Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously under-researched area and contributes to a better understanding of the needs of young adults post cancer.

Focusing not only on the physical effects, but also the social, cognitive, emotional and physiological consequences of surviving cancer in young adulthood, Anne Grinyer draws directly upon data collected from young adults who have been treated for cancer. The book is structured around themes they raised such as fertility; life plans; identity; psychological effects and physical effects. These issues are drawn together in the final chapter and related to clinical and professional practice as well as current policy.

This book presents the voices of those who have lived through the experience of cancer in young adulthood, and links them to the theoretical and analytical literature. It will be of interest to professionals and researchers in nursing, social work, counselling and medicine as well as medical sociologists, young adults living with cancer and survivors of young adult cancer.

Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously under-researched area and contributes to a better understanding of the needs of young adults post cancer.

Focusing not only on the physical effects, but also the social, cognitive, emotional and physiological consequences of surviving cancer in young adulthood, Anne Grinyer draws directly upon data collected from young adults who have been treated for cancer. The book is structured around themes they raised such as fertility; life plans; identity; psychological effects and physical effects. These issues are drawn together in the final chapter and related to clinical and professional practice as well as current policy.

This book presents the voices of those who have lived through the experience of cancer in young adulthood, and links them to the theoretical and analytical literature. It will be of interest to professionals and researchers in nursing, social work, counselling and medicine as well as medical sociologists, young adults living with cancer and survivors of young adult cancer.

"Anne's contribution to our understanding of the needs of young people with cancer has been unparalleled and without her extraordinary insights our services would be that much poorer." From the foreword by Simon Davies, CEO Teenage Cancer Trust This topical and timely text provides valuable insights into the choices and experiences of palliative and end of life care for young people with cancer and other life limiting illnesses. With a focus on palliative care provision across a range of different clinical settings, this comprehensive new resource explores care in the home, the hospice and hospital. It looks at how and where families and young people can access palliative care, and what support is offered to attain their preferred place of death. Bereavement support for families is discussed, as well as a discussion of multi-disciplinary work, interagency co-operation and resource issues. This will be essential reading for community children's nurses, specialist palliative care teams, children's hospices, school nurses, social workers and student nurses as well as families. * A comprehensive resource on end of palliative are provision for children and young adults with cancer and other life limiting illnesses * Timely and topical, tying in with the latest Department of Health palliative care strategy Better Care: Better Lives' * Written in an accessible style that does not assume either detailed medical or theoretical knowledge * Explores palliative care provision in a range of different clinical settings including the home, hospice, and hospital * Provides valuable insights into the experiences of parents, children and young people

Jack Simmons came home from the 1st World War to be told that his wife, Eve, had found another man and had gone to live with him taking his beloved daughter, Sylvia, with her. Jack teams up with an old war chum, Boddington, who was virtually crippled and who was placed into a special home for such people by his own daughter and her greedy husband. The pair also cheated him out of his import'export company and moved into his house. When Boddington finds out what his own daughter and husband have been up to, Jack and his friend, Boddington, get together and plan revenge which included murder.

Sidney and Natalie Monty are travelling home after a fabulous holiday in Canada and America when their Boeing 747 is hijacked and all the passengers on board are gassed except by a quirk of fate, Natalie. The plane is belly flopped down where it eventually breaks up and sinks. She swims to a small island not far away but before she escapes to Nassau, witnesses some brutal murders by Le Frisk who is after the gold bullion on board the sunken plane. Befriended by Noel Sommerville, head of security at the British Consulate, are both drawn into a cat and mouse game of catching Le Frisk following the trail of fear and murder he leaves behind in his wake.

Maggie is accosted at The Imperial War Museum and given a collection ticket for J.D. Beltinge & Sons. She and husband Malcolm go to the address in Chancery Lane to be met by Jedson Beltinge himself. He tells them his story and they get embroiled in black magic to try and find out why Jedson is still alive after 200 years and how to break the curse he is under put on him by Mirelda one of the many Devil's daughters on May Day Eve.

Atlantis has long been the source of legends, myths and folklore. Even Plato and Herodotus, the latter generally called 'The Father of History' and who wrote about his various visits to other lands, has often been dismissed as telling 'tall tales' Plato was only a little more successful in being believed. However, in recent times, Herodotus and Plato have begun to be taken seriously and some have even tried to calculate the route they could possibly have taken even though they were writing thousands of years after the event was supposed to have taken place Many theories have been proffered as to the disappearance of Atlantis, if indeed it ever existed and, if that was its original name - vanishing from the face of the earth - this is just one of those stories about the fabled land......