Valerie Lambert had given everything to the business and now she wants out. After being sent on a job that went wrong, her world is turned upside down once again and a man's life depends on her actions.With the city's police hot on her tail, Valerie teams up with a private detective and together they span the city hunting for clues while others have their own agenda. Can she trust this private detective? She doesn't know and doesn't really want to.This action packed thrille...

A very funny account of a couple struggling to make a huge life change. Eddie Butts, a no-longer-young Australian teacher, is desperate to dance. Her handsome husband Stephen is only semi-desperate to hold a job and keep his hands off the eager ladies. She falls in love with the powerful dancing of Toronto's Angelo, and leaves New Brunswick to work with him in Canada Dance Company. But nobody cares, and no money is coming in. Her preoccupied husband Stephen, a fired Professor from F.U. not...

Six long years after the events at Southbrook docks, the city is now in turmoil. Valerie Lambert has had to come to terms with what happened, though it doesn't take long for her to be reminded her of her duties, of the life she was given, and soon enough she's thrust back into the action in a place she no longer belongs. In the search for her daughter, this story takes them through the riot torn city and out into the surrounding areas.Bringing back characters from 'Out of Promises'...

This guide shares best practice for delivering mental health support and treatment digitally.Part One considers aspects relevant to all digital mental health interventions, such as therapeutic alliance, risk, safeguarding, working with complexity, and what people are looking for from digital support.Part Two focuses on specific therapies and models, including CBT, ACT, DBT, CFT, CAT and EMDR, and how they can be adapted for digital delivery. Whatever technology is available ...

This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money, the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate.

Maxim Jakubowski has once again compiled a blockbuster collection of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK. His aim is always to present the whole breadth of crime, mystery and thriller writing, from gentle stories of detection to puzzling historical labyrinths full of devious characters and sharp social comment about our imperfect society in some savage, and often scary stories.Last year saw a fifth Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger award f...

122 fantastic stories from Britain's best crime writersFor ten years the Mammoth Best British Crime series has been publishing an annual volume of the most outstanding crime and mystery short fiction published in the UK. Over 400 stories by the very best writers in the field have been published. Contributors have included, among many others, Mark Billingham, Liza Cody, Roger Jon Ellory, Reginald Hill, Peter James, Simon Kernick, Alexander McCall Smith, Val McDermid...

Retirement can be murder!The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland, along with half of the criminal milieu he once pursued, is shot, king-hit, tortured, and thrown from buildings in his relentless pursuit of justice.With his trademark wit, warmth and humour, Matthew Condon takes us on a crazy ride - in bo...

This remarkable memoir begins with Don Walker's early life in rural Australia and goes up to the late ’80s. In mesmerising prose, Walker evokes childhood and youth, wild times in the ’70s, life on the road and in Kings Cross, music-making and much more. Shots is a stunningly original book, a set of word pictures – shots – that conjure up the lowlife and backroads of Australia.‘Singular, strong and beguiling’ —The Sydney Morning Herald‘Better than good. Mos...

The godfather of contemporary NZ crime writing has brought back (the bestseller was published in 2012 locally) offbeat local hero Detective Sergeant Tito Ihaka. Thomas has been described as “Elmore Leonard on acid”.Set in New Zealand, written by the most famous crime writer in the country, featuring a Maori cop with a dubious reputation, this should satisfy the Bitter Lemon readers with a taste for the exotic.3.”Inside Dope”, an earlier nove...

William McInnes, one of Australia's best-loved entertainers and authors, takes a look at the Aussie obsession with sports and pop culture.A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William's inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and the artefacts and memorabilia that both make us cringe with recognition and laugh with warm affection. His trademark humour and anecdotes litter this collection, making it a tr...

The author of The Egg and I continues her hilariously candid memoir series as she enters the job market at the worst possible time—the Great Depression."The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty." So begins Betty MacDonald's singular chronicle of trying to make ends meet amid the worst economic downturn in American history.