'With spectacular twists, don’t start The Arrival if you have things to do because it stops you in your tracks. Google NOTHING. Just read it. Thank me later.' Alessandra RanelliThe rules are clear. Find out where you are. Try not to die.Leo and Viv's weekend starts like any other: a takeaway, a movie and an early night. But when Leo wakes up, he's not in their London flat. He’s naked and alone in an unfamiliar bed, in an anonymous ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The rules are clear. Find out where you are. Try not to die.Leo and Viv's weekend starts like any other: a takeaway, a movie and an early night. But when Leo wakes up, he's not in their London flat. He’s naked and alone in an unfamiliar bed, in an anonymous hotel, on the other side of the world.Viv wakes up to a phone ringing. It's Leo and he claims to be in Australia, despite the impossibility of it. An em...

The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands are pivotal to international security. They are often dangerous, strategically crucial and little explored by outsiders. Robin Brooke-Smith provides a new perspective on Northwest Pakistan in this first-hand account of his years in this troubled region. Tracing the build-up to 9/11 and the upheaval that has followed, this is a captivating behind-the-scenes look into the regional fulcrum of global jihad. Recounting his experiences as Principal of the prestigi...

In this book, Robin Brooke-Smith explores the dynamics of schools as complex organisations. He presents a radical departure from established school improvement and effectiveness orthodoxies, offering a refreshing new approach to managing change and enhancing collective learning. Based on the author's own experience of managing and leading schools, this book explores such questions as: * How can schools learn as a generative process? * How can schools become adaptive and co-evolve with thei...

Robin Brooks life was all but normal until he began suffering from a mysterious condition causing him to see visions of the rumored ancient ancestral gods. His enemies learn of his visions and knows what Robin’s true potential can amount to and will stop at nothing until his soul is claimed for their version of justice. Will time aid the young Robin escape his enemies wrath? Join me on this time adventure as this debut novel spins a fresh take on fantasy & science fiction.

A wonderful collection of ten short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2025!Following the success of the Grimoire released at Dragonsteel Nexus 2024, this second Grimoire published at Emerald City Comic Con 2025 in Seattle, WA, creating a new anthology of stories sure to delight. Read a deadly chess game between a demon and a mage observed by Terry Brooks. Fall in love with a lovelor...

Cet ouvrage d’une ambition exceptionnelle présente sous une forme accessible à un large public une histoire inédite de l’esclavage depuis la Préhistoire jusqu’au présent. Il paraît vingt ans après le vote de la loi Taubira, alors que la prise de conscience du passé esclavagiste est chaque jour plus aiguisée au sein de la société française. L’histoire de l’esclavage, trop longtemps tenue pour une forme de passé subalterne, est ici replacée au coeur de l’histoire mondiale. Le livre renouvell...

Written for parents, teachers, and others who live or work with teenagers, this science-based guide describes how you can become a confident 'decision mentor.' Learn to support young people in making good decisions for themselves. Treating decision making as an essential and learnable skill, the six-step 'Decision-Maker Moves' highlight the power and promise of young people as they shape their lives through the options they choose. Stories, examples, and practical tips show how decisions c...

A wonderful collection of short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2026!In 2024 Grim Oak Press exhibited at Dragonsteel Nexus, Brandon Sanderson's convention in Salt Lake City, UT, where the award-winning publisher released Grimoire, an anthology containing short stories by attending authors. It sold out on the first day.Due to reader demand, a new Grimoire published at Emera...

The Healing Power of Community offers a diverse cross section of interdisciplinary and depth-psychological perspectives in support of using mutual aid approaches in all levels of group and community practice as a remedy for individualism and social and political divisions, centering social justice.Written by three distinct voices who collaborated at the height of the AIDS crisis, the book begins with an autoethnographic study of Project Quest, an HIV/AIDS clinic establishe...

BROOKSI never asked for much out of life—just a quiet tower above my bookshop, a bow tie collection, and the peace of knowing every book spine is perfectly aligned. Romance is something that happens in novels, not in real life, certainly not to men like me.Then he walked in. Cody Cameron. Sunburnt, swaggering, Australian, and already knocking books off my shelves like some chaotic force of nature. He's loud where I'm quiet, messy where I'm meticulo...

Winner of the IAJS Book Award 2023 for Best Applied BookThis fascinating volume uses psychoanalytic theory to explore how political subjectivity comes about within the context of global catastrophe, via the emergence of collective individuations through trans-subjectivity. Serving as a jumping-off point to address the structural linkage between collective catastrophe, subject, group, and political transformation, trans-subjectivity is the central tenet of the book,...