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”Varje golfare, oavsett nivå, är bara två dåliga slag från att bli galen och bara ett slag ifrån att hamna i total eufori”Sams bok kan absolut göra att du tar ditt spel till nästa nivå. Den beskriver hur du själv skapar din upplevelse av spelet, hur du skapar din swing och hur du tränar. När du ser hur vi inifrån och ut skapar både möjligheter och motstånd så kommer du förmodligen älska spelet ännu mer och spela mycket bättre.Sam arbetar som PGA-tränare utanför London och spelat på touren. Boken beskriver hela hans resa med fokus på det mentala spelet. Den insikt han delar i boken kommer vara till stor hjälp för många golfare. Oavsett din nivå så kommer igenkänningsfaktorn kommer att vara hög. Det kommer den vara även om du håller på med någon annan idrott.

From the New York Times bestselling author of ‍ First, We Make the Beast Beautiful ‍‘A brilliantly raw book that reveals the truth of what really matters’ Fearne Cotton We live in truly overwhelming times. The climate crisis, the pandemic, AI advances, conspiracy theories, political polarisation…and the rest…have left many of us in a state of ‘spiritual PTSD’, feeling disconnected from one another, from our values, from our joy.In this radical spiritual guidebook, New York Times -bestselling author Sarah Wilson puts on her backpack and spends three years hiking around the world – in Jordan, Cornwall, the Lake District, the Australian Outback, Japan the Sierra Nevada and beyond – to find a path through it all.She follows in the footsteps of Nietzsche, Wordsworth and other favourite poets and thinkers, venturing deeper into nature, going to ‘spiritual edges’ and meeting monks, lovers and renegades along the way. And she emerges with a blueprint for living a wilder, more connected life, and one that must just save our precious life on this planet.

En tonårsbok som ger nycklar för livet...Hur blir vi lyckligare? Hur hittar vi vårt självförtroende? Hur lyckas vi på olika områden och hur skapar vi bättre relationer? Vill du hitta din inre kraft? Amis lättlästa bok ger svaret på detta. Boken har nu trycks och sålts i tiotusentals exemplar. Skolor och organisationer i hela världen har använt den både som studiematerial eller bara en trevlig bok att läsa helt enkelt. Barn och ungdomar har väldigt lätt att förstå det enkla budskapet i boken, en grund och förståelse som kommer sitta kvar hela livet.Är du förälder? Boken kommer ge dig lika mycket som den ger barn.

Tom dreamed of being an adventurer. But people told him he was crazy, so he decided to prove them wrong by cycling round the world!Books One and Two follow Tom crossing Europe and descending Africa, then pedalling through the Americas to Alaska. In Part Three, the final leg of his journey, he continues to have amazing experiences. He tackles the freezing temperatures of Siberia, rides behind reindeer in Russia, floats in a Japanese pool watched by monkeys and follows the Great Wall of China. Finally, he bikes back home to England. Tom learns about the world, and himself, as he tackles this epic journey. Based on the author s personal adventure and with engaging illustrations, maps and handwritten journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.

Part two of the bestselling trilogy Tom dreamed of being an adventurer, but people told him he was crazy, so he decided to prove them wrong by cycling round the world.The first book of adventures followed Tom across Europe and through the mysterious landscapes of Africa.In Part Two, he pedals north from the tip of South America up through the Americas towards Alaska. He must contend with deserts, jungles and the massive mountains of the Andes. He meets grizzly bears, fascinating locals and even a memorable guinea pig. Tom learns about the world, and himself, as he tackles this epic journey.Based on the author’s personal experiences and with engaging illustrations, maps and handwritten journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.

SHORTLISTED: Betty Trask PrizeSHORTLISTED: Nero Book AwardsSHORTLISTED: East Anglian Book Awards‘A beautiful novel about the beautiful game’ Jonathan PearceFor ten months of the year, two men are drawn to adjacent seats in a stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team.Fatherless and fretful, the Young Man is trying to nurture a precarious new relationship and to find his place in the world. The Old Man, an increasingly isolated carer for his fading wife, knows he has little left to look forward to. Neither fan is a comfortable talker. However, in a slow-motion play of nods, silences and guarded chats, they strike up a tentative friendship across the generational gap.Told through thirty-eight chapters – one for each game of the Premier League campaign – Season is a lyrical, hypnotic and gently uplifting study of loneliness and modern masculinity. About much more than football, it celebrates the healing, unifying and maddening role of ritualised sport in the lives of ordinary people.

