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Author:
Paul Connolly
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John Blake
It had been years since I had seen any of the children with whom I had grown up. When I left the children's home, I promised myself that I would have nothing to do with them, I was sure that my only chance of living a good life would be to put the past behind me, even though that meant saying goodbye to some of the people I loved the most - as well as the ones I hated...it turned out that six of us had died, several by slow suicide in the form of heroin abuse, and at least two by faster means. When two police officers arrived out of the blue at Paul Connolly's door, he learned the shocking news that, out of the eight children with whom he shared a dormitory in care, only ...
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Author:
Benjamin Daniels
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The Friday Project
THE UK'S BESTSELLING EBOOK OF 2011.Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn't sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with 'tummy aches' that don't really exist.These are his patients.Confessions of a GP is a witty insight into the life of a fami...
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Author:
Mark Stevens
Broadmoor Revealed gives the reader a glimpse behind the walls of England's first Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
Focused on the Victorian period, the book tells the stories of some of the hospital's best-known patients. There is Edward Oxford, who shot at Queen Victoria, and Richard Dadd, the brilliant artist and murderer of his father. There is also William Chester Minor, the surgeon from America who killed a stranger in London, and then played a key part in creating the world's finest dictionary. Finally, there is Christiana Edmunds, 'The Chocolate Cream Poisoner' and frustrated lover.
To these four tales are added new ones, previously unknown. There were five w...
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Author:
Jennifer Worth
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Phoenix
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Author:
Jennifer Worth
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Phoenix
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Author:
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Public Domain Books
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Author:
Jennifer Worth
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Phoenix
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List Price: £7.99
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Author:
Heath Samples
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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
"This is BBC Television from London, normal programming has been suspended and we now join Martin Lewis in the news studio.
Diana, Princess of Wales has narrowly avoided injury following a car crash in Paris, the French Government confirmed just before 5am this morning."
Have you ever wondered how Princess Diana would have lived her life, had she survived?
How would her life have affected ours, the people around us and those in power?
In an explosive and thrilling storyline, the car crash, what did she think just happened? Diana's relationship with Dodi, what would life look like if they had a child together..
Nineteen year old Ella h...
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Author:
Safiya Hussain
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New Age Publishers UK
What would you do if your whole world came crashing down?
Broken promises of love. Deceits of life. Safiya is deep in despair and nearing self-destruction. But a chance opportunity to escape suicidal misery beckons her.
Millions said 'it is the land of wishes'. Mecca - Saudi Arabia. Millions said 'it is a life changing journey'. Hajj - the pilgrimage.
England to Arabia. Thrown into garments resembling a death shroud she embarks on the Hajj and enters the spellbinding world of ancient Islamic practices. To save herself. Alongside three million foreign and unpredictable pilgrims she makes her weeping wish in the celestial palace of Mecca. She camps with...
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Author:
Jennifer Worth
By
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour. She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction. Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 18...
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