Emmanuel Jal

Megan Lloyd Davies

Describes the harrowing youth of Emannuel Jal, who was conscripted at the age of seven into the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army and who as a young man rose to become a hip-hop music star in Kenya and a spokesperson for Amnesty International. 100,000 first printing.

A Child Soldier's Story

War Child

Angela Cannings

Angela Cannings trouwde op haar 19e met haar collega Terry, en de geboorte van hun dochter Gemma was de bekroning van hun geluk. Maar hun wereld stortte in toen Gemma na een paar maanden plotseling stierf. Twee jaar later overleed ook hun zoontje Jason aan de gevolgen van wiegendood. Toen in 1996 hun dochter Jade werd geboren, drie jaar later gevolgd door Matthew, leek hun wereld eindelijk weer op de rails te staan. Tot Angela Matthew vond: dood in zijn wiegje... Angela werd direct na Matthews dood opgepakt. Justitie hanteerde een vaste regel: één geval van wiegendood is een drama, twee gevallen zijn verdacht en drie is moord. Pas na bijna twee jaar gevangenschap werd Angela onvoorwaardelijk vrijgesproken, en kon zij eindelijk proberen het verleden te overwinnen en een normale gezinsband op te bouwen.

Ik blijf toch jullie moeder

Alice Lawrence

In April 2008, the world watched in horror as the news of Josef Fritzl made worldwide headlines. But for one British woman the story was not the stuff of unimaginable nightmares. Alice Lawrence knew all too well the torture suffered at the hands of a father whose depravity knew no bounds. She too was kept prisoner and repeatedly made pregnant - and it was only after the death of one of her babies that she finally found the courage to escape. Born in 1970, Alice grew up in the impoverished backstreets of an industrial Northern town with her parents and seven brothers and sisters. She was first raped by her father when she was 11. From the age of 15, she was made pregnant six times by him in an effort to secure additional state benefits. All bar one of her pregnancies failed, but her daughter never made it through her first year. The death of her baby was the spur to Alice bringing her father and abuser to justice. Finally, Alice can tell her deeply moving story of recovery from abuse.

Megan Lloyd Davies

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