Marian Parsons, a.k.a. Miss Mustard Seed, gently encourages and guides readers to pursue wildly fulfilling creative lives.Efficiency. Technology. Convenience. Productivity. In today’s culture, there’s constant pressure to do more, grow bigger, and go faster. But what if a slower pace could lead to something richer and more satisfying?Marian Parsons, the creative mind behind the beloved Miss Mustard Seed website and brand, wants to help readers reawaken thei...

The gripping first novel in the DC Max Wolfe crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. Like Ian Rankin or Peter James? You'll love this.'Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic.' LEE CHILD______________Twenty years ago, seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field.Now, they're being murdered one by one, in the most violent way imagina...

Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the number-one bestselling author of Man and Boy.'This is Parsons at his scintillating best' Geoffrey Wansell'A spectacular novel' Natasha Harding'Parsons is at the very top of his game' Matthew D’Ancona__________Emma Moon is out.She’s served 16 years for a ...

An exclusive short story featuring DC Max Wolfe from Tony Parsons, the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Murder Bag.One am, Boxing Day. Snow falls, the city sleeps.Not DC Max Wolfe. He is looking out of his loft apartment at the deserted streets below.A van has just drawn up. Two men get out. Dressed in black and wearing ski-masks, they are dragging something.It’s a man. Half-naked. Half-dead. But ...

’Lovely, funny and moving. Tony has only gone and given us the best kind of book about a dog’ – Miranda Hart‘I loved this book. My best dog was named Stan, too. Parsons is right – it's a love story' – Lee Child'It had me laughing and crying in equal measure. Tony magnificently captures the incredibly special bond we all have with our dogs' – Will Young‘Beautifully written. Tender, modest and profound' – Step...

‘An incredible read. I laughed, I cried and my heart was truly touched by this beautifully written true story of hope and humanity at its best.’ Rosemary Conley CBE 'An extraordinary story. Truly Inspirational' Tim VineAn astonishing story of kindness, self-learning, pain, unbelievable hope and the sheer power of love to change a life.Christmas 1975 and Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is riding high in the charts. In a residential s...

How to Know the Ferns turns a quiet corner of the natural world into an engrossing summer pursuit. Frances Theodora Parsons writes with warmth and persuasion, arguing that learning plant names deepens travel, literature, and everyday seeing, and that ferns in particular reward anyone willing to look closely. Richly illustrated and carefully organized, the book presents a visual catalog of common and notable North American ferns, from sensitive fern and cinnamon fern to spleenworts, wood fe...

ONE VICTORIAN CITY. ONE MAGICAL UPRISING. ONE BOY CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL.A dark Victorian fantasy adventure you won’t be able to put down.Fate has never been kind to twelve-year-old Toby. Not when he was abandoned on the steps of a workhouse as a baby. Nor when he escaped into the magical underworld that hides in London’s shadows. But when the futures of thousands of lives come to rest in his hands, Toby quickly realises that perha...

THE PAID ACTORS AT THE NECROVILLE SURVIVAL EXPERIENCE ARE VERY GOOD AT PRETENDING TO BE ZOMBIES. TOO GOOD…When Will and his friends decide to spend one last night together after graduating university, none of them realise the danger that lurks in plain sight. At first they’re having fun, caught up in the thrill of running through the forest, firing Nerf guns at under-paid zombies-actors. Then that all changes when darkness falls.It quickly becomes apparent ...

Educational inequality is not an unfortunate inescapable by-product of poverty, but the predictable outcome of long-standing policy failure.Moving beyond familiar reporting of deprivation, this book traces a causal chain from elite wealth preservation, political decision-making and weak fiscal enforcement through to under-resourced families and unequal educational outcomes. It draws on extensive analysis of governmental, international and charitable data, alongside scrutiny of the ...

Feeling Exposed examines the relationship between early photography and emerging concerns about privacy in nineteenth-century America. While scholars have often located the eruption of privacy anxieties in the 1880s with the advent of the handheld camera and halftone printing, this book argues that photography has always posed a risk to privacy—not because of any single technological innovation, but because it is fundamentally a system of visibility.Despite the limitations...

Feeling Exposed examines the relationship between early photography and emerging concerns about privacy in nineteenth-century America. While scholars have often located the eruption of privacy anxieties in the 1880s with the advent of the handheld camera and halftone printing, this book argues that photography has always posed a risk to privacy—not because of any single technological innovation, but because it is fundamentally a system of visibility.Despite the limitations...