The Pratt & Whitney radial engines rasped and hunted as they struggled to inhale the high-altitude air.
Thank you so much for picking up this book and peeling back the first page to discover its contents.
Here’s the thing about life-shattering days. They start just like any other.
Max looked at his watch, and a sinking realisation that he was late plunged through him.
A country boy of ten living near Boneville was, recently, walking to his house in the vicinity of a large oak tree, when a violent storm arose.
It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.
I am running through the desert, the red earth firm and unyielding beneath my trainers.
Jake lay on top of his board, feeling the swells move beneath him, like the air moving in and out of his lungs, like the blood surging through the four chambers of his stubbornly beating heart.
Breathing covers a spectrum of needs, and it is important to know the best way to breathe in order to meet our needs at any moment, and how best we can move through sleep, rest, activity, exercise, sport, play, work, stress, ill health and recovery.
They were still 400 yards from the strip of white beach and the crammed jungle behind it when the fighter planes came.
In 2009 – 4 years after it was published – I read Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near.
In a waiting room at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, George Cleverley sits quietly, looking at his five-year-old son
The boy gasped for breath, hair in his mouth, before the next wave slammed him back against the bottom. He tumbled, the fizz of bubbles around him.
