A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothicks brave & soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better understanding of the unique pressures experienced by modern-day professional sportsmen. At 29 Marcus Trescothick was widely regarded as one of the batting greats. With more than 5 000 Test runs to his name & a 2005 Ashes hero some were predicting this gentle West Country cricket nut might even surpass Graham Goochs record to become Englands highest ever Test run scorer. But the next time Trescothick hit the headlines it was for reasons no one but a handful of close friends & colleagues could have foreseen. On Saturday 25 February 2006 four days before leading England into the first Test against India in place of the injured captain Vaughan Trescothick was out for 32 in the second innings of the final warm-up match. As he walked from the field he fought to calm the emotional storm that was raging inside him at least to hide it from prying eyes. In the dressing room he broke down in tears overwhelmed by a blur of anguish uncertainty & sadness he had been keeping at bay for longer than he knew. Within hours Englands best batsman was on the next flight home. His departure was kept secret until after close of play when coach Duncan Fletcher told the stunned media his acting captain had quit the tour for personal family reasons. Until now the full extraordinary story of what happened that day & why of what preceded his breakdown has never been told. He reveals for the first time that he almost flew home from the 2004 tour to South Africa
- of what caused it & of what followed
- his comeback to the England side & a second crushing breakdown nine months later that left him unable to continue the 2006-07 Ashes tour down under. Coming Back to Me replaces the myths & rumours with the truth as Trescothick talks with engaging openness & enthusiasm about his rise to the top of international cricket; & describes with equal frankness his tortured descent into private despair.

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The late Terry Newton sparked controversy from his earliest days in rugby league. Initially signing at 14 for Warrington he also signed for Leeds on his 16th birthday missing the entire Centenary season until Leeds won the resulting tribunal. A phenomenal hooker for Leeds Terry went on to star for Wigan Great Britain Bradford & finally Wakefield. Coming Clean is the startlingly frank yet honest story of the highs & lows of Terrys career & life from his tough upbringing in Worsley Mesnes through rugby league success to the recent tragic death of his sister & his own career-ending drugs ban. Now notorious as the first ever sports person to test positive for taking the banned drug Human Growth Hormone Terry explains what drove a star player to end a glittering career in such a cloud of controversy. Love or hate the bad boy of rugby league his story will make you laugh cry & feel despair in equal measures. This new edition

Includes:: a tribute from Terrys father Tony Newton.

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Fully revised & updated edition covering China's new membership of the WTO & with a new introduction. ' Damning data & persuasive arguments that should set some Communist knees a-knocking.' Kirkus Reviews'A compelling account of the rot in China's institutions & the forces at work to end the Communist Party's monopoly on power.' James A. Dorn Cato Institute Washington D. C. Co-Editor of China's future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? ' Quite simply the best book I know about China's future. Gordon Chang writes marvellously & knows China well. I hope everyone concerned with that country will pay careful consideration to what he sees ahead.' Arthur Waldron Director of Asian Studies American Enterprise Institute; Lauder Professor of International Relations University of Pennsylvania.'A tour de force not to be missed.' Willy Wo-Lap Senior China Analyst at CNN's Hong Kong office & author of The Era of Jiang Zemin.' When he warns that China's two centuries of troubles are still not over we had better take notice.' Andrew J. Nathan Professor of Political Science Columbia University; Co-Editor The Tiananmen Papers. ...

A brutally honest portrayal of the realities of war this novel relays the story of 15year old Thomas Elkin as he engages in the First World War. A tale of conflict both global & personal & of redemption this is a novel that has the potential to rank alongside the best of retrospective First World War literature. Accepting the blame for the accidental death of his recently conscripted brother Elkin switches identity with his dead brother & enters into the fray of the conflict. His burning ambition is to die a glorious death in his brothers name. Believing that in fully submitting to the reality of war he is atoning for his sins he faces all the attendant horrors with a steel will & a poignant resignation. His personal conflict sees itself mirrored in the wider events & soon the two are inextricably linked raising issues of mortality morality guilt & faith. This novel enacts the kind of existential crises experienced on the battlefield with the constant threat of imminent & fatal danger a companion. Written with deft skill & sensitivity for the subject matter at hand this is a piece of stylish work that places the reader at the heart of the action. Featuring nuanced characters & vivid action scenes it works to evoke a real sense of the times as the story unfolds. ...

