Good books allow us to escape from our own reality to make strong emotional connections with fictional characters. The power of this escapism and empathy is something championed by clinical psychologist Dr Janina Scarlet in her research-supported superhero therapy, which is transforming patients’ lives.

In her ground-breaking new book, Dr Janina Scarlet takes a unique approach to self-help. Therapy Quest is an interactive fantasy adventure novel that immerses the reader in a fantasy world where they are at the centre of the story.

For people who are reluctant to go to therapy, or are sceptical about self-help books, Therapy Quest offers a different option. It offers a form of escapism, transporting the reader out of their room into the land of ‘Here’.

Through the exciting adventure, the reader’s choices can earn or lose Courage, Wisdom and Inner Strength points. Each choice on the journey is based on a real psychological therapy that the reader can apply to cope with real-life situations, such as managing anxiety, depression or other difficult experiences.

The adventure brings together a party of character who are each going through their mental health struggles. It invites you to join their party, and go on a quest together to learn how to cope with difficult experiences, from a Minotaur’s struggle to come to terms with his wife’s terminal illness, to a Vampire with an eating disorder. To have any hope of defeating the sorceress Mallena, you must challenge your own inner demons.

Therapy Quest is unlike any fantasy novel or self-help book you have read before, it will challenge you and will take you on a very real journey.

Reset: Finding a New Course After Drifting Apart is the ultimate guide to resetting your relationship. A compelling fictional story of one couple’s journey through therapy, it’s woven with remarkable insights, practical advice and proven techniques to transform your relationship.

A powerful story of one couple’s journey from disconnect to happiness

Meet Rachel – unfulfilled after giving up her career for motherhood, unsatisfied with her life amongst Stepford wives, dreaming of sailing the Atlantic…

Meet John – under pressure to hold down his City job, resentful of funding his family’s luxury lifestyle, dreaming of peace…

When Rachel and John embark on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday to the Caribbean, it’s make or break. After 18 years of marriage they couldn’t feel further apart. Then they bump into a couple who will change their lives forever. They set them on a new adventure – and it’s going to be a rollercoaster ride.

The book – part compelling novel, part life-changing self-help guide – follows John and Rachel as they embark on therapy and find themselves, and each other, once more.

Alternating between Rachel and John’s perspective, the format offers a unique way to understand how our behaviour is construed by our partner and what our partner’s actions really mean. It arms readers with an array of powerful techniques to transform our relationships.

Many leaders are especially capable ‘left brain’ thinkers, a trait that has served them well in their careers, allowing them to build strong strategic, problem-solving and goal achievement track records. And yet the challenges facing today’s workplace – the rise of remote working, the evolution of AI, the need for more emotional connection, the drive for truly inclusive cultures – increasingly require different thinking using the ‘right brain’.

Executive Coach Yda Bouvier has distilled her 25 years’ experience helping leaders use their right brain into the inspiring new book, Leading with the Right Brain – the ultimate guide to activating right-brain thinking.

She breaks down the neuroscience behind how the left and right brain work, and provides case studies, techniques and tools that leaders, coaches, and employees alike can practice to engage their right brain, in order to see more, think differently and bring new insights, gain a better emotional understanding about ourselves and others and build stronger team connections – especially virtually – making remote working more fulfilling – activating the right brain is critical for our wellbeing.

How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years? We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children the right things in the right way.

Kids could get good at playing the game of school, but are they really learning?

Teacher-turned-edupreneur Ana Lorena Fábrega, known by her students as Ms. Fab, invites us to rethink education in her book The Learning Game, she reveals how traditional schooling has gone wrong, and proposes a series of actionable strategies to help kids learn.

What if we guide kids to think for themselves?

Should we encourage kids to take risks and tackle projects of their own?

How do we help kids learn to love learning?

Answering these questions and many more, The Learning Game will arm you with practical tools to design a new approach to learning―one that leaves behind the game of school and prepares your kids for the game of life.

The Priestess Path offers 13 powerful lessons on building unshakeable power from the inside out and sacred leadership and service.

In the ancient world, the priestesses were the wise women who served the people and were the active conduit between the gods and their messages. They offered healing, virtue, leadership, wisdom, protection and insight all within the framework of inspiring sacred service.

In this uncertain world, building a firm personal foundation that weathers the chaos and remains steady and flexible is key to mental, physical and spiritual happiness.

The field of cybersecurity - the protection of electronic data - offers one of the fastest growing job markets today. As the sector grows in importance there will be a rapidly growing demand for qualified analysts, cryptographers, engineers, architects, managers, and executive leaders.

The Cybersecurity Workforce of Tomorrow discusses the current requirements of the cybersecurity worker and analyses the ways in which these roles may change in the future as attacks from hackers, criminals and enemy states become increasingly sophisticated. The author's predictions are based on the inevitable changes that will come for the cybersecurity industry including:

• More rigid federal, state, and global security requirements and accountability
• The increasing complexity and quality of cyber-attacks and the skillsets of the attackers
• The expansion and acceptance of the dark web as a marketplace for stolen data

The increasing use of cyber-attacks in political and economic confrontations between nation states

Experienced practitioner and academic Michael Nizich examines the current and future human resources requirements of the cybersecurity market. His focus on workforce preparation, education and emerging technologies is essential reading for executives and cybersecurity professionals alike.

