Behind every locked door, something is waiting to be remembered.When widowed locksmith Arthur Fenwick is summoned to a decaying country manor after the death of its final owner, he expects a strange but simple job: open thirteen sealed rooms that have remained untouched for decades. The house is enormous, silent, and rotting from within, its corridors heavy with dust, its doors marked by age, grief, and secrets nobody in the nearby village is willing to discuss.At first, Ar...

'Are these the best gay stories since Tennessee Williams' One Arm?'' – Booklist Selected for the first time in a single new edition, these sensual stories by prize-winning author John Sam Jones reveal lucid prose and complex lives. Moving through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains and estuaries facing other places. Risky sex, new romance and easy understanding, a mortgage on a semi or keeping a lid on it all for the sake family, status and belief... Including previously unseen ...

What does it take to become one of the most successful coaches in the world?Eddie Jones is one of the most successful sports coaches of all time. From coaching three different nations to Rugby World Cup Finals and with a winning record with England of nearly 80%, Eddie Jones knows what it takes to lead and manage high performance teams.What can sport teach us about leadership?For the first time, Eddie Jones shows just what it takes ...

What is the status of university entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)? How could they be strengthened so that students, academic staff and relevant stakeholders that are part of the ecosystems can best produce better quality ventures — i.e. that can employ more people or make venture founders more employable?This book provides a current review of the state of teaching entrepreneurship and its impact on SSA and illuminates different ways universitie...

Level up your summer reading with the latest Roll for Romance romcomThe summer encounter that's a critical hit…Chloe wishes real life was as exciting as her weekly roleplaying games. While all of her friends are levelling up, she’s stuck in a dead-end job and binge-watching playthroughs at the weekend.So when a mead making workshop leads to a new opportunity on a beautiful rural honey farm, she can’t believe her luck. That is, until the own...

After five years of grieving over her childhood sweetheart, Frankie Five-Fingers is ready to get back to business. Shedding her caged-bird persona, she has a new man and a new plan: snatch everything that isn’t nailed down! Along with Cowboy and his crew of bandits, they wreak havoc on the streets of New York, robbing everything from businesses to ballers. If it had value, they were coming for it. Frankie is living life at a million miles per minute and showing no signs of slowing down—unt...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

Pirates are often glorified as nautical Robin Hoods, heroes of the seas - and some were great navigators, map makers, and discoverers. But they were also thieves and murderers. They were undoubtedly merciless, but their crimes took place in a cruel age when even children might be hanged for stealing pennies. Here, from historian Sam Jones, the likes of Francis Drake, Captain Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and even some female pirates, such as Mary Reed and Anne Bonny, spring to life.

These are the memoirs of a Wisconsin farm boy that grew up during the Great Depression accompanied by a great drought where many of the lakes dried up and much of the Midwests farmland simply blew away. The Depression ended abruptly the year I graduated from high school when WW II was declared and I was drafted into military service where I spent 3-1/2 years. I was critically wounded and spent the first 30 hours in a morgue followed by almost 1-1/2 years in military hospitals before I was ...

The Forest of Dean is a place filled with stories. Stories of fact, stories of fiction and some that bridge that gap. Tales from the Forest is a remarkable collection of four such stories set in the 1950s, borne from cherished memories of the place and its inhabitants and created by a true Forester with a talent for storytelling. The tales encompass village life in a bygone era, intertwining and interacting just as small knit communities of the time did. Nostalgic, heart warming, intriguin...

Love meat? But love the planet more? This is plant-forward soul food that hits hard on flavour, colour and texture, without overcomplicating it. Made with rhythm, and always better with music on in the background.Sam Jones is a chef, creator and storyteller who turns everyday ingredients into playful, flavour-packed food. Inspired by his Welsh grandmother, Nini - who gave him the freedom to experiment and push boundaries in the kitchen - Sam has spent years explori...

The definitive guide to one of the most iconic barbecue traditions—Carolina-style chopped pork—from the third generation pitmaster of Sam Jones BBQ and the legendary Skylight Inn, featuring more than 20 family recipes for large-batch barbecue, sides, and desserts.In the world of barbecue, Carolina-style pork is among the most delicious and obsessed-over slow-cooked meats. Yet no one has told the definitive story of North Carolina barbecue—until now. In Whole Ho...