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How important is your bank manager''s support to the stability and success of your business?How far do you understand how your bank operates, and how it views your business?How well do you think you manage your bank manager to ensure their continued support?Managing Your Bank Manager is your guide to making a success of this most critical of business relationships for you as a business owner. From how to make your business an attractive customer and a good lending proposition, through to how to survive when times get tough, this is your essential manual to managing your bank, before they manage you.

Congratulations on achieving your first ‘career’ job. Now you need to make a success of it.Succeed in Your First Job tells you everything you need to know about the real world of work, that no one ever tells you.Experienced businessman Mark Blayney gives you practical advice, often learnt the hard way from his own mistakes, to give you the edge at work and the confidence to make this the starting point of your successful career. Mark helps you learn:·         A dozen key Dos for getting off on the right foot in your first few months (and some absolute Don’ts)·         How work really works, and how to manage yourself and your co-workers·         What your boss really wants from you, and how to give it to them·         And even how to say No to your boss (and when it’s a good career move)‘The only book I could find on making a great first impression and being successful in your first job.’‘Ideal for nervous new starters.’‘Explores everything you weren’t told about your first job.’Whatever your job, you’ve been hired as a manager: of yourself, your work, your career.So start your management training today – read Succeed in Your First Job today.

This edition is a very special monster issue in celebration of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.In Nigel Jarrett's Spectres of Innocence a son and daughter help their grieving father start afresh after the death of their mother. He moves into an old rectory with a troubled history. Unsettling events begin to unravel: who is the woman keeping their father company? And what might be pushing the empty swing on a still summer's day?Ever walked into a building and felt the hairs on the back of your neck prick up? Two travellers rent an old apartment but one becomes convinced it harbours something - a grudge, a dislike, perhaps it wants her out? Or is it just the intense heat closing in around her in Mark Blayney's peculiar tale Straits Eclectic.Catrin Kean spins a yarn of an old woman who lives alone on the old family farm by the sea. She is visited by a couple who want to buy her home. She agrees, but a secret is buried that threatens to rise and spill out if she leaves in Birdcage.Jess Thomas's Don't Stop Playing tells a story of monsters guarding treasure in a cave and a girl whose flute playing seduces them to sleep. Think of the old saying, 'Finders keepers' - but will what you find keep you…?Charlotte Symons, mesmerising tale, The Man Who Gathered Sorrow, the seemingly good deed of a man becomes monstrous - he has no choice but to destroy the thing before it destroys him…In Ewan Hannah's story, The Creature, a notorious and fiendish whisky hunter returns from his journey to Antarctica with bounty - Magnus MacSorley's lost ninth bottle. But beware on opening, this contains more than the warming amber liquid…Kevin O'Connor's Inis Suil a party of teenagers head to an island in what is supposed to be a night of camping, catching up and having fun. But something lurks in the darkness…A grave is dug up and the body of a young girl is exhumed because a farm settlement in America is disturbed by a revenant - a restless corpse. Measures must be taken to rest her soul in Mat Troy's The Connecticut TraditionTina Rath's The Banks of the Roses tells the story of two young lovers who meet at a quarry on a hot summer's day. There is a rumour a murder happened there and something called Jenny Greenteeth will pull you in and drown you if you get too near to the pool. Heed the warning, it is not always hearsay…In Chip Limeburner's story Along the Road set in the time of the Crusades a lone highwayman ambushes a team of horses and their cavalcade. He finds a casket of pristine bones but this is far from treasure - a very sinister loot…

Twelve-ish. Shade in the Murillo gardens, as satisfying as lemonade. In the heat, just for a moment, Miguel stood in front of me. The old Miguel, not the one we've got now. The fuzzy image held its hand out and led me to the old Arab wall.When we were first married, we tried to climb it in the middle of the night. A celebration. 'This wall's been here hundreds of years,' Miguel said. 'If we can conquer that, we can conquer anything.' I believed him.I open my eyes and he's gone.In these slippery stories the truth and the possible weave as unexpected lives, complicated minds and exotic spaces are sketched in with nimble words and quick wit. Ghosts torment from the past; future selves write back; the lost look about, find themselves watched, are lead astray.Keep company with thieves and murdering artists, with the couple who miss the ferry for their make-or-break holiday; the mayonnaise deliveryman who becomes a reluctant golddigger, and the psychoanalyst and his GP wife investigate a local widow's naked appearances in church.Between these pages you can never be sure quite who you'll meet next, but you can be sure that you're in safe hands. An intriguing new collection from a writer you'll want to keep an eye on.