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Crime
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 |
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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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| 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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| 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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| ROBERT UTLEY Book Number: 88504 |
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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 |
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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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| MADELINE ALBRIGHT Book Number: 88778 |
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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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| STEVE ROSS Book Number: 89365 |
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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 |
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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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| CARYN WALKER Book Number: 89644 |
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A courageous account of a nightmare childhood, the subject of child abuse is utterly revolting and this is a powerful and emotional story of two scared little girls, one abusive father, and a child...
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| AMANDA LEES Book Number: 89968 |
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'We crime lovers are voyeurs, but we are also hackers, driven to crack the code. We want to know how and why but we also want to know what we can do to protect ourselves.' The blue line between tr...
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| ROGER WILKES Book Number: 89743 |
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Sub-titled 'The Definitive Account of Jeremy Bamber and the White House Farm Murders'. In the early hours of 7th August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were shot dead with a point 2-2 cali...
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| THOMAS J. SCHAEPER Book Number: 89382 |
Published price: £34.95
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The name of Edward Bancroft (1744-1821) is little-known, but in this first complete biography we discover what an important figure he was in the history of espionage and the American Revolution. Bo...
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| BORIS VOLODARSKY Book Number: 90115 |
Published price: $25
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A ground-breaking study of KGB assassinations since 1917 with inside information by a former Russian Army Special Forces Operative and full details of the Litvinenko murder. In late November 2006 ...
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| GARY POWELL Book Number: 90232 |
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Beginning with the diminutive King Charles I in January 1649 walking on to the scaffold on which he would die at the hands of his own people and sentenced to death in the only case of regicide in B...
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| BRUCE GOLDFARB Book Number: 90284 |
Published price: £16.99
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Sub-titled 'The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics', Lee once said 'The goal of forensic investigation is to convict the guilty, clear the innocent and find ...
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| MIM SKINNER Book Number: 90409 |
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Darkly funny, breathtakingly poignant and stark in its revelations about the UK's attitude towards people on the fringes of society and women in general, this is a book about the individual stories...
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| LUCY WILLIAMS Book Number: 90683 |
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You've got to pick a pocket or two, here is the brutal side of the gentle sex who have been locked away, sent away and launched into eternity. Here are crimes of property and poverty and its punis...
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| SUMMER STREVENS Book Number: 90349 |
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Subtitled 'The Life and Death of Mary Channing', we learn that in 1706 the 19 year old Mary was convicted of poisoning her husband. She became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. ...
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| NIGEL WEST Book Number: 90352 |
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Guy Liddell was the Director of MI5's counter-espionage B Division throughout WWII, during which he wrote a confidential personal diary. Using those recently declassified diaries, Nigel West has d...
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| ALISON EATWELL Book Number: 90354 |
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The National Archive in Kew holds thousands of petitions from prisoners, their families, employers, supporters and even prosecutors written after the prisoner had been sentenced in the hope of gain...
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| JAMES HOBSON Book Number: 90356 |
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Cambridge academic James Hobson specialised in Britain c.1790-1837 and runs a successful blog on the Regency ab.1816. Here he challenges the long-established view of high society in Georgian Brita...
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| GEOFFREY PIMM Book Number: 90358 |
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As we know from his personal diaries, Samuel Pepys recorded carefully every daily event of his public and private life over a period of more than nine years from January 1660 to May 1669. There wa...
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| MARTIN BOGGOLEY Book Number: 90359 |
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A unique examination of police murders, this is the first book dedicated solely to the murders of police officers in the Victorian era, recalling numerous cases from across the UK. They include th...
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| WILLOW WINSHAM Book Number: 90361 |
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Founder of the popular website FolkloreThursday, Willow Winsham directs her forensic skills towards five notorious witchcraft trials between 1563 and 1736, a period when the fear of witches led to ...
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| MARK SIMMONS Book Number: 90368 |
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Sub-titled 'Keeping Spain Out of World War II' here is an account of spies, scoundrels and envoys. Had Spanish dictator Francisco Franco decided to abandon Spain's neutral stance, or had the Axis ...
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| CLAIRE HARMAN Book Number: 90377 |
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Relish the gruesome details of this impressively researched historical account of a celebrated Victorian murder with a literary twist. In the early morning of 6th May 1840, on a highly respectable...
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| ELIZABETH FOYSTER Book Number: 90395 |
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A Guardian Best History Book of 2016. Eccentric, shy aristocrat or mad, bad and dangerous to know, neighbour Jane Austen found the third Earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman, and Lord Byron mainta...
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