A human cartoon of hair super-strength cigarettes & the rock worlds most famous top hat Slash is one of the most iconic guitarists in recent memory. Although born in Stoke-on-Trent this one-off guitarist came to prominence through the debauchery & stellar chart success of the American west coasts Guns N Roses; Slashs highly productive but volatile relationship with lead singer Axl Rose led to a perhaps inevitable split in the mid-90s. Moving on first to his own Snakepit project then a blues band then on to a career as one of the worlds most sought after soloists Slashs profile has finally returned to its highest peak with the formation of the outrageous & hugely successful Velvet Revolver a super-group of rock stars that lives life as hard as his former b&-mates ever did. His story is inevitably one of massive rock & roll excess exhausting & famous live shows fiery confrontations with other musicians but also of incredible discipline a unique natural musical gift & of course
- through Sweet Child O Mine" & " Paradise City" to name but a few
- the creation of some of rock musics most legendary songs."

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Dr Siris bagged himself a holiday: an all-expenses-paid trip to the northern mountains of Laos. Whats more through a bit of skilful bartering (well blackmail) he has wangled it so that his nearest & dearest may accompany him. They are to assist a US-funded search for a lost CIA pilot
- Boyd Bowry
- missing since his aircraft was downed in 1968. But Siris not taking the search too seriously as he strongly suspects that when the helicopter exploded the pilot followed suit. However just hours into the trip it becomes apparent that ulterior motives are at work within the group. & Siris suspicions are confirmed when those associated with the airman start dropping like the insects that frequent his country. Siri & co are caught up in something big: something that goes way back & way over their heads. & if this wasnt bad enough a psychic of unquestionable repute then informs Siri that he will shortly die: in a day or two to be precise.

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Kyla's memory has been erased her personality wiped blank her memories lost for ever. She's been Slated. The government claims she was a terrorist & that they are giving her a second chance
- as long as she plays by their rules. But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla's mind. Someone is lying to her & nothing is as it seems. Who can she trust in her search for the truth?
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Once again theres death on her doorstep
- Thea throws herself into house-sitting for Babs & Cedric Angell in Lower Slaughter following
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At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916 the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of the Western Front & began to make their way steadily towards the German lines opposite. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the day a number of the battalions involved had met with some degree of success; others had suffered heavy losses for no gain whilst a few quite literally ceased to exist. That day the old infantry tactics of the British Army clashed head-on with the reality of modern warfare. On what is generally accepted as the worst day in the British Army's history there were more than 60 000 casualties
- a third of them fatal. In this publication the authors have drawn together for the first time ever all the War Diary entries for those battalions that went over the top" that day
- a day which even now still touches so many families both in the United Kingdom & around the world. The result is a vital work of reference to the events of 1 July 1916 a valuable information source for not only for those interested in military history but genealogists & historians alike."

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Mende Nazers happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers raped the women & abducted the children. Mende was them. She was taken & sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name & her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave an abid without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps & her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh & lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead for seven long years. Passed on by her master like a parcel to a relative in London Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom. Slave is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood & a moving testimony to a young girls indomitable spirit in the face of adversity. ...

Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear. Born in Newcastle in 1976 from the age of three the very people who were meant to be looking after & protecting her were sexually abusing her. Somehow overcoming the hurt & heartbreak of this horrific childhood Sarah managed to build a new & happy life for herself as a nursery nurse. Then one day Sarah spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a creche in Amsterdam. Thrilled by the prospect of a fresh start away from Newcastle & all the memories it held she eagerly signed up. But within minutes of stepping off the plan in Amsterdam her life began to fall apart. There was no creche & no job: Sarah was a victim of sex-trafficking. That night a just twenty-one years of age her life
- her real life her life as Sarah Forsyth
- ended. Fed cocaine & cannabis & forced at gunpoint to work as a prostitute in the Red Light District of Amsterdam Sarah was turned from a young innocent English girl into a desperate & terrified crack whore. Riddled with fear about what her pimps would do to her if they caught her trying to run away it took Sarah almost a year to find the strength to fight back & escape. But unlike many of the girls that she was forced to live & work beside she did get away. Sarah Forsyth is a survivor. This is her heart-rending story.

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In her bestselling book Slave Girl Sarah Forsyth told of her terrible ordeal as a young woman sex-trafficked from England to the Red Light District of Amsterdam
- & of her dramatic escape from forced prostitution. But Sarahs journey from the dark back into light was far from over. Still addicted to drugs & drink she struggled to cope with life with love & with the marriage she desperately hoped would bring her happiness. It would take three more long & painful years to be rid of the terrible after-effects of sex slavery. But as she fought her draining battle to survive Sarah came to realise that there was something she needed to do. It was a decision that would take her back into the modern scandal of sex trafficking
- & back into the hell of Amsterdams Red Light District. Now Sarah tells the incredible story of her very personal mental journey to find goodness within herself
- & the shocking & painful physical journey to find the sex slaves she left behind. Both are journeys which will take all the strength courage & love that she has. But if she is to survive they are journeys she must make.


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In a world that denies emotions where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of 'rehabilitation'
- the complete psychic erasure of her personality.. . Both human & animal Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy co-existence these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murder of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate & Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion
- & that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds Lucas & Sascha must remain bound to their identities
- or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation.. .


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A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this precise & eloquent work
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