It is 1899. A new generation has inherited the Rhodesian birthright that Dan Retallick won from the legendary king of Matabelel&. Once again the dark clouds of conflict loom on the horizon as the blood-streaked bayonets of the Boer War encircle the sons of Dan Retallick. Nat with one eye on the wilful wife of an English colonel joins the colours as a guide for the British army. But his younger brother Adam follows a rebel star & a farmers daughter to enlist with a Boer commando. The tides of history have set Retallick brother against brother in the savage struggle of the South African war. ...

With characteristic verve & integrity Ann Widdecombe recalls her life & highlights the people & events that most influenced her along the way. From her early family life in Singapore & her convent school days to her student ambitions at Birmingham & Oxford & her long-serving years as an MP this is the life story of one of our most outspoken & celebrated politicians. Offering unique insight into her time as a Minister in three Departments & the Shadow Cabinet in the 1990s Ann also explains the roots of her conversion to Catholicism in 1993 & her deeply held views on abortion & gay marriage. A rare anti-hunting Tory who campaigned for prison education & once put on a miner's overalls to go down a coal mine Ann Widdecombe has never been afraid of controversy. Her memoirs reveal a singular personality who lives life to the full. From feisty & witty appearances on Have I Got News For You to her unforgettable & star-turning performances on Strictly Come Dancing Ann has earned her place in the public's affections & has been heralded as a 'national living treasure' by the Guardian. Also containing Ann's trenchant views on the Coalition MPs' expenses & the state of the nation this is a provocative & entertaining read. Frank fearless & engaging Ann's autobiography will delight her admirers & win her yet more fans. ...

Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the ' Age of Anxiety' & the 1980s & '90s the ' Antidepressant Era' we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults & children alike with child prescriptions this decade increasing by 400 per cent & overall diagnoses by 4000 per cent. What could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions Darian Leader challenges the rise of 'bipolar' as a catch-all solution to complex problems & argues that we need to rethink the highs & lows of mania & depression. What he asks do these experiences have to do with love guilt & rage? Why the spending sprees & the intense feeling of connection with the world? Why the confidence the self-esteem & the sense of a bright future that can so swiftly turn into despair & dejection? Only by looking at these questions in a new way will we be able to understand & help the person caught between feelings that can be so terrifying & so exhilarating so life-affirming yet also so lethal. Strictly Bipolar is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary views of the self bipolarity & a deeper understanding of manic-depression. Praise for Strictly Bipolar: A beautifully thoughtful understanding not just of highs & lows mania & depression but of why & how these mechanisms work in our mindsand bodies & how the human subject is coerced todayto embrace a culture of 'bipolarity'". (Susie Orbach). "A timely book. Darian Leader's thoughts are more fixated strong-arm interesting more humane & more persuasive than the profit coercion of the madness industry. Instead of the shoddy reasoning that leads to wrong treatment & over-treatment he offers illumination & insight; his book is a contribution to a debate but it could also change lives". (Hilary Mantel). Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London & a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research & of the College of Psychoanalysts
- UK. He is the author of What is Madness? The New Black Why do women write more letters than they post? Promises lovers make when it gets late Freud's Footnotes & Stealing the Mona Lisa & co-author with David Corfield of Why Do People Get Ill? He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human & Life Sciences Roehampton University."
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Daizys finally found her star quality
- modelling! Will Dads latest crazy scheme ruin her big break? Can Daizy save her family
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Two soldiers: Britains most celebrated military hero & a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle East their lives are about to collide again. & the Strike Back is about to begin. John Porter was involved in a hostage raid in Lebanon in 1989. The raid went disastrously wrong several Regiment men died John spared the life of a Lebanese fighter & blames himself for the deaths. Struggling to come to terms with the past John has hit the bottle & is sleeping rough. Colonel Peregrine Collinson was involved in the same raid. He was awarded a Military Cross & is heralded as a military hero. After the disastrous raid their lives couldnt have been further apart. Until now. A hostage crisis in the Middle East draws the enemies back together for the first time. Who will be the hero this time? ...

In November 1942 the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended & seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germanys vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series sea/air battles at close quarters fought with increasing ferocity until the last days of the war. The Germans tried everything against the Beaufighters & Mosquitos of the Strike Wings
- fighters intense flak parachute mines & even flame-throwers
- & the casualties were appallingly heavy on both sides. rn In this classic account of one of the neglected yet crucial theatres of the air war Roy Nesbit himself a survivor of strike aircraft of Coastal Command describes these complex battles from British & German records assisted by first-hand accounts from some of the brave airmen who took part. He also analyzes the effects of the tactics employed on the German war economy with some startling conclusions. The result is a fascinating clearly written & vivid history of events that were little publicized during the war for reasons of security. rn His book

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The Striker is the sixth novel in Clive Cussler's Isaac Bell series. It is 1902 & a bright inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines he is witness to a terrible accident. & it begins to become clear that the trouble doesn't stop with the men he's looking for. Much bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big. Given exactly one week to prove his case Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known men of staggering ambition & cold-bloodedness.. .who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way. In The Striker we meet Isaac Bell early in his career in an adventure that would show him just how dangerous & exciting his chosen profession would turn out to be. From the master of adventure & action & creator of the Dirk Pitt Adventure series comes The Striker the sixth exciting installment in the Isaac Bell detective series. Following The Thief & The Race The Striker is another nail-biting action-packed historical thriller from Top 10 bestselling author Clive Cussler. Praise for Clive Cussler: Cussler is hard to beat". (Daily Mail). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). " The Adventure King". (Daily Express). Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers including the famous Dirk Pitt[registered] adventures such as Arctic Drift; the NUMA[registered] Files adventures most recently Medusa; the Oregon Files such as The Silent Sea; the highly successful Fargo adventures; & the Isaac Bell series which begins with The Chase. This is the sixth book in The Isaac Bell Adventures; other titles include The Wrecker The Spy The Race & The Thief all of which are available from Penguin." ...

Nat has grown up travelling around the world with his Dad. Hes played football everywhere theyve lived & honed his skills on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now they are settling back at home in Engl&. Then at a community day at his favourite football team Hatton Rangers currently struggling at the bottom of the Premiership Nats talent is spotted by the clubs scout. To his & his fathers amazement he finds himself talking to the manager about a place on the first team squad. There is just the little detail of his age
- hes big for 13 but surely they cant get away with him posing as a 16-year-old the minimum age for a professional player? But the clubs veteran striker takes an immediate dislike to Nat & warns him off trying to get a place on the team. Nats suspicions are aroused & soon he begins to think there is something more to Hatton Rangers poor performance & a local reporter begins to have suspicions about Nat. What seems like every boys dream is quickly confronted by the tough reality of the world of professional football in this superbly exciting thriller.
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Yunis can't believe that he's United leading scorer. It should be the happiest time of his life but his father wants him to give up football & work hard at school. Can Yunis convince his dad that he can do both or will he have to hang up his boots forever? Stay on the ball this season with all the action from Football Academy. ...

Novelist satirist poet photographer painter alchemist & hellraiser
- August Strindberg was all these & yet he is principally known
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