**Enter a gilded age in which upstairs-downstairs drama meets existential horror.Our Brilliant Ruin is a tabletop roleplaying game set in the Dramark, a place where the last fragile remains of society live in the shadow of a dying world.**The Ruin, a preternatural force befouling everything it touches, has ravaged geography and culture alike, wreaking destructive havoc and loosing monstrous creatures. With the world plunged into rust and ruin, how will you spend the time yo...

Ditch the diet and step into a more confident, healthier you with this empowering guide to transforming your mindset and building long-term, sustainable habits.'Sally will transform your life – and make you laugh.' – Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, bestselling author of Lean in 15Tired of restrictive diets that don’t last?Fitness instructor and coach Sally Wilkinson has already helped thousands of women chan...

**Ditch the diet and step into a more confident, healthier you with this empowering guide to transforming your mindset and building long-term, sustainable habits.'Sally will transform your life – and make you laugh**.' – Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, bestselling author of Lean in 15Tired of restrictive diets that don’t last?Fitness instructor and coach Sally Wilkinson has already helped thousands of women change their mindset, feel their b...

Ditch the guilt and step into a more confident, healthier you.Sally Wilkinson has already helped thousands of women change their mindset, feel their best ever and lose weight without going on a diet. The secret? Self-belief. Everyone is capable of change, they just have to believe they can do it.Through Sally’s much-loved straight-talking, humorous and compassionate approach, The Shit To Shiny Method introduces readers to a whole new way of thinking that e...

The first in the Jessica Daniel series, Locked In is the number one bestselling crime thriller from Kerry Wilkinson.When a body is found in a locked house, Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is left to not only find the killer but discover how they got in and out.With little in the way of leads and a journalist that seems to know more about the case than she does, Jessica is already feeling the pressure – and that's before a second body shows up in ...

I pinch the screen to zoom until I’m staring at the face of a ghost. A man with very short hair, staring directly at the camera with piercing brown eyes. He is as he was when I last saw him: wrinkles around the corners of the eyes and a knowing smirk. That’s the expression I see when I can’t sleep.My body tenses. It can’t be him. It’s not my ex-husband. It’s not David. I know that better than anyone because he didn’t walk out on me.

Ghost stories from Chicago: a lakeside cottage, a tenement, a hospital corridor, a woman who is followed by something with no shape. Peattie became a reporter at the Chicago Tribune in the 1880s, when women were not, and ran its literary page for a decade; these 1898 stories put the supernatural into a modern American city rather than an English abbey, which almost nobody was doing.

Sketches of a city church and the people who pass through it, seen as through colored glass. Peattie became a reporter at the Chicago Tribune in the 1880s, when women were not, and ran its literary page for a decade; her short pieces are Chicago's own, and this small book is the quietest thing she did.

On 1 April 2026, four astronauts climbed aboard a spacecraft named Integrity and pointed it at the Moon. It was the most ambitious human spaceflight in more than half a century — and this is its complete story.Artemis II: Preparing to Return to the Moon takes you inside every dimension of a historic ten-day mission: the decades of engineering effort that built the most powerful rocket ever to fly operationally; the political battles, false starts and near-...

Have you ever felt like the unsung hero, the steady hand behind the curtain, the quiet force that keeps everything running, yet rarely receives the applause? In Number One at Being Number Two, Monica J. Wilkinson, an accomplished Project Manager and Executive Assistant, opens up about what it means to serve faithfully from the background. With candor, grace, and insight, she explores the emotional and spiritual tension of being the go-to person in someone else's story, while quietly longin...

UNLIMITED RIDE is a novel told in 136 short, titled sections, capturing a life in motion and a mind in reflection. As Jenny M. approaches her fortieth birthday, she contemplates the choices she' s made and the life she still wants to shape. A wife, a professor, a Brooklynite, and a middle-aged liberal woman acutely aware of her privilege, Jenny M. begins her story with a New Year' s resolution: to claim the hours of her long subway commute and to transform them into something meaningful. B...

Microworlds brings to life a whole new ecosystem populated by a bewildering array of forms living extraordinary lives. It is a remarkable eyeopener for all naturalists.For most of the history of life on Earth all life was microscopic, and even today most of biodiversity is still microscopic. Until the invention of the microscope in the seventeenth century all this diverse microworld was completely unknown. As well as dominating Earth for eons, microbes are still vital to t...