This is Julian Clarys story in his own words
- the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage &
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Work with sexually exploited young people can be rewarding yet difficult. They can be hard to access often presenting challenging behavior. Sometimes it is painful to hear their life stories whether these include abuse through the internet or exploitation experienced through having been trafficked into & within the country. Jenny J. Pearce draws on young peoples voices to explore the difficulties that arise for researchers & for practitioners when working with sexually exploited young people. While child protection interventions must guide social work she argues that other agencies such as health education housing & training each have a role to play in supporting a sexually exploited young person. Challenging the uncritical acceptance of the child as victim the book suggests therapeutic outreach as an approach to working with sexually exploited young people that can complement child protection procedures support practitioners in the field & enhance the young persons sense of autonomy & responsibility during their transition to adulthood. The book advocates the relationship between practitioners & the young people they aim to support to be one of the most important resources in practice. Young People & Sexual Exploitation" will be essential reading for anyone interested in preventing the sexual exploitation of children & young people. It will be particularly relevant for academics students practitioners & policymakers in the fields of social policy & social work child & family work child protection & youth work." ...

A revelatory & racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip. Married for more than sixty years to the most famous woman in the world Prince Philip is the longest-serving royal consort in British history. Yet while he is still one of the most recognisable figures in public life his origins remain curiously shrouded in obscurity. In Young Prince Philip the first book to focus exclusively on his life before the coronation Philip Eade recounts the Princes extraordinary upbringing in Greece France Nazi Germany & Britain where he inhabited a notably colourful milieu yet was beset by continual turbulence & a succession of family tragedies. This revealing book examines the formative psychological effects of having a mother who was born deaf & was committed to a psychiatric clinic when Philip was nine & a father who was so traumatised by his treatment at the hands of Greek revolutionaries that he later left his young son to be brought up by his wifes family the Milford Havens & Mountbattens just when Philip needed him most. Remarkably there emerged from this unsettled background a character of singular vitality & dash
- self-confident capable famously opinionated & devastatingly handsome. Girls fell at his feet & the princess who would become his wife was smitten from the age of thirteen. Yet alongside the considerable charm & intelligence the young prince was also prone to volcanic outbursts & to putting his foot in it. Detractors perceived in his behaviour emotional shortcomings a legacy of his traumatic childhood which would have profound consequences for his family & the future of the monarchy. Containing new material from interviews archives & film footage Young Prince Philip is the most complete & compelling account yet of his storm-tossed early life.
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Jack Fletcher is running for his life. The port of Nagasaki is within reach but the Shoguns samurai are closing in fast for the kill. So is too Jacks old school rival Kazuki. Every road is blocked & every mountain pass guarded as Jack makes his final dash for safety. But with all of Japan hunting him hes going to need a miracle to survive. & even if he reaches the end of the road will there be a ship bound for home? Or will he be burned at the stake first? Only the Ring of Sky knows his fate... ...

The year is 1868 & Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officers son: boarding school good manners a classical education -- the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India & his mother mysteriously unwell Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle & aunt in their vast house in Hampshire. So begins a summer that leads Sherlock to uncover his first murder a kidnap corruption & a brilliantly sinister villain of exquisitely malign intent.. . The Death Cloud is the first in a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant troubled & engaging teenager -- creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books. ...

The year is 1868 & fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes faces his most baffling mystery yet. Mycroft his older brother has been found with a knife in his hand locked in a room with a corpse. Only Sherlock believes that his brother is innocent. But can he prove it? In a chase that will take him to Moscow & back Sherlock must discover who has framed Mycroft & why.. .before Mycroft swings at the gallows. Young Sherlock Holmes is a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant troubled & engaging teenager -- creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books. ...

Teenage Sherlock has come up against some challenges in his time but what confronts him now is baffling. His friend & her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it. Sherlock begins to doubt his sanity until a clever clue points him to Scotl&. Following that clue leads him into a mystery that involves kidnapping bodysnatchers & a man who claims he can raise the dead. Before he knows it Sherlock is fighting for his life as he begins to work out out what has happened to his his friends. Will he be fast enough to save them? Sherlock Holmes. Think you know him? Think again. ...

Kidnapped & taken to China Sherlock finds himself plunged into adventure. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead & why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks like a spider's web. But solving it leads to an even more urgent question: what has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship? Sherlock is about to brave terrors greater than any he has faced before.. . Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again. ...

Kidnapped & taken to China Sherlock finds himself plunged into adventure. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead & why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram like a spider's web. But solving it leads to an even more urgent question: what has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship? Sherlock is about to brave terrors greater than any he has faced before.. . Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again. ...

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world
- like Hitler the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past & remains mysterious.
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