Books by John Harding

Genealogy of the Rounds and Pfeffer Families includes the Ballard, Cooper, Darlington, Whitaker, Chamberlin and Case families. The Pfeffer family Line of Ancestry, goes all the way back 39 generations to Duke Bernard Nase Narbonne, born 795AD in Jutland, Denmark.Duke Bernard Nase Narbonne was the father of Gorm "Enske" Fróðason, King of Sjaelland born in 820 AD and died in 890 AD at the age of 70. In modern terminology he is known as King of Sjaelland, Denmark Gorm Enske. Sjaelland is the name for Zealand, the largest and most populous in Denmark proper. It is the home to Denmark's capital, Copenhagen.There are many distinguished individuals in the genealogy including:Ralph Madison Rounds was born on January 22, 1891 who purchased 4,400 acres of foreclosed property in and around Breckenridge, Colorado in 1958 founding the Breckenridge Ski Area which yealds $100,000 a month to each of his four grandchildren.Rev. David C. Chamberlin, the founder of McKendree University, the oldest university in the state of Illinois.Leonard Case Sr. a post office employee in Cleveland who wound up as the Mayor of Cleveland and left $15 million each to his two sons.Leonard Case Jr. whose estate was probated on March 18, 1880 in Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA. He died intestate, leaving no will, but leaving a $25 to $60 million-dollar fortune ($633 million to $1.5 billion) to known relatives.Upon Leonard's death, $1.25 million ($31.7 million in today's dollars) was set aside for the founding of "The Case School of Applied Science." Case specified the school teach the subjects of mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, economic geology, mining and metallurgy, natural history, drawing, and modern languages.Presidents James Madison and his wife Dolley Madison and President Zachary Taylor, the noble Throckmorton family of England. Catherine Marrow born 1455 in London who is also HRH Prince Charles's 14th Great Grandmother, Prime Minister Churchill's 12th Great Grandmother and Lady Diana's 13th Great Grandmother. Consequently, those in the Pfeffer lineage are all distant cousins of Churchill and the afore-mentioned British royalty.

Offers a combination - a tour guide and an ecological primer of the Delaware Valley. This book contains chapters, each written by an experienced naturalist, which introduces the reader to the dynamic interrelationships in nature, the interactions between a particular habitat and its inhabitants, and its plants and wildlife.

The structure of this play is a loosely connected sequence of sketches, some deliberately written for great comic effect, and others pitched in a much lower key. It is about a boy growing up in the period from the end of World War Two to the late 1960s.Large flexible cast

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of UsherNew England, The 1890sWhen a young doctor begins work at an isolated mental asylum, he is expected to fall in with the shocking regime for treating the patients. He is soon intrigued by one patient, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read. He embarks upon a desperate experiment to save her but when his own dark past begins to catch up with him, he realises it is she who is his only hope of escape.In this chilling literary thriller from a master storyteller, everyone has something to hide and no one is what they seem.

Places all the excitement and opportunity of the Delaware Valley's 335 species of birds within convenient reach. With detailed directions like "behind the airport," "follow the shabby road off to the left," and "lock the car and walk the railroad tracks," this book tells the birder how to get to the best locations and what to do when he's there.

Tackling a taboo subject with sensitivity, understanding, great affection and good humour, What We Did On Our Holiday is a remarkably uplifting, moving and reassuring novel about a time in our lives when it seems roles are reversed and we find ourselves looking after the very people we'd always assumed would be there to look after us.

On a remote South Pacific island paradise, an elderly tribesman is translating "Hamlet" into local Pidgin English. Much to his annoyance, he is interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. William Hardt is an American lawyer, he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and has come to help. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.

At fifty the guarantee runs out... About to hit the big five-oh, obsessed with sex, cocaine-fuelled and gripped by a crippling fear of death, Professor Michael Cole is finding life a bit of a struggle. It's finding the time to squeeze everything in, really.