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ROSS KEMP
Devil to Pay
publication: 09/06/2011
price: 6.99
size: B format
pages: 384
ISBN: 9780099550563
The blistering debut novel from the UK’s most renowned TV journalist
Nick vowed he would never go back.
His platoon torn apart and killed by a Taliban ambush, his best friend
slaughtered, all because of military mistake, made Keen swear never to fight
for Queen and Country ever again.
While he struggles to adapt to life on Civvy Street, his vow is tested when
the beautiful fiance of his best friend begs him to return to Afghanistan to
recover his body.
Despite the danger, and the pleas of his teenage daughter, Keen agrees to
return. Back to the place that haunts his dreams. Back to the brutal country
where he was forced to watch his men die. In search of a friend he thought
of as a brother.
This time he’s going alone.
Yet not everything is what it seems. Keen’s bloody journey becomes a quest
into the impenetrable heart of a war-ravaged nation and a brutal, thrilling
struggle for the truth.
Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp is best known as one half of the
infamous Mitchell brothers in BBC’s EastEnders. Most recently, Kemp
has received international recognition as an investigative journalist for
his critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary series, which
include Ross Kemp on Gangs (2006) and Ross Kemp in Afghanistan (2008).
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan came about when Ross heard that his father’s
old regiment, 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment, were to be
deployed in Helmand province. Filming took place over a year and
followed the soldiers from their pre-deployment training to their return
to the UK. The series won a Broadcast Award and was followed in 2009
by Ross Kemp: Return to Afghanistan, where Ross spent time with the men
of 5 Scots, 16 Air Assault and the Royal Marines 45 Commando.
Ross lives in London, is a keen rugby fan and is a Patron of Help for
Heroes.
KATIE FLYNN
The Lost Days of Summer
publication: 23/06/2011
price: 6.99
size: B format
pages: 480
ISBN: 9780099550525
The bestselling Katie Flynn returns with another heartwarming saga
In September 1939, fourteen-year-old Vinny Matthews leaves Liverpool to
go and live with an elderly aunt on the Isle of Anglesey. At first Vinny hates
everything about Wales and the farm, and she especially dislikes her Aunt
Non, an embittered former teacher who is determined to further Vinny’s
education.
Used to the busy life of Liverpool, Vinny wanders the island, spending long
hours watching the comings and goings of a family who live on the cliffs.
Life finally starts to improve for her as she begins a tentative friendship with
one of the boys from the family.
For Aunt Non, Vinny’s presence brings back memories of her own girlhood
and she begins to relive her former happiness in Liverpool, and the events
which led up to her marriage to a Welsh farmer and her isolation in the
wilds of Anglesey.
Katie Flynn has lived for many years in the north-west. A compulsive
writer, she started with short stories and articles and many of her early
stories were broadcast on Radio Merseyside. She decided to write her
Liverpool series after hearing the reminiscences of family members
about life in the city in the early years of the twentieth century. She also
writes as Judith Saxton.