This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields & small boys spent most of their time outdoors. Ken Sears was born in 1934 to a poor farming family in Hertfordshire
- the fifth child of what would be eleven. He learns how to fend for himself at an early age. His boyhood life coincides with wartime, evacuees & American GIs arriving in his home town of Hemel Hempstead (the Treacle Bumpstead of the title). At the age of nine he is caught stealing eggs & accused of killing a chicken (which he denies to this day) & is sent to reform school for five years. So begins a punishing existence, but it breeds a tough teenager, & after learning the trade of bricklaying he is called up to do his National Service in 1952. So begins his adventures in the Army, in Europe & Korea, where the ever-plucky Ken
- who has an eye for the ladies & is always landing himself in trouble
- finds not-always legal ways to make life that bit easier. After the Army he comes back to England & sets up a building business. From there he sees his home town change out of all recognition. The story is a characterful testament to the resourceful generation of the men who did National Service, fought wars, built towns & stood up to everything in their way. Ken's story reads like Commando Comics meets Fred Dibnah.


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This is the true story of one man's struggle to get beyond his violent, abusive childhood. When Richard Mc Cann's mother was killed by the Yorkshire Ripper, his life spiralled into a dismal & frightening existence. Beaten by his violent father & mentally abused, he grew up thinking his life would never change & he would never find peace. But in his bestselling book Just A Boy, Richard told us how eventually he stared to turn his life around & create a new, more normal life for himself. In this, the sequel, Richard tells us the next part of his amazing & inspirational story, showing us that relationships can be repaired, the truth can be confronted & salvation can come. Raw with emotion & honesty, this is a very personal story, straight from the heart. ...

It is the summer of 82 as Sally Thomas prepares to leave her job at the British Drama League in London & head off to the North of England for her very first season in repertory as an Assistant Stage Manager at the beautiful old theatre in Crewe.

Flung into this new world, Sally soon finds her feet, thanks to her own steady, unspoilt nature & to the company of her best friend, Jeremy. One of the first lessons she learns is that the other actors barely need tuition in the art of stage-fighting, since they are quite adept at stabbing each other in the back.

When Jeremy falls suddenly & dangerously in love, Sally needs to grow up
- fast. A shadow is falling over the theatre, sparing no one, & a tragedy is gathering pace in the darkness behind the stage.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781471102851
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Lynda Bellingham
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Pages: 420
• Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 2.6cm














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On a bright & sunny June afternoon, a seven-year-old boy was left in the care of his teenage neighbour. No one knew, or would even have dreamed of suspecting, that the teenager was a satanist. The two went out to the fields to look for rabbits. The child was never seen alive again. For the first time, in " The Boy in the Attic", David Malone reveals the exact events of that summer day: how the youngster was lured to his death, how the teenager came to delve so deeply into the occult & the nightmarish scene awaiting police when they entered the attic. But there is another disturbing question
- how is it that this murder, which was easily one of the most shocking & horrific in living memory, was barely reported upon at all? Why have you never heard of the boy in the attic until now?
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Dylan goes to the same park every day on his lunch break, he enjoys the quiet solitude of the boating lake, enjoys passing the time, watching the people come & go.

He has also begun to notice another visitor to the lake, a young boy, playing with a stick at the water’s edge, a boy who is always alone.

Slowly, Dylan can see that something is terribly wrong with the child; he seems troubled & unhappy & when bruises start to appear on the boy’s arms, he knows that he must act.

As Dylan’s obsession with the boy takes hold, he embarks on dark, intense & terrifying journey, where nothing is at it seems & the truth is much worse than anything he could possibly have imagined...

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780008239367
• Author: AJ Grayson
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 422
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm













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An heir hidden A land divided A king in waiting Having fled their home of Camelot, Merlyn Britannicus & the Arthur Pendragon find sanctuary in an abandoned Roman fort as the protector continues the young heir's training. Sheltered from the forces that would destroy him, Arthur grows in strength & resolve, & the child becomes a warrior & a hero. But a storm is coming, & Merlyn must make preparations for the path ahead: a dangerous journey home & the battle that will see the boy become a king. Discover the most authentic telling of the Arthurian legend ever written. ...

Discover the fantastic world of Charlies four unlikely friends & enjoy their story of the most important life lessons.



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I first met my demon the morning that Mum said Dad had gone. ' My name is Alex. I'm ten years old. I like onions on toast & I can balance on the back legs of my chair for fourteen minutes. I can also see demons. My best friend is one. He likes Mozart, table tennis & bread & butter pudding. My mum is sick. Ruen says he can help her. Only Ruen wants me to do something really bad. He wants me to kill someone.' The size of this book is 19.7cm in height & 12.6cm wide with 389 pages. ...

The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz presents a rare living testimony through the eyes of a child who had the unique ability to observe & remember every detail around him & chose to document it all. Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he had survived. Upon arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau, Thomas was separated from his mother & left to fend for himself in the men’s camp of Auschwitz I, at the age of 13. During the 22 months he was imprisoned, he was subjected to, & forced to observe first-h&, the inhumane world of Nazi concentration camps. On his eventual release Thomas felt compelled to capture daily life in the death camps in more than eighty profoundly moving drawings. Infamous scenarios synonymous with this dark period of history were portrayed in poignant but simplistic detail with extraordinary accuracy. Despite the unspeakable events he experienced, Thomas decided to bec... ...

In the garden of an abandoned house, Luke Connolly lies broken, dead.

The night before, he & his friends partied inside.

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