For many years war made Sierra Leone & Liberia too dangerous for outsiders to travel through. Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the devastation wrought by lawless milit ...

For decades Sierra Leone & Liberia have been too dangerous for the outsider to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which have sprung many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons
- child soldiers, prisoner mutilation, blood diamonds. Chasing the Devil tells the story of Tim Butcher's audacious expedition from Freetown at the mouth of the Sierra Leone river overland through forest-covered mountains & malarial plains to the coast of Liberia. His journey follows the route trekked by Graham Greene in 1935 & immortalised in his travel classic Journey Without Maps. As a journalist in Africa between 2000 & 2005 Tim came to know both countries well although reporting was restricted mostly to the capital cities. Now he ventures deep into areas not visited by outsiders for years, just as the terrible deadweight of conflict is being lifted. Both nations are on a developmental cusp & Tim explores whether national & international attempts to chase away the devil of war can succeed. & there are other 'devils' that he is in search of.. . Rural communities in both countries have a tradition of sorcery & spiritualism based around the idea of a community devil, a masked figure who comes out at night inducting adolescents into society's ancient rules. & there are the far more sinister 'devil societies', run by local warlords like Charles Taylor, which carry out acts of ritual murder in rural Liberia today. Tim tracks down these rural devils, both good & bad, to see what role they play in these changing countries. A dramatic travel book through one of the most fraught parts of the globe at a unique moment in its history. Weaving history & anthropology with personal narrative it is as exciting as it is enlightening.
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Books Crime Books Would you risk your life for a woman you've never met? A thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror.  Henry Pierce has a whole new life
- new apartment, new telephone, new number. When he checks his machine, he discovers messages for a woman named Lilly, & she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, & it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex & secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce traces Lilly's last days, but every step into her past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy
- & a decision that could cost him everything he owns & holds dear... Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781409116813 •†Author: Michael Connelly •†Publisher:   Orion •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 368 •†Dimensions:†12.6 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm

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Diana's life was in a rut
- she hated her job, she was perpetually single, & she needed a place to live. But then the perfect
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Details: Private Investigator Nikki James is in San Francisco at the request of her business partner & best friend, Jake.
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A wonderful collection of short stories
- both traditional & modern
- by authors from all across Africa including Chinua Achebe

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United by the transit of Venus, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: how can the universe be measured? The author paints a portrait of the rivalries, triumphs & misfortunes that befell these men, along with their passion & determination to succeed. ...

Chatham is an ever-evolving part of the Medway conurbation in South-East Engl&. Best known for its Royal Naval Dockyard, the history of which began in the sixteenth century, the town grew as the yard expanded. Chatham survived the closure of the dockyard in 1984 & has been reborn as the central hub of the Medway Towns, with its dockyard now a major tourist attraction.

Using a unique collection of photographs, prints & postcards, Brian Joyce & Sophie Miller explore old Chatham from the boundaries with its neighbours to the High Street shops & the town s suburbs. They take the reader on a journey of discovery through scenes & landscapes, both familiar & forgotten. Well-researched & informative, Chatham From Old Photographs reveals the area's dramatic changes over the past two centuries as well as providing a fascinating insight into the town s history.

This paperback book has 94 pages & measures: 23.3 x 16.5 x 0.8cm approx.



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Che Guevara became politically active in his native Argentina, but gained notoriety after he met Fidel Castro & became instrumental in Castro's efforts in Cuba. Guevara then went on to Bolivia, where he was captured & killed by the Bolivian army while trying to incite revolution. This biography tells the story of Che's life & death. ...

Ernesto Che Guevara, an Argentinian doctor of middle-class parents, rose to fight with Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution & later tried to spread that revolution in other countries in Latin America & Africa. This is an account of a man who became a cultural icon to a generation. ...