Girls Can’t Play Football
David Waugh

October 12, 2015 Sarah

Lauren longed to play football. She was sure she would be good at it. She had watched endless videos of matches, especially of her hero, Lionel Messi, and she spent hours practising her ball skills in her tiny back yard and in the passageway behind her house, and on the wasteland next to an old, disused factory near her house.
She had often watched the boys from a distance and she was certain that she was more skilful than most of them. The trouble was, she had never played in a game. She could dribble in and out of the obstacle courses she set up for herself using plastic bottles and drinks cans, and she could trap and volley the ball as she bounced it off the brick wall of the old factory. What she did not know was if she could use her skills when other people were trying to take the ball from her. But before she could find out, she had to persuade the boys to let her play!

Published:	1st Oct 2015
Paperback:	118 pages
Price:	£7.50
ISBN:	9-781909-644861

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The book should appeal to both boys and girls and includes a range of topics which may interest readers, including wildlife, football, the effects of being a celebrity, and attempts to communicate in French.

Dr David Waugh is Senior Teaching Fellow at Durham University and an expert in Primary English. He has written 27 books on the subject and was an adviser for the National Strategies form 2008-2010. Until 2008, he was Head of Education at University of Hull. He has taught in four schools and was a deputy headteacher before working in higher education.

livesinprint

A Psychiatrist’s Life
Dr. Yousufzai F.R.C. Psych.

October 7, 2015 Sarah

Dr. Yousufzai's autobiography describes in compelling detail his journey from a moderately poor but proud family of Pathans in the small town of Najibabad, India, in 1936, through the horrors of Partition and his struggle for survival and education in early Pakistan, to success in the UK and work as a Clinical Tutor, member and chairperson of a number of educational and administrative boards and committees, medical director of an NHS Trust and adviser to his local Marriage Guidance Council for a number of years.
This is the story of a long, hard struggle, cleverly analysed and described in vivid terms. Dr. Yousufsai is brutally frank and honest about his own weaknesses and he describes, in brief, a number of interesting cases he had the privilege to help, in the hope that this will give insight to the general public about the nature and variety of human problems that psychiatrists deal with - and in the hope that it will also help to reduce the stigma of mental disorders and shed light on the interaction of body and mind.

Published:	10th July 2015
Paperback:	290 pages
Price:	£11.99
ISBN:	9-781909-644601

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Dr. N. M. Yousufzai is a retired consultant psychiatrist and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

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Non-Fiction

Essential skills for improving essay-writing and exam technique.
Kyriacos Papasavva

October 5, 2015 Sarah

If you are studying a written subject at university and want to succeed, you will need to know how to apply study skills effectively.
Based on a decade long experience in teaching, Kyriacos Papasavva helps you develop the essential skills which will enable you to improve your essay writing and exam technique, and therefore succeed at university.
Uniquely, this guide merges everyday study skills with a critical approach to your studies; required for philosophy, theology and ethics students particularly.

This guide will help you:

Understand marking criteria at university.
Write well-structured essays.
Develop a critical & reflective study skills approach.
Manage your time throughout the academic year.
And much more.

Published:	5th Oct 2015
Paperback:	114 pages
Price:	£6.99
ISBN:	9-781909-644878

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Kyriacos Papasavva is a study skills tutor at the University of London a KS3-5 teacher and a private tutor. He has taught students from the University of Saint Andrews, Heythrop College, Brunel University, Eton, Harrow School and a host of colleges and 6th forms throughout England.

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books

Ken Loach

September 29, 2015 Bob Fowke

Film maker Ken Loach invites us to consider Micheline Mason and Alan Sprung’s new book, published by YouCaxton, Healing the Hurts of Capitalism. This carefully argued book makes use of concepts more generally applied in psychology in order to arrive at an understanding of why our present system of finance and social relationships remains entrenched. His introduction is on the back cover.

poetry

Flux
Pat Edwards

September 18, 2015 Sarah

Flux is a collection of poems and essays by Pat Edwards. They span love and loss, topical events and living life to the full, and do so with warmth, honesty and sometimes a hint of humour.
Pat's work has been published on-line in poetry blogs and websites such as Offa's Press and Not a Silent Poet.
Pat regularly attends open mic events in Welshpool, Wrexham, Chester, Aberystwyth and Much Wenlock. She has had drama scripts published by Lazy Bees.
Pat's first book, printed very much as a 'vanity project', was well-received:

