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Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously under-researched area and contributes to a better understanding of the needs of young adults post cancer.

Focusing not only on the physical effects, but also the social, cognitive, emotional and physiological consequences of surviving cancer in young adulthood, Anne Grinyer draws directly upon...

"Anne's contribution to our understanding of the needs of young people with cancer has been unparalleled and without her extraordinary insights our services would be that much poorer."
From the foreword by Simon Davies, CEO Teenage Cancer Trust

This topical and timely text provides valuable insights into the choices and experiences of palliative and end of life care for young people with cancer and other life limiting illnesses. With a focus on palliative care provision across a range of different clinical settings, this comprehensive new resource explores care in the...

Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously under-researched area and contributes to a better understanding of the needs of young adults post cancer.

Focusing not only on the physical effects, but also the social, cognitive, emotional and physiological consequences of surviving cancer in young adulthood, Anne Grinyer draws directly upon...

Mystery Fiction General Nicholas Flimby and Marcus Townsend, are friends when Marcus telephones Nicholas about a snippet of news in the paper regarding a sword found on a farm near the River Taw in Devon. this triggers a long forgotten memory about Nicholas' father who was present at the raising of a Viking ship many years before and a sword that was found near the Viking ship together with his friend, Professor Andrew Philpott who had just died and left all his estate to Marcus' University. This sets Nicholas and Marcus on a journey back through time when Nicholas finds the name of a Roman...

Maggie is accosted at The Imperial War Museum and given a collection ticket for J.D. Beltinge & Sons. She and husband Malcolm go to the address in Chancery Lane to be met by Jedson Beltinge himself. He tells them his story and they get embroiled in black magic to try and find out why Jedson is still alive after 200 years and how to break the curse he is under put on him by Mirelda one of the many Devil's daughters on May Day Eve.

Jack Simmons came home from the 1st World War to be told that his wife, Eve, had found another man and had gone to live with him taking his beloved daughter, Sylvia, with her. Jack teams up with an old war chum, Boddington, who was virtually crippled and who was placed into a special home for such people by his own daughter and her greedy husband. The pair also cheated him out of his import'export company and moved into his house. When Boddington finds out what his own daughter and husband have been up to, Jack and his friend, Boddington, get together and plan revenge which included murder.

Sidney and Natalie Monty are travelling home after a fabulous holiday in Canada and America when their Boeing 747 is hijacked and all the passengers on board are gassed except by a quirk of fate, Natalie. The plane is belly flopped down where it eventually breaks up and sinks. She swims to a small island not far away but before she escapes to Nassau, witnesses some brutal murders by Le Frisk who is after the gold bullion on board the sunken plane. Befriended by Noel Sommerville, head of security at the British Consulate, are both drawn into a cat and mouse game of catching Le Frisk following...

Atlantis has long been the source of legends, myths and folklore. Even Plato and Herodotus, the latter generally called 'The Father of History' and who wrote about his various visits to other lands, has often been dismissed as telling 'tall tales' Plato was only a little more successful in being believed. However, in recent times, Herodotus and Plato have begun to be taken seriously and some have even tried to calculate the route they could possibly have taken even though they were writing thousands of years after the event was supposed to have taken place Many theories have been proffered...