When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time.

Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with all the information in the world living at our fingertips; sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books; journal entries from his forays into home computing – it is a matter of legend that Douglas bought the very first Mac in the UK; musings on how the internet would disrupt the CD-Rom industry, among others.

42 also features archival material charting Douglas’s school days through Cambridge, Footlights, collaborations with Graham Chapman, and early scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, Hitchhiker’s and Dirk Gently. Alongside details of his most celebrated works are projects that never came to fruition, including the pilot for radio programme They’ll Never Play That on the Radio and a space-inspired theme park ride.

Douglas’s personal papers prove that the greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that collide in our own imagination, and offer a captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers.

Dr Liz O’Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz’s incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women’s breasts, while saving their lives; to the heartbreaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer.

But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man’s world. In addition to this high powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.

With extraordinary candour, Liz O'Riordan reveals her story from being flashed at the supermarket by a patient delighted with her surgery, to how triathlons helped get her through depression and her cancer diagnoses. Liz is a well-known author, podcaster and her educational videos have helped her gather more than 55k followers on Twitter, and 25k followers on Instagram.

Fifty years on from the first email, the internet has exceeded our wildest expectations to become the backbone of modern life. Dating, shopping, work and even turning the lights on in your home have all become possible online. But technological evolution means the digital landscape is shifting once again, with consumers now seeking more realistic and immersive experiences within a digitally enhanced world.

In The Future Internet: How the Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Blockchain Will Transform Business and Society, world-renowned futurist, best-selling author, and digital strategist Bernard Marr explores the game-changing technologies that are set to disrupt and transform the once-familiar parts of the internet.

From Blockchain to the Metaverse and Augmented Reality (AR) to Virtual Reality (VR), Bernard Marr provides an insider’s guide to the innovations driving the Web3 revolution and the impact they’ll have on our physical – and digital – lives.

In a world dominated by likes and viral content, we can often feel we’ve lost control of our relationship with the digital world. We doom-scroll, hate-follow, and over-share without a moment’s thought of whether technology is serving our interests – or if it’s the other way around. But in a time where our data is being stolen and our sense of self warped, we consistently underestimate our power to shape the relationship we have with technology, and to intentionally adopt behaviours that will help us create better online – and offline – lives.

In Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World, leading psychotherapist and cyber-psychologist Elaine Kasket offers a novel approach to understanding technology’s influence throughout your life, with poignant insights on the challenges it poses to our identity, development, relationships, and privacy from the cradle to the grave.

We have reached a tipping point. Time is running out to solve the problems of this decisive decade and make sustainability happen. But in this pivot or perish moment, action will only be possible with the right leadership in place.

In a time of disruption like never before, The Adventure of Sustainable Performance provides a bold blueprint for pioneers who want to shape the next era of business as we transition from the old world to the new.

Starting with a tour of the modern challenges of ESG compliance, tech advancements and stakeholder alignment, The Adventure of Sustainable Performance reminds us that ‘business as usual’ is no longer an option. Instead, McLachlan and Sanders expertly argue that fundamental changes to the economic, capitalist business models that we’re used to are inevitable, so it’s better to jump in the canoe and start the transition now than get stranded in the strongholds of the past.

Underpinned by the metaphor of an elephant charge, the authors provide a guidebook on the journey to sustainable performance and how to take decisive action in the face of the unknown. From the ‘Why’ of moving from shareholder to stakeholder systems to the ‘How’ of pivoting your mindset and attracting the right people to implement your transformation, the book presents a reimagined business landscape that will inspire courageous leaders to redefine how we think about growth, purpose, and value.

Based on the authors’ decades of experience shaping a more productive and resilient world - with McLachlan the CEO of Anthesis Group, the largest pure-play sustainability specialist globally, and Sanders as its Chief Enterprise Officer - the insights shared in executive interviews and case studies from Nestlé, Service Now, AXA, LanzaTech and many others offer a hopeful and practical guide to the transformative opportunities that can ensure long-term prosperity for society.

Perfect for C-suite, managers, directors, and other business leaders, The Adventure of Sustainable Performance is an exciting invitation to remind us that the real spirit of enterprise is creativity, courage, and vision.

The Digital Playbook: How to Win the Strategic Technology Game, is a no-nonsense guide on how technology can make you competitive – and how it can also undermine your very existence. It will make you rethink many of the so-called “best practices” that have wreaked havoc in some many companies for so many decades. The book reveals how it’s so easy to waste money on the wrong technology at wrong time with the wrong leaders.

The Digital Playbook tackles digital transformation in three ways – incremental, modernization and disruptive – and sets expectations about what’s realistic. He asks tough questions about investments in cybersecurity and how no company on the planet can avoid cyberattacks – even if they spend themselves to death on zero tolerance.

The Digital Playbook is a set of short, no-nonsense “briefings” organized around 10 themes grounded in reality, instead of relying on theoretical aspirations about what should be done. It’s a practical way to understand what’s going on in business-technology, what you need to know and what you need to do.