A collection of the surviving radio crime dramas from ‘The King of Thrillers’Edgar Wallace was a bestselling author, journalist, playwright and film director, and the creator of King Kong. A prolific writer and celebrity superstar, he was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 1920s. Presented here are full-cast adaptations of four of his classic crime novels, readings of four short detective stories, and a vintage reco...

How hard are you prepared to work to improve your No Limit Holdem?The Education of a Modern Poker Player documents the efforts of a serious amateur as he pursues his ambition of rising through the stakes from NL10 (10 game) to NL100 (100 game) and beyond.John Billingham is an English maths professor, and a keen player of games. In the summer of 2009 he discovered online poker and was hooked. A year later he decided to trick a couple of impressionable young poker pr...

Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James WaltonThe Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.Each episode is themed around an ‘Author of the Week’, who is the subject of the introductory round...

The definitive collection of dramatisations and readings of Patricia Highsmith's finest fiction - plus bonus materialA master of the psychological crime genre, Patricia Highsmith is most famous for her quintet of bestselling 'Ripley' novels, and her groundbreaking thriller Strangers on a Train (notably adapted as a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock). This extensive collection encompasses her best-known works, as well as selected short stories and three prog...

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O’Regan, this collection includes the following stories:“The Bully” by Jeffery Deaver“Dead Weight” by Fiona Cummins“Like a Glass Jaw” by Mark Billingham“On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man

From a semi-professional poker player, a guide to playing and winning the biggest game in town.If you’ve never tried Pot-Limit Omaha, you’re missing out on the most exciting, most lucrative cash game around. Omaha has long been the most popular form of poker in Europe, and now it’s spreading like wildfire throughout North America. The reason is simple: Omaha offers more action and bigger pots than Texas Hold ‘em. Isn’t it time you got in on it?...

The mental game may be more important in poker than in any other form of competition. It’s one of the only games in the world where you can play perfectly and lose—again and again. Hundreds of poker players have turned to mental game coach Jared Tendler’s revolutionary approach to help them play their best, no matter how badly they’re running. In this book you’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions and proven techniques to permanently fix problems such as tilt, handling variance, emotio...

Rolf Slotboom and Rob Hollink join forces to produce THE definitive guide, to short-handed Pot-Limit Omaha (tables with six or fewer players).Do you know Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the fastest growing forms of poker?Do you know that the biggest games online (in money) are Short-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha?Rolf and Rob will tell you how to:Gauge the optimum size of the buy-inDecide whether to check-raise or bet into the raiserRepresent big...

Catering specifically to no-limit Texas Hold Em sit-n-go (SNG) online poker players, this is the essential guide for those looking to master the game without having to learn complex and confusing theories. Based on a group of university students' experience playing and winning at online poker, this handbook illustrates how to take a small initial investment and turn it into hundreds of thousands of dollars by following specific steps and guidelines. Instead of bogging players down in the m...

Imagine the edge you would have if you could consistently play poker in the zone. In the zone you make all the right decisions, instinctively when to bluff, and are unfazed by a losing hand. You’re locked in and feel unbeatable.It’s shocking how many poker players stumble into this elusive state of mind. As quickly as that euphoric feeling of invincibility arrives, it's gone. And no matter how hard they try, they can’t get back there. Until now.In The Mental Game of Poker 2...

Pot-Limit Omaha is a fascinating game which is rapidly increasingly in popularity on the back of the current poker boom. However, there is a dearth of quality material giving advice on how to handle all elements of this complex form of poker. Until now...Secrets of Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the first books to analyze medium- and high-stakes PLO in great depth. The author, long-time successful PLO cash game player Rolf Slotboom, reveals key information that has never appear...

Jonathan Little is a highly successful poker professional who has won over 4 million in tournament play. His first book, "Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 1" dealt with the fundamentals of play. In this second book he builds on this base by examining the highly complex issue of how to handle the different stages of a tournamentAs well as outlining a technically accurate style of play, Jonathan also discusses a number of other topics that are crucial to success at po...