Live adventurously, be creative, make a living: How to turn your dream job into a career - going freelance, growing a tribe, planning an expedition, making the time for adventure, finding sponsorship, making social media work for you, finding a publisher for your book, being a better public speaker - and getting paid!
When Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. What if they had succeeded? A Robert Harris-style thriller looking at what would have happened if history had turned out just a little differently...
Tom dreamed of being an adventurer. People told him he was crazy, so he decided to prove them wrong by cycling round the world.
The career of one of Ireland's highest-profile journalists was destroyed by a second-hand allegation of sexual assault made by a controversial author. Olaf Tyaransen protests his innocence and highlights the dangers of online vigilantism
The hair-raising tale of adventurer Jules Mountain's bid to cross the Atlantic in a lightweight helicopter with a maximum range of 300 miles. The only way was over the polar ice cap, which made it more perilous
James Longley got into a fight one night and ended up beingsent to prison. It could have destroyed him, but a chance meeting after hisrelease helped him turn his life round and make his fortune in an energybusiness. Having sold that business, he has now devoted himself to helpingprisoners break the cycle of reoffending
A Buddhist psychotherapist travels to Peru to scatter the ashes of her heroin addict son
The Young Man and the Old Man- two fanatics in adjacent seats - form a slow but steady friendship over the course of a football season. As their beloved club lurches towards relegation and they pour even more of their hopes into the ailing team - both men come to realise how much they have in common.
In the plague-ridden, battle-torn Northumbria of the Dark Ages, seven-year-old Wilfrid is banished by his parents to the windswept island of Lindisfarne, where he has only one protector. Fortunately, that protector is St Cuthbert, the holiest and wisest man alive. Although perhaps also the strangest...
Book Three in the Mars Alone Trilogy 'Brilliantly pacy, imaginative, high-stakes sci-fi' Emma Haughton Earth and Mars are in open conflict, and seventeen-year-old Leo Fischer is right in the thick of things, fighting his own secret war behind enemy lines. When a mission goes tragically wrong, Leo has to get away from Mars, and for that he'll need the help of the one person he knows he can truly trust - Skater Monroe. But Skater is off somewhere in the Asteroid Belt, and the last time they spoke she wanted to punch his lights out. And besides, Leo's bitterest enemy - Carlton Whittaker, the crazed president of Mars - is about to unleash his most devastating weapon against the unsuspecting Terran invasion fleet. Is now really the time to abandon the fight? In this nail-biting climax to the Mars Alone trilogy, Leo must face his greatest challenge yet. He has the chance to save two worlds, but at what cost to himself?
The only thing worse than waking up with the hangover from hell is waking up with a hangover in hell When literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he's been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives. But he soon realizes there's something a bit different about this place when he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway. Is Foster dead? Has his less-than-saintly existence finally caught up with him? After an acrimonious group therapy session with Hunter S. Thompson, Colette, William Burroughs, and Coleridge, it seems pretty likely. But he still feels alive, especially after an up-close and personal one-on-one session with Dorothy Parker. When he discovers that the two enigmatic doctors who run the institution are being torn apart by a thwarted love affair, he and the other writers must work together to save something that, for once, is bigger than their own gigantic egos. This is a love story. It's for anyone who loves writing and writers. It's also a story about the strange and terrible love affair between creativity and addiction, told by a charming, selfish bastard who finally confronts his demons in a place that's part Priory, part Purgatory, and where the wildest fiction can tell the soberest truth.
From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love under house arrest in Manhattan.
The muse of a celebrated 20th Century artist has fallen on hard times. She needs the help of art expert Gabriel Viejo to get a lost masterpiece into the market - with some nasty surprises in store.
Doran West can travel through the ages. But so can his enemies... Welcome to the one-street village of Linntean in the Scottish Highlands. It's great for tourists, less so for local teenager Doran West. He and his best friend Zander crave a change of scenery, some excitement. What they have in mind is a weekend away to the nearest city. Fate has a little more in store. An accident while fleeing school bullies leads Doran to an extraordinary discovery: he can travel in time. What's more, he isn't alone. There are others who share his gifts, hiding in plain sight and tied to a shadowy organization called the Eternalisium. With Zander in tow, he embarks on a terrifying odyssey through the ages, risking death on the gallows and battlefield, contending with ruthless enemies from the future and learning more than he'd like about his own adult self. Mind-bending, thrilling and funny, The Rebel of Time bounces from Robert the Bruce's Bannockburn to Leonardo Da Vinci's Tuscany, with stops in Hollywood and the First World War trenches, in a spellbinding adventure from a masterful new storyteller.
'A fascinating journey from rural Afghanistan to the world of research and academia in rural England. The juxtaposition of the personal and the political makes this an enticingly interesting read'
In the thrilling second instalment of the Mars Alone trilogy, teenage computer whizz Leo Fischer and his girlfriend Skater Monroe team up with Taffy, the AI robot whose memory contains the knowledge of an ancient alien civilisation, to fight ruthless forces who have been lying to the entire human race.
The gripping true-life story of three young people in the world's youngest country, South Sudan, whose lives are ripped apart by a brutal war. Winner of the Moore Prize 2021
Simon Edge mashes up two iconic real-life court cases - one in Tennessee in the 1920s, the second in London in 2022 - in another mischievous satirical skewering of modern orthodoxy.
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