Cricket Banter is all the rage among the cricketing cognoscenti and the chat, the sledging and the humour behind the game is all covered here, by those boys at The Middle Stump, in conjunction with Factor 50. Here we cover most aspects of cricket, as we speak with some of the finest, funniest, larger than life characters from the sport over the last thirty years, along with a selection of hilarious stories about the game. It's a highly amusing book; read it and yo...

What happens when a world-famous rock star gets trapped in a lift with a journalist?OllieI thought my day couldn't get any worse. After catching my best friend and girlfriend in bed together, the only thing going right in my life is the interview for my dream job.But fate is laughing at my expense. One mishap leads to another until I find myself trapped in a lift and missing my interview.And I'm not alone.I'm about t...

A lawyer and his investigator must uncover a secret worth killing for after a reporter is murdered in this tense legal thriller.By day, the park rings with the sound of children's excited laughter. But in the early hours of the morning, the isolated playground is cloaked in shadows—the perfect hiding place to conceal a brutal murder.When London journalist, Mark Roberts, is found battered to death, the police quickly arrest petty thief, Nick Connor. Criminal...

To prove his client's innocence, a lawyer and his investigator must endanger themselves to find the true killer in this gripping legal thriller.Twenty-four-year-old Mary Kendricks is a vivacious, young teacher living in the quiet Northern town of Highford, her beauty turning heads wherever she goes. But when she catches the eye of Robert Carter, initial flattery quickly turns dangerous. Wherever she goes, Carter is not far behind, and Mary soon becomes stifled by h...

A haunted man. A murdered friend. A deadly enemy.Dan Taylor’s career as a bomb disposal expert in the British Army ended when an IED killed three of his team and left him scarred for life. Years later, and on the brink of self-destruction, Dan struggles to cope with the nightmares that haunt him.Until the day an estranged friend leaves a voicemail message for him, moments before he is assassinated in cold blood.Plunged into a global conspiracy, Dan ...

A lawyer and his investigator must discover why his client accused of a gruesome murder remains silent in this dark legal thriller.One freezing December night, the body of young, vulnerable, Lizzie Barnsley is found on the side of an isolated canal. When blood from her stiletto heel matches that on a wound on the head of Peter Box, police swiftly declare him the prime suspect in her murder.Criminal lawyer, Dan Grant, is called in to provide Peter Box's lega...

Brands today have a bewildering array of ways to communicate with their target audience. To succeed, brand owners need to know how to identify the best combination of media and how to create effective content. A lot of advertising is ill-chosen and poorly executed; understanding how to harness its potential provides strong competitive advantage. This book offers guidance to company leaders, marketers and entrepreneurs in delivering effective advertising. It presents a summary of all the la...

Some families have deeper secrets than others.There's a deadly game you've never heard of, and it's controlled by an ultra-rich, top-secret organization with a shadowy history dating back to the Civil War.Millions go to the winner...if you survive.On a sultry summer morning, private detective Mary Walker doesn't expect to be involved in a murder investigation, and definitely not on her sister's farm. It doesn't take long before she discover...

IVP Readers' Choice AwardMissio Alliance Essential Reading ListPublic gatherings are vital for movement, but too often in our approach to planting churches, we haven't paid enough attention to the difficult grassrootswork of movement: discipleship, community formation, and mission. This book will help you start missional-incarnational communities in a way that reflects the viral movement of the early New Testament church.JR Woodward (author of Cr...

The Chicago White Sox are a charter member of the American League. Through a little over a century of baseball, they have accumulated a history of triumphs, scandals, and heartbreaking setbacks. The photographs in this book come from the collections of Leo Labau, Mark Fletcher, and Gerry Bilek, three lifelong White Sox fans. The images show dramatic, emotional, and light moments that could only happen in a baseball game played on the south side of Chicago. In these pages you will find show...

Real love is sometimes stronger than the romance of fiction.Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder’s love is such a story.From an unwanted beau to a beautiful romance; from heart wrenching tragedy to heartfelt passion; from tumult and trial to a lifetime love –Laura’s Love Story is the true account of two young people who lived through the most trying troubles to form the most lasting love. Their love story spans the time from the single shot musket to the atomic bomb, bu...

The Marketing Inspiration Book brings together 100 of the most iconic, insightful and engaging examples of marketing brilliance. From Airbnb to Zoom, with stops along the way for the Michelin Man and the Amur Girl, this book celebrates the power of great marketing and the flashes of genius behind some of the world’s most successful brands.Over the course of a 35-year career in the marketing industry, the author has taken note of the remarkable marketing triumphs featured i...