Stephen Lungu was the oldest son of a teenage mother married off by her parents to a much older man & living near Salisbury Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). When he was three his mother ran away leaving him & his younger brother & sister in the reluctant care of an aunt. By 11 Stephen too had run away preferring life on the streets. He slept under bridges & scavenged from white folks dustbins. As a teenager he was recruited into an urban gangs the Black Shadows which burgled & mugged with a half-focused dream of revolution. When an evangelist came to town Stephen was sent to fire bomb the event carrying his bag of bombs & mingling with the crowd. Instead he stayed to listen.. . Today Stephen is Africas Billy Graham an international evangelist who regularly speaks in UK US & Europe. ...

Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife & mother she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned & breathless. On the face of it there is no rational explanation for the way she feels. Linda believes there is something malign inside her. But in the back of her mind a voice tells her over & over again that everything will be OK. When it finally gets too much she can always simply die. How shall I die if that time comes? I need to know these things. They have to be planned. It must look like an accident. She will deliberately drive off the road on her way home from her weekly shopping trip. After all who commits suicide with a load of groceries in their car? The raw & powerful journey Linda takes with her psychotherapist Robin Royston to discover what lies at the heart of her deptression will leave you shocked. The secrets in her African childhood & adolescence are buried so deep that to reveal them may destroy her completely. Together Linda & Robin race to unravel the clues before it is too late. OUT OF THE DARK is Linda Caines remarkable & uplifting story from the agonies of mental breakdown to the painful piecing together of the past that was vital for her survival. Both her courage & Robins persistence during the process show the power of the human spirit at its most indomitable & inspiring. ...

It was the case that shocked the nation. On the evening of 20 April 2011 Tina Nashs life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings & domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenkin she was subjected to a barbaric & prolonged attack during which Jenkin beat her unconscious & gouged out both her eyes. When he was jailed in May 2012 people struggled to comprehend the scale of the violence endured by this mother of two at her home in Cornwall. In Out of the Darkness Tina tells her full story
- of what life with a violent partner is really like & how she survived 12 hours of sustained & unimaginable violence in her own home. Learning to adjust to life without her sight Tina speaks bravely about how her children have given her the courage to keep going & how
- step by careful step
- she is learning to live again. With statistics on domestic violence rising Tinas incredible memoir of survival makes for essential reading.


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I saw my teacher in the queue at the supermarket last Christmas. Miss Baxter. I was surprised to see her. Shed been dead for six months In Out of The Depths Cathy Mac Phail introduces her latest character Tyler Lawless who has an unusual & sometimes scary gift. She is able to see dead people. & sometimes they speak to her asking for her help. When Tyler moves to a new school she is hoping to make a fresh start. But that isnt easy when a boy who is supposed to be dead appears in your classroom & statues in the school seem to come alive & point towards the place where the dead boy Ben Kincaid was murdered. Will Tyler be able to assist Ben with his pleas for help or will she be dismissed as an attention-seeking teller of tall tales? A thrilling & spooky tale from the acclaimed Cathy Mac Phail. ...

Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare & people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary a collection of his journalism from the Guardian he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense -- mainstream domestic ordinary insanity. Whether he finds himself promising his son that he will be at his side for ever dressed in a Santa costume or trying to understand why hundreds of apparently normal people would suddenly start speaking in tongues in a Scout hut in Kidderminster he demonstrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that grow to inform our everyday existence. Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious thought-provoking & with an unerring eye for human frailty -- not least his own. Praise for The Men Who Stare at Goats: ' Not only a narcotic road trip through the wackier reaches of Bush's war effort but also an unmissable account of some of the insanity that has lately been done in our names' Observer Praise for Them: Adventures with Extremists: 'A funny & compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world' Louis Theroux Guardian ...

The first novel in C.S. Lewiss classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who is kidnapped & transported to Mars In the first novel of C.S. Lewiss classic science fiction trilogy Dr Ransom a Cambridge academic is abducted & taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planets treasures & plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the silent planet
- Earth
- whose tragic story is known throughout the universe...

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This title is updated to include the release of their fifth studio album The Resistance" & their 2009/2010 world tour. " Out of This World" is the definitive story of Muse & features thousands of words of exclusive previously unprinted interview transcripts taken between 1998 & 2007 by author Mark Beaumont. Charting the bands stratospheric rise from a Battle of the Bands contest in Teignmouth to being the first band ever to sell out the new Wembley Stadium Muses story is one of UK rocks most fascinating & incendiary tales. This edition follows their every step from 16 year old punk kids to Wembley Stadium featuring everyone of their albums & the wild nights theories & falsettos they experienced along the way." ...

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. Small deadly & furry The Ninja Meerkats are four warriors on a mission. In Book 8 in The Ninja Meerkats series the meerkats receive strange reports from the Australian outback. They fly down under to investigate & discover strange goings-on in the desert. Who else could be behind it but that top-hatted menace the Ringmaster? He is building missiles to take control of the world. With boxing kangaroos & killer koalas not to mention the Ringmasters crew of deadly circus goons this is one deadly desert mission. A hilarious series for boys featuring death-defying meerkat action! Full of comical characters daft puns fast dialogue & even faster action these book are irresistable to boys aged around six to eight years. ...

Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan thats being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened & it doesnt take long for Ben & his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill & no one seems to be doing anything to help. As Bens father falls ill its up to Ben & his new friend Halima to try & tell the government whats going on so the village can be isolated before the sickness spreads further. Will they be able to prevent disaster? ...

Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that's being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened & it doesn't take long for Ben & his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill & no one seems to be doing anything to help. As Ben's father falls ill it's up to Ben & his new friend from the village Halima to try & tell the government what's going on so the village can be isolated before the sickness spreads further. Will they be able to prevent disaster? ...