When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
- & you have a badly-set freshly-busted nose patched with silver duct tape
- it isn't

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When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
- & you have a badly set freshly busted nose
- it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At

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Bob Turney tells of how he went from being wanted by the police & criminal underworld to being wanted for himself. It is an intriguing story of his journey from prisoner to upstanding citizen husband father probation officer author & broadcaster
- told with self-deprecating humour insight & deep concern for victims of crime in particular. He writes of life on both sides of the tracks & at each end of the social spectrum
- & of how an educationally subnormal dyslexic schoolboy grew up to take a degree join the speaking circuit become an author & have his writings adopted as core reading for university students! Wanted!" is an entertaining work that is packed with unusual perspectives & insights concerning crime criminal justice & penal affairs. It is also a work of hope & encouragement as Bob Turney tells the story of how he escaped from the wrong turnings & false values of his youth into a new life. Bob Turneys " Im Still Standing" (Waterside Press 1997) has been through several reprints & ranks as a classic within the going straight genre. Writing in his own laconic style in this sequel Bob now explains how he has progressed from being wanted by the police to being in demand as a writer broadcaster commentator & public speaker across criminal justice networks in the UK & abroad. He describes how events have taken him to such places as the House of Lords Oxford Union Eton College & prisons across the land in a new role
- & he tells of the people he has met along the way often mixing their perspectives with his own from his past & present lives. Few ex-offenders can say that they have been saluted by the policeman outside No. 10 Downing Street become a probation officer acted as chauffer to the late Lord Longford collaborated on a film project with a reformed Great Train Robber or rubbed shoulders with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Wanted is a book rich in insights experiences contrasts & messages about crime & punishment
- & from both sides of the tracks."



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Not everyone has to go to the pet shop to find their perfect pet... Once upon a time there lived a boy called Henry. What Henry wanted more than anything in the whole wide world...MORE than chips...MORE than a cowboy costume...MORE than an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon...was a DOG. A lovable tale of adventure & friendship...and the lengths some will go to find it. A great book to springboard early childhood lessons & imaginative play on pets. ...

The drama the cruelty the courage & the consequences of war feature in this collection of stories from Joan Aiken Eva Ibbotson Jamila Gavin Elizabeth Laird Geraldine Mc Caughrean Margaret Mahy Michelle Magorian Michael Morpurgo Eleanor Updale Celia Rees & other top childrens authors. From the Crusades to 1970s Beirut to the Falklands many aspects of war are explored in a collection of work that speaks powerfully to todays young readers. ...

Since the days of Alexander the Great Afghanistans strategically significant lands have been fought over by foreign invaders. Today as yet another generation risks life & limb in this inhospitable territory an ever-rising death toll puts back under the spotlight almost daily the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run & demands answers. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with Afghan politicians businessmen & ordinary people & British American & European diplomats & soldiers Sandy Gall shines fresh light on the failure to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora &
- equally disastrous
- American & British gullibility in the face of Pakistans continued tolerance of the Taliban. He asks why the reconstruction of Afghanistan has withered on the vine; & how we have allowed a Presidential style of government to concentrate power in one mans hands under whom
- amid cronyism & corruption
- the Taliban insurgency only grows ever stronger. But is it too late? Examining the emotive issue of equipment shortages exposing the extent to which the drug trade has corrupted the country & assessing the accusation of endemic systemic failure within the MOD Sandy Gall addresses the challenges
- political religious military
- that face those now fighting on the most dangerous frontier in the world.





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Leo Tolstoys War & Peace" is a sprawling epic covering the impact of Napoleons disastrous invasion of Russia on five different families. This " Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction & notes by Anthony Briggs with an afterword by Orlando Figes author of "A Peoples Tragedy: Russian Revolution 1891-1924". At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805 conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleons army marches on Russia & the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre cynical Andrey & impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast from aristocrats & peasants to soldiers & Napoleon himself. In " War & Peace" Tolstoy entwines grand themes
- conflict & love birth & death free will & faith
- with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection & grandeur. Anthony Briggs superb translation combines stirring accessible prose with fidelity to Tolstoys original while Orlando Figes afterword discusses the novels vast scope & depiction of Russian identity. This edition also contains appendices notes a list of prominent characters & maps. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana in central Russia. After marrying Sofya Behrs in 1862 Tolstoy settled down managing his estates & writing two of his best-known novels " War & Peace" (1869) & " Anna Karenina" (1878). In 1884 Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis becoming an extreme moralist rejecting the state the church & private property. His last novel " Resurrection" (1900) was written to raise money for the Doukhobor sect of Christian spiritualists. If you enjoyed " War & Peace" you might also like Fyodor Dostoyevskys " The Brothers Karamazov". "A masterpiece... This new translation is excellent". (Anthony Beevor). "A book that you dont just read you live". (Simon Schama)."

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War & Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these the artless & delightful Natasha Rostov the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky & the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval. ...

War & Peace" is one of the richest novels ever written. Tolstoys enthralling epic combines history & fiction in his depiction of Russias lengthy war with the French armies of Napoleon & its effects on the domestic lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital & involving characters in literature as he follows the rise & fall of families in St Petersburg & Moscow who are linked by their personal & political relationships. His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov his intelligentand ambitious friend Prince Andrei & the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them the enchanting Natasha Rostova. Stunningly translated with remarkable fidelity to the all-important tone of Tolstoys original & including an introduction notes a chapter summary & an index of historical figures this edition of " War & Peace" is destined to become the definitive English translation for our time." ...

This is a three-volume boxed set of Tolstoy's historical chronicle of Russia's struggle with Napoleon. The novel is an affirmation of life itself focusing on the lives of individuals & the physical reality of human experience & its bewildering complexity. ...