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Policing rural Yorkshire is a far cry from Mike\'s old job hunting down drug gangs and knife crime in Central London. Settled back in his native Yorkshire, the former Metropolitan Policeman finds that life as a rural beat bobby is no picnic. After a crazed swordsman threatens to take his head off, he finds himself confronting a knife-wielding couple bent on carving each other up. When a stag night turns ugly he ends up with the groom, the best man and the bride-to-be all banged up in the cells - and the wedding just hours away. With record-breaking floods and politicians to escort, will Mike find time woo the woman of his dreams? Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0601, Διαστάσεις: 13.1x13.1cm

A memoir of lessons and life in the Yorkshire Dales...Warm, touching and very funny, All Teacher\'s Great and Small transports you to a time that may be gone but has never been forgotten. Andy Seed\'s memoir is sure to charm fans of Jack Sheffield and Gervase Phinn\'s nostalgic style. \'Heart-warming and hilarious\' - Daily Mail Dear Mr Seed, I am sorry that are Jack was not at school yesterday. He put on such a groth spurt in the night that nun of his clowthes fitted im next morning so I had to take him to the shops. Mrs R. Twenty-five years ago, newly qualified teacher Andy Seed moved to a remote village in the Yorkshire Dales with his wife Barbara, anticipating breath-taking views and the gentle simplicity of the countryside. The picturesque scenery did not disappoint. But life as a primary school teacher was anything but simple. With a classroom full of colourful characters whose capacity for misunderstanding was exceeded only by their enthusiasm and their ability to leave him incredulous, Andy fell in love with teaching and with village life. All Teachers Great and Small tells the true story of Andy\'s first year at Cragthwaite Primary School - how he bravely negotiated the vagaries of the local dialect, made disastrous bids to provide a family home, naively and hilariously tried out new-fangled ideas in a school stuck in a 1950s time warp, and ultimately discovered a little part of England he was proud to call home.What readers are saying about All Teachers Great and Small:\'I howled with laughter on many occasions reading this book - it\'s a treasure!\'\'Andy Seed brings the Dales to life with his memorable stories about rural school life in the 1980s. I loved this book\' \'This book spoke to me on so many levels. It really is a jolly good read, and written with love and enthusiasm\' Σελίδες: 400, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0612, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

More lessons and life from the Yorkshire Dales...All Teachers Bright and Beautiful is the concluding volume in Andy Seed\'s trilogy. As always, the book is peppered with the hilarious and heart-warming incidents that a life living and working with children inevitably contains. Andy Seed is sure to charm fans of Jack Sheffield and Gervase Phinn.Andy Seed is beginning his fifth year teaching at Cragthwaite Primary in the Yorkshire Dales, and as always a new term is full of surprises.These take the form of a beautiful, but not terribly bright, student on placement from the local teacher training college, and a particularly pushy and problematic parent with a fine line in complaining. It looks like Andy\'s pupils are the least of his problems...At home in Applesett, things aren\'t all rosy either. Barbara is forced to take a job as a postie to help pay the mortgage, which means finding someone to look after Tom and Reuben. When two old friends move into the village it looks like the problem has been solved, but it soon transpires that rural life is not for everyone...What readers are saying about All Teachers Bright and Beautiful:\'A sequence of classroom tales told with considerable wit and charm that will raise a chuckle and perhaps even make you shed a tear\'\'Delightful read. Humorous, warm and really interesting finding out about all the little personalities of the primary school children he teaches\'\'Another gem. The book flows nicely with alternating chapters about his school life and home life. A sweet book\' Σελίδες: 416, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0610, Διαστάσεις: 13.1x13.1cm

Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind the façade of respectability lurked a hideous reality.Cynthia was just eight years old when she was sexually abused by her father amongst others. Shortly before her eleventh birthday she was made pregnant and, minutes after giving birth to the baby, Cynthia watched in horror as her own mother murdered the tiny infant, named Noleen, by repeatedly stabbing her with a knitting needle. Cynthia\'s mother then wrapped the baby girl in a plastic bag, dumped her in an alleyway and made her daughter go back to school and pretend nothing had ever happened.After enduring many more years of rape and violence, Cynthia came forward and reported her abuse and Noleen\'s death.Finally, in 2007, after a fifteen-year legal fight to have her baby girl formally identified, the jury at the \'Dun Laoghaire Baby\' inquest declared that the baby found dead in an alleyway thirty-four years previously was Noleen Murphy, the daughter of Cynthia Owen.Cynthia\'s is a horrific story of brutality and loss, but ultimately, it is an account of love, immense bravery and her fight for justice in Noleen\'s name. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0701, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

