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by Chris Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

Novak Djokovic is not just one of the world's great tennis players - he is the defacto ambassador for his homeland, Serbia. Not an easy job, given the lingering resonance in the world's news bulletins of Serbia's role in the 1990s Yugoslav wars. To this day, the words 'Serbia' and 'atrocities' are...

Panic Nation

Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health

by Stanley Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006

It seems as though every week there's another food or health scare. Whether it's British beef, the MMR vaccine, or just sunshine itself, there's always somebody to tell you that you are under threat from yet another everyday activity; or that the food we eat and the medicines we take are poisoning...
by Emily Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

When Emily Lloyd burst onto the movie scene at 17 she was hailed as the next Marilyn Monroe. Her stunning performance as precocious Lynda Mansell in David Leland’s coming of age drama Wish You Were Here thrust her into the spotlight and cemented the film’s reputation as a British classic. Hollywood...
by Dan Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

The inside info on zombies in movies and television, from Thriller to Zombieland to The Walking Dead   A is for Army of Darkness. This short history of animated corpses in pop culture will explain how Sam Raimi's epic adventure Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness changed the zombie movie...
by Michael Litchfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

The scandalous debauchery of the playboy tenth Earl of Shaftesbury sent seismic shock waves through the British aristocracy. One of the richest men in the country, he abandoned his loyal wife and two sons for a depraved life of drunken orgies, cocaine and bed-hopping in the South of France....
by Neil Root
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008

On December 2nd, 2006, the naked body of a woman was discovered in woodland just south of the Suffolk satellite town of Ipswich. Over the next ten days, four further bodies were found. All were naked - prostitutes who worked in Ipswich's red light district - and all five had been strangled. This work presents the story of the Ipswich Killer.
by Hayley Leitch, Veronica Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

HAYLEY LEITCH WAS JUST FOUR WHEN SHE FELT THE NEED TO JUMP HER FATHER'S FISHPOND. SMALL FOR HER AGE AND UNABLE TO SWIM, HAYLEY ALMOST DROWNED, BUT SHE COULDN'T STOP HERSELF.One compulsion followed another until soon Hayley was performing exhausting rituals and was plagued by intrusive thoughts every...
by David Stanfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012

Meet Stan and his mates. All football fanatics, all enthusiastic followers of the English national team - so far, so normal, right? Wrong. You've probably already spotted them on TV, or maybe at an England match. They're the group of blokes all dressed up as St George. In this hilarious book, Stan...
by Phil Mews
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018

1976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived an idyllic life on a farm in the picturesque dales of the north of England. With their days spent on the farm, playing on Tarzan swings, building dens and swimming outdoors,...
by Ellen Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

Ellen Jameson is the widow of legendary journalist and television broadcaster, Derek Jameson. But she is much more besides. Garnering acclaim as a Fleet Street journalist, a BBC broadcaster, author, actress and theatre producer, Ellen bestrode the British media business with her husband for years.Mixing...
by Ben Falk
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012

Professor Brian Cox is probably the best-known physicist in the world today. As presenter of the hit TV series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm has brought science to a whole new audience. Born in Lancashire in 1968, Cox did not excel...

Two for Joy

The Uplifting True Story of One Courageous Family's Life of Happiness With Severely Disabled Twins

by James Melville-Ross
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

Two for Joy is the heart-warming true story of disabled twins Thomas and Alice, and their desperate fight for life after being born four months prematurely. James Melville-Ross, their father, tells of how the twins not only survived—despite being given the last rites as babies—but also thrived....
by Keith Lane
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010

In 2004 Maggie Lane fell to her death from the cliffs at Beachy Head. While trying to come to terms with this tragic event, her husband, Keith, sought solace by going back to the spot from which she had jumped. It was whilst visiting the cliff top that he saw a woman about to throw herself over the...

Great Cholesterol Con

The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It

by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

• Believed to be completely safe and capable of preventing a whole series of other conditions statins have become the most profitable drug in the history of medicine. • Generally prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels the pharmaceutical industry and medical profession champion the concept...
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