In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian". Within months mysterious agents from Russias Federal Security Service
- the successor to the KGB
- had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets bugged & even summoned to Lefortovo the KGBs notorious prison. The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist & his family. Vladimir Putins spies used tactics developed by the KGB & perfected in the 1970s by the Stasi East Germanys sinister secret police. This clandestine campaign burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow
- the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. " Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia" is a brilliant & haunting account of the insidious methods used by a resurgent Kremlin against its so-called "enemies"
- human rights workers western diplomats journalists & opposition activists. It

Includes:: unpublished material from confidential US diplomatic cables released last year by Wiki Leaks which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Harding gives a unique personal & compelling portrait of todays Russia two decades after the end of communism that reads like a spy thriller."





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Unloved sons turn their aggression on the outside world. Unloved daughters destroy the people they love & then themselves. In this daring portrayal of Magda Goebbels
- wife of Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
- Meike Ziervogel unveils an historical tale of abusive mother & daughter relationships that reaches a terrifying conclusion in the last days of Nazi Germany. Magda is born at the beginning of the 20th century the illegitimate child of a maidservant who feels burdened with a daughter she does not want. The girl grows up to become an ambitious woman desperate for love & recognition. When Magda meets Joseph Goebbels he appears to answer all her needs & together they have six children. Towards the end of the Second World War Magda has become physically & emotionally sick. As she takes her children into the Fuhrer's bunker her eldest daughter Helga experiences an overwhelming sense of foreboding.

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Sabina Kane doesn't have the best track record when it comes to family. After all her own grandmother leader of the vampire race wants her dead. So when she arrives in New York to meet her mage relatives the reunion puts the fun in dysfunctional. Not only is mage culture completely bizarre but everyone seems to think she's some kind of ' Chosen' who'll unite the dark races. Sabina doesn't care who chose her she's not into destiny. But the mages aren't Sabina's only problem. In New York's Black Light District she has run-ins with fighting demons hostile werewolves & an opportunistic old flame. Sabina thought she'd take a bite out of the Big Apple
- but it looks like it wants to bite back.
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Magentas in trouble with Daniel again
- this time for snogging the school new-boy Chad Albright on a charity Blind Date. As if
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Magenta has finally got it together with her neighbour
- & nearest thing to a best friend a boy can be
- Daniel. But nothing

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It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off & packs their bags. He knows he too must survive. Damian his sister & his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk smashes the unions & makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice Damian works hard & plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life &
- in spite of violence strikes AIDS & Clause 28
- manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club. Maggie & Me is a touching & darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world & coming out the other side in spite of & maybe because of the iron lady.

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Its 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously Maggie Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off & packs their bags. He knows he too must survive. Damian his sister & his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk smashes the unions & makes greed good. Following Maggies advice Damian works hard & plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life &
- in spite of violence strikes AIDS & Clause 28
- manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgows only gay club. Maggie & Me is a touching & darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatchers Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world & coming out the other side in spite of & maybe because of the iron lady.

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Moodily atmospheric full of verve & energy Maggie Cassidy" is Kerouacs poignant tale of teenage romance in New Engl&. The story of Jack & Maggie in love with the idea of being in love looking ahead to marriage with hope & trepidation is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully captures both the intensity & the ordinariness of adolescent life with its torments & complications & is a beautiful evocation of growing up in America." ...

One of Lyn Andrews first eight novels transferring from the original publisher to Headline; already steady sellers they will be targeted for a huge increase in sales. Maggie May born into the slums of Liverpool in the 1880s had many difficulties to cope with
- a drunken father the early death of her gentle mother & the grinding poverty of their lives. But most of all she had to endure the shame of her name
- that of the citys most notorious prostitute. Taking care of her younger brother & desperately trying to live down her name Maggie manages to escape from Liverpool to enjoy an idyllic new life. But fate forces her back again & into the arms of a stranger who is to bring her both heartbreak & the greatest happiness she will ever know.

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Maggie Meisters travels & adventures in Europe especially Italy have set the visual tone for her beadwork & this book in the Beadweaving Master Class" series. Inspired by classical art & architecture & drawing on Roman frescoes mosaics & the jewellery of antiquity Maggie gives the intermediate beader step-by-step illustrated instructions for 20 jewellery projects." ...