2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders was posted to Singapore in 1937 with their families. When the Japanese invaded Malaya in December 1941 the Battalion fought bravely until the surrender of Singapore on 14 February 1942. Those who were not killed became POWs. Of the 1000 men involved initially over 400 had died by their liberation in summer 1945. Despite the diverse background of the members of the Battalion all were bound by close regimental spirit. As POWs all suffered hard labour starvation brutality & tropical diseases. Rank was no protection from death. After initial incarceration in Singapore the Gordons were dispersed to work on the famous Thai-Burma railway in the mines of Taiwan & Japan & on other slave labour projects. Conditions defy modern comprehension. Others died trapped in hell-ships torpedoed by allied submarines. The author has researched the plight of these extraordinary men so many of whom never saw their native Scotland again. Despite the grim conditions he captures the strong collective regimental spirit & the humour & cooperation that saved so many who would have otherwise have perished
- as many did. This is an inspiring tale of courage & survival against appalling odds.
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Alex knows theres a way that she & Callum can be together. Catherine holds the key to unlocking the secret but shes disappeared. Olivia has answers too but theyre hidden deep inside her troubled mind & wont be found. It seems impossible but Alex cant give up. The question is how much will she risk to be with the one she loves? Could it be everything? ...

At the behest of his soon-to-be wife Adrian Tomine set out to create a wedding favor for their guests that would be funnier & more personal than the typical chocolate bars & picture frames. What started out as a simple illustrated card soon grew into a full-fledged comic book: a collection of short strips chronicling the often absurd process of getting married. A loose cartoony departure from Tomines previous work Scenes from an Impending Marriage" is a sweet-natured laugh out-loud skewering of the modern marriage process including hiring a DJ location scouting trips to the salon suit fittings dance lessons registering for gifts & managing familial demands. The most personal & autobiographical work of Tomines career " Scenes from an Impending Marriage" is a charming delightful document of the little moments leading up to the big day. Praise for Adrian Tomine: " Tomine is trust me superb". (Sam Leith " Daily Telegraph"). " Near perfection.. . Tomine is a superb graphic novelist". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Visually stunning.. .absolutely essential". (" Independent on Sunday"). " Rendered with uncluttered beauty the dialogue is so convincing that you can almost hear the characters speak & it is alight with truth". (Neel Mukherjee " The Times")." ...

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when Scenes of Clerical Life" appeared in " Blackwoods Magazine" in 1857. These stories contain Eliots earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her great novels: the impact of religious controversy & social change in provincial life & the power of love to transform the lives of individual men & women. " Adam Bede" was soon to appear & bring George Eliot fame & fortune. In the meantime the " Scenes" won acclaim from a discerning readership including Charles Dickens: I hope you will excuse my writing to you to express my admiration... The exquisite truth & delicacy both of the humour & the pathos of those stories I have never seen the like of." ...

In this book After the Battle" have explored entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder & present it through our then & now theme of comparison photographs. It

