The diary of Thomas Dallam. Finally published 400 years late!A fascinating glimpse of the clash of Western and Muslim cultures. Translated into modern English, it reads as if its Elizabethan author were alive today.In 1598 merchants of the City of London paid for a present to be given by Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III of Turkey. She hoped to turn the Sultan's military might on her Spanish enemies. The merchants hoped to secure trading concessions.The present w...

Meet Harley - an antiquated 50cc motorbike, top speed 25mph, who carried me on the backroads of Greece from the island of Evia to deliver the collected Jeeves and Wooster to a Moldovan monk on Mount Athos, a self-governing state run by monks.Harley and the Holy Mountain is a sequel to It's All Greek To Me! with similar humour, self-deprecation, entertaining stories, and insights into today's Greece.The road trip is based on a lifetime's love of Greece. It is seasoned with experienc...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An ordinary man. An extraordinary journey.In 1394 Nicola Martoni made a dangerous journey from a small town in Italy to Jerusalem. He was a little, short-sighted, middle-aged provincial lawyer. He sailed through Aegean storms to Egypt, walked across the desert in high summer, climbed Mount Sinai with malaria, and finally made it to the Holy Places. Five companions died on the way. Desperate to get home and running out of money, he wandered...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Three Christmas Tales is a powerful and imaginative collection of modern Christmas stories that explore injustice, generosity, and love.Hunted street kids, child slavery, an explorer lost in the Frozen North. these stories re-imagine the meaning of Christmas beyond comfort and tradition. Each tale blends realism with symbolism, compassion with darkness, and hope with the Christmas messageWritten in a clear, lyrical style, these stori...

A rare insight into a Medieval mind.In 1394 Nicola Martoni made a dangerous journey from a small town in Italy to Jerusalem.He was a little, short-sighted, middle-aged provincial lawyer.He sailed through Aegean storms to Egypt, walked across the desert in high summer, climbed Mount Sinai with malaria, and finally made it to the Holy Places. Five companions died on the way.Desperate to get home and running out of money, he wandered from island to island and acros...

In a charming saga of sun, sea, sand - and cement - John Mole tells of the back-breaking but joyous labours of fixing up his own Arcadia and introduces a warm, generous and garrulous cast of characters who helped (and occasionally hindered) his progress.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Three Christmas Tales is a powerful and imaginative collection of modern Christmas stories that explore injustice, generosity, and love.Hunted street kids, child slavery, an explorer lost in the Frozen North. these stories re-imagine the meaning of Christmas beyond comfort and tradition. Each tale blends realism with symbolism, compassion with darkness, and hope with the Christmas messageWritten in a clear, lyri...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1599, English musician and organ builder, Thomas Dallam, traveled to Constantinople to deliver a magnificent self-playing organ and clock to Sultan Mehmed III. The Sultan’s Organ is the diary of his remarkable adventure, put into modern English by John Mole.Follow Dallam’s journey through the Ottoman Empire, as he navigates the Sultan’s harem, political intrigues, and the extraordinary challenge of transporting and installing the Sultan’...

Three very different stories with one thing in common - the supranatural.Maria lives in a Greek village on the Black Sea at the turn of the last century. She and her lover flee to America from a sea vampire bent on vengeance.In The Good Book the Church is keen to find the lost Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Who do they turn to? The Devil incarnate..Set in Ancient Greece Second Life is based on the oldest zombie tale in literature. A tale of Death and Sex - in th...

In 1973 the British International Marxist Group issued a forty-pence pamphlet that tried to do something unusually ambitious: not to retell the story of permanent revolution, but to prove it — to derive Trotsky's theory from Marx's own economics of the world market.The result is one of the boldest short statements the Trotskyist tradition produced. Across five tightly argued sections, "John Robens" grounds permanent revolution in the law of uneven and combined dev...

This exciting new edition of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture gives a clear, detailed, and accessible presentation of the main features of constitutional Five Element acupuncture. It covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory. After examining the Elements themselves and the functions of the Organs, the book explores the basis of diagnosis in Five Element acupuncture, possible blocks to treatment and the treatment itsel...

In 1979 British trade unions had 13.2 million members, and 29,474,000 working days were lost to strikes. A workplace survey the next year counted 328,000 shop stewards. By 2025, union density was 22.4 per cent, and nobody counts workplace representatives any more: the last survey was in 2011.What the revolutionary left did next is usually explained as a sequence. Rank-and-file organisation is what a rising level of struggle produces, so it cannot be built in a downturn, and revolut...