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Enjoy these interviews where the storytellers had the opportunity to tell their punk story. Original interviews were conducted in 2016 with Punks giving their account of their street level experiences of the Punk scene. I am now collecting new stories in 2024. I have shared them as podcasts so that others further afield could enjoy them.

Was there any particular reason that, near the end of your lives, you suddenly stopped buying Bounty paper towels? So begins the first question from Bounty’s market research representative to Paul and Maggie. In this unique short story, a couple who died suddenly in their 50s recounts their use of Bounty paper towels and their sudden switch to a bargain brand near the end of their lives. What appears to be a run-of-the-mill spat between spouses at the Stop & Shop is revealed to be a defining moment of a marriage years in decline.

In space, something can hear you scream. And that something is coming. On her first adventure in outer space, Ruby learns that the universe is bigger, more colourful, and crazier than she could ever have imagined. She also learns that even the Doctor can feel afraid – and that certain nightmares are all too real…

In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit. 

Robin's New Year's resolution to change her eating habits is as unusual as she is. Unlike millions of other women, she isn't tempted by chocolate or junk food. She's a vampire, determined to fight her craving for a pint of O negative. When she goes to an AA meeting, hoping for advice on fighting her addiction, she meets Alana, a woman who battles her own demons. Despite their determination not to get involved, the attraction is undeniable.

Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates a popular book critic on a mean streak... only for her to wind up dead, in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker’s bestselling series. World famous author Melanie Joan Hart asks for Sunny’s help in tracking down Book Babe, the screen-name of an...

Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion. Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Boundaries for Your Soul, written by bestselling authors and licensed counselors Alison...

If you want to finally end your battle with eating disorders and take back control over your life… Then you've come to the right place… From this book, you’ll discover: why binging is not your fault…the real truth about binge eaters like you and me, tips that work for breaking your very unhealthy relationship with food…no matter how bad it may be right now, your brain on binge…and how it’s scientifically proven to be as addictive as drugs, and more.

The Queen's Child by Sunday Times bestselling historian Alison Weir is an e-short and companion piece to the captivating final novel in the Six Tudor Queens series, Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife. 'I look at her, playing happily with not a care in the world, and wonder how God can have inflicted...

Brought to you by Penguin. The explosive inside account of the Beckham family saga by acclaimed journalist Alison Boshoff. The first and definitive book about the Beckham family saga since the seismic revelations made by Brooklyn about his parents Sir David and Victoria Beckham written by...

Sick of things not going your way? Have you ever looked at someone and thought they’ve got it all? Perhaps they’ve got the perfect relationship, the big house, the dream job, or maybe it’s all that and more? What is holding you back? Simple, two things – you and other people. This book teaches you the foolproof Smash It! method that not only helps you influence others, but convinces you that you can do anything that you set your mind to. Learn contemporary and implementable techniques based on psychology to boost your chances of getting what you want!

Detective Lexi Bennett is walking through the quiet Canterbury streets when she hears screaming. Rushing toward the sound, she finds the body of a teenage girl lying beneath one of the city’s ancient towers. Lexi looks up at the cold grey stone, and vows that she will find answers.

Als Phoebe Stone in einem grünen Kleid, goldenen High Heels und ohne Tasche im prächtigen »Cornwall Inn« ankommt, wird sie von allen für eine der Hochzeitsgäste gehalten. Denn sie ist die Einzige, die nicht wegen des großen Ereignisses angereist ist. Lange hat sie von diesem Aufenthalt geträumt, nun ist sie hier, am Tiefpunkt ihres Lebens, entschlossen, sich ein letztes Mal ein bisschen Luxus zu gönnen. Doch dann entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden ungleichen Frauen eine überraschende Freundschaft, die alles auf den Kopf stellt.

DS Tracy McGregor, a disgraced police officer from Glasgow, demoted after the way she handled her last case, has recently relocated to Inverness. In charge of cold cases, she discovers a link between these missing girls, which if she is correct suggests Inverness may have a serial killer in their midst. Meanwhile, Katie O‘Connor, a nurse from London, has moved to Inverness to start a new life. Unbeknownst to her, someone is watching her. When Katie goes missing under similar circumstances, it becomes a race against time to find her—will DS McGregor reach her before it’s too late?

Major Larry Randall has been called to Pluto to retrieve Dr. Aaron Mikelson. Mikelson, no longer human after a horrific accident, is now melded to an AI. His enhanced senses have detected an alien artifact on Pluto’s surface, and he’s not leaving without it. Transferred to the research vessel studying Pluto, Randall and the other scientists are stumped as to the artifact’s purpose and origin. Looking for similar signs of aliens they make their way to Pluto’s moon, Charon, where, buried deep under its icy surface, something stirs―and wakes.

Richard the Lionheart remains one of England's most famous kings. His statue stands proudly outside the Houses of Parliament, yet who was Richard? Was there more to him than we see depicted in modern media - the great, missing king from the Robin Hood films who was always having his throne threated by his younger brother John! Or was Richard not worthy of the legend that seems to have been built up around his name?

The body of the beautiful English girl is discovered months later - dumped behind the back of a department store. But who was the stranger she let into the safety of her home? As Detective Rachel Prince pieces together the mystery surrounding Phoebe’s death, another young, blonde girl is found brutally murdered and abandoned in the grounds of an old theatre. In the most dangerous case of her career, Rachel must track down the faceless individual to stop the body count rising.

Camille Gardner is a grieving mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is obsessed with the man she believes to be responsible. Because Camille wants revenge. Enter: the Collective. A group of women who desire justice above all else. A group of women who enact revenge on the men who have wronged them. But as Camille gets more involved in the group she must decide whether these women are the heroes or the villains. And if she chooses wrong, will she ever get out alive?

Kaye Whiting went to buy a birthday present and didn't come back. She isn't dead, or physically injured. But she is alone and very, very scared. Fifty miles away in Cambridge town centre, a deeply disturbed young woman is standing by a payphone. She knows she often feels compelled to do harmful things and is driven by a desire to make a call. DC Gary Goodhew is one of the detectives assigned to find Kaye, and when her body is discovered, the only clue to the potential murderer is a woman's voice on his answerphone.

A secret from the past. A scandal that leads to murder. Who knew antiques could be so deadly? The priceless Satterthwaite Desk has found its way to the island of Jersey and is on display at the local museum. This valuable antique is rich with history, exquisitely crafted, and hides a secret that could destroy the lives of powerful politicians and prominent citizens alike.