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Travis’ father was a failed soldier, a coward and a heartless bully who tried to disown his son. Now Travis is determined to shame him by becoming the soldier his father could never have been – through joining the Parachute Regiment, the élite of the British Army. His restless urge to prove himself takes him from country to country and from army to army, where he battles with enemies both external and internal until he is finally able to put horror and tragedy behind him and find honour, love and peace. ‘The sounds of the battle were like some crazy symphony, orchestrated by a mad composer and led by an even madder conductor who had decided to play all his heavy brass instruments at the same time and all of his percussion, bass drums pounding amid the deafening clashes of cymbals. His instruments were automatic rifle fire, hand grenades, grenade launchers, claymore mines, light and heavy machine guns and mortars. For vocals he had the screams of the wounded and dying.’ ‘A killer story, with a strong emotional core, powerful themes that will touch hearts and a believable protagonist’ - Kaye Jones, History in an Hour
Martin Gillott, better known in the wrestling world as Jackie 'Glitterboy' Evans, knew early in his career that life in the ring would be no walk in the park. Posing as a blond, Lurex-clad gayboy who liked to fight dirty was great for ticket sales, but not so good for his health. He was knocked out five times in his career - always by a furious fan, never by his opponent. Yet Martin loved the game, and wouldn't change a day of his 12-year professional wrestling career. Now he tells all, including hilarious accounts of adventures in and out of the ring, fans violent and amorous, landladies who were scarier than Giant Haystacks and girls who were faster than Mick McManus. And then there were the many well-known names he rubbed shoulders with along the way, from Brian Glover to John Le Mesurier. Confessions Of A Wrestler will have you in stitches - just like 'Glitterboy'.
Middle-aged Jennifer Green is living a life of quiet despair following her husband’s confession of an affair – until she encounters a half-crazed hobo who appears to know more about her than she does herself. Thanks to the tramp’s strange powers, Jennifer suddenly finds herself 25 years younger, with the figure and face of a goddess and every millionaire in New York trying to date her. When Jennifer moves in with her own unsuspecting daughter she takes up ‘honey trapping’ to catch cheating husbands, even checking out her daughter’s dodgy fiancé. But then her killer combination of stunning beauty and mature wisdom makes her a star on prime-time TV, and she begins to realise that there is an astonishing connection between the hobo, the handsome stranger who once nearly hijacked her wedding and the rich, successful and impossibly handsome media tycoon who now sweeps her off her feet. It Starts With A Kiss is a magical, funny, sexy story of glamour and romance, of lost youth and found love. “On my wedding day, I committed myself to a truly wondrous man. If only he’d been my husband…”
Since Henry James there have been many impressions of an American abroad and we have become used to seeing the world ‘under western eyes’. But what about seeing the world from a very different perspective - not from the standpoint of an affluent westerner, or even an anglicised foreigner like Conrad, but through the eyes of an Iranian who has not had the privilege of taking freedom for granted. Iran itself comes under close scrutiny as the author tries to come to terms with daily life in a country where freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and freedom to wear the clothing of one’s choice does not exist. Imagine, for instance, visiting a tourist town for a holiday break and being picked up by the police because you are not a local, and then inadvertently finding yourself with a rope around your neck in a public execution? The book is a real page-turner as one follows the author’s frequent bids for freedom, finding himself repeatedly in a prison cell, punting across a turbulent river to enter Greece without a visa, finding temporary solace and comfort in the arms of a young prostitute in Bulgaria, suffering the indignity of being treated as a slave by the high-minded bosses in Japan, and running away from the regular police raids in Cyprus. But not all is doom and gloom - by no means, for apart from the author’s downright honesty, sharing and confiding his innermost thoughts, there is his irresistible humour that never fails to see the funny side in the events and the people that he describes. With its unique perspective of what it is like to be down and out, and sometimes affluent too, in Iran and the countries the author visits, this book provides an unforgettable experience.
