Sam Smith

Una estupenda introducción a la geografía y la cartografía sin necesidad de aparatos electrónicos. Los niños realizarán un maravilloso viaje por el mundo mientras resuelven pasatiempos y aprenden muchisimas cosas sobre nuestro mundo.Desde Tokio hasta Nueva York, pasando por la cordillera de los Andes y atravesando vastos oceanos, los pequeños se sentiran como autenticos exploradores mientras recorren el planeta a traves de estos laberintos llenos de sorpresas y diversion.Parte de una coleccion que incluye otros temas como los piratas, el espacio y la Navidad.

Anarchy over apathy. Terrorism with a social conscience. This razor-sharp debut is a satirical novel that will speak to the heart of the new political generation.The Serendipity Foundation demands anarchy over apathy. They deal in terrorism with a social conscience. And they''re going to make the British government play along.When four British citizens are kidnapped in Cairo, they soon realise this is no ordinary hostage situation: the accommodation is three star and the menu a la carte. Without the deep regrets and thwarted ambitions of their lives back home, they soon come to view their kidnapping as a welcome escape.They are the captives of the Serendipity Foundation, a tiny collective with a millennium-old prophecy to fulfil and a rather redeeming quality: they only demand ransoms that people would want to give.As the ransom demands begin, the British government has no choice but to play along... can they really allow four men to die because parliament refuses to conduct Prime Ministers Questions in Haiku? As the threats and demands escalate, so does the tension, until they challenge the very foundations and assumptions of the media, industry and society.The Serendipity Foundation, bursting with the satirical deftness of a Douglas Coupland and the subversive intensity of an Owen Jones, is a thrilling yet endearing satirical novel for the new political generation that will make us question why we settle for a lesser world when we have the power to make it better.

En cuanto vean este libro, los niños tendrán ganas de subirse al trineo de Papá Noel y recorrer un sinfín de laberintos navideños muy alegres y variados. Podrán guiar a los cantantes de villancicos a traves de calles cubiertas de nieve, rescatar renos perdidos y ayudar a Papa Noel a repartir los regalos sin que nadie lo vea. Paginas repletas de ilustraciones a todo color, escenas navideñas y desafios laberinticos que ayudaran a los pequeños a desarrollar la atencion al detalle y el sentido de la orientacion. Es el libro perfecto para que los niños se entretengan durante las vacaciones de Navidad, solos en compañia de sus amiguitos.

This little book is full of faces for children to complete using the sticker facial features inside They can dream up their own faces create faces that look like their friends or mix up the featur

Young children will love getting into the Halloween spirit with this spine tingling sticker book Scenes to decorate include haunted houses a witches workshop a pumpkin patch and a monster party With over 300 reusable stickers of zombies ghosts spiders and more plus a fold out back cover to store stickers when not in use

A handy pad of tear-off sheets with over 130 activities to help children practise their multiplication skills. The activities get progressively harder and include number wheels, missing numbers, calculations and more. Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the maths lessons children learn at school. Answers are at the back of the book.

A SUPER TEAM...A SUPERSTAR...A SUPER EGO The most gifted athlete ever to play the game, Michael Jordan rose to heights no basketball player had ever reached before. What drove Michael Jordan? The pursuit of team success...or of his own personal glory? The pursuit of excellence...or of his next multimillion-dollar endorsement? The flight of the man they call Air Jordan had been rocked by controversy. In The Jordan Rules, which chronicles the Chicago Bulls' first championship season, Sam Smith takes the #1 Bull by the horns to reveal the team behind the man...and the man behind the Madison Avenue smile. Here is the inside game, both on and off the court, including: Jordan's power struggles with management, from verbal attacks on the general manager to tantrums against his coach Behind-the-scenes feuds, as Jordan punches a teammate in practice and refuses to pass the ball in the crucial minutes of big games The players who competed with His Airness for Air Time -- Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Bill Cartwright -- telling their sides of the story A penetrating look at coach Phil Jackson, the former flower child who blossomed into one of the NBA's top motivators and who finally found a way to coax Michael and the Jordanaires to the their first title A provocative eyewitness account, The Jordan Rules delivers all the nonstop excitement, tension, and thrills of a championship season -- and an intense, fascinating portrait of the incomparable Michael Jordan.

