Kyoto, Japan Author Publishes New Book

Temple of the Phoenix, a new book by Linden Thorp, has been released by RoseDog Books.

Have you created your own private universe in your head? Is your life troubled by ups and downs, by doubts and fears, by anger and bitterness if you fail to get your own way? Dr. Meredith Capethorne lives her life in such a private vacuum, certain that everything outside her universe is none of her concern. Then she comes to Japan, during which time she encounters the mysteries of the universe at large and steps out of her own forever.

About the Author

Linden Thorp is currently a university teacher in Japan specializing in Academic English, but she has lived many other lives. She now feels she is sufficiently wise to engage fully in the process of writing new works, and in editing old, unpublished ones, in order to share her enchanted life experiences with the world of readers.

Born in 1952 in Manchester, in the northwest of England, she has vigorously pursued many dreams and been able to realize most of them. But through many adventures, such as two years backpacking around the world, living with Australian aborigines in the process, and six years residing in a remote village in the French Pyrenees, and several careers-such as professional musician, reporter and restaurant reviewer-there have been two consistent threads. One of these is 'scribbling' as she calls it; the other is Buddhist study and practice.

Writing and the practice of Buddhist teachings are infinitely compatible, in that they both reach the realm of the higher self, the place from which we can be enabled to live life to the fullest. She is a published poet and academic, and she has written two novels and a series of short stories. Nowadays, the mystical atmosphere of Japan stimulates all aspects of her life, and she has found the Buddhist teaching of her dreams in a branch of the Shingon School of Japanese Buddhism, in which she is about to be ordained.

Temple of the Phoenix is a 260-page paperback with a retail price of $31.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-8627-6. It was published by RoseDog Books of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.rosedog.com/pressroom or our online bookstore at www.rosedogbookstore.com.