Includes:: scene of crime plans photographs from police files as well as from the Press focus on a wide variety of murders committed between 1812 when a Prime Minister was shot in the House of Commons to killings on the streets of London in the 1960s. Included are many of the headline murderers like Jack the Ripper Dr Crippen Kennedy & Browne the Black-out Ripper John Haigh John Christie Donald Hume Ruth Ellis Ronald Marwood Guenther Podola & the Roberts Gang along with other less notorious
- but equally important
- murders. Extracts from eyewitnesses & investigating officers original statements taken by police including from the murderers newspaper articles published at the time pathologist accounts & even descriptions given by executioners are all blended with photographs of the murder scenes as they appear today. Homicide is not a subject for the faint-hearted & many of the photographs are distressing which is why the book is made available with that warning. Far too often it is the perpetrator who is remembered while their victims many lying in unmarked graves remain lost to history. So this book sets out to redress the balance by tracking down the last resting places even going as far as to mark two wartime graves of taxi drivers killed by American servicemen. Research also resulted in achieving formal recognition by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for one of the victims of Neville Heath murdered while she was serving her country yet omitted from the commemorative records until now. Controversially comes the revelation that 17 murderers who served in the Army during the war & who were executed for their crimes now have their names commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial to the Missing in Surrey. Murders covered... May 11 1812
- The Death Of A Prime Minister December 13 1867
- The Last Public Execution December 1887-September 1889
- Jack The Ripper February 1 1910
- Dr Hawley Crippen December 16 1910
- The Houndsditch Murders January 1 1911
- The Murder Of Leon Beron June 17 1919
- Riot By Canadian Troops At Epsom June 22 1922
- The Assassination Of Sir Henry Wilson October 4 1922
- The Bywaters/ Thompson Affair September 27 1927
- Police Constable George Gutteridge November 6 1930
- The Strange Case Of Alfred Rouse August 7 1934
- Death At The Palace Cinema July 14 1938
- The Lovers Lane Murder March 13 1940
- The Shooting Of Sir Michael Odwyer February 1942
- The Black-Out Ripper April 30 1942
- Double Execution For Murder October 7 1942
- The Wigwam Murder December 27 1942
- The First American Execution In Britain September 28 1943
- Rape & Murder At Marlborough & December 8 1943
- The Birch Taxi-Cab Murder. It also
Includes:: March 5 1944
- Execution By Firing Squad February 14 1944
- The Cabbage Patch Murder August 22 1944
- The Killing Of Betty Green October 7 1944
- Us Deserter Tried In A British Court December 3 1944
- The Murder Of Sir Eric Teichman December 8 1944
- Captain Ralph Binney R.N. June 21 1946
- Wanted For Murder: Neville Heath April 29 1947
- The Killing Of Alec De Antiquis February 18 1949
- John Haigh & The Acid-Bath Murders October 4 1949
- Donald Hume: I Got Away With Murder! June 4 1951
- Gun-Battle At Chatham 1943-1953
- 10 Rillington Place London W11 November 2 1952
- Christopher Craig & Derek Bentley July 2 1953
- The Teddy Boy Murder April 8 1955
- Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman To Be Hanged May 24 1957
- The Slaying Of Countess Teresa Lubienska December 14 1958
- The Murder Of Police Constable Ray Summers July 13 1959
- The Death Of Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy & June 3 1961
- Police Murders In West Ham. It also

Features: August 23 1961
- Rape & Murder On The A6 Aug"














































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This invaluable & well-illustrated book describes landscape modelling from a new perspective. It explains in detail how to design & construct a model railway in a convincing & pleasing landscape. The author has always considered that model railway dioramas are an art form & this book is brimming with advice & tips that will allow the modeller to create true-to-life landscapes. ...

The hunter has become the prey! The headless corpses of three men are found in a London side street. Their mutilated torsos are witness to an unspeakably agonizing death. It becomes chillingly clear that this discovery is a horrific message to the Metropolitan Police
- & to one officer in particular. DI Stacey Collins finds herself on the hunt for a psychopathic killer. But it would seem that this is no ordinary homicide! All the victims had themselves been predators terrorizing the innocent. Is this a twisted vigilante mission or something far more sinister? Meanwhile Collins must battle her own demons as the METs Internal Affairs department investigate her past & her connections to Londons underworld. Collins faces her toughest challenge yet
- torn between justice & revenge.

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This title is fifth in the brilliantly addictive series of murder mysteries by an acclaimed & popular writer. When Poppy Fields & best friend Graham go on a weekend trip to the zoo it soon becomes apparent that the staff there are not happy. Then one of them suddenly dies. & then another. & another... Someones using the animals to do their dirty work for them & the result is not pretty. Will the intrepid pair uncover the murderer before they too become dead meat? This title features Miss Marple for the younger reader. ...

Tim Lott's parents Jack & Jean met at the Empire Snooker Hall Ealing in 1951 in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late fifties & his own bouts of depression Tim Lott conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood & the rapidly changing landscape of postwar suburban Engl&. It is a story of grief loss & dislocation yet also of the power of memory & the bonds of family love. ...

Having left her job & boyfriend thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life & find a new direction. She befriends Karin & Fredrik an elderly Norwegian couple who provide her with stimulating company & take the place of the grandparents she never had. However when she meets Julian a former concentration-camp inmate who has just returned to Europe from Argentina she discovers that all is not what it seems & finds herself involved in a perilous quest for the truth. ...