Another insightful set of musings about life, the universe and everything from the perspective of an English Aikido master.

This is not another book about Aikido techniques. It's about Aikido principles and how anyone can use them to live more fully. Taking examples from the martial arts, music, literature, science, religion and everyday life – everything from driving a car to dancing - , here are lessons for making simple changes in our lives. It's not just for people who practise Aikido, it's for anyone who feels life could be a bit better. And if you do practise Aikido, it might just improve that too.

What if the one thing that made you special … also made you dangerous?Fourteen-year-old Adam Dyment has a secret.He can make things disappear.At first, it feels like a strange kind of luck – a way to deal with problems no one else can solve. But when his ability is discovered, Adam is pulled into a hidden world where people like him are watched, controlled … and used.Because Adam isn't the only one with a gift.And not all of them are safe.As the pr...

Martial arts stories are usually about fighting, punching and kicking, but these stories are about how lives can be changed for better or worse, about how not all training is physical and not all of it takes place inside the dojo, dojang or kwoon, and how sometimes it doesn't even look like martial arts training at all! These stories are about the dangers and difficulties posed by martial arts and about the pleasures which keep people practising them for a lifetime.

In the final book of The Strange Gods trilogy, three Londons—Victorian, modern, and mythical—collide. As gods are bound and a tyrant king falls, old friends and new allies fight through shifting timelines and magical upheaval. Past, present, and future hang in the balance. Will any world survive the reckoning?

Micky and Ysabel are an ordinary brother and sister living ordinary lives until Micky helps a homeless man and discovers a mysterious ring. Their adventures take them to the land of gods and monsters and the far distant past. Only if they put right what once went wrong can they save themselves …

Joffie is fifteen, an orphan and thief, surviving in Victorian Beormingham on her wits and her peculiar talent - the ability to find secret doorways between worlds. Trouble looms when she steals a mysterious cane from a toff and her ensuing adventures place her in mortal danger. Unless she can free a long-forgotten god she and her friends are doomed...

In the 1940s Mark Peckett's father wrote a number of unpublished stories with themes deriving from the then only too recent world war and the future possibilities for Earth's civilisation coming from scientific progress. Just like the musical answer records that emerged in the race charts of the 1950s and beyond, Mark has taken each story and written a 2020s response to it. This book places both sets of fascinating stories in a single volume.

A Polish shopkeeper is murdered in Lichfield and all the evidence points to disgraced ex-DI Potter – the man the Lichfield Murder Gang helped to bring down. Now the gang face the toughest of challenges: proving his innocence. But as they dig into Potter's corrupt past, they uncover secrets someone will kill to keep hidden. Enemies on both sides of the law close in. Time is running out. And if they fail, the real murderer walks free.However even the truth won't set them free – inste...

Growing old - it's not for weaklings, but neither is growing up ...as these stories show.

The head of a charity for homeless ex-servicemen commits suicide in Lichfield Cathedral. Or does he? An ex-soldier he has helped teams up with a purple-haired rebel teenaged girl, an Asian solicitor who works for Citizens Advice in her spare time and a Detective Sergeant of Polish descent to prove it was murder. Their investigation takes them into the murky world of false accounting, people-trafficking and modern-day slavery, before they discover the harsh truth…

e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection with horror thrillers, supernatural mysteries, monster tales and gothic novels carefully picked out to strike the fear and chills into your bones as …the winter is coming: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House From Beyond Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Murders ...