36 livshistorier som ger Dig en ny riktning och en väg som är väldigt enkel, vägen tillbaka till Din grunddesign. Det är fullt möjligt att: Leva ett stress-, och orosfritt liv Ha fantastiska relation Öka din prestationsförmåga Hitta dig själv och din kraftkälla Vara dynamon i grupper Nå dina drömmar Författaren till "Ta Svart Bälte I Att Leva", Martin Järnland är transformativ affärs-livscoach och utbildare. Här är han personliga ord om boken: Jag rekommenderar att du läser boken i lugn och ro. Ifrågasätt men gör det med barnets nyfikenhet. Var inte den dömande experten som kan allt. Boken vill peka dig i en naturlig riktning och ge dig en egen kunskap om hur du når lugn, visdom, stabilitet och insikt där du med ett fritt sinne skapar livet och är bra emot dig själv och andra. Du har ett medfött ”Svart bälte i att leva”.

Människans inre visdom och förmåga att få insikter är den mest oanvända resursen i företag och organisationer...Boken ger svaret på väldigt många livsfrågor. Den beskriver och förklarar den inre kraft som förlöser den potential som alla människor har. För dig så kan innebörden av kunskapen bli enorm, vare sig du är ledare,förälder, vän eller partner. Du får access till ett produktivt och tillfredställande liv. Författarna bakom boken; Ken, Robin och Sandra arbetar sedan 15 år med företag, organisationer och enskilda över hela världen. Deras vision och absoluta tro är att om 10 år så kommer så kommer denna kunskap och förståelse av människans sinne att vara självklar för 50% av företagen på USAs större börslistor.Boken innehåller i princip alla delar som de har på sin 3,5 dagars standardutbildning, där du som läsare följer med från start till mål. Det blir både nytt och konfunderande i början, men ju längre du läser, desto fler pusselbitar kommer falla på plats.

‍From the bestselling author of the Cockleberry Bay and Ferry Lane Market series The sequel to Working It Out Ruby Matthews never expected to be starting over. But, after a sudden tragic loss, she questions whether she will ever be happy again.A chance encounter with handsome author Michael Bell throws her fragile heart into turmoil, while a dark family secret adds to her confusion. Only when she starts volunteering at the Bow Wow Club (Boyfriends of Widows, Wives of Widowers) does she begin to tackle her grief head on.Will she let love win? Or allow her past to continue to haunt her? In this charming sequel to Working It Out , you’ll laugh and cry as Ruby searches for inner peace.

A mother’s journey of grief and transformation Can a parent ever survive the death of a daughter or son? Drowning in grief and with her life in pieces, psychotherapist Diane Esguerra asks herself this question as she sets off for Peru to scatter the ashes of Sacha, her only child, at the sacred Inca citadel Machu Picchu, a place he loved.Every step of the journey triggers memories of the young man’s troubled life of abuse and addiction. As Diane makes connections with other bereaved people in the unlikeliest of settings, she also has mystical encounters that affirm her Buddhist faith and put her on a path to acceptance and healing. The fragments of her life gradually reassemble – in a more meaningful pattern than before.By turns funny, engaging and moving, this richly coloured account of one mother’s physical and spiritual journey shows it’s possible not only to survive every parent’s worst nightmare, but to experience growth and transformation along the way.

Alex Hickman goes in search of adventure as a news correspondent in the Balkans. He finds himself surrounded by key political figures, watching on as corruption and scandal take over the country.Haunted by his late father's thirst for adventure, Alex Hickman persuaded his local newspaper that it needed a Balkan correspondent. Talking his way into besieged Sarajevo, he watched as the city's fragile ceasefire fell apart. A series of chance encounters took him to Albania and a bizarre appointment with the government. Thrown into an alliance with the country's colorful dissident leader, he found himself occupying a ringside seat as corruption and scandal spilled the country into chaos. This is a moving story of one man's search for his father's legacy among the mountains and ruin of Europe's oldest, and most mysterious corner.

