Mak has arrived in Australia on assignment from her native Canada, but the catwalks and catfights of the modelling world are soon overshadowed. In attempting to find her friend's killer she meets detective Andy Flynn and becomes caught up in the hunt for the perpetrator of the Stiletto Murders - the most violent signature killings Australia has even seen. But how far can she trust the cynical policeman? As Mak gets drawn further into the case, she becomes enmeshed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game, unaware that she has become the obsession of a sadistic psychopath...

Fetish

Moss, Tara

John Blake Publishing Ltd

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.

The Baby Thief: The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s.

Biographies & Memoirs

Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Community & Culture

John Tovey's story is one of delinquency during a tough childhood in Bristol, followed by episodes of violence, alcoholism and a spell in prison. Redemption for him came following the greatest catastrophe of his life when he went blind at the age of 42. This memoir recounts how a self-confessed 'bad lad' came to view life from a completely new perspective thanks to his partnership with his guide dog, Dez.

A Dog Called Dez

Veronia Clark

Adele's powerful voice and breathtaking songs have seen her top the charts around the planet, collect millions of admirers and win dozens of top awards. When she became a mother, in 2012, her fans rejoiced n a fairytale moment for a young woman who has known so much pain in her personal life. At last, it seemed, she had it all. But who is Adele?  Adele: The Biography traces her story from a humble childhood in London, where she began singing at the age of four, through to the phenomenal success of her first two albums, 19 and 21. It then brings her remarkable story up to date, examining her health scare, motherhood and triumphant comeback, singing Skyfall at the 2013 Oscars ceremony.  Along the way, this unique book uncovers how her troubled private life influenced her heartbreaking tracks and how she gamely overcame a string of obstacles that threatened to derail her career. Here, you will discover he fascinating truth behind all the highs and the lows experienced by this fun, formidable woman, whose songs have become national anthems for the heartbroken.  Adele has won well over 70 major musical prizes including Grammys, Brits and an Oscar - all before she turned 25. Yet she remains fully grounded, and regards the glitzy world of show business with an old-fashioned English combination of amusement and healthy suspicion. So here is Adele in all her glory - the curvy girl next door who conquered the world.

Adele - The Biography

Newkey-Burden, Chas

Legend - The Biography of Brian O'Driscoll

Sports & Outdoors

Stead, Marcus

Individual Sports

Pub Date: 2014-03-03 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd Christo Brand was a South African farm boy. born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and claim superiority for whites Nelson Mandela. . also raised in a rural village. was the black son of a tribal chief. He trained as a lawyer to take up the fight against apartheid on behalf of a whole nation. Their opposing worlds collided when Christo. a raw recruit from the countrys prison service. was sent to Robben Island to guard the notoriously dangerous terrorists there. Mandela was their undisputed leader. The two of them. a boy of 18 and a long-suffering freedom fighter then aged 60. could well have become bitter enemies. Instead. they formed an extraordinary friendship through small human kindnesses. Christo. a gentle young man who valued ordinary de...

Doing Life with Mandela

Christo Brand

Cristiano Ronaldo: The Rise of a Winner

Michael Part

Keeping it Real: My Autobiography

Marsh, Jodie

Paul O'Grady - The Biography

Simpson, Neil

Arts & Literature

Heath Ledger - His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death

McShane, John

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