\'Frank Tallis brings a lifetime\'s clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is a brilliant, compelling book\' Ian McEwanLove is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone loses love, and everyone knows something of love\'s madness. But the experience of obsessive love is no trivial matter. In the course of his career psychologist Dr Frank Tallis has treated many unusual patients, whose stories have lessons for all of us. A barristers\' clerk becomes convinced that her dentist has fallen in love with her and they are destined to be together for eternity; a widow is visited by the ghost of her dead husband; an academic is besotted with his own reflection; a beautiful woman searches jealously for a rival who isn\'t there; and a night porter is possessed by a lascivious demon. These are just some of the people whom we meet in an extraordinary and original book that explores the conditions of longing and desire - true accounts of psychotherapy that take the reader on a journey through the darker realms of the amorous mind.Drawing on the latest scientific research into the biological and psychological mechanisms underlying romance and emotional attachment, THE INCURABLE ROMANTIC demonstrates that ultimately love dissolves the divide between what we judge to be normal and abnormal. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0207, Διαστάσεις: 12.5x12.5cm

Selected as a best book of 2017 by Forbes, The Times, Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Greater Good Magazine, Stanford Business School and more.\'A timely, intriguing book\' Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take\'This profound book will change your life. An instant classic\' Cass R. Sunstein, bestselling co-author of NudgePart of our daily job as humans is to influence others; we teach our children, guide our patients, advise our clients, help our friends and inform our online followers. We do this because we each have unique experiences and knowledge that others may not. But how good are we at this role? It turns out we systematically fall back on suboptimal habits when trying to change other\'s beliefs and behaviors. Many of these instincts-from trying to scare people into action, to insisting the other is wrong or attempting to exert control-are ineffective, because they are incompatible with how the mind operates. Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0731, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

The Lost Key - The Supranatural Secrets of the Freemasons contains revelations that only an initiate of the highest orders of esoteric Freemasonry is in a position to make. Here is the truth behind the hints in Dan Brown\'s The Lost Symbol that Freemasonry is concerned to reawaken the hidden potentialities and powers of the human mind.The thrilling narrative of this new book follows a candidate for initiation as he rises through the different grades of initiation, taking part in ceremonies that are sometimes terrifying but always revealing of new knowledge and presenting new mysteries which will only be solved when the next stage of initiation has been achieved. Dramatic episodes include the re-enacting of an ancient murder from 3,000 years ago in full gory detail, lowering the candidate on the end of a rope into a dark vault under the floor of the temple, holding a dagger to the candidates naked breast, and making the candidate attend his own funeral.In the secret teachings revealed to some high-level initiates, there is a type of instruction which seems curiously similar to religious and mystical teachings. Astrology, angels, chakras and the powers of the mind to operate independently of the body, such as in remote viewing, are all a part of Freemasonic lore.Here Lomas, co-author of the international bestseller The Hiram Key, reveals to a wider public and also explains these secret teachings for the first time. He shows that while they are dismissed as superstitious by campaigners for atheism such as Richard Dawkins, they are very much part of the strange, paradoxical world opened up by the latest thinking in quantum physics. This is why he prefers to call them \'Supranatural\'. Σελίδες: 384, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0710, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'Part autobiography, part heartfelt plea to change the way we look at gender, Girls will be Girls is an excellent primer on feminist theory. Every teenage girl should be given a copy\' HOT PRESSBeing a woman is, largely, about performance - how we dress and modify our bodies, what we say, the roles we play, and how we conform to expectations. Gender stereotypes are still deeply embedded in our society, but Emer O\'Toole is on a mission to re-write the old script and bend the rules of gender - and she shows how and why we should all be joining in.Exploring what it means to \'act like a girl\', Emer takes us on a hilarious and thought-provoking journey through her life (including singing \'Get Your Pits Out for the Lads\' on national TV after growing out her body hair). Cross-dressing, booty-shaking, sexual disasters, family dinners and full-body waxing are all lovingly dissected in search of wisdom.With game-changing ideas, academic intelligence and laugh-out-loud humour, this book will open your mind and revolutionise the way that you think about gender. Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0412, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali\'s most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali\'s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it\'s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K\'s filthy and disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous and the tragic: a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay\'s brother, Muslim terror bombers, beautiful women tourists and surfers from across the globe. Petty thieves share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters. Hardened drug traffickers sleep alongside unlucky tourists, who\'ve seen their holiday turn from paradise to hell over one ecstasy pill. Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild \'sex nights\' organised by corrupt guards for the prisoners who have cash to pay, the jail\'s ecstasy factory, the killings made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, the escapes and the corruption that means anything is for sale - including a fully catered Italian jail wedding, or a luxury cell upgrade with a Bose sound system. The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page. Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Peter Robb\'s journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy\'s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial of seven-times Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, for alleged Mafia involvement as its starting point, Midnight in Sicily combines a searching investigation with an exuberant, sensual appreciation of this beautiful and bewildering island. Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1204, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

