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The Briggs Burst
31 Hilarious Tales of Urgency, Absurdity, and Lavatorial Misadventure

31 STORIES. 1 BLADDER. NO WORKING TOILETS.

Meet Barry Briggs: a man whose life is a relentless, high-velocity battle against the laws of physics, the tyranny of office bureaucracy, and the catastrophic failure of modern plumbing.

Barry isn’t a hero. He’s hold various lowly roles at the bathroom fittings company Thrones & Trends, and he has a unique problem: his dreams are a recurring nightmare of broken locks, missing toilet paper, and the most inconveniently timed biological imperatives in human history.

In this riotous collection of 31 short stories, you’ll follow Barry through a series of ‘toilet dreams’ so vivid they’ll leave you checking the lock on your own cubicle door.

Written in the tradition of classic British farce, The Briggs Burst is a masterclass in escalating absurdity.

Inside this collection, you’ll discover:

• The Olympic Miracle: How the sheer terror of a closed lavatory led to a world-record sprint that redefined athletics.
  
• The Italian Job: A business trip to a town without toilets that results in Barry becoming ‘structurally integrated’ into an ancient storm drain.
  
• The Inconvenient Cadaver: A murder mystery where the victim isn’t actually a victim at all, and the detective is in desperate need of relief.
  
• The Aviation Disaster: The day Barry single-handedly grounded an international flight with nothing but a faulty flush and a trembling knee.

Whether he’s pretending to be a parent to infiltrate a potty-training class or sprinting past 200-metre finalists in his corduroy trousers, Barry Briggs represents the ‘Containment Protocol’ in all of us.

Perfect for: Fans of Tom Sharpe, Howard Jacobson, and classic British sitcoms.

The ultimate ‘bathroom book’ – each story is specifically designed to be read in the time it takes Barry to find a working flush (or about 10 minutes).

Find out more and read a sample story…

Life After Earth
The science of survival and the search for new worlds.

by Ellis Silver, PhD

The fascinating new sequel to David Attenborough’s Life on Earth.

Life After Earth takes you on an exhilarating journey into the science, innovation and imagination shaping our next “great leap”: becoming a multi‑planetary, multi‑stellar species. From breakthrough propulsion concepts to engineering off‑world habitats, this book reveals how close we truly are to stepping beyond our home planet.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• The real science behind interstellar travel – including fusion drives, light sails, antimatter engines, warp drives and wormholes
  
• How humans could adapt to alien worlds – biologically, technologically, and culturally
  
• The future of space habitats – megastructures, artificial worlds, and deep‑space colonies
  
• How civilizations might survive cosmic time – and what comes after the stars
  
• The search for extraterrestrial life – and how contact could reshape our destiny

Each chapter blends cutting‑edge research with vivid, accessible storytelling that brings the future to life.

For Readers Who Love…

• Big‑idea science
• Space exploration
• Futurism and cosmic speculation
• Books by Carl Sagan, Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawking, and Mary Roach

If you’ve ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what comes next, this book is for you.

Find out more…

Product details

ISBN: 978-1-8383690-0-2 (paperback edition)
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: 434

In Humans Are Not From Earth, ecologist and environmentalist Dr. Ellis Silver proved we couldn’t have evolved on this planet. Now he looks at where we really came from – and where we might be heading.

A Mars-like planet would suit us better than the Earth. So why did we end up here, on the wrong planet? Could there be another planet Mars in another solar system or another galaxy? Could our ancestors still be living there? Could we find it and live there too?

We only have a few hundred million years left on Earth. As the Sun grows hotter, the plants will die and the planet will become uninhabitable. Mars could become our home for the next five billion years. In fact, it will have to – we have no choice. But when the Sun expands into a red giant and consumes the inner planets, Mars will become red hot. And then what?

This far-reaching book looks at our real history, including our evolution on another planet and our arrival on Earth, and the many changes we’ve undergone since we settled here.

There’s a detailed comparison of Earth, Mars, and our original home planet that shows how much better Mars would suit us – if it was habitable.

And then we take a fascinating look at our possible future, from terraforming Mars, colonizing frozen moons, and building artificial worlds, to planet-hopping in other star systems, and (maybe) surviving the end of the universe.

Each topic is discussed in depth and backed up with concrete evidence, and there are 36 pages of references for further reading and discovery.

If you’re interested in learning more about our origins and future – on Earth and beyond – this mind-blowing and compelling book is an absolute must-read.