Mike Carter

Can they survive the wastes in their new bodies from the vats of Gweth? For Doug Lawrence, a construction engineer, the new telecommunications facility on the remote Indonesian island of Bahala is just another posting. For Dr Julie Foster, travelling halfway across the world to take up a position as site doctor, it is a scary leap into the unknown, an escape from the ordered life of a hospital doctor. When certain aspects of the construction work and Julie's position as site doctor don't really seem to make sense, they find that the installations being built are not what they seem, but are for Gateways to two other worlds, parallel to Earth but existing in different dimensions. On one of these worlds, Meerland, Julie and Doug find themselves reluctantly drawn into aiding the gnome-like Meerlanders in their fight against the Thaerlons; intelligent, bear-like creatures who come in marauding groups from an icy wasteland to the north. In Gweth, the second world, they encounter an advanced alien society where their consciousness is transferred to other, alien bodies by a process called body hopping. Can they really help the Meerlanders, hampered by their primitive culture@ Initially drawn together, their relationship is tested by the stresses and dangers they face and they find themselves wondering what they want for the future.

Mixed Troubles is a light-hearted, engaging, and educational take on the dynamics of what goes on between a husband and wife when they partner in mixed doubles tennis. The book provides practical "keys to success" to help couples understand and overcome challenges so that can achieve a better playing experience. There are no other sports like mixed doubles where a man and woman compete together, particularly for married couples. Tennis players know that nothing is more combustible than playing doubles with a spouse. There are no other books like this in the market. It is written in a story format that everyone will enjoy. Mixed Troubles has the novelty of being written by three brothers with contributions from their wives. The book includes participation from a credentialed psychologist and tennis professional, as well excerpts from interviews with real-life married tennis couples. The book will help married couples enhance their time together and grow their relationships while having fun playing mixed doubles.

'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years since I had turned down Pete's invitation to join them. I called work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket to Liverpool.'In 1981, Mike Carter's dad, Pete, organised the People's March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool to London to protest as the Thatcher government's policies devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing. Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country. As he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought. All Together Now? maps the intricate, overlapping path of one man's journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write new stories for our communities and ourselves.

The narrow streets and ancient pubs of historic Fells Point are filled with the spirits of the past. Pirates, privateers, sailors, smugglers and a host of others refused to let death change their address. Walk with Edward Fell in the town he founded in 1760 or flirt with the "ladies" at the Cat's Eye Pub. Climb the stairs at Bertha's Mussels to visit the little girl with no face or let a long-dead nurse take your temperature at the Admiral Fell Inn. Ghost historians and authors Mike Carter and Julia Dray introduce the spiritual residents of Baltimore's iconic waterfront neighborhood.

This is the story of a licked clean dish And a very hungry cat who's dinner he has missed So he set off for the garden To find something to eat And here on the pages are the creatures he did meet

Come and meet the creaturesAs they are passing bySome of themthey hop and crawlAnd others they can flyThey play out in the gardenUntil they stop to eatSo don't forget when passingTo leave for them a treat

From one to twelve apart from playBoys and girls have lots to sayThey laugh and cry and have fun toAlways finding things to doAunties uncles and lots moreSometimes come in through the doorso written here some things they saywhile waiting to go out to playSeaside Christmas dentists toPlayschool, paper planes that flewin verses here inside the pagesIt's clear that growing up takes ages

What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness and generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything but broken. This is the inspiring and very funny tale of the five months Mike spent cycling the byways of the nation.

A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe. Never mind that he hadn't been on two wheels since an inglorious three-month teenage chapter involving a Lambretta, four crashes and an 18-month ban for drink-driving, a plan had begun to loosely form... And so, having completed a six day residential motorcycle course and hastily re-mortgaged his flat, Mike sets off alone, resolving to go wherever the road takes him and enjoy the adventure of heading off into the unknown. He ends up travelling almost 20,000 miles and reaching the four extremes of Europe: the Arctic Circle in the north, the Mediterranean coast in the south, the Portuguese Atlantic to the west and the Iraqi border of Turkey in the east. But really it's a journey inwards, as, on the way, Mike finds his post-divorce scars starting to heal and attempts to discover what he, as a man in his forties who hasn't quite found his place in the world, should be doing. Self-deprecating, poetic and utterly engaging, his is a heroic journey taken for the rest of us too scared to leave our 9 to 5 office-bound existence.