'A brilliant haunting painful & uplifting narrative of a hopeless childhood a wrongful conviction a brutal incarceration & the beginning of a new life.' --John Grisham In 1993 teenagers Damien Echols Jason Baldwin & Jessie Misskelley Jr.
- who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three
- were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence false testimony & public hysteria. Baldwin & Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison while eighteen-year-old Echols deemed the 'ringleader ' was sentenced to death. Over the next two decades the three men became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction & imprisonment with thousands of supporters & many notable celebrities calling for a new trial. In a shocking turn of events all three men were released in August 2011. Now Echols shares his story in full
- from abuse by prison guards & wardens to portraits of fellow inmates & deplorable living conditions to the incredible reserves of patience & perseverance that kept him alive & sane while incarcerated for nearly two decades.


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Discover heart-wrenching stories from the spirit world in Life After Death" by Sally Morgan. How does it feel to speak to dead people? What happens when spirits need to contact us? Is there really life after death? Sally Morgan is an ordinary woman with an extraordinary gift
- she communicates with dead people. As the UK's best-loved medium she delivers messages from departed loved ones to thousands of bereaved people with her sell-out psychic roadshow. From child deaths to suicides murders & fatal accidents Sally offers words of hope & salvation for those caught in grief & anguish. In this revealing book Sally takes us on a journey through her amazing experiences. She details the dramatic readings that have remained etched on her memory & gives us her unique insight into the biggest subject of them all
- the afterlife. Uplifting & astounding this book is full of out-of-this-world encounters & incredible stories. Often heart-rending & poignant Sally Morgan asks difficult questions but " Life After Death" remains a story of hope. Star of the popular ITV series Star Psychic & Living TV's " Psychic Sally: On the Road" showbiz medium du jour Sally Morgan is the country's most accurate & respected psychic. Her memoir " My Psychic Life" was a " Sunday Times" Top Ten Bestseller. She also authored " Healing Spirits."

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This is a study of more than 100 people who have experienced clinical death" & survived. Dr Moody reveals their testimonies & their descriptions of "death" & the "beyond" & shows how the way life death & the spiritual hereafter are viewed have changed." ...

What if you had the chance to live your life again & again until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910 a baby is born & dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910 the same baby is born & lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? & third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? & would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again & again. With wit & compassion Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments & shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound & inventive in a novel that celebrates the best & worst of ourselves. ...

Norman Parker has spent over half his life in prison. A double murderer he mixed at close quarters with some of Britain's most hardened criminals: the Krays the Richardsons & the Great Train Robbers. After 24 continuous years in prison he was finally released into a world that had changed more than he could have imagined. But life on the outside was tough as Norman re-established himself not only as a bestselling author but also as a face on the underworld crime scene. Then the one thing happened that he had been waiting for in all the years he had been inside
- he fell hopelessly desperately in love. The relationship was a fiery & tempestuous one & one destined to end in disaster. Her life was fuelled by an overpowering drug habit that led them to associate with the dark underbelly of London life. Then in a cruel twist of fate she became victim to suicide pact serial-killer. What happened next almost defies belief...
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Life Along the Line" takes a nostalgic look at the world of British railways through the eyes of bestselling author & antiques expert Paul Atterbury. Focusing on the human experience of the railways
- the drivers firemen guards station staff signalmen engineers caterers & of course passengers
- the book is a visual feast filled with fascinating archive photographs of steam trains other locomotives memorabilia & evocative railway ephemera. Built from archive photographs old postcards badges & other railwayana the book is filled with fascinating material that Atterbury has himself collected from tireless searching at postcard & antique fares & auction sites. Many of the illustrations are therefore original & previously unpublished. This title covers railway life across the network as well as showcasing local differences in a series of regional sections."

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This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii & Herculaneum the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The plaster-cast bodies of the victims are the most vivid shocking reminders of the horrific event that made Pompeii famous but who were these men women & children so cruelly frozen in time? Exploring striking new discoveries & over 200 sensational artefacts the author brings the inhabitants of Pompeii & Herculaneum back to life from the ashes & ruins of their own homes. ...

This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii & Herculaneum the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The plaster-cast bodies of the victims are the most vivid shocking reminders of the horrific event that made Pompeii famous but who were these men women & children so cruelly frozen in time? Exploring striking new discoveries & over 200 sensational artefacts the author brings the inhabitants of Pompeii & Herculaneum back to life from the ashes & ruins of their own homes. ...

This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance & influence in her own right. It is a full biography of Anne Boleyn based on the latest scholarly research. It focusses on Anne's life & legacy & establishes Anne as a figure of considerable importance & influence in her own right. Adulteress or innocent victim? This title looks afresh at the issues at the heart of Anne's downfall. It pays attention to her importance as a patron of the arts particularly in relation to Hans Holbein. It presents evidence about Anne's spirituality & her interest in the intellectual debates of the period. It takes account of significant advances in knowledge in recent years. ...

The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling & spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition. Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom the spectacularly beautiful but utterly bleak island of St Kilda is familiar to virtually nobody. A lonely archipelago off the coast of Scotland it is hard to believe that for over two thousand years men & women lived here cut off from the rest of the world. With a population never exceeding two hundred in its history the St Kildans were fiercely self-sufficient. An intensely religious people they climbed cliffs from childhood & caught birds for food. Their sense of community was unparalleled & isolation enveloped their day-to-day existence. With the onset of the First World War things changed. For the very first time in St Kilda's history daily communication was established between the islanders & the mainl&. Slowly but surely this marked the beginning of the end of St Kilda & in August 1930 the island's remaining 36 inhabitants were evacuated. Newly updated to include the historic appointment of St Kilda as the United Kingdom's only UNESCO Dual Heritage site the ongoing search for information about the island & the threats that it continues to face this is the moving story of a vanished community & how twentieth century civilization ultimately brought an entire way of life to its knees. ...