*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream.A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and soul into the club he supported as a boy. Born and raised in Canning Town, Mark joined the West Ham youth squad in 2000 and made his senior-team debut aged j...

Learning a new language can seem difficult, if not impossible at the very beginning. If you’re an adult, then it probably seems even scarier. You may have had a bad experience trying to learn a second language in school. You’ve wanted to learn French for some time now. It could just be because you’re in love with the language or you may live in an area where French is routinely spoken. Regardless of the reason, your desire to learn a second language is genuine, and it has driven you here.

Grumpy old retired Prof of Medicine rails (with cartoons) against low salt and low fat diets, over-diagnosis of high blood pressure, inappropriate use of anti-coagulants, etc. For light relief, some unsolved puzzles of body function are discussed.

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the re...

Where the West begins … and the familiar endsStrap in and take a look at Texas' past through a new lens, one that reveals the hopes and dreams of its inhabitants, along with horrors you've never dared imagine. In this dusty and lawless land, you'll meet gruesome flesh-eating monsters, uncommon heroes, ancient goddesses, and boneheaded but deadly genies. Not to mention some seemingly upright citizens.Remember, bad guys don't always wear black.

Never judge a man until you've walked a mile using his walker or at least, given him and his walker a ride to the dollar store."Popeye the Asshole' is a short story about a broken man who simply can not be helped but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.Mark A. Nobles is a Fort Worth based writer and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Sleeping Panther Review, Crimson Streets, Cleaver Magazine, and other publications. He has produced and/or directed three feature documentaries...

Brought to you by Penguin.Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the ...

Do you have a love or passion for learning French and Spanish? Or you have thought of visiting Europe and experiencing the local lifestyle? Or do you have overseas clients in European countries? Or are you planning to expand into European countries? Learning a new language sounds difficult, and you are just frozen at your feet at the start. If you are a working professional, then it might just sound impossible to you, but right now, learning a new language is as simple as it gets. It is ea...

Arrah Wanna (pronounced Arr-uh wa-nna) – (noun) A Baptist Church camp in the mountains where a fourteen-year-old, disillusioned believer is busted for drugs.Muleshoe – (pronounced Mule-shoo) (noun) A town in Texas that one must pass through to get to the crossroads if you’re going to meet up with the devil and have your wildest dreams come true.Kelley Baker and Mark A. Nobles are a couple of misfits who’ve misspent their l...

*****SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER******USA TODAY BESTSELLER***THE BIGGEST DEBUT LAUNCH OF 2024**Yorkshire, 1979Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South.Because of the murders.Leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangenes...

Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? What about composers, painters, and novelists? Will tomorrow’s supercomputers duplicate and exceed humans? Are we just wetware, natural computers doomed to obsolescence by tomorrow’s ultra-powerful artificial intelligence? In Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will, Robert J. Marks II answers these and other fascinating questions with his trademark blend of...

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942 - being among the first (and youngest) British agents sent to support the nascent French Resistance.Brook's success was primarily due to his exceptional qualities as a secret agent, although he was aided by large and frequen...