The Shining One and Poems by Allan

About the Book

This penetrating story shows the slide of self-obsession into hatred for and destruction of anything or anyone else who seems more beautiful or greater.

“What I had thought to be something akin to a medieval myth was in fact a parable,

a story of faith, innocence, envy, betrayal, disillusionment, yet hope—

the whole human condition. Some will see it as fantasy, others as a religious story; it is timeless.”

—Anna Buck: Winner of numerous poetry awards.

About the Author

Allan Gibson holds wide practical experience with all kinds of people. An accountant: FCPA with an MEc., he has also been a teacher, a farmer, a sports trainer, and is currently a masseur. At home in Australia, he is an elder in an aboriginal church (though not a blood aboriginal) and works in prison ministry to aboriginal inmates. He has led numerous marriage-enrichment and Bible study groups and taught Sunday school and Scripture classes in both primary and secondary schools. Married for 40 years to Ruth with children and grandchildren.