' An extraordinary book. Buy it, read it, treasure it' Sunday Times ' Porridge meets Escape to Victory. A witty, moving & wholly original read' Daily Mirror Zebedee, Teddy, Bunny, Nigel, Scouse, Raph, Bumpy, Wayne, Carl, Paddy & Rizler. Eleven men
- a football team. This team has the usual sprinkling of talent, but is otherwise unique. Nine of these players have been convicted of murder & are serving life-sentences in HMP Kingston, the other two, their warders. Chris Hulme spent the 1997-98 season with the Kingston Arrows
- watching every game, talking to them about their lives on the inside & out & supporting them in their attempt to win the league for the first time in ten years of trying. His resulting account of an ordinary game played by extraordinary men whose lives have been transformed by one horrific act of violence is both moving & remarkable. ' One of the books of the summer' Evening Standard' Electrifying a riveting account of what football can mean when you, quite literally have nothing else to live for' Pete Davies'A moving, enthralling & extraordinary book' Maxim

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' Our eyes were not permitted to look either to our left or rigth; our noses must always touch the cold marble;our rumps always to be thrust high & tightly back, our knees & feet widely placed. We would hear only th vague whisper of the Royal Sister's silk slippers as she walked slowly behind our sprawled feet. Sometimes we might just catch the faint sound of the split-bamboo cane brushing against her robes.'
Ruled by the Grand Lady, The Pavilion of The Divine Orchid Ladies is a dangerous place for sevants & concubines alike. Escape is impossible; survival an ever tenuous state. Neglected by the aging emperor, the Honourable Sisters resort to alternative but forbidden pleasures. & within this turmoil of petty jealousies, cruel perversities & formidable mistresses, the manslave Shani must so often serve as a plaything, lover, whipping boy, & so much else. His position is made even more precarious when he becomes torn between his devotion & fascination for His Royal Mistress, & his love for the maidservant, Li Mei.
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' Our eyes were not permitted to look either to our left or rigth; our noses must always touch the cold marble;our rumps always to be thrust high & tightly back, our knees & feet widely placed. We would hear only th vague whisper of the Royal Sister's silk slippers as she walked slowly behind our sprawled feet. Sometimes we might just catch the faint sound of the split-bamboo cane brushing against her robes.'
Ruled by the Grand Lady, The Pavilion of The Divine Orchid Ladies is a dangerous place for sevants & concubines alike. Escape is impossible; survival an ever tenuous state. Neglected by the aging emperor, the Honourable Sisters resort to alternative but forbidden pleasures. & within this turmoil of petty jealousies, cruel perversities & formidable mistresses, the manslave Shani must so often serve as a plaything, lover, whipping boy, & so much else. His position is made even more precarious when he becomes torn between his devotion & fascination for His Royal Mistress, & his love for the maidservant, Li Mei.
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Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-centre is connected to sexual activity, & calls in the even shapelier Nurse Cory to assist with treatment... In the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we eavesdrop on the serious discourse, virulent abuse & hilarious mockery of the erotic guerilla war that is Mantissa. ...

Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, & ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace & the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. They reveal how issues are framed & topics chosen, & contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections, a free press, & governmental repression between Nicaragua & El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan & the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government & genocide under Pol Pot. What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, & how we can learn to read them & see their function in a radically new way. ...

We normally think that the press are cantankerous, obstinate, & ubiquitous in its search for truth. In Manufacturing Consent ...

Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, & ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace & the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. They reveal how issues are framed & topics chosen, & contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections, a free press, & governmental repression between Nicaragua & El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan & the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government & genocide under Pol Pot. What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, & how we can learn to read them & see their function in a radically new way. ...

A beautiful island lying in the northern part of the Irish Sea between Engl&, Scotl&, Ireland & Wales, the Isle of Man was once a popular holiday destination. It is perhaps better known today for the TT motorcycle races held there, its tail-less cats & Manx kippers. However, with a population of around 75, 000 it also has its darker side.MANX MURDERS is a gripping & mysterious collection of murder cases committed on the island over the last 150 years, from the brutal murder of a spinster one dark night on a lonely track near Ramsey to an equally savage attack on a widow in her garden in the busy centre of Douglas. Both murders, incidentally remain unsolved to this day. The complex political situation that existed in an internment camp during World War I, which led to the fatal stabbing of one Finnish prisoner by another, is also covered. So too is the bizarre, seemingly motiveless murder involving two British Army officers in another camp during World War II. There is also the bewildering incident of a once loving father & husband who killed three of his young children before committing suicide & the disturbing case in which a toddler was battered to death by his mother's lover. Using information obtained from newspapers, inquest records & trial transcripts whenever these were available, each murder is described against the back-drop of events on the island at the time & has been carefully reconstructed in a way that gives the reader a distinct flavour of life there during the period in which the crime occurred. This informative & fascinating collection is sure to evoke a number of conflicting emotions in the reader. While each case is unique, all share an overwhelming sadness & tragedy ...