Wheel of Destiny
Charles Muller

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Book Description

Wheel of Destiny is a novel of intrigue, adventure and explicit sexuality. An English teacher flees the threat of death across the world in the company of his provocative pupil. When the diffident and ineffectual Derek Mann loses his teaching job in a girls' grammar school in England and drifts from one temporary post to another, one of his precocious pupils gives him her grandfather's wartime diary with a mission to return to Apartheid South Africa and find the opal mine she believes to be her rightful inheritance. Intrigue and violence bedevil the quest that ends in a desert under the Southern Cross. The wry, often laconic style gives full reign to the characters' latent sexuality. While the novel takes the form of a thriller, it is also a love story. The plot pivots round the war-diary of a man whose bomber was shot down in action in Egypt in 1941. The man had invested money in partnership with his wartime friend in an opal mine in a place designated by the letters 'C.P.' in 'S.A.'. His granddaughter's search for the mine affects her own as well as her former teacher's destiny.

About the author

The author at the launch of Winston Churchill by his Personal Secretary, at the Churchill Museum, Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, in February 2008

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. He has since sold the hotel and 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’). He wrote the inspirational work Have Anything You Really Really Want , and  served as editor for his wife’s ‘self-help’ book So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel!    He also edited  this collection of testimonies titled Touched by God.

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Also by Charles Muller

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).
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 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 £11.99

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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   £10.40       More info

LAURA'S SECRET  by Elsie MacMillan Young and Humphrey Muller.  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?
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Touched by God: Testimonies of Christian Power
Edited by C H Muller
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.
Publisher: Writers Club Press      ISBN 0-595-09413-9    
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Have Anything You Really Really Want! A Christian Testimony 
by C H Muller.   US Price: $11.95    U K Price:  £10.27

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 fulfil the special plan he has for each one of us.

Edited by Charles Muller:

ALAN PATON SPEAKING    The Lintrose Conversations: Interview with Alan Paton   by Roy Holland edited by Charles Muller

UK price: £14.60     US price: $28.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 114 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-4-4 Published: August-2008

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