Books published by Clink Street Publishing

Gettin' Poetic on Anaesthetic is a light-hearted memoir guaranteed to make you smile, laugh, or even wet your pants!

To make ourselves understand how important we really are, we need to invest in ourselves and treat ourselves like an honoured guest. How much we achieve in life depends to a huge degree on how well we can communicate with our inner self. Knowing ourselves differs from merely thinking about ourselves. As soon as we fully know ourselves, then we acquire a level of understanding which goes beyond words. Mohammed Haroon draws upon the wisdom of age and experience - along with his motto that the greatest sense of satisfaction in life comes from helping others - to craft this unique and compelling self-help book, designed with one simple intention: to enable the reader to become the best version of themselves possible, and to realise their dreams as a result.

This is the story of how kind Kimmy the Koala helps out the buzzing honey bees in Summertown Wood.

...Preceded by Chaos is an illustrated short story about a young doctor battling his personal demons.

Angelique has long thin legs, long thin arms and a turned-up nose on which sits an enormous pair of spectacles. Her spectacles are so big that they look like magnifying glasses and make her eyes look very large. She normally wears black shoes, a blue dress and a red scarf, and she had just been awarded all her Certificates and Diplomas to become a teacher. But she needs a job. Retuning to her home village at the foothills of the French Alps, Angelique finds her childhood school has closed! All she needs is determination, enthusiasm and ten pupils to re-open the school and realise her dreams. But Angelique soon realises that her daily adventures have only just begun.

Retreating from an airborne virus with a uniquely unsettling symptom, property developer Jason escapes London for his country estate, where he is forced to negotiate a new way of living with an assortment of fellow survivors. Far in the future, an isolated community of descendants continue to farm this same estate. Among their most treasured possessions are a few books, including a copy of Jane Eyre, from which they have constructed their hierarchies, rituals and beliefs. When 15-year-old Agnes begins to record the events of her life, she has no idea what consequences will follow. Locked away for her transgressions, she escapes to the urban ruins and a kind of freedom, but must decide where her future lies. These two stories interweave, illuminating each other in unexpected ways and offering long vistas of loss, regeneration and wonder. The Book of Air is a story of survival, the shaping of memory and the enduring impulse to find meaning in a turbulent world.

Patrick Phelan is an ageing artist who has never made it big but who somehow manages to live on air in a North London suburb. When not running art classes for amateurs, Patrick wrestles in the shed at the bottom of his garden with his life's work: a series of visionary canvases of The Seven Seals. When his wheeler-dealer son Marty turns up with a commission from a rich client for some copies of paintings by modern masters, Phelan reluctantly agrees; it means money for his ex-wife Moira. However the deal with Marty is, typically, not what it seems. What follows is a complex chain of events involving fakery, fraud, kidnapping, murder, the Russian Mafia and a cast of dubious art world characters. A contemporary spin on Joyce Cary's classic satire The Horse's Mouth, The Horse's Arse by Laura Gascoigne is a crime thriller-cum-comic-fable that poses the serious question: where does art go from here?

Caring for someone you love who is suffering from a terminal illness can be one of the greatest honours in life. Helping a loved one to die with peace, grace and dignity is their human right and a privilege for their carer to enable. It can be a truly transformative experience. In Peaceful Breeze Mark Carrington shares his searingly honest account of nursing his much-loved mother after she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014. As his mum's son, carer and advocate, Mark felt alone and under tremendous pressure to look after her the best he could; at the time, he wished that there was a practical guide to support him as he was supporting his mum. Peaceful Breeze is Mark's profound journey through terminal illness; from his mum's initial diagnoses, through her valiant fight, to her ultimate passing. He charts the emotional turmoil - from complete despair to moments of joy with his mum that will live on forever - the stress, the difficult decisions he had to make and finally the all-consuming grief he experienced at her loss. Mark Carrington story is one of bravery, devotion, love and hope, one which he hopes will support and inform other carers as they nurse and cherish their own family and friends.

