Bright, popular, pretty and successful, Grace Bowman had the world at her feet. So what drove her to starve herself nearly to death at the age of 18? And what, more importantly, made her stop? A grippingly honest account of life with anorexia nervosa, "Thin" is Grace's hearbreaking, shocking and, finally, inspirational memoir. An extraordinary story, it is also a common one - is there a woman in the western world who has a normal relationship with food? It is a compulsive read, essential for anyone hoping to understand more about eating disorders and overcoming addiction.

BIG PLANS; BIGGER DREAMS Remember your youth? Remember the 80's? Both were great - weren't they? 'Board Of Life' follows Alex Roberts and his friends as they embark on life after college. Set in 1987 and providing a real flavour of the period, we observe this group through Alex's eyes as, one by one, they all take the first steps into their careers. All except Alex that is. Unable to find work and feeling increasingly isolated, he descends into alcoholism and depression. Barely able to cope with the struggle that every day brings, he is caught up in a murder and the ensuing court case has devastating consequences...

WHEN THE VICTIM OF MURDER IS MORE THAN JUST THE DECEASED 'Fortitude' is my first novel and the story takes place in London in June 2009. Although the story involves a murder and a police investigation, it concentrates on the relationships of the people known to the victim. A popular team leader in a software company is murdered fifty miles away from home. The story follows a member of the victim's team, Simon Banks, as he and his colleagues struggle to come to terms with the death. Simon is bypassed for promotion, has a failing relationship with his wife and his father's house is vandalised - revealing a thirty year old family secret. 'Fortitude' is a modern day saga which follows Simon as he tries to get his life back together while at the same time discovering - and then confronting - the killer.

Our bodies has changed little over the past fifty thousand years, but the food that we put into them has changed a lot. Our bodies are basically adapted to a hunter-gatherer diet, but ten thousand years ago our behaviour started to change, and our behaviour changed our food. The pace of change has accelerated recently. Our food has changed partly as a result of changes in the environment that are the result of our own behaviour. We have progressively burnt down forests, to clear land for agriculture. In some places we have caused erosion and desertification of the landscape. In other places we have flooded the landscape, and in some we have covered it with concrete. So far we humans have managed to adapt to these changes. There have been some genetic changes, and there have been many social changes. But we now find ourselves in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. This book tells the story of how we got here. Readers of this book will take a journey through time. In the first Chapter they will experience their first death by eating. In the next Chapter they will be another ‘historical’ person, and in subsequent Chapters they will inhabit a succession of bodies. Altogether they will have nine lives, and each life will end in some kind of death by eating. Today, some fifty percent of humans are urban dwellers, who have lost direct control of their food supply. Urban dwellers cannot grow food in sufficient quantities to feed themselves. They rely on food manufacturers and distributors who are out to make money. Our bodies have not changed, but control of what we put into our bodies has passed out of our hands. Today, the causes of death by eating are very different from what they used to be.

Poetry collection from the founding editor of Citizen32

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. Her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you’re no longer just on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, and the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbours - including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that’s before the arrival of Catherine’s forthright sister, Bryony… THE TAPESTRY OF LOVE is the story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: the portrait of a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life.

Thousands of years into the future, previous civilizations on our planet as we know it have all disappeared. They have been replaced by evolved versions of humans, reptiles, lions and dinosaurs living in concert with new races of sorcerers, sand people, witches and oceaneoples. Across the races of powerful beings, monarchs rule kingdoms that span seven different lands. An evil monarch named Naevalona has set her plan into motion to procure the mighty Gragodonian Emblems from the Peoples of Peace and, in doing so, avenge the insults heaped upon her father. It is up to a motley group of bosom companions, each an heir to his respective kingdom, to stop the encroaching evil. The settings may be otherworldly and the mythical characters may stretch our imaginations, but at the heart of the book rests an important universal truth: the incredible power of self-discovery. Join this group of adventurers as they embark on a dangerous quest and learn about themselves and each other. Find out who falls by the wayside battling evil, whom among them has been the nemesis the whole time, and whether the righteous ones can, in the end, overcome the combined powers of the enemy.

A collection of short stories set in the late 1950's/early 1960's and based upon the Author's own family whilst living in South Queensferry on the Southern shore of the River Forth. The stories are all beautifully written with the characters brought alive in a colourful and authentic manner. With his usual flair, Mr. Gisby has managed to create a compilation of tales to warm and touch the heart of the reader. The tales contain depth, humour and pathos, and as always his characters generate compassion in the reader whilst they hold the interest from page to page. A nice added touch is the fact that most of them re-appear in the different stories, and it's not until one has almost finished reading that one realises there is a continuing story-thread running throughout. Equally entertaining as a whole read or as individual reads, this is a most delightful book to add to anyone's bookshelf, and is to be especially enjoyed when curled up in the warm on a Winter's evening.

The winner of the 2007 Merial Human-Animal Bond Award,CATSONG is a series of sometimes humorous, sometimes wistful vignettes of life in a multicat household. "T. J. Banks clearly knows and understands cats, and her appreciation of and love for each individual cat shines through in her sensitive and beautiful prose." --Ingrid King, THE CONSCIOUS CAT

Wanting to make a difference, schoolteacher Iris Amory goes over to France as a Red Cross nurse during World War I. Little does she realize that "the war to end all wars" will really be the war to change all wars...or how dealing with the shell-shocked and maimed men will tear her heart wide open, changing her most of all.

This is an e-book short story about survival. All author proceeds ($0.35 per sale) will go to the Red Cross Haiti relief fund.