Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness & richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman. Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone into reverse
- taking our lead from America & the legacy of the 1960s, our culture increasingly privileges the oral over the written, spurning the art of elaborated, 'written'-style language in favour of returning to the state of a spoken culture. Parallel developments have occurred in music.

In this controversial & thought-provoking book, John Mc Whorter argues that the 1960's rejection of cultural traits associated with the Establishment, as well as a democratic celebration of what anyone can do over what requires training or talent, has led to our culture being increasingly impoverished, both intellectually & artistically...


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DOING THE BUSINESS provides practical toolkits that really do help entrepreneurs in existing businesses to grow, revitalise & reinvent their enterprises. Teh book is based on the tacit wisdom of entrepreneurs from around the globe, particularly the UK, Australia & the USA. A book by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, DOING THE BUSINESS is a workbook that businesspeople can dip into & use with their teams
- giving them confidence to lead their businesses. The 25-30 toolkits procide a systematic process, whilst there are 2-3 case examples for each one. These supporting stories inspire people to use the toolkits themselves. David has taken his programme around the world
- this book will be a first in supporting entrepreneurs in a very practical, proven manner.

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Michael Booth has had his fill of celebrity chefs & their recipes. He wants to know how to cook, not just to follow recipes. ...

Take a drop of existential angst, mix with a group of old friends, stir in the sweet agony of midlife nostalgia, & you have the recipe for he Thanksgiving dinner from hell
- especially when it's narrated in part by a mischievous God who pulls their strings & show us the workings. A group of cosmopolitan friends in midlife gather in New England for a Thanksgiving dinner
- & are trapped there when it snows. Sean, the Irish hard-drinking poet is their host, but hasn't told them he's dying of cancer. In fact none of them would be there if they didn't have the kind of dysfunctional lives & problems which prevent them being with their own families. With the exception of the enigmatic outsider, a new young trophy wife, they all know too much about each other, their weak points & failures. Relationships & histories criss-cross; they have little in common except a mutual past & a search for meaning in the present. & meanwhile they're all at the mercy of fate
- both inevitable & surprising, funny & tragic.


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Jim lives in a fishing village
- but no-one goes fishing any more as all the fish have gone. One day, Jim spots a dolphin beached
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One of Dicken's great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama & realism mingle with halluncinatory power, DOMBEY & SON weaves together a number of stories which centre upon the family of the self-important merchant, Paul Dombey, & his children Paul & Florence. Supplied with the usual extraordinary cast of Dickensian grotesques, both comic & sinister, the novel also boasts a wonderful villain, in the person of Mr Carker, who tries to seduce Florence & meets his death under a train
- the first such death in literary history.
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Hard-working London merchant Paul Dombey believes the only relationships worth having are business ones. Proud & heartless, he pins all his hopes for the future of his shipping firm on his fragile son Paul. But he cruelly neglects his devoted daughter Florence, & prevents her from marrying the man she loves, believing his occupation as a clerk too lowly for his only daughter.

It is only when the firm faces ruin & Dombey

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THE PRESS CALLED IT 'THE HEIST OF THE MILLENNIUM' & 'A PLOT WORTHY OF JAMES BOND'. In 2000, a gang of villains from the South East of England hatched an audacious plan to steal the world's largest perfect diamond from the Millenium Dome in broad daylight & make their getaway by speedboat. The gang had figured out an ingenious way to breach the diamond vault but the execution was reliant on timing, brute force & a JCB digger. Had they succeeded, it would have made the spoils of the Great Train Robbery & Brinks Mat look like loose change. They came within a whisker of unimaginable wealth, but it was snatched from under them by one of the most daring police operations ever.
Here is the thrilling & dramatic full story of the robbery
- as told by the detective who foiled their plans. Experience the electrifying attacks, the jaw-dropping guile of the villains, the nerves needed for the stakeout & the final, nail-biting confrontation inside the Dome.

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Female desire, Cole decided, could never be underestimated. Whether a girl was naive, like Nurse Margaret, or a cynical sophisticate, like Melinda, if a man discovered their dark side & indulged it to satisfaction, they belonged to him thereafter. But Cole's oath
- to never feel for any woman
- is threatened the moment he is asked to mentor Lana. A girl who wields the ultimate feminine weapon
- abosolute undemanding surrender.


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Female desire, Cole decided, could never be underestimated. Whether a girl was naive, like Nurse Margaret, or a cynical sophisticate, like Melinda, if a man discovered their dark side & indulged it to satisfaction, they belonged to him thereafter. But Cole's oath
- to never feel for any woman
- is threatened the moment he is asked to mentor Lana. A girl who wields the ultimate feminine weapon
- abosolute undemanding surrender.


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