Collection of poetry with its roots in slavery, to inspire hope and truth.

A terrorist threat, a sinister organisation, and a threat to the security of the free world.

Detective Sergeant Taylor Nicks is back and in charge of tracking down a sadistic vigilante, with a penchant for torturing paedophiles, in this unsettling crime thriller by a real-life police sergeant. High-powered businessmen are turning up tortured around the city of Edinburgh with one specific thing in common - a sinister double life involving pedophilia. Leaving his 'victims' in a disturbing state, the individual responsible calls the police and lays bare the evidence of their targets' twisted misdemeanours to discover, along with a special memento of their own troubled past - a chilling calling card. Once again heading the investigation team is Detective Sergeant Taylor Nicks, along with her partner Detective Constable Marcus Black, who are tasked not only with tracking the perpetrator down but also dealing with the unusual scenario of having to arrest the victims for their own barbarous crimes. But with the wounded piling up the predator's thirst for revenge intensifies and soon Nicks discovers that she is no longer chasing down a sinister attacker but a deadly serial killer. Vivid, dark and deeply unsettling Porcelain: Flesh of Innocents is the perfect next read for serious crime and police thriller fans.

Who am I and what is my purpose? Why do I keep self-sabotaging when I really want to change? How can I have peace of mind? What does it mean to live a conscious life, and is it the same as mindfulness and spirituality? How would living a conscious life help me deal with the craziness of everyday life? In Live a Conscious Life, Carolyn Moody answers all of these questions, and many more, as she helps you unravel the complexities of mind, emotion and self-defeating behaviours that may be holding you back. Using anecdotes throughout, Carolyn gently guides you towards living a conscious life. This is a down-to-earth, heart-led approach to walking with a foot in both the external world of everydayness and doing, and the internal world of intuition and soul connection. Carolyn provides practical life skills, including assertive communication, so you no longer give away your power to others, or to your own thoughts and fears. You discover how guided visualisations and inner journeys can help you hear the messages from your soul self and your spirit guides. To live a conscious life is to become authentic. Self-esteem soars and your light shines brightly to inspire others.

Marissa Pendlebury is on a passionately driven mission to empower and inspire us to grow her growing tribe of Compassioneers: individuals who are able to love themselves from the inside out while living compassionately and developing life-long positive relationships with food, mind and body.As a teenager, Marissa battled anorexia and depression. She felt overwhelmed by having to please others, exhausted by striving to meet society's expectations. Her own courageous recovery, accompanied by years of research into psychology and nutrition, made her realise that achieving health and happiness is not about losing weight, following fad diets and rigid fitness regimes, or obsessing about calories, superfoods and clean-eating plans.The key is learning to love yourself first and allowing the rest to follow.Nourishing Routes is the culmination of Marissa's journey of self-discovery; a unique food, philosophy and lifestyle guide designed to support optimal wellbeing and personal growth. Marissa reveals, step by step, how she discovered the art of self-love, and taught herself to love food, adore her body and become her authentic self. Let Nourishing Routes put your amazing life back on the menu so that you can nourish, flourish and thrive by loving yourself from the inside out.

Tenacious carrot, detective inspector Willie Wortell is back to reveal the deviously delicious mind behind the crime of the festive season in this hugely entertaining, and utterly unconventional, short story. When Mitchell the Mince Spy is horrifically murdered by being over baked in a fan oven, it falls to the Food Related Crime team to investigate this heinous act. Why was Mitchell killed? Who is the mysterious man with a long white beard and why does he carry a syringe? Why is it that the death of a mince spy smells so good?Detective Inspector Willie Wortel, the best food sapiens police officer, once again leads his team into a series of crazy escapades. Supported by his able homo sapiens sergeant Dorothy Knox and his less able fruit officers Oranges and Lemons, they encounter Snow White and the seven dwarf cabbages as well as having a run in with the food sapiens secret service, MI GasMark5. With a thigh slap here, and a thigh slap there, the team know Christmas is coming as the upper classes are acting strangely -why else would there be lords a leaping, ladies dancing and maids a milking?And if that wasn't enough, the Government Minister for the Department of Fisheries, Agriculture and Rural Trade (DAFaRT) has only gone and given the turkeys a vote on whether they are for or against Christmas. Let the madness begin!This short story by Matthew Redford follows his deliciously irreverent debutAddicted To Death(Clink Street Publishing, 2015).

