When two police officers arrived out of the blue at Paul Connolly's door, he learned the shocking news that, out of the eight children with whom he had grown up in care, only two were still alive. The revelation unearthed painful memories of a childhood that, until this point, Paul had tried desperately to put behind him. Abandoned at two weeks old, Paul came of age in the infamous St Leonard's Children's Home in East London. The children there were routinely abused, often over the course of many years. All were underfed & unloved & told that they were would amount to nothing. Angry & frustrated, Paul channelled his rage into boxing
- but when an accident shattered his ambition to turn professional, he found his true calling & became a successful trainer, even working as a consultant on the pilots for a top model's fitness video. Paul has now finally found peace & fulfilment beyond anything he could have imagined all those years ago: he is happily married with two children &, through his work, he helps to heal broken bodies, build confidence & transform lives. But he will never forget his past & the unnecessary victims of a broken society...
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A neurasthenic aristocrat turns his back on the vulgarity of modern life & retreats to an isolated country villa. Here he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems & perfumes & embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments. ...

Diaspar is the last city on Earth in the year ten billion AD.

The inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside

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A Business Week, New York Times Business, & USA Today Bestseller " Ambitious & readable... an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition & fatalism. " -The New York Times " An extraordinarily entertaining & informative book. ...

It's July 1939 & even though Poland is trapped between Adolph Hitler & Uncle Joe Stalin, everyone hopes war can be avoided. Eighteen-year-old Jack Renouf is forbidden from associating with his own Uncle Fred because of his dangerous Communist views an ...

An account of Yeates' ascent of one of the world's largest vertical rock faces, the 4, 000 foot Central Tower of Paine in Chile. The greatest difficulties come not from the elements but from within themselves; crippled with fear the team is forced into a r ...

The fourth volume of Agatha Christie's Radio mysteries introduce you to another three short stories with a modern spin. In ' In a Glass Darkly', a man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman in a mirror only to find nothing when he turns. Can he prevent his dark premonition coming true?. In ' The Dressmaker's Doll', set in today's cut-throat fashion industry, Octavia's triumphant new dress design are her sole focus but is it safe for her to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which has appeared in her workshop? In ' The Case of the Perfect Carer', Morag is hired to care after the Cowley sisters ailing sibling Carmela, but a jewel theft on the night of the Hunt Ball & it seems the perfect carer may be implicated... ...

Three classic BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
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A special boxed set of the three Agatha Christie novels set in or around her home of Greenway House in Devon.

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Take Poirot's challenge to find clues hidden in this unique Murder Mystery interactive DVD game. Play a series of exciting games & puzzles to test your detective skills in three different sections: 'observation', 'analysis' & 'intuition', as you try t ...