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Tell Me Everything - The Story of a Private Investigation (Paperback): Erika Krouse Tell Me Everything - The Story of a Private Investigation (Paperback)
Erika Krouse
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Most Excellent Order of The British Empire - With a foreword by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. (Hardcover, 2nd... The Most Excellent Order of The British Empire - With a foreword by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. (Hardcover, 2nd Enhanced edition)
Peter Galloway
R1,364 Discovery Miles 13 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire celebrated its centenary year in 2017. In the past one hundred years, the order has gone from a way of rewarding men and women of all walks of life for service during the Great War to one of the most recognisable orders in the world.

Into the Southern Ocean: The Perilous Voyages of the Elsi Arrub 2016 (Paperback): Into the Southern Ocean: The Perilous Voyages of the Elsi Arrub 2016 (Paperback)
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Very Cumbrian Murder - The Tragic Story of the Lady in the Lake (Paperback): Douglas Binstead A Very Cumbrian Murder - The Tragic Story of the Lady in the Lake (Paperback)
Douglas Binstead
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A full and frank account of a unique case and one of the most notorious in our criminal history. The detail comes from the personal knowledge and recollections of one who was closely involved in the prosecution of the accused, Gordon Park, who was eventually convicted of the crime nearly thirty years after its commission. The author is a former solicitor and Crown Advocate who prosecuted cases in the criminal courts for more than thirty-five years.

Glamorgan's Greatest Generation (Paperback): Malcolm Cowper Glamorgan's Greatest Generation (Paperback)
Malcolm Cowper
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rogues - True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Paperback): Patrick Radden Keefe Rogues - True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Paperback)
Patrick Radden Keefe
R350 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R33 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he's a national treasure.' Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe's work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.' Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the 'worst of the worst', among other bravura works of literary journalism. The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.

Getting Through it - a Fathers Perspective (Paperback): Jamie Rogers Getting Through it - a Fathers Perspective (Paperback)
Jamie Rogers
R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After losing his wife to cancer and suffering mental health problems, Jamie Rogers knew that things could be made better. Sharing stories of other bereaved fathers, interleaved with information regarding hospice help, this book is designed to dispel some of the myths surrounding hospice care.

The Baby Thief - The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s.... The Baby Thief - The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s. (Paperback)
Barbara Bisantz Raymond 1
R261 R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on extensive interviews and correspondence with many of Tann's surviving victims, Barbara Raymond shows how Tann not only popularised adoption - which until then had been feared and discouraged - but also commercialised and corrupted it. She tells how Tann abducted babies or coerced women to leave their children in her care and then sold them. To cover her kidnapping crimes she falsified birth certificates, a practice that was approved by legislators who believed it would spare adoptees the taint of illegitimacy - an one that still holds today in the form of 'amended' birth certificates and closed adoption records. Uncovering many life-shattering stories along the way, Raymond recounts how Tann openly sold more that 5,000 children, and killed so many through neglect that Memphis's infant mortality rate soared to the highest in the country. She explores how Tann's operation was able to thrive in a Tennessee governed by 'Boss' Ed Crump and the political network that allowed her to operate with impunity. And she portrays the lack of options available to women, affecting not only the birth mothers she robbed, but also Tann herself, who turned to social work after having been barred for a 'masculine profession' - the law. Written by an adoptive mother, The Baby Thief is part social history, part detective story, and part expose. It is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate in the modern era, when baby sellers operate overseas. It is particularly relevant at this time in the UK, amidst heated national debate over the controversial adoption targets that seem to provide a perverse incentive to remove babies from birth parents.

My Friend Anna - The True Story of a Fake Heiress (Paperback): Rachel DeLoache Williams My Friend Anna - The True Story of a Fake Heiress (Paperback)
Rachel DeLoache Williams
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Killer by Design - Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind (Paperback): Ann Wolbert Burgess A Killer by Design - Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind (Paperback)
Ann Wolbert Burgess; As told to Steven Matthew Constantine
R462 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and Lives It Shattered (Paperback): Don Yaeger It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and Lives It Shattered (Paperback)
Don Yaeger
R502 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward.
It was 4:35 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's darkest hour had arrived in an unexpected and explosive announcement.
Pressler, a three-time ACC Coach of the Year, informed his team that its season was canceled and he had "resigned," effective immediately. While his words reverberated off the walls, hysteria erupted. Players cried, confused over a course of events that had spun wildly out of control. What began as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers had accelerated into a rape investigation -- one that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment, and the media's disregard for the facts -- dividing both a prestigious university and the city of Durham.
Wiping away tears, Pressler demonstrated the steely resolve that helped him win more than two hundred games. For the next thirty minutes, Pressler put his personal situation aside and encouraged his players to stick together. He also made a bold promise: "One day, we will get a chance to tell the world the truth. One day."
This is that day.
Pressler, who has not done an interview since the saga began, has handed his private diary from those three weeks to New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger, exposing vivid details, including the day Pressler was fired, when the coach asked Athletic Director Joe Alleva why the school "wasn't willing to wait for the truth" to come out. "It's not about the truth anymore," Alleva said to the coach in a signature moment that said it all. In addition to Pressler, Yaeger interviewed more than seventy-five key figures intimately involved in the case. The result is a tale that defies logic.
"It is tough to be one of fifty people who believed a story when fifty million people believed something else," Pressler said. "This wasn't about the truth to many of the others involved. My story is all about the truth."

