Murray Ewing: 4 books

There’s a new, mysterious flight of stairs outside 14-year-old Carol Tanner’s bedroom. It goes up and up and up, into the realms of sheer impossibility — just as stairs in a three-bedroomed semi-detached house on Willow Drive shouldn’t. And it’s not there all the time… One day,...

It’s 1984, and 13-year-old Tim is sitting on the school roof, waiting for the world to end.Or at least for it to start making sense.His life used to make sense. It was made up of two things: the exciting new world of home computers, and worries about nuclear war.There were certainly...

You’ve tried other self-help books. You’ve tried taking control of your life. You’ve tried affirmations, to-do lists, twelve-step programs, CBT, NLP and DIY. And… you failed. Well, what did you expect? You’re YOU. But there is another way… Everything about yourself that...

Everyone has a natural “story sense”, honed by the thousands of stories we’re exposed to growing up, from fairy tales, TV shows, movies, novels, comic strips, family anecdotes and playground jokes, to the founding myths of our many cultures. And just as musicians combine their natural,...