The Wall comprises two narratives. Opens with a retired gangster writing letters to his deceased twin sister, wherein he attempts to explain his life, his present circumstances - a house and extensive grounds within an encircling high wall. The second narrative tells of the world outside the wall, where two teenage boys have disappeared. The gangster confides his worries about someone having climbed over the wall, possibly even having entered his house. The two fathers of the teenage boys also suspect that their sons have climbed over the wall, have possibly been kidnapped. Afraid to directly ask the gangster they too find ways over the wall. The gangster becomes aware of their activities...On this gangsters last outing, courtesy Online Originals, Wayne Lanter said "Reading Sam Smiths novel is akin to driving ninety miles an hour on ice. The tone is light, which only adds to the horror and pointlessness of it all. An entertaining and wonderfully readable book."Paul Sutton said, "Excellent book. I really enjoyed it. It would make an excellent film, with Terence Stamp or Pete Postlethwaite as the mobster. In fact, hes surely worth another book."While Bob Faulkner said, "Exquisite! Like the Balanced Rocks of the American west the entire mass perfectly concentrated on the last sentence."

One time called Kitnor, now Culbone, three miles west of Porlock is a steep combe further concealed by close-grown sessile oaks. Isolated, and on the Devon/Somerset border it has been variously used over the centuries as a place of refuge and of banishment. Latterly it has become a destination for poetaster pilgrims - Kubla Khan having been written in the vicinity. Could The Friendship of Dagda & Tinker Howth however be the true origin of Culbones pretty little church? Or could Tinker Howths tale, set in the first Elizabeths reign and in the one-time leper colony, be the underlying reason why the word Porlock is held in such low esteem by literati? And nothing whatsoever to do with Coleridges creatus interruptus ..?

Told throughout in interview form, in As Recorded the hero, Sniff - as he was known in Constant Change and Undeclared War - tells of the childhood of the trilogys 5 main characters - Newt, Blue, Pancho, Mort and himself - from their starting school in Curledge Street to their all going on to Totnes Grammar; and of their first fights, first sex, and various escapades. And, of course, he tells of his later life too, as a boxer and a businessman, father and lothario.... And why he should be being interviewed....

The Sick Ape of the title dwells in the mind. Although thats not the first consideration of this tale. First theres the accident of meeting of two divorced and embittered fathers, then comes a cooking and eating of meals, followed by a marriage of disgruntled minds. The consequence of which leads to the pair of them getting labelled terrorists all within a book dedicated to non-terrorists with them finally, and during, seeking to resolve their campaign in different ways. One being death. One being this book. An everyday tale of terrorist folk.

This is what reviewer Anthony Lund made of Eternals. "The unMaking of Heaven is the equivalent of an albums title track, giving the series its title and bringing the saga to a conclusion in three separate threads covering the missing history of Space, events that have just passed and a 1st person narrative taken from the memory files of an AI robot called the Shining Knight. With hints of a future where machines have dominated life. Like a collision of tribes, the final showdown between the Shining Knight and other machines that have been deemed Abominations by themselves and set out on a self destructive mission that could almost be related to Civil War, the final connecting of the three separate story strands brings the story to a satisfying conclusion. The final book does require a little more concentration that the previous books due to the scope and expanse of the time frames it constantly interchanges, but overall the effort is more than worth it to unlock the final pieces of this awe-inspiring multi-layered novel.Towards the unMaking of Heaven is one of the most intricate and ambitious science fiction books that I have read in recent years, and in almost all areas it pulls off being incredibly detailed and "Sci-Fi geekish" while having a page turning quality that draws the reader in and pushes them to learn more of this new creation, this new mythos almost.For lovers of Sci-Fi, this is a book that I would recommend beyond doubt. For everyone else I would still recommend the book, as the novels are written in a way that does not seem like Science Fiction reading, and does not bombard the uninitiated with continued references to warp drives, technical matrix networks of planets and galaxies, or DNA inspections into the genes and genetics of its creations. Instead this is science fiction with a mainstream approach, satisfying Sci-Fi buffs but not alienating others."

