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We only have one go at life. There is no second chance - this is all we get. Tell Me Why is an exciting journey from the Second World War to the 21st century. It links a personal and private story to everyone’s public history, it is about living through a post war childhood, adolescent angst,...

On the surface, the Stockholm archipelago in summer seems a serene and beautiful place. But as naive young British diplomat, Matt Simmonds, discovers, some alarming surprises can lurk just below that surface. At a time of increasing tension in the Baltic, Matt’s curiosity leads him into a complex...

When was the last time you thought about the light around you? Whether we’re walking in the park or working hard at our desks, we’re often too busy to consider it. Yet without light, we wouldn’t be here at all. From the golden glow of the sun to the blue allure of the moon;...

France, the Soul of a Journey is a travel memoir that really gets into the veins of France’s lush ambience. R J ODonnell recounts a holiday there with three travelling companions, proving with humour and literary flourish why France is the most visited country in the world. From the chain of spires...

‘My eyes saw, they saw death… death… death on a grand scale, en masse, death en masse… thousands – hundreds of thousands of deaths… hundreds and thousands of deaths in… in just a few seconds…’ Writing in a distinctive prose style, this fictional account is a powerful depiction of...

The Young Gunner describes the history of the Royal Field Artillery in France and Flanders in the Great War, including the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The book is based on the letters and journals of Second Lieutenant Colin Hutchison who joined the army aged 19 just before the war started. He found...

“The Cartwright children hadn’t entered Jasmine’s thoughts for many years but hearing Grant’s name mentioned last night had evoked memories from her childhood which refused to go away.”  Jasmine Campbell sets out to make sense of the information gleaned from an overheard phone call...

All of these questions have been thrown at acrobat Gabrielle Parker on a daily basis since she became a handstand teacher. It was time, she thought, to write them down. Joining forces with yoga teacher and writer Ash Bond, the two teachers approach this powerful pose from their two differing and complementary...

From Crawley to Carlisle: A Trawl Around League Two invites readers to join the author, Chris Upfield, and the friends and family who accompany him to far-flung places in the pursuit of football happiness in this semi-autobiographical experience of the life of a lower league football supporter. Chris...

Moscow – the city of mail order Russian Brides, endless winters and rivers of vodka. Or is it?
  Follow one man’s humorous and irreverent journey of living and loving, through the harsh and absurd realities of existence as a British expat in a metropolis so alien to him, it could be...

Big Boys Don’t Cry records how Willie McCarney played the hand he was dealt. Experiencing the deep trauma of his mother’s death at an early age, he recounts how he also experienced freedom, success and responsibility as a child, learning how to deal with it all to become the master of his own...

If you are leading or part of a team making big change happen you are probably familiar with questions such as: How do we create the sense of shared endeavour, and feeling of unity and purpose? How do I bring together and build a team that is consistently efficient, effective and fun to be part of?...

The conventional assumption in psychology is that our personalities consist of fixed traits that endure over time.  The present book takes issue with this over-simple idea and suggests something much more interesting and surprising, known as Reversal Theory. This proposes that we tend to switch back...

Papa the Stockfarmer is the second book of the series ‘What Do the Grown-Ups Do?’ The stories are based on life in the north-west Highlands of Scotland in a village called Badaneel and follow three local girls as they investigate the world of grown-up jobs. Designed for children aged 5-10 years,...