Bookpod: 52 books

This book is about the fathers of children who were raised in other adoptive families. Frequently in writings about the separation of parent and child the emphasis is on the mother and her son or daughter. The father is an absent or at best a peripheral figure. The Invisible Men of Adoption brings the...

The Show Bench is an exhibitors guide to the presentation of confectionery, produce and preserves for show, and is a companion to Cooking for Competition. The book is about the joys of homemade confectionery, the delight of crisp home-grown vegetables, amateur wine making, beer and mead, the aroma of...

A beautiful collection of Japanese Haiku poetry depicting snap shots of moments in every day life, including the natural beauty that surrounds us. Experience the taste of ripe plums in spring and feel the droplets of a summer shower. Hear the waves rumble as the moon dances across the ripples. Delightfully...

The people factor is now regarded as arguably the most important driver of business performance, but according to surveys of CEOs, it is one of the least effectively managed corporate functions! Closing the Gap between Latest Ideas, Research & Practice Over the last 20 years or so, organisational research...

Stonehenge Living is a novel featuring archaeologist Rees Meredith. Leaving University and the comforts of London life, he visits Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. Rees is mysteriously transmogrified at the instant of sunrise on midsummers day 2025 to exactly the same place in prehistory about 2325 BC. After...

Linda returns to the family orange farm in South Africa to attend her fathers funeral. She is drawn back to her past, to the striking beauty of her homeland and the people who still live and work there, but her country is vastly different to the one she left in 1985. A democratic government has emerged...

The Elephants Footprint is an intriguing crime novel laced with romance and set against a South African backdrop. Linda, a sharp and intuitive detective leaves Australia, to return to her birthplace Rustenburg, amidst the excitement of the World Cup soccer challenge. She finds the once lush farmland...

Not Just Desserts the deli and catering firm owned by Olivia Beauman is under threat. Though many people hate Harry Oldritch it is his long suffering wife Queenie and his mistress Bettina who die after old fashioned pesticide is placed into meals Olivia has prepared. To any outsider Grevillea might...

Reticulans understand that the Universe operates in at least eleven dimensions and that reality is mostly hidden. If they cannot liberate Earthens from their dimensional blindness the planet is destined to be consumed by forces spreading inwards from the outer galaxies.New philosophical and technological...

Book One: Not Just Desserts the deli and catering firm owned by Olivia Beauman is under threat. Though many people hate Harry Oldritch it is his long suffering wife Queenie and his mistress Bettina who die after old fashioned pesticide is placed into meals Olivia has prepared. To any outsider Grevillea...