This story is not a story at all. It all happened. On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March her world has changed for ever. Foot-&-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected & every animal is destroyed. Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd the sows with their piglets & Little Josh Becky's h&-reared lamb survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting & hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life.. . ...

Out of the ashes what kind of country do we want to build?" David Lammy MP predicted the riots of 2011 a year before they took place. Following the violence he spoke passionately for his constituents. Now in " Out of the Ashes" he analyses the causes of the disturbances & their implications for the future. He draws on his experience of growing up in Tottenham
- the area he now represents & the place where the riots began. He explores the human stories behind the headlines. Above all he seeks to explain why the breakdown of law & order was so swift & so widespread & offers a way forward for Britain that is both practical & inspirational. All author proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to charitable causes."
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Stephen Lungu was the oldest son of a teenage mother married off by her parents to a much older man & living near Salisbury Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). When he was three his mother ran away leaving him & his younger brother & sister in the reluctant care of an aunt. By 11 Stephen too had run away preferring life on the streets. He slept under bridges & scavenged from white folks dustbins. As a teenager he was recruited into an urban gangs the Black Shadows which burgled & mugged with a half-focused dream of revolution. When an evangelist came to town Stephen was sent to fire bomb the event carrying his bag of bombs & mingling with the crowd. Instead he stayed to listen.. . Today Stephen is Africas Billy Graham an international evangelist who regularly speaks in UK US & Europe. ...

Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife & mother she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned & breathless. On the face of it there is no rational explanation for the way she feels. Linda believes there is something malign inside her. But in the back of her mind a voice tells her over & over again that everything will be OK. When it finally gets too much she can always simply die. How shall I die if that time comes? I need to know these things. They have to be planned. It must look like an accident. She will deliberately drive off the road on her way home from her weekly shopping trip. After all who commits suicide with a load of groceries in their car? The raw & powerful journey Linda takes with her psychotherapist Robin Royston to discover what lies at the heart of her deptression will leave you shocked. The secrets in her African childhood & adolescence are buried so deep that to reveal them may destroy her completely. Together Linda & Robin race to unravel the clues before it is too late. OUT OF THE DARK is Linda Caines remarkable & uplifting story from the agonies of mental breakdown to the painful piecing together of the past that was vital for her survival. Both her courage & Robins persistence during the process show the power of the human spirit at its most indomitable & inspiring. ...

It was the case that shocked the nation. On the evening of 20 April 2011 Tina Nashs life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings & domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenkin she was subjected to a barbaric & prolonged attack during which Jenkin beat her unconscious & gouged out both her eyes. When he was jailed in May 2012 people struggled to comprehend the scale of the violence endured by this mother of two at her home in Cornwall. In Out of the Darkness Tina tells her full story
- of what life with a violent partner is really like & how she survived 12 hours of sustained & unimaginable violence in her own home. Learning to adjust to life without her sight Tina speaks bravely about how her children have given her the courage to keep going & how
- step by careful step
- she is learning to live again. With statistics on domestic violence rising Tinas incredible memoir of survival makes for essential reading.


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Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare & people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary a collection of his journalism from the Guardian he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense -- mainstream domestic ordinary insanity. Whether he finds himself promising his son that he will be at his side for ever dressed in a Santa costume or trying to understand why hundreds of apparently normal people would suddenly start speaking in tongues in a Scout hut in Kidderminster he demonstrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that grow to inform our everyday existence. Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious thought-provoking & with an unerring eye for human frailty -- not least his own. Praise for The Men Who Stare at Goats: ' Not only a narcotic road trip through the wackier reaches of Bush's war effort but also an unmissable account of some of the insanity that has lately been done in our names' Observer Praise for Them: Adventures with Extremists: 'A funny & compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world' Louis Theroux Guardian ...

Since Susannah Cates' husband was sent to prison three years ago life has been a constant struggle to provide for herself & their teenage daughter. Nothing ever seems to go right & the most she hopes for now is that nothing more will go wrong. Worried by her mother's unhappiness thirteen-year-old Neve decides to take matters into her own hands. & when Susannah's closest friend Patsy discovers what Neve is up to she immediately lends her support. As their plans start to unfold they have no way of knowing what kind of fates they are stirring all they can see is Susannah's excitement because at last a way seems to be opening up for her to escape her bad luck. However the spectre of horror is all the time pacing behind the scenes & never in all Susannah's worst nightmares could she have imagined her happiness causing so much pain to someone she loves... ...

The first novel in C.S. Lewiss classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who is kidnapped & transported to Mars In the first novel of C.S. Lewiss classic science fiction trilogy Dr Ransom a Cambridge academic is abducted & taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planets treasures & plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the silent planet
- Earth
- whose tragic story is known throughout the universe...

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This title is updated to include the release of their fifth studio album The Resistance" & their 2009/2010 world tour. " Out of This World" is the definitive story of Muse & features thousands of words of exclusive previously unprinted interview transcripts taken between 1998 & 2007 by author Mark Beaumont. Charting the bands stratospheric rise from a Battle of the Bands contest in Teignmouth to being the first band ever to sell out the new Wembley Stadium Muses story is one of UK rocks most fascinating & incendiary tales. This edition follows their every step from 16 year old punk kids to Wembley Stadium featuring everyone of their albums & the wild nights theories & falsettos they experienced along the way." ...

Legend tells of the Clan of the Scorpion four mighty meerkats who are armed to the teeth with ninja-know-how. They are sworn to protect the world from their longtime nemesis the Ringmaster. Small deadly & furry The Ninja Meerkats are four warriors on a mission. In Book 8 in The Ninja Meerkats series the meerkats receive strange reports from the Australian outback. They fly down under to investigate & discover strange goings-on in the desert. Who else could be behind it but that top-hatted menace the Ringmaster? He is building missiles to take control of the world. With boxing kangaroos & killer koalas not to mention the Ringmasters crew of deadly circus goons this is one deadly desert mission. A hilarious series for boys featuring death-defying meerkat action! Full of comical characters daft puns fast dialogue & even faster action these book are irresistable to boys aged around six to eight years. ...