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Now available in an updated edition called Exploited, available in print and ebook.

'I'd never have guessed that when your world's tumbling down you can carry on as usual.

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This autobiography describes one of the worst refugee tragedies of WWII. Tens of thousands of civilians perished on the dreaded Hukwang Valley trail. Colin's extraordinary journey takes him from his birth- place in Burma to Britain, and on to Bowral in NSW.

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A brilliantly funny and nostalgic look at 1960s and 70s childhood as well as a more serious examination of boy's (and some men's) obsession with war.

Known as "The Black Widow" because every man she has been involved with is either dead or in prision, Linda Calvey is the stuff of East End legend. Her life of crime began first as look out, and then progressed to a getaway driver and finally she donned a balaclava and wielded the shotgun herself.

Gamesman, tactician, provocateur, Edward de Bono is an entrepreneur whose product is thinking. In this biography, Piers Dudgeon reveals the man and the way he developed his thinking systems and provides a synthesis of his ideas, showing how they have been employed in businesses around the world.

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Noongar woman, Dot Collard is as natural a storyteller as she is an international actress. In this candid memoir, she weaves together memories and stories centered around her family in Western Australia's south-west.

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An inimitable collection of outrageous and unforgettable twentieth-century lives

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As one of Britain's best and most loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Including a new introduction, this re-issue marks a return to that particular journey. 'Certainly the best first-hand account ever written by a traveller across the boundaries of sex.' Daily Mail

This is the powerful story of a little girl's sexual abuse at the hands of the father she loved and trusted, and of her triumph as a young woman in seeing him convicted for his crime

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This is more than straightforward misery. It shows us the difficulty faced by Muslim girls growing up in 1980s Britain; deals with the horror of arranged marriages and the fall out when it goes wrong; what it means to be alienated from those you love and details the trauma involved in being a prostitute who loathes what she does, whilst celebrating the freedom it brings

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From graveside punch-ups and gangland-style funerals to the sci-fi mysteries of cryonic suspension, this is the story of Barry Albin-Dyer, who runs one of the UK's oldest family firms of funeral directors. Lifting the lid on the profession of death, it shows that life can be stranger than fiction.

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A unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity, by the NYT bestselling author, Oprah "Chutzpah" award-winner, and founder of the Moral Courage Project

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This work is a collection of life experiences recounted by senior Aboriginal women from Wirrimanu, Malarn and Yaka Yaka communities of the Balgo area in the East Kimberley. It provides an insight into the lives, culture and history of the people of the desert, as seen through the eyes of the women.

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In the ninth volume of James Lees-Milne's diaries, the ardour towards their eventual editor M, has cooled to a more durable tenderness, and while his bride's finger waits outstretched, Kenneth Clark discusses with the priest the Coptic wedding ring he has chosen.

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Explores the delights and absurdities of late-flowering love.

Joan Hannington has more balls than your average blonde. One of the most notorious figures in London's criminal underworld, she has seen it and done it all. She is that rare thing: a tough woman whose no crap attitude and irrepressible spirit have earned her respect in a man's world. Here is the story of a true survivor.

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This is the autobiographical account of a Yamaji man from the Murchison River area of western Australia, one of the first generation of Aboriginal people who had access to alcohol. It is a story of hard work, addiction, recovery, relapse, and finally successful recovery. It offers an illustration of

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Modern Women is a celebration of 52 influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions

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The last pill and testament from Britain's most famous and well-loved drug smuggler, Howard Marks.

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An extraordinary friendship formed in the most unlikely of circumstances. When James Frey first meets Leonard in the rehabilitation centre where they are both recovering drug addicts. Despite their highly unreliable track records their shared grit and humour sparks a mutual admiration which transforms into loyalty.

Nietzsche is one of the most controversial philosophers of the modern age. Here, Safranski positions the details of Nietzsche's unhappy life within the context of his thought, looking at Nietzsche's boyhood obsession with music, his time in the army, his friendship with Wagner and his unrequited love for Lou Andreas Salome.

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Powerful, inspirational, and raw, Queen Pin is the story of Jemeker Thompson-Hairston, who ran one of the country's most profitable drug cartels in the 80s and 90s.

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What really goes on behind bars - the truth about life as a prison officer