Chris Gill

Two boys. Two farms. One deadly secret. Every day's the same on the farm. Seventeen-year-old Seb rides his quad bike alongside his dad and cattle dog, dreaming about a different life. A life that doesn't require him to spend all day in the blistering sun. Where the nearest town isn't a forty-minute drive away with a population of fewer than three hundred people. Where he can talk to someone who isn't his little brother or short-tempered father. So when new neighbours move into the derelict farm on the opposite side of the shrub, Seb hopes his luck is finally about to change. Could Jake, the enigmatic boy with a dangerous glint in his eye, be his ticket out of The Nowhere? And if so, how far are they both willing to go to escape? Fast forward two decades and Seb's working as a nurse back in Perth. With his dad living in his home, Seb is tormented by the demons that have followed him his entire adult life. He begins confiding in his caring colleague Sandra, who convinces him the only way he'll be able to move forward is to exorcise his ghosts and seek closure. But when Jake calls out the blue telling Seb he's coming to visit, Seb has to decide whether he's ready to face exactly what happened that summer. On the night that forever changed not only the lives of the two boys, but that their entire families. Youthful, brutal and ferociously fantastic, The Nowhere is a coming-of-age novel about aspiration and isolation, sexuality and sadness, love, loss, and how life changes. Despite his best efforts, Seb learns that secrets can't be kept forever. The truth always comes out eventually. You can't keep it secret forever, the truth always comes out eventually.

The Nowhere

When the body of wealthy teen and aspiring photographer Evan Wiley is found faceup at the base of Taonga Falls, one thing is immediately clear: he didn't jump. Detective Brooke Palmer races down to the struggling New Zealand town she once called home to comfort her oldest friend - Evan's mother. But when Brooke learns Evan had been hanging out with a boy who used to bully him, she quickly gets drawn into the case. She fears this dangerous new friendship may have cost Evan his life - or at the very least, his heart. And as Brooke confronts her own past, she is reminded that in Taonga, even those who have it all can hit rock bottom.A gripping whodunnit through a fresh lens, Boy Fallen will keep you guessing until the very end.

Boy Fallen

Imagine a world where natural light is a distant memory. Where a claustrophobic city lies along the seabed, built to protect humanity from disaster. For the last decade, this is what Red has called home. But she's prepared to do whatever it takes to feel fresh air on her face again. To finally escape The Shell.

Shell

A collection of contemporary poetry by independent author, Chris Gill. Penned over the course of a decade, Verses details the writer's journey into adulthood, as he reflects on his past, present and future. It also makes observations about the world on a social, political and spiritual scale, which will leave you deep in thought and often able to relate. The collection is split into six parts that tackle issues on both a macro and micro scale. Kicking off with the confessional Catacombs, the book promises to take its reader on an existential trip as the author picks apart fragments of his memory. The book then continues with Escape to the Docks, a darker, even haunting section that presents the reader with a narrative of the writer's student life. Expect themes ranging from hedonism to suicide. The third part of the book, titled Home, reverts back in time to the author's childhood. Here we're given an intimate insight into the poet's early years through dream-like prose. The fourth section of the book, Wires, sees the experimental writer turn far more outward as he openly expresses his political views and concerns about the environment. This section includes the epic poem Wires, which takes the reader on a powerful exploration into the author's inner psyche. The final two parts, Oracles under City Lights and The Other Side, follow Chris' life in both London and Sydney, with all the lessons taught along the way through the people he encountered and situations he found himself in. If you think poetry is dull and outdated, Verses will open your mind and give you a taste of how contemporary poetry looks, sounds and feels. It proves that poetry, just like any other art form, exists to provoke emotion and empathy within its reader; leaving you enthralled and wanting more.

Verses

Europe's 200 Best Winter Sports Resorts

The Good Skiing Guide

Dave Watts

This new guide to the world's best winter sports resorts is based on Britain's leading guide - Where to Ski and Snowboard. Detailed and reliable, it gives all the information you need to select your ideal resort and make the most of your holiday. And it's carefully designed for ease of use, with colour printing throughout the book. Key features include: ∗ 1,000 resorts covered, with 400 described in detail ∗ up to date for the 2001/02 season ∗ full colour graphics - 70 scale village plans, 125 trail maps, 200 photographs ∗ comprehensive coverage of the major destination resorts of North America and Europe (Scandinavia, eastern Europe and the Pyrenees as well as the Alps) ∗ all the facts on major resorts, from lift-ticket prices to nightlife ∗ impartial, hard-hitting verdicts ∗ special verdicts for boarders, plus details of fun-parks, half- pipes and other terrain features.

