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Two fantastic new titles now available and every copy bought will be helping young people to achieve their ambitions. Look no further for the perfect Christmas gift.

How to Survive The Apprentice! - Matthew Quinn

ABOUT THE BOOK
A new phenomenon in this life is the 'reality TV show'. The Apprentice is one of the best, not just because it gives us the laughs and shocks of any reality TV show, but also because, hidden away in every episode is a lesson on business.

In this book, Quinn points out each one of these messages, in a step by step and increasingly focused manner. Alongside this are hints and tips of how to put these into practice in business, as well as, if you so desire, a view on how to survive the TV show.

It is a book of two facets. The first, for the business person who wants to understand how their customer thinks and how to ensure credibility and excellence and the second for the potential candidate on the show itself. Both aspects are merged into one book. This book should be read by any person in business today as well as an aspiring Apprentice for Sir Alan!

An amount from each book sold will be donated to charity

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew Quinn was born and brought up in Oldham Lancashire before attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He left the Army in the mid nineties and began his civilian life in the motor trade. After deciding that he had reached his peak as business manager in the flagship Mercedes Benz dealership in London's Park Lane at the age of 27, Matthew went on to be a senior consultant for one of Europe's largest management consultancies. For 5 years he travelled extensively around the world selling, designing and delivering high impact sales and sales management programmes for many businesses, most notably in the oil, entertainment and fast moving consumer goods industries.

Matthew currently works as head of business development for a major financial services firm and draws on the lessons learned in all the sales areas in which he has worked, as well as leadership and management lessons learned in the forces.

Matthew lives with his wife Wendy, just outside Edinburgh and enjoys powerboating, fishing, shooting, cooking, camping, walking, travel, scuba diving, motorcycling and running. He says a person cannot have too many hobbies. Matthew is also proud to be an ambassador for the John Thornton Young Achiever's Foundation and an amount from each book sold will go toward this charity.

How to Survive the Apprentice! can be bought from the publisher Authorhouse at this link or from Amazon. Both cost the same (the publisher charges in dollars, but the price is consistent) There is more profit in it from the publisher direct, which means extra for the Foundation.

DORSET JOURNEY - Alan R Bennett

Foreword by Paul Atterbury

THE PERFECT BOOK AND GIFT FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN DORSET

Alan Bennett's story begins on the Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, just before midnight celebrations usher in New Year, 2008. During his year-long travels, criss-crossing the county in which he has lived for most of his life, he visits every town and more than fifty villages recording the lives, pre-occupations and opinions of individuals in innumerable walks of life. He meets landowners and farmers, businessmen and traders, mayors and councillors, policemen and prison officers, teachers and religious figures from different faiths, journalists, wildlife experts and conservationists, railway enthusiasts, sportsmen and women, writers and artists, musicians, serving soldiers, community workers and 'volunteers', besides a host of other interesting individuals. He talks at length with the Chief Constable, Martin Baker, Oscar winning screen-writer and film director, Julian Fellowes, best-selling 'psychological thriller' writer, Minette Walters, one of England's leading football managers, Harry Redknapp, Monkey World's Dr. Alison Cronin and the BBC's Antiques Roadshow expert, Paul Atterbury. He goes 'inside' three prisons, two army camps and visits a number of wildlife reserves. He explores controversial and complex topics such as law and order, housing, fishing, employment, religion, education, the needs of an ageing population in a mainly rural county, the plight of villages which have lost their post offices, pubs, stores, filling stations and even their churches. Few significant themes escape his searching analysis and, of course, he examines the consequences of the banking crisis, the 'credit crunch' and the deepening economic recession, the collapse of the housing market and the rapid growth in unemployment. Yet the book is far from being simply a serious study of the county. The author also takes every opportunity to include humour and laughter and to express his own idiosyncratic perspective on modern life.

The author describes his book as being 'part investigative journalism, part travel and part autobiography'. With over 400 pages and more than a hundred photographs by some of the county's finest photographers and a reproduction of 'Heart of Dorset' by the county's favourite artist, Clive Hannay, Dorset Journey is a unique and thought-provoking record of life in the county in the first decade of the 21st century. No writer has ever attempted a book of such ambitious scope on Dorset before. It is a major contribution to the literature of the county. The author already has two highly praised titles to his credit.

The Extraordinary Mrs.D, a biography of the pioneering Sandbanks racehorse trainer Mrs.Louie Dingwall.
'A delightful book' Sir Peter O'Sullivan CBE Daily Express

Wimborne Minster, Portrait of a Town
'When future historians wish to discover what life was like in an English country town at the end of the twentieth century, they will find few other books as fascinating or as rewarding.' David Burnett

DORSET JOURNEY (price £19.95) will be available in mid-November from bookshops across the county. A donation of £2.00 on every copy sold will be divided between the Weldmar Hospice, Dorchester and the John Thornton Young Achiever's Foundation, Ferndown. If you would like your book to be personally signed and inscribed by the author, please print clearly your instructions. e.g. 'For George (Smith). With best wishes, Christmas, 2009.'

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author was educated at Wimborne Grammar School and the London School of Economics. In his time he has 'earned a crust' in a number of occupations, predominantly teaching in secondary and adult education - at The Purbeck School, Wareham, Uplands in Parkstone, and for the past ten years, Poole Grammar School. He shares many interests - horse-racing, soccer, cricket, music, literature, the countryside, collecting old postcards, etc. His favourite historical and literary character is Dr. Samuel Johnson while his modern heroes include John Humphrys, Sir Peter O'Sullivan CBE and Simon Weston OBE.

If you would like to order a copy please send your name, address, phone number and any inscription required to enquiries@jtyaf.org and we will forward your details to the author.