Most Popular Books by Nicholas Walker

Nicholas Walker, actually went to one of the major dance schools for three months and joined in all the classes to experience the dedication, the crippling workload...the pain and the joy of being a professional dancer. In this book Leon treats dance class as a way of dating girls until he comes under the spell of the waif like Angela. She is totally paranoid about dance, thinks about nothing else, and will have nothing to do with him until the opportunity to dance for the video of a major rock star arises. As the two total opposites begin to dance together they grow more and more fond of each other even though it seems everything in the world is against them!The prequel to Dance Academy.

This amazing true travelogue of a trouble prone man as he struggles to recover from a nervous breakdown will have you laughing on every page. Nick smuggles himself back into America and resumes his bizarre life after his deportation. Only this time Nick takes up with a neurotic millionairess on the run from her violent husband and when her husband is suddenly killed in a motorbike accident he finds himself instantly transported from his tiny bedsit into a ten million dollar house and enters into the lifestyle of the super-rich. Nick though isn''t your typical traveller and he still finds time to fall into situations other people can only imagine: he gets arrested for abusing the queue at Subway, he gets banned from the local movie theatre for instigating a major popcorn fight, he dances naked in front of a Private Investigator, he has to disarm a highly disturbed individual in his gym and finally he has to face up to the hit man who has been sent to kill him.This is the third book in this popular series following on from: Going Around the Bend on the QE2 and Not Quite Sane in America both available on Kindle. The fourth in the series is to be entitled: Totally off the Twig in The Middle East and should be available in 2017 if Nick doesn''t manage to get himself jailed or murdered in the meantime!

Narrative of the Siege of Delhi and the Campaign in Rohilkund. The major portion of this book is concerned with the Mutiny.

This is the follow up to The Ice Mountain when Benjamin and Belinda first skated together before they were World Champions in the Crackling Ice series. The two are working towards their first serious competition but the tremendous workload starts to impact on their schoolwork and both are threatened with suspension. But even more of a problem arises as they are becoming more and more fond of one another and this leads to jealousies between them and after an argument Belinda goes with Benjamin''s best friend to the school disco. Benjamin retaliates by taking Belinda''s friend and they have a massive fight and agree to look for new partners after the competition. Then Benjamin has a bad fall and is unable to skate and Belinda starts dancing with another boy.Can they bring it all together before the competition or will they split up forever? This exciting novels rips aside the glamour of the Ice Dancing world and reveals all the hard work and tears and the tremendous pressures these children live under every day of their lives!

Daniel, Gerzergerblad and The IncidencesDaniel, who is already nine, is awakened by a fat and very strange cat in his bedroom. The cat''s name is Gerzergerblad and the reason Daniel knows this is because Gerzergerblad can talk, he is after all a very strange cat. Gerzergerblad has been sent to fetch Daniel because his help is needed and Daniel is introduced to the very strange world below ground where the strange creatures live who make the world work: Workhorses, Footballs, Yards, Tyson the boxer, Mrs Throttle the cook...and The Incidences who have gone on strike!Led everywhere by Gerzergerblad who is not only fat, but greedy, selfish and a total coward, Daniel is led through a series of very strange adventures: he is squashed flat by a Football, Squeezed by a Bearhug, told off by Nosey Parker and chased by Ringpulls.This charming and hilarious little novel was written by a bestselling author who got bored reading to his own children and decided to write a book that would entertain both the adults reading it aloud as well as the children listening.Arnold, the World''s Greatest SwordtoadArnold is the world''s greatest Swordtoad but nobody takes him seriously because he is from Chipping Sodbury and everybody just laughs at his name. Then things get worse when Izzy, the hedgehog, moves in. Izzy just takes over everything of Arnie''s: his chair, his bed, even his food. The very next day Arnie is getting roughed up by a bunch of local frogs and has to be rescued by Garth another Swordtoad. Garth gets voted in as town Mayor and he completely takes over and he and his friends start bullying everyone. Can Arnie put things to rights again?

