When a family of mice builds a nest inside a large wooden box in an empty old house they know nothing about music or what a... More > piano is.
At first they are afraid of the sounds the box makes but, after a piano teacher moves into the house and gets the piano tuned, they discover the beauty of music and understand the meaning of the patterns in the book that has fallen inside their nest.
The youngest mouse has an aptitude for music. She teaches her family to play and even writes her own composition which the family plays to great acclaim in the Albert Hall. < Less

It might be magical realism or it might be real magic, but something very strange is happening at CERN after an explosion... More > shakes the planet and the Large Hadron Collider runs out of control.

The boundary between fact and fiction becomes increasingly blurred as Astrid Nielsen, the only physicist left alive who knows how the LHC works, must return to Geneva in a desperate attempt to save the world.

Along the way, she finds that reality is even stranger than a particle physicist can imagine. < Less

A game of chess played in London in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky became known as The Immortal Game. It was... More > thought to illustrate perfectly the style of play at that time. This story relocates that game of chess to the mountains of the English Lake District and transforms it into a bloody battle between two opposing armies. Jenny Wells has managed to get a job as an embedded reporter with General Anderssen's army and gets more than a ring-side seat. She is taken by the reconnaissance expert, Merlin Kite, to the very centre of the battle-ground, high up on Crinkle Crags. They are in the eye of the hurricane and the battle rages around them. The true nature of modern warfare becomes apparent; men - brain, muscle, and blood - can be sacrificed just to gauge the enemy's intentions as each General tries to gain and hold the important ground.


See the game in Google Earth at:
http://www.hazelhurst.net/IG/ImmortalGame.htm < Less

In 2020-Liverpool, Lily, Andy, and John have different perspectives on time. Lily is absorbed by the past; John wants to... More > know what to do today; Andy is concerned with building future reputation. Their adventure begins in the Town Hall when they discover the special properties of the Jewel of Liverpool - the medallion of the mayoral regalia. They discover the sinister forces responsible for Liverpool's rise to wealth and power in the early 18th Century, but the wrongs they find have to be put right. The trick will be to do it without Liverpool crumbling to dust.
Read more excerpts from the story on the blog pages: http://thestonesofliverpool.wordpress.com/ < Less

The northern hemisphere is gone, wiped out by natural disaster and war. The last refuge of civilisation is New Manhattan,... More > Antarctica where Roman Dragic is a detective with the NMPD. He meets and falls in love with Giulia, but his promise to look after her takes him further than he expects. < Less

This report outlines the issues surrounding digital rights management (DRM) in the publishing industry. DRM in the recording... More > industry is reviewed to provide a backdrop to the work currently undertaken by publishers and digital booksellers; this demonstrates the polarised viewpoints of consumers and content producers with regard to copyright law and the culture of file sharing on the Internet.

The business models of companies which the author believes are the main competitors for ebook market share: Google, Amazon, Apple and Sony, are presented along with their approaches to digital rights management and content distribution.

Some publishers and authors are presented who have experimented with releasing DRM-free content, and the resulting effects on their exposure and sales. < Less

A photographic guide to the wild flowers that can be found on Loughrigg Fell on short walks out of Ambleside in the English... More > Lake District. Detailed routes are described and the exact location of each flower is given. The views in Lakeland are truly magnificent, but there's also much to be seen and enjoyed by looking at the ground at our feet. < Less

It might be magical realism or it might be real magic, but something very strange is happening at CERN after an explosion... More > shakes the planet and the Large Hadron Collider runs out of control.

The boundary between fact and fiction becomes increasingly blurred as Astrid Nielsen, the only physicist left alive who knows how the LHC works, must return to Geneva in a desperate attempt to save the world.

Along the way, she finds that reality is even stranger than a particle physicist can imagine. < Less

The northern hemisphere is gone, wiped out by natural disaster and war. The last refuge of civilisation is New Manhattan,... More > Antarctica where Roman Dragic is a detective with the NMPD. He meets and falls in love with Giulia, but his promise to look after her takes him further than he expects. < Less

This report outlines the issues surrounding digital rights management (DRM) in the publishing industry. DRM in the recording... More > industry is reviewed to provide a backdrop to the work currently undertaken by publishers and digital booksellers; this demonstrates the polarised viewpoints of consumers and content producers with regard to copyright law and the culture of file sharing on the Internet.

The business models of companies which the author believes are the main competitors for ebook market share: Google, Amazon, Apple and Sony, are presented along with their approaches to digital rights management and content distribution.

Some publishers and authors are presented who have experimented with releasing DRM-free content, and the resulting effects on their exposure and sales. < Less