This centuries old vampire doesn’t have time to save the girl.Lief Vohjol, a centuries-old Viking turned vampire, has a single mission in his eternal undead life: grow his blood-for-sale business.He’s avoided turning any other vampires until a few months ago, when he chose to turn one of his human employees. Kiara Jackson would have died otherwise.While he isn’t upset that he did it, he is frustrated that he’s forced to focus on helping her...

Jazz passed the initial auditions for a hotly contested place at Idol Academy, the K-Pop training school of her dream - but the competition isn't over yet. She's flown to a K-Pop summer school in Sydney, Australia, for more grueling trials in her quest to become an idol.But flying away from home, from her best friend Roxy and even from her crush leaves Jazz feeling isolated. And although she forges powerful new friendships with her fellow wannabes, there are burning rivalries too.....

For BFFs Jazz and Roxy, k-pop is not just music, it’s life. So, when they miss out on tickets to see GOLDL!FE, Jazz finds the next best thing: a new girl group, RealBP, playing their first ever gig!After that, they’re swept up in a k-pop whirlwind – from becoming Insta Famous to chasing the opportunity of a lifetime: join an Instant Idol Academy run by RealBP's entertainment company, Big Wish. Cue dramatic auditions, sweet new crushes, friendship drama and the chance to fly to new ...

Personal, speculative, and exploratory poems in culmination of author, editor, and pro-expression organizer E.D.E. Bell’s fifty years on Mother Earth.“Bell’s poetry collection, Words Describing Fire, gives voice to suffering carried inside, given to us by other individuals or society. Her poignant poems do not turn away from pain/loss burning inside, instead they weave words into poetic songs, because this is the first step to healing.” —Linda D. Addison, ...

Debut novel of author Callum BellIn the year 3035, the Earth is dead. Humans are the only form of life left and, confined within giant towers, the ever-growing population is running out of space.David Robinson leads a team of scientists dedicated to finding a way to transport humans to another world. After a major breakthrough, he and his team make a horrifying discovery; humanity is doomed to extinction.With time against them, David and his team mu...

A chance nocturnal meeting leads to two insomniacs striking up a friendship that forces them to confront the problems they're avoiding not only to make them sleep but ultimately to allow them the capacity to love each other.By day, Bec supports her boyfriend Matt with his incurable illness. Matt's always had a passion for life, and his illness has only made him more determined to make the most of everyday, ticking off bucket list items and making memories whilst he...

Come as you are. Leave as family.Food is never just food. It is memory made edible, ancestry passed through generations, a language spoken before words. It is the thread connecting us to the soil of our identity and the people whose stories we carry.In this collection of 52 stories and poems, 50 writers from around the world explore what happens when we gather at the proverbial table-illuminating the hungers we carry, the heritages we inherit, and the heali...

In his debut collection, Letters to Ashes, Quentin Bell explores the depths of grief, love, and the human heart with unflinching honesty. Across thirty-one titled poems, haiku, and reflective sequences, he captures sorrow, longing, memory, and resilience, revealing how even from ashes new growth can emerge.Bell's work delves into the turbulence of the mind, the ache of lost love, inherited trauma, and the delicate balance between hope and despair. Urban landscapes-from sun...

Somewhere recently, a friend or a wealthy relative mentioned they're "an LP" in a venture fund. You nodded. You didn't ask what that meant, what they actually own, or when they get their money back.Venture capital has built some of the largest fortunes in modern finance. It hasn't built an instruction manual for the people funding it. Founders get accelerators and pitch coaches. Fund managers get conferences and trade press. The limited partners, the family offices, the angel inves...

An anthropologist decodes our most inane, mundane and profane behaviours.Is a queef worse than a fart? Are an asshole and a wanker the same thing? What do Brits have against doggy bags? Why don't more people use headphones on transit?In The Baggage We Carry, an anthropologist who has lived in five countries on four continents - and learned about cultural gaffes by constantly committing them - places our everyday behaviours under the microscope....

Design for Outdoor Recreation takes a detailed look at all aspects of design of facilities needed by visitors to enjoy outdoor recreation destinations. The book is a comprehensive manual for planners, designers and managers of recreation, taking them through the processes of design and enabling them to find the most appropriate balance between visitor needs and the capacity of the landscape. A range of aspects are covered, including car parking, hiking, waterside activities, child...

First published in 1988, Young Readers Responding to Poems adopts a teacher-researcher approach to the processes of responding to poems. It shows experienced teachers exploring how their students, aged fourteen and above, read and respond to poetry, sets their innovative practices against the background of traditional theory in poetry teaching, and theorises these practices so as to generate new concepts to help teachers understand how readers and poems interact. Governed by the f...