Dawn Annandale is bright witty & well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents mistakes & with no family to turn to for help she searched desperately for a way to make some money & fast. & made the decision to become an escort. CALL ME ELIZABETH offers an insight into the sex industry in the UK today as well as the shocking truth that increasing numbers of women in a similar situation to Dawn are turning to prostitution to make ends meet. It is by turns sad funny frightening & empowering but it is above all honest & compelling. From Emanuelle to Pretty Woman the life of an escort remains deeply fascinating. There will be those who will judge the author but there will be many more who will recognise her dilemma & understand how she reached her decision. This is her story
- decide for yourself.
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Its 1945 & as the troops begin to return home the inhabitants of London attempt to put their lives back together. For 25-year-old Millie a qualified nurse & midwife the jubilation at the end of the war is short-lived as she tends to the needs of the East End community around her. But while Millie witnesses tragedy & brutality in her job she also finds strength & kindness. & when misfortune befalls her own family it is the enduring spirit of the community that shows Millie that even the toughest of circumstances can be overcome. Through Millies eyes we see the harsh realities & unexpected joys in the lives of the patients she treats as well as the camaraderie that is forged with the fellow nurses that she lives with. Filled with unforgettable characters & moving personal stories this vividly brings to life the colourful world of a post-war East London. ...

It's back & it's bigger & more brutal than ever before. There's no better way to navigate the futuristic wars & wastelands of Call of Duty Black Ops II" than with the " Call of Duty Black Ops II Signature Series Guide" from Brady Games. Travelling to the near future for the first time in the franchise's history & with expanded multiplayer gameplay & high-tech weapons as well as the ever popular Zombie mode " Call of Duty Black Ops II" is an unstoppable force. The complete campaign walkthrough takes you from start to finish of the single-player storylines with detail on every mission & enemy encounter. Multiplayer coverage is full of expert tactics for either solo or team-based play. You'll be dominating every game mode
- learn about achieving higher ranks the weapons attachments perks challenges & killstreaks. Failure is not an option. Amazing artwork makes this a real collector's item for any " Call of Duty" fan & exclusive highly detailed maps show you how to get around all of the single & multi-player terrains. A full arsenal guide tells you what you need to know about each weapon & its stats; achievement & trophy rosters reveal how to earn awards & unlock secret features & items."
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As a trained nurse newly married to the son of the Governor of Rhodesia during the UDI years Susan writes compellingly about bringing up a family on their farm in Matabeleland in the midst of the unfolding terror & growing number of atrocities. Above all it is a human story. Sometimes shocking & always moving there is also warmth & humour as Susan creates a gripping picture of the conflict & tells of her familys survival when many of her friends & neighbouring farmers didnt. The book is a testament to the courage displayed by so many people who were tested day after day by almost unimaginable horrors. The Litany Bird is the popular name of the Nightjar a largely nocturnal bird found throughout southern Africa. Its haunting call sounds like Good Lord Deliver Us. ...

For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America & the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them why they believe the things they believe & to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them. Along the way Louis thinks about what drives him to spend so much time among weird people & considers whether hes learned anything about himself in the course of ten years working with them. Has he manipulated the people hes interviewed or have they manipulated him? From his Las Vegas base Louis revisits the assorted dreamers & outlaws who have been his TV feeding ground. Attempting to understand a little about himself & the workings of his own mind Louis considers questions such as: What is the difference between pathology & normal weirdness? Is there something particularly weird about Americans? What does it mean to be weird or to be yourself? & do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us? ...

Buck is living the good life in the soft South when he is snatched & transported to the savagery of the Northl&. There the Klondlike gold rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men
- & dogs. He adjusts to the gruelling regime of a sled dog which almost kills him but he survives to find a new & fulfilling way of life. The Call of the Wild" is not only a classic tale but also an enduring masterpiece of the inescapable laws of nature. It is now in unabridged form in a new reading by William Roberts."
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If you love a good story then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure & return to again & again. Stolen from his life of luxury Buck finds himself in the frozen Yukon Territory as part of a team of sledge dogs. Half-starved & cruelly treated Buck must endure hardship beyond anything he's experienced before. & through it all he hears the call of wild beckoning him
- playing on his most primitive animal instincts.
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The Call of the Wild (1903) & White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s The Call of the Wild is about Buck the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard & a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate & shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog he triumphs over his circumstances & becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the 'decivilisation' of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild' an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast White Fang relates the tale of a wolf born & bred in the wild which is civilised by the master he comes to trust & love. The brutal world of the Klondike miners & their dogs is brilliantly evoked & Jack London's rendering of the sentient life of Buck & White Fang as they confront their destiny is enthralling & convincing. The deeper resonance of these stories derives from the author's use of the myth of the hero who survives by strength & courage a powerful myth that still appeals to our collective unconscious. ...

Working as a fireman in Londons East End during the early 1970s was no easy ride. In the years before workplace health-&-safety legislation had started to exert its grip Allan Grice had to cut his fire-&-rescue teeth without the advantages of a breathing apparatus for each member of his crew. Back then the time-tested strategy was to get in
- to crawl below the intense heat & eat the thick smoke
- in order to locate a missing child or to halt a rapidly spreading inferno. In Call the Fire Brigade" Grice recounts his most memorable experiences as a senior member of the London Fire Brigade working the citys East End with its myriad commercial premises brooding Thames-side warehouses seedy tenements & colourful cosmopolitan community ranging from prosperous manufacturers to down-&-out winos with their body-warming bonfires on rubble-strewn bombsites. Fires in factories tenements & warehouses & non-fire emergencies such as the Moorgate Tube disaster of 1975 are graphically described while the elation of rescue the sadness of being too late to save lives & the warm camaraderie of fire crews during some of the capitals busiest peacetime years are vividly depicted."

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Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality & tragedy she also met with amazing kindness & understanding tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour. She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger more poignant & more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction. Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) & the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained. Funny disturbing & incredibly moving Jennifer's stories bring to life the colourful world of the East End in the 1950s. ...