' He has known all forms of fear he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man
- like myself as a matter of fact
- for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death & risk he seems to be implying quite consciously that by testing his luck each time he is testing his Maker's indulgence'
- John le Carre ' Mc Cullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about'
- The Times ' From the opening...there is hardly a dull sentence: his prose is so lively & uninhibited... An excellent book'
- Sunday Telegraph ' Unsparing reminiscences that effectively combine the bittersweet life of a world-class photojournalist with a generous selection of his haunting lifework...A genuinely affecting memoir that reckons the cost & loss involved in making one's way on the cutting edge of conflict'
- Kirkus Reviews ' If this was just a book of Mc Cullin's war photographs it would be valuable enough. But it is much more'
- Sunday Correspondent






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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War but for the moment that did not affect me. In the first instalment of Clive Jamess memoirs we meet the young Clive dressed in short trousers & wrestling with the demands of school various relatives & the occasional snake in the suburbs of post-war Sydney. His adventures are hilarious his recounting of them even more so in this -- the book that started it all.. . You cant put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed Sunday Times All that really needs to be said to recommend Unreliable Memoirs is that James writes exactly as he talks which is all his millions of fans could wish Evening Standard ...

Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism John Simpson has become not only one of the most recognisable & trusted British personalities but has transferred his skill to books with multiple bestselling success. With his new book he turns his eye to how Great Britain has been transformed by its free press down the years. He shows how while the press likes to pretend its independent they have enjoyed the power they have over the events they report & have at times exercised it irresponsibly. He examines how it changed the world & changed itself over the course of the last hundred years from the creation of the Daily Mail" & the first stokings of anti-German sentiment in the years leading up to the First World War to the Suns propping up of the Thatcher government & beyond. In this self-analysis from one of the pillars of modern journalism some searching questions are asked including whether the press can ever be truly free & whether we would desire it to be so. Always incisive brilliantly readable & never shy of controversy " Lies Like Truth" sees John Simpson at the height of his game as one of Britains foremost commentators." ...

Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasnt slept properly for six months. Not since the accident that nearly killed him. Now he is afraid to go to sleep. Sometimes he wakes to find himself paralysed unable to move a muscle while shadowy figures move around him. Other times he is the one moving around while his body lies asleep on the bed. According to his doctor sleep paralysis & out of body experiences are harmless
- but to Elliot theyre terrifying. Convinced that his brush with death has opened up connections with the spirit world Elliott secures a live-in job at one of Englands most haunted locations determined to find out the truth. There he finds Sebastian the ghost of a long-dead servant boy hanged for stealing bread. He also meets the living breathing Ophelia a girl with secrets of her own. She & Elliott grow closer but things take a terrifying turn when Elliott discovers Sebastian is occupying his body when he leaves it. & the more time Sebastian spends inhabiting a living body the more resistant he becomes to giving it back. Worse he seems to have an unhealthy interest in Ophelia. Unless Elliott can lay Sebastians spirit to rest he risks being possessed by him for ever & losing the girl of his dreams...
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After experiencing a precognitive dream that shatters her engagement & changes her life forever young California psychology professor Laurel Mac Donald decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University in North Carolina. She soon becomes obsessed with the long-buried files from the world-famous Rhine parapsychology experiments which attempted to prove if ESP really exists. Along with another charismatic professor she uncovers disturbing reports including a mysterious case of a house supposedly haunted by a poltergeist investigated by another research team in 1965. The two professors & two exceptionally gifted Duke students move into the grand abandoned mansion to replicate the investigation unaware that the entire original team ended up insane...or dead. ...

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. & now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can a maker of jolly good pies a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been & the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt not even Mr Nutt which worries him too). As the match approaches four lives are entangled & changed for ever. Because the thing about football
- the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork
- not the old fashioned grubby pushing & shoving but the new fast football
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The thing about football
- the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football. Football is supposed

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Penelope Shuttle is one of Britains leading poets. This selection
- drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus
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In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life" Debbie Reynolds wrote about finally finding happiness with her "brave loyal & loving" third husb&. But within a few years she would discover that he was a philandering con man who had betrayed her emotionally & financially nearly destroying her reputation & her life. Today Reynolds says When I read the optimistic ending of [my first memoir] now I can't believe how naive I was when I wrote it. In this book I look back at the years since then & revisit stories I could not fully tell at that time. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts I've had a bumpy ride. In " Unsinkable" Reynolds recalls the highs & lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age including her lifelong friendship with (and years-long estrangement from) the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. She shares private details of her marriages & family life with her children Carrie & Todd Fisher. She speaks openly of money & man troubles of building & losing her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection of friendships that endure & unbreakable family bonds of hitting bottom & rising again to the top. Frank & forthright filled with Reynolds' refreshing wit in the face of adversity & illustrated with dozens of previously unseen photos from Debbie's personal collection Unsinkable is a chronicle of courage & tenacity hope & triumph in the face of staggering odds. A reminder that there is light in the darkest times it will resonate with anyone who has experienced loss & heartbreak." ...