The Rangemore Hotel is a tired, Victorian hotel struggling to survive on the North Wales coastline. A coastline owned by the sea, loaned by the seas, and at any time, could be reclaimed by the sea. Equally as unpredictable as the sea are the fortunes of the owners and staff of the The Rangemore Hotel, the backdrop to: The Odd Noble Deed. Four people associated with this once-grand hotel tumble and crash into each other's lives. Passion, treachery and lies leave only two winners - or are they winners? - for to win one must truly value the prize.

'A tale of COMBATTING CORPORATE BURNOUT: PROTECTING YOUR TALENT' is a drum beat book highlighting the issues facing all levels of leadership in organisations. It explains the physiological changes that take place and concludes with tried and tested recovery strategies of leaders who recognised they were burning out and employed personal turn-around strategies before they added their names to the graveyard of completely burnt-out leaders.

Dr Howard G. Awbery joined the British coal mining industry as a fresh faced eighteen year old and emerged thirty years later, battered and bruised but worldlier for the richness of the experience. In the captivating book, 'Me and My Lamp' he recounts stories from those years. Stories of human kindness, national coal strikes, personal injury, a ghostly warning and ecclectic family of miners who made him laugh and cry. As one of the few colliers left who once filled a 'stint' of coal using a shovel and set wooden props to secure the roof, he draws the reader into an underground world that those who never ventured shudder to imagine. However, his world of coal was not a black world at all, for his mining stories depict a bright, colourful world, full of excitement, challenge and amazing people.

Set in 1938, with preparations for war well underway, newlyweds Celia and Carston Prestwick begin their honeymoon on the night train to Scotland. Sabotage, a steam train race and two tangled love triangles are just some of the issues that tumble out of this intriguing romantic novel; a novel peppered with classic Howard G. Awbery twists and turns. Readers will be able to put 'The Music Box' down just once...at the very end!

A cat with attitude, green-fingered garden gnomes, a Roman helmet and two fiercely protective ghosts feature in this delightful anthology. Each tale has been written to accompany a cup of tea and a biscuit, whilst pleasantly disorientating the reader and challenging what they believe to be 'real' for a few moments. When finished, the book will be lovingly replaced on the coffee table leaving the reader smiling to themselves and wondering, 'could that actually happen?'

An interest in ancient stone circles keeps James, a financial trader in the City of London, well grounded. When visiting a little-known stone circle in North Wales, on the summer solstice, he is transported back to the time of the circle's construction. James lives amongst the Late Bronze Age villagers, befriending the architect of the stone circle, Barnaby, and a young widow called Eira. James rejoins the present, quickly realising he was far happier in the past than in his current, shallow London life. He returns to the past only to find it under siege by the Hunllef, a warring, wandering tribe. Following a bloody battle he and Eira escape to the present. Beth, a PhD student studying the history of stone circles, befriends James and Eira and becomes entangled in their lives spanning two time zones.

Pixie Dust II is a tale of performance management and change in the woodland community of Ten-Tree Wood. It consists of a series of stories all about leading change, which the author has experienced during his career and learned painful and salutary lessons. They include the very valued individual, who is facing self-imposed burn out - a more common problem than many of us care to admit. There is a story about a group who decide to challenge the establishment. Another story considers real performance contribution and how change should be introduced when it is found that we are doing the wrong things really well. Sound familiar? Finally, there is a story of how we communicate change. Do we do what we have always done or is it time to communicate through our organisations' invisible culture; and before you say anything, you will have one The stories are supported by doctoral research from Dr Andy Bibby, the leading expert in leading organisational change. Pixie Dust II is a series of practical management solutions to leading change. The book will take about an hour to read and a lifetime to be grateful.

Motivation? Easy. Leadership? No problem. Performance management? Simple. All of these statements are true if - and only if - you have the right people. That's the really hard bit: choosing the right people. A chief executive's dream is to have scientific help when choosing key people and Pixie Dust is that help - a book written as a fable from the heart. The fable starts when all is well in a community; then, a recruitment exercise ends in the not-unfamiliar 'appointment from hell'. The fable concludes with that fabulous feeling when a selection panel gets it right - that almost spiritual satisfaction when managers come together and it works. The problems encountered when selecting a senior manager are herein set in a woodland community. However, Pixie Dust is far from being a fairy story. It is a vehicle to convey cutting-edge management practices which come from the most up-to-date management research at doctoral level. Pixie Dust is a critical look at the outmoded management selection practices of today and an explanation of what could be achieved by the application of a high-performing management model. Pixie Dust will make you think and change the way you select managers for ever. The book will take about an hour to read and a lifetime to be grateful. pixiedustmanagement.com

Never in a million years could she have imagined that any one customer would make so much difference to her life. However, one day into her busy London boutique came such a customer. `Shoulders', as she derogatorily referred to him, rocked her equilibrium and tumbled her settled, solitary, secure life over and over again. Before `Shoulders', Isobelle's independence was her armour against all-comers; she believed her life and emotions impenetrable. As she reluctantly came increasingly embroiled in this customer's complex life she realised how wrong she was.

So, Howard G Awbery has done it again. An intriguing follow-on from 'Five Stranger Tales', 'Five Even Stranger Tales' will not disappoint. With your log burner blazing and a steaming cup of frothy, hot chocolate by your side, these creative and carefully crafted tales will keep you guessing until the final line. Mix seagulls and weddings with philanthropy and a doctor's computer with a mind of its own and you won't have any idea what's coming next. Cantering through an eclectic gathering of characters you finally come to rest on an allotment in the company of a tramp called Humphrey. But all is not as it appears... Enjoy escaping from the day's tedium and tumbling through Howard G Awbery's delightful imagination.