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Ian Livingstone introduces his latest Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Blood of the Zombies!
Posted on 2012/07/18 in General, tagged as
Only 15 days to go until the latest book in the hugely successful Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, Blood of the Zombies, is published by Wizard Books! Whether you’re a veteran Fighting Fantasy fan or you’ve just started picking them up, can YOU survive or will YOU become a zombie too? Watch the video below to hear Ian Livingstone himself talk about the book. Blood of the Zombies is available to pre-order from all good bookshops. Ian Livingstone… Read more »
Introducing Graphic Guide apps ‘will give you plenty of food for thought’
Posted on 2012/07/17 in General, tagged as
Six app versions of our Graphic Guides are currently available – Philosophy, Capitalism, Ethics, Postmodernism, Slavoj Žižek, and Kant (available exclusively through the free Introducing Graphic Guides bookshelf app). The apps received a fantastic and informative review by Jen over on Bitch Buzz, an online lifestyle magazine for women, this week: ‘As with the books, the new apps take big and complex ideas and make them easier to understand. They… Read more »
Rasmus Ankersen on ‘Why do location-based talent gold mines exist?’
Posted on 2012/07/11 in General, tagged as
Rasmus Ankersen, author of the recently published The Gold Mine Effect, auditioned for TED2013 – and you can watch the full talk below! TED2013 aims to ‘uncover new talents, voices and ideas the world needs to hear: emerging trailblazers, under-celebrated sages, hidden geniuses’. Rasmus Ankersen quit his job, spent the last of his money on plane tickets, and for six intense months travelled the world, visiting ‘Gold Mines’ of talent; living and… Read more »
Martin Bell on ‘the art of writing silence’
Posted on 2012/07/11 in General, tagged as
If you missed the Tales from the War Zone event at Waterstones Piccadilly last week, you can watch the Martin Bell talk about ‘the art of writing silence’ – his experience writing In Harm’s Way and For Whom the Bell Tolls, and how war has become a policy option rather than the ultimate and most serious decision – in this entertaining and informative video. Martin Bell OBE is one of the best-known and most highly regarded names in British televisi… Read more »
Ian Livingstone will be signing copies of Blood of the Zombies at the Forbidden Planet!
Posted on 2012/07/09 in General, tagged as
Blood of the Zombies – the latest title in the legendary interactive gamebook series Fighting Fantasy – is published 2nd August. Ian Livingstone will be signing copies of the book at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Saturday 4th August, 3-4pm. Terrible things are happening in Goraya castle. Insane megalomaniac Gingrich Yurr is preparing to unleash an army of monstrous zombies upon the world. He must be stopped and his undead horde defeat… Read more »
Win an exquisite, signed leather-bound edition of The Etymologicon with Waterstones!
Posted on 2012/07/06 in General, tagged as
Waterstones.com is offering one lucky winner the chance to win an exquisite and exclusive signed leather-bound edition of The Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon. Only 10 copies of this edition were ever produced – each of them individually numbered by hand. One lucky winner will be the owner of copy #9, personally dedicated by Mark Forsyth, and bound in full brown leather with beautiful gold foil printed on the spine. It’s a book… Read more »
Rasmus Ankersen, author of The Gold Mine Effect, talks about sporting ‘gold mines’ of talent
Posted on 2012/07/06 in General, tagged as
Why have the world’s best middle-distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are 137 of the world’s 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How has one athletics club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeeded in producing most of the world’s best sprinters? Watch the video below of Rasmus Ankersen talking about the sporting ‘gold mines’ of talent that he visited around the world while researching his book, The Gold Mine Effect, out now.… Read more »
How to Find Undervalued Talent
Posted on 2012/07/04 in General, tagged as
Rasmus Ankersen, author of The Gold Mine Effect, spent a year travelling and studying the world’s most successful talent and performance environments. In a brand new and brilliantly illustrated video, shown below, discover how the talents of Asafa Powell, Paul McCartney, Richard Branson, and Cristiano Ronaldo were all overlooked, and listen to Rasmus explain three simple lessons that everyone can follow to dramatically improve their ability to sp… Read more »
‘One might say this is the most important cricket book yet written’
Posted on 2012/06/29 in General, tagged as
Third Man in Havana by Tom Rodwell received a glowing review in the latest issue of The Cricketer. ‘With wit, gusto and insight Tom Rodwell introduces us to aspects of cricket that have never been explored before – not until he came along and, in his enthusiasm for the sport, explored its potentialities’. Third Man in Havana is the story of how cricket can have a impact on people’s lives in the most unlikely places. It revisits the cricket charit… Read more »
See Martin Bell at the ‘Tales from the War Zone’ event, Tuesday 3rd July
Posted on 2012/06/26 in General, tagged as
Martin Bell will be participating in the ‘Tales from the War Zone’ event next week with Geoff Dyer, Ben Fountain, and Patrick Hennessey. ‘Four top writers share their reflections on war – and writing about war – in the 21st century. Come and hear veteran war correspondent and former soldier Martin Bell explain how war today has become a policy option instead of a last resort’. As Martin Bell covered foreign assignments in more than 80 countries… Read more »
