Anthony Peake

"J.B. Priestley is considered by many to be an old-fashioned playwright whose work is locked in a pre-war world of provincialism and whose ideas are way past their sell-by date. In Time and the Rose Garden, internationally recognised author Anthony Peake re-assesses the plays and novels of this fascinating writer. In doing so, Peake argues that Priestley should be recognised as one of the most prescient of all middle century playwrights and that his...

Time is one of life's great mysteries. From sand passing through an hourglass to 'time's winged chariot hurrying near', we often perceive it as an unrelenting force which exists outside of ourselves. And yet anyone who remembers the long summers of childhood or has sat watching an agonizingly slow ticking clock feels that time is elastic. So, which is it? Anthony Peake puts forward an incredible hypothesis about the relationship between time and...

Anthony Peake's first book, Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die, cause a considerable stir. In The Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self, Peake expands on one of the most enigmatic areas of his previous book, the proposition that all consciously aware beings consist of not one but two...

"In 2006 Anthony Peake introduced his revolutionary model of life after death, 'Cheating the Ferryman', in the bestselling book, Is There Life After Death? The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die. Since then, he has broadened and deepened the model, in ten further volumes, each one adding more support for the hypothesis. In this book he pulls together in a single volume all the evidence for his hypothesis that he has amassed over...