There is a piece of cod-wisdom regularly dispensed to single women: romance will arrive when you least expect it. I had assumed it would also make its own travel arrangements too.Emma John is in her 40s; she is neither married, nor partnered, with child or planning to be.In her hilarious and unflinching memoir, Self Contained, she asks why the world only views a woman as complete when she is no longer a single figure and addresses what it ...

It's one thing to be 14 years old and a loser. It's one thing to be the class swot, and hopelessly infatuated with someone who doesn't know you exist. But what kind of teenager is besotted with an entire sports team – when the players are even bigger losers than she is?In 1993, while everyone else was learning Oasis lyrics and crushing on Kate Moss or Keanu, Emma John was obsessing over the England cricket team. She spent her free time making posters of the players she adored. She ...

Petrona McGibbon knew that completely uprooting her life and moving to the Caribbean island of Jamaica to open a bed & breakfast/bakery was going to be challenging. What she didn’t expect was that her delectable creations would become the center of a murder investigation.What should have been an open and shut case takes some unexpected twists. As a seasoned Senior Superintendent of police, Dean Anderson finds himself having to turn to the likes of Petrona’s crazy cousin Maria, and ...

Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known?Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world.Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini....

Brainology: The Curious Science of Our Minds is a fast‑moving popular science collection that takes you inside the most mysterious place you'll ever live: your own brain.Why can pain feel unbearable even when tests show "nothing wrong"? How can a simple mirror calm phantom limb pain? What does neuroscience reveal about the interpreter's brain when thoughts become speech in real time? Why do dark winters affect mood and sleep for some people but not others? Are smartphones ...

There is a piece of cod-wisdom regularly dispensed to single women: romance will arrive when you least expect it. I had assumed it would also make its own travel arrangements too.Emma John is in her 40s; she is neither married, nor partnered, with child or planning to be.In her hilarious and unflinching memoir, Self Contained, she asks why the world only views a woman as complete when she is no longer a single figure and addresses what it ...

Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known?Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world.Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini....

Their forbidden attraction is undeniable, but giving in could make them both notorious.I left Scotland to get away from troubles back home, but I never expected to fall for a bonnie American lass. She's twenty-two. I'm thirty-seven. I will never make love to Rae Evehart, and I shouldn't even spend time with her. But being with Rae makes me feel lighter, as if the burdens of my past have vanished.Despite our age gap, I can't resist this desire for m...

Get ready for whisky, kilts, a bit of meddling, and a sizzling later-in-life workplace romance!A mature woman shouldn’t have sex with her new boss on day one. But I did that. Now I will erase that memory from my mind. Until he speaks to me in that sultry Scottish brogue again…Why did I move to another country on the other side of an ocean? To shake up my life. I accepted a job as marketing director of a boutique whisky distillery in the Scottish Highlands. ...

'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a psychologically and supernaturally sinister work. Emma Smith's introduction considers the historical and contemporary contexts of the play, from the influence of the Gunpowder Plot as an act of domestic te...

In the aftermath of the mysterious death of their lead singer, the young members of a now-legendary British acid folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient English country house with its own dark secrets. There they record Wylding Hall, the album that makes their reputation—but at a terrifying cost, when Julian Blake, their new lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen again.Now, years later, each of the surviving musicians, their friends and lovers—i...

Being a highly skilled operative for a company like Jameson Force Security is exhilarating and important work…until it comes time to date. I like to keep my profession under wraps for a number of reasons. Some of what we do is top secret, most of what we do is dangerous, and more than one woman has tried to latch onto me because she was more enamored with what I do than who Cage Murdock really is. And since I’m more of a ‘here for the night’ than a ‘here for forever’ kind of guy, what’s th...