Three series of comic monologues from the bedsit poet, philosopher and favourite lost cause of WalesStep into the charming and bewildered world of Siadwel: poet, philosopher, as endearing as he is perplexed. With his signature anorak and National Health Service specs, Siadwel has become a cultural icon, offering his unique and often befuddled perspective on the conundrums of everyday life.The beloved Welsh geek has been tickling audiences’ funny bones for d...

Exercise is not only good for the body: it can transform your mind too.We all know that exercise is good for the body. But did you know that it can transform your mind? This new scientific revolution will teach you how to boost brain cells, protect yourself against mental illness and dementia, and ensure success in exams and the workplace.Follow the SPARK! training regimen and build your brain to its peak performance. This book will change the way you think...

Fred Carver investigates a series of suspicious deaths in a stately Florida retirement communityHattie Evans, a retired schoolteacher, isn't one to fuss. When her husband drops dead of a heart attack, she does her best to move on without too many tears. After all, Jerome was seventy years old. But an anonymous note, asserting that her husband was murdered, shakes her resolve, and she seeks out help. The police are useless, save that they send her to Fred Carver—a f...

John Spark is a tour guide in the caves of Mars. He's a jack-of-all-trades, a climber, a freelance writer, highly resourceful. He has to be, because on Mars there's no 'roadside assist'. Whether it's a vehicle, a suit, or a body, you fix it, or you face death.Luck lands him a plush job with an exploration team. The cashed-up researchers seek clues to the origins of life, 97 light years from Mars. Or so they say. What exactly is a middling university doing with a cutting edge ship l...

THE MOST DANGEROUS ASSASSIN IS THE ONE WHO BELIEVES HE IS ALREADY DEAD.A razor-sharp, high-tech, wildly imaginative new novel from internationally bestselling author John Twelve Hawks, Sparkfeatures a narrator unlike any in recent fiction—a man whose view of life and death is different from anything you’ve ever imagined.Jacob Underwood is a contract employee of the Special Services Section, a small shadow department buried within t...

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance....

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance....

John Spark is finding his feet after returning from the disaster-plagued mission to Aemilia. Mars is reeling from the catastrophic attack of the Von Neumann 'bugs'; that followed the Coromandel home.John is accompanying a friend and her child on the Great South Line, when the train is hijacked by the enigmatic Knights of Great Enoch – aka the 'Wreckers'. Kaia's daughter is kidnapped.Waiting for police assistance, they are stranded in an arctic Martian town when the...

Jacob Underwood is not like other people.He has Cotard’s Syndrome. He believes he is dead. Which makes his job as a hired assassin neutralising ‘problems’ for DBG, a massive multinational corporation, very simple. He carries out the task – and feels nothing.Now DBG has such a problem. A key employee, Emily Buchanan, has disappeared, taking with her a fortune and priceless information which could destroy the company. Jacob must track her down. In previous assignments, he had...

THE MOST DANGEROUS ASSASSIN IS THE ONE WHO BELIEVES HE IS ALREADY DEAD.A razor-sharp, high-tech, wildly imaginative new novel from internationally bestselling author John Twelve Hawks, Sparkfeatures a narrator unlike any in recent fiction—a man whose view of life and death is different from anything you’ve ever imagined.Jacob Underwood is a contract employee of the Special Services Section, a small shadow department buried within t...

Bloomsbury presents Spark by Chris Mettler and Jon Yarian, read by John Chancer.Spark provides an unhurried, thought-provoking experience about what drives individuals, teams and organizations to thrive, and how readers can use that knowledge to ignite and direct their own careers.Spark is an unconventional business book. It has been built on the idea that coming from a perspective of 'getting' something is a severely self-limiting position. Instead, a career should be seen...

Bringing together 34 flash fiction stories from 14 authors, SPARK offers a host of stories to thrill, move, and challenge fans of short-short fiction. A woman physically at war with her mother's legacy inside her own body, a young girl given a vision of a utopic past at the end of the world, a man psychically bonded to the living weapon for which he is the failsafe, a harem of "female" androids newly capable of questioning their subservient status—these are a few of the characters you'll m...