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Crime
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
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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
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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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| ALLAN SCOTT-DAVIES Book Number: 85991 |
Published price: £12.99
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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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| HOWARD MARKS Book Number: 86229 |
Published price: £18.99
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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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| 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
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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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| DANIEL SCOTT Book Number: 87645 |
Published price: £12.99
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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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| KAREN BARTLETT Book Number: 88002 |
Published price: £20
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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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| LYNDA TELFORD Book Number: 87840 |
Published price: £25
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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
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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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| MIKE JAY Book Number: 88861 |
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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
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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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| MARK URBAN Book Number: 88837 |
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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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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| JOANNA JOLLY Book Number: 89001 |
Published price: £20
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We are transported to Sagkeeng First Nation Reserve, under a wide sky where the birch and aspen are turning yellow in the late summer sun. On 17th August 2014, the body of 15 year old Indigenous r...
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| ROBERT UTLEY Book Number: 88504 |
Published price: £12.99
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A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly and the stories behind the exploits of these two notorious young outlaws...
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| CAITLIN SPENCER Book Number: 89021 |
Published price: £7.99
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The horrific true story of a girl's life in the hands of sex traffickers. From the age of 14, Caitlin was controlled, raped, sold and passed on to new gangs across the UK over and over again. Her...
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| MATTHEW LOCKWOOD Book Number: 88942 |
Published price: £60
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A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in
England through the office of the coroner. Lockwood explores the history of crime, murder and suicide in England over four centuries. Whi...
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| JOHN BENNETT Book Number: 88948 |
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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Britain's industrial boom drew thousands to the East End and crime flourished in its overcrowded squalor. Long before Jack the Ripper prowled its alleys and the Kray twins terrorised its inhabitan...
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| ERIN THOMPSON Book Number: 88956 |
Published price: £25
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Collecting is a curious behaviour. Collectors and their critics have always believed that classical art has special powers: to legitimate rule, to create identities, to express wealth, to enervate ...
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| MADELINE ALBRIGHT Book Number: 88778 |
Published price: £14.99
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The first woman to serve as US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright presents a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the 20th century, and how its legacies shape today's world. The 20th c...
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| TERRY LYNCH Book Number: 58185 |
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Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. ...
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| MICHAEL SMITH Book Number: 89266 |
Published price: £10.99
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Money, patriotism, sexual relationships, adventurers, fantasists and psychopaths, either taking revenge or doing the right thing is the topic of this intelligence book by the award-winning BBC jour...
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| STEVE ROSS Book Number: 89365 |
Published price: £18.99
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Steve Ross was born Szmulek Rozental near Lodz, Poland, in 1931. Aged just eight when the Nazis invaded his village, he spent the next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive in the ten conce...
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| PATRICK BISHOP Book Number: 89419 |
Published price: £9.99
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Soldier, escaper, spymaster, politician - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons carpark in 1979. 40 years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines ...
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| ANTHONY SUMMERS Book Number: 89252 |
Published price: £9.99
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The trial of Stephen Ward was a sham. He was made a scapegoat to divert attention away from John Profumo, and the Metropolitan Police to their great shame fabricated evidence by threatening and bu...
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| MARGALIT FOX Book Number: 89024 |
Published price: $27
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Don your hunting hat and pipe as you step into an Edwardian murder trial. This real-life crime drama shares how world-famous author of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used his unparalleled ...
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| CARL CHINN Book Number: 88247 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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The BBC TV series Peaky Blinders was a hit from its first showing in 2013. Transforming our perception of Birmingham of a century ago with swagger, glamour and extreme violence - not to mention a v...
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| CHRIS ATKINS Book Number: 89600 |
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Have you ever wondered what it's really like behind bars? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service. Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons, ...
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| DENNIS NILSEN Book Number: 89622 |
Published price: £12.99
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One of Britain's most notorious serial killers, Dennis Nilsen was jailed for life in 1983 after the murders of 12 men, and the attempted murders of many more. Seven years after his conviction, he ...
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| CARL CHINN Book Number: 89633 |
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The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gang made famous thanks to the hit TV series. Infused with drama and dread, fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family ha...
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