Alice Martin – författare

Unions face a once in a generation opportunity for renewal. Decades of decline have been compounded by a global elite who increasingly generate profit from financial engineering in ways that side-step labour and undermine the power of organised workers.

However, as this economic system begins to falter, there are signs of a renewed union movement emerging. Debt-laden firms – from supermarkets and nursery chains to outsourcing giants – are collapsing, and workers are organising to determine what comes next. Unionised bank cashiers are refusing to push predatory loans, teachers are striking against the exploitative housing market, and manufacturing workers are pooling redundancy pay to buy-out plants and become worker owners.

Alice Martin and Annie Quick argue that these are seeds of union renewal. To be effective in an age of finance, the union movement must set its ambitions beyond narrow wage-bargaining, and towards the financial systems that have infiltrated workplaces and impoverished communities. By doing so, they can play a critical role in ushering in a new, democratic economy.

No-one committed to economic justice can afford to miss this urgent, highly original book and its radical vision for unions.

21 year old Nyx Harlington is what her family likes to call a supernatural mix. Everyone else in her family is either a phoenix or a werewolf, but she is something entirely different. She is the only one this has ever happened to, so she must be careful not to get close to anyone. When she starts realizing how much this affects her parents and siblings, she decides that they will be better off without her in their lives. She packs a bag, writes some letters, and says goodbye to the only home she''s ever known. But on the path of finding somewhere where she won''t hurt anyone anymore, she meets Everett Phillips aka Scar. She tries to stay away since she knows he could be trouble, but she can''t deny the fact that she feels drawn to him and his strange familiarity. When she finds out what he is, things might change. Especially when she realizes that together they can destroy everything. Can they save each other? Will their powers be enough? Or are they more a curse than a gift?