Breakthrough research shows that you can not only grow new brain cells at any age but also 'rewire' your brain to increase its capacity so it's never too late to sharpen your mind! Stay Sharp" first explains how your brain works & then provides a programme of practical exercises to improve your memory & help you banish "senior moments". There are also smart everyday strategies that you can use to help you remember names & numbers process information faster & reduce the risk of dementia. With the average lifespan increasing it's never been more important to keep your brain fit & active for life." ...

Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human & the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal inhuman & hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love or when facing other extremes & anxieties. Staying Alive

Includes:: many of the great modern love poems & elegies but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems. A strong poem is not just for crisis. Such a poem is there for all times helping us face or embrace daily change & disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening when the poems importance is in helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves. Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. A sequel Being Alive (2004) & a companion anthology Being Human (2011) complete this poetry trilogy"."

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An irresistible novel from bestselling author Jill Mansell about a country house hotel where anything can happen... Daisy Mac Lean runs the country house hotel owned by her flamboyant father Hector. When she hears who's about to get married there she isn't worried at all
- her friend Tara absolutely promises there won't be any trouble between her & ex-boyfriend Dominic whom she hasn't seen for years. But Dominic has other ideas... Meanwhile Hector's getting up to all sorts with...well that's the village's best kept secret. & then Barney turns up with a little something belonging to the husband Daisy's been doing her best to forget. That's the thing about hotels you never know who you're going to meet. Or whether they're going to stay...
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Written with the same sensitivity insight humour & compassion that marked the record-breaking self-help guide Im OK Youre OK leading psychiatrists & pioneers of the revolutionary psychological Transactional Analysis approach Amy & Tom Harris reveal how you can stay that way & get the most out of every day of your life. ...

Tusker & Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker once a Colonel in the British Army retired they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants & archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days. Both funny & deeply moving Staying On" is a unique engrossing portrait of the end of an empire & of a forty-year love affair." ...

The wit & wisdom of Wayne Dyer is reflected in this wonderful collection of inspirational"es & observations. Whether youre already on the path or doing your best to get there this book will give you the impetus to keep moving forward! ...

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When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011 Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd heard when he was their age: ' Steal like an artist; Don't wait until you know who you are to start making things; Write the book you want to read; Use your hands; Side projects are important; Do good work & put it where people can see it; Geography is no longer our master; Be nice (the world is a small town.); Be boring (it's the only way to get work done.); & Creativity is subtraction.' After giving the speech he posted the text & slides to his popular blog where it quickly went viral. Now Kleon has expanded his original manifesto into an illustrated guide to the creative life for writers artists entrepreneurs designers photographers musicians & anyone attempting to make things
- art a career a life
- in the digital age. Brief direct & visually interactive the book

Includes:: illustrative anecdotes & mini-exercise sections calling out practical actions readers can take to unleash their own creative spirits.



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This is a love story. It's the story of how The Clash fell in love with America & how America loved them back. The romance began in full in 1977 when select rock journalists & DJs aided the band's quest to depose the rock of indolence that dominated American airwaves. This history situates The Clash amid the cultural skirmishes of the 1970s & culminates with their September 1979 performance at the Palladium in New York City. This concert broadcast live on WNEW concluded with Paul Simonon treating his Fender bass like a woodsman's axe. The performance produced one of the most exhilarating Clash bootleg recordings & the photo of Simonon's outburst
- which graced the cover of the London Calling LP
- was recently deemed the greatest rock 'n' roll photograph of all time. That night marked one of the last opportunities for American audiences to see The Clash as a punk band vying between conviction & uncertainty before they became a seriously brilliant rock group.

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For a hundred & fifty thousand years the alien Shoal have been hiding a terrible secret behind a facade of power. In the twenty-fifth century they dominate the galaxy & control all trade & exploration possessing the secret of faster-than-light travel. Mankind has established just a handful of interstellar colonies; their freedom & knowledge of the galaxy limited by the Shoal's punitive colonial charter. Dakota Merrick is a machine-head pilot on the run from one of the Consortium's most powerful criminals. Desperate for escape she contracts to ferry an expert team to a remote star system. Her passengers hope to scavenge a functioning FTL-drive from a derelict starship -- rumoured to pre date the Shoal. But they'll expose an ancient genocide the Shoal will do anything to hide. & Dakota will be forced to face demons from her own military past. ' Packed with massive concepts & dark psychological twists.. .seriously entertaining' SFX ' Fast confident daring skilful.. .A big book in scope & imagination' Vector The depth & scale of a writer coming into his own' Sci-Fi-London.com" ...