Born in Colombo Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school while her beloved mother & younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow the Carey-Lewises beautiful estate on the Cornish coast it is love at first sight. She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. With their generosity & kindness Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman basking in the warm affection of a surrogate family whose flame burns brightly. But it is a flame soon to be extinguished in the gathering storm of war. & Judith herself has far to travel before at last.. .coming home. ...

' With Andy the sky's the limit'
- John Mc Enroe. At Wimbledon 2005 Andy Murray announced himself on the tennis world stage by
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But why did it have to happen to us? Because he was a Siamese of course with his own ideas on things... Doreen Tovey enchants us again with stories of life with her husband Charles in a West Country village where they are driven to distraction by Siamese cats Annabel the donkey nesting swallows bucking horses & the villagers who still regard them as inept townsfolk even after 18 years. In an effort to get away from it all they take a trip to Canada to see the bears & wolves
- much to the alarm of Father Adams & Miss Wellington. If they can't handle Siamese cats how will they handle a grizzly? However after hearing what the villagers have been up to in their absence they wonder if they might have been safer in Canada. As for the cats Seeley & Shebalu start acting strangely when they develop a taste for dog food. But it is time for another solemn little Seal Point to come into their lives
- who takes some settling in.

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Richard J. Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy & Seized Power in Germany" explores how the First World War the Weimar Republic & the Great Depression paved the way for Nazi rule. They started as little more than a gang of extremists & thugs yet in a few years the Nazis had turned Germany into a one-party state & led one of Europe's most advanced nations into moral physical & cultural ruin & despair. In this consummate & compelling history the first book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise & fall of Nazi Germany Richard Evans reveals how & why it happened questions whether the rise of Hitler was inevitable & dramatically re-creates the maelstrom of disorder economic disaster violence & polarization that gave rise to the terror of the Third Reich. " Monumental.. .gripping.. .the definitive account of our time". (Andrew Roberts " Daily Telegraph"). " Impressive.. .perceptive.. .humane.. .the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich". (Ian Kershaw author of " Hitler"). " The most gripping account I've read of German life before & during the rise of the Nazis". (A.S. Byatt " Times Literary Supplement" Books of the Year). Sir Richard J. Evans is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. His previous books include " In Defence of History" " Telling Lies about Hitler" & the companions to this title " The Coming of the Third Reich" & " The Third Reich at War"." ...

Could one calamitous evening ruin the perfect life? No challenge was too great or so she thought... All round high-flier Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has it all a busy legal career a solid marriage & a perfect family. She manages her life with grace & energy & there seems to be no challenge to which she cannot rise. Until one day she opens an invitation for her twin daughters to attend an exclusive coming out ball & her good fortune is changed irrevocably. Chaos ensues as conflicting feelings emerge about the ball & Olympia finds herself at the heart of a severe family feud. Devastated & pulled in all directions Olympia is more determined than ever to steer her family through the event. Yet events unravel at an alarming speed & Olympia is poised to surrender when suddenly a series of events result in several changes of heart old wounds are healed & new traditions born. Can an evening of heartbreak & misery make way for an evening of growth acceptance & love? In a novel that is by turns profound poignant moving & warmly funny Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family
- finding new ways of letting go stepping up & coming out.. .in the ways that matter most.
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First published in 1995 this touching autobiography is a unique record of the experience of immigration from one of Britains best-loved television personalities. When Floella Benjamin first came to England from Trinidad in the early sixties she hadnt seen her parents for fifteen months. At first her joy at being reunited with her mother overcomes the shock at her new surroundings in cold noisy London but when she starts school she is upset by the taunting & rejection she faces. Determined to survive Floella realizes that the only way is to be twice as good as everyone else. ...