While on the cat ferry from portland, maine to yarmouth, nova scotia, my mother struck up a conversation with this woman. She had various books and papers with her, as well as, a laptop computer. Eventually she told us she was an author getting away to antigonish in nova scotia. She was currently editing a book. She studied anthropology, german history and literature (go figure) while at harvard. Some of her published titles include; pious secrets, strange traffic and sad strains of a gay waltz.
I have been a little more outgoing recently in asking people if I may take their portraits. It's an area in which I would like to practice and improve. I asked her if I could do so toward the end of the trip. I thought she was ignoring me and then realized she was listening to the dvd she was editing on her pc with earbuds. She was very amenable and I suggested she just continue editing as she was. The background was fog (go figure again) through the large ferry windows.
One freezing February night in 1940, fifteen-year-old Alicja Radomski, her parents and younger sister and brother were dragged from their home and forced to board a cattle train to be transported over a thousand miles to the wastes of Siberia. They were just one of many thousands of Polish families sent to labour camps by Stalin and his thugs after the Soviets seized their country at the outbreak of World War II. They became ‘non-persons’, forced to work from dawn to dusk in freezing conditions on rations scarcely fit for a rat. Ultimately, the Radomskis were among the lucky ones – they managed to survive their ordeal, to return to Europe and find new homes eventually in post-war England, where Alicja married a British serviceman and the family found peace and security. Alicja, now 89, has now told her shocking, heart-rending story with the help of her daughter Teresa.
Mohamud Ege grew up in the heat and dust of northern Somalia, the son of a family of nomads who were kept constantly on the move by the need to find water and grazing for the camels and sheep which were their only possessions. When Mohamud was five, his father was killed by a snake. A wise uncle then suggested that Mohamud, alone of his family, should go to school - a rare privilege in their culture. To attend school, Mohamud had to sleep on a rush mat, survive for long periods on nothing but pancakes and do his homework by moonlight. The hardships did not prevent him from discovering the joy of reading books and developing a keen appetite for learning. By the time he was in his teens he was determined to break free of the poverty of the nomad life and become a doctor in the West. Thanks to hard work and help from his friends he managed to qualify as one of Somalia's first doctors, but he had to battle the strife and unrest of his native land, as well as prejudice and red tape from those in authority, for more than twenty years before he finally managed to qualify as a doctor in the UK. This is his story.
From Huddersfield to war-torn Holland, this is the true story of one English boy serving with the Black Watch during World War II. When he was only seventeen, James Watson signed up to serve the nation in the fight against Nazi invasion. Knowing the legacy of their bravery and honour, he expressed a desire to serve in the Black Watch Highland Regiment, and it would only be a few months later when he began his training and the road to war. Written from the perspective of a close comrade, the true-story of James ‘Jim’ Watson’s wartime exploits follow him from his first day of training to the very last battle he would ever fight. Poignantly and emotionally-written, it is a story that conveys the day-to-day suffering of young soldiers as they fought for the liberation of Europe and for the safety of their friends and family back home. Alongside the stalwart men of the 5th Black Watch, James Watson’s actions from his role in the storming of the beaches on D-Day to being amongst the first to cross the border into Germany in 1945 are recollected in vivid detail. Friends dead and innocence shattered, the true cost of war on the young souls forced into violence is powerfully preserved in this account of James’ war. However the question still remains as to whether he will make it home at all. Written by James Watson’s nephew, A Teenager’s War is an inspiring but down-to-earth record of the lives of young soldiers and the war that defined their generation.
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Mac is back! Following on from Bryan Marlowe’s thrilling Recalled to Arms and Leaving Mercy to Heaven, Eli (Mac) Murray, an embittered ex-SAS captain and his wife Sarah Shahar, a former Israeli Army captain attached to Mossad (Israel’s Secret Service), who first joined forces to fight a fanatical terrorist group in North Africa and the Middle East, are thrust back into the world of international intrigue, abduction and murder, when actors and technicians from the Omega Film Company are abducted and held for ransom in Colombia by junta overlord, Diego Contrero Moretta. With the deadline for payment fast approaching and Moretta not known for showing mercy, the race is on for Mac and Sarah to save the innocent abductees. Bryan Marlowe’s novels are fiction, but he makes no bones about drawing on his experiences with the Royal Air Force, the Diplomatic Service, the Police, his work as a newspaper columnist, his voluntary service with Victim and Witness Support and his travels to some very unlikely places to take a holiday.
