Into the Woods - A Five-ACT Journey Into Story
With examples ranging from The Godfather to True Detective, ...
Into The Woods - How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
We all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all...
The Secrets of Sand - A Journey into the Amazing Micros...
From the beach to the moon—explore the incredible hidden wo...
Why the Dutch are Different - A Journey into the Hidden...
A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR Stranded at Schiphol airp...
Out of the Woods - A Journey Through Depression and Anx...
Out of the Woods is a book to help people understand and ove...
Into The Woods - A Five-ACT Journey Into Story
STEPPING INTO THE PRINCE'S WORLD/UNVEILING THE BRIDESMAID
Stepping Into The Prince’s World – Marion LennoxClaire Tremaine accepts a post as sole caretaker of a gorgeous island after a professional betrayal leaves her life in tatters. It’s the perfect place to heal – until her solitude is interrupted by a gorgeous solider who’s shipwrecked on her shores!Raoul breaks down Claire’s barriers with his kindness and kisses, but she’s stunned when he’s r...
Rock Bottom - A Music Writer's Journey into Madness
Michael Odell is a rock music writer who takes his responsibility as cultural gatekeeper seriously; he asks rock stars the forbidden questions to discover whether they’re worthy of readers’ admiration. But after interviewing Mick Jagger and Keith Richards – two of the ‘Big Six’ icons – Michael is depressed. He has a public meltdown while chaperoning Oasis at an awards ceremony; he’s lost j...
Into the Forest
An atmospheric exploration of a child’s anxiety by the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medal Winner. One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound. A storm is breaking, lightning flashing across the sky. In the morning Dad is gone and Mum doesn’t seem to know when he’ll be back. The next day Mum asks her son to take a cake to his sick grandma. “Don’t go into the forest,” she warns. “Go the long...
Becoming Steve Jobs - The evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – with a new foreword by Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen. ’For my money, a better book about Jobs than Walter Isaacson’s biography’ New Yorker ’A fascinating reinterpretation of the Steve Jobs story’ Sunday Times We all think we know who Steve Jobs was, what made him tick, and what made him succeed. Yet the single most important que...
Proof of Heaven - A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
“My experience showed me that the death of the body and brain is not the end of consciousness… What happened to me while I was in a coma is the most important story I will ever tell. But it’s a tricky story to tell because it is so foreign to ordinary understanding.“When prominent US neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander goes into a coma after contracting a severe brain infection, his doctors tell hi...
The House of Lies - A shocking true story of secrets, abuse, murder - and surviving it all
From the outside, Renee McBryde had a fairly typical childhood – school, working mum, swimming lessons with loving grandparents. But waiting for her was a secret so awful that it would rock her to the core. Renee’s mother was a teenage runaway who found herself pregnant and alone when Renee’s father was jailed for killing two men. When Renee discovered the truth, she knew her life would never ...
The Spider and the Fly - A Reporter, a Serial Killer and a Journey into Murder
‘Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching, The Spider and the Fly is not just a superb true-crime story but an insightful investigation of the nature of evil, the fragility of good, and the crooked road that can turn human beings into monsters. A must-read.’ GILLIAN FLYNN, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl ’Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I’ll have t...
Into the Trees
Harriet Norton won’t stop crying. Her parents, Ann and Thomas, are being driven close to insanity and only one thing will help. Mysteriously, their infant daughter will only calm when she’s under the ancient trees of Bleasdale forest.The Nortons sell their town-house and set up home in an isolated barn. Secluded deep in the forest, they are finally approaching peace – until one night a group of...
Yamashita'S Gold - the Debt Instalment Five
The Debt was the worst thing to have come into my life. It had almost killed me about a dozen times in a dozen different ways. But here I was wanting, willing, it to contact me. To give me the next instalment. After Rome, Dom has quit running. HeÂ’s still training, though. Swimming lap after lap of the pool. And waiting. Until Dom receives another threatening message. In Latin. He doesnÂ’t know ...
Into the Woods - A Five-ACT Journey Into Story
With examples ranging from The Godfather to True Detective, Mad Men to Macbeth, and fairy tales to Forbrydelsen (The Killing), Yorke utilizes Shakespearean five-act structure as a key to analyzing all storytelling in all narrative forms, from film and television to theatre and novel-writing—a big step from the usual three-act approach Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story is destined to s...
Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gate...
The acclaimed travel writer’s youthful journey – as an 18-year-old – across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author’s exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to...
The Way of Whisky - A Journey Around Japanese Whisky
Winner of the Andre Simon John Avery award ’This book is incredible’ – Alex Kratena An in-depth, personal journey around Japan’s whisky distilleries. Award-winning author and Japanese whisky expert, Dave Broom, tells their story and unveils the philosophy that lies behind this fascinating whisky culture, and how it relates to many Japanese concepts. Dave looks at the history and output of...
Mutant Message Down Under - A Woman's Journey into Dreamtime Australia
“Mutant Message Down Under” is the gripping fictional account of the spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals to accompany them on a walkabout through the outback, she makes a four month long journey with the ‘Real People’, as the tribe calls itself. During this time she learns how they live and thrive in natural harmony with the pl...
In the Woods - Dublin Murder Squad: 1. Winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity and the IVCA Clarion awards
When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan – the child who came back – is a detective in the Dublin police force. HeÂ...
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence - A Story of Botticelli
A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well- educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici familyÂ’s favoured circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano deÂ’ MediciÂ’s glittering circleof ...
The Push - A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan “The rarest of adventure reads: it thrills with colorful details of courage and perseverance but it enriches readers with an absolutely captivating glimpse into how a simple yet unwavering resolve can turn adversity into reward.” —The Denver Post On Janu...
Cure - A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
A rigorous, sceptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mindÂ’s extraordinary ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partnerÂ’s voice? If so, then youÂ’ve experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your...
The Line - An Adventure into the Unknown
A deceptively simple adventure into the unknown using only paper, a pencil and a single line Wreck This Journal had a simple premise: destroy the book in all the ways you can imagine. The Line is even simpler: find pencil, start a line. As you move through the pages of Keri SmithÂ’s newest book, youÂ’ll be asked to let your line meander, explore the bookÂ’s gutter, and jump around the edges of ...
Into the Fire - Vatta's Peace: Book 2
When Admiral Kylara Vatta and a ship full of strangers were marooned on an inhospitable arctic island, they uncovered secrets that someone on KyÂ’s planet was ready to kill to keep hidden. Now, the existence of the mysterious arctic base has been revealed, but the organisation behind it still lurks in the shadows, doing all it can to silence her. It is up to the intrepid Ky to force the perpetrat...
The Fall of Five - Lorien Legacies Book 4
The Fall of Five is the heartstopping fourth installment in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore. I thought things would change when I found the others. We would stop running. We would fight the Mogadorians. And we would win. But I was wrong. Even though we have come together, we barely escaped from them with our lives. And now weÂ’re in hiding, figuring out our next move. The six of us ...
French Food Safari - A Delicious Journey into Culinary Heaven
French Food Safari is a celebration of exquisite French cuisine in all its delicious complexity. Maeve O’Meara and chef Guillaume Brahimi explore both Paris and regional France – visiting some of France’s top chefs and providores. Meet the acclaimed Alain Ducasse, with an unprecedented 19 Michelin stars; the father of modern French cooking Paul Bocuse; legendary chef Guy Savoy, who has restaura...