As the saying goes, don't pick a fight with a poet.During the darkest two years of his life, serial blogger Darren How didn't just get angry… he got mad. He dealt with it the only way he knew how: write. He wrote of business school and the Asian workplace, and couldn't decide which was scarier. He wrote of love and friendship, neither of which he was sure existed.Angry Blog marked a passage of time where the disillusioned came to ask and left empty-handed. It is a collectio...

Cyrus lost his index finger in a freak accident and settled for a desk job with the Hong Kong Police. Reluctantly, he started an AI project using Natural Language Processing to predict suicidal trends. The engine picked up and classified social media posts into five categories: Rose, Ruby, Scarlet, Crimson and Cardinal. At Cardinal the highest level of alert, the targets were deemed mathematically ready to take their lives. Through this experimental project, Cyrus and his team saved many i...

As the saying goes, don't pick a fight with a poet.During the darkest two years of his life, serial blogger Darren How didn't just get angry… he got mad. He dealt with it the only way he knew how: write. He wrote of business school and the Asian workplace, and couldn't decide which was scarier. He wrote of love and friendship, neither of which he was sure existed.Angry Blog marked a passage of time where the disillusioned came to ask and left empty-handed. It is a collectio...

The chilling Saga of Darren Shan, the ordinary schoolboy plunged into the vampire world.Darren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve. It’s the wonderfully gothic Cirque Du Freak where weird, frightening half human/half animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience. Darren – a spider freak – ‘falls in love’ with Madam Octa – an enormous tarantula owned by Mr Crepsley. Darren determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds. ...

In the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Stephen King's Salem's Lot, New York Times bestseller Cirque du Freak is the first title in the popular Saga of Darren Shan.Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human / half animals who interact terrifyingly with the audience. In the midst of the excitement, true terror ra...

After working late one night, Ruby misses her bus home. Taking a shortcut through town down a dark alleyway, she is abducted and taken to a remote location where she is held captive by her kidnapper. Ruby must find a way to escape before she becomes a serial killer's next victim.

Achieve success beyond your wildest dreams with this New York Times bestselling guide by the central curator of the success media industry.Do you want success?More success than you have now?And even more success than you ever imagined possible?That is what this book is about. Achieving it.No gimmicks. No hyperbole. Finally, just the truth on what it takes to earn successDarren Hardy h...

Darren Shan, the vampire’s assistant, must clear his name and avenge the death of Gavner Purl. Can a half-vampire outwit a Vampire Prince?Betrayed by Kurda and reeling from the brutal slaying of Gavner, the vampire’s assistant, Darren Shan, finds himself branded a traitor and hunted by the vampire clan.Will Darren’s failure to complete the Trials mean banishment for Mr Crepsley and execution for himself? Or can Darren return to the home of the damned and exact revenge?...

The nightmare continues… Vampire Rites trilogy comprising: Vampire Mountain, Trials of Death and The Vampire Prince. Join Darren Shan’s descent into the darkness.VAMPIRE MOUNTAINDarren Shan and Mr Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren’s human side, or turn him further towards the darkness?TRIALS OF DEATHThe Trials: seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampi...

**The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.Winner of the Orwell Prize.Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll.Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.**Darren McGarvey, award-winning author and presenter of BBC series The State We're In, has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand....

The nightmare begins… Vampire Blood trilogy comprising: Cirque Du Freak, The Vampire’s Assistant and Tunnels of Blood. Join Darren Shan’s descent into the darkness.CIRQUE DU FREAKDarren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve. It’s the wonderfully gothic Cirque Du Freak where weird, frightening half human/half animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience. After he sees the amazing performing spider, Madam Octa, Darren is determined to steal her. Bu...

Darren Hayes was always a storyteller. Growing up in suburban Queensland in the 1970s, his vivid imagination offered an escape from the realities of his daily life. Among childhood trauma, domestic violence and relentless bullying, he told himself he was going to be a pop star – and he did it.But while Savage Garden achieved astonishing success, with multiple Australian number 1s, breaking into the US charts and selling over 35 million albums worldwide, the true story of Darren’s l...