The harrowing true story of one boy's experiences in a brutal `approved' school for young offenders in `50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife.Beaten from an early age by his abusive, father, John struggled to fit in at school where his poverty marked him out. When, aged 13, his father brought a charge against him in order to remove him from the family home, John found himself in Juvenile Court - from here he was sent to the notorious St. Vincent's school, run by a group of Catholic Irish Brothers.Beatings and abuse were a part of daily life - both from John's fellow pupils, but also from the brothers, all of which was overseen by the sadistic headmaster, Brother De Montfort. Tormented physically and sexually by one boy in particular, and by the Brothers in general, John quickly learnt to survive but at the cost of the loss of his childhood.Please don't make me go, tells in heart-rending detail the day-to-day lives of John and the other boys - the beatings, the weapons fashioned from toilet chains and stones, the loneliness - but we also see the development of John's love of reading, his growing friendship with Father Delaney and his best friend, Bernard, and his unstinting love for his mother whom he feared was suffering at the hands of his violent father.A painfully, brutally honest account, Please don't make me go is also an example of the resilience of the human spirit as it documents how John learnt to survive and come through his ordeal.

Please Don't Make Me Go: How One Boy's Courage Overcame a Brutal Childhood

JOHN FENTON

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper/Element

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

HARPER/COLLINS

A. to Z. of Sales Management

Business & Money

Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd.

The A to Z of industrial salesmanship

Heinemann

A forceful suggestion for doubling the profits of your business, written in the form of an extended memo from a fictitious managing director to his staff. Ranging from choosing which customers generate most profit, recruiting the right people to setting an advertising budget.

How to Double Your Profits within the Year

Trafalgar Square Publishing

How to Double Your Profits Within the Year

Mandarin

<p>Close! Close! Close! by John Fenton</p>

Close! Close! Close!

Management Books 2000 Ltd

A guide to the top ten closes, this updated edition contains tips and suggestions for professional salespeople. "The Profession of Selling" series brings together new editions of all John Fenton's works, together with new material in a revised and updated format.

Close! Close! Close! (The Profession of Selling)

Marketing & Sales

Presents a plan of action to managers for boosting profits by improvements in efficiency, performance and morale. The text shows how profits could be doubled by small allocations of time and energy in specific areas of the company which are normally neglected.

How to Double Your Profits Within a Year

Management & Leadership

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