A frightened girl sits on the stairs. It's Christmas Day but she's gripped by fear. She can hear them downstairs, waiting for her. Laughing like they have nothing to be ashamed of. Afterwards, her mother will indulge her because it's Christmas. & for just one day the girl won't wonder, ' How could she?' At just five years old, Dana Fowley learned that there was no one she could trust & nowhere she could escape to. She & her younger sister endured years of terrible abuse, subjected day after day to unimaginable attacks, & not only did their own mother do nothing to protect them, she willingly helped. In a high-profile & traumatising court case Dana's lifelong suffering was at last revealed when she bravely faced her demons & testified against her own mother. Finally, Dana's nightmare is coming to an end. ...

A beautifully written & compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

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How Deep Is The Sea? Fosters children's knowledge about animal life both above & below water with more than 200 interactive pages. Young children can dive into the mysteries of the deep while learning tonnes of ocean facts through skill-building exercises, such as colouring by numbers, matching activities, number puzzles, crosswords, mazes, word searches, make-&-do crafts & much, much more! ...

If you're a man of a certain age you'll know there comes a point in life when getting a sports car & over-analysing your contribution to society sounds like a really good idea. With a good job in sales & marketing & a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife & kids, John Bishop was no different when he turned the dreaded 4-0. But instead of spanking a load of cash on a car that would have made him look like a senior stylist at Vidal Sassoon, he stumbled onto a pathway that ultimately lead him to become one of the nation's best loved comedians. It was a gamble, but boy, did it pay off. How Did All This Happen? is the story of how a boy who, growing up on a council estate dreaming of ousting Kenny Dalglish from Liverpool FC's starting line-up, suddenly found himself on stage in front of thousands of people nationwide, at an age when he should have known better. In his own inimitable style, John guides us through his life from leaving the estate & travelling the globe on a shoe string, to marriage, kids & the split that led him to being on a stage complaining to strangers one night
- the night that changed his life & started his journey to stardom. Wonderfully entertaining & packed with colourful reminiscences & comical anecdotes, this is a heart-warming, life-affirming & ultimately very, very funny memoir from one of the nation's greatest comedians.
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Have you every wondered what colour dinosaurs really were, what they had for breakfast or even whether you could beat one in a race? You have! Then this is the book for you. Crammed full of interesting dino facts & busting with detailed illustrations, How Dinosaurs really work covers everything you need to know about these roaring beasts. The perfect book for all dino crazy youngsters ...

In Robert Peston's new book he explains in his characteristically straightforward way how the world got itself into the current economic mess
- & how we might get out of it. How do we fix this mess? I don't know. But don't stop reading now. Perhaps if we have a clearer understanding of what went wrong, we'll have a better idea of what needs to be done. This book is a map of what needs to be fixed. The record-breaking unbroken growth between 1992 & 2008 wasn't the economic miracle that it seemed. It was based on a number of dangerous illusions
- most notably that it didn't matter that the UK & US year after year consumed more than they earned. But we couldn't go on increasing our indebtedness forever. The financial crash of 2007/8 & the subsequent economic slump in much of the west was the moment when we realised we had borrowed more than we could afford to repay. So who got it wrong? Bankers, investors & regulators? & were they greedy, stupid or asleep? What was the role of government? & what part did we, as consumers, play in all this? How do we get through this difficult period of transition to a more sustainable economy, one based on investment & exports, rather than on borrowing & consumption? With the same probing lucidity he brought to WHO RUNS BRITAIN?, Robert Peston takes us step-by-step towards a common sense way to fix this mess.

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Companion to the major new BBC documentary series Civilisations, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga & Simon Schama



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This book offers the puzzle-lover a superb collection of many types of puzzle.

How Do You Survive a Duel? contains

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The autumn 2002 publication of Ruby Waxs memoirs was greeted with shock
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Navigates young adults through the perils & pleasures of independent life from college & beyond, offering advice on everything from getting along your roommate (s) to throwing a great party; from getting the job you want & moving up to getting respect (and a phone number) from that cutie at the bar. ...