It is often said that education & training are the keys to the future. They are but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way andyou lock resources away even from those they belong to. Turn it the otherway & you release resources & give people back to themselves. To realizeour true creative potential-in our organizations in our schools & in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves & to actdifferently towards each other. We must learn to be creative." -Ken Robinson PRAISE FOR OUT OF OUR MINDS " Ken Robinson writes brilliantly about the different ways in which creativity is undervalued & ignored.. .especially in our educational systems." -John Cleese " Out of Our Minds explains why being creative in todaysworld is a vital necessity. This book is not to be missed." -Ken Blanchard co-author of The One-minute Manager & The Secret " If ever there was a time when creativity was necessary for the survival andgrowth of any organization it is now. This book more than any other I know providesimportant insights on how leaders can evoke & sustain those creative juices." -Warren Bennis Distinguished Professor of Business University of Southern California; Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Rresearch Fellow Harvard Business School; Best-selling Author Geeks & Geezers " All corporate leaders should read this book." -Richard Scase Author & Business Forecaster " This really is a remarkable book. It does for human resources what Rachel Carsons Silent Spring did for the environment." -Wally Olins Founder Wolff-olins " Books about creativity are not always creative. Ken Robinsons is a welcome exception" -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi c.s. & d.j. Davidson Professor of Psychology Claremont Graduate University; Director Quality of Life Research Center; Best-selling Author Flow " The best analysis Ive seen of the disjunction between the kinds of intelligence that we have traditionally honored in schools & the kinds ofcreativity that we need today in our organizations & our society." -Howard Gardner a. hobbs professor in cognition & education Harvard Graduate School of Education Best-selling Author Frames of Mind" ...

The marvellous land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland Glinda is under house arrest & the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. & look who's knocking at the door. It's none other than Dorothy. Yes that Dorothy. Amid all this chaos Elphaba's granddaughter the tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a Witch has come of age. Now Rain will take up her broom in an Oz wracked by war. Out of Oz is a magical journey rife with revelations & reversals reprisals & surprises
- the hallmarks of the brilliant & unique imagination of Gregory Maguire.
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For Robert Jacklin
- packed off without warning to boarding school in Zimbabwe
- everything is terrifyingly new. Branded an

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Normal. I liked the sound of that. Sure as the daughter of two secret agents I didn't really know what normal meant but that didn't matter. Normal was my new mission. Cammie wakes up in an Alpine convent having lost her memory of the whole summer. She & her friends must travel to the other side of the world trying to piece together the clues that Cammie left behind. But there are people hunting Cammie
- people who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.. .
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This story is not a story at all. It all happened. On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March her world has changed for ever. Foot-&-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected & every animal is destroyed. Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd the sows with their piglets & Little Josh Becky's h&-reared lamb survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting & hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life.. . ...

Stephen Lungu was the oldest son of a teenage mother married off by her parents to a much older man & living near Salisbury Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). When he was three his mother ran away leaving him & his younger brother & sister in the reluctant care of an aunt. By 11 Stephen too had run away preferring life on the streets. He slept under bridges & scavenged from white folks dustbins. As a teenager he was recruited into an urban gangs the Black Shadows which burgled & mugged with a half-focused dream of revolution. When an evangelist came to town Stephen was sent to fire bomb the event carrying his bag of bombs & mingling with the crowd. Instead he stayed to listen.. . Today Stephen is Africas Billy Graham an international evangelist who regularly speaks in UK US & Europe. ...

Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife & mother she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned & breathless. On the face of it there is no rational explanation for the way she feels. Linda believes there is something malign inside her. But in the back of her mind a voice tells her over & over again that everything will be OK. When it finally gets too much she can always simply die. How shall I die if that time comes? I need to know these things. They have to be planned. It must look like an accident. She will deliberately drive off the road on her way home from her weekly shopping trip. After all who commits suicide with a load of groceries in their car? The raw & powerful journey Linda takes with her psychotherapist Robin Royston to discover what lies at the heart of her deptression will leave you shocked. The secrets in her African childhood & adolescence are buried so deep that to reveal them may destroy her completely. Together Linda & Robin race to unravel the clues before it is too late. OUT OF THE DARK is Linda Caines remarkable & uplifting story from the agonies of mental breakdown to the painful piecing together of the past that was vital for her survival. Both her courage & Robins persistence during the process show the power of the human spirit at its most indomitable & inspiring. ...

It was the case that shocked the nation. On the evening of 20 April 2011 Tina Nashs life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings & domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenkin she was subjected to a barbaric & prolonged attack during which Jenkin beat her unconscious & gouged out both her eyes. When he was jailed in May 2012 people struggled to comprehend the scale of the violence endured by this mother of two at her home in Cornwall. In Out of the Darkness Tina tells her full story
- of what life with a violent partner is really like & how she survived 12 hours of sustained & unimaginable violence in her own home. Learning to adjust to life without her sight Tina speaks bravely about how her children have given her the courage to keep going & how
- step by careful step
- she is learning to live again. With statistics on domestic violence rising Tinas incredible memoir of survival makes for essential reading.


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I saw my teacher in the queue at the supermarket last Christmas. Miss Baxter. I was surprised to see her. Shed been dead for six months In Out of The Depths Cathy Mac Phail introduces her latest character Tyler Lawless who has an unusual & sometimes scary gift. She is able to see dead people. & sometimes they speak to her asking for her help. When Tyler moves to a new school she is hoping to make a fresh start. But that isnt easy when a boy who is supposed to be dead appears in your classroom & statues in the school seem to come alive & point towards the place where the dead boy Ben Kincaid was murdered. Will Tyler be able to assist Ben with his pleas for help or will she be dismissed as an attention-seeking teller of tall tales? A thrilling & spooky tale from the acclaimed Cathy Mac Phail. ...

Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare & people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary a collection of his journalism from the Guardian he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense -- mainstream domestic ordinary insanity. Whether he finds himself promising his son that he will be at his side for ever dressed in a Santa costume or trying to understand why hundreds of apparently normal people would suddenly start speaking in tongues in a Scout hut in Kidderminster he demonstrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that grow to inform our everyday existence. Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious thought-provoking & with an unerring eye for human frailty -- not least his own. Praise for The Men Who Stare at Goats: ' Not only a narcotic road trip through the wackier reaches of Bush's war effort but also an unmissable account of some of the insanity that has lately been done in our names' Observer Praise for Them: Adventures with Extremists: 'A funny & compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world' Louis Theroux Guardian ...