected by the actions of their parents and grandparents as moneylenders or actors in the financial institutions before the crash. Will they succeed? Can they break away from the consequences of their parents actions as moneylenders against the offspring of the Borrowers some of whom now occupy the positions as moneylenders or regulators of the failed financial institutions their parents and grans used to run before the financial anjd mortgage meltdown? Will the marriages and families of their offspring and grandchildren be affected as the tables turn? How will they cope in this new and more difficult environment without the security and financial opportunities and connections they once had and even as some take a shot at running for high federal and state office?