A powerful, no bullshit account of how a workplace incident changed James’ life. ’12 Reasons NOT to get hurt at work’ is written in a way that most people will relate to and without any spin or jargon. James Wood, known as 'Woody', is an internationally recognised award winning safety speaker who has taken to the written word to share some of the most common questions and discussion points from his 25 years of sharing his story at workplaces all over the world.'I wrote this short b...

In the setting of Aunt Eleanor sharing stories from her rocking chair with her niece and nephew, the priority of integrity and honesty in all that we do shines forth about careless words, lost children, thunderstorms and thoughtful sisters.

Marilynne Robinson discusses and reads from her book Gilead with James Wood.

What if you could transform your life simply by changing your words?Would you like to cultivate unshakeable confidence, fulfilling relationships and lasting financial success?My Little Book of Positive Affirmations is your practical guide to reprogramming your mind and attracting happiness, success and serenity. This book is packed with powerful affirmations designed to strengthen every aspect of your life: personality, career, love, finances, and much more...

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation.Raging widely from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings, Woods takes the reader through the basic elements of the art of fiction, step-by-step. He sums up two decades of insight...

This is a story about a young lady, Missy, aged twelve at the time of her writing this book.Missy suffers from a rare blood disease called Primary Immune Deficiency. This has required her to have replacement therapy of antibodies via intravenous or subcutaneous infusion her whole life. At the time of printing this book Missy undergoes daily infusion of antibodies into her abdomen which takes approximately two hours every day.Not only has Missy suffered with physical health ...

Praise for the Dark Witch:“Fans of urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and horror will find The Dark Witch impossible to put down.” - Readers Favorite 5 Star Seal“Wood serves up heroes, action, and unrelenting danger like few dark fantasy adventure writers writing today. He is quick with humor that is threaded throughout the story in just the right amounts, has a talent for unfolding action, but always puts a lot of heart and pathos into his...

From The New Yorker's book critic, "one of the most intelligent and passionate literary critics working today. . . . a masterful 'greatest hits' collection" (Angela M. Giles, Los Angeles Review of Books ).Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking wo...

The acclaimed author of How Fiction Works "opens up new dimensions of the novel he's reading in a way that strands other critics in Flatland" ( Chicago Tribune ).Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works—books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation— The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's pre...

In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power.Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we "know" a fictional c...

These short stories by Missy Wood were all written when she was between the ages of seven and sixteen. When a lesson in Missy’s daily learning at home requested she write a research paper, an essay or a persuasive paper, etc., she would expand what she had learnt through this exercise and bring it into a story format, and consequently here are the results in this little book. You see here a creative and meaningful product of what otherwise could have been an academic file with a few langua...

This story of Little Daisy’s persistence in the principles of her godly upbringing, even in her trials, has touched many readers. Though life’s trials have taken from her the parents who taught her God’s word, and placed her in poverty, she continues to walk according to God's commandments. While selling flowers on a street corner of the city, Daisy’s tender, child-like words of reproof bring even crusty old General Forster to see the sin of taking God’s name in vain. Soon after, her life ...