“The most complete and comprehensive guide to character I've ever read." - Adam CroftInternational Emmy nominated writer, Mark Boutros, offers a guide to creating characters who are engaging, emotionally driven and memorable. With experience writing comedy, drama and novels, Mark shares a mixture of theory, exercises and pitfalls, getting you thinking about the questions you should always have in your mind during character creation.This is an inval...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 CRIME WRITER'S ASSOCIATION 'NEW BLOOD' DAGGER AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR 2021For fans of Abir Mukerhjee and Donna Leon, Mark Wightman's brilliant debut novel is historical crime fiction at its very best.'Waking the Tiger is a wonderfully accomplished de...

The much-awaited follow up to Waking the Tiger, shortlisted for the 2022 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the 2021 Scottish Crime Debut of the Year and the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Best First Novel Prize.Singapore, 1940A local fisherman finds the body of a missing American archaeologistDetective Inspector Betancourt of the Singapore Marine Police is first on the scene. Something doesn't q...

A sweeping and gripping international crime thriller set in Malta and the MediterraneanAn unwilling heroInspector George Zammit, of the Maltese Pulizija likes a quiet life, keeping his head down and avoiding trouble. But when he investigates a body floating in the waters of Valletta’s Grand Harbour, he soon finds himself entangled in an international criminal plot which leads him on a perilous adventure.A powerful crime family

"Compulsively listenable - a real winner" Stephen FryIs there one last undiscovered, great truth?A moment zero, a place in time that links all cultures and creeds?A revelation that will unite us all and change the way we see history forever?Brilliant but burnt-out English lawyer Ella Blake accepts an apparently simple brief: investigate the mysterious disappearanc...

The gripping second audiobook in the***Merseyside Crime Series***by bestselling author, Malcolm Hollingdrake.It's an everyday Friday night out near Liverpool. A few too many drinks. A few harsh words said, but no one was hurt. All easily forgotten.Except he didn't forget.Their threats. How they made him feel ...A young woman goes missing. She's done it before, but Detective Inspector April Decent senses this time it's serious. Can she convince her c...

The brilliant first novel in the Merseyside Crime Series – a thrilling page-turner full of twistsA mutilated body apparently washed up on a windswept beach…A violent criminal gang preys on moped riders across the area…A teenage girl is desperate to escape sexual exploitation…It’s a tough introduction to Merseyside for Detective Inspector April Decent, who’s just arrived from her native Yorkshire. Together wi...

Only those that adapt will thrive in the New World of sellingB2B sales has evolved from a product-focused transactional approach to a consultative one placing emphasis on asking the right questions, understanding the customer’s needs, identifying their issues and pitching the right solution to solve them.The challenge with the consultative approach is that it’s based on the assumption that customers know what their problems are and how to solve them. The ...

A body lies amongst the undergrowth in Mildenheath Woods. His hands are bound behind his back, and he's been killed execution-style.But the victim isn't a gangland kingpin: he's a well-liked young man, never in any trouble, who had his whole life ahead of him.But as Jack Culverhouse and Wendy Knight begin to dig deeper into what happened, a shocking new truth comes to light. Was the victim quite as innocent as he seemed?

This book considers nuclear deterrence as a form of authority. It describes the rise of deterrence in the Anglosphere particularly as the rule of economic law hardened to protect a civilization in its deterministic, automated phase. Nuclear deterrence has increasingly been leveraged against populations to smother politics and protect an absolute stasis with its heart in a cybernetics of human eclipse – helping to explain why, when nuclear war became immanent and taken for granted in the 19...

Literature? It can cost you your life.When famed mystery author Imelda Bywater turns up dead during her annual seaside writing retreat, recently retired police detective Mike Atwell can't resist the chance to solve one more case. Teaming up with his quirky ex-wife, Sharon, and genius teen hacker, Dexter, Mike finds himself pulled into the glitzy world of writers, agents, and obsessive fans on the hunt for Imelda's killer.Everyone's a suspect - from Imelda's cuckolded publis...

Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus's enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology,...