The 10th anniversary edition featuring a new afterword, this is the untold story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Billy the Kid, aka Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim and William Bonney, was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue and cold-blooded killer. A superb shot, the Kid gunned down four men single-handedly and five others with the help of cronies. Two of his victims were Lincoln County, New Mexico, deputies killed during the Kid's brazen daylight escape from the courthouse jail on 28th April 1881. For the new sheriff, Pat Garrett, an acquaintance of Billy's, the chase was on. This fact-packed shoot-'em-up tale recreates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw and the author digs beneath the myth to take a fresh look at these two men and their epic ride to immortality. Unfazed, Billy spoke up: 'Mrs Lesnett, they can't hang me if I'm not there, can they?' Chapters include Outlaws and Lawmen, Facing Death Boldly, and Both Hero and Villain. 330pp, illustrated paperback.

Gangsters, psychopaths, terrorists, assaults, riots, cell fires, medical emergencies, understaffed wings, suicides, hooch, weapons - it's all in a week's work at Her Majesty's Prison Parkhurst. After 28 years working as a prison officer with 22 years at HMP Parkhurst, one of Britain's most high-security prisons, David Berridge has had to deal with it all. Thrown in at the deep end, David quickly had to work out how to deal with the most cunning and volatile of prisoners, and learn how to avoid their many scams. His book is a raw and uncompromising look at what really goes on behind the massive walls and menacing gates and his diaries will shock and entertain in equal measure, both horrifying and at times hilarious. Beware there is some fruity language as he works his way around bullying, the day they stopped a suicide attempt, crap diet, the scream he can still hear, a scrap on the exercise yard, getting truly screwed, drugs, and playing by the rules. Gives an explanation of prison slang, official terms and uniformed staff by rank. 286pp, paperback.

Subtitled 'Little-Known Facts About the World's Greatest Detective', a new dimension is brought to the enduring fictional sleuth in this perfect crime and history fan book. Learn of Dr Watson's dark, shameful secret, one that Sherlock Holmes loyally kept to himself for years. Discover the part that London's iconic Langham Hotel had to play, not only in Conan Doyle's stories, but in his own literary landscape, and what unexpected passion Holmes had in between solving crimes. Chapters include Get Me A Paget - Any Paget!, Lazy Parenting, The Price of Success, Art In the Blood, Smoking Slippers, Heading For A Fall, School of Scandal, When Doctors Go Wrong, Dodgy Dealings, Friends In High Places, The Adventure of Two Collaborators, Monkeying Around, A Man of Pseudo-Science, The Hounds of Hell, America's Holmes, Scouting for Heroes and more. Quirky silhouette line art, 192pp.

Unsolved for over two decades, this is the gripping story of a young woman's murder brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister. Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester, New York. She was at the height of her life in a relationship with a man she hoped to marry, and close to her students and her family. Then one morning she was gone. Rachel had more reason than most to be haunted by this particular story - her mother had married Stephanie's father after the crime, and Rachel grew up in the shadow of her stepsister's legacy. Here she follows the case's dark and serpentine path, drawing closer to the details than any journalist could. She reveals how a dysfunctional justice system laid the groundwork for Stephanie's murder and stymied the investigation for more than 20 years, and what those hard years meant for Stephanie's family and loved ones. 'A beloved violin teacher gone from the home she shared with only her pet birds. The sheets missing from her bed. Her cheque book found discarded on the side of the road. Her car abandoned in an airport parking lot. That was all anyone knew - a beautiful woman was gone.' 2022 new hardback, 245pp.

The newly updated edition. In 2017, a routine network TV investigation led to a story only whispered about - one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth and a conspiracy of silence. As Ronan Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing his account of abuse in his own family. This is the untold story of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse, and it is the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global #MeToo movement. 'A few days later, Harvey Weinstein was in Los Angeles, meeting with operatives from Black Cube.? The sexual harassment story was proving to be a challenge. One actress after another backed out, often after involving prominent publicists. 457pp, paperback.

Why did flight MH370 fall from the sky, lost without a trace? Was Donald Trump elected President of the United States with the help of Russians? What are the theories surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center? Unpack some of the most complex conspiracy theories in this book, whether that is exploring the Illuminati, questioning who shot John F. Kennedy or asking if Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, ran the company as a 'non-state hostile intelligence service'? One chapter will dive into the existence of secret societies, from the Catholic Church and its Knights Templar (an underground order of warrior monks based in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades), to the Bilderberg Group, an organisation whose members are some of the most powerful men and women in the world including Henry Kissinger and Paul Wolfowitz, as well as Rockefellers, Fords and Agnellis. Transport yourself to Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk during the early hours of Boxing Day morning in 1980 where an American Air Force Base tracked an unidentified aircraft on its radar and, after a patrol was sent out, men saw the bright beams of red and blue light shining from a metallic craft. Uncover whether the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler escaped the allies at the end of the Second World War as only a few bones were found after he shot himself in the Führerbunker. This guide will walk readers through one of the most bizarre conspiracies: Project MKULTRA, a CIA experiment between the 1950s and 1970s which explored the possibility of mind control through the use of drugs such as LSD and mescaline. This is the book for anyone who asks whether crop circles are the result of alien visitor or local hoaxers, whether the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 was a cover up, or if Edward Snowden was right to say that there is a global conspiracy to spy on friends and foes. Paperback, colour images, 128pp.