__________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High Low podcast.\'Deliciously fascinating\' MARIAN KEYES\'Refreshing ... thoughtful, considered\' STYLIST\'Brilliant\' EVENING STANDARD\'Timely and fulsome\' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS\'Joyful and wise\' LISA TADDEOModern life is full of choices - but how do we know we\'re making the right ones? Why, in our attempts to make life easier, do we often make it harder?With a light touch and plenty of humour, Pandora Sykes delves into the myths we\'ve been sold and the stories we tell ourselves, in a timely bid to encourage us to consider the lives we once led, and how they might better serve us. It\'s time to stop looking for the answers - and start delighting in the questions. __________________\'Thoughtful and funny\' DOLLY ALDERTON\'Like a very clever, lucid, charming friend unpacking all the messy anxieties of modern existence with tremendous intelligence and elan. Read this book. It will help your life\' INDIA KNIGHT\'Had me cackling. So smart but so well-researched\' CANDICE BRATHWAITE\'Energetic and compelling\' OLIVIA SUDJIC\'Navigates complicated issues with great humanity, humour and humility ... [it] left me wanting more\' SATHNAM SANGHERA\'Self-aware, self-deprecating, relatable, funny, and brilliantly curious\' STACEY DOOLEY\'Witty and zeitgeisty ... strikes a fresh, honest note\' VANITY FAIR__________________Readers love Pandora\'s first book:\'A truly marvellous debut\'\'Insightful and beautifully written\'\'Totally brilliant ... I devoured this masterpiece in one sitting\'\'A bright book in a gloomy year\'\'Feeling a lot better about life after finishing this!\'\'I adored Pandora\'s book and will be thinking about it for a long time.\'\'So clever and thought-provoking\'\'Pandora is a wonderful writer and I found myself unexpectedly in tears by the end\'INCLUDES A NEW PROLOGUE Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'A memoir to shine a light in the darkest of nights . . . a story of redemption\' – journalist Tony Parsons.Michael Maisey was excited the day he was locked up in the notorious Feltham Young Offenders Institute. He was going to be a legend to all his mates. The sixteen year old was in for attempted murder. He was innocent of this particular crime but amongst the violent and dangerous young men on his wing he was about to learn exactly how far he’d go to survive.In Young Offender we see what turned a good kid into a wanted criminal. Abused by his uncle, bullied at school, at the age of twelve he found the safety he craved in the ranks of a local gang in West London. He graduated from shoplifting to armed robbery and for five years Michael was in and out of Feltham, on a downward spiral of crime and drug and alcohol addiction. At rock bottom, he began attending AA meetings. But the road to recovery would mean changing himself in the deepest possible ways. Could Michael finally learn what it meant to be a good man?Honest and inspiring, this is a powerful story of redemption. Today Michael is a successful businessman and a loving father who spends time helping others find their way.\'Courageous and brutally honest\' – Ollie Ollerton, ex-Special Forces soldier, author of Break Point. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0709, Διαστάσεις: 13.1x13.1cm

\'Inspiring and heart-wrenching\' Paloma Faith \'Love Rhyannon. Love this book\' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won\'t stop hearing about. Rhyannon Styles will do for transgender what Matt Haig did for mental health. Elle columnist Rhyannon Styles tells her unforgettable life story in THE NEW GIRL, reflecting on her past and charting her incredible journey from male to female. A raw, frank and utterly moving celebration of life.Imagine feeling lost in your own body. Imagine spending years living a lie, denying what makes you \'you\'. This was Ryan\'s reality. He had to choose: die as a man or live as a woman.In 2012, Ryan chose Rhyannon. At the age of thirty she began her transition, taking the first steps on the long road to her true self.Rhyannon holds nothing back in THE NEW GIRL, a heartbreakingly honest telling of her life. Through her catastrophic lows and incredible highs, she paints a glorious technicolour picture of what it\'s like to be transgender. From cabaret drag acts, brushes with celebrity and Parisian clown school, to struggles with addiction and crippling depression, Rhyannon\'s story is like nothing you\'ve read before.Narrated with searing honesty, humour and poignancy, THE NEW GIRL is a powerful book about being true to ourselves, for anyone who\'s ever felt a little lost. Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0125, Διαστάσεις: 13.4x13.4cm

