The Last Self Help Book: An Ultimate Guide to Who You Really Are
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From Humour to Fear, Shame to Perfection, Love to Hate & more. In asking what is 'you' Anthony North combines psychology and sociology in his quest to find out what it really means to be an individual ... or not.
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Thinker & Storyteller
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21 non-fiction & 14 fiction ebooks now published, PLUS my 18 volume 'I' Series - 8 volumes of Flash Fiction, 4 of Poetry & 6 of Short Essays. That's 53 ebooks, folks - & all FREE! ... for now ...
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1955 (Yorkshire, England) ? I am born (Damn! Already been done). 'Twas the best of times ... (Oh well).
I was actually born in the year of Einstein's death, close to Scrooge's Counting House. It doesn't mean anything but it sounds good. As for my education, I left school at 15 and have had no formal education since. Hence, I'm self-taught.
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From a family of newsagents, at 18 I did a Dick Whittington and went off to London, only to return to pretend to be Charlie and work in a chocolate factory.
When I was ten I was asked what I wanted to be. I said soldier, writer and Dad. I never thought of it for years ? having too much fun, such as a time as lead guitarist in a local rock band ? but I served nine years in the RAF, got married and had seven kids. I realized my words had been precognitive when, at age 27, I came down with M.E. ? a condition I've suffered ever since ? and turned my attention to writing.
Indeed, as I realized that no expert could tell me what was wrong with me, I began my quest to find out why. Little did I realize it would last decades and take me through the entire history of knowledge, leaving me with the certainty that our knowledge systems are inadequate.
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My non-fiction is based on P-ology, a thought process I devised to work with patterns of knowledge, and designed to be a bedfellow to specialization. A form of Rational Holism, it seeks out areas the specialist may have missed. I work from encyclopaedias and introductory volumes in order to gain a grasp of many subjects and am not an expert in anything, but those patterns keep forming. Hence, I do not deal in truth, but ideas, and cover everything from politics to the paranormal.
When reading my work I ask only: do I make sense? Of course, an expert would say: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I agree. And an expert has so little knowledge of everything.
I also write novels and Flash Fiction in all genres.
