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A little tree that was once surrounded by his pine-boughed friends, finds himself now standing alone in the pine tree forest. Where did they go? Why was he left?The little tree soon finds out that his friends were picked to be Christmas trees and he was not the kind of tree people usually took home - until something wonderful happens and the sad little tree gets his wish. Maybe he could be a Christmas tree too!The Little Tree is a story of hop...

A little tree that was once surrounded by his pine-boughed friends, finds himself now standing alone in the pine tree forest. Where did they go? Why was he left? The little tree soon finds out that his friends were picked to be Christmas trees and he was not the kind of tree people usually took home - until something wonderful happens and the sad little tree gets his wish. Maybe he could be a Christmas tree too! The Little Tree is a story of h...

Glenn shares threads of his life in this searching memoir. It includes glimpses into his doomed relationships, his experiences as a teacher - despite this not being his chosen career, and his experiences in other roles. He has been a manager, a magazine editor, head of a national organisation, and a writer of commentary for management professionals. He has been a hippie living in the hills. He has become the writer of many books. And he has ma...

This is a book of poems, Glenn Martin's fifth collection. The poems were written at various times of Glenn's life. They are set out in three themes - Young, Living, and Firm Ground. He is old enough for his life to have assumed some shape, be it unconventional or apparently not career-focused. However, he has written over fifteen books that are not poetry books, on themes ranging from ethics and values to family history and reflections on expe...

This is a collection of over forty stories drawn from the family history of Glenn Martin. Our family history can be illuminating, even inspiring. At its worst it is still cautionary, and suggests to us how we might steer our own lives better, and that of our own families and communities. The stories span five generations, going back to the early 1800s. There are no famous or wealthy people here, but all of these people did remarkable things in...

This is a collection of poems from between 1970 and 1988, selected while Glenn was living in the hills outside of Kyogle on the north coast of New South Wales. The poems were written on stray scraps of paper and dated. Glenn revisited the collection in 2006 and added stories about what was happening around the time the poems were written. He wasn't trying to interpret, just to offer a context where he thought it was illuminating. Between love ...

A prominent stream of my ancestors is Scottish, particularly the Mackie family. Scottish people began emigrating as far back as the early 1600s. Many of them went to America, but in 1852 Alexander and Rachel Mackie emigrated to Melbourne, taking with them their five children. Alexander was a skilled tradesman, both a weaver and a stonemason, and Melbourne was about to stir as the hub of the Victorian colony's gold rush. It would have been a ch...

Glenn Martin's first novel tells the story of a man's journey towards leadership, a story that takes us into the heart of the I Ching and its universal values. A man comes to a leadership position after a series of life-shaping experiences. He brings with him as a companion the I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of changes. He faces an immediate crisis, when the president is arrested for embezzling all the funds, but he brings the organisation ...

FUTURE is the spiritual story of humanity. There are many books which are histories of humanity, they are different depending on the point of view of the author. Many are excited about the human adventure, and are enthused by exploration, empires and progress. Others anticipate catastrophe because of population, capitalism and technology, and their effect on the Earth's ecology.This book approaches the question from a spiritual perspective, lo...

What happens when you go back to a place you visited forty-six years ago? Tasmania. Do the ghosts rise up, or has the past all been erased? What if you now knew that some of your ancestors had lived there? Convicts. And another branch of your family settled there and came to prominence? Colonialists. It might start to look like a patchwork instead of a simple story. And then the patches might be stitched together and make a quilt. Thirty-two s...

Oh, you peoples, and inhabitants of the great planet Earth. There is a plea going out to you. God's creation is speaking to you. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world." (Psalms 19:1-4) All ...

This book is a reflective journey through the disintegration of the "big story". The big story is the one we live inside of, the one that gives us the certainties and continuities of our lives. The disintegration occurred in Sydney in the late 1960s, amid social and personal turmoil, and led to the narrator's flight to the country. He finds a place to settle, gives up books, begins to garden. Gradually he reclaims the centre, and gradually he ...

This book is a collection of poems, intended as the fourth volume from the author. It includes short poems and long poems. There are poems about writing poetry, poems about living, and poems about observing life. The poet may look with a hard eye at times, but his intention is always to encourage the heart.

This is one of two collections of poems and stories from the period around 1970 to 1988. The latter date denotes when the collection was chosen, the theme intending to evoke the paradox of fire, that it is both vulnerable and powerful. Some of the poems are accompanied by a story about the context in which the poem was written, personal life with wounds and wonder. Occasionally we stand defenceless, tempting the light to shine upon us.

A Modest Quest" describes the author's quest to find out about his family's past. It was intended just to find out the basic facts about his parents' brothers and sisters, and his grandparents. Growing up, he had thought that all his grandparents had died before he was born. This was not the case, but it took some serious research and more than two years to bring the facts to light, and by then the lives of the ancestors had pulled him in. The...

Everything seemed to be progressing nicely for author Glenn Martin. He lived in the country of Charlottesville, Virginia with his family of six and was building upon his career as an electronics technician. However, he began to struggle with depression, which caused him to be crippled at work and home with many anxious fears. Now recovered from his depression, he seeks to share with readers what he has learned through experience in his book of...

This collection of stories was written for only one purpose--to make you laugh! These stories are not aimed at your mind, but at your funny bone. They are not supposed to make you smarter or wiser, but might keep you from taking yourself and life too seriously. When enjoying these stories, you may venture into restaurants or churches, attend weddings or funerals, and spend some time in the Army. And you may meet people who did not intend to be...

The simplest way to make money in the stock market is to buy shares when they are cheap and make profits when their prices increase. This technique is known as value investing and is the creed of the world's most successful investor, Warren Buffett. But how do you know when a share price is cheap? This book explains in simple terms how you can develop your own UK share and FTSE100 valuation spreadsheets to calculate share and market valuat...

This book presents a framework for understanding human values and their role in life, work, business and leadership. It offers an explanation for the spectrum of human behaviour, from a self-focused, survivalist mindset that has scant regard for ethics, through to compliance with laws and conventions, and then to the aspiration to live a higher ethical and spiritual life. The book offers a practical guide on how to develop a more ethical way o...

Ethics is a central part of our lives. It is as basic and pervasive as thinking and feeling. And it is not just what keeps us compliant with the law, it is the gateway to the quality of our relationships and the spiritual fulfilment of our lives. The Little Book of Ethics introduces us to ethics through the lens of values, and offers us five core human values - honesty, peace, right action, love and insight. It shows how these values are appli...