Limp Pigs

If the Beijing Olympics convinced you China is changing...
...think on this

If it was, would China’s media police have tried to airbrush every less-than complimentary reference to the Olympic facilities?
If it was, would the government have introduced transparency legislation then ban the press from writing about it?
If it was, would China have asked the author to help convert its propaganda machine to respected news agency then ignore all transformation advice?

Seven years of broken promises and mental torture at the hands of the masters of the machine left Mark Newham seeking psychiatric help.
Eventually he fled, convinced the system is in need of similar assistance.
To those taken in by the great Changing China deception, he says this.
Don’t believe everything you read about China.
Change in the People’s Republic is the equivalent of turning your underpants inside out.
It might look like they’ve been changed but they’re still the same
pair of underpants.

‘Limp Pigs is to China what the Olympic movement is to the pharmaceuticals industry.’
Juan Antonio Samaranch

‘Once every 10,000 years a book comes along that shakes the world. This book isn’t one of them.’
Mao Zedong

‘Ha ha. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.’ Dalai Lama

'An inspiring work... Beijing's control over reporting of the (Chinese) Jasmine Revolution serves as a footnote to this book.' - Shirong Chen, BBC China Editor

For more info visit www.marknewham.com

Limp Pigs
Mark Newham
ISBN 978-1780030494 UK £9.99
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Family Court Hell
This is one man's harrowing story of frustration and determination as he battled for access rights to his young daughters following the bitter break-up of his marriage.

Incredibly, his was a journey that spanned almost ten years, with 133 hearings by 33 judges, and which reportedly cost the taxpayer over GBP1 million. What should have been a "simple contact dispute" somehow resulted in this innocent family man effectively being criminalized by the family courts, resulting in a stretch on the A Wing of the infamous Pentonville prison, which housed convicted murderers, terrorists, gun runners and drug dealers.

Mark Harris eventually took his case public and the campaign for fathers' rights took off - with the formation of Fathers 4 Justice. This is a shocking story that deserves to be heard.

Family Court Hell
Mark Harris
ISBN 1-906206-12-0 U.K. £8.99
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Jailed for waving at my daughter
By JENNY JOHNSTON and RACHEL HALLIWELL 25th June 2007
Denied access to his three children after his divorce, Mark was jailed for standing outside his house to wave to them. It took ten years and 133 hearings before they were reunited. How CAN the Government insist cases like his are kept secret?
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Wimbledon Confidential

Wimbledon – the crown jewel among the Grand Slam tennis tournaments, hallowed by players and the public alike. But is it all strawberries and cream or is there more than a helping of temper tantrums? What really goes on behind the scenes?

Pat Edwards, Transport Manager for over 30 years at Wimbledon Fortnight, gives a rare insight into the most exclusive tennis club in the world, and the extraordinary organisation that it takes to make such a prestigious event run smoothly.

Wimbledon Confidential reveals information about players, referees, celebrities and committees – stories both shocking and funny – a fascinating must read not just for tennis fans.

Wimbledon Confidential
Patricia Edwards
ISBN 1-906206-11-2 UK£7.99
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Bwanakula Thandi: The Story of the Building of Kaputula School

With only £600 in the kitty, the project was never going to be easy. Yet if Moira Cooke and husband Robert had any inkling of all the problems building a community school in rural Zambia would entail, they may well have caught the first plane back to the UK. Blood, sweat tears are all shed as temperatures rise and dissension splits the community threatening to bring the project to a bitter end. The head teacher is forced to leave, the workforce dwindles to seventeen, the budget is blown, the accounts refuse to balance and finally the money runs out.

Bwanakula Thandi: The Story of the Building of Kaputula School
Moira Cooke
Paperback
ISBN 978-1907172519 UK £7.99
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The Ancient Art of Connection

Mass extinctions and environmental destruction, war and poverty, terrorism and tyrannies, abuse of all sorts to man and beast: What happened to our potential? Ancient cultures spoke of balance. Science speaks of emergent behaviour. The faithful speak of community. The spiritual speak of love. Everyone has a crucial piece. Where all this meets, something completely new emerges. What if there are real solutions? There are real physical universal forces, largely unseen, strongly influencing all our lives. By embracing an awareness of these forces, we could completely change our future. This is an exploration of a profoundly different way of thinking that could lead us to powerful new solutions to society's most pressing problems.

The Ancient Art of Connection
Tim Gooding
ISBN 1-906206-11-2 UK£8.99
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