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The Pilgrim's Way, the ancient thoroughfare between Winchester and Canterbury - but how did it become a symbol of resistance to those who wanted to withdraw from Europe? That is what Adrian Matinson tries to discover after his friend is found dead on the Way, leaving behind him a series of scribbled clues, which Adrian must follow to find the bizarre truth, and to save himself. What he discovers is an ancient quango, the Office of the Defender of the Faith. And they have plans for him - and for the Old Road too. Unless Adrian can solve the puzzle before it is too late. A fascinating chase, and a medieval mystery brought roughly into the present during the 2016 European referendum. A thrilling read which also sheds some light onto the truth about Brexit, Britain and its disputed history.

Captured on a virtual suicide mission as a punishment for a military mistake, Sam Smith - a fighter for the small nation of Icrises his entire adult life - overhears crucial evidence that an attack on his homeland is being planned. But he now languishes under lock and key: how can he escape to get this crucial intelligence home - before it is too late? A steampunk story for young adults, this debut novel by a young author includes the classic elements of a sci-fi tale in an age of different technology - the hand-to-hand fighting between fleets of aerial battleships (aerships), the war chiefs building their alliances between besieged cities, and the terrifying arrival of the monstrous Mindweaver. This is a steampunk vision, in all its sweat, gunpowder and balloons. It is a world where soldiers leap across chasms in the air to take the enemy. and where men like Sam are tested to the limit - and beyond.

"A refreshing journey through the alphabet, with the lens focused on electroshock - this book is clear, provocative, accessible and full of illuminating examples and anecdotes from eminent psychologists, psychiatrists and others from history. It makes for a riveting read, one that will at times make you laugh out loud and then instantly recoil in horror. At other times, it will make you cringe with shame (if you are part of the psy-professions that allow this practice to continue). Always, it will shock with a blunt and hard-hitting dismantling of electroshock. The shock is amplified when some of those subjected to electroshock, well-known figures in history - musicians, dancers, politicians, or their partners, are named, humanised, no longer statistics of faceless 'patients' or 'clients', but people the public may recognise. The book is a reminder, if one is needed, that electroshock should have no place in mental health practice today. But it does. When future generations look back in fifty years and ask 'Really, they did that? Why?' what will we answer?" Professor Nimisha Patel, University of East London and International Centre for Health and Human Rights. This searing critique examines how psychiatry, allied with psychology, experiments on people in the name of helping and healing. Both professions have a mainly 'boys with toys' approach in using the latest technologies to try to change people. Covering over three hundred years of the psy industry, this volume explores everything from the invention of mental illness and physical assault called 'treatment' to the latest efforts to use electricity to torture us into submission.