This book is a collection of poems by someone living with Parkinson's during the Coronavirus crisis.This collection includes poems which attempt to put Parkinson's in its place, poems which make cynical observations on life during the pandemic and poems on a variety of stuff which was rattling around inside the author's head.Mark Coxe was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease fin 2013 after it had crept up on him for years. He was fifty when he received his diagnosis and has...

You've got Parkinson's, but consider yourself lucky because unlike all of the other neurological conditions, it won't kill you, it'll just make your life miserable. That was how I was diagnosed, by an expert. Well, he got the first bit right, I do have Parkinson's. The bit in the middle is up for debate, since the medical profession keep on changing their minds (it might kill me) but the third part was totally wrong. Looking on the bright side my glass is always half full, mostly because o...

Sari doesn't like being the only Muslim student in her class, especially when kids like Andrew ask difficult questions. Then, a trip back in time takes them both to September 11, 2001. A tragic day in U.S. history helps them see their world in a whole new way. This graphic novel introduces the events of 9/11 to students and explores important social issues such as religious prejudice. This hi-lo book will capture the interest of kids who enjoy graphic novels involving time travel, tragic e...

This volume provides easy-to-use horse whispering techniques and principles that can help readers develop better bonds with horses

READING MY NEW BOOK IS JUST LIKE LISTENING TO ME ON THE RADIO . . .WARNING: THIS IS A COLLECTION OF MY GENUINE DISTRACTIONS AND MAY PROMPT LAUGHTER.I AN DISTRACTED BY:Comments sent in by my listeners:'Once I took some black puddings out of the freezer only to find a mole! I had found it in the garden and intended to send it to Chris Packham for Springwatch' Mrs D'My mum ...

We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don't find it all that funny when things go wrong. Most of us want love, a nice home, good work, and happy children. Many of us grew up with parents who made these things look relatively easy and assumed we would get them, too. So what do you do if you don't? What do you do when you feel you've messed it all up and your friends seem to be doing just fine? For Christina Patterson, it was her job as a journalist that kept her g...

*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhoodand found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest da...

**"The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." --Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the TrainSet in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would our world truly look like without men?**Only men carry the virus. Only women c...

The time continuum is home to two great powers: the Timeguard and the enigmatic People of the Horizon. Anna Chronistic, time-travelling adventuress, would rather avoid both and spend her days in Second Empire Paris hanging out with courtesans and painters or in Bronze Age Anatolia attempting to romance Helen of Troy. But when both of them accuse her of stealing a priceless ruby from under the Sphinx, Anna finds herself working with Time Agent Polly Shapiro to save the past, the future and ...

'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.'In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather and political unrest, a young couple want a child but are running out of time. If they over think it, they'll never do it. But if they rush, it could be a disaster.They want to have a child for ...

'Sometimes it feels like I might be the only person awake in the whole country. People might find that a lonely thought. Not me...'As the rest of the world sleeps, the Gritterman goes out to work. Through the wind and the snow and the freezing cold, in the blue-black hours when time slips away, he grits the paths and the pavements and the roads. For him, there is romance in the winter and comfort in his purpose. But what would a life without gritting mean?A song fo...

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy.In Getting Better, he shares his story and the lessons he has learned along the way. Exploring the roles that trauma and grief have played in his own life, Michael investigates the road ...