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  • Digital Delivery of Mental Health Therapies

    A guide to the benefits and challenges, and making it work

    This guide shares best practice for delivering mental health support and treatment digitally.Part One considers aspects relevant to all digital mental health interventions, such as therapeutic alliance, risk, safeguarding, working with complexity, and what people are looking for from digital support.Part Two focuses on specific therapies and models, including CBT, ACT, DBT, CFT, CAT and EMDR, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Singapore Grip

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Series series Empire Trilogy
    Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Forgotten Highlander

    An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

    Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese “hellship,” his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    by Cary Owtram ...
    A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Paths of Ash

    by Robert Holman ...
    On Paths of Ash is an extraordinary Australian World War II story. Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. They were interned in Changi prisoner-of-war camp, from where they became prison labourers on the infamous Burma Railway. From there they went as slaves to the coalmines of Japan, close enough to Nagasaki to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milligan's Meaning of Life

    An Autobiography of Sorts

    Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Temporary Gentleman

    A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available.Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Seed and the Sower

    What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners - and their gaolers. In a battle for survival that becomes a battle of contrasting wills and philosophies as the intensity of the men's relationships develop. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Life on the Death Railway

    The Memoirs of a British POW

    by Stuart Young ...
    As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded the comradeship among the prisoners, their compassion and strength, and the pastimes and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Happy Odyssey

    The legendary British Army officer recounts his experiences in the Boer War and both World Wars in this memoir with a foreword by Winston Churchill.Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart had one of the most extraordinary military careers in the history of the British Army. His gallantry in combat won him a Victoria Cross and a Distinguished Service Order, as well as an eyepatch and an empty ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pamela's War

    A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands During the Second World War

    by Cherryl Vines ...
    It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to ... Read more

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  • In My Wildest Dreams

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist...At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie Thomas's story is straight out of fiction. As an orphan, he picked his way through the rubble of post-war Britain and was sent on national service to the Far East. Later he became a Fleet Street ... Read more

    $19.89 USD