Previously published by BeWrite Books, now sadly no more, this is what was said of The Care Vortex on its first outing:- Now and then a book comes along that can never be forgotten, a book whose characters touch you deeply and remain in your memory. A story that shocks you into thinking about something you had never considered or completely changing your previous perceptions. The Care Vortex by Sam Smith is such a book.... If you want to read a book that will lull you to sleep at night, this book is not for you. It is no Little Orphan Annie with pretty pig-tailed children and fairy tale endings. Those trapped in the Care Vortex are damaged, the details harrowing. But for all that, it is a story of heroism, of people reaching out to each other and trying to overcome what has been done. Gillian Davis... a no-holds-barred account of one day and night in a care home for disturbed young girls. At times, it reads more like non-fiction than fiction and therein lies the roots of its success... You cannot help but be drawn into the lives of the characters.... This is the real world and it grabs you by the throat and forces you to bite on the harsh reality of life for these maladjusted girls. To finish reading this book is to come out wiser and more understanding about the problems of damaged young people... David HoughThe Care Vortex is a vitally important book. It should be read by anyone who has responsibility for children and young adults, whether they be parents, teachers, care workers, police, administrators ... its all too easy in environments of near-isolation family homes, care institutions, schools to sweep the truth (and the children) under the carpet." Neil Marr: author of Bullycide: Death at Playtime

The Paths of Error trilogy is 3 views through the same window of time. So more a triptych than a trilogy.Undeclared War is the first, sees rebel-born Tom Newson fighting his way out of Paignton, into the army, through Cyprus and out of the army. In 60s Brixham he discovers drugs. In Crete he finds a life worth living. Back in Brixham he meets up with an old girlfriend. But he ends up, lost, dealing in 70s London...Blue, in Constant Change, begins as an idealist with no ideals. His way is found through women. Rejected by his first girlfriend he drifts into the Merchant Navy, only to jump ship in Sri Lanka. Through an American girl there he discovers Buddhism. In London, through an Irish girl, he comes back to boozy earth with a bump. The mother of his children leads him to a brief rural idyll...As Recorded is told throughout in dialogue, gives us the post-war childhood in Paignton of all the characters. This is Petes story, and he wants to be more than his nickname, Sniff. He becomes a boxer, a Lothario, a shady entrepreneur; even incarcerated he is dangerous to others, and to himself.The magazine Devon Life delivered this verdict of Paths of Error - Undeclared War, Constant Change, and As Recorded can be read in succession, or equally stand independently as analyses of the changes wrought by recent decades on the lives of ordinary people. Based around Paignton, Sam Smith uses a group of friends from a small ordinary English town and explores their individual paths of error against the fabric of life. Highly sexually charged and using blunt language, these will only cater to very specific tastes.Rich Patton said this of Undeclared War - Undeclared War is a serious work. It may offend and sometimes enrage but Sam Smith also entertains with his vivid imagery, facile prose style, and sometimes insightful, sometimes whimsical, often cynical, but always stimulating perceptions of history and the human condition. Highly recommended.

Using the third person overview narrator Paul describes the background to those 2 days of his Bridgwater life which included parenthood, bike rides, drinks, fights, a stabbing and a robbery. As the True Stories included attest, events of those two days were nothing unusual for Bridgwater then.

This is what a review on pulp.net said of The Secret Report of Friar Otto: A gang of renegade knights take refuge on Lundy island. When the knights are betrayed, captured and condemned, a friar is sent to inquire about the crimes they were accused of but, confronted by some dangerous ideas, he starts to ask himself some awkward questions. The Secret Report is Sam Smiths reinterpretation of a real 750 year old manuscript, The Report in Confidence on the Imprisonment and Execution of William de Marisco and Sixteen of His Followers. The original text has been turned into a beautifully written modern novel, utterly convincing in its evocation of the medieval world and mindset. Fortunately, the prisoners spend as much time goading the prudish celibate with stories about tupping the ladies as they do discussing doctrinal niceties. A brilliant book, actually, that deserves a decent readership.And this is what Stanley Marris: a Canadian descendant of Sir William de Marisco had to say "...story had me interested from the beginning ... was almost as if I had been party to the events described."While Merle Jones contributed this: I loved it. It was a great history lesson focusing on the politics of the time... the kings, the court and the church, who uses whom and what devices they used to wield that power. It was a dangerous time for people with dangerous ideas. And, it seems, the more things change, the more they stay the same. / Friar Otto is a brave and likable man with strong character and an open mind.