Sub-titled 'The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley' this engaging and well researched biography re-examines the famous murder and brings new light and compelling confusions to a story surrounded by political betrayal, murder, falsified evidence, conspiracy and love. In the early hours of 10th February 1567, a large explosion ripped through the Old Provost's lodging at Kirk o'Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland's consort Henry Lord Darnley was staying. His body was found with that of his valet in a neighbouring garden the next morning. The Queen's husband had been suffocated and the ramifications for Mary and Scottish history would be far-reaching. Lord Darnley cuts an infamous figure in Scottish and Tudor history. In life he proved a controversial character and his murder remains one of history's great and unresolved mysteries - establishing whether Mary was implicated has taxed historians for the subsequent 450 years. The book sets in motion a series of events leading to Mary Queen of Scots's downfall. Was there a conspiracy between the Scottish peers and William Cecil? Was his objective to keep Mary from the English throne? Darnley was the son of Matthew Stuart, Fourth Earl of Lennox and thus directly bound by blood to one of the most powerful families in Scotland. As the oldest son of Margaret Douglas, the eldest sister of Henry VIII, King of England, Darnley was related to the Tudor rulers of England and thus Queen Elizabeth I. The family trees are particularly useful when there is such a muddle of titles to absorb. The second part of the book covers the struggle for recognition to the succession as England's ruler and the third part the schemes to marry Darnley to Mary, who wanted the marriage and why, and the outcome of that marriage. The final parts cover the death of the king and what happened. The book shines a light on a human drama and power struggle taking place on a much bigger geopolitical stage. 330pp, colour plates, illus. and maps.

An ordinary day begins with a gorilla, a blonde and a gun. Mid 20th century Hollywood, and Clancy Sigal is just back from fighting in the Second World War and an abortive solo attempt to assassinate Hermann Goering at the Nuremburg Trials. Charming his way into a job as an agent with the Sam Jaffe Agency, he plunges into a chaotic Hollywood peopled by fast women, washed-up screenwriters, wily directors and starstruck FBI agents trailing 'subversives'. An ex-union organiser, Clancy soon falls under the radar of the FBI, who are desperate to haul him up before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Will he give up the list of nine names to save his skin? The lowest of the low, the talent agent Clancy represents Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Barbara Stanwyck and Tony Curtis and he becomes drinking buddies with Lorre. This is the era of the Hollywood Blacklist, and Sigal, like many of his contemporaries, is subpoenaed to testify before the HUAC. This nonagenarian's hilarious memoir is star-studded, riveting and poignant. He went on to emigrate to Great Britain where he met and began a four year affair with the writer Doris Lessing. He later co-wrote the movie Frida and died in 2017. 340pp, paperback.

Professor Dudley Buck invented the Cryotron: a tiny super-conducting computer chip that promised ever-smaller computers. An NSA consultant, he had a hand in countless top-secret projects linked to the space race, missiles and super computers. His inventions cleared a path for some of the most consequential developments of the last half century. Brilliant and unassuming, Buck might have benefitted greatly from his efforts had he not died in mysterious circumstances at the age of 32 soon after a visit to his lab by high-profile USSR government scientists. Was this a coincidence? Drawing on recently released papers, the books suggests a far more sinister picture. The sub-title of this highly acclaimed non-fiction book is 'The Strange Death of a Pioneering Cold War Computer Scientist' and the book is an incredibly thorough and fully accessible deep dive into the Cold War battle for computer supremacy. It details the increasingly relevant and increasingly eerie relationship between geopolitics and technology and is an insider's look at the 1950s military-industrial complex and the ease and informality with which academia, the military, intelligence agencies and industry collaborated. 286pp, paperback with photos.

Wickedly funny, hilarious and candid, we are taken to London in the 1950s. Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and an even more reluctant daughter of the organisation's most illustrious spy. She has had the bad luck to fall in love with Harry, a handsome if frustrated young actor who doubles as one of her father's best undercover agents in the Communist hotbed of British theatre. Together the two young lovers embark on a star-studded venture through the glittering world of theatre, but between missing files, disapproving parents, and their own burgeoning creative endeavours, life is about to become very complicated indeed. Filled with period detail, the teenager tells stories to make herself and other people laugh and one funny story follows another. Bingham wrote her first book Coronet Among the Weeds, her memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19 and it was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. Her father John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of MI5 where Charlotte worked as a secretary and was an inspiration for John le Carré's character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham went on to write 33 internationally bestselling novels and films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairs. Here her prose is in its youthful insouciance, and she writes as an exceptionally observant young lady. 258pp, paperback.