Elizabeth Appleton is a sweet and easy-going adolescent. But as she turns sixteen, she discovers something so devastating about herself that her whole world is turned upside down. Elizabeth has been born without a womb or a vagina and is diagnosed with MRKH, an unusual congenital disorder that affects the female reproductive tract. Frightened and confused, Elizabeth must struggle to understand how she can still be a girl but no longer a 'normal' one. As she questions everyone and everything around her - her burgeoning sexuality, her gender, her hopes for the future - Elizabeth must fight against the shame and betrayal she feels if she is to ever become the woman she has always hoped to be. In her first novel, Cecilia Paul, now a retired expert in the field of MRKH, sensitively explores and illuminates this complex and often emotionally fraught medical condition, in order to raise public awareness of MRKH and to support those affected by it.

Wicket Keeping is an art and, like any art there is a requirement to spend quality time practising this craft to make the outcome(s) consistent. The lack of time that is allowed for wicket keeping specific coaching in coach education programmes is reflected by the small amount of time that is spent coaching young keepers in junior club sessions. Generally this is not the fault of coaches but highlights the lack of opportunity they are given to develop an understanding about this specialised position. The aim of this book is to give coaches (at club and county age group level) a guide as how to set up and organise basic wicket keeping drills and activities. This resource is not designed to create more work but to be used as a 'quick and easy' way to help young wicket keepers develop their games further.

Art education has gone through a number of paradigms since its origins in the medieval guilds. Yet ever since joining the university system in the 1970s, art departments have struggled to articulate a contemporary paradigm which accurately reflects what they do, to the extent that it often seems more realistic to say that art can't be taught at all. At the same time, science departments have struggled with the problem first noted by science historian Thomas Kuhn in 1962 - that the history of science depends on the creative brilliance of 'extraordinary scientists' who yet have no place within the confines of traditional university teaching. In this book, Jenny Waller argues that both these problems result from our assumptions about what counts as education. Taking the axes of Articulation and Acceptance by the university disciplines, she creates a grid-matrix of educational assumptions resulting in the quadrants Professional Practice, Normal Science, Extraordinary science and Voodoo. Then using the findings from a year-long ethnographic study of Fine Art studio teaching in a university department, she shows how contemporary art teaching fits into the quadrant of extraordinary science, providing a powerful contemporary paradigm for what art educators do. At the same time, her analysis of how art is taught provides science teachers with a blueprint for developing the potential of their students to be truly extraordinary. "This articulation...makes an original and significant contribution to the current literature on teaching and learning practices in the creative arts." Professor Bruce Brown Pro-Vice-Chancellor for research, University of Brighton

Uberdacious: Eat Yourself Healthy is the culmination of thirty years of fun and culinary creation in Simone Santivari's kitchen, exploring the possibilities for a predominantly macrobiotic diet.

Wracked by guilt and desperate to find his kidnapped girlfriend, Emil finds himself thrust into the high-stakes battle being waged for control of the world's remaining fossil fuel resources.

Based around a series of true events. The BBC's current affairs programme 'Panorama' undertook a sixty minute documentary / exposé surrounding an elite government task force that went undercover in Sheffield over a period of twelve months. Their remit was to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to fill up the police federations coffers using illegally gained intelligence, on one hand overlooking - and in some cases encouraging - major criminal activity such as murder, kidnap and torture; whilst on the other, surreptitiously acquiring pre-bargained guilty pleas from defendants then reneging on deals, which culminated in some of the heaviest sentences ever handed out in the UK. But the programme was never aired.