The defeated are not always destroyed. In the immense science-fiction-fantasy universe of trolls, elves, humans, dinosaurs, gnomes and goblins, Molock’s Wand is the epic sequel to The Elf War. When a sudden rebellion by the slaves under her command destroys her Dark Elf stronghold and forces Eloen, the Halfling daughter of the cruel Molock, to flee into the wasteland of Aifheimr she vows vengeance on the Light Elf-led alliance… Leaving a bloody trail of death and destruction across the realm and eventually stowing away on the worldcrossing vessel known as the Spellbinder, Eloen escapes to the peaceful Light Elf homeland of Haven in search of a formidable weapon buried alongside her brother. If claimed, this weapon will allow Eloen to perfect the crude race known as the Dokka’lfar and continue the reign of terror that her father started. It once again falls to the High King Peterkin to renew old alliances and form new ones, as well as enlist the help of some unexpected old friends, to rebuff the onslaught of Eloen’s tyranny. But as the pursuit begins he finds that Eloen is always one step ahead and she is getting ever closer to plunging the world into her own breed of darkness…
Selling their London home and buying a decaying rural pile in the wilds of the English countryside seems to Bill and Alison Cavendish the perfect way to swap the stresses and strains of the city for a peaceful new life in the country, with the added bonus of cash in the bank. Unfortunately the manor house which captures their interest in the picturesque village of Little Daunting has problems far older, deeper and nastier than rats and dry rot. The cellars conceal a terrible, shocking secret; one which dates all the way back to the witch hunts of the 17th century and to those who would steal living bodies in the quest for eternal life. As Bill and Alison soon discover, at least one of the villagers knows far more than he is admitting about the gruesome events that have been taking place in the ancient, walled-off catacombs, which lie concealed under the neighboring churchyard. When Bill and Alison and their new gypsy allies investigate, they find themselves lifting the lid on an unimagined horror... Catacombs of the Damned, is a sexy, shocking horror story for adults from P J Cadavori.
When Alan Higgins joined the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he was not yet sixteen years old. His youth did not save him from the horrors of war, and he went on to survive the sinking of his ship, HMS Edinburgh, in the Barents Sea, and the bombing of a station in Russia before more peaceful spells in North America and Bermuda. Much of Alan’s war took place in the Mediterranean, and he found himself in the thick of it at the battle of Anzio, surviving repeated bombing attacks. As a member of the crew of one of the landing craft at the D-Day landings, he had to saw off a mate’s shattered leg with a bread knife. Yet despite the horrors and terrors, You’re in the Navy now is rich in gentle humour.
Donna, the elegant and beautiful wife of a wealthy businessman, thought she had escaped her violent childhood through her marriage. But despite the five-star hotels and expensive clothes, Donna feels increasingly unsatisfied by her safe and uneventful life. Johnny Ricci's teenage years were filled with crime, sex and violence. So when he gets involved with some ruthless drug dealers, Johnny has no choice but to flee his home town and attempt a fresh start in London. When Donna and Johnny meet at a Christmas party, they quickly find themselves at the mercy of an unquenchable attraction and begin a rollercoaster affair which drags them both back into the sordid world of their past. Ultimate Ride is a passion filled story of two unlikely lovers set in the rough and raunchy reality of urban England.
Nick Holloway’s nursing career was spent working in care homes in South Wales. His many experiences, sad, shocking, harrowing, uplifting, depressing and amusing, inspired him to write Autumn’s Colours, his first novel. This lighthearted story is set in an imaginary care home in the Dorset town of Dorchester, the town in which Nick trained as a nurse. The people and events in the book are based closely on real care homes, real people and real towns. They squabble, chat, fall out, banter, make friends and attempt to seduce each other – just like people in the outside world. The events described in the book will be familiar to anyone who works in a care home, or who visits somebody in one.
