From his village in post-war France Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day a flamboyant stranger rides into the village upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer the other" & tensions rise until one night the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death but his report delivers much more than the bare facts: it becomes the story of a community coming to terms with the legacy of enemy occupation. In a powerful narrative of exceptional fascination Brodecks Report explores the very limits of humanity." ...

Brodmaw Bay seems to be the perfect refuge for James Greer & his family. When his young son is the victim of a brutal mugging Greer wants to leave London
- the sooner the better
- for the charming old-fashioned fishing port he has just discovered. But was finding Brodmaw Bay more than a happy accident? What is the connection between the village & his beautiful wife? When his friendly new neighbours say theyd welcome some new blood
- in a village where the same families seem to have lived for generations
- are they telling the whole truth? Perhaps the village isnt so much welcoming them as luring them. To something ancient & evil. As it has lured others before.. .



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Brodys fight training under the tutelage of samurai ghost Kagemura has toughened his body & honed his senses so finely that Brody can not only communicate with ghosts but envision how & when someone dies. However his new skills arent quite powerful enough to uncover the whereabouts of the mysterious Penny Murderer. With the help of the ghost Talia herself hoping to bring the killer to justice Brody must resort to desperate measures to find the killer before he strikes again
- & Brodys received a psychic vision of his ex-girlfriend Nicole in the worst trouble imaginable...
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Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best
- he can't resist the girls he can't hold down a job. But she doesn't want to know just how
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I was born & broken in Birkenhead. I was unwanted beaten sold swapped photographed filmed left for dead corrupted blamed betrayed & ignored. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim
- that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix
- a work in progress. This is my story. Shy wasnt meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that Shy was deaf by her first day in school. She would have boiling water poured over her in punishment for wetting the bed. & virtually every day from the age of four Shy was raped by her stepfather Stan. When she was ten she was attacked so viciously by the gang of dockworkers Stan had sold her to that she was left for dead in a field her skull fractured. Six years ago her testimony secured the imprisonment of Stan & his associates for a catalogue of crimes against children. But it was only after a journey fraught with horror
- stealing to survive on the streets of London prison & a suicide bid. Today Shy is the internationally admired chief advocate for Phoenix Survivors the campaigning group she founded with Sara Payne to fight for justice for victims of child sexual abuse. They have worked tirelessly with politicians social services the legal system & the media for justice for victims of child sex abuse. BROKEN is the most hard-hitting memoir of overcoming abuse you will ever read. It is both a challenge & an inspiration.


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When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes it becomes clear that this is no suicide. Its a brutal cold-blooded murder. All too soon former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton
- home for Thanksgiving after a long absence
- finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight
- he lies dead in his cell the words Not me scrawled across the walls. Something about his confession doesnt add up & deeply suspicious of Lena Adams the detective in charge Sara immediately calls in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties & ties that run deep. & the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead...


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This month my name is Mary. My name is different every month
- Brandy Honey Amy...sometimes Joe doesn't even bother to ask
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When the first body is found mutilated & strangled on the riverbanks Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. & again. Carefully dressed & posed each victim seems to tell a story so gruesome that Byrne & Balzano struggle at first to make sense of the killer's dark & twisted imagination. But when they stumble upon a collection of old fairy tales the fragile link between the murders suddenly becomes clear
- & with it the terrifying conclusion of the killer's plan. Desperately they try to anticipate the madman's next move but as the body count rises the killing spree spirals out of control.. .
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The old rules of Left & Right no longer apply. Left-wingers keenly support the bombing of Belgrade & the invasion of Iraq. Tories warn against the threat to civil liberties. The progressive BBC gives a fair hearing to the Conservative Party. Socialist journalists turn & rend Ken Livingstone. In democratic London merely expressing your opinion can be seriously bad for your career while in autocratic Moscow you can say pretty much what you like provided you dont do anything about it. The tearing down of the old Iron Curtain may have allowed markets to sweep into the old Warsaw Pact lands
- but it has also permitted revolutionary left-wing ideas to spread like a bacillus through the West. Nobody really cares any more about the old shibboleths of state ownership. The British Labour Party
- which opposed nuclear weapons supposedly on principle when they mattered
- is quite happy to spend billions on the same weapons now that they are unnecessary. The supposed right is as confused & nonsensical as the supposed left. Neo-conservatives run vast budget deficits at home & engage in utopian adventures abroad. They are actively opposed to old conservative ideas such as national sovereignty strong families & rigorous selective education & happy to bend the knee to left-wing orthodoxies from man-made global warming to egalitarianism. The political compass is broken its needle swinging wildly & meaninglessly. The existing political parties have converged or perhaps simply retreated in confusion on to what looked like safe territory the often tried & repeated failed policies of Fabian Social Democracy now worsened by 1960s sexual & social radicalism. They are no longer adversaries their personnel are interchangeable & they struggle to find ways to distinguish themselves from each other. They simply ignore
- or deny
- huge areas of human experience & concern from mass immigration to the collapse of marriage & the disappearance of order & rigour in the state education system. Yet conventional wisdom continues to insist that formal politics can & should continue as it did before
- & that an exasperated & increasingly angry electorate should place its hopes in a mere change of personnel at the next election. Peter Hitchens argues for the re-establishment of proper adversary politics & the rediscovery of principle.





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Greedy vain & ambitious personalities dominate English football. From the author of devastating exposes of Mohamed Fayed Richard Branson & most recently Geoffrey Robinson BROKEN DREAMS is a superbly incisive account of how self-interested individuals adopting questionable & predatory business methods are exploiting the sport of football to earn billions of pounds & huge glory. Focusing on key figures including Terry Venables Ken Bates David Dein Harry Redknapp Rio Ferdinand & other famous agents chairmen & managers Tom Bower exposes the money the politics & the vicious battles behind the beautiful game. For the first time a non-sports writer reveals the vanity & greed which endanger the national sport. ...