The circus comes to town and leaves with an order from the strange ringmaster for a converted bus that will change the lives of his daughter and a local boy for ever. A boat that has been lying unused on the banks of the River Wye for years and which two boys from the village travel downriver in with two gypsy girls. The last public concert given by the Beatles that brings with it the prospect of romance with a rich man's daughter. A young boy's ride in a motorbike side-car that his grandfather is driving that leads to a profitable meeting with some of London's most notorious gangsters. You...

The gripping story of one American lawyer s obsessive crusade waged at any cost against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.
Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of...