The book won't make the holiday as it was read from cover to cover when I got home....I laughed and cried all in the same hour, fantastic writing
Been reading your essays, moved me to tears. Can certainly recognise many feelings and thoughts. Fantastic keep writing
Very poignant and clever - very moving

Published:	15th July 2015
Paperback:	145 pages
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ISBN:	9-781909-644823

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Pat was born in Aberdeen, went to school in Poole, attended college in Eastbourne, and has lived in Mid Wales since 1979. She taught Physical Education for over thirteen years before training to be a work-based assessor and verifier. Pat then worked in and around Telford and Shrewsbury supporting people training to be Teaching Assistants and to work in Early Years Care. In 2013 Pat re-trained, gaining the LAMDA Diploma in Communication, Speech and Drama Education. She formed MASH-UP ARTS delivering workshops in drama, dance, singing and poetry. She continues to teach English and Drama in a number of local schools and to promote MASH-UP ARTS. Pat enjoys singing with Quindici, a small chamber choir which was formed in 2001, and enjoyed a long and happy association with Buttington Musical Theatre Company until her recent decision to make more time for her writing.

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J. A. Humphrey - Intelligent and Moving Poems
This book, consisting mostly of poetry with some autobiographical essays at the end, is full of 'oh yes, it's exactly like that!' moments. Pat Edwards writes with a mixture of intelligence, emotion and humour that creates an immediate connection with the reader. She has clearly been through a great deal of personal trauma because of recent serious illness, but has transformed this into universal experience through the quality of her controlled and incisive writing. I came upon 'Flux' purely by chance, but it is a book to which I shall return again and again.

Non-Fiction

Healing the Hurts of Capitalism
Micheline Mason and Alan Sprung

September 18, 2015 Sarah

Published:	Sept 2015
Paperback:	182 pages
Price:	£7.99
ISBN:	9-781909-644779

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Healing the Hurts of Capitalism
From Isolation to Connection
How do we break old habits and routines that stop us making progress? In organising politically, how do we escape ways of doing things that are either self-defeating or out of date? Those involved in radical politics frequently put their heads in their hands in despair as old habits die hard – too often they are as destructive as ever. Or attempts to break the mould seem as eccentric and counter-productive as the patterns they would replace. It seems that we are on rails, travelling to a destination that has already been determined. How to escape? Let’s open the book and see what Micheline and Alan suggest …
Ken Loach – Film maker

Micheline Mason is an artist, writer and activist. For over forty-five years she was part of an international organisation of people who developed a simple but profound way to help each other to recover from past emotional injuries.
In this community she helped develop the theory and became a teacher of the method, exchanging attention with thousands of people in many different countries.
In her ‘retirement’ she has chosen to share what she learnt with as many people as possible with a view to empowering them to continue the work themselves. She lives in London.

Reviews...

Thoughtful and Different
Healing the Hurts of Capitalism offers an interesting explanation of why the capitalist system remains the status quo and why attempts to change it result in failure. Rather than dwelling on economics and politics it tackles the downside of capitalism from the standpoint of our own psychological distress ‘patterns’. Patterns are entrenched behaviour patterns which result from past hurts and they dictate our responses to the world around us and to our own relationships and situations in ways that are less than appropriate or helpful. ‘Patterns’ such as the pursuit of excessive wealth, compulsive shopping to make us feel better, addictions, fearing people different from ourselves, competitiveness, feelings of isolation and powerlessness are bad for us as individuals but en masse they prevent our own growth and the growth of civilisation into something more humane, more sustainable, more cooperative and more equal. A good and interesting read and very accessible unlike many books on the subject.

Susan Harris - Great Read
Wow what a brilliant book and it is written in very accessible way. It has a new approach using a diverse group of peoples personal experiences and thinking to illustrate the impact of Capatalism in their lives.. This makes it a a wonderful alternative to the academic explanations. It brings clarity to the complexities and mechanics of the present system and offers ways to support each other to build a better society.

