Haikus and Home Truths Started on a trip to Japan, as a way of using the sleepless jet-lagged nights, composing haikus became something of an obsession. Gradually the idea formed for using the vehicle of the haiku poem to take a heart-journey, from a travelogue, charting the trip of a lifetime, to an inner journey of reflection. This illustrated collection invites the reader to travel with the author, to ponder, perhaps to smile, and to discover the versatility of this classic Japanese poetic form.

The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions. 'The Patriarchs: An Elegy' was written after Prince Philip passed away in April 2021, 'Queenhood' celebrates the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, while 'Floral Tribute' was composed upon her death, three months later. Gathered together and introduced by a short author's note, this majestic collector's edition presents a lasting tribute as we come to terms with the end of an era.

Met die twee dramatekste in hierdie bundel het die talentvolle Nicola Hanekom die teaterganger in die holte van haar hand. In Trippie word die gehoor "passassiers" op 'n busrit deur die Karoo en word 'n warboel van emosies op 'n boeiende en onvoorspelbare wyse oopgevlek. Hol, 'n uitdagende eenvroutoneelstuk, neem die wegholtempo van 'n moderne vrouelewe in oenskou.

’n Bloemlesing gedigte oor vroue, deur vroue – en vir dié wat met vroue leef. Lees oor beroepsvroue en huisvroue, verliefde, geliefde en ontnugterde vroue, vroue met kinders en sonder kinders, vroue wat in die kalklig staan en vroue wat deur grense breek. Hierdie verse beskou die heelal deur ’n vroulike blik. ’n Bundel om aan te gee vir ’n vriendin of ’n suster, vir ma’s en vir dogters, vir geliefdes – omdat ons almal ’n bietjie so is, en ook nié so is nie.

In Uit die kroes word die Noord-Kaapse leefwêreld opgeroep in verse wat Namawoorde op verrykende wyse inkorporeer. Dit bevat gedigte wat die sentrale dog geringgeskatte rol van die bruin vrou in die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis belig. Ook die hedendaagse posisie van die jong bruin vrou word bekyk – hoe daar byvoorbeeld steeds teen wanpersepsies oor ras en skoonheid gestry word. Jy dra jou kroes hare so laat mense kan sien. glad alleen beteken nie mooi nie.

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.

This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.

As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you.

Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.

From an early age I discovered a talent for rhyme that amused me and it wasna t until I was in my teens that I realised that I could write rhyming pieces at will. This manifested itself in a series of plays I did for the NatWest Bank, one of which, a A Queen for all Seasons.a was broadcast on the BBC in 1979. Fun and frolics were the main ingredient but a double entendrea was the cutting edge to the plays. Others followed in quick succession. Here are a few that have survived.

Transcend Time final hours, you are almost there, just 2 and a half days until you are out your bosses maze, but you might have another 2 and a half decade's, if you don't read words that encourage change, read these ... you will have less complaints, a sense of self and maybe some new chat up lines for some dames; and to my ladies ... how to rid of them lames. Time told me to live my gift and present ... so unwrap it fellow reader and Transcend; Join me in my Final Hours and increase your life's powers... Your Present Prophetic Poet... Le Hornet.

In Oolog word stryd, konflik en oorlogvoering op verskeie vlakke ondersoek – nie net met verwysings op ’n nasionale en internasionale skaal nie, maar veral in die beskrywing van intieme, persoonlike ruimtes. Die realiteite van die Kaapse Vlakte word oopgeskryf.

Met sy narratiewe verse, geskryf in verrykende Kaaps, vertel Trantraal stories wat dikwels met ’n vuishou in die verrassende slotreëls tref. Hierdie gedigte is vindingryk en vreesloos, met donker humor maar nie sonder deernis nie.

Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. 2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant "anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story, he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield. Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.

Tim Wilkinson was born in Liverpool in 1951 and was educated at Merchant Taylorsa School, Crosby, then at Robert Gordona s College in Aberdeen. After graduating with an M.A. (Hons) in English at Aberdeen University, he then spent his entire career teaching English at Cults Academy. He has now retired to rural Aberdeenshire. He has written two histories of his local cricket club, Banchory C.C., for whom he has played for over 50 years. Tim suffers from the incurable disease of book collecting and has amassed a collection of over 3,000 first editions. Make that 3,001.