In July 1942 thirteen-year-old Anne Frank & her family fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years Anne vividly describes not only the daily frustrations of living in such close quarters but also her thoughts feelings & longings as she grows up. Her diary ends abruptly & tragically when in August 1944 Anne & her family were all finally betrayed. ...

The definitive 70th anniversary edition of The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank & edited by Otto H. Frank & Mirjam Pressler the world's most famous diary & 'one of the greatest books of the century'. '12th June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you as I have never been able to confide in anyone & I hope you will be a great source of comfort & support.' In the summer of 1942 fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation Anne Frank & her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts & feelings movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery & death being cut off from the outside world petty misunderstandings & the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. An intimate record of tension & struggle adolescence & confinement anger & heartbreak this is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank. " One of the greatest books of the century". (" Guardian"). "A modern classic". (" The Times"). " Rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence". (" Daily Mail"). " Astonishing & excruciating. Its gnaws at us still". (" New York Times Book Review"). "A monument to the human spirit". (" Mail on Sunday"). Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929. She died in Bergen-Belsen three months short of her sixteenth birthday." ...

Spencer's mate Zac has decided he wants to be a real teenager & Spencer is disgusted
- he's not interested in girls skateboards
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Margaret Forster presents the edited diary of a woman born in 1901 whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War Millicent King begins to keep her journal & vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war tragedy & money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s her story moves on to social work & the build-up to another war in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London. Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up coping with the tragedies & upheavals of womens lives from WWI to Greenham Common & beyond. A triumph of resolution & evocation this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary womans life
- a narrative where every word rings true.
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Annies War tells the story of an Englishwoman held under virtual house arrest in Germany during the First World War. Annie Drummond Droege had moved from the United Kingdom to Germany when her husband Arthur inherited lands & estates in the Rhinel&. But their dream life turned into a nightmare when the Kaiser went to war with Britain. & Annies life was turned upside down as Arthur was interned & she was instructed to sign on daily at the police station. This is Annies story of the war years in her own words. ...

The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick a depraved drug-taking womanising 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this bestselling analysis of his diary investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured & reveals startling new information about Maybricks shadowy background. All this combined with a chilling confession scratched into a watch I am Jack. J Maybrick provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. The diary itself is reproduced in full so that you too can judge whether these are the deeply disturbing words of Jack the Ripper himself reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century. ...

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history & for the main events
- the Restoration the Dutch War the Great Plague the
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Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady" Britain's oldest women's weekly in her hilarious diary "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year & a Half as Editor". ' The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty tatty disorganized & impossibly old-fashioned set in an age of doilies & flag-waving patriotism & jam still for tea some sunny day.' Appointed editor of " The Lady"
- the oldest women's weekly in the world
- Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start how do you become an editor when you've never well edited? How do you turn a venerable title full of ads for walk-in baths during the worst recession ever? & forget doubling the circulation in a year
- what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save " The Lady"
- or sink it? " Action-packed entertaining marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist & has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing". (" Sunday Times"). " She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis". (Mrs Julia Budworth co-owner " The Lady"). "A total romp wonderfully readable unflinchingly described". (" Guardian"). " Hysterical. For the first time everyone is talking about " The Lady" for reasons other than nannies". (Piers Morgan). Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels & two volumes of diaries. " The Mummy Diaries" " Notting Hell" " Shire Hell" & "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin."



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The cult classic that can still change your life! Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- & in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice anything can happen. Entertaining humorous scary shocking subversive The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. ...

As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature. In Dice World acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe uncovering the truths & lies behind probability & statistics explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business & demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers & undergoing teleportation. He explores how the 'clockwork universe' imagined by Newton in which everything could be predicted given enough data was disproved bit by bit to be supplanted by chaos theory & quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things. Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos from the bizarre microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of planetary movements where very little is as it seems... ...