Alan Joyce: Riding the Jet Stream is a compelling, factual and gripping memoir from one of Australia’s most consequential chief executives. With a network spanning seven prime ministers and countless captains of industry, Alan Joyce provides a no-holds-barred account of some of the most important decisions taken during his career leading one of aviation's most respected brands.Few chief executives have been tested as relentlessly: the Global Financial Crisis, bitter indust...

From the bestselling author of the "dazzling historical saga" (The Washington Post), Moloka'i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city**"In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents' feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and...

Young, visionary scientist, Marshall Salt believes humanity’s future lies in the asteroid belt. With his closest friends, he has developed groundbreaking technology capable of extracting untold wealth from the cosmos.Their ambitions come with a staggering price tag - tens of billions of dollars. To fund their dream, Marshall must turn to the last person he ever wanted to ask: his estranged father and reclusive billionaire, Arthur Salt.As they uncover the ambitions of global...

'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen Fry'This hugely affecting book is brave, insightful and, at times, funny about things it is hard to be funny about' Jo BrandThe story of a life built on sand. In the rain.In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastati...

A nun’s corpse leads beloved amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce to uncover decades-old secrets in this charming final novel in the New York Times bestselling series.“I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective I’ve ever read, full of realism, self-confidence, and emotion (in roughly equal parts), and her tales are hilarious, engaging, and occasionally heartbreaking.”—Diana GabaldonIn the cloisters of Golgotha H...

An examination of the myths of the Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in ancient Greece.Waxing and waning and reborn with each new month, the Moon has always been the supreme symbol of cyclical change in the western world.Metaphorical representations of the Moon’s goddess also seem to undergo similar changes, each new century reinventing her in its own image. For Hesiod, she was a distant figure in the celestial panthe...

Disjointed (688 pages in print) is for patients with hEDS/HSD and the physicians who treat them. hEDS/HSD is an underrecognized, complex, multisystemic disorder, with the silos of healthcare’s specialties often working against effective and efficient treatment. With 21 specialist & 6 resource chapters, Disjointed brings together physician, patient, and parent perspectives to support the goal of earlier and more complete intervention. With specialist chapters by: Paldeep Atwal, M.D., Richar...

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!A special eBook original short story, in which the eleven-year-old connoisseur of chemistry is immersed in her element: solving a mystery!Murder! the letter says, Come at once. Anson House, Greyminster, Staircase No. 3. How can Flavia de Luce resist such an urgent plea? After all, examining a dead body sounds like a perfectly splendid way to spend a ...

On a cold, dark winter day during the Second World War, a young Alan Bradley found hidden beneath a floorboard in his mother’s bedroom closet a well-worn cardboard shoebox.At the time, he could make little sense of the ragtag things he found inside: cigarette packages, soup can labels, handbills, calendars, paper bags, pie boxes—any scrap of paper upon which his mother could copy out, in her old-fashioned handwriting, what seemed to be no more than unrelated snippets of Scripture.

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of Canada's most beloved and celebrated Newfoundlanders comes a rollicking insider's guide to the province, told as only Alan Doyle can tell it.**Few Canadian musicians are as synonymous with their home province as Alan Doyle is to his—and even fewer once worked as tour guides. In The Smiling Land, Alan reprises his tour-guiding role to welcome the rest of Canada to his home and take readers on an adventure: a freewheeling road trip th...

The second instalment in the thrilling WW2 Joseph Gunner series, from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy booksNew York, December 1941.Joseph Gunner, former soldier, is off the front lines and on the streets of New York, tasked with helping tip America into the Second World War.Working for a section of the British Secret Service, Gunner spends his days covertly encouraging pro-war sentiment through planted news stories, radio broadcasts and ...

**“You’re trying to straighten out a wiggly world—no wonder you’re in trouble.” —Alan WattsIn an age when all knowledge is at our fingertips, Alan Watts reminds us that wisdom is something else entirely. He invites us to rediscover the vitality, spontaneity, and deep unity that underlies everything.**Alan Watts was not just a philosopher and entertainer; he was a bridge between worlds. Drawing from the spiritual traditions of both East and West, Watts illuminated ancient tr...