For the first time in English, new writers from Mozambique describe whatlove and relationships can be like in their culture. What happens to Makalanjombo,whose name means "unlucky in love"? Matusse insults his mother-in-law . . . Chicambanyane goes to work in South Africa . . . Rungo falls in love with one of his own students . . . Randziwane ends up with two wives . . .Mozambique is a Portuguese-speaking country, crash-landing into the modern world. These stories come...

Who can express their own feelings about love, death, hope, despair, all the big questions? Can a man imagine the deepest feelings of a woman? A young person those of an old person? These new poets from Mozambique are trying to do this, in a language which is not their mother tongue.The official language of Mozambique is Portuguese, but many people have Xitswa, Changana, Gitonga, Cicopi, or another language as their first language at home. Maybe one day the rich oral literature of t...

Is the Rabbit really cleverer than the Monkey? What is the moral of the story? Like other parts of the world, Mozambique has a rich oral literature of animal fables. Grandmothers still tell them to children, and the children respond in a chorus with the magical word "Karingana!"It would be sad if this heritage disappeared entirely in the face of modernization, so teachers are being encouraged to record it, in English and Portuguese, and hopefully later in its original Bantu language...

"I want something else!" demanded two-year-old Mary."Well, what do you want?" her mother asked. "A sweet?""Yes," she replied, grabbing the opportunity, "but I want something else!""How about a cuddle?""Yes... but I want something else."Mary's journey would take her to Africa and back, meeting many interesting people, looking for the 'something else' that would change her life forever...

World Serial Killers investigates the fiendish crimes of butchers like Fritz Haarman selling human meat on the streets of Hanover, Germany, Edinburgh body-snatchers Burke and Hare and Alberto De Salvo, the notorious Boston Strangler. Read the accounts of deranged real-life monsters such as Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper as well as the stories of many other serial killers from around the world.   Contents: Europe  – Burke and Hare, Jack the Ripper, ...

Many serial murders go unsolved, others take decades to unravel but one thing is certain...serial killers walk among us--hiding in plain sight. A compelling collection of TWO true crime short stories: Jack Unterweger and the unsolved Giglo Beach murders."Hiding in Plain Sight" is the chilling account of serial killer Jack Unterweger, one of the most clever, manipulative predators of the twentieth century...and the most dangerous.

There is always more than one side to any story. After the original confrontation from daughter to mother and mother's response, the father had something to say. Would he own up to what the daughter accused him of, or would he make excuses? Find out in Daddy's Little Girl, the third installment in the series A Letter to My Mother..

His childhood dream of blood-drenched crucifixes possessed him as he drank his first victim’s blood. His prison experiments with mice were rehearsals for the real thing as he dissolved the corpse in an acid-filled oil drum. His insane plan was full-proof. How can you prove a murder if there is no body?Read about Acid Bath Murderer, John George Haigh, along with the shocking stories of the Brides in the Bath and the Bodies in the Barrels in this 3 in 1 True Crime Compendium. Three b...

The Child Bride can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3.You can read Part 3 one week ahead of the full-length eBook and paperback.Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family.When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what?Placed in the h...

Josie told me she was murdered. When you're a lonely six-year-old, you don't really understand what that means. All you know is you're happy to have a friend to play with.Patsy Whyte caught glimpses of an invisible world growing up in a children's home in Aberdeen. One of a family of ten traveller children, torn apart by the state in the 1950's, Patsy recalls a childhood scarred by years of mental and emotional abuse, prejudice and hatred.Patsy left the home at the age of 1...

After working late one night, Ruby misses her bus home. Taking a shortcut through town down a dark alleyway, she is abducted and taken to a remote location where she is held captive by her kidnapper. Ruby must find a way to escape before she becomes a serial killer's next victim.

Psychic Jeff Resnick has no expectations when investigating the disappearance of a four-year-old boy. That is until he confronts the mind responsible--a shattering experience for all involved.Cold Case was the inspiration for the Jeff Resnick novel Bound By Suggestion.The Jeff Resnick Mysteries:Murder On The MindDead In RedRoom At The InnCheated By DeathBound By SuggestionDark WatersShattered Spirits...