John was a young man firing on all cylinders into a life of drugs, booze, sex, and gambling, and fully intent on thriving in all of it. With every passing month the drinks got stronger, the sex got wilder, the bets got bigger. Some might say that boogie, bars and broads had captured John, but he felt that he had captured them. Like a fat dog on a beach of dead fish John wanted to roll forever. The 70s had arrived with a tolerance toward minor sins, but why go venial when mortal is more fun...

A DOOMED VOYAGEApril 14th 1912. The maiden voyage of the world's most luxurious passenger liner, Titanic.A DARK PASTEach passenger has their own reason to make the crossing, but for former Special Branch police officer Arthur Beck it is the only way he can escape the demons of his past.Also on board is Martha Heaton, a female journalist sent to cover the great ship's journey and prove herself as a serious reporter.

'I am a person who would quit authorizing in a minute to go to piloting,' Mark Twain once remarked. 'I would rather sink a steamboat than eat, any time.' And in 1882, Twain did just that: he returned to the river of his youth as a mature writer determined to expand seven articles which he had serialized in The Atlantic Monthly in 1875 into the definitive travelogue on the great Mississippi. Although Life on the Mississippi was not commercially successful when first publis...

We are the product of our (own) choices, we were told.For long, we've been hammered on that life is inexorably about painful trade-offs. For this reason, it happens that we sacrifice the fun for our goals. We offer up our health on the alluring and demanding altar of success. Some other times, we even give up on personal dreams to content our parents and their choices. The list goes on.However, should we keep undergoing "the Tyranny of 'Or' "? Should it [always] be the case...

Owning and operating a restaurant is one of the most challenging endeavors an entrepreneur can take on--the hours are long and grueling, staff turnover averages 130 percent, and many fail within their first year. Streetwise Restaurant Management walks you step by step through each aspect of opening and managing a restaurant. This guide covers the practical issues you'll face on a daily basis and offers tips from an experienced restauranteur about the risks and rewards of restauran...

From the author of Ghost Writing—winner of the 2025 North American Book Awards Gold Medal in Romance and a 2025 Shelf Media Top Notable Indie Book—comes Beautiful Place by the Sea.Beautiful Place by the Sea is a heartfelt coastal romance set in a small Maine vacation town—complete with a cozy bookshop, a spicy love story that starts off on entirely the wrong foot, and family secrets that refuse to stay buried. It’s about grief and healing, inherited stories, and the places that cal...

A Warhammer Chronicles novelIn the city of Middenheim, a company of Knights of the White Wolf stand ready to defend their realm from the darkness.READ IT BECAUSEWage war alongside the rowdy, bawdy, and dedicated knights who worship the wolf god and stand between Middenheim and destruction.THE STORYAs the forces of evil gather around the ancient mountain fortress of Middenheim, City of the White Wolf,...

Twenty-seven leading artists, writers and academics come together to tackle one of the most drastic urban regeneration programmes in world history - the "Regeneration Supernova" of East London.The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital, East London has been at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing top-down urban regeneration strategy ...

The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in Virginia“If anyone today knows colonial Virginia, it is James Horn.” —Wall Street JournalAlong the banks of the James River, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a month of one another that would profoundly shape the course of history. At the end of July, the G...

Dan Starkey reads this novelisation of the brand new adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary, featuring the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble, as played by David Tennant and Catherine TateA sinister toyshop. The Earth erupting in violence. Shockwaves travelling through history.With old friends powerless to help, the Doctor is drawn into a deadly duel against an old nemesis who can bend reality to his will – and change the Doctor’s life for ever…Dan Starkey, whos...

Here’s some of what just happened: Millions of ordinary, sensible people came into possession of computers. These machines had wondrous powers, yet made unexpected demands on their owners. Telephones broke free of the chains that had shackled them to bedside tables and office desks. No one was out of touch, or wanted to be out of touch. Instant communication became a birthright.A new world, located no one knew exactly where, came into being, called “virtual” or “online,” named “cyb...

A compelling call for compassion and resilience in the maw of social dissolution from literary legend James Sallis, master of many genres and Nebula, Edgar, and Shamus–nominated author of DriveAll I wanted was for my life, when you picked it up in your hands, to have some weight to it.In a not-so-distant future the United States has fragmented, balkanizing into unstable provinces often at war with one anot...