It's Monday morning in a quiet suburb. Shots ring out just after dawn. Five people are found dead in a small two-room apartment on Martindale Street. Among the dead is a uniformed Police Detective and half-a-kilo of pure heroin.This is the story of The Martindale Street Massacre. A story of violence, revenge, sex and corruption, of secrets someone would kill to protect.This is the Inspired-By-True-Events telling of the long night that led to a deadly dawn...

"But this is absurd. You keep brining me in here then throwing me out again."It's a Tuesday afternoon in an office building like any other.A burnt-out job applicant, an embittered Personal Assistant, a neurotic mail room clerk and a scheming executive are all about to cross paths, setting in motion an escalating chain of events that will leave more than one body on the boardroom floor by 5pm."It takes downsizing out of the hands of the executive class, and gives it b...

David Smart traces the life of Italian poet and climber Antonia Pozzi, whose writing was shaped by the Dolomites and the pressures of fascist Italy.Born in 1912, Pozzi came of age during a period of political repression and restrictive expectations for women. She found a measure of freedom in climbing and in writing, developing a body of poetry closely connected to mountain landscapes even as her work was constrained by the world around her.Among the Pa...

Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition: Climbing Literature AwardThe first English-language biography of one of the most renowned Italian climbers, Emilio Comici, who bagged over 200 first ascents in the Eastern Alps prior to his death at 39 years of age in 1940.Between 1925 and his death in 1940, Emilio Comici was the pre-eminent climber in the Eastern Alps, the hotbed of global rock climbing at that time. He made first ascents on s...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Boardman Tasker AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain LiteratureAn intriguing biography of the renowned Austrian alpinist Paul Preuss, who achieved international recognition both for his remarkable solo ascents and for his advocacy of an ethically "pure" alpinism (meaning without any artificial aids).In the months before his death in 1913, from falling more than 300 metres during an attempt to ...

This book explores how Kleinian psychoanalysis has developed over the past 75 years and how it illuminates human experience and relationships inside and outside the consulting room.The text will help the reader gain a deeper understanding of processes of splitting, projection, and identification in clinical work; a broader conception of how internal and external worlds interact and affect each other; greater clarity on key theoretical and ethical issues; and an overview of what the...

Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins—in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing founder of the outdoor apparel company that bears his name. This intimate, colorful tour of clim...

A gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.Beware of the dark…Welcome to the Misfit Mob – where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can’t get rid of, but wants to. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy is found at the Oldcastle tip, it’s his job to track down its owner.But then Callum uncovers links between his ...

From childhood dreams of prostitution to her unabashed passion for heavy drinking, from growing up wide-eyed on the set of Australian soaps to her infatuation with Bob Ellis, these are the outrageously entertaining and deeply revealing reminiscences of a multimedia star. He was wearing a pair of leather pants that clung like terrified orphans to his muscular thighs, and a revealing black mesh t-shirt. The outfit seemed at odds with the cream-coloured settee and floral print curtains. From ...

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery.“This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud . . . My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.”—Russell BrandWith a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and mo...

A brilliantly twisty, 80-page novella from the No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Including an extract from his new Logan novel, THE MISSING AND THE DEAD.It’s the night of the big Referendum, and all Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to do is find a missing ‘No’ campaigner. Should be easy enough…But, as usual, DCI Steel has plans of her own. As the votes are counted there’s trouble brewing in the pubs and on the streets of Aberdeen.Logan’s ...

Lose yourself in this opulent royal romance, part of the passion-fuelled The Kalliakis Crown miniseries from Michelle Smart!Captive to the Prince…And**his to command!Prince Talos Kalliakis thought he’d found the perfect gift for the king’s jubilee gala—the talents of exquisite violinist Amalie Cartwright. He crossed Europe to find her and bring her to the palace, and he won’t take no for an answer! If Amalie won’t submit to...