Tennis Matters is an account of the author's obsession with tennis from his schooldays through his working career as a scientist and a Business School Professor. It documents his fruitless search for a respectable tennis forehand shot. Tennis matters was published in E book format in August 2015. Is part biography, part based on tennis stories updated from over a thousand published in Leaders We Deserve over the period 2007-2015. It lists the mostly unsuccessful attempts of his coaches to help him develop a workable forehand. It also includes Tennis Teasers ('because they were the parts of my...

Jose Mourinho's life could hardly be bettered if it had been written as a film script. A football crazy youngster from the outskirts of Lisbon dreams of becoming a great footballer and outperforming his father who had been a professional goalkeeper and coach The young Jose showed a rebelliousness against authority, walking out after one day of the business studies course planned for him, in order to study the principles of sports science. He was a lightening quick learner and was also gifted linguistically. He was also smart enough to realize he could go much further as a coach than as a...

Wendy Lockinge, Vice Chancellor of a university set in the North of England, and formerly a celebrity detective, is battling against a drug crisis on campus. She also has to manage a problem relationship with daughter Jessica, who accuses her of abandoning the search for her missing father. When Jessica disappears from school, Wendy assembles a team of her university irregulars to find her, including a scientist with a pet python he uses to make his lectures more interesting, a local news reporter, a student activist, and a lecherous TV pundit. A series of mysterious and violent deaths occur...

The East Cheadle Chess Club is struggling to avoid humiliation against the more professional forces their players face in their local league. The arrival of two strong players encourages the captains of the first and second teams to claim at the start of the season that there is no longer such problems. However, as the teams continue to lose matches, they realize that their confidence has been unfounded. Their very existence as a club is threatened by defections as their teams slide towards demotion. "It will take Houdini to escape from this" Phil, the first team captain says. "Make that a...