Forthcoming
Our forthcoming titles for 2026–2027. All four books by Shelley Anne Crawford are featured this month and are available to pre-order through your local bookshop or retailer.
The PACT©: How Trust is Really Built
Shelley Anne Crawford
Trust is not built through good intentions or impressive credentials. It is built through specific, observable behaviours -repeated over time, under pressure, in the moments that count. The PACT© maps thirty-two of those behaviours across four dimensions: Predictability, Ability, Care, and Transparency. A new language for trust in leadership and in life.
Publication: 22 August 2026
Paperback · ISBN 978-1-0666696-1-5 · £14.99
eBook · ISBN 978-1-0666696-2-2 · £9.99
Jess©: How Resilience is Really Built
Shelley Anne Crawford
Resilience is not a fixed quality - it is something that can be built, domain by domain, piece by piece. The Jess© Resilience-Building Guide maps five domains of human resilience and offers twenty-five research-grounded practices to help individuals, teams, and organisations strengthen their capacity to recover, adapt, and grow.
Publication: 31 August 2026
Paperback · ISBN 978-1-0666696-4-6 · £14.99
eBook · ISBN 978-1-0666696-5-3 · £9.99
Jess 2.0: How Resilience in Teams and Organisations is Really Built
Shelley Anne Crawford
Resilience is not a personal quality to be demanded of people. It is a property of systems - of teams, of cultures, of the conditions that either equip people to meet difficulty well, or quietly deplete them until they cannot. Treating burnout as an individual failing, to be solved with a wellbeing app and a half-day workshop, has misread the diagnosis. And organisations keep paying for it. Jess© 2.0 brings the evidence-based Jess© resilience model into the organisational world. Across five domains - Cognitive, Emotional, Physical, Social, and Connectedness - it identifies the specific, practicable builders that create collective resilience: behaviours that teams can develop, leaders can model, and organisations can build into the way they work. Each builder is explored in depth, with its research foundations, practical applications, shadow side, and domain assessment.
This is not a book about managing stress or enduring more. It is a book about building the conditions in which people can meet pressure without being depleted by it - for individuals, for teams, and for the organisations responsible for both. The Jess© 2.0 Organisational Resilience Assessment makes it measurable.
It starts with a phone call. It always starts with a phone call.
In an Irish art room, with paint on her hands and children laughing in the corners, Shelley picks up on the second ring. Her daughter is on the line from London. Her first husband is gone.
My 3 Husbands is the true story of the life that led to that moment - and the life that was built afterwards.
At eighteen, she was signed over in marriage by a father who knew precisely what he was handing her to, in a country where a wife remained a legal minor for life, unable to open a bank account or sign a contract without a man's name beside her own. What followed was twelve years of charm and terror on a farm in the hills of Kwazulu Natal. An escape. A second marriage that broke something that could not be mended. And a third that was tender and true, and not what she believed it was.
Along the way: an African childhood on the edge of the Valley of a Thousand Hills fireline. A grandmother sitting serenely beneath half a roof. A horse called Place of Happiness, given away out of love. A mother who could not save her - and the reason why, which took forty years to understand. Two cancers, one diagnosed on her fortieth birthday. A country that measured her body and sent her away. A loss she is still learning to carry.
And, at a kitchen table in the middle of the night, one line written in a cheap notebook - a question that evolved into her life's work.
This is a memoir about resilience as it is actually lived: not a trait some people are born with, but something assembled slowly out of ordinary days, bad decisions, small acts and stubborn hope. It is unflinching about violence, grief and institutional failure - and it is genuinely funny, often on the same page.
It is also the origin story of the Jess© Resilience-Building Model and the PACT© Trust-Building Strengths Inventory, and the books that go with them, Jess©: How Resilience is Really Built, Jess© 2.0: How Resilience in Teams and Organisations is Really Built, and The PACT©: How Trust is Really Built, developed by the author across two decades of coaching and organisational practice to help others thrive, not just survive. Readers who come to those frameworks through her other books will find here where they began. And the story is true.
CAUTIONARY NOTE: Contains material some readers may find distressing, including suicide, domestic abuse and bereavement.