Reuters Guide to the World's Best Winter Sports Resorts

Where to Ski and Snowboard Worldwide 2002

'Where to Ski and Snowboard 2007' offers an authoritative guide to ski resorts and skiing. Whether you are a novice or a professional, this guide will provide all the information you need to choose a resort, including clear plans of the pistes.

Where to Ski and Snowboard 2007

A guide to more than 500 ski resorts around the world, with summaries of the pros and cons of each one and ratings on key aspects. There are detailed street plans and piste maps, features on ski safety and equipment, and a directory of tour operators and other relevant organizations.

Where to Ski

Covering more than 500 ski resorts in Europe, North America and elsewhere, this guide includes summaries of the pros and cons of each resort, and ratings of key aspects. There are also street-plans of the villages and towns, and piste maps, as well as features on ski safety and new equipment.

Where to Ski in Austria

Where to Ski in France

Pete used to live a humdrum, nine to five existence before escaping into a world of travel, beer, study, sex and cigarette smoke. Searching for enlightenment, he instead began toiling with his ego, obsessing about gaining recognition and glory for himself. Glory on a nationwide scale, a worldwide scale! Now he teaches vulnerable adults at 14, Back Road, where he thought he had at last started to overcome the egotist inside him: Instead of thinking of himself, he found he was genuinely caring about the well being of others. Then the selfish, manipulative Deborah Styles joins the teaching staff. Gradually, Pete finds he is being dragged back into a battle against his own ego, only this time with potentially tragic results. Will tragedy be averted? Which side of his character will defeat the other? The altruist or the egotist?

Back Road

A guide to ski resorts and skiing for the novice or professional, this guide provides all the information you need to choose a resort, including clear plans of the pistes.

Where to Ski and Snowboard

Brad Tolinski

Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues. When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all genres and around the world. Van Halen’s debut sounded unlike anything that listeners had heard before and remains a quintessential rock album of the era. Over the course of more than four decades, Eddie gained renown for his innovative guitar playing, and particularly for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique. Unfortunately for Eddie and his legions of fans, he died before he was ever able to put his life down to paper in his own words, and much of his compelling backstory has remained elusive—until now. In Eruption, music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill share with fans, new and old alike, a candid, compulsively readable, and definitive oral history of the most influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. It is based on more than 50+ hours of unreleased interviews they recorded with Eddie Van Halen over the years, most of them conducted at the legendary 5150 studios at Ed’s home in Los Angeles. The heart of Eruption is drawn from these intimate and wide-ranging talks, as well as conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. In addition to discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician, including an unprecedented dive into Van Halen’s masterpiece 1984, the book also takes an unflinching look at Edward’s early struggles as young Dutch immigrant unable to speak the English language, which resulted in lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance abuse. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen also examines his brilliance as an inventor who changed the face of guitar manufacturing. As entertaining as it is revealing, Eruption is the closest readers will ever get to hearing Eddie’s side of the story when it comes to his extraordinary life.

Conversations with Eddie Van Halen

Eruption

Naomi Creutzfeldt

Marine Cornelis

Rachel McPherson

How do ordinary people access justice? This book offers a novel socio-legal approach to access to justice, alternative dispute resolution, vulnerability and energy poverty. It poses an access to justice challenge and rethinks it through a lens that accommodates all affected people, especially those who are currently falling through the system. It raises broader questions about alternative dispute resolution, the need for reform to include more collective approaches, a stronger recognition of the needs of vulnerable people, and a stronger emphasis on delivering social justice. The authors use energy poverty as a site of vulnerability and examine the barriers to justice facing this excluded group. The book assembles the findings of an interdisciplinary research project studying access to justice and its barriers in the UK, Italy, France, Bulgaria and Spain (Catalonia). In-depth interviews with regulators, ombuds, energy companies, third-sector organisations and vulnerable people provide a rich dataset through which to understand the phenomenon. The book provides theoretical and empirical insights which shed new light on these issues and sets out new directions of inquiry for research, policy and practice. It will be of interest to researchers, students and policymakers working on access to justice, consumer vulnerability, energy poverty, and the complex intersection between these fields. The book includes contributions by Cosmo Graham (UK), Sarah Supino and Benedetta Voltaggio (Italy), Marine Cornelis (France), Anais Varo and Enric Bartlett (Catalonia) and Teodora Peneva (Bulgaria).

Just Energy?

Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy-Poor Consumers

This book is a concise guide to the harmony of Bach's chorales for advanced level music students, equipping them with the knowledge and understanding to complete their own chorale harmonisations with confidence and accuracy. Bach's practice in harmonising chorales is explored throughout the book, from the basics of four-part writing to the complexities of chromatic harmony.

Chris Gill

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