Pennyworth Books

The publishing world heats up with over 800 hardback titles are released on the same day (1st of October) in the UK as publishers fight for a place in the Christmas bestseller lists. With bookmakers are now offering odds on the rivals for the number one bestseller this Christmas.

Publishers are now seeing the run into Christmas in a very similar way to the recording industry sees the pop music Charts and when you look at the facts, it’s not hard to see why the festive run in is a vital period of sales for the book industry.

According to Nielsen BookScan figures, one fifth of book sales (by value) are made in the run-up to Christmas. Last year saw 1,000 hardback books released at the same time, with 2,000 extra paperbacks, audio books and ebooks being released on the same day.

The most significant difference between the recording industry and the pubolishing…

“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man”, so states Napoleon Hill author of “Think and Grow Rich”. He continues by declaring that, “man can create anything which he can imagine”.

When used in the context of Mr. Hill’s book, imagination is one of the key ingredients in the formation of a plan to create riches.

Remember, riches are not simply thought of and instantly formed. There is a process (13 steps), or a plan that we must follow in order to succeed.

This is the fifth step. It is at this point, with the addition of imagination to the plans that we should have already made, that an idea may form for acquiring our goal. In other words, imagination begins to put something tangible into motion.

Napoleon Hill considered there to be two forms of imagination:

Synthetic Imagination
Creative Imagination.

Synthetic imagination works with previously known plans, ideas or concepts.…

A Long Way Down is the story of four people – Martin a former breakfast TV presenter who has fallen from grace; Maureen, a single mother struggling to cope with the drudgery of caring for a her disabled son; Jess, the 18 year-old daughter of a politician who is in despair at the break-up of a relationship and the mysterious disappearance of her elder sister; and JJ, an American pizza delivery man who was in a band and has just lost the love of his life.

Four different people with one thing in common – they each decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve at the same time and, inadvertently, the same place. Thrown together by extraordinary circumstances the book explores their stories and the way they each help one another to overcome their despair and carry on with their lives.

What could be a depressing tale is brought to…