On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub & celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis & aftermath, are the subject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social & sexual mores are chronicled & dissected in this tract for our times. The victim, Conor Harris, his killers
- three of them are charged with manslaughter
- & the trial judge share common childhoods & schooling in the privileged echelons of south Dublin suburbia. The intertwining of these lives leaves their afflicted families in moral free fall as public exposure merges with private anguish & imploded futures.

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Tells the story of the author's time as Britain's most senior representative in Southern Iraq, trying to keep the region together as the rest of the country descended in to murderous violence. This book provides a portrait of the absurdities of life inside the occupying coalition. ...

Bad Education, written by & starring Jack Whitehall, follows Alfie Wickers the worst teacher to ever (dis)grace the British Education System, & a bigger kid than the pupils he teaches. Abbey Grove school is populated by some of the weirdest teachers you could ever meet: Fraser the hair-brained Headmaster who longs to be down with the kids, Miss Gulliver the biology teacher with a heart of gold but perhaps a dash too much openness & honesty, Miss Mollinson the happily swinging Head of Maths who won't let her hip replacement get in the way & Deputy Headmistress Miss Pickwell who displays all the charm & sensitivity of a Third Reich Dominatrix. Alfie's class is Form K, a bunch of misfits that have been written off by the rest of the school, but Alfie can't help but see a bit of himself in them. This is about a class of kids & their teacher's quest to get through life & get the best results with the minimum amount of effort possible. Sadly it's not an equation that always adds up. From a disastrous parents' evening to cringe-worthy sex-education lessons to life threatening self-defence classes to school elections full of dirty tricks & a school trip to see a rhino pig; Bad Education is school life as you've never seen it before. Bad Education: The Teachers' Handbook is filled with hilarious content from both the first & upcoming second series from pupils' report cards & the graffiti found in the staff toilets, to Alfie's teaching methods & the best ways to scam a free laptop from the government. ...

Approaches China through the stories of its dissidents: ordinary, brave people who oppose a regime that uses repression in the name of social order. This book tells the stories of Chinese rebels who dare to stand up to their rulers, exploring their chances of success in the face of the most powerful dictatorship on earth. ...

Tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains & conmen
- Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator & ' Commissioner for
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The Quinns are one of the most feared criminal gangs in London's East End. So the reaction of Joe Quinn to the news that his daughter Lynsey is involved with a policeman is predictable & swift, & a pregnant Lynsey finds herself out on the street, bruised & alone. At the age of eleven, Lynsey's daughter Helen is returned to the clan. Hated by her grandfather, loved only by her uncle, she struggles to fit into a world she doesn't underst&. As warring factions battle for control of the East End, tragedy is about to strike again. How can Helen survive? & who can she trust when the Quin family's criminal past comes back to haunt her? ...

Details: The Quinns are one of the most feared criminal gangs in London's East End. So the reaction of Joe Quinn to the
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They met in rehab
- but some of them had rather more therapy than they bargained for. Supermodel Amber Peters should have the world
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Comedy Thriller set in American High School. When things don't go their own way for three rich, spoilt, girl students, they decide to take action. Ignored by head hunk Drew Jonathon Brandis), Danielle (Julie Benz), plans to get rid of the competition, Kat ...

Much to his family's relief, stay-at-home writer Zack Walker finally gets a job outside of the house.

Surely, becoming

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