Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis a gunner who in later life recorded in this well-written candid & perceptive memoir the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager fired with national pride he was eager to join the army & fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War & started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp & a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Appenines. His story is an honest & moving memoir of the horror of warfare but it also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship. Ellis's self-deprecating humour skilfully counters the harsh realities related in a personal recollection of a war that claimed so many young lives. ...

Singapore has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the world. Its government claims that only the death penalty can deter drug dealers from using their country as a transport hub-but this hard-hitting investigation reveals disturbing truths about how & when the death penalty is applied. Including in-depth interviews with Darshan Singh-Singapore's chief executioner for nearly fifty years-and chilling accounts of high-profile cases including the execution of Australian Nguyen Van Tuong this is an horrific expose of the gross abuse of human rights. When this book was first published in Asia in July 2010 UK journalist Alan Shadrake was arrested & tried then sentenced to jail-for daring to put the Singapore justice system in the dock. This revised & updated edition covers Shadrake's arrest & his ongoing campaign against the death penalty as he prepares for his appeal."" ...

Voyager Classics
- timeless masterworks of science fiction & fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of The Once & Future King
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Thats the good thing with stories. Theres always a chance they can come true. Felix is lucky. Unlike the other children in the orphanage hes certain his parents will come back for him one day. & whatever the Nazis do & however many books they burn Felixs imagination provides him & his companions with an endless supply of stories
- stories that protect them when theyre on the run shield them from the violent madness all around give them hope when all seems lost & one day may even save Felixs life. Once & Then" is a spellbinding story of hope & imagination in the most terrible circumstances. However my story turns out Ill never forget how lucky I am."
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Vayl is the CIAs top assassin. A master of black ops he has never failed. Hes also a 291-year-old vampire. Assigned to protect Vayl if such a formidable creature can be said to require protection is Jasmine Parks
- Jaz to her friends. But Jaz has got problems
- & not just the run-of-the-mill ones youd expect from someone whose job consists of putting her life on the line for an undead assassin. She hasnt had sex in god knows how long so Vayls almost overpowering vampire charisma is making it increasingly difficult for her to keep their relationship.. .professional. Her personal life is a long line of missed birthdays & Christmases & lies & excuses to her family. & then theres that other thing: the blackouts. See theres times that Jaz cant account for & things that happen in those times that Vayl
- not to mention the CIA
- may not appreciate. & if they find out Jasmine knows it wont just be her contract thats terminated.. .



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Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation
- & then to watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition isolation betrayal & abuse? What would you do if you managed to escape your life of torment
- & then your children were kidnapped by their own father? This is what happened to Jacqueline Pascarl. In Once I Was a Princess" Jacqueline recounts her part in this controversial headline-grabbing international drama with heart-rending honesty."

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Once in a Blue Moon is the story of one man's never-ending affair with Manchester City. Be it playing watching or managing Steve ' Worthy' Worthington's life in football has never been easy. Having suffered an almost fatal road accident in the week before his ninth birthday any aspirations for global stardom as a player were crushed beneath the wheels of a speeding Triumph Spitfire in 1971. As a spectator he fared no better. Over the years Manchester City & England addicts have experienced many disappointments
- most of which he was there to see. As manager of his beloved Sunday League club Lee Athletic success was a word used only on the odd occasion when he persuaded his team to turn up sober & in time for kick-off. But two things that have always kept him going were his love of the local ' Indie' music scene & an ability to find humour during the darkest of times. Join him in a vivid journey that takes you into the beating heart of 1960s & '70s working class Manchester: through five decades of football (and a bit of cricket) music & people in the eyes & ears of an everyday bloke who turned constant failure into final triumph.
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Set in 1970s Manchester Once in a House on Fire tells the true story of three sisters & their mother a close-knit & loving family forced to battle with poverty abuse & the effects of depression. Beautifully written & deeply inspiring with a new afterword by Andrea Ashworth it is a book that will stay with its readers for ever. ' This is a brilliant book. Brilliantly written brilliantly thought brilliantly remembered.. . Ashworth has written an extraordinary memoir; the only pity is that she had to live it to make it' Scotsman ' Enchanting & thrilling.. . As a chronicle of northern working-class life in the seventies & eighties.. .it would be hard to better this book. It is extremely moving.. . It is also at time surprisingly & gratifyingly very funny' Tim Lott The Times ' Full of energy wit & a child's wide-open gaze.. . Andrea Ashworth escaped the fire to write a remarkable book' Blake Morrison Independent on Sunday ...

A queen of hearts.. .alone To the doctors the woman in the ambulance was just another casualty
- just more beautiful than most
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Shes suffered the very worst of betrayals. & now Sarahs facing a divorce she never expected. With Christmas round the corner what better time to re-evaluate her life? As she reconsiders every choice shes made she starts to wonder if her life was so perfect after all. This winter lose yourself in Sarahs world of unmade decisions lost friends & old flames... ...