Böcker av Simon Sharpe

We need to act five times faster to tackle climate change before it is too late. A policy insider, Simon Sharpe provides compelling ideas on how to rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, diplomacy, and economics to speed up progress in addressing climate change.

The Hippie Trail, that long land route to India that was a rite of passage for so many western hippies and other young adventurers from the 1950s to 1979.Simon Sharpe was a young adventurer and travelled the route in the summer of 1974 on a small budget and solo. One year later he sat down to record his extraordinary travels before memory faded. He bring us his descriptive memories of the countries, cheap hotels, the food, the cultural divides, the local people and the western adventurers for whom this was a significant part of their youth experience. Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and on to India, Simon's travelogue is full of anecdotes and sharp observations of the people he met. Simon also includes stories of adventurers from his own family history in India and Afghanistan to create a fascinating refection on his own motives for travelling. He asks the awkward question; to what extent freedom-loving western youth, travelling through those Muslim countries may have inadvertently changed the politics of the region and helped bring in strictly observant Islamic governments?

An explosive cocktail of greed, murderous conspiracy ... and a twist of Lemon. Put-upon MI5 officer Tim Lemon is fed up with being handed low priority tasks. The rest of his team, under brusquely efficient Helen Stride, concentrates on the critical business of pre-empting jihadist terror. Tim, however, is sidetracked with an investigation into a hedge fund manager and his Russian oligarch business partner. But Tim and Helen are increasingly thrown together as they unravel a conspiracy of cataclysmic proportions and events mount to a heart-stopping climax. 'Kept me up till four in the morning - I couldn't bear to put it down.' Tom Kingsley, BAFTA-nominated film director