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
- as described in its
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The city of Aramanth has become a kinder place but in becoming kinder it has also become weaker making it the perfect target for the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery. After a swift & brutal battle that leaves the city burned & the Manth people destined for slavery Kestrel fi nds herself alone angry & bitterly sworn to wreak her own revenge. But first she must fi nd her beloved brother Bowman & he in turn must find a way of understanding the secrets of the mysterious Singer people. Only then can the pair begin to strike out against the Mastery & begin a voyage that will bring the Manth people back to their former stature. ...

More chills & thrills in Darren Shan's horrifying Demonata series. Let the Slawter commence... Never trust fairy tales. There are no happy endings. There's always something new around the corner. You can overcome major obstacles face great danger look evil in the eye & live to tell the tale
- but that's not the end. As long as you're breathing your story's still going..." Nightmares haunt the dreams of Dervish Grady since his return from the Demonata universe but Grubbs takes care of his uncle as they both try to continue a normal demon-free existence. When a legendary cult director calls in Dervish as consultant for a new horror movie it seems a perfect excuse for a break from routine & a chance for some fun. But being on the set of a town called Slawter stirs up more than memories for Grubbs & his friend Bill-E."
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The king of horrors demonic symphony in ten volumes now available in omnibus editions
- each containing two titles in the spine-chilling
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Greg Le Mond LAmericain: fresh-faced prodigious newcomer. This is supposed to be his year. Bernard Hinault The Badger: aggressive headstrong five-time winner of the Tour. He has pledged his unwavering support to his team mate Le Mond. The team is everything in cycling so the world watches stunned as Le Mond & Hinaults explosive rivalry plays out over three high-octane weeks. Slaying the Badger" relives the adrenaline & agony as Le Mond battles to become the first American to win the Tour with the Badger relentlessly on the attack. This title

Includes:: brand new material for the paperback."

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Doon in the glen there were three ferms. The men that had these ferms were aboot as scunnersome & grippy as ony men ye could meet. They were cried Fermer Bodge Fermer Bauchle & Fermer Beek. On a brae above the glen there wis a widd. In the widd there wis a muckle tree. Unner the tree there wis a hole. In the hole steyed Mr Tod Mrs Tod & the fower Wee Tods. Ilka nicht as soon as it wis gloamin-time Mr Tod wid say tae Mrs Tod Weel ma deerie whut itll be this time? A sonsie fat cookie fae Bodge? A deuk or a goose fae Bauchle? Or a braw bubblyjock fae Beek? And when Mrs Tod had telt him whit she wantit Mr Tod wid jouk doon intae the glen in the mirk o the nicht & help himself. And so the scene is set for a grand confrontation between the scunnersome fermers & the tremendous Tods. Following on from the phenomenal success of the bestselling The Eejits & Geordies Mingin Medicine Scots translations of Roald Dahls The Twits & Georges Marvelous Medicine Itchy Coo presents another Scots version of a Roald Dahl classic. This time Fantastic Mr Fox has been transformed into Sleekit Mr Tod & hell require all his wily wits to escape Fermers Bodge Bauchle & Beek while at the same time raid their well-stocked stores for a full-scale banquet. But who will win? ...