Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.' Damage Josephine Hart's debut novel an international bestseller filmed with Jeremy Irons & Juliette Binoche now takes its proper place as a Virago Modern Classic. Here is one of the most chilling explorations of physical passion & dark obsessive love ever written. 'A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment & quite startling psychological insight' Ruth Rendell ...

David Blake is a worried man. He should be enjoying the high life now he's Newcastle's ' Top Boy' the man who controls everything in the city that's worth controlling. He lives in exiled luxury while his brother Danny & trusted right-hand men Palmer & Kinane take care of business & make sure no one steps out of line. The money keeps on rolling in & Blake is sharing his life with the girl that he loves Sarah Mahoney. Shame he had to murder her father to save his own skin but at least she doesn't know anything about that. Blake never wanted to be boss but who else is savvy enough to deal with all of the firm's problems; like Braddock the rogue drug dealer who's keeping too much of the take & ' The Turk' Blake's new source of 'product' who's taken a million Euros down-payment on a shipment that never arrives. Newly-crowned Glasgow crime lord Alan Gladwell wants to do business with the firm & the deal makes sense but can Blake really trust the man whose brother he brutally murdered. Then there is his obsession with the beautiful but troubled Simone who chooses to work in one of the firm's massage parlours when she is so much better than that. When one of his men takes two bullets in the back & someone tries to kill him Blake struggles to stay in control. From the heroin-laced high rises of Newcastle to the seedy back streets of Bangkok in a world of contract killers corrupt politicians bent detectives coke snorting footballers fixers hookers & pimps Blake is in a race against time to find his potential assassin & discover the truth in ' The Damage'. ...

Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died or when you were badly hurt in an accident or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4 000 of those days in one big chunk. In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking & was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats & cockroaches are the only nutritious food & where the worst punishment is the khun deo
- solitary confinement Thai style. Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime but he endured & survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination. This is not his plea for forgiveness nor his denial of guilt; it is the story of an ordeal that no one would wish on their worst enemy. It is an essential read: heartbreaking fascinating & impossible to put down.
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' For almost all my life I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid...' Peter Woolf's life of drinking drug-taking & thieving had begun before most people leave school. Spending most of his adult life in prison made no difference to him: life itself offered him no hope. Today amazingly Peter is clean & has not reoffended since a life-changing meeting in 2002 when he came face to face with some of his victims. The Damage Done" is a searingly honest & gritty portrayal of a man ensconced in an endless cycle of drugs violence prison & depravity who one Tuesday afternoon in a glass room at Pentonville prison was forced to confront all that he had destroyed." ...

The Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old she is violent aggressive & has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass... Cathy an experienced foster carer is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months but Cathy decides to take her on to protect her from being placed in an institution. Jodie arrives & her first act is to soil herself & then wipe it on her face grinning wickedly. Jodie meets Cathy's teenage children & greets them with a sharp kick to the shins. That night Cathy finds Jodie covered in blood having cut her own wrist & smeared the blood over her face. As Jodie begins to trust Cathy her behaviour improves. Over time with childish honesty she reveals details of her abuse at the hands of her parents & others. It becomes clear that Jodie's parents were involved in a sickening paedophile ring with neighbours & Social Services not seeing what should have been obvious signs. It's clear that Josie needs psychiatric therapy but instead Social Services take Jodie away from her & place her in a residential unit. Although the paedophile ring is investigated & brought to justice Jodie's future is still up in the air. Cathy promises that she will stand by her no matter what
- her love for the abandoned Jodie is unbreakable.
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Things have been going too well for Daisy Lane. Her murdered lover Eddie Lane has left her comfortably off & his son little Eddie is adorable & a constant reminder of his father. The new man in her life South London gangster Roy Kemp looks out for her & is kind to little Eddie. But someone is watching Daisy's every movement like a predator choosing the perfect moment to pounce. He is a man with murder in his heart
- a man obsessed with Daisy & enraged that she turned to Roy Kemp for love instead of him. He plans to teach Daisy a lesson she will never forget. Set in 1966 DAMAGED GOODS re-acquaints us with several memorable characters from the previous books
- notably Daisy's friend Vera queen of her massage parlour & the best mate a girl ever had & Gosport policeman DS Vinnie Endersby who puts his job on the line for Daisy.

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The North-West Frontier 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone with dagger in hand to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death. Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy threatens to engulf Joe Sandilands. On secondment from Scotland Yard Joe is spending a fortnight with his old army friend James Lindsay commander of the front line fort at Gor Khatri. An uneasy peace is in operation with the Afghans but into this already-delicate situation is injected an ill-assorted group of visitors to the fort. After a skirmish which results in the death of a Pathan prince & the taking of hostages Joe & his companion James are given seven days in which to identify arrest & execute the killer before the frontier erupts into war. Drawing on all his courage & detective skills Joe must find out who the murderer is before more bloody deaths occur the legacy of a bitter feud with its roots hidden deep in the past. ...

It is the night of May 16th 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire each with a huge 9 000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reichs war machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible task a suicide mission: to fly low & at night in formationover many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters capacity & drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. More than that the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis concept of the bouncing bomb was green lighted he hadnt even drawn up his plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time which despite numerous setbacks & against huge odds became one of the most successful & game-changing bombing raids of all time. ...

The legend of the squadron is so well known that most are fooled into believing that they already know the full story. This is far from the truth as the authors illustrate time & again. German researcher Andreas Wachtel has lead investigations at the scenes of the many Lancaster crash sites not only of the dams raid itself but also later operations. By interviewing eye witnesses examining German records & visiting the sites he has added new detail & given new insight into the story. Detailed descriptions of the crash sites are given along with pictures of the sites as they are today. ...

In May 1943 a specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on military aviation history by flying a high-risk low level nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry in the Ruhr Valley. A comparatively tiny part of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris four-month-long Battle of the Ruhr this one raid had an impact totally out of proportion to the small number of aircraft involved. It highlights the synergy of science & technology weapons development & production mission planning & practice & the unflinching courage in the execution of a highly dangerous bombing raid. Furthermore it established a legend that still resonates today. ...