Divorced, sole carer of his epileptic father, Howard Dawson is a Police Community Support Officer in a small north English town. In and out-of-uniform Howards life is drift, losing himself in reveries - on the true purpose of the offshore turbines, what goes on in a chapel with no posters, the noises coming from strange allotment beasts.... When dead cats stuffed with snail shells start getting left in gardens, and theres a spate of robberies with odd things taken - a pubs legendary flugelhorn, a used kettle and with no-one else available to investigate Howard is left to try to find out who could be killing the cats. Not his only task: Howard also has to deliver talks to schoolchildren on graffiti and vandalism, and to prevent fairground mayhem... at one point he even ends up rescuing a girl from a mudslide."Sam Smith has written a novel that unflinchingly portrays the everyday dissociations and disappointments of an ordinary person, Howard, a police support officer going about his duties in anorthern post-industrial town. But by steering resolutely clear of cliche and sentimentality Smith brings Howard alive and allows the reader to share his experiences, his puzzlement at events he only ever half understands, his duty to his ill father and his cautious, modest hopes. Howards alienation is palpable, a constant sense of being not quite connected with his own world, until on one marvellous occasion when circumstances demand selfless action and Howard, for once in his life, doesnt hesitate to step forward and become what the moment demands. It is as near as many of us will ever come to enlightenment, and it will live with me for a very long time..." Andy Hickmott"Not sure as to whether all of Sam Smiths books have this luster, this reader is left with the sense of getting to know an author with whom sharing a cup of tea would be a highlight of communication. He simply has it all - brilliant wordsmithing, ingenious ideas for plot lines, a wealth of knowledge about how people interact (and dont) as they step along the life path, and a conversational intimacy of style that makes him an instant best friend/mate. Highly recommended." Grady Harp"... Smith fills the novel with details of the eponymous town, a dying backwater suffering the double loss of both fishing and mining industries, Howards middleaged going-nowhere life and hisrelationship with his fellow police officers and his epileptic, domineering father, and even some genuine action along the way. // I must admit that I felt a little ambivalent at the premise of the novel; but, once Id started reading, I was hooked by the vivid characterisation of the protagonist and his world, as well as a surprisingly-intriguing mystery.... Smith is an author who can take you into a fully realised world and keep you there, attentive, as he vouchsafes nuggets of background and character along the way. An extremely absorbing read. Highly recommended." DJ Tyrer The Supplement

Paths of Error is 3 views through the same window of time, more a triptych than a trilogy.The first was Undeclared War, which saw rebel-born Tom Newson, known as Newt, fighting his way out of Paignton, into the army, through Cyprus and out of the army.... Blue, in Constant Change, begins however as an idealist with no ideals. His way is to be found through women. He rejects all the values that a Devon seaside town has to offer. Rejected himself by his first girlfriend he drifts into the Merchant Navy, only to jump ship in Sri Lanka. Through an American girl there he discovers Buddhism, but decides that he cannot live a righteous life while being supported by her fathers money. In sixties London he becomes briefly an ascetic programmer. Then through an Irish girl, he comes back to boozy earth with a bump. Rejecting her along with the booze he moves into a squat and there rescues a maiden in distress. The mother of his children leads him to a brief rural idyll...

This is what these people said of Trees. Jos Mister said, "One of my favourite reads of the lockdown - and Ive been reading a lot! Trees is a great story but interspersed with information about native tree species. Gripping from start to finish."While Emma Lee said in Blue Nib, "...Ultimately Trees is an exploration of family and how individuals cast out from their birth family find their sense of belonging, their purpose. A forest holds many species of trees with specific roles: the lower level rely on the upper levels for shade, the spacing allows each their required access to nutrients in the soil, flowering shrubs attract pollinators, but, within this structure, each plant is enabled to become and grow individually..."Richard Szwejkowski: "Definitely a good read. Trees uses a very personal perspective to shed light on how relationships start, grow and change as the realities of the world intrude, and how in turn we can change the world. Although the lives of the characters are the central driver of the story, trees are important to all of their lives in different ways, in turn illustrating how trees are essential to all life."

John Cox is killed. Wife Bridget hangs on in the tithe cottage. Farmer wants her out. Union offers help. Daughter Sarah watches. Adultery, betrayals, another fatal accident, a crippling, grief, care, clumsiness, canoeing, love... all follow. Oh and theres a rabbit, some hens, and a cat called Spud.