"Arvor is a dragon. He is actually a very nice dragon who would much rather play on his guitar or work on his science project than fly around breathing out fireballs. You see Arvor is a pupil at Caderbrith – the well-known school for dragons on Cader Idris in Wales. Arvor is also a little clumsy and quite small compared to the other dragons so they don’t want him on their team when they play Egger. This means Arvor has a bit of time to do other things, like stay out of trouble. It’s just that sometimes he’s in the wrong place at the right time…
Join Arvor and his friends Will, Percy and Cedric on their adventures at Caderbrith, the boarding school for dragons.
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Over the years, most of our cats have showed great promise as editorial assistants. Here is Dawn, as a kitten, showing how ably she helps with editing books.
Wherever you’re travelling from, you can use this guide to make sure your holiday in the Las Vegas area is memorable, for all the right reasons. It just takes some inside knowledge and a little planning. This book will supply the first – it’s up to you to do the rest. If this is going to be your first visit, then you may not want to go too far, as you will probably be exploring the Strip (the main resort area of Las Vegas) and taking a few day trips to see the main sights of the region, such as the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon. If you’ve been to the area before, then maybe you’re aiming to see a little less of the bright lights and the noisy casinos and a little more of the fascinating states of Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California. Everything you’ll read in these pages has been gathered from personal experience over 15 years of visits to the Las Vegas area.
Early one morning in October 1940, on a quiet farm on the Isle of Wight, 61- year-old farmer Frank Cave was found dead, killed with his own shotgun. After a police investigation, the woman who raised the alarm, Frank’s young housekeeper, Mabel Attrill, was charged with his murder. There followed a notorious criminal trial at Winchester Assizes, featuring the most prominent pathologist of the day and one of the country’s most brilliant lawyers. After many twists and turns, the trial reached an unexpected conclusion. Peter Cave, Frank’s great nephew, who was born on the Isle of Wight, has now researched the story in detail. In Death in Godshill, he presents the first published account of the Mabel Attrill case. Peter Cave was born on the Isle of Wight and brought up in the village of Chale. His grandparents ran a pub at nearby Blackgang. He left the Island in 1968 having qualified as a Trading Standards Officer, and spent most of his working life enforcing consumer protection law. He has a law degree from London University and is a Member of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
George Raven served as a police officer in Essex for thirty years, rising to the rank of Detective Superintendent. In this autobiography he looks back on a colourful career, recounting stories of fascinating manhunts, gruesome murders, violent encounters and heartrending tragedies – as well as plenty of amusing and not-so-amusing incidents as he worked alongside officers who ranged from the excellent to the incompetent. Raven’s conclusion in retirement is that police recruitment standards and performance have deteriorated alarmingly over the years, while public perception and trust now stands at its lowest since the British police force was founded. In this entertaining account of his life in the force, he examines the reasons and challenges politicians to address the serious problems facing the police in the 21st century. ‘Politicians pass more and more laws, dream up more and more regulations and issue more and more directives to the police, to tie their hands and make enforcing both the good and the ridiculous laws they pass an almost impossible task.’
A book of over 100 cartoons and stories recording some extraordinary, bizarre and comical moments of forty-odd years in the ambulance service. Many of these events happened before political correctness had been invented. In the interests of all concerned, the names and locations have been altered to protect the guilty but all the stories are true.
An adventure story about a boy and his dog, Tutu, who, a thousand years ago, landed by mistake at the bottom of the world. Kahu is the son of the Chief of a peaceful tribe living on a small tropical island in the middle of the world. Their safety has been threatened by distant, marauding savages. Navigating by the stars, the Chief and crew sail away across the oceans to search for a safe place for the tribe to live. Guided by a friendly dolphin, they discover a fabulous Wonderland—a magic land of plenty. And best of all, NOBODY lives there. It is theirs for the taking but there isn’t time to prepare a proper migration. Evidence of the dreaded cannibal warriors preparing to attack has been discovered. They must flee!