Champagne & Lemonade is a delightful collection of eclectic short stories, taking readers on a journey to different times and places, meeting a sparkling cast of well-drawn characters. Nibble the fish is desperate to escape his boring old pond. A new breed of super hero has been born and his name is Bob Cheesecake. Dumpton Hospital's staff have a somewhat unconventional approach to looking after their patients. Robert Hood is on a mission to save modern England. And just who is the vampire terrorising the neighbourhood from his home at 113A Greenstone Street? From the quixotic to the poignant, John A. D. Hickling's wild and whimsical tales fizz with fun and are sure to entertain almost everyone! www.johnchewyhickling.com

As the second son of the Duke of Hampshire, Grenville St John Hampton isn't likely to inherit his family's title or estate, leaving him pondering an empty, aimless future. During the summer break from university, he impulsively decides to go backpacking with one of his oldest friends, Johnathan; their destination is Belize.One sultry night on the Central American coastline, Grenville and Johnathan meet Tom. A game of darts takes a vicious turn. Realising he has nothing to look forward to back at home, Grenville decides to stay on in Belize with Tom, in pursuit of adventure. Together, the new friends establish an import business, and for the rst time in his life, Grenville has a sense of purpose.But back in England all is not well. The sudden death of his brother leaves Grenville with an unexpected - and now unwanted - inheritance, with new consequences and responsibilities. He will return to claim the family's seat with a dark secret in tow.Andy Blackman is the author of For the Love of Grace (published by Clink Street, 2016).

What if accepting yourself meant being rejected by everyone you knew? In the twenty-second century, the country of Hadrian struggles to be an example to the world while continuing its isolationist policy. It is a country where being homosexual is the norm and preferred sexual orientation, while heterosexuals are blamed for overpopulating the earth and destroying the environment. But despite genetic engineering of the population by Hadrian's scientists, there are still those who struggle with heterosexual feelings and when they act upon them, they are severely punished. Todd Middleton was one who broke Hadrian's law-and his best friend and lover Frank Hunter murdered him rather than see him experience further violent sexual reeducation attempts. Now Frank is sentenced to a lifetime of military service for his actions. Meanwhile, more heterosexuals are trying to stand up for themselves amid rage and intolerance. Straight men and women face discrimination, loss of jobs and livelihood, abandonment by friends, and even rape and murder at the hands of ignorant homosexual fanatics. But a small group of activists band together to combat the rage and hate that surrounds them. When they are joined by Hadrian's last surviving founder, and the star of a major national news program, things begin to fall apart for Hadrian's conservatives. But will those promoting the heterosexual agenda go too far, reversing what Hadrian has accomplished and causing it to break apart and descend into madness like the rest of the planet? Hadrian's Rage, a sequel to Hadrian's Lover, offers shocking surprises and answers that will make you rethink everything you thought was or should be normal. Praise for Hadrian's Rage Tyler Tichelaar, Superior Book Productions: "I thought Budd's previous book, Hadrian's Lover, a powerful and highly imaginative novel, but Budd has now superseded it. Hadrian's Rage leaves me in awe. I don't think anyone who reads this book will ever forget it, and hopefully, it will help to change the world, one heart at a time." International Praise for Hadrian's Lover Named Editor's Choice for September 2013 by So So Gay: "Beautiful, heart-wrenchingly poignant, and brilliantly conceived." - Jake Basford, So So Gay, London, England "Hadrian's Lover inspires internal debate and thought. As a text in a high school classroom it would do wonders and possibly change the world." - Drew Rowsome, My Gay Toronto, Ontario, Canada

