Previous Kenmore Bank Owners

Novels and Books by the Previous Owners
 of the Kenmore Bank Hotel

Charles & Joanne Muller were the owners of the Kenmore Bank Hotel for 11 years (1990 - 2001). During that time they wrote a number of books.

Charles Humphrey Muller, MA (Wales), PhD (London), DLitt (OFS), DEd (SA), was Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of the North in South Africa for ten years, and Senior Lecturer in English at the University of South Africa before that. He is the author of numerous academic textbooks and literary studies published by Oxford University Press and McGraw-Hill, and was editor of Unisa English Studies and Communiqué, literary journals of the University of South Africa and the University of the North. In 1988 he left his academic career to move to Scotland where he bought a small hotel -- the Kenmore Bank Hotel in Jedburgh, fifty miles south of Edinburgh -- to devote more time to creative writing. Under the name of Humphrey Muller he has written a number of novels (A Twist in Time, The Cage and the Cross, Wheel of Fortune, Continental Drift), and with his wife Joanne has co-authored two novels (Rapture at Sea and Spirit of Ecstasy by ‘Carolyn Charles’). Under the name of Charles Muller he  wrote the inspirational works  Have Anything You Really Really Want and Touched by God, and served as editor for his wife’s ‘self-help’ book So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel! He also edited a collection of testimonies titled Touched by God.

Interview of  Charles Muller in The Southern Reporter

Carolyn Muller was educated at Frenchgate Independent School for Girls in Richmond, Yorkshire. She has written for Cosmopolitan and Fair Lady, and with her husband is co-author of the romantic novel Rapture at Sea based on the return of Christ, and the romantic novel Spirit of Ecstasy based on computer dating. She has travelled extensively and now runs her own Internet accommodation guide for the U.K. (web site at www.travelaccommodation.co.uk  ).

The following novels have been published:

	WHEEL OF FORTUNE  in TWO VOLUMES. Writers Club Press  by  Humphrey Muller   US price  $18.95 (Vol 1), & $19.95 (Vol 2) U K Price: £13.17 per volume More info
	This is both a thriller and a love story written with a wide or popular readership in mind. While the novel is primarily a thriller and therefore a piece of escapist fiction rather than a serious novel, the reader will be aware of the serious themes, the satire and underlying vein of comedy which may echo something of the wry vision of Graham Greene.

CONTINENTAL   DRIFT    by  Humphrey Muller.     Published by Writers Club Press.  This is a Bildungsroman, or a novel of character growth, presenting a form of self-discovery for the protagonist who wrestles with a hopeless marriage and unfulfilling business, and who finally realises a dream. The novel embodies many of the life-changing ideas expressed by James Redfield in The Celestial Prophecy (Bantam Books).
US: $21.95       U.K.Price: £14.93         More info

 A  TWIST  IN  TIME   by  Humphrey  Muller.    Published by Writers Press Club.  The main theme of this novel is destiny and time. Can we really alter time? Would we - or could we - change any details of our lives if we had the opportunity to go back in time? This is a question I’ve often mulled over, so in the end I wrote a novel about it.    US price $13.95    UK price £9.21
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THE  CAGE   AND  THE  CROSS   by   Humphrey   Muller.   Published by Writers Club Press.  A Christian novel of salvation based on an actual person, a prisoner in Pretoria Central Prison who committed suicide in 1975.    US price $10.75   UK price £7.21
The protagonist couldn't help falling in love, against his will. Those who knew him better tried to stop him, to draw him back, to tell him it was wrong, against the Law of God. But they couldn't stop him. Because the affair was with God. Or was it?  Perhaps the whole affair was just part of his imagination.   More info

THE  SPIRIT OF ECSTASY  by Carolyn Charles.  Published by Writers Club Press.   This is a romance based on computer dating.  Richard Vance, a nuclear physicist from South Africa, visits Britain armed with three names he received from Compudate, a computer dating agency -- and he is suitably mis-matched!  The fact that one of the dates appears to know a lot more of weapon-grade enriched uranium than is likely for a district nurse adds an element of intrigue.   Price $14.95           More info

LAURA'S SECRET  by Humphrey Muller and Elsie MacMillan Young.  Published by Writers Club Press.   At 13 Laura enters service as a kitchen maid in Millfield Hall. The Mistress is soon enamoured of her, promotes her to ladies maid and gives her a magnificent brooch as a token of her affection. When Laura trains as a nurse after the outbreak of the Great War she is raped by a shell-shocked officer. This sets in motion a sequence of events that lead her to harbour a terrible secret by the time World War II breaks out.   More info   $11.95    £7.89 

RAPTURE AT SEA  by Carolyn & Humphrey Muller. Published by Writers Club Press.  A Christian novel.   As the year 2000 approaches for many the prospect of Christ's promised return becomes more of a reality. So what if the Parousia, or the Rapture does take place?   What if Christ returns to Earth while some are at sea?   Would some be taken, and some left?  What might happen to those passengers on a sea voyage?  
More info        $13.95          £9.85 

The following inspirational books have been published:

Touched by God: Testimonies of Christian Power
Edited by C H Muller.  Writers Club Press.    
 US Price $10.95       UK Price:  £7.23

Touched by God brings together seven inspirational stories of God’s supernatural intervention in the lives of Christian believers. They constitute extra-biblical proof of God’s divine power and love.
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Have Anything You Really Really Want! A Christian Testimony 
by C H Muller.  Writers Club Press.  $11.95    £7.89  

This little book is a personal testimony, bearing witness to how the author's faith opened doors and released the power of God -- a God who loves and cares, who guides us to fulfill the special plan he has for each one of us.

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