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The Best Years
Tony Best

March 2, 2015 Sarah

This is the story of Tony Best, musician and entertainer, told in his own words. Tony’s extraordinary and often joyful career spanned over six decades and took many turns in all manner of unexpected directions. He describes how he went with the flow and followed whichever road life took him; how he spent his school days and teenage years and how he completed fourteen years service in the RAF – and how he left the service and lived in North Wales for eight years, eventually becoming a full-time musician and entertainer, finally settling in Shrewsbury and taking the stage name Tony Best.

Published:	1st March 2016
Hardback:	210 pages
Price:	£12.99
ISBN:	9-781911-175056

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From there on, ever the entertainer, Tony relates his travels all over the UK and Europe and his adventures in the music business on the road with gusto, all wrapped up with a host of highly amusing and interesting anecdotes and unusual experiences demonstrating, among other things, his amazing memory for detail and his skill in telling the story of what has been a wonderful career.

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Travels of a Hard-Rock Mining Engineer
Martin Stoakes

January 25, 2015 Sarah

Travels of a Hard-Rock Mining Engineer is a chronicle of the travels and experiences of a hard-rock mining engineer during the last half of the 20th century. It gives a vivid and an instructive insight into the generally little known subject of hard-rock mining, often in remote locations. Various mining projects are described in detail and provide a fascinating insight into the complexities of mine design and evaluation. Martin Stoakes worked on 125 mining projects in thirty-seven different countries over a forty-four year period. His graphic account of the sometimes nerve-racking conditions and locales that he experienced includes encounters with Shining Path guerrilla fighters in Peru, MNLF Islamic fundamentalists in the Philippines and the RPF guerrillas in Rwanda/Uganda. Hard rock mining was never for the faint-hearted.

Published:	1st Feb 2015
Paperback:	638 pages
Price:	£25.00
ISBN:	9-781909-644441

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Murderous fighters notwithstanding, the author's passion for narrow-boating, walking, cycling and his love of dogs give a tranquil balance and, from the early 1980s, there is a touching account of the trials and tribulations of first fostering, then adopting and raising a son into his family.

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A customer-centred approach to product design and services.
Amir Azizpour

January 19, 2015 Sarah Leave a comment

Outside-In Service Design is a User-Centred approach to designing products and services, aiming to give the customer a unique and memorable experience as well as optimising the business processes. Customers are the main influence on the design - the better the experience, the more chance you will have of customer retention and loyalty.
This book takes us on a practical journey to understand, appreciate and apply the Service Design approach:
* Seeing things from the customer perspective
* 14 Practical Stages of Outside-In Service Design
* How Service Design is used during business development.
* 17 Key Considerations during Service Design
* How conceptual design benefits business
* Groundbreaking theory of user expectations and experience

Publication:	30th Oct 2015
Paperback:	136 pages
Price:	£25
ISBN:	9-781909-644731

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Amir Azizpour has a background in business, technology and psychology with a passion for delivering unique and innovative solutions to ensure the highest levels of user satisfaction, experience and loyalty. He has more than 30 years experience in applying Service Design concepts to all aspects of business including Customer Services, Training, and Product Design as well as providing consultancy on Business Process, Management and Software Design.
His passion is to spread the Service Design model through training, assessment and consultancy.
I believe proper application of Service Design can seriously improve the quality of our lives. Conversely, poorly designed products and services cause stress and lower the quality of life for the users. My mission is to identify poorly-delivered products and services and help to improve them.
Amir Azizpour

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Mend the Broken Pieces
Maggie Walters

January 14, 2015 Sarah

Lizzie Strahan is single and a workaholic, a way of life self-imposed after the untimely death of her young son. Forced by ill-health to change her career as a successful barrister, she retreats to the country and embarks on a project to establish a bed and breakfast business in a small village. Out of the blue, she is joined by her good friend Mary whose husband has jilted her for a younger woman and, together, the two women start life afresh. But Lizzie’s old contacts are not so easily shaken off. One evening, a young woman, Josetta Delaney, is found murdered and Lizzie knows her. She feels compelled to find out how Josetta met her demise and then she discovers that two private-investigator friends, Robert Isaacs (‘Zak’) and Charlie Rattigan (‘Ratty’) are trying to unravel another possibly-related death. A web of deceit unfolds. It will take Lizzie and Mary on a journey of discovery that neither woman could possibly have imagined.

Paperback:	284 pages
Price:	£12.00
ISBN:	9-781909-644434

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Colour of my Heart
Kavita Comar

January 14, 2015 Sarah

"LOVE doesn't warn you when it hits. It's like a drug. You're on an awesome high; but when you try to wean yourself off, knowing that in the long run you'll be better off without it, you get withdrawal symptoms. So you go back for more, hoping it'll make you feel the same way it did when you first experienced it. Christian was my drug; he was my addiction."