If you had something really important to shout about, you could do worse than to climb to the point furthest from the centre of the Earth – some 2,150 metres higher than the summit of Everest – to do it.Their goal was to raise money and awareness to help fund new schools in Tibet. Their mission was to shout out peace messages they had collected from children around the world in the lead up to the Millennium. They wanted to promote Earth Peace by highlighting Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s ideals.The team comprised Tess Burrows, a mother of three in her 50s; Migmar, a young Tibetan prepared to do anything for his country but who had never been on a mountain before; and two accomplished mountaineers in their 60s.For Tess, it became a struggle of body and mind, as she was symbolically compelled towards the highest point within herself.

‘Full of delight and joy, gentleness, honour and grace' Sunday Tribune Based on his own travels through Africa, Michael Meegan shares his unique and inspiring insights into love, hope, compassion and happiness. All Will Be Well is not a fatalistic acceptance, or even a denial of the fear we all face. On the contrary, it is a meditation, a prayer and an exhortation to recognise what is wrong and how to start putting things right.You can start simply by buying this book. The profits will go directly to help Aids orphans in Africa. Your first step in helping to ensure that all will be well.

‘Amusing and very brave’ – Forbes Heyrick Bond Gunning was on the first civilian plane into Baghdad after the airport had been secured following the fall of Saddam Hussein.Armed with a camp bed, some baked beans and $25,000 in cash, his mission was to establish a foothold for one of the world’s largest logistics businesses in one of the world’s most inhospitable markets.Baghdad Business School charts the challenges, the characters and the comedy of trying to do business in a war zone. It also provides a unique perspective on the Iraq conflict and is proof of the adage that, the more you put into life, the more you get out of it.

After the fall of the Taliban came a radio station with a mission... It is a time of chaos. Afghanistan has just witnessed the fall of the oppressive Taliban. Warlords battle each other for supremacy, while the powerless, the dispossessed, the hungry and the desperate struggle to survive.In these days of bleakness, suffering and want, a glimmer of hope emerges – in the form of a spirited little breakfast-time radio programme, Good Morning Afghanistan.Waseem Mahmood tells how he and an intrepid band of media warriors helped a broken nation find a voice through the radio. Over the airwaves a land ravaged by decades of war starts to fight with words instead of weapons.

A milestone in dystopian fiction' – Chris Mullin In 2020 the United Kingdom elects its own Donald Trump.Bob Grant, former football hooligan, now the charismatic leader of the Britain’s Great party, has swept to power on a populist tide. With his itchy finger hovering over the nuclear trigger, Bob presides over a brave new Britain where armed drones fill the skies, ex-bankers and foreigners are vilified, and the Millwall football chant ‘No one likes us, we don’t care’ has become an unofficial national anthem.Meanwhile, Bob’s under-achieving, Guardian-reading brother Zack gets a tap on the shoulder from a shady Whitehall mandarin. A daring plot is afoot to defy the will of the people and unseat the increasingly unstable PM. Can Zack stop his brother before he launches a nuclear strike on Belgium? And just what is ACERBIC, Britain’s most closely-guarded military secret?A darkly comic political thriller, Time of Lies is also a terrifyingly believable portrait of an alternative Britain. It couldn’t happen here… could it?

A beautiful, moving story' – Emma Jane Kirby Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London.Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival.A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.

Millions follow Ash Dykes as he takes on some of the world's toughest adventures. But how did a young man from Wales turn his passion for exploration into an extraordinary career?Now taking on his ambitious Project 6 challenge, Ash has built a global following through his remarkable expeditions, pushing the limits of human endurance and inspiring others to pursue their own ambitions.‘Kind of nuts but very courageous and really cool.’ Joe RoganIn Mission Possible, Ash shares the remarkable story of the two world-first expeditions that helped launch his career.At just 23, he became the first person to walk solo and unsupported across Mongolia, trekking more than 1,500 miles through the Altai Mountains, Gobi Desert and Mongolian steppe. The 78-day journey pushed him to his physical and mental limits, and he almost didn't survive.A year later, he set out to traverse the length of Madagascar through its interior, climbing the country's eight highest mountains along the way. Over 155 days, he faced serious illness, dangerous wildlife and extraordinary challenges to complete another world first.But this is more than an adventure memoir. Ash reveals the preparation, sacrifices, self-belief and determination behind his achievements, and how he created a life built around doing what he loves.An exhilarating and inspiring true story for anyone who has ever dreamed of doing something extraordinary, and wondered whether they could make it happen.

