Matt Seatons critically acclaimed memoir about his obsession for cycling & how that obsession was tamed. For a time there were four bikes in Matt Seatons life. His evenings were spent doing the miles on the roads out of south London & into the hills of the North Downs & Kent Weald. Weekends were taken up with track meets time trials & road races
- rides that took him from cold village halls at dawn & onto the empty bypasses of southern Engl&. With its rituals its code of honour & its comradeship cycling became a passion that bordered on possession. It was at once a world apart private to its initiates & through the races he rode in Belgium Mallorca & Ireland a passport to an international fraternity. But then marriage children & his wifes illness forced a reckoning with real life & ultimately a reappraisal of why cycling had become so compelling in the first place. Today those bikes are scattered sold or gathering dust in an attic. Wry frank & elegiac The Escape Artist is a celebration of an amateur sport & the simple beauty of cycling. It is also a story about the passage from youth to adulthood about what it means to give up something fiercely loved in return for a kind of wisdom.
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JOHN THOMAS STRAFFEN
- Britain's longest-serving prisoner
- was the first patient to escape from Broadmoor Hospital & be prosecuted

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Twenty-six years ago Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14 one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang the labor camp is a complete control district a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. A gripping terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 will unlock through Shin a dark & secret nation taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go. This is a story unlike any other Barbara Demick author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea ...

Twenty-seven years ago Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14 one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang the labor camp is a 'complete control district ' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. A gripping terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 will unlock through Shin a dark & secret nation taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go. ' This is a story unlike any other' Barbara Demick author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea THIS EDITION

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Cathy was just sixteen & living on her own when she met a charming older man called Peter Tobin. She saw him as a knight in shining armour a man who made her feel safe. He saw a vulnerable girl whose troubled childhood made her the perfect victim. This considerate man who appeared so normal to anyone who met him became first controlling then violent & Cathy found herself trapped in a terrifyingly abusive marriage. Eventually for the sake of her young son she found the strength to escape & over the years managed to create a good life for her boy making sure he never had the memories of fear & daily trauma she had suffered. Still Tobin remained a threatening presence in the background. Then turning on the television set in 2006 she screamed with horror when a familiar face appeared on the news. Her ex-husband her sons father was a serial killer. Writing with complete honesty Cathy describes her marriage & how the past continued to haunt her until she stood in court a witness against the man who could so easily have murdered her too. Totally compelling Escape From Evil is the story of a woman who survived the worst nightmare of all. ...

Not long ago Luke & Lizzy Morris dared to spend one scary day at Horror L&. They thought that Nothing could lure them back but their travel plans are about to change... Who
- or What
- is summoning ordinary kids to Horror Land & trapping them there? Luke & Lizzy are determined to find out. They've gathered every clue & even launched their own secret website at Escape Horror L&.com. This time Luke & Lizzy are prepared to face any danger
- & any villain. Or so they thought.


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Legend tells of The Clan of the Scorpion four mighty meerkats who are armed to the teeth with ninja-know-how. They are sworn to protect the world from their longtime nemesis the Ringmaster... The Clan of the Scorpion are escorting their mentor Grandmaster One Eye to a Kung Fu Grandmaster Meet deep in the mountains of Chile when they are ambushed by a horde of enormous spiders
- the Trained Tarantulas of Santiago! But the eight-legged creeps are a cunning diversion & the Clan soon realise that Grandmaster One Eye has been katnapped! The Clan sets out to follow the attackers south all the way to a colossal mountain fortress in icy Antarctica
- but will they reach One Eye before the trail runs.. .cold?

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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 meant death for most of the Roman citizens living in Pompeii. But some people must have survived & Christina Balit has used this as the starting-point for her story. It tells of Tranio an actors son & his friend Livia the bakers daughter who witness the destruction of their beloved city. ...

Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller former Children's Laureate & multi-award winner. This is a fresh reissue of a much-loved story with a beautiful new cover. Turned away by his own son Cessie's long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most
- a nursing home called Shangri-La. Only Cessie loves him & is determined to help him escape & unravel the truth of his past
- a past that comes to him only in glimpses
- a lifeboat a tin of condensed milk & a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II.


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When Jamie & Tom spot the fierce Allosaurus in their secret dino world they decide to observe it from a distance. But when the dinosaur spots them the chase is on. The boys & Wanna run for their lives & find a secret cave to hide in but the Allosaurus soon sniffs them out. What can they use to mask their scent & escape from the fierce predator once & for all? ...