A journey through Cambodia with the simple and romantic ambition to find the folkloric spirit trees, the powerful connecting force between man and nature, Ken Finn's travels turned out to be anything but simple. Back-wearing motos, immobilizing gastric assaults, unexpected road blocks, and monkish processions all contributed to the journey, but most dramatically, instead of enriching forests, destruction was found: the black market timber trade. A new voice was found as Ken followed the trees on their journey to the furniture factories of Vietnam and subsequently a house somewhere on the North Circular, London. The book chronicles his trip not just through Southeast Asia but the inner transition from traveler to activist. It charts the unlocking of a conscience and the discovery of a new sensitivity and passion showing that it is not a major shift in behavior to save the destruction and corruption of the planet and that it is important to care.
Christmas. A time for family. But what if your family is a total mess? The fourth in the bestselling comedy series, in which Why Mummy Drinks meets Bridget Jones
For James Salisbury the only thing worse than being found guilty...is being found not guiltyWhen James Salisbury, the owner of a British car manufacturer, ploughs his 'self-drive' car into a young family, the consequences are deadly. Will the car's 'black box' reveal what really happened or will the industry, poised to launch these products to an eager public, close ranks to cover things up?James himself faces a personal dilemma. If it is proved that he was driving the car he may go to prison. But if he is found innocent, and the autonomous car is to blame, the business he has spent most of his life building, and his dream of safer transport for all, may collapse.Lawyers Judith Burton and Constance Lamb team up once again, this time to defend a man who may not want to go free, in a case that asks difficult questions about the speed at which technology is taking over our lives.'It is Abi Silver's imaginative touches as well as her thorough legal knowledge that make her courtroom thrillers stand out' Jake Kerridge
The sequel to Nicola May's number one bestselling romantic comedy, The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, set in a seaside village in Devon
A powerful historical novel telling the story of the orphaned son of a Maori chief who ends up exhibited as a curiosity in Victorian London. Loosely based on a true story.
A literary comedy about the 18th-century rivalry between Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds for the affections of the Royal Family. Meanwhile, in the present day, a picture which may or may not be a long-lost Gainsborough turns up on a TV antiques show being filmed in Suffolk
An essential guide to writing, editing, re-writes, submissions and more, based on Scott Pack's sell-out Guardian Masterclasses
Tess Burrows climbed to the point furthest from the centre of the Earth to broadcast thousands of peace messages she had collected from people of all ages.
London, 2050. The socio-economic crisis of recent decades is over and consumerism is thriving.Ownership of land outside the city is the preserve of a tiny elite, and the rest of the population must spend to earn a Right to Reside. Ageing has been abolished thanks to a radical new approach, replacing retirement with blissful euthanasia at a Dignitorium.When architect Philip goes missing, his wife Alice risks losing her home and her status, and begins to question the society in which she was raised. Her search for him uncovers some horrifying truths about the fate of her own family and the reality behind the new social order.Wolf Country is a powerful dystopian vision in the spirit of Black Mirror and Never Let Me Go.
The lyrical new novel from the award-winning author of Electricity and Forgetting Zoe, about a former farmhand, now a widower in his seventies, who goes on the run in the Yorkshire Dales after committing a crime. Longlisted for the Portico Prize.
A humane and beautifully observed tale of everyday violence, the media's obsession with pretty dead girls and the myth of closure
An elderly local artist plunges 100 feet to her death at an overstretched London hospital and the police immediately sense foul play. The hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee and loner, is arrested for her murder. He protests his innocence, but why has he given her the story of Aladdin to read, and why does he shake uncontrollably in times of stress? Judith Burton and Constance Lamb reunite to defend a man the media has already convicted. Together they uncover not only the cleaner's secrets, but also those of the artist's family, her lawyer and the hospital. A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Pinocchio Brief.
A story of murder and family rivalry set amid the 'format wars' of early recorded sound
An atheist comedy featuring God and a confused young man from Hackney. When gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave while at the beach, his journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell. When God happens to look down his celestial telescope and see Stefano, he is obliged to pay unprecedented attention to an obscure planet in a distant galaxy, and ends up on the greatest adventure of his multi-eon existence.The Hurtle of Hellcombines a tender, human story of rejection and reconnection with an utterly original and often very funny theological thought-experiment, in an entrancing fable that is both mischievous and big-hearted.
An ingenious and hilarious novel masquerading as sixteen short biographies of Australian literary figures, who are all entirely made up
An original and authoritative guide to the shift in business thinking which has caused unprecedented turmoil in the modern world
A brand new thriller series from an award-winning graphic novelist and games writer, creator of Atomic Blonde
A unique, remarkable and hilarious portrait of one of our most talked-about and controversial literary figures
Jules Mountain has reached Everest Base Camp, within reach of fulfilling his life's ambition, when the 2015 Nepal earthquake sets off the avalanche. Something sets him apart from the other surviving climbers: is it that he has already cheated death by surviving cancer? Does his gung-ho attitude show him to be brave, fatalistic or irresponsible?
A biting satirical novel that imagines the post-Brexit, political landscape of the UK in 2020. Funny, thought-provoking and worryingly believable.
Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.
The Hopkins Conundrum blends the real stories of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the ship-wrecked nuns of his most famous poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland, while casting a wry eye on The Da Vinci Code industry in a highly original mix of fiction, literary biography and satirical commentary.
The realities of a business start-up in a war-torn Iraq - it's not like this at Harvard Heyrick was on the first civilian plane into Baghdad after the airport had been secured. Armed with a camp bed, some baked beans, and a wallet full of greenbacks, his mission was to establish a foothold for one of the world's largest logistics businesses in one of the world's most inhospitable markets. This book charts the challenges, the characters, the comedy, and the catastrophe of trying to do business in a war zone. It also provides a unique perspective on the Iraq conflict; not of another journalist, soldier, or politician but of a businessman with unusual balls.
All Will Be Well looks at how love and compassion, when given out to others, can act as an antidote to the often painful human condition. It awakens us to all the small things that we can do to make those around us feel better and in doing so, bring happines to ourselves as well. It shows that each of us has the ability to make a difference. This book will encourage us to use those abilities and by doing so help ensure that all will be well. This is a story of unswerving, joyful faith and hope.
On the cusp of middle age, Simon Fenton leaves Britain in search of adventure and finds Senegal, love, fatherhood, witch doctors and a piece of land that could make a perfect guest house, if only he knew how to build one. The Casamance is an undiscovered paradise where mystic Africa governs life, people walk to the beat of the djembe, when it rains it pours and the mangos are free. But the fact that his name translates to 'vampire' and he has had a curse placed on him via the medium of eggs could mean Simon's new life may not be so easy.
This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey's epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions, he also survives through trust in the kindness of strangers. Moods of Future Joys is the story of the first remarkable stage of the expedition. Just two weeks into the ride the September 11th attacks, and the war that followed, changed everything. All Humphreys' plans went out the window and, instead of riding towards Australia, he suddenly found himself pedalling through the Middle East and Africa and on towards Cape Town. But his journey did not end there. In fact, this was only the beginning...
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