Life for young Crain Helter and his family in the land of Crestinia is peaceful and contented - until the celebrations for his coming-of age party are rudely interrupted by a vicious attack on his village in which his mother is murdered and his father, along with all the other adult villagers, is kidnapped and whisked away into slavery. Crain, his sister Sera and their faithful dog Fait set out on an adventure to save the lost people of their village from the brutal pirates who have kidnapped them, with the help of the strange, green-skinned Addiloi and a fearless old sea-captain. When they finally come face to face with the evil Admiral whose men stole their elders, they will need all their courage to rescue their father and restore peace and happiness to Crestinia.
On 9th February, 1861 a terrible storm struck the North Yorkshire coast and shook the town of Whitby. Several ships were sunk but all the crews were saved. It was the heroism of the lifeboat crew that has captured the imagination ever since. The 13 man lifeboat crew put out to sea despite the fact that the previous rescues had left them exhausted. By 2pm that day the schooner Merchant was in the early stages of running onto the beach when the lifeboat began pulling alongside. But at that moment the lifeboat turned completely over, throwing her crew into the sea. The crew were only 50 yards from the pier and wearing lifejackets, but only one of these men, Henry Freeman, would make it to shore. Of the 13 men who set out for the daring rescue, he was the sole survivor. The people lining the shores watching the drama unfold were horrified, but could do nothing to help. Rockets were fired to aid the men, and several onlookers dived in to save the men, only to find themselves in need of help.
In the mayhem and confusion of the closing months of the Second World War, the Nazis embarked on a trail of destruction to prevent the priceless treasures they had looted from falling into Allied hands. Many were lost to posterity, including the 200-year-old gold-panelled Amber Room and the Spear of Longinus, said to have been the weapon that had pierced Christ on the Cross. Yet – what if these extraordinary treasures had not been destroyed but hidden? One old man knows the key to the mystery, and before he dies he manages to pass it on. His cryptic message sends journalist and ex-soldier Jack Cunningham on a mission to hunt down the truth. Jack does not know that the dreaded Totenkopf, the secret successor to Hitler’s SS, are watching his every move…
In 1991, unable to have a second child because of a medical problem and struggling to cope in a failing marriage, New Zealander Adele Rickerby decided to take her future in her hands by adopting a child from Romania. The misguided policies of the recently-deposed Ceasescu government on family planning had led to the birth of an estimated 100,000 unwanted babies in that country. The Promise I Kept is Adele’s story of her nightmare journey halfway round the world to find and adopt a baby, to negotiate her way through the barriers created by red tape and corrupt officialdom and finally to carry her tiny new daughter safely home to a life where she could be properly loved and cared for.
In 1914 Herbert Hoskins joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment to fight in the First World War. As a captain, he soon found himself serving in the muddy, disease-ridden trenches of the Somme. Captain Hoskins’ letters, carefully compiled by his grandson, reveal the horrific experiences Captain Hoskins and his men endured and the extraordinary courage and stoicism they displayed as they faced illness, treacherous weather and an indefatigable enemy during the most gruelling years of the conflict. The letters reveal not only the hardship they suffered but the indomitable spirit that helped Hoskins and his men – some of them - survive. A remarkable blend of tragedy and stiff upper lip British humour, Thank You Mister Bosh, That’s Close Enough! is a moving account of the war that killed nine million men.
Martin Rickerd considered accountancy, the Merchant Navy and journalism before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office a month after his eighteenth birthday as a filing clerk. Promotion soon followed, and there followed 38 years of adventure and challenge in the diplomatic service in countries around the world, from New Zealand to Barbados, Italy to Singapore and Liberia to the USA, interspersed by spells back at HQ in London. By the end of it all he had risen to the rank of Consul General, the senior resident British Government representative in an area of the southern USA three times the size of the United Kingdom. Despite all this responsibility Martin has never taken himself too seriously, as this book shows.
