One boy, one street and one summer he will never forget.A powerful and poignant debut from a compelling and authentic voice in commercial fiction.It’s 1963. Billy Driscoll and his best mate, Peter ‘Rooksy’ Rooker, have the run of their street. Whether it’s ogling sexy mum, Madge, as she pegs out her washing, or avoiding local bully Griggsy, the estates and bombsites of Pimlico have plenty to fire their fertile imagination.Billy is growing up and after years of being...

Danny Boy is ‘gloriously nostalgic’ My Weekly Books of 2023 choice ‘A terrific, edge-of-the-seat story … whose ending had me in the right kind of tears’ Maggie Gee ‘As evocative as Graham Green's iconic Brighton Rock ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Fantastic storytelling’ ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Gripping story – engaging, entertaining and moving. A terrific read’ ***** Amazon reviewerDanny Byrne has grown up...

This book is a guide to productionizing AI solutions using best-of-breed cloud services with workarounds to lower costs. Supplemented with step-by-step instructions covering data import through wrangling to partitioning and modeling through to inference and deployment, and augmented with plenty of Python code samples, the book has been written to accelerate the process of moving from script or notebook to app.From an initial look at the context and ecosystem of AI solutions today, ...

Danny Boy is ‘gloriously nostalgic’ My Weekly Books of 2023 choice ‘A terrific, edge-of-the-seat story … whose ending had me in the right kind of tears’ Maggie Gee ‘As evocative as Graham Green's iconic Brighton Rock ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Fantastic storytelling’ ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Gripping story – engaging, entertaining and moving. A terrific read’ ***** Amazon reviewerDanny Byrne has grown up...

When all seems lost, can hope shine through?Can she trust what her heart tells her is true?Hilda Stone and her daughter Ellen have lost everything. The Blitz has taken their home, whilst the war stripped them of their husband and father. So when a stranger foretells the impossible, Hilda is desperate to believe her. Then, against all odds, Hilda’s lost husband Douglas returns home from the dead – just as the stranger predicted.Years later, Ellen has...

‘Wow, wow, wow. I am speechless as to how good this book was… A highly emotional, heart-breaking story.’ Stardust Book Reviews, 5 starsYou can run from your past, but it will always catch up with you… Susie was forced to do something she will always regret. Everything that led to the choice she made had to be buried and forgotten.Her secret echoes down through the years, tainting everything it ...

A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this "stunning" novel by the award-winning author of Actress ( The Washington Post).The surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering for the wake of their wayward, alcoholic brother, Liam, drowned in the sea after filling his pockets with stones. He is the third of the twelve Hegarty siblings to die. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man...

* Don't miss NO REGRET, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2025. *Keep your family close...Set in the heart of London's criminal gangland, FACES by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole reaches the darkest corners of family life and explores the dangerous line between love and hate.Danny Cadogan is the most powerful man in gangla...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2010'A triumph. Brimful of wit and narrative energy' Sunday Times'Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this. One of the finest comic novels written anywhere' Irish TimesRuprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old...

The quality of a data warehouse (DWH) is the elusive aspect of it, not because it is hard to achieve [once we agree what it is], but because it is difficult to describe. We propose the notion that quality is not an attribute or a feature that a product has to possess, but rather a relationship between that product and each and every stakeholder. More specifically, the relationship between the software quality and the organization that produces the products is explored. Quality of data that...

ESCAPE TO THE CORNISH COAST IN THIS DELIGHTFULLY HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'THE PERFECT SUMMER READ' SOPHIE KINSELLA'Beautifully describes Cornwall and whisks you away to sunny beaches' 5***** Reader ReviewFlora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen . . .A summer on Cornwall...

This heart-wrenching memoir from Toni Maguire tells the deeply moving story of an idyllic childhood that masked a terrible truth. Underneath her mother's gentility and her father's roguish charm lay horrifying secrets, which eventually led to their only child's near destruction.The first time her father made an improper advance on Toni, she was six years old. Her father warned her not to tell her mother, or anyone else, because they would blame her and wouldn't love her any more. I...