A raw and often funny snapshot of 7-year-old Tommy's brutal young life amid the derelict terraced houses of Manchester's Hulme. This is one boy's year of adventure, abuse, crippling poverty and encounters with the welfare officers, the nuns, the police - and the Moors Murderers.
Wrongly convicted of the murder of a stranger, Jamie Morgan Kane entered the American prison system and was to stay there for 34 years. For the first time, he speaks out about the brutality of the tough and unforgiving American penitentiary system and recalls his many run-ins with some of the world's most dangerous inmates.
Monica Allan's emotional memoir tells the story of her childhood and how her mother twice tried to kill her. Against the odds, Monica escaped, only to be physically and sexually abused when she was taken into foster care. This is the inspirational story of how she survived - and went on to force a change in the law helping other victims of abuse.
When foster mum Louise takes in little Abby, her challenging behaviour soon turns the household upside down. How can one six-year-old unleash such a whirlwind of emotional and physical devastation? Louise is about to discover the darkness of incest, rejection and abuse in Abby's past. The second story in the 'Thrown Away Children' series.
A shocking memoir, detailing one man's journey from his native Northern Ireland into a dark scandal that nestled in the heart of 1970's Soho in London. Travelling to the big city to escape the Troubles in his native Northern Ireland, Anthony Daly quickly fell foul of predators, looking for young men to blackmail and sexually exploit.
Evie is a local council worker who carries out Section 46 funerals under the Public Health Act. Or to put it in simple terms; funerals for those with nobody around, willing or able to bury or cremate them. Ashes to Admin tells some moving and unexpected personal life stories. Sometimes tragic, but often uplifting and occasionally hilarious.