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Despite huge improvements in human living standards having taken place over the decades, extreme poverty still persists - and the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't helped. Research has found that economic growth is far and away the best reducer of poverty, naturally, the question should be asked, what set of policies is best suited to stimulate economic growth, and thus reduce poverty? The answer proposed in this book is simple: economic liberalism: th...

The art world is full of pitfalls, mysteries and risk. It is a place where paintings can be bought and sold for millions of pounds. Fortunes can be made... and lost. For those whose ambition is to accumulate wealth beyond their wildest dreams, expert knowledge, confidence, bravery and deep pockets are certainly needed.Ian Caxton is being tested by fake paintings, a financial gamble on the artwork of a black slave, his wife's life-changing news...

Invitation from a Mobster is inspired by real events. It tells the story of one of the most important and feared journalists of the 1990s and is set during the Wild West Gold Rush era of Czech politics following the Velvet Revolution. Vitas is a journalist who uncovers injustice and crime in the chaos of democratic beginnings in a formerly Communist nation. He works in an environment in which all things are affected by the pursuit of money and...

On 17th October, 1678, Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey, a justice of the peace, is discovered dead in a ditch at Primrose Hill, run through with his own sword.Suicide or murder? This has been the historian's dilemma for three centuries.King Charles II had awarded Godfrey a knighthood for his bravery following the great plague and the fire of London. But is Godfrey all he appears to be? During his final days, Godfrey confesses to friends that he is mas...

The dreams of children are the most magical places, where anything is possible and there are no limits. Where entire worlds - even life itself - can be created with just a thought.In one such amazingly ordinary world, imaginations collide and fantastically normal beasts are born. The land of The Hiole provides a safe place for these creatures to call home. The guardian of The Hiole and its residents is a creature known as The Frox. Half frog, ...

Tommy Twigtree is the tallest tree in the garden, and overseas the lives of all his friends who live there.Tommy and his friends plan the best bonfire party for fireworks night.However, Robbie Rabbit and his Bandits conjure up a plot to spoil the evening with an explosive surprise.A story with unexpected twists and turns.

Written from a Spanish perspective, where the overall theme is a story of survival against the natural elements. In the late sixteenth century, a farmer from Andalucía searches for his runaway son who has left home to join the ships of the Spanish Armada on their holy quest of 1588. The story unfolds away from the façade of politics, religion and military objectives, to highlight the frailties of human beings in their will to survive against t...

The novel plays with the existing, still unsolved, historical mysteries surrounding the reasons behind the banishment of the Antiquity's great Latin poet, Ovid, to Tomis, a Greek colony by the Black Sea, as well as the circumstances of his death there and the location of his tomb. Far more than a simple fiction based on the last years of Ovid's life in Tomis, the novel weaves an intricate tapestry of the Roman Empire in the first two decades o...

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On finding myself redundant at the ripe old age of thirty-seven and, therefore, in need of new employment, an alternative opportunity presented itself, to form a company and start my own business. I had no managerial experience, no previous ambition to form my own company or be my own boss, no entrepreneurial inclinations and no money.With help from a friend, a company was formed. From the combined elements of endurance, resilience, determinat...

Richard Hillary's book The Last Enemy was first published in the UK in 1942 just seven months before his untimely death. It is an extraordinary first-hand account of the experiences of a young man swept into the Battle of Britain as a Spitfire pilot.The book is in two parts, beginning with his time at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was a successful oarsman and carefree student. Joining the RAF Volunteer Reserve he displayed an undisciplined...

Aklima Bibi's story reveals a cycle of violence from her forced marriage, the domestic abuse she endured, the failure and subsequent corruption of the police she desperately wanted to help her and even an attempted contract killing.

Born into an international gang, Shelley has a reputation for being ruthless. A martial arts expert and trained, notorious assassin. All she wants is to meet someone, have a family and lead a normal life which seems on track when she met and fell in love with Jack. Then her brother is nearly killed in a bar brawl, and gang members are murdered. One last hit proves difficult with a young baby and hiding the truth from her new partner is near im...

Amanda had always been happy growing up in her close-knit Welsh community, where she had felt loved and protected. When she met Desmond, a whole new world opened before her. Her community, however, harboured a deep suspicion and fear of strangers. Amanda then saw a different side. A community that was controlling, interfering and would go to any lengths to force its members to conform. Even her beloved Welsh mountains now bore a sinister aspec...

Recognition of the energy, the evolutionary essence of Nature, allows us to believe that vitalism - the power of life - is not determined by the divine spirit in living organisms, but by bioenergetics. It is the totality of the processes of converting incoming external energy into biologically useful work of living systems.

This book has been written over thirty years, forgotten about and found in a box on a floppy disc in a garage. Floppy disc!? How things have changed!The book starts with a young lad of just seventeen-years-old, young, fit and unemployed. Then joining the British Army and ending up to be a fifty-five-year-old balding man with a beer belly, still adjusting to civilian life and the issues surrounding alcohol, relationships, anger and depression

It is 1973. Brian, an IRA sniper is making good his escape after having completed his last hit. He's had enough of the violence associated with the Northern Irish Troubles and throws his rifle, which he has always carried in a golf bag, into the sea. The story, based in Suffolk, follows the reformed sniper in search of peace and quiet and DCI Cartwright in search of Brian. The complex plot unfolds when a local fisherman trawls up the golf bag....

The France Alphabet is a wry, informative handbook for the discerning international traveller on how to handle the French. It offers essential A-Z insights into France and its ways through a snap alphabetic look at characters, traditions and historical events that together get to the essence of who the French are. France's best known writers and thinkers over the centuries come under the handbook's microscope with a light, challenging touch, a...

Felonies, infidelity, and fine art collide on the shadowy side of a quaint American town in this unconventional debut novel. Transplanted from London, England, Marc Clemens joins his colorful colleagues to navigate a slew of ridiculous episodes soabsurd it can only be real.As Marc struggles with his love life and creative vision, can he use an artist's observational skills to uncover the misdeeds of the administrator antagonists who bedevil hi...

This is the third book in the Nomit and Pickle series. The two friends are having festive fun and adventures together... some of which do not exactly go according to plan!