A vivid retelling of some of the gypsy tales collected from the Wood family in Caegwyn by Dr John Sampson. Magical tales rich with the mystery of the Welsh landscape & what Folklorists would call Marchen i.e. quest stories where the hero or heroine must undergo trials to find something that has been lost or mend something that has been broken. Like the tales of Grimm & Perrault these revolve around cycles of three. These tales can captivate & enthral audiences & The Leaves That Hung But Never Grew" & " The Green Man of No Mans Land" from this collection have the potential to grip the imagination. It comprises seven short stories ideal for 9-11 year olds from the captivating storyteller with striking illustrations by Brett Breckon. Meticulous research at The Museum of Welsh Life gives the text authenticity. Daniel Mordens busy schedule of performances during the summer months of 2006 will ensure that these tales will reach a wide audience. The sales of the authors first collection " Weird Tales from the Storyteller" prove that there is a market for written as well as oral folktales." ...

This is a vivid memoir of one young womans psychiatric treatment in the Sixties which raises questions that are still relevant today. Teenage life in the swinging sixties hanging out in coffee bars talking fashion & pop music who could wish for more? But in August 1968 growing pains started to kick hard for 18-year-old factory worker Jean Davison & adolescent idealism quickly turns to angst & emptiness. With her home life in chaos Jean turns to a psychiatrist hoping for a sensible adult to talk to. Thats where her problems really begin: a weeks voluntary psychiatric rest is the start of one long nightmare of drugs electric shock treatment & abuse which turn her into a zombie. Losing five years of her young life to the mental health system Jean finally finds the courage to say no to drugs & turns her life around finds love & returns to the mental health service as a worker. Balancing"es from case number 10826 her actual case notes which reveal a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia with her own account of interviews with doctors this memoir raises disturbing questions on the treatment of psychiatric patients which are still relevant today. ...

A breathtaking novel of suspense from the co-author with James Patterson of five No 1 bestsellers including Judge & Jury & Lifeguard & the hit thriller of 2007 The Blue Zone GET UP. KISS YOUR FAMILY GOODBYE. GOT TO WORK. DIE! They say bad luck comes in threes. But for Karen Friedmans family bad luck is just the beginning. It starts with her husband Charlies investments going wrong & the sudden death of a family pet. Then one morning Charlie takes the train to work -- straight into a lethal terrorist blast. For his widow Karen & their children all that remains of Charlie is a shared past. Or is it? When the Friedmans begin to receive terrifying threats Karen turns to Detective Ty Hauck for help. Haucks family fell apart too after a tragic accident he still blames himself for. Now hes determined to keep Karens safe. But Hauck doesnt know about how people who investigate Charlie have a way of ending up dead! ...

At least 130 000 Irish
- from north & south of the border
- served during the Second World War. Seven thousand never returned.

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Something is hunting. Something that will kill to get what it wants. & it isn't human. Eve knows that her supernatural powers are called for but she'd rather focus on dating than demons & gorgeous Luke is frankly pretty distracting. He's already a friend
- but could he be something more? Do Luke & Eve really have a future? & with demons on the hunt will either of them live long enough to find out?
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This book sets out to explore dark tourism; that is the representation of inhuman acts & how these are interpreted for visitors at a number of places throughout the world for example the sites of concentration camps in both Western & Eastern Europe. Many people wish to experience the reality behind the media images or are prompted to find out more by a personal association with places or events. The phenomenon raises ethical issues over the status & nature of objects the extent of their interpretation the appropriate political & managerial response & the nature of the experience as perceived by the visitor their residents & local residents. Events sites types of visit & host reactions are considered in order to construct the parameters of the concept of dark tourism. Many acts of inhumanity are celebrated as heritage sites in Britain (for example the Tower of London Edinburgh Castle) & the Berlin Wall has become a significant attraction despite claiming many victims. ...

Ever since he can remember Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Doms upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days & nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry & a taste for the darkest of places. & in this brilliantly odd & hilariously told travel memoir Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would & should run a mile. The more insalubrious the place the more interesting is the journey & so we follow Dom as he skis in Iran on segregated slopes spends a weekend in Chernobyl tours the assassination sites of America & becomes one of the few Westerners to be granted entry into North Korea. Eventually Dom journeys back to his roots in Beirut only to discover he was at school with Osama Bin Laden. Funny & frightening in equal measure this is a uniquely bizarre & compelling travelogue from one of the most fearless & innovative comedians around. ...

In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest The Dark Tower beckons Roland the Last Gunslinger & the four companions he has gathered along the road. And having narrowly escaped one world they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy & the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. A tale of long-ago love & adventure involving a beautiful & quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. And the Tower is closer... ...

In this first novel in his epic fantasy masterpiece Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes Roland of Gilead the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure a loner on a spellbinding journey into good & evil in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful & mysterious Dark Tower Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice begins a friendship with Jake a kid from New York & faces an agonising choice between damnation & salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic & eerily dreamlike THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. & the Tower is closer... ...

In the second novel of King's bestselling fantasy masterpiece Roland of Gilead the Last Gunslinger encounters three doors which open to 1980s America. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean & courageous volatile Odetta Holmes. & confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort. As the titanic forces gather a savage struggle between underworld evil & otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland's quest for the Dark Tower... Masterfully weaving dark fantasy & icy realism THE DRAWING OF THE THREE compulsively propels readers toward the next chapter. & the Tower is closer... ...