What if you lived in a world where homosexuality was the norm and all forms of heterosexual behavior were illegal? Hadrian's Lover is set in the near future at a time when the human population has grown to such excess that the earth is no longer able to sustain humanity's astronomical numbers. Poverty, starvation, and disease are rampant. Only the country of Hadrian seems able to defend itself against the ravages of an overpopulated planet by restricting its population growth and encasing its country behind a defensive wall. Procreation does not happen by chance in Hadrian. There are no unwanted pregnancies. No accidents. All pregnancies occur through in vitro fertilization, and every citizen of Hadrian is responsible for rearing one of Hadrian's children. Heterosexuality is deemed the ill that has led humanity to the dire conditions mankind now faces. In Hadrian, no one dares to express interest in the opposite sex, and if discovered acting on heterosexual instincts, one is either exiled to the outside world or subjected to reeducation. Hadrian's Lover tells the story of Todd Middleton, a teenage boy struggling to keep the secret of his heterosexuality. Watch, and feel with him as he suffers the indignities of a society determined to "cure" him of his plight. Patricia Marie Budd is a high school English teacher living in northern Alberta, Canada. Having taught for over twenty years she has been a safe zone for LGBT* students over the decades. Hadrian's Lover is her third novel.

20/20 YOU reveals the hidden truths behind the veil of personal illusion by focusing on the origins of mental wealth. Within these pages Rico guides our journey to personal freedom via his own story that led to his own internal enlightenment. 20/20 YOU is a vision of true inner mastery guided by such teachings of the natural laws of the Universe. This panoramic offering opens our true Dharma eye (third eye) which is the perfect vision to our own success through the primordial window known as prosperity consciousness. In 20/20 YOU author, speaker and metaphysician Rico Griffiths-Taitte playfully shares the foundation in achieving excellence to liberate an arrested state of mind. Rico teaches us how to learn more about ourselves through ancient wisdom. Once we adopt the ancient behavioural patterns necessary to achieve conscious liberation we will see that the new outlook...is looking within. "e;Rico offers us an intelligent look at connecting with ourselves in a deeper way. If you are curious to learn about connecting with your true essence, read these words of encouraging insight."e;

This new cookbook by St Lucian chef Denis Rosembert will bring deliciously fragrant French Caribbean dishes in to your home and onto your table.

"e;"e;When you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything."e; My Mind, My Master advocates the extraordinary power of the mind: how we can learn to harness this power, our physical energy and health can dramatically improve. This book has been written out of Hratch Ogali's personal experience, and from five years working with individuals at the Mind Clinic, many of whom have suffered from devastating neurological conditions. Ogali's approach is holistic: he is convinced that emotional damage can result, even many years later, in physical illness. He describes simple solutions for emotional well-being, in order to prevent and overcome illness. He does not claim to be a healer: rather to teach people how to use their minds to heal themselves. "e;We each possess the knowledge to life's fundamental questions: when we pay attention to our mind we are indeed capable of achieving anything."e; My Mind My Master is written in straightforward language: it describes the relationship between mind, brain and body and how we relate to our environment. This is a book which can help you achieve a deep insight into the self and be the catalyst for change. "e;

London, December 1916. In the middle of the world's most deadly war, a political coup grips Westminster. The carnage of the Somme, the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, and the Easter Rising in Dublin have all left Britain's coalition government in disarray. The press is in open revolt and the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, is under sustained attack from political opponents and key members of his own party. Against this backdrop of mounting chaos, four politicians meet to consider their options. Edward Carson, militant Ulster Unionist and former Conservative attorney-general. Max Aitken, the future Lord Beaverbrook, now a backbench Conservative MP and journalist. Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party. And - most dangerous of all - David Lloyd George, the Liberal War Secretary. Over three weeks in the dying days of 1916 these four men engineer a stunning political coup. They force the prime minister to resign. The End of Asquith is a historically faithful, fictionalised account of Herbert Asquith's last days in office. It shows the prime minister slowly realising the emerging threat to his position and dealing with the concerns of his wife Margot, the friendship of those who stay loyal to him throughout the crisis, and the alarm of the king as his government collapses just as the war enters its most dangerous phase. An intimate and moving portrait of a politician facing the end of his long career, The End of Asquith recounts the dramatic removal from office of the last leader of a Liberal government in England.