Growing, growing, gone…Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish.Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down. But even stalwart sleuth, Amita Khatri, and her son in law, Jason, are foxed this time when a local woman tells them her husband, a mild-mannered academic has gone missing.And he’s not the only person to disappear. Soon Amita, Jason, and irascible reti...

With over 5,500--including 150 new--accessible entries, this sixth edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Finance and Banking has been fully revised and updated to take into account the ever-developing financial landscape of the last five years. This comprehensive A-Z defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including money markets, private investments and borrowing, central banking, foreign exchanges, monetary policy, and public and government finan...

There’s a fine art to murder…Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he’s determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning Penrith Village Hall into a cultural hotspot – with the painting at its heart.Journalist Jason Brazel is delighted to get the exclusive. Even if his mother in law, Amita, thinks he’s making a fuss about...

Perfect Readings for Weddings is an anthology of the best poems, prose passages and quotations about love and marriage. Including everything from familiar blessings and verses to more unusual choices, it covers every sort of reading you could wish for. With advice on how to choose the right readings for the occasion and tips on how to ensure that everything runs smoothly on the day, Perfect Readings for Weddings has everything you need to make sure the wh...

Winner of The Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction 2023Eyes down to find a killer who’s playing to win…An irresistible slice of murder and mystery – there’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the members of the Penrith Bingo Club have decided they’re the ones to catch the culprit…Jason Brazel is an out of work journalist who lives in Penrith with his family and mother-in-law, Amita. She knows everyone and everything ...

Lights, camera, murderIn the Lake District, someone’s laying on a deadly welcome…The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District – but behind the scenes, relationships are as tense as on-screen. The director’s reputation proceeds him, the two lead stars are feuding and rumours swirl.Meanwhile the locals are enjoying the filming – Amita Kahtri and her friends from Penrith Bingo Club are becoming social media stars with...

A murder at sea, a killer below deck?BELOW DECK meets KNIVES OUT in this breathless voyage into murder and mayhem on the high seas…Howie Temple is down on his luck and desperate for cash. Once an action movie star, he now lives off a crumbling reputation. On his way to film a new reality TV show, which casts a team of c-list celebrities as crew aboard a luxury yacht, he meets fellow contestant, influencer-of-the-mo...

Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster.

This wide-ranging and authoritative dictionary contains over 7,100 entries covering all areas of business and management, including marketing, organizational behaviour, business strategy, law, and taxation. In its sixth edition, it features the very latest developments, such as those relating to information technology (including mobile technology), and the financial crisis and the subsequent sovereign debt crisis. Entries have been updated to refer to recent events and news in the field, f...

Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster.

Every business wants to convert their clients or customers into amazing fans. Not only will such clients stay with you for the long-term, they will also be your best ambassadors through their enthusiastic free word-of-mouth advertising for your organisation.Needless to say, these amazing fans of yours will provide a constant and growing stream of income and win more loyal customers for your business – a source of business sustainability and prosperity.The key question is "H...

This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9,500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, computer science, and astronomy. This fully revised edition includes hundreds of new entries, such as bone morphogenetic protein, Convention on Biological Diversity, genome editing, Ice Cube experiment, multi-core processor, PhyloCode,