Crime and True Crime books are very popular and should carry a warning as they are true stories of horrific inhumanity and cruelty. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
LISA APPIGNANESI Book Number: 85072 |
Published price: $28.95
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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Lively accounts of three trials, one each in Britain, France and America, set between 1870 and 1914, a time when psychiatry was beginning to be taken seriously and emotions were discussed. Not only...
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David Tremain Book Number: 85763 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 has ensured that most of the Continent was in the grip of ruthless, totalitarian dictators who were determined to enslave the surviving democracies. This was th...
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DON JORDAN & MICHAEL WALSH Book Number: 84876 |
Published price: £11.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Sub-titled 'Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History', several months after the execution of Charles I in 1649, his elder son Charles, the Prince of Wales, wrote from exile in Holland...
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ROY INGLETON Book Number: 85924 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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Take a drive through the delightful countryside of the Garden of England - who would have thought that a crime as terrible as murder would happen in a place of such natural beauty? Ingleton has wr...
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MITCH PEEKE ET AL Book Number: 85926 |
Published price: £12.99
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Unlike most other books on the subject of the opulent passenger liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1915, this also researches the liner's beginnings, her innovative advances i...
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ALLAN SCOTT-DAVIES Book Number: 85991 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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The tragic ways that the victims contained within these pages met their ends include deaths in canals and rivers, quarries and pools and even the seemingly innocent bath tub. There are grisly tale...
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CARLOS DE LA HUERTA Book Number: 86008 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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The French Revolution threw the whole of Europe into turmoil, with no country more alarmed than Britain. As Napoleon established his iron grip on France, the British government was in a fever of su...
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HOWARD MARKS Book Number: 86229 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Howard Marks is Britain's most famous drug smuggler having served seven years in a US penitentiary before becoming the bestselling author of Mr Nice. A former Oxford physics graduate, he was relea...
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RICHARD WHITTINGTON-EGAN Book Number: 86790 |
Published price: £12.99
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A collection of macabre true crimes, the grand doyen of Ripperology Richard Whittington-Egan accesses the murderous brushwork of the painter William Hepper, the poisonous machinations of the widow...
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ANDREA PITZER Book Number: 86587 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Here for the first time is a chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, Andrea Pitzer documents concentration camps from the Philippines and Southern...
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FASTFORWARD MUSIC Book Number: 87050 |
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US Prosecutor Robert Jackson summed up the responsibilities of Hitler's minions in an historic speech: "I admit that Hitler was the chief villain. But for the defendants to put all blame on him is...
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BETTINA STANGNETH Book Number: 87248 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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In 1962 Adolf Eichmann was convicted and hanged in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity. After his career as a manager of the Holocaust he had escaped to Argentina, but was finally captured and t...
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JOEL DIMSDALE Book Number: 86892 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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A riveting narrative of the Nuremburg Trials, the Nazi criminals and the psychologists who analysed them. In a gripping and haunting narrative, a renowned psychiatrist sheds new light on the psych...
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SHEELAGH MAWE Book Number: 83999 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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It was a sunny day in 1940, Britain was at war, and Sarah age five and her brother James, six, were sitting at the table watching their mother pour the tea. Suddenly she broke the news. 'It's your ...
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JIM HEIMANN Book Number: 84159 |
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Warning, some very bloody, gory and graphic murder scene photos. Glamorous Hollywood legends like Marilyn Monroe shared a dirty mean city with 'Juvies' ready to wreak havoc on the streets or the W...
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DANIEL SCOTT Book Number: 87645 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Charles Manson, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, O. J. Simpson, Woody Allen v. Mia Farrow, Neil and Christine Hamilton, Jeffrey Archer, Princess Anne, Michael Jackson, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Amy Winehouse, Joss S...
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KATE WINKLER DAWSON Book Number: 87568 |
Published price: £20.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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While a deadly, thick smog held London hostage for five days in December 1952, a killer stalked the streets under the cloak of polluted darkness, John Reginald Christie. Kate Winkler Dawson is a se...
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KAREN BARTLETT Book Number: 88002 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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At the centre of the Nazi Holocaust were the brothers Ludwig and Ernst Wolfgang Topf, who inherited the family business started by their grandfather in Erfurt near Weimar. Originally a brewery, Top...
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DANNY ORBACH Book Number: 88015 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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Hitler's rise to power in 1933 precipitated a series of anti-Hitler plots involving some of the most senior officers in the Nazi administration. Among them was the chief of General Staff, Ludwig Be...
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WILFRIED KAUTE Book Number: 87824 |
Published price: $35
Bibliophile price: £17.50
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Each of the photographs collected in this book tells of a brutal crime. Disturbingly, they depict the tragedies that led to murder and testify at the same time to the banality of death. This is r...
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JULIAN WHITEHEAD Book Number: 87829 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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Charles II is the 'Merry Monarch' a fun-loving King with several mistresses including pretty cockney girl, Nell Gwynn. We remember him as the adventurous young man who hid in an oak tree to escape...
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LYNDA TELFORD Book Number: 87840 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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The Reformation was one of the most turbulent times in British history. Noted for her passion to champion the underdog, historian Lynda Telford presents famous characters such as Henry VIII, Cardi...
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STEVE CRAWSHAW Book Number: 88322 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
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Published in association with Amnesty International this remarkable book is a celebration of some of the most creative protests from around the world which have used humour and courage to bring abo...
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DANNY ORBACH Book Number: 88430 |
Published price: $15.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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Hitler's rise to power in 1933 precipitated a series of anti-Hitler plots involving some of the most senior officers in the Nazi administration. Among them was the chief of General Staff, Ludwig Be...
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IAN JONES Book Number: 88405 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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Sub-titled 'The British Capital Under Attack Since 1867' the author had made a career in bomb disposal as a Major in the British Army. London, like many cities, has witnessed the pain and terror o...
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AL CIMINO Book Number: 88567 |
Published price: £9.99
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True stories of seduction, subterfuge and state secrets, all's fair in love at war, at least the Nazis thought so. They deployed sex like no other weapon to achieve their goal of world domination,...
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MIKE JAY Book Number: 88861 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Was Despard a hero or villain we ask in this energetic study of the political complexity of the 1790s. It is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the last person to be sentenced to han...
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JOHN FOOT Book Number: 88758 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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How did a nation decimated by the Second World War rise to boast the fastest-growing economy in the world in the 1960s? How has a country continued to survive the assimilation of fascists into soci...
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JOHN LE CARRE Book Number: 88519 |
Published price: £17
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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The first Smiley story for 25 years, this was chosen as Book of the Year by the TLS and the Times in 2017 on publication and is 'vintage Le Carré'. 'Immensely clever, breathtaking'. Peter Guillam...
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MARK URBAN Book Number: 88837 |
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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Sub-titled 'The Life and Near Death of A Russian Spy' here is the explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergai Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflic...
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