Category: National Library 2019

  • BOOK | Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder

    Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder Luke & Ryan Hart Seven Dials ISBN 9781841883403 Remembered Forever is the shocking story of what led to this terrible crime. Luke and Ryan Hart, the family’s two surviving sons, lived under the terror of coercive control. Their father believed that his family members were…

  • BOOK | Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide

    Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide Luke & Ryan Hart Orion Publishing Group, Limited ISBN 9781841883397 A devastating story of coercive control and domestic homicide. Why would an ‘ordinary’ father murder his family? On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by…

  • BOOK | Trauma and Recovery : The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

    Trauma and Recovery : The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror Judith Herman C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, Imprint: Hurst & Company ISBN 9781787388260 When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a ground-breaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way…

  • BOOK | A Typology of Domestic Violence

    A Typology of Domestic Violence Michael P. Johnson – 2008 University Press of New England ISBN: 9781555536947 Johnson argues that domestic violence is not a unitary phenomenon. Instead, he delineates three major, dramatically different, forms of partner violence: intimate terrorism, violent resistance, and situational couple violence. He roots the conceptual distinctions among the forms of…

  • BOOK | Arrested Justice

    Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation Beth E. Richie – 2012 New York University Press ISBN – : 9780814776230 Black women in marginalised communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality,…

  • BOOK | Next Time, She’ll be Dead

    Battering & How to Stop it Ann Jones – 1994 Beacon Press ISBN – : 9780807067895 This revised and updated edition of “the most critically acclaimed book” (Publishers Weekly) on domestic violence includes information on the effect of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, examines resources on the Internet, and details what you can do…

  • BOOK | Why Does He Do That?

    Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men Lundy Bancroft – 2003 Penguin Publishing ISBN – : 9780425191651 In this ground-breaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get…

  • BOOK | Remembered Forever

    Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder. Luke and Ryan Hart – 2019 Seven Dials ISBN – 978-1841883403 Remember Forever is the shocking story of what led to this terrible crime. Luke and Ryan Hart, the family’s two surviving sons, lived under the terror of coercive control. Their father believed that his family…

  • BOOK | Dark Chapter

    The novel is as disturbing and entertaining as any crime thriller is. Winnie M Li – 2017 Legend Press ISBN – 9781785079061 ” The novel is as disturbing and entertaining as any crime thriller is. But Li is writing from experience, fictionalising her attack as a way to explore how the legal system treats rape…

  • BOOK | Brutally Honest

    The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl Melanie Brown – 2018 Quadrille Publishing ISBN – 9781787133525 The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl – and the truth behind the headlines As one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America’s Got Talent, Melanie Brown, a.k.a Scary Spice,…

  • BOOK | Power And Control

    Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers Sandra Horley – 2017 Random House ISBN – 9781785041488 In the new edition of her classic work, Sandra Horley CBE draws on almost four decades supporting abused women to provide an insight into the reality behind the mask of the charming man. The book’s aim is to show…

  • BOOK | Living with the Dominator

    A book about the Freedom programme Pat Craven – 2008 Freedom Publishing ISBN – 9780955882708 This book explains violent and abusive behaviour and places it in a social context. It can help readers of any age and sexual orientation to change their own behaviour and to recognise when they are being controlled.

  • BOOK | Out of the Fog

    Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse Dana Morningstar – 2017 Morningstar Media ISBN – 9780999593516 Lying. Cheating. Manipulating. Will they ever change? What will it take to get through to them? They apologized, but will this time be different…or will they just get better at hiding what they are up to? This book will help you get…

  • BOOK | Women with Controlling Partners

    Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner Carol A Lambert – 2016 New Harbinger Publications ISBN – 9781626254718 A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest person—unless you know what to look for. Written by an expert in intimate partner abuse and based on her highly successful recovery program for…

  • BOOK | The Right to be Me

    A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive marriage. Stella Eden – 2017 Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers ISBN – 9781784651671 With a childhood that consisted of sexual abuse and emotional blackmail, she carves out a life for herself as a podiatrist – a dream she’s had since…

  • BOOK | Operation Lighthouse

    Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide Luke and Ryan Hart – 2018 Orion Publishing Group, Limited ISBN – 9781841883397 A devastating story of coercive control and domestic homicide. Why would an ‘ordinary’ father murder his family? On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight,…