In the course of the Second World War, more than a quarter of a million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia, the Dutch East Indies and the Pacific. They went on to suffer years of deprivation and brutality, most of them failing to survive at all. Harold Atcherley was fortunate enough to be one of the survivors. Throughout his time as a prisoner, from the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 until 14 September 1945, he kept a diary, which he was able to bring home with him. This book is based on that diary, along with other diaries and official documents. He was fortunate enough to count among his friends and comrades the celebrated artist Ronald Searle, whose drawings have been used to illustrate his text; they give a far better impression of what life was like for a POW of the Japanese than mere words can, though neither words nor pictures could ever convey the appalling stench of disease and death on such a massive scale.
Absinthe, LSD, Speed and anti-cancer drugs - these three entertaining stories explore how drugs, both legal and otherwise, can affect the lives of those who make them and those who use them. The author, a former professor of chemistry, has previously written three popular science books: Murder, Magic and Medicine, the Elusive Magic Bullet and Chasms of Delight (also published by Memoirs). This is his first work of fiction.
The greatest danger in digging through the past is not what you find, but what you leave behind…When archaeologist Dr. Thomas Long stumbles upon a pristine Viking burial site he can barely contain himself. That is until an old friend offers him the chance to really get close to some long-gone worlds. Dr. Jon Walker has cracked time travel but before he can shoot back into the past he needs a team he can trust. Along with his remarkable assistant Gracie Stevenson, Thomas begins a perilous journey into the darkest depths of history. Mistaken for Norse gods by Vikings in frozen Denmark, unwittingly embroiled in a mutiny on Blackbeard’s ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, and forced to pursue the elusive Jack the Ripper though the streets of Victorian London, the team quickly realise that the lure of easily-gained gold and power are sometimes too tempting to ignore. As the dangers mount ever higher, Thomas rapidly realises that meddling in the past could do more than change his life…it could change the world.
One winter’s evening in 1821, stung by his girlfriend Eliza’s rejection, 17-year-old John Horwood picked up a stone and flung it at her. That thoughtless act of fury was to cost both these young people their lives. A prominent surgeon who clearly placed his own reputation above the care of his patients carried out an operation on Eliza which he must have known would probably kill her - as it did. Smith kept her skull for teaching purposes, and when John was sentenced to hang for her death he made sure the youth’s body would be his to dismember. He even had a book bound with John Horwood’s skin. When Mary Halliwell, a descendant of John Horwood, unearthed this grotesque and shocking story, she and her husband Dave went into action. 190 years after the fateful day when John’s young life was so unjustly snuffed out, they finally managed to arrange a Christian burial for his remains.
When Edith Hofmann sat down to write this book, she was a 19-year-old coming to terms with the fact of her own survival. It is a story which describes a struggle; the struggle to come to terms with a haunting past, the struggle to survive, and the struggle to unburden a broken heart. It also embodies a struggle to form, in language, that which at times all but defies linguistic form. When Hofmann started writing this book she had only been speaking English for two years, and yet she wanted to convey her experiences, in English, to those with whom she had made her home. The cruel reality was that no one really wanted to hear. She poured out her soul, only to be told that 'no one was interested in the war any more'. This was 1950. Some fifty years later she revisited the manuscript, wondering whether such a text would have any value. For fifty years her text had lain in her drawer, waiting to be read. Her story is a novel, but it certainly is not a fiction. Scared for her own safety, Hofmann chose to write in the third person rather than pen a memoir. Every page is bound up with the intricate details of her life, those whom she loved, and those whom she lost; the echoes of those terrible years, and the memory they imposed. In compiling this text, she decided neither to change it, by removing discrepancies or updating anything, which Hofmann wrote in the late 1940s, nor to improve her English, but rather to leave it as a raw and indelible testimony not only to her survival but to her bid to survive survival. You will be moved; not only by what she has written, but by the fact that she wrote at all.
