In this powerful & honest memoir Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s & 1960s Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of an emotionally neglectful & physically violent mother a distant father a chronically sick brother & a sister she needed to protect the only ray of light in little Lauries life came from the man who would return home from the Army with pockets full of sweets & bags of toys. Uncle Andrew would shower her with attention & love capture the hearts of everyone around him
- & carefully groom her for years of abuse by not only himself but also by a network of paedophiles. Laurie tells a harrowing story of isolation as her abusers went to extraordinary lengths to carry out their sick acts wearing masks to confuse & torment her & keeping her away from other children. But these evil men had no idea that the girl they systematically violated would turn into one of the countrys leading child protection experts & that their legacy would give her the impetus to change the lives of so many innocent victims.
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There's something nasty going on at Groosham Grange..." Sent to Groosham Grange as a last resort by his parents David Eliot quickly discovers that his new school is a very weird place indeed. New pupils are made to sign their names in blood; the French teacher disappears every full moon; the assistant headmaster keeps something very chilling in his room... What's the meaning of the black rings everyone wears? Where do the other pupils vanish to at night? Most important of all how on earth can David get away
- alive? This Lancashire Children's Book of the Year will have you gripped & grinning to the last page."
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Apparently the ancient Greeks were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didnt start school until they were seven & girls didnt have to go at all. But it wasnt always so jolly. Readers can discover why girls ran about naked pretending to be bears who had the worlds first flushing toilet & why dedicated doctors tasted their patients ear wax! History with the nasty bits left in! 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

History with twice the nasty bits left in.. .in a horrible new edition! The Groovy Greeks is full of fab facts about the hip 'n' happenin' Greeks. In Rotten Romans readers follow life for folk in Roman times from Nasty Nero to brave Brit Boudicca. Featuring curious quizzes rotten recipes gruesome games & terrible tets.. . History has never been so horrible! ...

Because Groovy is so new most readers will be learning it from scratch. Groovy In Action quickly moves through the basics of Groovy. After getting readers up & running Groovy in Action presents rich & detailed examples illustrating Groovys enhancements to Java along with Groovys special support for XML regular expressions & database programming. Readers get their hands dirty exploring tips & tricks for Groovy programming along with core tasks such as unit testing & build support. Readers will even learn to script Windows via Groovy. An additional bonus track is dedicated to Grails the Groovy Web Application Framework. Groovy in Action introduces Groovy by example presenting lots of reusable code while explaining the underlying concepts. Java developers new to Groovy find a smooth transition into the dynamic programming world. Groovy experts gain a solid reference that challenges them to explore Groovy deeply & creatively. ...

This is Buster Books most gruesome doodle book ever
- for boys & girls with strong stomachs. It

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Help make sense of the

Specification one step at a time with this stripped-down guide. The Gross Guides can be used

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Help make sense of the

Specification one step at a time with this stripped-down guide. The Gross Guides can be used

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Help make sense of the

Specification one step at a time with this stripped down guide. The Gross Guides can be used

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In Ground Control" Anna Minton reveals the untested
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- urban planning that is changing not only our cities

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