From favorite cookbook author Julia Turshen comes this practical and inspiring handbook for political activism—with recipes. As the millions who marched in January 2017 demonstrated, activism is the new normal. When people search for ways to resist injustice and express support for civil rights, environmental protections, and more, they begin by gathering around the table to talk and plan. These dishes foster community and provide sustenance for the mind and soul, including a dozen of the healthy, affordable recipes Turshen is known for, plus over 15 more recipes from a diverse range of celebrated chefs. With stimulating lists, extensive resources, and essays from activists in the worlds of food, politics, and social causes, Feed the Resistance is a must have handbook for anyone hoping to make a difference. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 13.3x13.3cm

The King of the Pill Trade Returns: Howard Marks\' Unforgettable Journey into Ibiza\'s Criminal UnderworldHoward Marks, the most infamous drug smuggler of his time and a hero to a generation, made a promise to himself upon his release from one of America\'s toughest prisons: to go straight, leaving behind the world of drugs and smuggling. Retiring to a quiet life with his family in the Balearic Islands of Spain seemed like the perfect plan, but the lure of Ibiza\'s booming ecstasy trade in the mid-nineties proved too strong to resist.In Mr Smiley, Marks takes readers on a wild ride through the heart of Ibiza\'s clubbing scene and British crime world. From trying pure ecstasy to rubbing shoulders with notorious gangsters laundering millions from the legendary Brink\'s-Mat bullion raid, Marks finds himself drawn back into the thrilling and dangerous world he thought he\'d left behind.Amidst the whirlwind of the island\'s most outrageous summer, Marks prepares for his greatest operation yet. Hilarious, moving, and utterly scabrous, Mr Smiley is an unforgettable last word from one of Britain\'s most beloved bad boys, offering a unique glimpse into the rave culture, drug trafficking, and criminal underbelly of Ibiza in the nineties. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0809, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee (IRC).   Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis: 68.5 million people fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to South Sudan and Syria, a figure worse than flight of Jewish and other Europeans during World War II and beyond anything the world has seen in this generation. Yet in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries with the means to welcome refugees, anti-immigration politics and fear seem poised to shut the door. Even for readers seeking to help, the sheer scale of the problem renders the experience of refugees hard to comprehend.   Viet Nguyen, called “one of our great chroniclers of displacement” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker), brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and others to make their stories heard. They are formidable in their own right—MacArthur Genius grant recipients, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, filmmakers, speakers, lawyers, professors, and New Yorker contributors—and they are all refugees, many as children arriving in London and Toronto, Oklahoma and Minnesota, South Africa and Germany. Their 17 contributions are as diverse as their own lives have been, and yet hold just as many themes in common.   Reyna Grande questions the line between “official” refugee and “illegal” immigrant, chronicling the disintegration of the family forced to leave her behind; Fatima Bhutto visits Alejandro Iñárritu’s virtual reality border crossing installation “Flesh and Sand”; Aleksandar Hemon recounts a gay Bosnian’s answer to his question, “How did you get here?”; Thi Bui offers two uniquely striking graphic panels; David Bezmozgis writes about uncovering new details about his past and attending a hearing for a new refugee; and Hmong writer Kao Kalia Yang recalls the courage of children in a camp in Thailand.   These essays reveal moments of uncertainty, resilience in the face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity, forming a compelling look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. The Displaced is also a commitment: ABRAMS will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book, a minimum of $25,000 annually, to the International Rescue Committee, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid, relief, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict.   List of Contributors: Joseph Azam David Bezmozgis Fatima Bhutto Thi Bui Ariel Dorfman Lev Golinkin Reyna Grande Meron Hadero Aleksandar Hemon Joseph Kertes Porochista Khakpour Marina Lewycka Maaza Mengiste Dina Nayeri Vu Tran Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Kao Kalia Yang Σελίδες: 208, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0416, Διαστάσεις: 13.9x13.9cm

