In February 1942, Singapore fell to the Japanese & Denys Peek was among the tens of thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers & citizens taken prisoner. Eight months later, he & countless other Po Ws were packed into steel goods wagons & transported by rail to Siam
- their destination the massive construction project that would become infamous as the Burma Thailand Railway. He would spend the next three years in over 15 different work & 'hospital' camps on the railway, stubbornly refusing to give up in a place where over 20, 000 prisoners of war (an innumerable slave labourers) met their deaths. Written with clarity, passion & a remarkable eye for detail, Denys Peek's memoir recalls not just the hardships & horrors of the railway, the daily struggle for survival, but also the comradeship, spirit & humour of the men who worked on it.
It stands as a haunting, evocative & deeply moving testimony to the suffering of those who lived & died there
- a salutary reminder of man's potential for inhumanity to his fellow man.


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In February 1942, Singapore fell to the Japanese. Denys Peek & his brother were just two of tens of thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers & citizens taken prisoner.
Eight months later, he & his comrades were packed into steel goods wagons & transported by rail to Siam. They were to become part of the slave labour force destined for the massive construction project that would later become infamous as the Burma Thailand Railway. He would spend the next three years in over fifteen different work & 'hospital' camps on the railway, stubbornly refusing to give in & die in a place where over 20, 000 prisoners of war & uncounted slave labourers met their deaths.
Narrated in the present tense & written with clarity, passion & a remarkable eye for detail, Denys Peek has vividly recreated not just the hardships & horrors of the railway & the daily struggle for survival but also the comradeship, spirit & humour of the men who worked on it. It stands as a haunting, evocative & deeply moving testimony to the suffering of those who lived & died there
- a salutary reminder of man's potential for inhumanity to his fellow man.


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It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident
- an incident which changes the
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It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident
- an incident which changes the
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Everyone remembers a winner, especially when victory comes in the oldest major golf championship in the world. But what about the players who got to the brink & then let the ancient trophy slip through their fingers? The Open has always featured triumph & disaster since it began in 1860 & this book is all about the latter of those ...

It's 1988 & radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit ' Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor & the Majors. The man behind the fake moustache is Tony Hawks.

Fast forward to the 21st century & those heady days of pop stardom are a distant memory. That is, until it is suggested that Tony is just another One Hit Wonder. Really? We'll have to see about that.. .

For two years Tony struggles to have a hit somewhere, anywhere, in the world, changing acts & styles with a bewildering lack of integrity. From Nashville to Amsterdam, from Eastern Europe to Africa, he travels the globe in search of that elusive hit.

But it's only after a chance encounter with Norman Wisdom that things get really strange. Is it really possible that together they could storm the Albanian charts?

In One Hit Wonderland anything can happen.. .







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It's 1988 & radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit ' Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor & the Majors. The man behind the fake moustache is Tony Hawks.

Fast forward to the 21st century & those heady days of pop stardom are a distant memory. That is, until it is suggested that Tony is just another One Hit Wonder. Really? We'll have to see about that.. .

For two years Tony struggles to have a hit somewhere, anywhere, in the world, changing acts & styles with a bewildering lack of integrity. From Nashville to Amsterdam, from Eastern Europe to Africa, he travels the globe in search of that elusive hit.

But it's only after a chance encounter with Norman Wisdom that things get really strange. Is it really possible that together they could storm the Albanian charts?

In One Hit Wonderland anything can happen.. .







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You know him as a best selling author; you know him as a TV & radio presenter. But did you know that in a former life, as Morris Minor & the Majors, Tony was a pop star? He had a No. 4 hit with ' Stutter Rap' in 1988. He was on Top of the Pops. He tasted fame. Now Hawks wants more. Fame beckons once again-ONE HIT WONDERLAND is Tony's wonderful account of an adventure that takes him right around the world in search for that elusive follow-up hit. From the studios of Nashville to the coffee bars of Amsterdam; from the plains of Sudan to the wilds of Tasmania, Hawks will do anything to have a hit. He changes musical styles with a bewildering lack of integrity. He hypes charts, he gets remixes. But will he get a hit? Is that even possible anywhere in the world with a song called ' You Broke My Heart Like A Bird's Egg (But Now The Yolks On You)'? ...