Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. It's Halloween in Southampton City Centre and the city is dressed up for the Day Of The Dead celebrations with everyone dressing up as zombies and monsters. Whilst Bennie Barrier and his team are finishing off fixing some broken railway lines near Southampton Central Station, they see Tanya Train speeding through the tunnel at high speed and completely overshooting the platform. This is very out of character and with the help of some ne...

The email arrived at 9 AM on a Tuesday, and a man who had spent nine years writing software that helped other software run faster was suddenly a person with a severance and a question. Maybe you are that man, or maybe you are the person whose team was cut in a wave, or the one who has always wondered whether the bedside might be better than the backlog. Whatever brought you here, you share a conviction this book was written to honor: that the title on your badge was never the whole of who ...

When Tilly Trolley has a fall on the shopping centre escalator, Brandie and Boyle Barrier offer to help. When they arrive in the back corridors of the shopping centre however, they uncover a warehouse packed full of boxes of crisps and snacks. What started out as a favour from Bennie and Beatrice Barrier's parents quickly turns into a reunion with those that Brandie and Boyle left behind in the crisp factory in Leicester when they were recycled into barriers and moved south. Unfortunately ...

Artificial general intelligence is the most contested phrase in technology, and almost no one defines it the same way twice. John Roberts cuts through the noise with a clear framework: AGI is not a switch, it is a capability expansion already unfolding beneath your feet. Written for analysts, founders, investors, creators, and the curious citizen watching machine intelligence reshape their industry, it delivers mental models the headlines cannot.Roberts takes you inside the predict...

Most software fails before a line of code is written. It fails when a product manager says "customer" and a developer hears a boolean flag in a database table. The words business and engineering use do not match, and each mismatch compounds into rework, defects, and a codebase nobody trusts. This book fixes that at the source by modeling complex software around the business it serves, with proven domain-driven design practices.This practical field guide is for architects, senior de...

A military history of a group of British miners who dug attacking tunnels under enemy lines during World War I.Undermining the positions of the enemy is one of the most ancient activities. For almost 3000 years even before 1914, it was a popular siege-breaking technique. During the Great War, arguably the greatest siege the world had ever seen, it presented a conflict environment that perfectly favoured the skills of the military miner. During 1915, the Western Fron...

You’re going to get knocked down. Getting back up is what counts.Meet Tom O’Brien—disciplined, motivated, the star of his 1965 high school football team, and about to be recruited by Ohio State. But when Tom gets injured and is unable to play, he finds himself at a crossroads during a turbulent time in American history. With increasing self-doubt and uncertainty, he tries to reconcile the loss of a dream with the search for a new purpose.Tom journeys throug...

Tales of Conflict and RediscoveryThree divergent protagonists fight to surmount conflicts in their own ways. Each makes personal choices in the face of cultural forces and discovers foundational insights about themselves as memories of the past resurface to guide them on their journeys forward.Christmas 1968When Janice finds herself unhappy in her picture-perfect marriage, she begins questioning the heavy social expectations set upo...

Join Blake Langford and his colleagues in four new short stories that complement the novel series; The Blake Langford Adventures.Guest ListSpecial Branch agent Blake Langford is drawn into a bizarre case when an Elvis Presley tribute artist is accused of murdering his promoter.The investigation leads Blake and his team to the USA and reveals a sinister connection to an entertainment manager based in Branson, Missouri, orchestrating chaos in the worl...

'GOING BEYOND BOUNDARIES#1 BESTSELLERA practical guide for modern professionals drawing on the author's experience as a Global Security Leader.- Gurgaon Times, The Times of IndiaValued not for theory but for pragmatic guidance shaped in high-stakes contexts.- Mid-DayWidely noted for its structured approach to leadership, resilience, and decision-making in complex global environments.- ANI NewsA leadership-driven work that insp...

Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. When Bex, the city centre's beach bus broke down by the shopping centre, Bruno Bus was asked to step in and help. Worried about all of the sand and wet feet ruining his interior, Bruno asked for Bennie Barrier's help. What started out as a day out at Keyhaven Beach ended up being a day none of the Maintenance Team ever forgot.

Bennie Barrier returns in another Big City Adventure. When Highway Harry has to go to a dental appointment, he leaves Sally Sign in charge of The City Centre Maintenance Team alongside Bennie Barrier but when an urgent call pulls Bennie and his team onto the motorway for emergency roadworks, even Sally's careful planning is put to the test.