If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook…It’s 1923 and at Thistlecrook House, a forbidding home on the Scottish border, the roaring twenties seem not to have arrived. But Simon Christie has – a young man who can’t believe his luck when he gets a job cataloguing the infamous art collection of the Mordrake family. Yet from the moment he gets off the train at the deserted village station he can’t shift a headache and a sense that there...

Gripping autobiography of former Manchester United midfielder Luke Chadwick, one of football’s nice guys, who fought a hidden battle with depression and anxiety due to appalling abuse from the media and fans.Foreword by football legend Dion Dublin, Luke’s hero who became his team-mate.As a member of the Manchester United first team, Luke found himself lining up alongside Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Roy Keane as United marched to their third successive Pre...

Engineering applications are rapidly evolving, becoming increasingly complex and data‑driven. Traditional optimization methods often struggle to keep pace, leaving engineers seeking robust and adaptable solutions. Metaheuristics, inspired by natural processes like evolution and ant colonies, help meet this challenge. These powerful algorithms offer flexible optimization tools, capable of tackling intricate problems across diverse engineering domains.Metaheuristics are not just opti...