Stefan Szczelkun
Many of us who have experienced peer counselling, or perhaps have been through a process of recovery from addictions or trauma with the intensive use of professional counselling, have a political insight into the way that the forces that hold our class system together are embedded in us from an early age. The political landscape is founded on feelings of superiority and inferiority that don’t seem to be accessible to rational analysis or challenge.
There are many thousands of people scattered through the population that have acquired these insights over the last 30 or 40 years but communicating them to the rest of the world has not happened. Part of the difficulty may have been that the knowledge gained through live and emotionally charged interaction does not translate into words on a page or screen. The clever thing that the authors of ‘Healing the Hurts of Capitalism’ have done is to base their book on transcriptions from a series of listening workshops in which the participants respond to questions about their experiences in relation to capitalism. The many quotations from these workshops give the reader an stronger idea of the process that is being proposed. In fact the book ends with a chapter on how to set up a successful listening group.
The idea is to infuse grass roots politics with a process of communication that could liberate us from the stultifying effects of the everyday oppressions we have been subject to and that have limited our power. Its an ambitious book that is written in very accessible language. I’d recommend it to anyone who wants to find a more caring form of political practice.

Books by Micheline Mason...

An Ordinary Baby

Healing The Hurts of Capitalism

The Phenomenon of the Human Distress Pattern

belief, history, travel

Retraces the footsteps of St Columbanus of Bangor, a modern pilgrimage.
Barry Sloan

September 18, 2015 Sarah

Why would a Northern Irish Protestant, raised in a staunchly loyalist community, hitchhike through Catholic Europe on the trail of medieval celtic monks? Why is the seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland largely responsible for Europe becoming a Christian continent? What role did an Ulsterman play in the creation of the European Union, and what can be done today to break down walls and bring people together? Who was Columbanus of Bangor and why are present-day librarians from all over the world indebted to him? Why does God not like zebras, has Murphy's Law anything to do with chaos theory, and why are the Germans the reason Ireland had to wait 1,900 years to get decent, straight roads?

Published:	20th Nov 2015
Paperback:	206 pages
Price:	£9.99
ISBN:	9-781909-644953

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Answers to all these questions can be found within these pages, the story of the European travels of sixth-century saint, Columbanus - and of a twenty-first century sinner, the book’s author. Weaving history, politics, theology, and personal narrative together in a humorous and readable way, Sloan tells the fascinating story of Columbanus and his legacy in uniting Europe. Profound moments of reflection and insight are punctuated by hilarious episodes: of breakfast with Vikings, of an attack by monster bees - and lunch with a talking horse! When the Saints go Marching is funny, thought-provoking, informative, inspiring and challenging - and all without being preachy.

Barry J. Sloan, born in Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, is married and has two children. He is an ordained Methodist minister, currently serving as mission partner with the United Methodist Church in Germany.

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artbooks

In Search of an Author
Lex Thomas

August 27, 2015 Sarah

In Search of an Author is a collection of 62 fluidly drawn ink studies, individual drawings in their own right, but interlinked by the subject of belief and the stories we tell ourselves. Artist Lex Thomas examines unexplained natural phenomena such as the supernatural and paranormal as well as magic, cults and UFO religions. The effect is a non-textual, fragmentary narrative echoing the idea that ‘truth is in the eye of the beholder’. The title acknowledges the playright Pirandello, credited with breaking through the ‘fourth wall’ with his creation of Mirror Theatre.

Published:	Jan 2016
Paperback:	124pages
Price:	£12.50
ISBN:	978-1-911175-03-2

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Lex Thomas lives and works in London. Having read Sociology at the University of Greenwich Thomas studied Fine Art for three years at the University of the West of England and subsequently a Postgraduate Diploma at Chelsea College of Art. Since then she has exhibited in Europe and the States and widely throughout the UK including at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, the Princes Foundation Gallery, the Mall Galleries and Orleans House Gallery. Solo exhibitions have been Of Truth of Clouds, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire (2013) and Future Proof, Opus Gallery, Newcastle (2011). She has been shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, the Rising Stars Prize and won third place in the Woolgather Art Prize. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, USA and Germany as well as the Cill Rialaig Arts Collection, Ireland.

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