To lose one child is terrible; to lose two is unimaginable. For no one to believe that you are innocent of their deaths & to be imprisoned because of it must be unbearable.

Yet this is the reality Sally Clark had to face. The daughter of a policeman, wife of a solicitor & a solicitor herself, just when she was grieving from the tragic death of her second child the system she'd always believed in turned against her. Justice suddenly seemed a far-off principle as she was convicted & her initial appeal quashed. Her family, lawyers & various volunteers were relentless in their fight to clear her name. Finally, following three long years in prison, suffering abuse & the bleak horrow of bereavement, Sally Clark was finally acquitted by the Court of Appeal in 2003.

Her release caught the nation's attention, & paved the way for succesful appeals by wrongly convicted mothers such as Angela Canning. Written with the power of a thriller, the book is a tragic but ultimately uplifting story of a mother's love & a family



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The stress & anxieties of modern life can take their toll on the digestive system. If not treated in their early stages, simple digestive & absorption disorders can develop into serious conditions such as ulcers, colitis or irritable bowel syndrome. Jan de Vries shares the results of 30 years' successful treatment of stomach & bowel problems, showing the reader how to interpret the body's warning signals & setting out simple & effective remedies, diets & exercises. ...

' There is a salubrious élan about much of the book, & the fact that it is a book, not just a selection the significant poems, amplifies our sense of what Stone really means to its contemporary readers'

Seamus Heaney

' What makes Robert Tracy



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In his most dazzling & brilliant novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier ...

In his most dazzling & brilliant novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier ...

It's 1874. Jago Stonecipher has to live with his unscrupulous uncle, Archibald Callow, a fair ground charlatan, a crude performer of illusions. One night, he overhears a whispered conversation about depriving someone of their inheritance, involving a man called Ambruster. Then, when the very man Ambruster assaults Jago, & accuses him of stealing, he decides to help defeat him. But the cunning plots & the trials of deceit are much more complicated than anyone could have anticipated, & Jago becomes hopelessly embroiled in it all. In the end Jago has no choice but to take ship from Southampton for Rio. Trouble follows him out at sea, & he is left having to defend himself & his friend against unscrupulous & grasping villains. But we have seen that a boy from steerage can always outwit higher class opponents, & this story is no exception! ...

' People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them' Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered & became the manager & producer of an unknown band called The Rolling Stones. His radical vision transformed them from a starving south London blues combo to the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever Drew Breath, while the revolutionary strategies he used to get them there provoked both adulation & revulsion throughout British society & beyond. An ultra-hip mod, flash, brash & schooled in style by Mary Quant, he was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety & innovation. Brian Epstein had hired him to break The Beatles, but it was his thrilling work with the Stones that turned him into a legend & introduced sex & hype to an austere, conservative industry. A ferociously brilliant, near-mythical svengali-figure to many, a manipulative upper-class thug to others, he quickly established himself as the most mercurial & anarchic impresario of the decade. Stoned is Andrew Loog Oldham's astonishing story told in his own words, with contributions from Mary Quant, Pete Townshend, Vidal Sassoon, Nik Cohn, Lionel Bart & many other friends, colleagues & associates. ...

' People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them' Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered & became the manager & producer of an unknown band called The Rolling Stones. His radical vision transformed them from a starving south London blues combo to the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever Drew Breath, while the revolutionary strategies he used to get them there provoked both adulation & revulsion throughout British society & beyond. An ultra-hip mod, flash, brash & schooled in style by Mary Quant, he was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety & innovation. Brian Epstein had hired him to break The Beatles, but it was his thrilling work with the Stones that turned him into a legend & introduced sex & hype to an austere, conservative industry. A ferociously brilliant, near-mythical svengali-figure to many, a manipulative upper-class thug to others, he quickly established himself as the most mercurial & anarchic impresario of the decade. Stoned is Andrew Loog Oldham's astonishing story told in his own words, with contributions from Mary Quant, Pete Townshend, Vidal Sassoon, Nik Cohn, Lionel Bart & many other friends, colleagues & associates. ...