India Travels (Paperback): Darren Stevens India Travels (Paperback)
Darren Stevens
R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The journal of an Englishman's solo trip across Northern India Have you ever considered visiting the Taj Mahal or exploring the pink city of Jaipur? Or maybe a trek to see a tiger in the wild is more to your taste? Join me on my adventures where I encounter colourful temples, tempting curries and eventful drives along some of the world's most dangerous roads.

The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota (Paperback): Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota (Paperback)
Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle
R501 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Minnesota might not seem like an obvious place to look for traces of Ku Klux Klan parade grounds, but this northern state was once home to fifty-one chapters of the KKK. Elizabeth Hatle tracks down the history of the Klan in Minnesota, beginning with the racially charged atmosphere that produced the tragic 1920 Duluth lynchings. She measures the influence the organization wielded at the peak of its prominence within state politics and tenaciously follows the careers of the Klansmen who continued life in the public sphere after the Hooded Order lost its foothold in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.

The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance (Paperback): Mensun Bound The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance (Paperback)
Mensun Bound
R360 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022 On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all 28 men on board have entered legend. And yet, the iconic ship that bore them to the brink of the Antarctic was considered forever lost. A century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatched. The Ship Beneath the Ice gives a blow-by-blow account of the two epic expeditions to find the Endurance. As with Shackleton's own story, the voyages were filled with intense drama and teamwork under pressure. In March 2022, the Endurance was finally found to headlines all over the world. Written by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on both expeditions, this captivating narrative includes countless fascinating stories of Shackleton and his legendary ship. Complete with a selection of Frank Hurley's photos from Shackleton's original voyage in 1914-17, as well as from the expeditions in 2019 and 2022, The Ship Beneath the Ice is the perfect tribute to this monumental discovery.

Love and Wheatgrass (Paperback): Lorraine Ereira Love and Wheatgrass (Paperback)
Lorraine Ereira
R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From MTV to Mecca - How Islam inspired my life (Paperback): Kristiane Backer From MTV to Mecca - How Islam inspired my life (Paperback)
Kristiane Backer 1
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the early 1990's Kristiane Backer was one of the very first presenters of MTV Europe. For some years she lived and breathed the international music scene, quickly gaining a cult following amongst viewers and becoming a darling of European press. As she reached the pinnacle of her success she realised that, despite having all she could have wished for, she was never truly satisfied. Something very important was missing. A fateful meeting with Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan changed her life. He invited her to his country where she encountered a completely different world from the one she knew, the religion and culture of Islam. Instead of pop and rock stars she was meeting men and women whose lives were dominated by the love of God and who cared very little for the brief glories of this world. She began to read the Quaran and to study books about the Faith. A few years later, after travelling more widely in the Islamic world and knowing that she had discovered her spiritual path, she embraced Islam in a London mosque. And then her real adventures began.In this very personal memoir Kristiane Backer tells the story of her conversion and explains how faith, despite the many challenges she faced, has given her inner peace and the meaning she sought.

Finding Stefan - Colin's Story (Paperback): Hazel Hartstone Finding Stefan - Colin's Story (Paperback)
Hazel Hartstone
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The extraordinary story of how a Derbyshire coal miner survived as an escaped POW in occupied Poland by posing as a deaf-mute for three years. A few years before Colin Marshall died in 1993 he wrote his story and gave it to his daughter Hazel. She knew he'd had an extraordinary life but she read things he had never talked about, and it seemed part of another world. Years later, after Hazel's mother Nancy died, Hazel found tucked away in a cupboard, unseen letters, postcards and photographs that her mother had saved from Colin's time in Poland during WWII. As a tribute to her dad and the Polish people who helped him, Hazel decided to turn it into a book. This true story takes the reader from Colin growing-up in a Derbyshire mining village in the 1920s: starting work at the local colliery, joining the Lincolnshire Regiment of the Royal Engineers, being called-up at the outbreak of war, captured at Dunkirk and escaping from a POW camp in Poland - to being befriended by a Polish family, in a village occupied by German soldiers. Unable at that time to speak Polish, he posed as a deaf-mute for three years to avoid capture. Any slip-up and Colin knew that his Polish friends would be shot. It is a story of courage and determination and of two Polish families who risked their lives in order to save others.

