Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism John Simpson has become not only one of the most recognisable & trusted British personalities but has transferred his skill to books with multiple bestselling success. With his new book he turns his eye to how Great Britain has been transformed by its free press down the years. He shows how while the press likes to pretend its independent they have enjoyed the power they have over the events they report & have at times exercised it irresponsibly. He examines how it changed the world & changed itself over the course of the last hundred years from the creation of the Daily Mail" & the first stokings of anti-German sentiment in the years leading up to the First World War to the Suns propping up of the Thatcher government & beyond. In this self-analysis from one of the pillars of modern journalism some searching questions are asked including whether the press can ever be truly free & whether we would desire it to be so. Always incisive brilliantly readable & never shy of controversy " Lies Like Truth" sees John Simpson at the height of his game as one of Britains foremost commentators." ...

Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasnt slept properly for six months. Not since the accident that nearly killed him. Now he is afraid to go to sleep. Sometimes he wakes to find himself paralysed unable to move a muscle while shadowy figures move around him. Other times he is the one moving around while his body lies asleep on the bed. According to his doctor sleep paralysis & out of body experiences are harmless
- but to Elliot theyre terrifying. Convinced that his brush with death has opened up connections with the spirit world Elliott secures a live-in job at one of Englands most haunted locations determined to find out the truth. There he finds Sebastian the ghost of a long-dead servant boy hanged for stealing bread. He also meets the living breathing Ophelia a girl with secrets of her own. She & Elliott grow closer but things take a terrifying turn when Elliott discovers Sebastian is occupying his body when he leaves it. & the more time Sebastian spends inhabiting a living body the more resistant he becomes to giving it back. Worse he seems to have an unhealthy interest in Ophelia. Unless Elliott can lay Sebastians spirit to rest he risks being possessed by him for ever & losing the girl of his dreams...
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After experiencing a precognitive dream that shatters her engagement & changes her life forever young California psychology professor Laurel Mac Donald decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University in North Carolina. She soon becomes obsessed with the long-buried files from the world-famous Rhine parapsychology experiments which attempted to prove if ESP really exists. Along with another charismatic professor she uncovers disturbing reports including a mysterious case of a house supposedly haunted by a poltergeist investigated by another research team in 1965. The two professors & two exceptionally gifted Duke students move into the grand abandoned mansion to replicate the investigation unaware that the entire original team ended up insane...or dead. ...

England 1911. When a free-spirited young woman arrives in a sleepy Berkshire village to work as a maid in the household of The Reverend & Mrs Canning she sets in motion a chain of events which changes all their lives. For Cat has a past
- a past her new mistress is willing to overlook but will never understand.. . This is not all Hester Canning has to cope with. When her husband invites a young man into their home he brings with him a dangerous obsession... During the long oppressive summer the rectory becomes charged with ambition love & jealousy
- with the most devastating consequences.

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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. & now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can a maker of jolly good pies a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been & the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt not even Mr Nutt which worries him too). As the match approaches four lives are entangled & changed for ever. Because the thing about football
- the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

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The thing about football
- the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football. Football is supposed

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Penelope Shuttle is one of Britains leading poets. This selection
- drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus
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In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life" Debbie Reynolds wrote about finally finding happiness with her "brave loyal & loving" third husb&. But within a few years she would discover that he was a philandering con man who had betrayed her emotionally & financially nearly destroying her reputation & her life. Today Reynolds says When I read the optimistic ending of [my first memoir] now I can't believe how naive I was when I wrote it. In this book I look back at the years since then & revisit stories I could not fully tell at that time. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts I've had a bumpy ride. In " Unsinkable" Reynolds recalls the highs & lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age including her lifelong friendship with (and years-long estrangement from) the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. She shares private details of her marriages & family life with her children Carrie & Todd Fisher. She speaks openly of money & man troubles of building & losing her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection of friendships that endure & unbreakable family bonds of hitting bottom & rising again to the top. Frank & forthright filled with Reynolds' refreshing wit in the face of adversity & illustrated with dozens of previously unseen photos from Debbie's personal collection Unsinkable is a chronicle of courage & tenacity hope & triumph in the face of staggering odds. A reminder that there is light in the darkest times it will resonate with anyone who has experienced loss & heartbreak." ...

The first modern work to give a comprehensive picture of the RMS Titanic & the people intertwined with her fate from disaster to recovery. Drawn from primary sources & contemporary accounts & updated to coincide with the April 2012 anniversary this new heart-rending narrative allows readers to come to their own conclusions about this legendary vessel. Daniel Allen Butler spend more than 30 years researching the work delving into the lives of every principal participant. In addition to examining the roles played by individual he also looks into the problems of equipment & errors in technical data that resulted in the deaths of 1502 people. Rather than focussing on the night of the tragedy alone he also investigates the events leading up to & following the fateful night. ...

While many set out to commit the perfect crime & ultimately fail by being caught & convicted there are a plethora of unsolved cases throughout history. Unsolved Crimes takes a look at numerous unsolved homicides committed throughout the 20th century as well as some carefully planned robberies that still leave the authorities stumped many years later. This book provides a fascinating insight into some of the most riveting cases of the past 100 years including the Black Dahlia Julia Wallace Peter Falconio
- the British backpacker who disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001
- & high profile murders such as Jill Dando Stephen Lawrence Suzy Lamplugh Carl Bridgewater & Genette Tate. Serial killers such as Jack the Stripper the Zodiac Killer & Bible John are investigated as well as the Babes in the Wood killings that horrified the nation & the mysterious deaths of Rudolf Diesel Natalie Wood & Robert Maxwell are scrutinised. These & many other cases still continue to baffle & challenge all those involved & provide a fascinating backdrop to crimes of the 20th century & beyond.

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