Occupational fraud - stealing from your employer - is booming across the globe, costing companies millions. In the USA it is the fastestgrowing form of crime, and in the UK it is responsible for one in five small business failures. In a survey in the UK, 72 per cent of employees admitted stealing from their firms more than once. Dr Brian Warrington began to study occupational fraud when the company he chaired fell victim. He has since carried out research into the behaviour patterns which give potential perpetrators away,finding tell-tale personality disorders in some employees of every company he examined. He believes bosses can often nip the problem in the bud by learning to spot the early warning signs which are always present. This book tells you how.
Roland Minor knew early on that he wanted to become a vet. After graduating from Cambridge University, he left the UK in 1963 for his first post, in Uganda. He has since spent most of his life in Africa, holding senior government posts or practising independently in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Botswana, with a brief return to the UK in 2001 to help manage the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. He is now retired to the island of Lamu, off the north coast of Kenya. A Lot of Loose Ends is Rolandʼs account of his experiences in treating animals of all shapes and sizes and his many encounters with farmers, pet owners and politicians. Some of the tales he has to tell are hilarious, others hair-raising and a few horrific, but all are fascinating.
Tony Kelly was football crazy from the age of seven. At sixteen he was the youngest ever player in the first team at Bristol City and in his twenties he became a pro, playing for clubs such Stoke City and Cardiff City in the Football League, second and third divisions. But his blossoming soccer career was marred by a series of mishaps and misdeeds which drove him to disaster. Ruined by an addiction to gambling, he lost his job, his career, his partner and all his money. Now he has written his story – as Kelly puts it, to “invite the public, my family and my friends into my secret hell of racism, despair, depression, stardom, gambling addiction and ultimately self-destruction”. Red Card is a tragic yet uplifting story of a sportsman’s battle with his demons, on and off the pitch.
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When young Rod Brown’s mother happened to spot an advertisement in the local paper for engineers to work on a tea company’s estates in India and Pakistan, Rod dismissed the idea. But having put in an application to keep her happy, he was amazed to be offered a position – and soon realised it would give him a chance to break free of the boredom and frustration of his monotonous factory job. A few weeks later Rod set sail for a new life in India, the start of a long career in the tea industry during which he fell in love with the country and its way of life. Yet he never forgot the girl he’d left behind in England, and returned after four years to marry her. Tea and Me is the story of Rod Brown’s colourful early years in West Bengal in the 1950s, complete with encounters with tigers, leopards and poisonous snakes and some hilarious adventures with the local people.
Maurice Neal was 15 when he joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1906. By the time his regiment was shipped off to the Somme to fight in the First World War, he was a relatively experienced young sergeant. He and his men soon found themselves plunged into the full horror of trench warfare, daily enduring the shock of losing comrades and lying for hours in the mud surrounded by dead and injured fellow soldiers and deafened by the thunder of the bombs and guns. Throughout, Maurice kept a candid and beautifully-written diary of events: “Suddenly, a convulsion shakes him from head to foot and he lies still. The blood rapidly drains away from his face and hands. He turns ashen grey, and I realize that no more will Paddy sing to us… I look to the man on my right. He is making a gurgling noise and blood is oozing from his mouth – he does not live long. What are our orders? Are we to lie like this until a bullet accounts for us all?” Now, almost a century later, Maurice’s diary can be published in full, thanks to the efforts of his granddaughter, Stephanie Hillier.
Kamal Siddiqui managed to combine a career as a civil service in the Pakistan government, during which he reached the positions of Principal Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Secretary, with campaigning for the liberation of Bangladesh. He also gained top-level qualifications in the 1970s and 80s in Development Studies, South Asian Studies and Development Economics. He was also on the Board of the Asian Development Bank and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and worked as an economic diplomat in China. Since his retirement in 2006 he has focused on teaching in several countries. In this book he combines a fascinating account of his life with an exposé of how politics works in third-world countries, complete with stories of corruption and incompetence at the highest level.
