In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black majority rule and the dangers that he believed it would bring to his country.Ian Smith was a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions i...

In over 30 years of BDSM writing, Ian Smith has created many memorable female characters. In "The Slaves of Ian Smith", he revisits some of these characters in new stories and fresh adventures and challenges for them. Characters including Ali, Selina, Nicky, Barbara and recent newcomer Leah all finds themselves in new situations with new issues to cope with and often endure.In the author's own words, writing about girls being coerced into slave acts makes for good dramatic tension,...

On Renewal Night, the North will begin to die.It is nearing Renewal Night, where Arna, supreme god of the Northlands, renews the rule of his empire.Tyr is seventeen and lives in a village, so he usually pays little attention to such things. This changes when he receives startling visions of the sacred past and witnesses a joyful spirit of fire dancing amongst the revellers at a feast. The priests of Arna are left baffled by Tyr’s experiences, summoning him in their hour of ...

Good assessment focuses mainly on improvement and is used to support progress. It helps learners to know how well they have learned and provides feedback on how they can do better; it encourages learners to support and help each other; it builds self-motivation, self-confidence and self-reliance. Sound familiar? These are the principles of formative assessment. They're at the heart of the national Assessment for Learning initiative and they form the core of the "Assessment & Learning Pocke...

In Setting the Captives Free Marion Carson sets out to answer the question, what does the Bible say about human trafficking? Aimed at Christian anti-trafficking activists and church groups, the book offers an overview of the biblical material on slavery and the sex trade. Acknowledging that there is a difference between the biblical worldview and most Christians today with regard to slavery, it suggests that we can learn much from the Abolitionists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centurie...

Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as 'a full back slower than your average prop', Ian Smith cheerfully won eight caps for Scotland in a career that saw him score every point for his team on his debut in an historic victory over South Africa (and in so doing became the first Scottish full back to score a Test try) and defeated a star-studded England team to lift the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield in the 1970 Five Nations...

With the Second World War in Europe at an end, Britain was faced with the immediate responsibility to play her part in the occupation of a defeated Germany. As a near bankrupt country, the UK was hard pressed to maintain such a significant military presence on the continent and manage other commitments in the Mediterranean and Far East.As the immediate post-war years came to pass, Britain and other western powers found themselves reviewing their relationship with the key victor in ...

If Only I Knew Then is the fourth and final novel in the series that began with Nursery Rhymes, They Never Saw It Coming, and Vengeance Is Mine. Shean O'Brien is on a relentless path of vengeance, driven by the tragic deaths of his younger twin brothers, who were shot while trying to run a roadblock in Northern Ireland by the British Army. Adding to his fury is the torture he endured at the hands of the police after being arrested twice. Using his cunning, O'Brien has managed to escape the...

Founded on 1 April 1918, the Royal Air Force has forged a distinguished operational record. As the first independent air force, the service also had to fight initial scepticism from the Army and Navy.The first CAS, Lord Trenchard, courted public support through a field of endeavour, which the RAF was perfectly placed to present: the air display. The first event was held at Hendon in north London in 1920. With the facilities to accommodate large audiences, essentially an airfield, a...

Leah Brownstone is a fiercely independent, determined, brave young woman, just the sort of woman that Tom Jefferson delights in taming. In the isolated community of Xanxta, where slavery is openly legal, has the snatched Leah met her match, or will she be able to defy Tom and all his methods and torments?Lucy Garrington is also a wildcat, but of a very different sort: a sexual submissive by nature, she longs for the sort of experience that Xanxta offers, but when she becomes Xanxta...

An exploration of Harold Pinter's work in the theatre – through interviews with the man himself and with actors and directors who worked with him.Eight actors and directors who worked with Pinter in the theatre talk candidly about what it's like to appear in a Pinter play, to direct a Pinter play, to be directed by Pinter, to work alongside Pinter as an actor.The voices belong to directors Katie Mitchell and Sam Mendes, and to actors Barry Foster, Susan Engel, Roger Lloyd P...

The final book in the 'Ali' Saga - and a fearsome challenge! Four American slavegirls pitted against Ali and three other Manor slaves in a 'bitch competition'.Before the event is over, both teams will have suffered the agonies of Hell and the humiliation of total degradation ... and yet - all are volunteers, each intent on rubbing the other side's noses in the dirt ... taking pain and more pain, determined not to give in to the opposition.Life at the manor goes on, slaves l...