Craving a great adventure, John Ahern buys a battered campervan online, aiming to spend a year travelling on the road... with kids. Taking their children through 30 countries on a hilarious & life-changing journey, John & wife Mandy find themselves mugged by monkeys, charmed by snake handlers & inspired by their fellow wanderers. ...

We were sent away, someplace we'd never been or even imagined, strangers in a strange place, to start over with nothing but fake names & everything to hide.   For most people, childhood is the time we feel most secure - we trust those around us implicitly, & know we were loved. But Gregg & Gina Hill grew up in a very different world. Their childhood was terrifying. Snatched out of their happy lives, taken away from their loving family & friends, they grew up in isolation, in a world where the only certainty was that they couldn't rely on anyone. Even their parents. They could only trust each other. ...

Roughly ten per cent of all murders in the UK go unsolved. Here, Britains top ex-undercover cop shines new light on cases up & down the country in search of answers.

Peter Bleksleys life has been devoted to investigating. As an undercover detective for the Metropolitan Police & in his ability to get to the bottom of a case was legendary as he dealt with some of the worlds most feared criminals. His success rate in solving murders as a serving officer was one hundred per cent.

Using the investigative skills gained from decades of experience & access to archives & contacts in the force, Bleksley shines new light on investigations that ran aground, often despite extensive media coverage & police resources.

On the Run is a comprehensive & fascinating investigation into murders of the most callous kind, finding the human story behind the headlines as he hunts down the killers on the run from justice.

Product information:
• ISBN: 9781786065148
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Peter Bleksley
• Publisher: John Blake Books
• Pages: 324
• Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 2cm













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Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders & Swann's elegy The Slow Train: This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables.

On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind & reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop & stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia. This book will be a paean to another age before milk churns, porters & cats on seats were replaced by security announcements & Burger King. These 12 spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as 'the horrible burden of time.'

Ideal for train-goers!

This paperback book has 202 pages & measures: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm approx.





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In his new book David Packer takes us on a journey along the route of one of the worlds most famous trains
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'I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody.' Former boxer Terry Malloy & his brother Charley, the crooked lawyer known to all as 'the Gent', are members of the tough, mobster-connected New York Longshoremen's Union, run by Johnny Friendly. Johnny & his goons rule the waterfront with an iron fist. If you want to stay alive, you do things Johnny's way & plead 'D 'n D'
- deaf & dumb. Terry, seen by most as a slow-witted, washed-up fighter, is happy to do any work he can get. But when he is caught up in one of Johnny's rub-outs & meets Katie, sister of the murdered man, a conscience begins to form. Together with the idealistic but tough-talking Catholic priest, Father Peter Barry, Terry & Katie attempt to take on the gangster-ridden waterfront. But Johnny Friendly & his men don't take kindly to ratting, & their attempts to undermine the mob may come at a severe cost.
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'I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody.' So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) in a scene from On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) that is one of the most famous in all cinema. ...

A day-by-day collection of over 8000 events, trivia, "ations, news items, anniversaries & birthdays for every day of the year. The wide ranging content is laid out in an informative newspaper-style & covers subjects including sporting records, exploration, film & enterainment, music & literature, fashion, scientific achievements, politics, inventions, "ations, birthdays, war & royalty. ...

Books History Books On which day was history's shortest war waged & won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths & 470 years of penance? Why in 1752 did Britain go to bed on 2nd September & wake up on the 14th? How did a women's march in 1917 set off the Russian Revolution? On This Day in History brings to life a key event that happened on each day of the year. From the most important British battle that you've never heard of (20 May 685) to the first meeting of Lennon & Mc Cartney (6 July 1957), & from why Julius Caesar should have been wary of the Ides of March (15 March 44BC) to the day Jeanne de Clisson became a pirate & single-handedly declared war on the King of France (2 August 1343), history is full of unlikely heroes & fascinating turning points. In this book, Dan Snow shows us how each day offers a different & unexpected insight into our pas... ...

This is a sumptuous celebration of the mountains of Wales. Scaling verbal & visual heights, it combines pithy writing & striking photography as ten well-known authors explore & explain the appeal of their favourite Welsh hill or peak. Some of these are well established landmarks on the tourist & mountaineering maps of Wales, others are more remote & private. Some are dramatic, brooding presences, dominating their landscape. Others are more unassuming. But, north or south, east or west, each is a place in the heart as much as a geographical feature. Ray Wood is world-renowned as a mountaineering photographer & his images give this collection its stunning visual integrity & impact. Complementing the authors revelations, the photography allows us to climb each mountain without safety harness & crampon, without fear of vertigo leaving us with a breathtaking, not a breathless, experience. Book contents: Mynydd Tynybraich by Angharad Price Mynydd y Gwrhyd by Alun Wyn Bevan Cader Idris by Bethan Gwanas The Blorenge by John Barnie On the Black Ridge by Jim Perrin Dinas Bran by Jane Mac Namee Y Berwyn by Iolo Williams Garn Fawr by Mererid Hopwood Mynydd y Garreg by Ray Gravell Crib Nantlle by Dylan Iorwerth. ...