Anushka Lamba, a strong minded British-Indian woman wants to shape her destiny as director of her own life. Except, she constantly battles with her inner-self - and her loving but traditional Hindu parents, who believe she is too "westernised" and not "Indian" enough. When Anu arrives at university, half way across the country, to study a degree that's far from her parent's choice - and their wavering eye - she's exposed to freedom and independence in abundance. She embarks on a secret relationship with fellow student Chris, whom she desperately wants to introduce and welcome into her family life.

Published:	1st Jan 2015
Paperback:	288 pages
Price:	£10.99
ISBN:	9-781909-644410

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Her dilemmas and decisions take her on a roller-coaster ride - a tangled web of culture, identity, betrayal, confusion and heartache - in ways she could never have imagined. Is Anu strong enough to face the obstacles that stand in her way or will she give up midway and live a lesser life, leaving things to the mercy of destiny? Colour of my Heart takes us on a warm-hearted and emotional journey from Anu's present deep into her past, as she strives to assert her own happiness and discover her own identity - without losing touch with her proud Indian roots and her parent's aspirations.

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Historical murder based on the true story of Brighton Artist Henry Havelock Cornell
Lauren Staton

January 13, 2015 Sarah

Secrets haunt the streets of Brighton town; creativity flutters, like a moth in a lamplight; love disappears without explanation.
The torment of a man breeds hatred and mistrust from all who know him. No one is helping him and no one wants to. He writes his confession from the edge of sanity then hides his notes between his paintings where they remain until they are discovered over sixty years later
When murder is just enough to push you to the brink of insanity, the perfect place to keep you silent is the asylum. But when death approaches, the truth has nothing to lose as it emerges from the darkness of time.

Published:	1st April 2016
Paperback:	316 pages
Price:	£13.99
ISBN:	9-781911-175100

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A historical novel based on the true story of Brighton Artist Henry Havelock Cornell, following the discovery of notes he had written prior to him being admitted into a mental asylum. The story, which starts in Brighton England at the turn of the twentieth century, takes us to prewar London in 1939 where our main character Harry gets involved with a blackmailing and forgery gang. Murders are committed and a string of lies are told twisting the story into a tale that has been held secret and hidden away - until now.

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Sour Dough and Sweet Ladies
Harry Berridge

January 13, 2015 Sarah

Red hot and highly descriptive are words best used to delineate the sexual content in this intriguing story. The sex together with controversial, easy, money-making techniques, all based on true events, are brilliantly described in the adventures of Harry, an ordinary young man who discovers hidden talents within him after he reluctantly leaves London to work in the north-west of England. Harry discovers that he is not the quiet man whom everyone thought he was. He finds himself turning into an inexorable, money-making, sexual predator, yearning to possess all females that fall for his newly found charms. In business - although with scant experience - he becomes a supremely confident entrepreneur, and this in turn enables him to break in to the shady, corrupt side of industry.

Published:	1st Nov 2015
Paperback:	369 pages
Price:	£12.00
ISBN:	9-781909-644830

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Money pours in as he sets up deal after deal and his decadent lifestyle blooms. His confidence with the fairer sex blossoms as lover after lover comes and goes - and with them so does his hard-earned money. After setting up a deal with a top, North Sea Oil executive, he becomes a major sub-contractor with many thousands of pounds weekly pouring in to his bank account. And now the drink and women that once were his pleasure become his downfall and, all too soon, contract after contract fails. With most of his money spent, age and illness become a major problem. It is payback time, and his once high life falls around his feet. He is close to destitution. The women have gone and so has the money. He is alone and broke.'

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Professor Dark of Illinois University was a hero of the raid on St. Nazaire during WW2
Prof Philip Dark

December 17, 2014 Sarah

Craftsmanship of Art is the culmination of a lifetime’s fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific. It ranges around the world and through time with many references to stone-age and bronze-age culture in Europe and the Middle East as well as to more 'anthropological' research further afield. It makes particular reference to the Kilenge people of Papua New Guinea where the author spent many years on and off. The cumulative effect is of an exhaustive exploration of human art and craft and the search for a universal definition of what art actually is. Since anthropology seeks the humanitas in human beings, Professor Dark contends, a vital key to such an understanding of art lies in the genius of artists and craftsmen and in how their artifacts are appreciated and communicated in different cultures. The text is illustrated by over seven hundred illustrations by Mavis Dark and is followed by a full index and bibliography.

Hardback: 678 pages

Price: £50.00

ISBN: 978-0954835156

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Professor Dark of Illinois University was a hero of the raid on St. Nazaire during World War II and became interested in anthropology while a prisoner of war in northern Germany. This is the last book to be published by Professor Dark before he died.

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All posts by Sarah

The Best Years
Tony Best

Travels of a Hard-Rock Mining Engineer
Martin Stoakes

A customer-centred approach to product design and services.
Amir Azizpour

Mend the Broken Pieces
Maggie Walters

Colour of my Heart
Kavita Comar

Historical murder based on the true story of Brighton Artist Henry Havelock Cornell
Lauren Staton

Sour Dough and Sweet Ladies
Harry Berridge

Professor Dark of Illinois University was a hero of the raid on St. Nazaire during WW2
Prof Philip Dark

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