Four highly disturbing Science Fiction stories from a bestselling author: The Poisoners of Moloo: is about a planet where the main business is the manufacture of fine poisons for disposing of people, poisons like the Time Linked Poison where a woman grows a day older each minute or the Melting Poison where the victim melts from the feet up! Lembert is the Police Chief of the planet Soho who finds his wife Dustin is having an affair and decides to get rid of her. The Last Lifeboat: is set on the Queen Elizabeth II where the passengers are virtually the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust. The food is running out and the radiation is growing by the day and they have to form a new society to survive. Written while the author was on a World Cruise on the QE2 all aspects of the ship are accurate and bring a stunning reality to the story as the wealthy characters are forced to develop new rules to deal with working, living and sexual relationships. Walk for Your Life: a space shuttle crashes on the fast spinning planet of Quadra and the survivors are forced to march for twenty hours every day to keep ahead of the burning sun. Rescue is months away and it is every man or woman for themselves in this harrowing tale and relationships and traditions fade...but someone is watching! 666: relevant to today: Ebola has mutated into the deadly Ebola Doomsday virus which is running rife in a future planetary system. A motley group of experts are assembled and dropped onto the surface of an infected planet, they know they either find a cure or they will be abandoned to die and along with them millions more. The science is accurate, and frightening, but the story is mainly concerned with the different personalities and the relationships that develop between them and the tension is increased with the addition to the team of: The Angel of Death, a beautiful woman who is the biggest mass murderer of children in the galaxy, and Professor Joy Sowlee who is famous mainly because her whole face has been eaten away by a rogue virus. Four immensely entertaining stories from a research scientist so all the science is accurate and terrifying!

This is a modern ghost story for children by a bestselling author. The gripping story is set in the haunted house in Penzance where the writer lived for over ten years, one of the most famous haunted houses in Britain...mentioned in Daphne Du Maurier''s book Vanishing Cornwall. Daniel and Sally have learned to live with the bizarre happenings in their house: the whirlwind like screams that hurtle around their bedrooms, the sounds of footsteps across the ceiling as the ghost walks in the attic, the things that go missing. Then Victoria, Cassie and David (Disgusting) come to stay and Victoria leads the children up into the attics to search for the ghost. The children get sucked back into the past where the events that have unleashed the ghost are slowly revealed to them. Then Victoria is taken by the ghost and the rest of the children have to find a way of rescuing her. The unnerving Cassie, who has strange powers herself, leads the children into a final battle with the ghost in a bid to rescue her sister. Very funny and often light-hearted the story is still very frightening in places. Many of the scenes were witnessed by the author and his family while they lived there and all the children exist in real life...and every night at nine o clock the ghost still walks to this day!

Samantha is thrown out of dance school and told she will never dance again...and dancing is her whole life. Then she meets 14 year old Alex who is an ice dancer and secretly they start skating together. Can Samantha hide her obsession from her parents? Will they even stay as partners when his attitude is so casual? Will their tempestuous relationship tear them apart before they ever get to perform? This gripping novel by best seller Nicholas Walker tears the top of the ice skating world and reveals all the agony and heartbreak that lies underneath.

Written by a bestselling author this book is a political all action thriller of 140,000 words, with an international political base. The plot revolves around the idea that the Japanese are trying to dominate the world economically, and more specifically, on how they are trying to get Britain and China to go to war over a crisis in Hong Kong. The weapon they are using is mind control, training certain highly intelligent and uniquely skilled people into influencing Western political leaders. The plot lines, which are based all over the world, are all brought to a focus by the central character, the bizarre Rupert Bannister who comes across as an amiable idiot. The whole book is about this very different character, he does not fit into the normal hero role at all: he is short and fat and looks like an uneducated farm boy, Rupert is that rarest of all creatures, the violent intellectual. He seems totally irresponsible and frequently acts like a child. He loves bizarre situations, for example he quite enjoys a night on a park bench or in jail. He seeks out violent people because he enjoys a good fight yet he is as gentle as a lamb. He loves hard manual labour yet he is one of the world''s greatest intellects. Rupert is one of the few people in the world who can take on these mind control people, or Senders as they are known scientifically. The action ranges from Exeter to Washington and on to Japan, London, Brussels and Iraq. Rupert is first employed by the CIA to track down the Senders but then he becomes more heavily involved, because his partnership in this, with Sanchia Clarke, turns into a love affair. When Sanchia is taken by the Senders, Rupert starts a search which finally results in an amazing trek across the Iraqi desert to break into the Sender''s complex. Finding out just how serious the Senders assault is on the world, leads Rupert to a major confrontation within the United Nations and particularly with the Prime Minister of Britain and the UN Secretary General. Finally Rupert joins in a full scale assault on the Sender''s complex. The book has a strong scientific and political basis all drawn very much on fact. It relies more on emphasizing situations and processes that are going on in the world today rather than imagining new ones. For example: Senders do exist! European businessmen and politicians use transducers when negotiating inside Japan to stop their minds being deliberately confused by external influences. The book contains scenes of personal violence as well as love and sex scenes, though the central character''s eccentricity can put humour into the most dangerous situations.

