Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, where he lives. Instead, on his tenth birthday, he is torn from his family and taken to work for Mr Kumar and his cruel son, Jalesh, in their dilapidated printing factory. There, hidden in a trunk, he finds a secret First World War journal. As its pages come to life, they reveal not only why Amil is there, but that he and the journal’s author – his great-grandfather, Sanjiv - share a magical gift:...

During a long Fleet Street career Tim Walker met and interviewed many of the world’s most famous actors and entertainers but, it isn’t just the names of his subjects that glitter ― although they are impressive enough ― it is the insights, the humour, and the exquisite style of these pieces that makes them jump off the page. Walker does more than sprinkle a little star dust into our lives. Time and again he crystallizes what others might have sensed but not articulated, casting light into p...

The Hon. Lucius Kluge – honourable, lucky, clever – might be the only guy in Los Angeles who's still living in the past.Lucky pines for the old days of the New Hollywood, before Star Wars and superheroes blew up the movies for good. He spends his days working for an antiques business, his nights boozing and brooding on his former life as an almost-successful screenwriter.But when his ex-best friend goes AWOL and his elderly boss is assaulted during the theft of a v...

Competitive advantage in banking comes from effective use of technologyThe Handbook of Banking Technology provides a blueprint for the future of banking, with deep insight into the technologies at the heart of the industry. The rapid evolution of IT brings continual change and demand for investment — yet keeping pace with these changes has become an essential part of doing business. This book describes how banks can harness the power of current an...

A sharp, perceptive and painfully funny book about money, love and the sorrows and joys of modern family life.MEET THE MANVILLES.JERRY, a former award-winning adman who’s beginning to leave a trail of ex-wives and semi-estranged children.PEN, his artist ex-wife, who’s a lot more in love with her new garden in the South of France than with her new husband.ISOBEL, their daught...

Young adults are fed up with our sex-saturated culture. They realize that there's more to sex than what the media feeds them, and they realize that there's more to responsibility that "just wait until you're married." Youth want to have God's perspective. Not only that, they want to show their peers there's a better way to relate to the opposite sex. It's time for a revolution. A 180-degree turn is underway.Sex 180 is a guide to that revolution. It's more than a book that preaches ...

From a bold new voice in crime fiction, Lower City blends the gritty realism of S.A. Cosby with the page-turning pulse of Louise Penny.It’s October 2025 and Hamilton, Ontario is a city on edge—job insecurity, rising rents, and polarization combine in dangerous ways. When a series of abductions plunges the city into chaos, an unsuspecting hero arises: a young steelworker struggling to find his place in the world.At twenty-six years old, Danny Clarke...

Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, where he lives. Instead, on his tenth birthday, he is torn from his family and taken to work for Mr Kumar and his cruel son, Jalesh, in their dilapidated printing factory. There, hidden in a trunk, he finds a secret First World War journal. As its pages come to life, they reveal not only why Amil is there, but that he and the journal’s author – his great-grandfather, Sanjiv - share a magical gift:...

Lost in Liyun is a powerful and emotional story about a foreign professor who arrives in China searching for a fresh start and finds himself pulled into a world of culture, desire, and transformation. As Fred navigates language barriers, classroom challenges, and complex social expectations, he meets Liyun, a woman whose quiet strength and magnetic presence change everything. Their connection grows into a slow burn mix of longing, tension, and heartbreak that challenges who he is and who h...

Lost in Liyun is a powerful and emotional story about a foreign professor who arrives in China searching for a fresh start and finds himself pulled into a world of culture, desire, and transformation. As Fred navigates language barriers, classroom challenges, and complex social expectations, he meets Liyun, a woman whose quiet strength and magnetic presence change everything. Their connection grows into a slow burn mix of longing, tension, and heartbreak that challenges who he is and who h...

Lost in Liyun is a powerful and emotional story about a foreign professor who arrives in China searching for a fresh start and finds himself pulled into a world of culture, desire, and transformation. As Fred navigates language barriers, classroom challenges, and complex social expectations, he meets Liyun, a woman whose quiet strength and magnetic presence change everything. Their connection grows into a slow burn mix of longing, tension, and heartbreak that challenges who he is and who h...

Lost in Liyun is a powerful and emotional story about a foreign professor who arrives in China searching for a fresh start and finds himself pulled into a world of culture, desire, and transformation. As Fred navigates language barriers, classroom challenges, and complex social expectations, he meets Liyun, a woman whose quiet strength and magnetic presence change everything. Their connection grows into a slow burn mix of longing, tension, and heartbreak that challenges who he is and who h...