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Leslie Garland

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The United Kingdom

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@LeslieWPGarland

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Literary, Philosophy, Paranormal

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Hermann Hesse (The Glass Bead Game)
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I didn't start out in a career in writing; I qualified as a Chartered Civil Engineer. In this capacity I worked for several years on projects in the UK, the Far East and Africa. During this period I won the Institution of Civil Engineers 'Miller Prize' for a paper on tunnelling. Perhaps my first foray in to writing? It was a pretty dry technical piece. However my experience in tunnelling has given me an exciting idea for a story which I hope will be a lot more fun than my engineering paper and I have just recently made a start on this. Changing times resulted in a change in direction and after qualifying as an Associate Member of both the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Royal Photographic Society, started my own stock ...more

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Revised and updated edition of The Ghost Moth now available as ebook and paperback!

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“About a thin line between rationality and madness in an exceptional piece of literature.” - Rachel Nefeke, Goodreads.

The Ghost Moth; a tragic tale of the Spirit versus the Flesh.
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Leslie Garland made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Updated and revised and now available as an ebook and paperback topic " Revised and updated and now available in both e book and paperback from Amazon and all good book stores. “The Ghost Moth is one of the best books I've ...more "
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Leslie Garland made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Revised and updated and now available as an ebook and paperback topic " Revised and updated and now available in both e book and paperback from Amazon and all good book retailers. “The Ghost Moth is one of the best books I ...more "
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Leslie Garland made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Updated and revised and now available as an ebook and paperback topic " Revised and updated and now available in both e book and paperback from Amazon and all good book stores. “The Ghost Moth is one of the best books I've ...more "
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Leslie Garland and 1 other person liked Freya Pickard's review of The Ghost Moth (The Red Grouse Tales): "The Ghost Moth by Leslie Garland 6/5 This story defies genre definition Unusual and fascinating, this story defies genre definition. It has Christian themes and the main story is set in a monastic community in the 1500s just before the Dissolution of t" Read more of this review »
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Leslie Garland liked Samuel Debel's review of The Ghost Moth (The Red Grouse Tales): "The Ghost Moth is haunting in the best way... layered, lyrical, and thought-provoking. It blends faith, flesh, and folklore with a subtle tension that lingers long after the final page. The prose is atmospheric, the themes daring, and the questions i" Read more of this review »
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Leslie Garland liked Donald Michael's review of The Ghost Moth (The Red Grouse Tales): "The Ghost Moth is a haunting and evocative dive into the liminal space between the sacred and the profane, where ancient secrets pulse just beneath the surface of the modern world. From the opening pages, Leslie Garland weaves an atmospheric, richly l" Read more of this review »
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Leslie Garland made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Revised and updated and now available as an ebook and paperback topic " Revised and updated and now available in both e book and paperback from Amazon and all good book stores. “The Ghost Moth is one of the best books I've ...more "
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Leslie Garland made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Revised and updated and now available as an ebook and paperback topic " Revised and updated and now available in both e book and paperback from Amazon and all good book stores. “The Ghost Moth is one of the best books I've ...more "
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“Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

tags: best-laid-plans, dangerous, life-goes-on, of-mice-and-men, plan, planning, planning-ahead, planning-for-the-future, plannings, plans

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“It was cold out here in this world beyond childhood.”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Bat (The Red Grouse Tales) - A coming of age story involving a search after truth, doubt and a bat!

tags: coming-of-age, eden, genesis, growing-up, real-life, realisation, reality

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“You know,” he continued reflectively, “there is something very satisfying about making something, creating it, modelling it on your dream and making that dream become a reality. Yes, we all have dreams. That's the easy bit. It's making them come real that's not so easy.”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

tags: dreaming, dreams-can-come-true, drrams, follow-your-dreams, following-your-dreams, goals, reaching-your-dreams, reaching-your-goals, real, satisfying, when-dreams-become-reality, when-dreams-come-true, working-towards-your-dreams

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