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Two Children Behind A Wall
Catherine Laylle
In 1984, Catherine Laylle, a Frenchwomen living in London, met and married a German medical student, Dieter. The couple had two sons, Alexander and Constantin. When, however, at Di...
China Rises
John Farndon
With a population of 1¼ billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countries in the world. But while it is...
Not Waving But Drowning
Edmund Gregory
Not Waving But Drowning tells the harrowing true story of one man's childhood struggle against poverty and his subsequent drive to become a policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabula...
Standing at the Scratch Line
Guy Johnson
Raised in the steamy bayous of New Orleans in the early 1900s, LeRoi "King" Tremain, caught up in his family's ongoing feud with the rival DuMont family, learns to fight. But when ...
Silence Of The Heart
David Frith
Cricket has an alarming suicide rate. Among international players for England and several other countries it is far above the national average for all sports: and there have been n...
Hooked
Clare Gee
In Hooked, reformed addict Clare Gee draws on her own experiences of cocaine addiction, alcoholism and prostitution in telling the sensational story of a woman living on the edge.E...
Shell Shock
Ian Cummins & John Beasant
Royal Dutch/Shell is a multinational behemoth. Every four seconds of every day, 1,200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civi...
If I Should Die Before I Wake
Eileen Munro
In her bestselling memoir As I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Eileen Munro vividly documented the abuse she experienced at the hands of her adoptive parents and, later, within the care syst...
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay & Isaac Kramnick
Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept ...
Dirty Tricks
Martyn Gregory
Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic was valued at over £1.2 billion when he sold a 49% stake to Singapore Airlines in 1999. This was an extraordinary achievement for an airline t...
Flight Of The Titans
Kenny Kemp
The gripping story of the biggest trade war in aviation history. In October 2007, the colossal Airbus A380, the largest commercial jet in history, will take to the skies. This giga...
Social Mobility
Lee Elliot Major & Stephen Machin
What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?How does education help and hinder us in improving our life chances?Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our ...
Dangerous Love
Kate Lock
When Kate Lock first met Tim Franklin she was a naive undergraduate, and he was a charismatic mature student. One night in the pub he casually revealed that he was a 'lifer'. A dom...
The Econocracy
Joe Earle, Cahal Moran & Zach Ward-Perkins
A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it...
Female Terror
Ann Magma
'IT WAS NOT MURDER. WE ARE NOT MURDERERS. IT WAS THE EXECUTION OF AN ORDER, SATAN ORDERED US AND WE HAD TO COMPLY. IT WAS NOT SOMETHING BAD. IT SIMPLY HAD TO BE. WE WANTED TO MAKE ...
Glasgow
John Burrowes
Not only has Glasgow produced some incredible personalities, it has also been witness to some of the greatest happenings of our times. These outstanding people and epochmaking even...
Factory
Mick Middles
Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands Joy Division and New Order and one personality that of its director, Tony Wilson. At the height of the label's success ...