Interweaves discussion of a compelling music with tender & balanced accounts of Benjamin Britten's intense friendships with adolescent boys. This book explores how these relationships helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood & the profound influence they had on him. ...

The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for l&, autonomy, & respectability. This title offers voice to the settlers, proprietors, & officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, & Ashfield, Massachusetts. ...

We all want to help do our bit to save the planet by moving towards a plant-based diet, but let's face it: eating vegan can be

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'I was born & broken in Birkenhead. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed & ignored. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim
- that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix
- a work in progress. This is my story.' Shy wasn't meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that Shy was deaf by her first day in school. She would have boiling water poured over her in punishment for wetting the bed. & virtually every day, from the age of four, Shy was raped by her stepfather, Stan. When she was ten she was attacked so viciously by the gang of dockworkers Stan had sold her to that she was left for dead in a field, her skull fractured. Six years ago her testimony secured the imprisonment of Stan & his associates for a catalogue of crimes against children. But it was only after a journey fraught with horror
- stealing to survive on the streets of London, prison & a suicide bid. Today, Shy is the internationally admired chief advocate for Phoenix Survivors, the campaigning group she founded with Sara Payne to fight for justice for victims of child sexual abuse. They have worked tirelessly with politicians, social services, the legal system & the media for justice for victims of child sex abuse. BROKEN is the most hard-hitting memoir of overcoming abuse you will ever read. It is both a challenge & an inspiration.


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Details: A writer wakes one night to find a strange man in her bedroom. He is a character she has invented, but not yet
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Books True Crime Books I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored & orphaned. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire.  I am no victim – that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it.  I am a Phoenix – a work in progress. This is my story…” Product Information: • ISBN: 9781914451003 • Author: Shy Keenan • Publisher: Mardle Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 311 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm   ...

For fourteen years, Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped & threatened with violence by sex traffickers. As the manager of Risky Business, which was set up to work with vulnerable teens, she heard heartbreaking & shocking stories of abuse & assiduously kept notes & details of the perpetrators, passing information on to the authorities in the belief that they would do something.

Eventually, when she lost hope that the authorities would take action against the gangs she had identified as the abusers, she became a whistleblower for The Times investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk.

Now, in her powerful memoir, she describes a life spent working to protect Rotherham's girls, the pressure put on her to stop rocking the boat, & why she risked prison in the hope that she could help end the appalling child exploitation in the town.

This paperback book has 372 pages & measures: 19.7 x 13 x 2.2cm





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When the first body is found, mutilated & strangled on the riverbank, Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. & again. Carefully dressed & posed, each victim seems to tell a storey so gruesome that Byrne & Balzano struggle at first to make sense of the killer's dark & twisted imagination. But when they stumble upon a collection of old fairy tales, the fragile link between the murders suddenly becomes clear
- & with it the terrifying conclusion of the killer's plan. Desperately, they try to anticipate the madman's next move, but as the body count rises, the killing spree spirals out of control...
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Book 6 in Kelley Armstrong's supernatural series marks the return of werewolf Elena Michaels from Bitten & Stolen. When half-demon Xavier calls in the favour Elena owes him, it seems easy enough
- steal Jack the Ripper's ' From Hell' letter away from a Toronto collector who had himself stolen it from the Ripper evidence boxes in the Metropolitan Police files. But nothing in the supernatural world is ever as simple as it seems. Elena accidentally triggers a spell placed on the letter, & manages to tear an opening that leads into the nether regions of Victorian London. Toronto may be looking for a tourism boost, but ' Gateway to Hell' isn't quite the new slogan the city had in mind. This book has 444 pages & is 17.7cm x 10.8cm x 2.8
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