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Bill Leader's big idea, to go where the music is playing and catch it on the wing, is comparable to the moment when technology freed film directors to shoot on location. It gets great results if you don't mind roughing it.

Melanie grew up in a humble loving working-class home. At school she's limited but later wins a beauty contest leading to a top modelling career.

In this collection Paul Berry continues to be inspired by landscape and his Norfolk heritage. Other poems highlight a growing reputation as a chronicler of love, loss and longing.

Nobody is perfect and that is the beauty of life and, crucially, what makes us all so amazingly unique. Just like Tamoye. Being young can be hard enough, but for Tamoye, navigating school and everyday life can be even harder because of her disability - clubfoot, or 'talipes' to give it its official name.

This isn't just another self help book.. it's a book about our real lives,and our unvarnished lived experience. It's about what has hurt, what was joyful, and what works for us today in this ever more uncertain world. Where life seems to be more about the challenges we are facing on a daily basis.

The title of the book Smithereens captures the grief caused by the death of Sharon, my best friend. However, this is no misery memoir. In essence, it's about wringing the most out of our short lives!

Barbara Kastelin is a story-teller - assured narratives in vivid locations with compelling characters, and a surprise at the end. From the refuse dump sweet music rises, a hungry mountain cavern roars, secrets hide in furniture in a hotel corridor, and a monk lets himself go.

Barbara Kastelin is a story-teller - assured narratives in vivid locations with compelling characters, and a surprise at the end. A dove falls from the Sicilian sky, the green pullover is a problem, a big-nosed statue is abused, while rats pile up in the bedside table.

Moved by devastating media coverage in 1985, John Tomlinson packed his bags to volunteer for the Save the Children Fund with the intent to help rebuild, and run, a small hospital in a town on the border with Ethiopia. However, faced with diminishing supplies, poorly trained staff and civil unrest, the enormity of the task became clear.

All too often, pain in ridden horses is labelled as 'bad' behaviour. The apparently 'sound' horse is 'naughty', 'lazy', 'difficult', 'explosive', 'spooky', 'nappy', and more. These labels are wrong.Pain impacts all aspects of a horse's performance, including its partnership with the rider, and its potential to progress.

I grew up hearing tales of a great-great grandfather, a Catholic man of the cloth from Cork who eloped with a nun. As a child I found ancestors dead-boring, living relations bad enough.

The year is 2060, springtime is missing and Britain hasn't seen snow for over twenty years...Unbeknown to the creatures of the wild, Human 'Beings' have been destroying their homes for centuries. But will they discover the truth in time?

'Quite unlike anyone, Bright is hard to fit into the contemporary poetry scene. Late Modernist? Anti-populist, certainly. Skilful, undoubtedly.

Gonnae no dae that? This is a Scots expression imploring someone to stop doing something. Advice Miller H Caldwell definitely didn't follow. In his memoir, Miller goes back to 1950, growing up in the manse at Kirriemuir. After some troubling experiences, he finished schooling in Glasgow determined to lead a humanitarian life.

Meet Egg. Egg is not like any other egg you've ever seen. Egg is gold and white, and can fly and talk and be seen by children and special grownups. It lives in a place of stillness and silence until one day a girl's hand suddenly picks it up and sticks it in her bedroom. Egg is amazed. What is this place?

Four years ago, my 16-year old daughter, Aeryn, took her own life. Even now, those words still don't feel real. I have found it virtually impossible to separate thoughts and memories of my daughter from the cold, hard, terrifying fact of her death, from the depression that robbed us of her.

All comedy is based on tragedy that is why we laugh at somebody who makes a mistake or trips over the carpet and we smile thankful that it's not us!

This is a collection of 39 short stories that explores what it means - what it feels like - to be alive; to be a fully-functioning human being. The stories represent life as we know it - but writ large, and in bold.

When a seemingly innocent photograph in the street ignites a nationwide manhunt, a desperate flight for freedom begins and young British traveller Daniel Weaver finds himself running for his life. Using his wits, misdirection and a change of identity, Dan flees through the northern deserts of Xinjiang in his pursuit of freedom.

Just a few years ago Jesse Travis Scott hiked Colombia's famous Ciudad Perdida, a grueling, mosquito-ridden, all-weather-encompassing, 44 kilometer, 4-day hike through the Sierra Nevada mountains near the city of Santa Marta. The average age of his fellow trekkers was about 27 years old, whereas Jesse was about to turn 43 at the time.

Angelita lives a protected life in a small mountain village in Andalucia. Reaching adolescence, and angered by hostile gossip about her father and restrictions on visiting him in Madrid, she commits a crime against the community, and is imprisoned.

Set in 1969,'Islands' opens in Manhattan where John and his best friend Mike are living and working in order to make money for their big trip. As they travel, John is trying to figure out what to do with his life and what his values really are.

It is 1474 and England is finally at peace after 25 years of internecine bloodshed where Yorkists and Lancastrians battled for the crown. On the throne sits Edward IV with his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, at his side.

Do you feel constantly exhausted by work? Do you sometimes feel negative and cynical about work? Is it taking you longer than it should to complete even simple tasks at work? If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be on the road to burnout.

How does the opportunity ever arise for one person to alter the destiny of a world?

Tommy is a happy young dinosaur with no cares in the world. One day he begins to feel unwell, so his friend, Pterry, takes him to see the Witch Doctor.

Our local councillors come from people close to their electorate: family, friends, neighbours, work mates, people down your street. They spend multi billions of our money annually on schools, housing, social services, roads, environmental and public health, amongst many other day-to-day matters vital to us all.