On September 11, 2008, Warrant Officer Dominic Hagans of the 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment became the latest casualty of the Afghan war when an improvised enemy bomb exploded under his vehicle, wrecking his legs and changing his life forever. As he embarked on the long road to rehabilitation and partial recovery, WO2 Hagans decided to record his experiences and those some of his comrades in print. Wounded Rangers is a compilation of no-punches-pulled true stories from the front line, plus the heart-rending story of a mother whose son was critically injured on the battlefield. Harrowing and often shocking as these accounts are, the professional soldier’s determination to do his duty and his indomitable sense of humour shine through. All the proceeds from this book will go to the welfare fund of the 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment, to help meet the cost of caring for their wounded and helping them to adapt and adjust to their injuries.
Can training in the martial arts help you in everyday life? In Pragmatic Karate Mark Jennings argues that it certainly can. Provided you have a thorough grounding in the principles of this ancient fighting art and take the right approach, both physically and mentally, the karate moves you learn in the dojo can prove invaluable in a confrontation, or threatened confrontation, in ways more subtle that most people realise. Your karate training can even change the way you look at the safety of your family and your home. This is a detailed, authoritative work from a karate practitioner with 35 years’ experience who is also a long-serving police officer.
When Russell Nash was asked to move out to China to commission a mill in Shanghai, he had no idea that it would be the start of a whole new life in the Orient. After having worked for more than twenty years in the animal feed business and watching his children grow up, Russell found himself in a dull life and a stagnant marriage. It was time for a change and a business trip to China was to be the catalyst for Russell's personal revolution. Despite the noise, strange food and the lack of proper queuing etiquette, Russell slowly fell under China's spell and before long found himself returning to the great nation - for good! Entranced by the women, of whom he has plenty of stories to tell, and mesmerised by the unique culture, Russell's adventures abroad are certainly exotic and a world apart from the safe predictable life he'd known in Britain. Funny, cutting, vivid and often explicit, Yellow Fever is the story of Russell's first three years in China and the women who made him want to stay
Robin Chesham is a successful consultant surgeon with a keen interest in genetics. When he meets Georgiana Gilmour, a young rising star in the field, at an international medical conference, the attraction is immediate, powerful and mutual. But surely, thinks Robin, he has met Georgiana somewhere before. United by common professional interests, a shared love of culture and an irresistible emotional and physical attraction, Robin and Georgiana become lovers. As they are swept away in an increasingly powerful tide of love and desire, their illicit life together seems almost too good to be true. But then a chance meeting opens up a secret from the past, and reveals to Robin why he feels so drawn to Georgiana, and she to him. And this is not the last shock that fate has in store for them both… The Passion Gene is a fascinating first novel from the pen of Louis de Savy, a former hospital consultant.
Abused, assaulted and forced into near-slavery by her alcoholic mother, young Susie Caddy flees her home in the slums of the industrial north-east of England to begin a new life with a respectable middle-class family in London, where she blossoms into a beautiful young woman. But Susie’s troubles are just beginning. Having been swept off her feet by a man who turns out to be a faithless bully, she finds love amid the bombs and blackouts of Second World War London, only to encounter tragedy and heartbreak. It is not until the dust has settled on the conflict that Susanne, as she is now known, is presented with the chance of peace, love and happiness from an unexpected source – until her sordid roots threaten to catch up with her.
Raised to a life of relentless hard work as one of seven children of a single mother, Julie Waterman was married and having her own first child by the time she was 17. At 23 she was running her own cleaning company, making such a success of it that she was soon employing 400 people. But at 35 she gave it all up to buy a second-hand yacht and embarked on the biggest adventure of all - an attempt to sail single-handed round the world. There were parties in every port, along with a string of romances, some hilarious adventures and several narrow escapes from a watery grave. But Julie stuck to her plan - until a tropical storm left her shipwrecked on an island in the South Pacific, where she lived for three glorious years, falling in love with a handsome young French diplomat. Unfortunately her new paramour turned out not to be all he seemed - and Julie's round-the-world adventure was far from over. Shipwrecked in Paradise is the story of Julie Waterman's remarkable voyage across the world, complete with laughter, lovers, maritime mishaps, port parties and pink gins