A man. A heartbreak. A boat. Afloat. What do you do when your wife kicks you out of your home and you've got nowhere to live? Well, if your name's Matthew Swain, you live on a boat. It doesn't matter that you don't know anything about the sea or that the person who sold you the craft is dodgy boat dealer Garry Jones. What could possibly go wrong?Matthew Swain is a devoted father of three, deeply in love with his wife and owner of a struggling English tuition centre in Hong Kong. Hi...

Dodgy boat dealer Garry Jones is run out of Hong Kong when his once-lucrative business falters and he is charged by the police over fake ownership papers for a new car. The hard-drinking, hard-womanising Jones lands in Shanghai, where he teams up with old business associate Mister Near.But it quickly becomes apparent that it’s a case of out of frying pan into the fire, as Jones becomes embroiled in Mister Near’s numerous get-rich-quick schemes – most notably trying to attract high ...

Over two horrifying nights in March 1941, the Luftwaffe bombed Glasgow’s Clydebank Shipyards. The destruction and loss of life was enormous, with the death toll widely believed to be higher even than that of the German bombing of Coventry. Seen through the eyes of two Scottish engineers, this short work of fiction seeks to capture the dreadful unfolding of events on the unsuspecting people of Glasgow.

Two friends out for a night on the town in Singapore bite off more than they can chew when they score from a stranger in a park.

Meet Roger Vim – a 24-year-old graduate from university East Anglia with a degree in software engineering. He also has Asperger’s. Vim has strong opinions on a range of topics – not least of which is that Asperger’s is most definitely not a disorder. Merely an alternate mindset.Vim wakes up in a Norwich hospital without any idea how he got there. Things get even stranger when his comedic hero gets wheeled in and takes up residence in the bed next to him...A-ha! This is the ...

Journalist Craig Fox arrives in Hong Kong to take up a position as a magazine editor for Pronto Media, and soon finds out that all is not as it seems on the surface. Rather than being serious publications, the magazines are being run purely for advertising profit in a masterly sleight of hand by the proprietor, Mark Chiefly. He sells the advertising on the premise that the printed circulation is far higher than it really is. His mantra is that advertising makes money and editorial costs mo...

A call out. A knife. A victim. A tragic mistake.Smith Street Investigator chronicles the spectacular fall from grace of high-flying Detective Andrew Schlakier and his reincarnation as a private investigator. As he becomes increasingly caught up in a hard-working, hard-boozing culture, things spiral out of control and his relationship with his girlfriend disintegrates. His life implodes amid a slew of recriminations, bar room brawls and the trashing of his reputatio...

One of Janet Maslin's Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner's Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the "Best Civil War Books of 2018" by the Civil War Monitor"A fascinating and important new historical study."— Janet Maslin, The New York Times"A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies."— Civil War TimesThe stunning, grou...

**One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor“A fascinating and important new historical study.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies.”—Civil War TimesThe stunning, groundb...

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled—inc...

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has seemingly burst into public consciousness with sudden vigor. Previously relinquished to computer science journals, it erupted as the unrelenting topic of public media with most of the furor surrounding chatbots, like ChatGPT. Although many educators began worrying about the implications of AI in student learning and creative activity, this book will demonstrate that AI can be harnessed as a source of inspiration and meaningful instruction. With an emphas...

The recent discovery of two Latin books that once belonged to the Quiney family of Stratford-upon-Avon expands our understanding of Shakespeare's grammar school education and of the social, material, and learned networks that operated in his hometown. One of these books, the Apophthegmata of Erasmus, belonged to Shakespeare's friend and neighbour, Richard Quiney, while the other, a commentary on Aristotelian logic, was owned by a different Richard Quiney, who was ...