Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cup of all time. When Argentina both hosted and won the World Cup in 1978, just two years after the coup d'etat that ousted Isabel Per n, it was against the backdrop of a brutal military dictatorship in the country. Under the leadership of General Jorge Videla, up to 30,000 citizens, categorised as subversives, 'disappeared'. Dogged by allegations of bribery, coercion and football's first failed drugs test, this is the story of Argentina's maiden World Cup triumph and the controversy that simmered behind it. This isn't exclusively a tale of footballers and generals, and the risks they took to succeed. It's a story of the people: Argentinean exiles, Parisian students, brave journalists, the marching mothers of Plaza de Mayo and their missing children - and Dutch stand-up comedians leading international boycotts from thousands of miles away.
In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London hotel instead of flying to the US with the rest of the Manic Street Preachers. There were a few subsequent sightings but then nothing. His body was never found, and he was declared legally dead in November 2008. Now Richard tells the story of his life – and disappearance – as he might have told it. ‘This moving, tender novel tells the story of a lost boy adrift in a world that he can’t make sense of’ Marie Claire ‘Myers deserves credit not only for adding a third dimension to Edwards, but for trying a fourth, for attempting to document a period of his life that seems destined to remain a mystery’ The Times ‘A sympathetic and sad imagining of the boy who became a reluctant pop idol’ Time Out ‘Harrowing and hauntingly sad’ Mojo
Vers l'automne de 1830, par une soir e froide et pluvieuse, une chaise de poste, qui suivait la route d'Angers Nantes, quitta brusquement le grand chemin pour prendre un sentier enfonc dans les terres. Il faisait une affreuse nuit. Le vent sifflait travers les arbres; les rameaux d pouill s craquaient; les orfraies criaient dans le creux des ch nes. chaque instant, les chevaux, d courag s, refusaient d'avancer; le postillon jurait, et la chaise, battue par la tourmente, mena ait de s'ab mer dans les orni res des sentiers effondr s. Pas une toile ne brillait au ciel, pas une lumi re dans le paysage; des aboiements plaintifs qui se m laient, longs intervalles, aux g missements de la bise, r v laient seuls quelques habitations loign es. Au milieu de cette sc ne d sol e, la voiture tait, l'int rieur, silencieuse comme un tombeau: pas un mouvement, pas un bruit de voix qui trah t au dedans l'inqui tude ou l'impatience; on e t dit le voyage d'un mort gagnant sa demeure derni re. Enfin, au bout de quelques heures, les chevaux galop rent sur un terrain ferme et sonore, entre une double rang e de platanes; le fouet du postillon donna joyeusement la fanfare d'arriv e, et la chaise s'arr ta bient t devant le perron du vieux ch teau de Beaumeillant...
When Richard Ransome is injured in an accident, the beautiful Raleigh Reade comes to his assistance. Forced to marry to keep Raleigh alive, the couple find themselves off on an adventure that tries their faith and their growing love for one another.Richard's security team and their families and friends are drawn into the investigation, attempting to find the culprits and bring them to justice before either Richard or Raleigh are severely injured or dead.Richard and Raleigh fight through to survive, drawing closer to one another as their lives become more entwined. They recognize the power of God in their lives and His protection over them.
