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Andrew has lived a full and occasionally adventurous life, kept on track by his loving and clear-thinking wife, Jennifer. He's a family man and creative entrepreneur, constantly searching for simple solutions to often complex problems. His 'grasshopper' brain finds focusing on a single issue a challenge, which is why this book, written in his rather chaotic, speedy style, is somewhat of an achievement. The Ego Has Landed is a product of reaching an important milestone and recognising that life is not infinite, and that, perhaps, family generations to come may find his story insightful and of historical interest. Funny, irreverent, critical and controversial, Andrew reflects and looks back on his experiences with the view that "Life is NOT a journey to the grave with the goal of arriving in a prettily preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways in a shower of party shards, thoroughly used, utterly exhausted, and loudly proclaiming: Fuck ME, that was BRILLIANT!" This book is dedicated to the 250,000 people suffering in the UK today from the physically debilitating disease, M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), and the consequent impact on their wellbeing and mental health. We live in hope that some day the scientists and medical professionals will find a cure.

CYRIL'S LOTTERY OF LIFE depicts bizarre and comic events with a sexual undertone centred on an unconventional English lawyer's practice and his colourful and wacky clients. Alphabet fetishes and phobias, a terminal desk-top adventure, an investigation into mysterious anonymous messages, a secretary secretly in love with her boss, an overload of cholesterol-filled kosher food, a chief superintendent whose blow-up doll makes a dramatic public appearance, a bottle fed judge who nightly retires to bed in a nappy and babygro and Cyril Braithwaite, fretting that most of his legal cases relate to his clients' private parts, all contribute to an absorbing, fast moving, hilarious legal tale.

When did you last feel so overwhelmed by an experience that your jaw dropped?When were you so struck by something that you had goosebumps?When did you last say 'WOW' out loud and feel like a child again?Children say 'WOW' a lot. But in our busy, admin-filled, tech-driven adult lives finding time, energy and opportunity to say 'WOW' each day can seem impossible. Award-winning journalist and mindfulness specialist Lucy Stone has taught meditation to over 15,000 primary school children, and over the same period, taught thousands of adults including athletes, politicians and chief executives. Her observation that children found meditation far easier to grasp than adults led to a ground-breaking discovery:As adults we have lost our WOW, but the good news is we can get it back. Find Your WOW explores how finding moments of WOW is the secret to a happier, healthier, more creative and connected life. Building on her years of frontline teaching in classrooms and boardrooms, sensemaking, and research, Lucy has developed an innovative five-step framework that will help you to Find Your WOW every day. Packed full of practical techniques, the latest studies and unique insights, Lucy explores the science of WOW, the dangers of living in a 'WOW-less world', how to go 'Good WOW hunting' and why living in a 'New WOW order' can help those around us too. Find Your WOW will not only help you to see the world differently, it might just save your mind. 'Lucy is the Queen of finding WOW in the everyday.'- Amy Williams, Olympic Gold Medallist & TV Presenter

Whether you have a lifelong love of nature or you cannot identify whether something is an elder or an alder, a daisy or a dandelion, or a heron or a herring gull, The Wonders of the Wild Places is the book for you. From the mountains to the sea, woodland to farmland, heaths and riversides we have many habitats in the United Kingdom, and The Wonders of the Wild Places provides information about some of the many species which inhabit these habitats. It is packed with interesting facts about nature designed to encourage you to go out and about and enjoy the wonders of the wild places. If you have ever wondered how birds migrate or which invertebrate has the largest brain, The Wonders of the Wild Places provides the answers - and many more. It covers many subjects from folklore to language, social history to the latest science. The Wonders of the Wild Places also explains the current threats to the natural world and provides details of what is being done to protect nature and also has suggestions of how individuals can help nature, from cleaning up your nearest beach to building a bug hotel.  After reading The Wonders of the Wild Places you will never see the natural world in the same way again.

Mike Walton lived with his parents on a country estate. His father, Robert, worked as the Warden responsible for the livestock and a forest after he retired from the Army. Mike worked with his father learning about nature and how to survive in the wild. It was no surprise after leaving school that he joined the Army. Sadly, while on patrol in Iraq he was injured by a land mine. With his future uncertain he travelled to a remote part of Exmoor to consider his options. While there he experienced an alien encounter.

When Grandpa was a boy, he befriended a creature on the family farm who could be invisible to human eye. This creature sat on the shoulder of Jack (Grandpa) and, being invisible, guided Jack with answers to exams and other problems. The friendship lasted all of Jack's life and even helped him, as an adult, with business problems and decisions, so that his grandchildren also had access to this knowledge and guidance. This story is based on family farms in East Anglia, which have records for the last 1000 years and the ebb and flow of different cultures. The basic wildlife has remained little changed this last 1000 years other than wolves dying out, but the forests that covered all of the areas have gone and so the creatures supported by them have been reduced. In this story, the Guardian maintains the balance and still uses his five-year calendar gold hat (German museums have some of these dating from the Bronze Age). It was the spread of arable farming that needed these tall hats and grassland farming calendar hats were less high. Much old knowledge on astronomy and seasonal cycles was lost when the hat use and class of people who interpreted their information were done away with by incoming Christians who melted down the gold hats to fund the first churches.

Mikey, the dog who saved the whole worlds...Cedric, the punk dragon who lost his flame...the troll who gets his revenge on the pesky goats.. The young toad who helps the witch with her spells....The wolf who get's his revenge on spoilt Red Riding Hood... And Rufus the rapping pirate who teaches Cuthbert the Cutlass to dance...Have a look inside this book to meet these fantastic characters and find the full stories, all beautifully illustrated by Andrew Prescott

A mostly silly story for adults. The reader is drawn into a dreamworld to have an absurd adventure that crosses the genres of fantasy, mystery, horror, romance, science fiction and more. Slumber offers the opportunity to experience worlds from fantasy to science fiction, full of mystery and adventure. Delve into a land of dreams where the known and unknown blend together, where the familiar becomesstrange and the peculiar seems quite normal. Prepare to be taken on a most unusual journey, where you are the one to save the day and find new friends along the way.

Robert Oakeshott was of a man of humorous eccentricity and intoxicating discourse, a man of many lives. As an Oxford undergraduate in 1956 he hitch-hiked into Budapest at the height of the student-led revolution, carrying nothing but moral support and a suitcase of penicillin. Then foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, key development officer in Zambia at the time of independence, alternative educationist in Botswana. He founded a think tank in the UK to promote justice and fairness in the workplace through employee ownership, an economic model that he took to Eastern Europe in the 1990s. Simultaneously, he was a generous philanthropist who played a leading role in the founding of pioneering charities.