Turning the pages... Books by our talented students and academics

Change Lessons from the CEO: Real People, Real Change

– Johan Coetsee and Patrick Flood

Synopsis: Managing change can be one of the biggest challenges for business leaders and managers. Using a wealth of real stories from CEOs about how they managed major change initiatives—and the lessons they learned along the way— this book gives professionals and business students powerful and effective guidance on successfully managing change initiatives in any organisation.

Dr Johan Coatsee is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Human Resource Management at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University.

Available on Wiley. RRP £29.99

Invisible Crimes and Social Harms

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Pam Davies, Peter Francis and Tanya Wyatt

Synopsis: This new collection of chapters – part of the Palgrave Macmillan series Critical Criminological Perspectives - explores the reasons for the continuing invisibility of much crime and asks what can be done about it. With a wide range of fascinating case studies and examples, this volume is an essential resource for lecturers, researchers, students and practitioners of criminology, as well as anyone interested in debates about crime, harm and social justice.

Dr Pamela Davies is Teaching Fellow and Programme Director of Criminology at Northumbria University.

Professor Peter Francis is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at Northumbria University.

Dr Tanya Wyatt is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University.

Available at Waterstones. RRP £65.00.

How to Live (Book 1 – How we Are) –

Vincent Deary

Synopsis: The first book in the How To Live trilogy, How We Are explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has witnessed the way that people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and eventually transform their lives and get better. Drawing on his own personal experience, and a range of literary, philosophical and cultural sources, Deary has produced a universal portrait of the human condition.

Dr Vincent Deary is a Health Psychologist at Northumbria University.

Available at Blackwell’s Bookstore on Northumbria’s City Campus. RRP £16.99.

Little Crackers –

Beda Higgins

Synopsis: Inspired by the author’s experiences as a nurse over the last thirty years, and written with compassion and imagination, Little Crackers is a collection of quirky, surprising tales which raise questions about how we care for the most vulnerable members of our society.

Beda Higgins is a graduate of Northumbria’s MA Creative Writing course.

Available at WH Smith. RRP £8.99.

How I left The National Grid –Guy

Mankowski

Synopsis: Set in 1980s Manchester, this novel tells the story of fictional frontman Robert Wardner who mysteriously vanished a year after his post-punk band ‘The National Grid’ found fame overnight. Twenty-five years later – after rumours that Wardner was murdered by an obsessed young fan – word spreads that the singer is alive and planning to re-emerge. Sam, a journalist who helped publicise the band in the early days, is commissioned to find Wardner and give him the chance to tell his story for a book. But in the process, Sam may in fact be planning his own murder.

Guy Mankowski is a PhD student on Northumbria’s Creative Writing course. Available on Amazon. RRP £8.99.

Gladio – Steve Chambers

Synopsis: When a policeman is killed outside Menwith Hill RAF base at the height of the miners’ strike, TV journalist John Bradley is convinced it’s a miner who’s had enough. When he investigates, he discovers a conspiracy involving subversion, covert surveillance and state sponsored murder. Set in 1984 and based on real events, Gladio is a fast-moving conspiracy thriller.

Steve Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University.

Available at Foyles. RRP £7.99.

Strange Music – Laura Fish

Synopsis: This novel provides a bio-fictional portrait of the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whose family made their fortune from a Jamaican sugar plantation. Set in the late 1930s, shortly after the abolition of slavery, the story is narrated by three women – Kaydia and Sheba, a maidservant and labourer at the plantation, and Elizabeth herself. As Elizabeth struggles to come to terms with the source of her wealth and privilege, both Sheba and Kaydia fight to escape a tragic past which seems ever-present.

Dr Laura Fish is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University.

Available on Amazon. RRP £7.99

Vogue On Designers: Vivienne Westwood –

Linda Watson

Synopsis: The latest in Vogue’s On Designers series looks at what makes Westwood one of the fashion industry’s most influential names. Written by renowned fashion writer and author Linda Watson – who assisted Westwood on two collections – this book looks back on the iconic British designer’s punk origins, remembers some of her most daring and risqué designs and explores her still-flourishing career.

Linda Watson is a Reader in Fashion at Northumbria University.

Available on Amazon. RRP £15.00.