Andrew Crofts Boeken

Mishandeling, verkrachting en slavernij: voor iedereen een nachtmerrie, voor de Britse Zana Muhsen de afschuwelijke werkelijkheid. Op vijftienjarige leeftijd stuurt haar vader Zana en haar zusje Nadia naar Jemen. De meisjes denken een droomvakantie tegemoet te gaan, maar komen bedrogen uit: ze zijn uitgehuwelijkt. Acht oneindige jaren leeft Zana in gevangenschap, waaruit ze uiteindelijk ontsnapt met behulp van haar moeder en de Britse media. Maar Nadia en Zana’s zoontje Marcus blijven achter in mensonterende omstandigheden.

Taban overcame extreme poverty, racism and xenophobia to become the man he is today. Heart-warming and inspiring, his life story is one of survival against all odds.

Joe knew his mother was cruel and violent, but he trusted his beloved father to protect him from her. When a freak accident saw his father burn to death in front of him, Joe was left at the mercy of his mother. Without the love of his friend and brother, he wouldn't have survived. With them, he went on to spend his life fighting child abuse.

"I crept out the house. I would never live in fear of mum and her friends again. The shameful things they made me do, the the terrible things they did. At last I was free."The heart-breaking true story of an abused little boy who grew up into a remarkable man.Little Joe was only five when he was first beaten by his mother and brutally raped by her boyfriend, and only nine when they sold him to a paedophile ring. For years he was beaten, raped, photographed and abused, fed only on meagre scraps that he had to lick off the cellar floor.Then, when he was 16, Joe finally found the courage to escape. Joe ran away to London to start a new life but his nightmare was far from over. Penniless, friendless and utterly desperate, Joe was drawn into the dark world of crime. He was bent on self-destruction until the love of a good woman finally set him free...

For the first few years of her life, Sarah Harris was a normal, happy, popular little girl. But from the age of six she was targeted by a vicious, manipulative but invisible enemy — and her life became a living hell.Before long she was suspended from school, alienated from her friends, completely bewildered and utterly terrified. Her happy childhood had been destroyed forever.For her mother, Lyndsey, it was a life beyond her worst nightmares.Her little girl, the daughter she loved so much, seemed to have transformed overnight — into a child she hardly recognized. A child she almost feared. Suddenly, Lyndsey was fighting to keep her family together — and to save her daughter’s sanity.But then the horrific truth started to become clear. And both Lyndsey and Sarah discovered they had been the innocent victims of the most horrifying betrayal imaginable…

Autobiografisch verhaal van Maria Landon, een Engels meisje dat van jongs af aan door haar vader misbruikt werd. Ze groeit op tussen dieven en pooiers. Vanaf haar dertiende moet ze voor haar vader als prostituee werken. Hij is een gewelddadige, geestelijk zieke dronkenlap. Hij laat zijn vrouw tippelen, verwaarloost en mishandelt zijn vier kinderen. Maria's moeder loopt weg en laat haar kinderen achter. Die worden uit huis geplaatst. Maria gaat van het ene tijdelijke pleeggezin naar tehuizen en internaten en soms is ze periodes bij haar vader naar wie ze ondanks alles altijd weer terugkeert. Ze raakt aan de drugs en de drank, doet aan zelfmutilatie. Als ze vijftien jaar oud is loopt ze weg met een vriendje die haar voor hem laat tippelen. Op haar zeventiende wordt e moeder van een zoontje. Dat is het begin van de lange weg naar een normaal leven en het verwerken van haar ervaringen.

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin. Born an "unfortunate" onto the rough streets of 1950s Dublin, this is the incredible true story of a young boy, a secret child born into a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin and a mother determined to keep her child, even if it meant hiding him from her own family and the rest of the world. Despite the poverty, hardship and isolation, the pride and hope of a community of women who banded together to raise their children would give this boy his chance to find his real family. A wonderfully heartwarming and evocative tale of working class life in 1950s Dublin and 1960s London.

A man wrongly imprisoned in a foreign country for drug smuggling and the girlfriend who led the fight to free him tell this extraordinary account of prison horror and endurance, laced with romance and adventure. John Packwood and Jane Amestoy alternate chapters as they recount John's Spanish imprisonment and extradition to Morocco, as Jane's case eventually catches the attention of politicians, human rights campaigners, and celebrities such as George Clooney, Hugh Grant, Joseph Fiennes, Damien Hirst, and Annie Lennox. With the combined efforts of Jane's hard work and the snowballing power behind them, John was eventually freed after 13 uncertain months in an unforgiving foreign system. 

Norman Dorset je muž nepokojné povahy, který se najednou ocitl v konfliktu se zákonem. Když se po sedmi letech vrátil z vězení, podařilo se mu brzy vyhoupnout se opět na výsluní. Spokojeně si užívá pohodlného života, dokud se po něm nezačne shánět policie. Právě v tu chvíli potká po letech svého bratra Lena, který se mezitím stal šéfem exkluzivní agentury, zabývající se ostrahou a zajišťováním limuzín pro luxusní klientelu. Len právě zoufale shání personál, který bude chránit členy arabské královské rodiny, jedné z nejbohatších na světě. Podaří se mu přesvědčit Normana, aby se úkolu ujal. A tak se Norman seznámí s líbeznou princeznou Džarmínou, netrvá dlouho a pojí ho s ní křehké citové pouto...