Three generations, two continents, one forgotten secret LONGLISTED: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2014: Clare and her father travel to Venice from New Zealand. She is fleeing a broken marriage; he is in failing health and wants to return one last time to the place where, as a young man, he spent happy years as a rugby player and coach. While exploring the city, Clare discovers there is more to her father's motives for returning than she realised, and time may be running out for him to put old demons to rest.1942: Joe and Harry, two Kiwi POWs in Italy, manage to escape their captors, largely due to the help of a sympathetic Italian family show shelter them on their farm. Soon they are fighting alongside the partisans in the mountains, but both men have formed a bond with Donatella, the daughter of the family – a bond that will have dramatic repercussions decades later.The Antipodeans is a novel of epic proportions in which families from opposite ends of the earth discover a legacy of love, blood and betrayal.

‘Very possibly the definitive espionage thriller of the early 21st century’ – Alan Moore Brigitte Sharp, a cyber-espionage specialist with MI6, has been deskbound and in therapy for three years, after her first field mission in Syria went disastrously wrong. But now one of her best friends has been murdered, and Bridge believes his death is connected to strange posts appearing on the internet, carrying encrypted hidden messages.When Bridge decodes the messages, she discovers evidence of a mole inside a top-secret Anglo-French military drone project. Her MI6 bosses force her back into the field, sending her undercover in France to find and expose the mole… who may also be her friend’s killer. But the truth behind the Exphoria code is worse than she could have imagined.Soon she’s on the run, desperate and alone – as a nuclear terrorist plot unfolds and threatens everything Bridge has left to live for.

The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers WINNER: Australian PM’s Award for FictionSHORTLISTED: Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive, Their Brilliant Careers is a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers.Subjects include Rachel Deverall, who unearthed the secret source of the great literature of our time and paid a terrible price for her discovery; Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author, body-builder and inveterate racist; and Addison Tiller, whose stories set in the outback were bestsellers even though he had never actually travelled outside Sydney. And let’s not forget experimental writer Arthur ruhtrA, who wrote a whole novel without once using the letter C.Every page – from the dedication to the index – is fraudulent, each biography interweaving with the rest to form a magnificent lie. The result is a sparklingly inventive award-winning novel.

An atheist comedy featuring God and a confused young man from Hackney‘A clever and enchanting fable’ The LadySEMI-FINALIST: Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award Gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave on a holiday beach. His journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell.When God happens to look down his celestial telescope and see Stefano, he is obliged to pay unprecedented attention to an obscure planet in a distant galaxy, and ends up on the greatest adventure of his multi-aeon existence.The Hurtle of Hell combines a tender, human story of rejection and reconnection with an utterly original and often very funny theological thought-experiment. It is an entrancing fable that is both mischievous and big-hearted.

‘A moving lament for a vanished age’ – Financial TimesSHORTLISTED: New Angle Prize The scene is a remote cottage in Suffolk in the 1990s.Will Self, newly divorced, is the in-demand enfant terrible of the British literary scene. Matthew De Abaitua, an eager young writer fresh out of Malcolm Bradbury's Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia, is excited to be hired as his ‘amanuensis’.It’s not obvious what that intriguing job title will entail. In this unique, frank and often very funny portrait of one of our most talked-about and controversial literary figures, Self & I charts the highs and lows of the experience.It is a compelling account of a remarkable time in Britain and British literature.

