Abductions From My Beautiful Life

‘There is a shapeshifter asleep in my head. And when it wakes you won’t recognise me as my children’s mother, my husband’s wife, or the writer, veterinarian and advocate that I am. You won’t recognise me as someone who is alive to adventure and beauty.’

Anita Link was thirty-two years old, and six days into motherhood, when she experienced a psychotic episode and was trapped on the wrong side of sanity for the first time. It took months in hospital, medications, electroconvulsive therapy and psychological therapies to fully recover. And then, a few years later, it happened again.

This memoir is a look into what can happen to a person’s thoughts, emotions and behaviour when they are ravaged by a severe mental illness. Anita writes compellingly about what psychosis, mania and catatonic depression can feel like. Her authentic narrative of recovery reveals the hard work it takes to return to normal life after being stolen away from it by highly stigmatised symptoms.

Anita has survived these abductions and returned to her beautiful life many times. This is her story.

Above the Circle

What would you do if you knew that you had been given a second chance to sail away from life’s safe harbour? Each of us has dreams of doing something that takes us out of our comfort zone but few of us take the plunge and actually do it.

In this book Mervyn Smith describes a point in his life when he was facing the question of his own mortality as he recovered from a serious life-saving surgery. This is the story of how he responded to that challenge and followed a life-long dream to ride a motorcycle from his Shropshire home to a destination way above the Arctic Circle and who he did it for.

Read what brought him to that decision, what difficulties he overcame to pursue his dream and the adventures he had on the journey riding through the hottest European summer on record. This book will inspire you, challenge you and hopefully motivate you to realise that everyone has a skill set unique to them which, with faith, imagination, and creativity, can be released. And that age is never a barrier to doing something extra ordinary.

Accepting ME

What do you do when your life is turned upside down by an illness?

Learning to adapt and cope with illness is extremely difficult and can lead even the most confident person to becoming vulnerable.

Follow Lou through her fascinating true journey of how she learned to live with her illness and how she discovered a way to live again.

Acting Monologues | A New Collection | Volume I

This is a diverse and exciting new collection of modern and historical pieces for young performers, aged 7 to 17 years.

A selection of speeches designed to empower and authenticate young girls, teenagers, and individuals who identify as female, as well as numerous gender-fluid roles.

The monologues are suitable for acting examinations, competitions, and auditions – or any situation where a solo scene is required from a published book of monologues. For those learners who study LAMDA examinations, the collection provides options for the learner’s ‘own choice’ category from grades Entry – Grade 5.

Vitally, the themes are fresh and relevant to young people in a modern world; giving learners wider opportunities to explore, learn, and grow as actors, inspired by new and original writing, which is fun, challenging, and meaningful to perform.

Ada and Emily

Ada and Emily are best friends and next-door neighbours. They love to engineer and build a variety of creations in Ada’s shed. One warm summer day whilst staring up at the sky, they realise what they want to do most is fly. They quickly get to work, turning a past project, a go-kart, into their very own aeroplane in which they can take to the skies and have amazing adventures.

Join Ada and Emily as they plan and build their aeroplane, become aircraft engineers and pilots, and take their first flights.

Adam and Isaac - The Five Stones

Adam and Isaac are brothers who like to spend time together having fun. While doing so they find out about mathematics in a fun way in the real world. They gently help each other to find the answers to questions they ask themselves. They are enthusiastic in their thinking and offer clear reasoning which is easy to understand.

Their stories offer a new approach to learning the basic skills and understanding to the subject. Children will enjoy the story without realising they are learning about mathematics. The illustrations are designed to clearly show their path in reasoning and learning.

This book is ideal for teachers to use in school with young children as an introduction to multiplication, either in a maths lesson or at story time. However, it is also perfect for parents/carers to use at home as a bedtime story, which can lead on to some fun while learning about mathematics.

Adult Colouring Book - Spring Secrets

This beautiful set of elegant, delicate drawings create imaginative landscapes for readers to fill with their minds.

This collection is particularly concerned with the bloom and growth of spring, nature and humanity intertwined and contorted into amorphous beauty.

Karen Harper’s Spring Secrets will appeal strongly to anyone with an artistic disposition looking to express themselves and truly engage with the art contained within.

Adventures in Willow Woodland

Willow Woodland is a beautiful place where lots of different animals live. It’s a friendly, fun and exciting place where anything is possible and everyone is welcome.

It was a beautiful bright sunny morning and the birds were all awake singing loud for the Woodland to hear. It was the perfect day for a surprise birthday party! Heather Hedgehog thought to herself.

Everyone was excited for today because everyone enjoyed a good party and they always had the best adventures when they were together.

Heather Hedgehog has planned this day for a very long time, will everything go to plan? Even with clumsy Harry Hare helping to set up the party with balloons, hats, games, and of course, a cake, because you need to have a cake if you’re having a birthday party, don’t you?

You're invited too, so come join Heather Hedgehog, Barry Badger and Harry Hare for a fun day, but remember it’s a secret so don’t tell Susie Squirrel.

Adventures of the Magical Leaf

When I wrote this book it was my intention to give some hope and encouragement. These past couple of years have been trying and very difficult to many people, and we need to be able to continue and never lose hope despite the adversities.

This book is about a leaf spreading happiness in dark places. It is about how, with a little bit of hope and never giving up, you are able to overcome your challenges in the end.

Adventures of Zandi and Rynlena

The Kingdom of Kaleral, a once dangerous land, now lives in peace. Except at the edge of the land, there is a place called Grim Valley, a cursed place where people go in but never come out. Alexandra is a not-so-average teenage princess also known as Zandi, a princess who wishes for adventure. And a shy yet powerful witch known as Rynlena wants to escape her own fate. Two completely different girls, from different lives end up crossing each other’s path. Two girls who could never be friends, or could they? When travelling to meet her friend Selwyn, Zandi stumbles into the fog, unknowingly entering Grim Valley. She then meets the guardian of Grim Valley who agrees to help her.

Zandi has found her adventure, but now she needs to escape and break the curse. Follow the Adventures of Zandi and Rynlena as they travel through the valley, fighting angry spirits, big centipedes, and more.

Adventures of Zara and Jannat

It’s a beautiful sunny day outside. Zara and Jannat are going to the market today. They are excited about all the different things that they will see.

Once more the candy floss cloud is back, taking the girls back to Bangladesh.

There is someone out there who is feeling a little glum, would the girls be able to help? Find out and join the girls in yet another fun adventure. 

Adventures of Zara and Jannat: Bangladesh

In a little house by the sea, two sisters, Zara and Jannat, wanted to have a kite adventure. Going through the boxes in Mum's shed, they make the perfect kite. Little do they know that today, a big adventure awaits them. Fly away with Zara and Jannat to Bangladesh, where a fabulous adventure awaits.