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME \'MUST-READ\' \'An extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial contribution to the fraught debate on race and racism . . . intellectually stimulating and compelling\' SUNDAY TIMESA reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family\'s multi-generational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a \'black\' father from the segregated South and a \'white\' mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of \'black blood\' makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he\'d never rigorously reflected on its foundations - but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions.It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his daughter is white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them - or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time. Σελίδες: 192, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0401, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Hell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer’s The Prison Diaries, the author’s daily record of the time he spent there.‘The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I’ve been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting – his first offence, not even convicted – and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.’On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain’s most violent criminals. This volume recounts his experience while there. Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0808, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country\'s most notorious jails.Neil Samworth\'s Strangeways reveals the stark reality behind HMP Manchester\'s notorious prison walls with an astonishing blend of audacity, humour, and empathy. A seasoned prison officer, Samworth weaves a gripping tale of endurance, underscoring the finesse necessary to navigate a world awash with formidable criminals and the tragically misunderstood.From tense face-offs with hardened gangsters and psychopaths to encounters with cell fires and rampant drug problems, Samworth opens a window into Britain\'s penal system. It\'s an intrepid journey that unearths the human stories behind the inmate numbers and uncovers the systemic cracks leading to escalating prison crises.At its heart, Strangeways is Samworth\'s deeply personal narrative. He reveals his own mental battles while confronting the scars left by a grueling career on the frontlines of the prison system, and his ultimate struggle with PTSD. More than a memoir, this account is a testament to those braving one of society\'s harshest arenas, and a chilling expose of humanity\'s darker places. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0212, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular ‘room of one’s own’, prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential.As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theatres, A Room of One’s Own remains both a beautiful work of literature and an incisive analysis of women and their place in the world.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of A Room of One\'s Own by Virginia Woolf features an afterword by the British art historian Frances Spalding. Σελίδες: 152, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1031, Διαστάσεις: 10x10cm

On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk.He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously over-stretched prison service, but the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates . . .Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory is an extraordinary work of non-fiction, where Archer reveals what life is like inside the walls of Britain\'s prisons. Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0808, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to be there for each other. Both sisters left home at the earliest opportunity to escape but before long, Jenny was embroiled in a relationship with an abusive man that kept her locked in a cycle of violence and fear. Their lives followed parallel paths, with first marriage, then kids and always the terror that things would never change. Eventually, with a lot of love, grit and courage they helped each other to climb out of the pit of despair and truly free themselves from the legacy of the past.Every bit as harrowing and inspiring as Behind Closed Doors, this is a story of the power of unstintingly loyal love. Σελίδες: 400, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0308, Διαστάσεις: 11x11cm

Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End, her childhood was spent in squalor and terror. Her father\'s violent beatings, humiliations, and sexual abuse were part of daily life; her mother - also his sexual victim and savagely beaten - was no source of help.Deprived of love and all comforts, the children would turn to each other for support and to the only adult they could trust, Auntie.This is the story of how Jenny, her sister Kim and brother Laurence, not only survived but ultimately transcended the unimaginable degradations heaped on them. With the power of love, cunning, the blackest of black humour and an indestructible self-belief, Jenny eventually broke free of her past. Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0309, Διαστάσεις: 11.5x11.5cm

Mike Pannett, once of the Metropolitan Police, is back in Yorkshire, policing one of the largest rural beats in England.Mike is called to investigate a series of burglaries, which are sending shock waves through the area. Remote farmhouses appear to be the targets, which stretches Mike\'s small team to the limits. Then, as winter sets in, two dogs are found running loose - Mike fears the owner has gone missing in the dreadful weather and is forced to call on a full-scale search. Throw in a night-time operation in an empty museum, and the harrowing business of taking three children into care against their mother\'s wishes, and it\'s quite a case-load for the author of Now Then, Lad, You\'re Coming With Me, Lad, Not On My Patch, Lad and Just the Job, Lad. Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0813, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.Her autobiography is profoundly personal but also tells one of the most universal and important narratives of twentieth century history: the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural displacement. Σελίδες: 288, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'I was nine and the big sister. I wanted to keep her safe. He basically promised me that if I let him abuse me, he wouldn\'t touch my sister again.\' Debbie Grafham’s childhood had been far from normal, but when she was just nine years old her life changed forever. Debbie discovered that her neighbour was abusing her younger sister, Laraine – and there was a price to pay to make him stop. Alone and scared, she made a decision that was to haunt her life, and send her spiralling out of control. But after nearly forty years of harbouring her shocking secret, Debbie found the courage to tell her sister and together they made the decision to fight for justice. Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

