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Baby P - It Must Never Happen Again
This is a comprehensive look at the events leading up to the death of Baby P. A recent investigation has found that there was poor communication between authorities, a repeated...
Children Betrayed: Innocence Lost - And How Two Women Risked
Shy Keenan and Sara Payne met because their lives had been connected by the same evil. Shy finally won justice in a court of law over the abuse she suffered...
Dancing with the Devil
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL recreates the terrifying life Amy Norman experienced for four years with her violent, drug addicted boyfriend. Amy went off the rails and left school after her...
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence 'A...
The Calendar Mums: the perfect gift this Mother's Day, a new witty and
A gorgeously warm, funny and heartbreaking book about what it means to be a mother. The Hickory Creek Community Centre is a lifeline for new mums. So when a bad...
Dying Rose: The new book based on the award-winning must-listen
An investigation into the deaths of six Aboriginal women and the police responses that left families reeling 'If you think it's hard being a white woman in Australia, try being...
The Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection
For several decades, social work and child protection systems have been subject to accelerating cycles of crisis and reform, with each crisis involving intense media and political scrutiny. In understanding...
Hop-Frog
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of...
The Monster of Harrods: Al-Fayed and the secret, shameful history of a
'Sensational new book' - MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Bombshell book' - THE SUN 'Tell-all book' - MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Explosive new book' - DAILY MAIL AN UNFLINCHING EXPOSE OF MOHAMED AL-FAYED'S...
In The Shadow of the Mountain
***** "Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a woman possessed of uncommon strength, rare compassion, and a ferocious stubbornness to not allow the trauma of her childhood to destroy her life." - Elizabeth...
Stolen: An Adolescence Lost to the Troubled Teen Industry
At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors her undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing...
The Calendar Mums: the perfect gift this Mother's Day, a new witty and
A gorgeously warm, funny and heartbreaking book about what it means to be a mother. The Hickory Creek Community Centre is a lifeline for new mums. So when a bad...
'Once upon a time.....': Narcissistic Abuse: The Raw Truth
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When Daddy Comes Home
She finally thought she was safe... Toni Maguire, author of Number One Bestseller 'Don't Tell Mummy', takes up the story of her tragic childhood where she left off, revealing the...
Criminal
When Caspar Walsh was three years old his mother rejected him in favour of a boyfriend. His father became his primary carer. But Caspar's father robbed banks. He dealt drugs...
Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?
The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy...
Catch Me Before I Fall
Because she was black, Clare Malone was the talk of her Liverpool council estate when she was born. Her Mother and her Mother's husband were both white and from birth...
Playing in the Dark
** PUB DELAYED DUE TO UK LEGAL ISSUES** hen Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness first ventured into Eamonn Cooke's garage, to her seven-year-old eyes it was like an Aladdin's cave. Filled with broadcasting...
A Girl Called Karen: A True Story of Sex Abuse and Resilience
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"A Girl Called Karen" is one woman's shocking yet inspirational story of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and later, her foster father. Despite the trauma and anguish...
Touched by Evil: The true story of the psychic powers that saved me
Michele's childhood was a nightmare. Growing up in the 1970s, her mother was a gifted psychic but highly unstable, unable to control the dark forces her powers unleashed or to...
Into the Light
Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire...
Behind Closed Doors
Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse. In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of...
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll...
Destroyed
When eight-year-old Jayne returned to England from bomb-torn Northern Ireland, her family stayed with relatives and a distant cousin began a campaign of abuse so horrifying that her world was...
Scarred: She was a slave to her father. Pain was her only escape.
Growing up, Sophie carried a terrible secret. She was her father's slave, in the most horrific ways imaginable. At just a few months old she was adopted by a couple...
A Teenager's Journey: Surviving Adolescence
At the end of A BROTHER'S JOURNEY, Richard Pelzer's mother and three brothers are moving to Salt Lake City, Utah. He has the choice of joining them - unwanted -...
From Bullied to Brilliant: How to Artfully Avoid Fitting in
Have you ever been bullied or is your child experiencing bullying? If so, then you know how devastating the experience is, and how deep the wounds can go. People who...
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate...
Monster
The most authoritative and comprehensive investigation into the life and crimes of Josef Fritzl, who engineered one of the most elaborate and disturbing cases of abuse in modern times On...
I've Got Your Back: How to Stop Harassment When You See It
Bystander intervention is simply overcoming that "freeze" instinct and getting back to the very human desire to take care of one another. It's not about being the hero, strapping on...
Ways of Staying: A Memoir
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When his cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions Kevin Bloom had been asking as a journalist about the troubling political and social changes in this country...
A Man Named Dave
'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's...
Beyond Belief: Abused by his priest. Betrayed by his church. The story
To begin with Colm s childhood was idyllic. Life on a farm in County Wexford with loving parents was good. But evil was never far away and no one could...
We Are the Evidence: A Handbook for Finding Your Way After Sexual
A necessary, reassuring guide for all sexual assault survivors in need of immediate emotional and legal support post assault, and in the months and years after. We are the Evidence...
Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere
'This gripping book is destined to become THE book about Andrew Tate' Jon Ronson 'This is the behind the scenes investigation of the world's most famous misogynist (and one of...
Will You Help Me?: Ralph's true story of abuse, secrets and lies
'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?' Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care system for three days and has already been rejected...
On Violence
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Ann Hannah, My (Un)Remarkable Grandmother: A Psychological Biography
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Kathy's Story
Kathy O'Beirne was sexually abused at eight, labeled "troublesome" by a psychiatrist, and sent to reform school. After being raped by a visiting priest, she was transferred to a psychiatric...
The Drama Of Being A Child: The Search for the True Self
The first publication of Drama of Being a Child and of this 1997 edition are separated by fifteen years of experience - the author's experience with her own self-therapy and...
If He's So Great, Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Recognising and Overcoming Subtle Abuse
"The message Avery Neal conveys in this book couldn't be more timely." From the Foreword by Lois P. Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of NICE GIRLS DON'T GET THE...
Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve
Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life-and the love-you deserve. Few things in the world have a more profound...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its...
Modern Slave: A vulnerable girl. A gang of vicious men. A shocking true story of survival.
Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved - but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to...
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil
A fascinating exploration of how, under certain circumstances, the human character can be transformed from good to evil, now in paperback In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected...
The Empty Honour Board
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few...
He went back for his hat: Justice Michael Lee on Bruce Lehrmann
A judgment to remember 'Having escaped the lions' den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat.' Justice Michael Lee with an introduction by Chanel Contos On...