As a young, up and coming electrical engineer living in England, Ray Brooks had everything he could want'Äîa high paying job, late nights, and fast cars. All he was missing in his life was the meaning.A series of events brought him to Japan, where he met a man who played the shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese flute. That fortuitous interaction motivated Brooks to embark on a journey to learn this very difficult instrument.Through playing the shakuhachi, he began to understand th...

An uplifting story of spiritual awakening revealing simple yet profound truths about our natural state of being, set amidst the atmospheric banks of the River Ganges that will appeal to self-help and Eat, Pray, Love readers.It is widely thought that finding peace, happiness and freedom requires tremendous effort – that in order to achieve a state of contentment and harmony in life, a journey must be taken, or someone or something must be awakened or overcome.After a chance ...

The Shadow that Seeks the Sun is a thought-provoking memoir of the author’s search for unconditional freedom. With affectionate humor, the narrator, Ray, introduces an unforgettable cast of characters who inhabit the banks of the River Ganges in Rishikesh, India. Interwoven throughout these lively stories are nine insightful conversations that take place between Ray and Rudra, an intriguing Anglo-Indian man he met by chance on the ghats. With Rudra’s guidance, these simple, yet profou...

Learning My Lines by Ray Brooks. 'Ray Brooks’ acting career has spanned more than four decades, from his breakthrough role in iconic 1960s film The Knack, to infamy as the murderer of Pauline Fowler in EastEnders. The diary Ray wrote while working on EastEnders provides us with a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at Albert Square, and also prompts Ray to take dips into his past: growing up in Brighton with his bus conductress mother, working with Ken Loach on the ground-breaking BBC dr...

A collection of suspenseful standalone radio thrillers by Edward BoydScottish writer Edward Boyd was well known for his TV and radio plays, including The Corridor People and The View from Daniel Pike, and he also penned several episodes of Z-Cars. He specialised in the thriller genre, and this collection showcases six of his best radio crime dramas.The Wolf Far Hence – Steve Gardiner heads to the Highland...

Regel Nr. 1: Tu, was dir Spaß macht. Regel Nr. 2: Gib einen F*** auf andere. Regel Nr. 3: Mach deine eigenen scheiß Regeln. Alex ist ein noch größeres Arschloch als ich. Um seine Abfuhr zu verdauen, kloppe ich das gesamte Hotelzimmer kurz und klein. Doch keine Gewalt und kein Alkohol dieser Welt kann den Schmerz in meiner Brust heilen. Ich bin total down, vor allem als die fame-geile Vivi so tut, als würde ich sie schlagen und das ganze live überträgt. Ein Shitstorm jagt den nächsten. Mein...

A boon for book lovers, this compilation features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.

All four radio series of Robert Barr’s gripping London-based police dramaOriginally broadcast as Detective: Stories of Crime and Detection in London, this BBC radio drama ran for four series between 1980 and 1985. Written by the award-winning creator of Z Cars and Softly Softly, Robert Barr, it comprised 39 thrilling stories set in London’s criminal underworld, all of which are collected here for the first time.DS...

Hunter ist verrückt! Wie kann er es wagen, sich in einem Live-Interview zu outen? Und mir vor aller Welt eine Liebeserklärung zu machen? Ich würde gerne sagen, dass es mir schmeichelt, aber das war so nicht abgesprochen! Endlich weiß es die ganze Welt: Ich liebe Alex und ich will richtig mit ihm zusammen sein. Scheiß drauf, was andere sagen. Scheiß drauf, dass es viel zu schnell geht. Ich will was richtig Romantisches für ihn machen. Ohne lange zu fackeln, steige ich in den Flieger nach Ne...

Regel Nr. 1: Der Gast ist König. Regel Nr. 2: Diskretion ist das oberste Gebot. Regel Nr. 3: Was im Harrington Heights passiert, bleibt im Harrington Heights. Alle Welt liebt Hunter Brooks und ich verstehe wirklich nicht, wieso. Er ist ein Playboy, wie er im Buche steht. Seit er mein Gast ist, benimmt er sich wie der unverschämteste Bastard, den das Grand Hotel je gesehen hat. Er scheißt auf alle Regeln, sabotiert meine Arbeit und provoziert mich mit seiner Freizügigkeit. Wenn es nach mir ...

There are some nightmares from which you can never wake.Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editoral team of Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, is Volume One in the Best of Grey Matter Press series. Selected by readers and horror fans, the twenty short stories contained within the pages of Dread include some of the darkest hallucinatory revelations from the minds of the most accomplished award-winning authors of our time.T...

A bookseller turns P. I. in this intriguing five-part BBC radio thrillerGrahame Mayer specialises in selling books, not solving mysteries. So when he’s asked to play private investigator and track down a soldier from the Spanish Civil War, he wonders if it’s some sort of test – and if so, what will happen if he fails...Armed with fresh information, he is sent to Glasgow on the trail of Jock Cameron, and a meeting with a former nurse who knew him back in Spa...