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Frank McCourt´s glorious childhood memoir, Angela´s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of...

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than...

The second volume of William Woodruff´s memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job....

It was Constance´s mother who told her she was ugly. Over and over again. And that was just one strand of a childhood blighted by physical and emotional abuse. But the young...

On 6 June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a suburb of Riyadh, filming a report on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed...

Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. At the Social Services...

In 1950s and 1960s Dundee, the only ray of light in little Laurie´s life came from the man who would return home with pockets full of sweets and bags of toys. Uncle Andrew would...

In 1950, Kathleen O'Malley and her two sisters were legally abducted from their mother. The rape of eight-year-old Kathleen by a neighbor triggered their removal. Kathleen's...

Money, cars, homes, holidays, parties and all the shoes you´ve ever dreamed of. The life of a footballer´s wife or girlfriend must be as glamorous and exciting as her other...

Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind the facade of...

For Kate Greene, nothing was as important as the happiness and well-being of her two little boys, Reef and Finn, and her loving husband, Singe. Even when she fell very ill, they...

The storyon these pages would have been incredibly exciting had it been fiction. But it is more than that-it is fact. It is a story that only Ken Follett, today's master of...