Best Selling Books by Ian Hunter

Murder in Lancashire provides a fascinating insight into policing in the north of England in the 1970s

Paul and his sister Stevie are on holiday with their parents in the Scottish Highlands.The lady in the post office tells their dad of a secret place called the Green Thorn Cove. She gives him directions and the family decide to seek it out. The children enter the cove and are befriended by a tiny elf. They are taken on a magical journey and are confronted with danger and mythical creatures along the way.

In 2010, ex Kooks bass player, and six times platinum songwriter, Max Rafferty, recorded his debut solo album at Leeders Farm studios with Dan Hawkins of The Darkness. Everyone from music industry moguls, fellow musicians, and friends, were unanimous in their praise of this astonishing new album. However, it was never to see the light of day. This is the incredible true story of what happened and why genius often has a high price on the soul.

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Jessie Mason has troubles enough in her young life. Orphaned and shunned, her aunt has been the one constant in her life. But when her aunt inexplicably disappears, and Jessie discovers her mother''s Time Stone, events at the upstate New York children''s home land Jessie in mortal peril. Her escape is a summons, to a world of conflict, upheaval and fear, 250 years in her past, and to three unlikely companions: Tip, Kes and Abe. The aged shaman, Nishkamich, takes them under his wing, promising an education in the powers of the stones which they each possess. Jessie, disbelieving all explanations of where she is, reluctantly agrees to remain in the hostile Onondaga village and listen to his instruction.Over one long summer, Jessie warms to her strange new life, and the growing bond between her unpredictable fellow apprentices. But as Tip and Abe reveal the paths of destruction which brought them to the village, the friends have to consider that their stones are being ruthlessly hunted through history. Disturbed by these revelations, Nishkamich leaves in search of the truth, and their education ceases.In ice and snow, a hunting trip suddenly becomes a deadly trial which will test their friendship, their wits, and the limits of their endurance, in the face of nature''s unforgiving winter and one man''s determination to seize what is theirs.

After the murder of his best friend and the implosion of his band, Sebastian Eliot has left small town England on a quest to reinvent himself. It''s 1995 and London is once more the eye of the musical hurricane. The Britpop phenomenon is about to explode across the globe, and in Camden Town every night is Friday night. Sebastian Eliot can be anyone he wants to be, but it''s not long before his dreams of pop stardom see him sucked into a dark world where no one is quite who they seem. The same is true of Sebastian Eliot. He doesn''t really exist.

Jason Hart lives for three things. Casual sex, cheap drugs, and rock ''n'' roll. By the age of 18 he had come to realize that access to the first two was greatly increased by participation in the third. Jason and his band, The Angels, sail the roads of England like some latter day pirate crew, robbing, pillaging, and entertaining their way from one outrageous and hilarious disaster to the next. Lying, thieving, and thoroughly repugnant, you will find it impossible not to love Jason and his musical miscreants, The Angels. Nothing is off the menu; not even murder.

The first section of this instructional guide explains why open learning needs marketing and what steps go into preparing a marketing campaign, including marketing the college and tutor time, service definition, service delivery, and communications. Changes in education that have affected open learning in recent years are addressed in the second section, including targeting the campaign. The following section focuses on identifying competitors and preparing a strategy to compete with them, using the technique of SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis. Specific benefits of using direct mail as a method of promotion are considered in the fourth section, including low cost and targeting specific groups; and sample calculations of cost effectiveness are presented. The next section describes the impact of computers on marketing work and identifies necessary software; and the organization of a direct mail campaign is examined in the sixth section, with emphasis on targeting. The concluding section addresses several topics, including target groups for open learning, preparing a direct mail database, preparing literature, writing copy, production costs, follow up, timing, and sources of funding. A checklist of questions to provide the basis for an open learning marketing campaign is included. Statistics from a 1987 survey of open learning in Bedfordshire County (England) are used as examples throughout; and answers to the exercises given in the guide are provided at the end. (ALF)