In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus. Not knowing what lay ahead the Irish mother tricked her ex-husband into believing she still loved him & wanted them to live together as a family purely so that she could see her kidnapped child again. Once in his homeland Louise too was held captive locked inside a run-down house day & night with little food & no hope of being released. Sick from polluted water severely beaten by her ex-husband & abandoned by the Turkish men paid to rescue her she took her little girl & made a daring escape. The journey they made through bomb attacks & sniper fire & across a heavily patrolled mountain range in the dead of night led by illegal people-smugglers was a harrowing ordeal. Yet miraculously they both survived & Stolen is Louise's breathtaking account of events. ...

A taut sensual thriller that grips from the first page. Elena Michaels is at once sublime & sympathetic a modern heroine who shows that real women bite back Karin Slaughter Elena Michaels is a wanted woman. Ten years ago she was transformed into a werewolf by her lover. Her transformation makes her powerful. But in the wrong hands it also makes her deadly. & now just as shes coming to terms with it all a group of scientists learns of her existence. Theyre hunting her down & Elena is about to run straight into their trap. But they havent reckoned on Elenas adoptive family her Pack who will stop at nothing to get her back. They havent reckoned on Elena either. & thats a very big mistake.. . ...

Lucy Winters' parents have always been there for her. Loving gentle & kind they have given her everything she could have wished for. Now estranged from her husband she has moved to the country to take over their thriving auction business. The moment she begins to prepare for her first sale she knows she's made the right decision. & she dares to hope that at last she is living the life she has always dreamed of. But then quite suddenly her world is thrown into turmoil. She discovers a shocking truth one that forces her to question everything she has ever known. & it becomes frighteningly possible that the very people who should have protected her are the ones who have betrayed her in the most devastating of ways. Can she ever forgive them? Can they ever forgive themselves...? ...

In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus. Not knowing what lay ahead the Irish mother tricked her ex-husband into believing she still loved him & wanted them to live together as a family purely so that she could see her kidnapped child again. Once in his homeland Louise too was held captive locked inside a run-down house day & night with little food & no hope of being released. Sick from polluted water severely beaten by her ex-husband & abandoned by the Turkish men paid to rescue her she took her little girl & made a daring escape. The journey they made through bomb attacks & sniper fire & across a heavily patrolled mountain range in the dead of night led by illegal people-smugglers was a harrowing ordeal. Yet miraculously they both survived & Stolen" is Louise's breathtaking account of events." ...

A missing child. A mother destroyed. A life stolen. When Abby Henshaw is brutally attacked by two strangers who dump her at the side of a remote country road her first thought is for the safety of her baby daughter Beth. But what follows is a mother's worst nightmare: Beth is gone & Abby's world collapses around her. As the world-weary DI Michael Gardner investigates Abby & her family he discovers lives built on secrets & betrayal. Under pressure from his bosses to find the missing child & unearth the truth Gardner finds himself struggling to stay emotionally removed from the case & from Abby herself. After the authorities finally shelve their investigation Abby receives an elusive message telling her where she can find her daughter. But how can she convince those around her that the girl really is Beth when they are the very people she knows the least? A gripping & haunting debut Stolen is a richly imagined psychological thriller from an exciting new talent in crime writing. ...

When the Japanese entered the war in 1941 some 20 000 British civilians in the European colonies in Asia were rounded up & marched off to concentration camps where they were to remain for three long years. Over 3 000 of them were children. This is the first time their extraordinary experiences of suffering endurance & bravery have been collected together. STOLEN CHILDHOODS offers a window to a forgotten era & explores what happened when that world was brutally & suddenly shattered. Living on what effectively became the frontline of a war in daily contact with an enemy whose values were totally alien they witnessed acts of shocking violence. Harrowing but ultimately uplifting internment from a childs perspective is a complex
- & untold
- story. It is a story that features horror suffering & self-sacrifice but also celebrates the resilience adaptability & irrepressibility of the human spirit.

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Months later the schoolgirl was systematically groomed & raped by a group of predatory Asian men. They separated her from her friends & passed her between them violating her & treating her as a sexual plaything. But worse was yet to come. Katie was contacted by Zeb the evil ringleader. He lured her with drugs & alcohol before raping her at a secret house
- his private lair
- where he exploited & abused young girls. Zeb was calculating & sadistic. He introduced others into the grooming ring until Katie felt she had no option but to comply with his perverse desires. The abuse continued for two agonising years until Zeb came up with an even more sickening plan. Scared for her life Katie was trapped. She needed to tell someone but who could she turn to & how would she escape the clutches of these depraved men? Stolen Girl is the shocking true story of lost childhood innocence. But it is also one of hope & how Katie found the courage & strength not only to escape her abusers but also to bring them to justice.

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To lose one child is terrible; to lose two is unimaginable. For no one to believe that you are innocent of their deaths & to be imprisoned because of it must be unbearable. Yet this is the reality Sally Clark had to face. The daughter of a policeman wife of a solicitor & a solicitor herself just when she was grieving from the tragic death of her second child the system shed always believed in turned against her. Justice suddenly seemed a far-off principle as she was convicted & her initial appeal quashed. Her family lawyers & various volunteers were relentless in their fight to clear her name. Finally following three long years in prison suffering abuse & the bleak horrow of bereavement Sally Clark was finally acquitted by the Court of Appeal in 2003. Her release caught the nations attention & paved the way for succesful appeals by wrongly convicted mothers such as Angela Canning. As Lord Justice Judge said Unless we are sure of guilt the dreadful possibility always remains that a mother already brutally scarred by the unexplained deaths of her babies may find herself in prison for life for killing them when she should not be there at all." Written with the power of a thriller the book is a tragic but ultimately uplifting story of a mothers love & a familys gutsy fight for what they knew to be right." ...

Dido Twite heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea & Nightbirds on Nantucket is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush Dido & crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place where birds carry off men & fish eat human flesh. The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. Dido faces fire flood wild beasts & ultimately threat of execution in order to get the lake back. Is she equal to the challenge? A rich mixture of legend fantasy humour & pure snowballing adventure. ...

On 10 June 1991 eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe California. It was the last her family & friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009 Dugard her daughters & Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity at the age of fourteen & seventeen she gave birth to two daughters both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark compelling narrative Jaycee opens up about what she experienced including how she feels now & the struggle to re-build her life after eighteen years in captivity. Garrido & his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes. ...