Everest was, to George Mallory, 'the wildest dream'. This gentleman adventurer was obsessed with taming the unconquered peak. But in 1924 he and climbing partner Sandy Irvine disappeared forever into the clouds encircling the peak. Might they have reached the summit before their tragedy? It is mountaineering's greatest mystery. Seventy-five years later, Conrad Anker made an extraordinary discovery. He spotted 'a patch of white' on Everest's North Face. It was Mallory's frozen body. Artefacts found on Mallory's body implied that he might have made it to the top. But that route had never since been climbed without modern equipment. Was it possible? To find out Anker returned to Everest, with death-defying young 'rock star' of climbing Leo Houlding as his partner. Kitted out in period clothing, they set off to replicate the unaided climb. Mallory's fate was a chilling reminder of the mountain's might. But they knew that to solve Everest's greatest mystery they must push their very limits.

Double Take is a true account of 50 uplifting stories of personal synchronicity experienced by author Michael Clenshaw over 50 years of his life. They offer insight and hope into the purpose and relevance of these fairly rare experiences. The reader is invited to a delightful participation in the sharing of these meaningful events. Synchronicity was a term coined by Carl Jung, the Swiss Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst to denote two or more meaningful coincidences. Albert Einstein once said that 'coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous'. The author has faithfully documented 50 true personal stories involving synchronistic events which have happened to him over 50 years. These events have almost always been answers to his own personal life questions although the reader is encouraged to identify with events in their own lives, which may offer them significant insights into their own inner worlds and experiences.

THE SEQUEL TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, 1963: A SLICE OF BREAD AND JAM Placing a child in care doesn't mean caring for a child. When little Tommy Rhattigan was taken into care in 1963 aged just 7, he entered a closed off world of institutionalised sexual abuse. Moved between a care home in Manchester and a reform school in Liverpool, the state was supposed to pick up the duty of care that his parents had failed to give him. But instead, separated from his siblings, young Tommy was thrown to the wolves. Tommy Rhattigan takes us, in his own inimitable way, back to his own childhood of pranks, cruelty and laughter, grown from a need to survive his daily torment and to stick two fingers up to the system that was failing him so spectacularly. Reader can't get enough of Boy Number 26: 'A heart-wrenching story' 'This is a good book that definitely needs to be read by anyone who cares about children or mental health' 'Rhattigan is honest and brutal in his writing' (Real reader reviews taken from NetGalley.co.uk)