Murder, Inc - The Mafia's Hit Men in New York City (Paperback): Graham K. Bell Murder, Inc - The Mafia's Hit Men in New York City (Paperback)
Graham K. Bell
R442 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen and garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership was diverse; the mob recruited men from all ethnicities and religious backgrounds. Most were natives of the Big Apple, handpicked from the city's toughest neighborhoods: Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Flushing. So prolific were their exploits that the media soon dubbed this bevy of hired hands Murder, Incorporated. The brainchild of aging mob bosses, including Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, this ruthless hit squad quickly captured America's attention, making headlines coast to coast for over two decades. As for who these men were and how their partnership came to be, join author Graham Bell as he sheds light on this dark history of the Mafia's most notorious crime syndicate.

Zodiac - The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer (Paperback, Media tie-in): Robert Graysmith Zodiac - The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer (Paperback, Media tie-in)
Robert Graysmith 2
R233 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R39 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is so much fun...the most thrilling experience..." This shocking true crime classic is now a major movie. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the authorities with mocking notes telling where he would strike next. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed 37 dead. He was never caught. Author Robert Graysmith tells the inside story of the hunt for the hooded killer, and finally reveals his possible true identity. The new movie "Zodiac" is based on this book. Directed by David Fincher ("Fight Club"), it stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Graysmith himself, Robert Downey Jr and Chloe Sevigny.

Anatomy of a Crime (Paperback): Tom Smith Anatomy of a Crime (Paperback)
Tom Smith
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Homeward Bound - After a Lifetime at Sea (Paperback): Bill Van Bommel Homeward Bound - After a Lifetime at Sea (Paperback)
Bill Van Bommel
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Having skippered and delivered in excess of 750 Motor Cruisers over the past 40 years, totalling a distance equivalent to 29 times around the world, has provided me with a number of adventurous and sometimes hair-raising stories to tell. Thankfully, I have lived to tell the tales! "Homeward Bound" starts with daily notes of the author's last single-handed voyage from the south of France to the south coast of England. In between these notes he recalls some of his memorable adventures, which he tells in such a way that the reader could almost be there with him, often experiencing how quickly a difficult situation at sea can turn into a disastrous one. Although showing the serious side of sailing there is also a fair amount of humour in his writing. An enjoyable and entertaining read.

The Vapors - A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of... The Vapors - A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice (Paperback)
David Hill
R465 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Organ Thieves - The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South (Paperback): Chip Jones The Organ Thieves - The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South (Paperback)
Chip Jones
R481 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Eager Traveller (Paperback): Joanna Quant Saunders Eager Traveller (Paperback)
Joanna Quant Saunders
R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eager Traveller was written for the grandchildren of the author in order that they should see how different life was fifty years ago. It is the story of a London child, dominated by a stern father, who spent much of her time in the company of loving relatives. On leaving school her father sent her into private service where she was the lowest of the low, and made to take orders from all and sundry. She enjoyed the travels of the great families and their families and their servants as they moved about the country following the huntin', shootin' and fishin' seasons. She married a farm worker and as there was little money she was unable to travel, so she became an "Armchair Traveller" until chance and someone's bad luck took her abroad for the first time at the age of forty-one. From then on travel came frequently and the greatest adventure came in 1971 when she took her family behind the Iron Curtain into Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. They found kind and happy people who, although they had known great sufferings, showed kindness to the "Engleski". A strong psychic thread runs through the story

God's Hostage - A True Story Of Persecution, Imprisonment, and Perseverance (Paperback): God's Hostage - A True Story Of Persecution, Imprisonment, and Perseverance (Paperback)
R298 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R52 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The incredible true story of one man's imprisonment for the gospel; his brokenness, God's faithfulness and his eventual freedom. In 1993, Andrew Brunson was asked to travel to Turkey, the largest unevangelised country in the world, to serve as a missionary. Though hesitant because of the daunting and dangerous task that lay ahead, Andrew and his wife, Norine, believed this was God's plan for them. What followed was a string of threats and attacks,but also successes in starting new churches in a place where many people had never met a Christian. As their work with refugees from Syria, including Kurds, gained attention and suspicion, Andrew and Norine acknowledged the threat but accepted the risk, determining to stay unless God told them to leave. In 2016, they were arrested. Though the State eventually released Norine, who remained in Turkey, Andrew was imprisoned. Accused of being a spy and being among the plotters of the attempted coup, he became a political pawn whose story soon became known around the world. This is Andrew's remarkable story of his imprisonment and journey of faith.

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