Books by John Fenton

Most of these poems were written with specific jazz tunes playing in my head. As I wrote each poem, the lines sang themselves into fragments, time was displaced, and reharmonization occurred. What started as one thing gradually became another. The remaining poems were written with the song lines of a place or event or the rhythms of the road as guide. I wrote as a voyeur watching life from a safe distance, an eavesdropper, a marginalien. The links between poetry and improvised music are as ancient as language itself, and telling stories in new ways is fundamental to human existence. It is not a choice. I hope that I have captured the essence of the musicians world and the marginaliens found along the way.

This edition incorporates the text of the Revised English Bible. A short guide to John's Gospel, the book concentrates on the main themes of the gospel as they are expressed in stories, dialogues and speeches, and attempts to explain how to read the gospel as a book about faith in Jesus.

Mark's Gospel was largely ignored for centuries as it was thought to be a summary of Matthew, but it is now seen as the first, and in many ways the most interesting, of the Gospels. This short guide avoids technicalities to provide an informed impression of Mark.

This text provides a comprehensive analysis and detailed coverage of the various elements, considerations and procedures which are involved in the construction and related design analysis of vehicles.

The harrowing true story of one boy's experiences in a brutal 'approved' school for young offenders in '50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife.Beaten from an early age by his abusive, father, John struggled to fit in at school where his poverty marked him out. When, aged 13, his father brought a charge against him in order to remove him from the family home, John found himself in Juvenile Court - from here he was sent to the notorious St. Vincent's school, run by a group of Catholic Irish Brothers.Beatings and abuse were a part of daily life - both from John's fellow pupils, but also from the brothers, all of which was overseen by the sadistic headmaster, Brother De Montfort. Tormented physically and sexually by one boy in particular, and by the Brothers in general, John quickly learnt to survive but at the cost of the loss of his childhood.Please Don't Make Me Go, tells in heart-rending detail the day-to-day lives of John and the other boys - the beatings, the weapons fashioned from toilet chains and stones, the loneliness - but we also see the development of John's love of reading, his growing friendship with Father Delaney and his best friend, Bernard, and his unstinting love for his mother whom he feared was suffering at the hands of his violent father.A painfully honest account, Please Don't Make Me Go is testament to the resilience of the human spirit as it documents how John learnt to survive and come through his ordeal.

This text provides comprehensive and detailed coverage of the various elements, considerations, and procedures which are involved in the design of vehicle bodywork and the systems that are built into them.