From the contrasts of Cape Town to the litter drifts of Libya, Joanne and Gareth Morgan and their team of World by Bikers rode 20,000 kilometers by motorcycle. They rode over rough roads and smooth, through rich nations and poor, past ruins ancient and modern, and loved every minute of it. They saw a true zebra crossing (along with several thousand of its mates). They were charged by elephants (and charged double by Egyptians). They had a gander at Uganda (and a wander in Rwanda). They dod...

**Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 **From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.This is the tale of a new technology, an alternative history that unfolds over many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters, all drawn into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches.

Join Gareth and Jo Morgan and their companions as they rattle and splash their way around North Korea on their epic Motorcycle Adventure. Experience with them the thrill of riding through North Korea, the hermit kingdom itself. Above all, discover with them the truth behind the headlines that define North Korea and its people to the outside world, and sorrow at the tragedy that has prevented one third of the Korean people taking their place in the world. Ever since the cessation of hostili...

Marco Polo’s legendary journey overland from Xanadu in China to his home in Italy has fired the imaginations of travellers for 700 years. Even today, traversing the 20,000km Silk Road between Europe and the Far East is a perilous undertaking. But it sounded like just the challenge for Wellington economist Gareth Morgan and his intrepid wife Jo. With five friends, they set off to travel the ancient route by a very modern mode of transport — motorcycle. Starting from the historic port of Ven...

A ride from the Alto Plano of Bolivia and Peru to the frozen tip of Patagonia; on the world's most dangerous road, where the stakes are high, on to Argentina's fabled Ruta 40, where the steaks are large and cheap. Across salt pans, into mud holes, up the Andes and down again; past the ruins of the ruins of Macchu Pichu, and on the edge of the epicentre of the Chilean earthquake. Through a land of contrasts - mountains and lowlands, deserts and glaciers, wealth and poverty, speakers of Span...

**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction.Using a mix of versed and unversed passages, Morgan places ...

Extraordinary escapades from a late-life adventurer'Jo Morgan is a woman for our times. Fearless, determined, resourceful. An inspiring story of courage, vividly told with wry humour. A thoroughly engaging read.' JUDY BAILEYMountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and sh...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his own future.Cut off from his people, t...

Attracting and retaining talent within the legal field is a key issue. Talent in the Legal Profession: How to Attract, Retain and Engage Top Talent sheds light on the pressing issues that law firms face in in order to secure and maintain top-level legal talent.

At first, these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb, but the next reading could be one of rapture and astonishment; it all hinges on your point of view. Like the optical illusion of the maiden and the crone, you can only see one image at a time; the brain deciding which is the figure and which the background. It is a book that acts out its own subjects – dualities, ambiguities, boundaries – through physical dislocation, through patterns of interference.This is a collage of...

Tony is a five year old African-American boy who is a deep thinker and will usually think of the best way to handle any situation. He relies mostly on the tough lessons through consequences taught to him by his mother and seeking God in all your decisions which is taught to him by his grandmother. sometimes Tony's obstacles are huge. Huge to a 5 year old, that is. However, he manages to make the right choices ... most of the time. you will read about in this book one of the tough choices h...

Why Am I Angry is the story of the daily life of a nonverbal little boy with autism, his mother, and their mission to communicate and work together to fulfill his needs and wants. Jo Morgan crafts her story with authentic, firsthand experience from her life as a single mom of an autistic child, making it an educational experience for parents seeking understanding, guidance, and patience. The fun, brightly coloured pictures and engaging text will keep little readers fascinated while forming...