‘A brilliantly pacy, page-turning thriller and a celebration of the magic of music’ Crime ReviewSet in the murky backstage world of late-Victorian theatreland, The Industry of Human Happiness is about the obsessive characters who dreamed of bringing recorded music to the masses.Max and his younger cousin Rusty have a vision of launching the gramophone industry from a Covent Garden basement. But a renowned opera singer is brutally murdered in his hotel bed and they are thrust into the underworld of opium dens, brothels and extortion.Ghosts from the past and a contested inheritance turn the cousins against each other, and they go head-to-head to launch rival ‘talking machines’. With Max’s sweetheart, the ambitious singer Delilah Green, caught in the middle, the pair battle rival manufacturers, London theatre owners and, ultimately, each other, for their very futures.This is a story of obsession, the pursuit of love and the enduring magic of music.

‘A chilling and politically astute dystopia – sci-fi in the tradition of Wyndham’ – Jane Rogers London, 2050. The socio-economic crisis of recent decades is over and consumerism is thriving.Ownership of land outside the city is the preserve of a tiny elite, and the rest of the population must spend to earn a Right to Reside. Ageing has been abolished thanks to a radical new approach, replacing retirement with blissful euthanasia at a Dignitorium.When architect Philip goes missing, his wife Alice risks losing her home and her status, and begins to question the society in which she was raised. Her search for him uncovers some horrifying truths about the fate of her own family and the reality behind the new social order.Wolf Country is a powerful dystopian vision in the spirit of Black Mirror and Never Let Me Go .

20th anniversary editionForeword by HH the Dalai LamaIntroduction by Joanna Lumley In 1999, driven by the desire to address the plight of the Tibetan nation, Tess Burrows decided to climb to the point furthest from the centre of the Earth to broadcast thousands of peace messages she had collected from people of all ages.Gathering together a small expedition team, including Mig, a young Tibetan refugee who had never climbed a mountain before, Tess set off on her spiritual mountaineering mission. She recounts her inner and outer journeys, including the multiple synchronicities that seemed to validate her quest in mysterious ways.For Tess, it becomes a struggle of body and mind, as she is symbolically compelled towards the highest point within herself.

‘Brilliantly weaves the past with the present…I couldn’t put it down’ – Joanna Lumley When farmer Dan Maddicott is found shot dead in one of his fields, he leaves behind a young family and a farm deep in debt. Although the coroner records accidental death, village rumours suggest he has taken his own life so that the insurance payout can save his family from ruin.Dan’s wife, Kate, refuses to believe the gossip and is determined to prove to herself, and her children, that his death was an accident. But could it have been murder? Kate discovers a set of old diaries containing secrets that may reveal how Dan really died.Set against the backdrop of the farming crisis of the turn of the 21st century, Caroline Kington’s absorbing family drama also tells the secret history of another resident of the farm, decades before, whose tragic tale will come to have major repercussions in the present day.

The only thing worse than being found guilty....is being found not guilty. When James Salisbury, the owner of a British car manufacturer, ploughs his `self-drive' car into a young family, the consequences are deadly. Will the car's `black box' reveal what really happened or will the industry, poised to launch these products to an eager public, close ranks to cover things up? James himself faces a personal dilemma. If it is proved that he was driving the car he may go to prison. But if he is found innocent, and the autonomous car is to blame, the business he has spent most of his life building, and his dream of safer transport for all, may collapse. Lawyers Judith Burton and Constance Lamb team up once again, this time to defend a man who may not want to go free, in a case that asks difficult questions about the speed at which technology is taking over our lives.

‘A glorious comedy of painting and pretension’ Ryan O’Neill It is 1777, and England’s second-greatest portrait artist, Thomas Gainsborough, has a thriving practice a stone’s throw from London’s royal palaces. Meanwhile, the press talks up his rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the pedantic theoretician who is the top dog of British portraiture.Gainsborough loathes pandering to grand sitters, but he changes his tune when he is commissioned to paint King George III and his large family. In their final, most bitter competition, who will be chosen as court painter, Tom or Sir Joshua?Two and a half centuries later, a badly damaged painting turns up on a downmarket TV antiques show being filmed in Suffolk. Could the monstrosity really be, as its eccentric owner claims, a Gainsborough? If so, who is the sitter? And why does he have donkey’s ears?Mixing ancient and modern as he did in his acclaimed debut The Hopkins Conundrum , Simon Edge takes aim at fakery and pretension in this highly original celebration of one of our greatest artists