Lebanon -- Where East Meets West
by Phillip Donnelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 28120 words.
Published on January 2, 2013. Nonfiction.
Few countries have had so long and complex a history, and few so tortured a recent past, but Lebanon has emerged from it all with a beauty that belies its history and a face that beguiles all comers.
Join the author as he tries to understand the fascinating complexities of post-war Lebanon.
Location: Hong Kong
Member Since: May 15, 2011
Phillip Donnelly
Biography
After completing a psychology degree, the author realised that he was profoundly misanthropic and set about travelling the world looking for aliens to take him to another planet.
Unable to speak any foreign languages and almost incapable of holding a conversation in his own, he decided to teach English as a foreign language because this was the only job that would allow him to travel widely without any marketable skills or noticeable intelligence.
He has unsuccessfully searched for life from outer space in classrooms in the following countries: Spain, China, Russia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Beirut, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Lebanon France and Vietnam.
In the future, he hopes to continue his search for alien life forms in different countries, and he would be most obliged if any aliens reading this work could spirit him off to an altogether more exotic planet in a more harmonious dimension.
About a dozen of his pieces have appeared online -- mainly travel writing and short stories, and one of them, The Interactive Classroom, won a Bewildering Stories’ Mariner Award in 2010.
He has just finished his latest novel, Kev the Vampire, and is currently working on a piece of travel writing about Lebanon.
He can be contacted at ministryfox@gmail.com
Unable to speak any foreign languages and almost incapable of holding a conversation in his own, he decided to teach English as a foreign language because this was the only job that would allow him to travel widely without any marketable skills or noticeable intelligence.
He has unsuccessfully searched for life from outer space in classrooms in the following countries: Spain, China, Russia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Beirut, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Lebanon France and Vietnam.
In the future, he hopes to continue his search for alien life forms in different countries, and he would be most obliged if any aliens reading this work could spirit him off to an altogether more exotic planet in a more harmonious dimension.
About a dozen of his pieces have appeared online -- mainly travel writing and short stories, and one of them, The Interactive Classroom, won a Bewildering Stories’ Mariner Award in 2010.
He has just finished his latest novel, Kev the Vampire, and is currently working on a piece of travel writing about Lebanon.
He can be contacted at ministryfox@gmail.com
Where to find Phillip Donnelly online
Website: http://www.ministryfox.com
Where to buy in print
Books
Inaction Man
by Phillip Donnelly
Price: $0.99 USD. 21450 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Fiction.
Inaction Man, a 21’st century Superhero, lives as a bum on the streets of Paris, defending humanity against the Forces of Evil and the Dark Lords who control them.
Price: $0.99 USD. 21450 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Fiction.
Inaction Man, a 21’st century Superhero, lives as a bum on the streets of Paris, defending humanity against the Forces of Evil and the Dark Lords who control them.
India--All the parts other travel books leave out
by Phillip Donnelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 29510 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Nonfiction.
Travelling through a country he has always dreamed of visiting, the author is confused and perplexed by India; a land he does not understand, and one that does not conform to the rules of any society or culture he has yet encountered.
Price: $2.99 USD. 29510 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Nonfiction.
Travelling through a country he has always dreamed of visiting, the author is confused and perplexed by India; a land he does not understand, and one that does not conform to the rules of any society or culture he has yet encountered.
China--Me and the Dragon
by Phillip Donnelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 41340 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Nonfiction.
Know your SAR from your SEZ and find out what you should do in the event of a mutant panda attack.
Price: $2.99 USD. 41340 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Nonfiction.
Know your SAR from your SEZ and find out what you should do in the event of a mutant panda attack.
The Screen
by Phillip Donnelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 88960 words. Published on May 15, 2011. Fiction.
David Vincent is a man at war: at war with the office; at war with himself; and at war with the screen that stares into his eyes. A dark force in the Ministry of the Environment’s ‘Rainbow Building’, he secretly fights green hypocrisy, radioactive civil service jargon and the machinations of his ambitious supervisor. David is a hero for our age: the last man in the office.
Price: $2.99 USD. 88960 words. Published on May 15, 2011. Fiction.
David Vincent is a man at war: at war with the office; at war with himself; and at war with the screen that stares into his eyes. A dark force in the Ministry of the Environment’s ‘Rainbow Building’, he secretly fights green hypocrisy, radioactive civil service jargon and the machinations of his ambitious supervisor. David is a hero for our age: the last man in the office.
Notes on Nam
by Phillip Donnelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 48600 words. Published on May 15, 2011. Nonfiction.
A humorous travelogue on Vietnam. More by default than by design, the author finds himself on a six-month contract in a remote part of northern Vietnam. As the year ends, he travels south, through a land that refuses to conform to the cliché the world has built around myopic Hollywood war movies.
Price: $2.99 USD. 48600 words. Published on May 15, 2011. Nonfiction.
A humorous travelogue on Vietnam. More by default than by design, the author finds himself on a six-month contract in a remote part of northern Vietnam. As the year ends, he travels south, through a land that refuses to conform to the cliché the world has built around myopic Hollywood war movies.
Boots
by Phillip Donnelly
Price: Free! 44930 words. Published on May 15, 2011. Fiction.
From a rat’s eye view of the London blitz to a cadaver with a complaint about the size of her coffin, this collection of short stories brings us into a comically surreal world that is determined to stands on its head and leave us questioning our own ability to tell up from down.
Price: Free! 44930 words. Published on May 15, 2011. Fiction.
From a rat’s eye view of the London blitz to a cadaver with a complaint about the size of her coffin, this collection of short stories brings us into a comically surreal world that is determined to stands on its head and leave us questioning our own ability to tell up from down.
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