The UK was shocked to its core in May 2012 when a gang of nine men was convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of disadvantaged teenage girls in the Rochdale area
- the crimes including counts of rape, aiding & abetting rape, sexual assault & trafficking girls within the UK for sexual exploitation. Yet many childcare experts reckon these crimes are just the tip of an iceberg of wide scale exploitation occurring across the country. The Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said in June 2012 that there 'isn't a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited'. As this book goes to press, a gang of men similar to those convicted in Rochdale stands trial for similar crimes in Oxford. What is happening in Britain that means young vulnerable girls can be exploited in this way? Award-winning journalist Kris Hollington tells the inside story of some of the most shocking & heartbreaking crimes of recent years, focusing on the Rochdale case but also analysing recent cases in the London area that have echoes of the brutality of organised slavery
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I wish there was only today, just right now, & no forever. It seems fitting that I fell in love in Paris, the most beautiful city in the world. & if I pretend, I can almost believe that my life is normal & everyone I care about is safe. But as long as I'm with Vincent, 'normal' doesn't exist. Gorgeous, charming, & witty, he's everything you could ask for in a boyfriend
- but his destiny is so much more. Even more terrifying than his destiny are his dangerous enemies, enemies who will kill for immortality. How are Vincent & I supposed to be together forever if we're always in danger?
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Unlucky. Cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck
- for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy accidentally knocks her off her
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It is  Summer 1918 and young couple  Amy and  Edmond Derwent, after their experiences on the front line of battle
- Edmond

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Spring 1919: WWI is over & a fragile peace has descended over the country.

Now living in Cambridge with husband  Edmond,

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This is Jared's story... Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or numb to all emotions? The past few years have been like that for me. Traveling between fury & indifference with no stops in between. Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. But none of them can hurt me, because I don't care about anything or anyone. Except Tatum. I love her so much that I hate her. I hate that I can't let her go. We used to be friends, but I found out that I couldn't trust her or anyone else. So I hurt her. I pushed her away. But I still need her. She centers me. Engaging, challenging, bullying her-it's the last part of me that feels anything human. But then she went & screwed everything up. She left for a year & came back a different girl. Now, when I push, she pushes back. Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9780349405940 •†Author: Penelope Douglas •†Publisher: Piatkus •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:†368 •†Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.8 x 2.8cm ...

In the year 1933 an elderly Dr John Watson is looking back over his life & his time spent with his brilliant friend & master of deduction Sherlock Holmes. He writes in a letter to the reader that he has assembled a list of seven untold adventures that ...

Elizabeth's life was far more gripping than is realised, in this penetrating biography Lady Colin Campbell uncovers all its secrets, painting a multi-hued portrait of a colourful character in all its complexity. Her sources, all of whom are revealed in the book itself, include several members of the Royal Family; many Scottish & English ar ...

' Untold Stories' is a collection of Alan Bennett's prose. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives & deaths of his aunts & the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Also included are essays, reviews, lectures & reminiscences. ...

Alan Bennett reads three further chapters from Untold Stories, his major collection of new writings. Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling Writing Home, brings together the finest & funniest of his writing over the last ten years. After " Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories", Part 2: The Diaries & Part 3: Written on the Body (all available from BBC Audiobooks), Part 4: A Common Assault contains two more reminiscences from Bennett's life & an essay on the class system. A Common Assault" describes an incident in Italy when he was mugged, & found himself trying to give a statement to the police in bad Italian. The History Boys harks back once more to Bennett's time at school, & shows how the raw material of experience was eventually transformed into the highly-acclaimed stage play The History Boys. Arise, Sir..., finishes on a light-hearted note, in which Bennett muses on the Honours List in typically iconoclastic mode. Alan Bennett's television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) & an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won the Evening Standard & Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the South Bank Award & six Tony Awards. ...