\'A feel-good extravaganza, nourishing both heart and mind ... What unites the stories are the twin ideas that an advantage can sometimes be a disadvantage and that a disadvantage can sometimes be an advantage. Yet there is something more powerful and more uplifting that links them\' Kate Kellaway, Financial Times\'I devoured in a single reading\' Richard E. Grant\'When you read it, you feel like you can topple giants\' Jon Ronson\'An energetic, counterintuitive exploration of why (and how) underdogs succeed\' Lisa Appignanesi, Guardian, Books of the Year\'Breathtaking\' The New York Times\'Truly intriguing and inspiring\' Los Angeles Times Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

‘Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything – even die.’Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants’ kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools – especially for girls – in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving\' Observer\"It\'s 1979, I\'m three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I\'m presenting myself for execution.\"For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot.And then there was his family, whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until, at the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage and a glorious sense of humour, he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past - from his father\'s harsh life in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist Office - trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets.\'I absolutely loved it. Heartbreaking and wonderful. He writes beautifully\' Maggie O\'Farrell\'Tragic, funny and disturbing. It will challenge you, and may even change you\' Carole Angier, IndependentPublished in hardback as If You Don\'t Know Me by Now Σελίδες: 336, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Written by three eminent professors, it has been updated to reflect the shifts of sociological thought in the last five years, making it the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date dictionary available. It is essential reading for all students and teachers of sociology and other related courses - and also the general reader. Σελίδες: 496, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu\'s travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture. The ability to study another culture according to its own values and to see herself through the eyes of others makes Lady Mary one of the most fascinating of early travel writers and commentators Σελίδες: 240, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0812, Διαστάσεις: 19.6x19.6cm

Cocaine is the world\'s most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network? The coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the suppliers, and, ultimately, the dealers who provide for the world\'s hundreds of millions of users. Cocaine Confidential goes inside the lives of all these characters to reveal their stories for the first time. Along the way you\'ll meet hitmen, pimps, desperate former international footballers, coke barons, mules, hardened traffickers and corrupt cops as the truth is unravelled in a roller coaster ride through this secret world. Σελίδες: 368, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0609, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my \'personal\' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company of the most hated psychopath in Belgium. I need to write this book for three reasons: so that people stop giving me strange looks and treating me like a curiosity; so that no one ever asks me any more questions ever again; and so that the judicial system never again frees a paedophile for \'good behaviour\'.\' \'The Dutroux Affair\' shook the whole of Europe. In the middle of the immense machinery of investigation and justice there was Sabine Dardenne herself, Dutroux\'s last victim. She was held captive for eighty days - and survived. Far from sensationalising the horror, her story, dignified and restrained, is ultimately uplifting. Says Sabine Dardenne, \'I choose to live\'. Σελίδες: 224, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0301, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It\'s quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital\'s streets and drug gangs in Battersea, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun.Now, instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers, he\'s chasing runaway bullocks, holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road and combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonel\'s balls.Mike\'s first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons and some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire, its breathtaking scenery and wide variety of characters and communities. Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0820, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Somaly Mam was abandoned as a baby and looked after by her grandmother until she disappeared. She was then taken into the care of a man she called \'grandfather\', but was treated no better than an unpaid servant. sold. Raped at twelve, Somaly was forced to marry at fifteen and then sold to a brothel. She endured years of abuse before managing to escape. The Road of Lost Innocence is a moving account of a traumatic childhood and also the inspirational story of a determined and courageous woman devoted to helping other girls caught up in the illegal sex trade and violent underworld in Cambodia.In 1997 Somaly Mam co-founded AFESIP to combat trafficking in women and children for sexual slavery. Σελίδες: 240, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0301, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

A harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy\'s abusive childhood, from international bestseller Dave Pelzer.\'A story where love, kindness, patience and endurance triumph\' Daily Mail*****Brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable and alcoholic mother, Dave became a slave; he was no longer a boy, but an \'it\'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes torn and unwashed, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog\'s bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout it all, Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him. A Child Called \'It\' shares the emotional story of the early years of his life, detailing the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive. It is the first book in the My Story trilogy.\'Heartfelt... cannot fail to move you\' Heat Σελίδες: 240, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0226, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm