First published in 1997 and now available as an ebook.

 Who are the digital generation? They are the millions of youngsters who live with, and love, the technology with which they are growing up. This is their story. Tomorrow belongs to them.

 'This is the book which opens up the electronic frontier to those still left out in the cold, the one McLuhan would have written were he to be still surfing the Nineties' Arena. 'At once a romance, a cultural commentary, and a piece of travel writing which adds the virtual world to its itinerary as though it were a new place on the map. ' Sadie Plant, The Times

 Not another book about youth culture, nor cyberpunks, hackers and VR; not a computing manual; not the history of technology; but a book about the first generation of people to take the information age for granted.

 A personal portrait of the Wired Generation, exploring the dreams, ambitions, aesthetics and assumptions of all the kids growing up digital, worldwide.

 In these days of video games, PCs, multimedia and personal stereos, it's all too easy for the sensitive kids to disappear into worlds of their own, and it happens so quickly - one birthday they're chirpy and sociable, the next they stay home to watch Robocop for the thirty-seventh time or play Mortal Kombat yet again.

Hard, Soft and Wet

Now available in ebook format. 'Motel Nirvana' is Melanie McGrath's first published book.

 A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.

 'Motel Nirvana' won the 1996 John Llewellyn Rhys 'Mail on Sunday' prize for the best new British writer under 35.

Motel Nirvana

A chilling true story of deception and survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic.

 In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaherty made a film called 'Nanook of the North' which captured the world's imagination. Soon afterwards, he quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph, to grow up Eskimo.

 Thirty years later a young, inexperienced policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list of Inuit who were to be resettled in the uninhabited polar Arctic and left to fend as best they could. Joseph Flaherty and his family were on that list. They were told they were going to an Arctic Eden of spring flowers and polar bears. But it didn't turn out that way, and this, Joseph Flaherty's story, tells how it did.

The Long Exile - A true story of deception and survival amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic

The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.

 For more than a century, hopping was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of over 200, 000 East Enders out to the Kentish countryside to look for casual work picking hops and stripping bines.

 Aunt Daisy was one of those day trippers. For her, the train ride from London Bridge to Faversham was a kind of magic that she always passed in a rush of sensation. To be away from the tight hustle of the city and lose herself in the open spaces and pollen mists of the Kentish summer provided her with a succour that would last her through the long winters back in London. Her delicate demeanour had never really suited the smutty terraces of the East End; rather she considered herself a countrywoman who just so happened to be stranded in the city.

 Married young and yet not unhappily to Harold Baker, a closet homosexual who would never consummate their union, at some early point she wrote an escape clause into her life that shielded her from her life's difficult realities. It was this resolve, a kind of armour born out by her dreamy nature, that more than anything else marked Aunt Daisy out as an East Ender.

 Thoughtful, moving and beautifully rendered, Hopping captures the essence of ordinary family lives often obscured from history during an extraordinary period in London's past. Regardless of era or circumstance, chartering the shift of the East End from a hive of poverty whose dimmed population toiled daily at the docks, to a Blitzed-out community that defiantly rose to confront the brutalities of World War II, through to the gamble and risk emanating from behind the glass and steel towers of today's Canary Wharf, Hopping stands as testament to the true East Ender disposition - an agility of spirit to endure your lot and get by.

Hopping

La torsion et le câblage et le corrige amidieux et le curling, peignant délicatement des taches et des ombres sur des morceaux de soie jusqu'à ce que ce soit rien de plus qu'un tas de fragments aux couleurs vives ait été transformée en iris de soie, oubliez-moi, violettes et roses qui seraient orner les chapeaux des femmes et des filles plus chanceux qu'eux-mêmes.

Pour survivre, vous avez dû diriger votre cours au milieu, où l'eau était la plus profonde et la plus rapide, que vous deviez pagayer rapidement, aussi vite que possible pour rester immobile dans le courant précipité parce que le prix de l'échec devait être Lavé sur la plage ou anéanti en morceaux sur les quais.

Anecdote : L'East End semblait être en proie à une nouvelle crise économique. ... À l'hiver 1933, une armée de chômeurs se rassemblait quotidiennement devant les portes du quai, désespérés pour un jour ou deux de travail rémunéré. .... Il n'y avait pas de coussin, pas de fonds en cas de catastrophe, pas d'épargne cachée, pas de dons du gouvernement, pas de sirop qui pourrait adoucir la pilule amère de la pauvreté.

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