A novel by bestselling author Nicholas Walker who wanted to bring The Bible stories to today''s children.Izzy is a very tough gang leader in the Bronx when he is knocked out in a fight with another gang and wakes up back in Biblical Times. He meets Becky who is Moses'' niece and they have a passionate love affair with the ex-slave girl teaching the boy who was bought up in violence how to love. When Izzy is warned off by Moses'' wife Zipporah he refuses to give up Becky and has to take on the huge Luther in an awesome fight. The peaceful, party loving, Israelis refuse to believe they are in any danger until they are attacked by an Egyptian war party and suddenly they are at war. Izzy shows them how to fight with the Bo or Quarterstaff and how to take on the Egyptian chariots with trenches and fire. Soon he finds that he needs the help of the girls as well just like Becky has been saying all along. Then Becky is taken by the Egyptians and set up to be stoned in the arena. Izzy has to lead a mass attack on the Egyptian City and comes face to face with Ramses the Pharaoh.This book takes the reader right back to the furthest reaches of history to show how girls and boys were exactly the same then as now. It is full of action and adventure but also with love and humour.A stunning retelling of one of the most famous Bible stories of all.The follow up to this novel: Heaven''s Avenger Two...The Walls of Jericho is now available on Kindle. See how Becky and Izzy come together again to scale the huge walls of Jericho and to face the might of the monstrous Kogo. And see how Izzy meets his son! Another passionate and action filled novel in this series.

This book is an analysis of the Martial Arts by a serious scientist and teacher. Nick Walker (Ph.D. MPhil. Dr.Ed. (AU) BA (Hons) (OU) BSc. (Hons) (OU) BSc.Ed (Hons) (Exon) NASM 6th Dan Karate AMA 1st Dan Jiu Jitsu) has been teaching Karate for over thirty years and is the founder and Chief Instructor of Kernow Karate the most successful independent martial arts organisation in the world. He is also a High School teacher and University Professor and is highly qualified in science. He has a degree from The National Academy of Sports Medicine in California and is a licensed fitness coach, a registered weight training instructor and a insured personal trainer. Nick makes his living by writing bestselling novels and now, despairing of all the pseudo nonsense that pervades the martial arts, all the old wives'' tales and nonsense science that damage the sport, Nick has finally responded by writing this non-fiction book so that other instructors who are genuinely interested in the science of the martial arts can bring themselves up to date...to become a Kernow Karate instructor you have to know all that is in this book!Nick takes all the basics and applies basic science to them: the stances, do they work? The Warm Up, is it necessary? What does it do? How to make your kicks and punches more powerful. How to break, how to do the Three Inch Punch, how to stretch. Does breathing matter? How does shouting effect the blow? He then goes on to explore how to improve martial arts moves: how to make your kicks and punches faster. How to make them harder. How to anticipate when an opponent is going to hit you and where. Proper scientific training techniques that the Olympic athletes all use.In the last third of the book Nick discusses the teaching of sport, the techniques and strategies that professional teachers have spent four years of university learning and he shows how most instructors are wasting the majority of their lesson time. He attempts to bring our most researched skill (education) into the martial arts: what is the attention span of an eight year old boy? What is the attention span of an eight year old girl? How best to teach a move...show it? Talk about it? Do it? Read about it? The answers will surprise and probably horrify those of you who are not professional teachers. He shows how to discipline, how to dominate a class without getting them to hate you, how mere body language can freeze an entire room. How to keep the members interested and the kids coming. And lastly, he shows you the dangers of teaching sport: how certain moves can injure a child but not an adult. Long term damage of the body. How to recognise certain illnesses and how to cope with them. How to protect yourself from inappropriate allegations.A serious book, written in a very light hearted, easy to read manner...an essential aid to anyone who wants to become a good instructor.

Determined to win the gold medal in ice dancing, Samantha must overcome several obstacles--a partner who is a total wise guy, parents who do not want her to skate, and some talented competition.

When Nicholas Walker was 18 he weighed over 18 stone (250 lbs) and was a wrestler and rugby player. He changed his life and took over 6 stone (85 +lbs) off and now over 40 years later he still weighs in at 12 stone (160 lbs). This book tells you how he did it. Written by a best-selling author who is also a serious research scientist, Dr Nick rips the top of the dieting world and shows how the major dieting companies are conning you, how their intention is to ensure you fail and fail again so that you keep on purchasing their products. He then goes on to analyse the science behind your body shape and the various foods and all the nonsense that bedevils the media, the stupid theories and beliefs that confound what should be the basic science of weight control. Dr Nick (Ph.D. MPhil. Dr.Ed. (AU) BA (Hons) (OU) BSc. (Hons) (OU) BSc.Ed (Hons) (Exon) NASM) shows you how to make a number of alterations to your diet that will result in a weight loss that will stay with you for life. He shows you what foods to avoid and how to choose the correct alternatives. How to use your freezer, your fridge, your cooking pans, even your kitchen utensils in ways that will result in major weight loss. He analyses the popular diets and shows you which ones work and why and more outrageously shows you the ones that don''t! Written in an amusing, easy to understand way, this is the book that led to three court cases, all of them dismissed! The follow up book to Dieting is for Idiots is: Exercise for Idiots available in 2016 on Kindle.