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The fourth in the Modern Irish Fantasy series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper.First paragraph:Barnesmore bog was a remote spot and only visited by an old boy like me. When I had a fall a year ago and bust my leg, they said my days up here were finished. Sure, they would have had me in a nursing home after the hospital, only I put up a fight. Now I was back cutting peat and this bog held ten feet of fine Irish peat, like a giant black sponge pressed across the mount...

Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 ‘The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far’ Richard Shelton, Times Literary SupplementWhen Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the mill with a family of wild otters. Yet move in they did, allowing him to begin to observe them, soon immersing himself in their daily rout...

Digital transformation across the public sector has stalled. After over 25 years of considerable time, money, and effort at national, state, and local levels, we’re still not 'there' yet. The reason is that successive waves of investment in digital transformation have focused largely on improving the transactional functions and activities of government. They have failed to embrace a bigger challenge - the need for governing and government to rethink a new 'theory of the business' - which t...

From Paris Olympics star and legendary gymnast Simone Biles’s longtime coach, an insider’s look at the making of a championWith a Foreword by Simone BilesThe Balance is coach Aimee Boorman’s inside account of the growth of a transcendent athlete and the tumultuous events—from the dictatorial coaching of Martha Karolyi to the sexual abuse by Larry Nassar—that upended the lives of many girls, including Biles.Simone Biles is o...

They've come from the stars, and when they're finished with Earth, humanity will be finished. Can anyone survive their violent takeover?The fourth in the Alien Science Fiction series by Simon J. Cooper, this is an alien takeover story told from the perspective of a hive minded species determined to eliminate humanity. But can humanity, unwittingly, convince the hive mind to change itself, and stop the carnage.Opening:Twenty-three years and two months after reaching ...

The fifth in the Modern Irish Fantasy series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper.First paragraph:The hospital appointment card floated into the bin like a mini Concorde. The envelope it came in had URGENT written in red letters front and back. I scrunched that into a ball and flung it with the other rubbish. It was four thirty. Katie was due home in an hour. I rolled up the dressing gown sleeve on my right arm, picked up the loaded syringe and pressed the needle agains...

This delightful book records a year in the life of an essentially English waterscape, one that is home to a vast array of wildlife and natural habitat of the keen angler – the chalkstream.Simon Cooper grew up in Hampshire, where he first fell in love with fly fishing. Only after moving away did he realise how little people knew about the secret world of the chalkstreams.Chalkstreams are nearly exclusive to England, ranging from Dorset to Yorkshire and including the famous R...

True Names Crush. True Names Control. True Names Kill.In a world where every person is born with a true name, only the Nameless know them all... except one.Elite magicians, secret police, power crazed thugs, call them what you want, the Nameless are gifted with knowledge of their own true names, and so the ability to use free magic. When Kyle Streeter sets out to drain the magic from a rogue shapeshifter, he ends up face to face with them, but that's just the beginning of h...

The second in the Wild Edged Magic series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper, this is a story about unknown potential against untold malice.First paragraph:Mira knew Icanos could be a great sorcerer, but not this way. This was too risky. She stood in the ring of sapling hawthorns in the croft's top field, before the mountain proper. Through the blossoming foliage she saw smoke drift from the chimney of their cottage, down the glen. It didn't seem like two years since ...

True Names Crush. True Names Control. True Names Kill.In a world where every person is born with a true name, only the Nameless know them all... except one.Continuing the Nameless Magician series, 'The Deathless Spell' sees Kyle up against a force even the Nameless can't control.

The third in the Wild Edged Magic series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper, this is a story about why gods shouldn't meddle in human affairs, and, why they should!First paragraph:After a century in the constant oneness of the Universal Mind, Chuang Tzu was glad of the cold December air in Prague. Around his temporarily human form, a flood of tourists viewed the Baroque statues that lined Charles Bridge. These included, amongst others, three of St. Wenceslas, two of M...

The first in the Modern Irish Fantasy series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper, this story of murder and mind control takes you to the dark side of an alternate Ireland, where things aren't always what they seem.First paragraph:Letterkenny General's morgue smelled like the walls were painted with disinfectant. Maybe it was overcompensation. Murder wasn't standard fare in the grassy hills of fair Donegal, so when the victim's boyfriend was picked off the streets with ...