Jack High: When The Boat Comes In by Peter Mitchell (When The Boat Comes In #4)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.2MB
Overview: Forty years after the publication of the first When The Boat Comes In novel, Jack High picks up the story of Jack Ford and the Seaton family just as the Post-First World War boom begins to subside. Jack's boat has finally come in.

It is 1925 and with ample wealth from a risky land deal, the ex-army Sergeant and Great War survivor has left the struggling Tyneside town of Gallowshield for London. On a night out in Soho, he rescues a man from a beating outside the 1917 Club. The man is former Cabinet Minister Charles Needham, an unlikely North-Eastern Labour MP. They become firm friends and ambitious Jack is introduced to the underground club scene of the Jazz Age where the grim horrors of war are long forgotten.

The privileged few regard life with a sense of entitlement and their hedonistic pastimes of drink, drugs and sex, are ferociously pursued in these new nightspots around hidden London. Needham, a wealthy landowner, invites Ford to return with him to Gallowshield and Jack agrees because his former fiancée and the only woman he has ever loved, Jessie Ashton, still lives there. Jessie is a principled Socialist and Jack had been the love of her life until he betrayed her for another woman.

On his return, Jack realises the old town is worse off now than when he left it. The post-war boom has given way to bust as economic stagnation hits manufacturing industry. Trade across Europe is at a standstill and the familiar diseases of unemployment and poverty are beginning to bite. He despises the town as he's always done, but still it manages to surprise him. By sheer chance he encounters a woman he had last seen in Murmansk in 1919. He'd smuggled Countess Irena Goliksyn onto a train bound for Finland to escape the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution.

What on earth was she doing representing a Russian Trade Union delegation in a grimy old town like Gallowshield? As Jessie and her family become embroiled in the chicanery, Jack's best friend Matt faces the political backlash which could cost him his job and his home. What unfolds is a story of love, jealousy, revenge and subterfuge against a backdrop of privileged escapism, greed and addiction. The war to end all wars is over but the Old Order and the New World are on a collision course. When Jack's friends desperately cry for help, he needs all his resourcefulness, guile and determination to help them. But what's in it for Jack? "

Jack High - The fourth novel in the series - involves a brand-new storyline. It accounts for some of the missing years between Jack's rise to riches in the early 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s which were never covered in the hit BBC television series or the original books written by When The Boat Comes In creator, James Mitchell. The prolific author died in 2002 and Jack High was written by his son, former TV producer and journalist, Peter Mitchell.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics Historical


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The Tale Of Applebeck Orchard by Susan Wittig Albert (The Cottage Tales Of Beatrix Potter 6)
Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 266 mb
Overview: Out of spite for having his haystacks burnt, Mr. Harmsworth barricades a common path through his orchard - and Tabitha Twitchet and her Cat Council want answers. Reliable witnesses, including some Big Folk, say the arson was the handiwork of a lantern-wielding specter. The mournful ghost has a message - and Miss Potter, for one, hopes to figure it out.
Meanwhile in Sawrey, romance buds between the schoolmarm and a confirmed bachelor; Hyacinth Badger hopes to be the first female to earn the Badger Badge of Honor; and a rumor has Beatrix and the solicitor practically betrothed. But the matter of the barricade involves everyone - and Miss Potter and her friends might have to take matters into their own hands - and paws.
Genre: Audiobooks > Fiction > Mystery


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A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 17MB
Overview: A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers.

Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970-80s, a dark undercurrent of violence rippled across the American landscape. With reported cases of sexual assault and homicide on the rise, the FBI created a specialized team—the "Mindhunters" better known as the Behavioral Science Unit—to track down the country's most dangerous criminals. And yet narrowing down a seemingly infinite list of potential suspects seemed daunting at best and impossible at worst—until Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess stepped on the scene.

In A Killer By Design, Burgess reveals how her pioneering research on sexual assault and trauma caught the attention of the FBI, and steered her right into the middle of a chilling serial murder investigation in Nebraska. Over the course of the next two decades, she helped the budding unit identify, interview, and track down dozens of notoriously violent offenders, including Ed Kemper ("The Co-Ed Killer"), Dennis Rader ("("BTK"), Henry Wallace ("The Taco Bell Strangler"), Jon Barry Simonis ("The Ski-Mask Rapist"), and many others. As one of the first women trailblazers within the FBI's hallowed halls, Burgess knew many were expecting her to crack under pressure and recoil in horror—but she was determined to protect future victims at any cost. This book pulls us directly into the investigations as she experienced them, interweaving never-before-seen interview transcripts and crime scene drawings alongside her own vivid recollections to provide unprecedented insight into the minds of deranged criminals and the victims they left behind. Along the way, Burgess also paints a revealing portrait of a formidable institution on the brink of a seismic scientific and cultural reckoning—and the men forced to reconsider everything they thought they knew about crime.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs


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Professional Photographer - April 2024
Requirements: .PDF reader, 17mb TRUE PDF
Overview: Professional Photographer, the UK’s best selling monthly magazine for the professional photographer and is the only magazine out there that is written for pros by pros. From setting the agenda with the latest gear, industry insights, business advice, to cutting edge interviews and case studies with the industry leaders who shape the visual landscape of the world around us.
Genre: Magazines & Newspapers


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