March 2021

A Special Place in Hell

The World's Most Depraved Serial Killers

by Christopher Berry-Lee

Bestselling author, Christopher Berry-Dee, takes the reader on a journey through his case files to present the serial killers and mass murderers – some infamous, some less well-known - whose wicked crimes have most disturbed him in his long career investigating and speaking to the world’s most depraved, and insane, criminals. Through far-ranging and disturbing interviews, he tells the stories of these mass murderers who have left a permanent mark on him and their victims and families. A Special Place in Hell takes the reader on an uncomfortable and truly dark journey into a lurid world of murder and deviancy.

October 2020

ASSASSINATIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

by Nigel Cawthorne

Forty-eight assassinations that changed the world. We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. Instead heads of major powers and lone assassins (or martyrs) target each other to pursue their agendas. President Donald Trump felt it necessary to use drones to blow away the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Qasem Soleimani – a mastermind of terrorism in the Middle East who threatened the lives of US troops - and President Barack Obama felt fully justified in sending in US Navy SEALs to take out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. This is the nature of modern warfare. And it is only going to get worse. In a world globalized by social media, more lone-wolf assassins seek their fifteen minutes of fame by taking out a famous figure, while leaders of world powers have everything to gain by decapitating terrorist organizations, employing the latest surveillance technology to obliterate their leaders. There are forty-eight assassinations that changed the world in this book. Rest assured that in the coming years we will see many more. NIGEL CAWTHORNE is the author of some eighty books - and a major contributor to at least twenty more. He lives in Bloomsbury, London's literary area, and writes in the great British Library, which is supposed to be one of the best pick-up joints in London. However, his reputation is such that people will tell you he is more often seen drinking in Soho's famous bohemian watering hole, the French pub.

BE KIND

A Tribute to Caroline Flack

by Emily Herbert

'In a world where you can be anything, be kind'. Caroline Flack was the girl who had it all... beauty, talent, money, fame and a hugely successful career. But, away from the television cameras and the fabulous parties, there hid a lonely, frightened young woman. Caroline was already a rising star when she shot to fame as the presenter of Love Island. Yet, behind the scenes her love life was chaotic. She dated Prince Harry, Harry Styles and Russell Brand before finding love with tennis player Lewis Burton. Her world came crashing down on the night Lewis called 999 to report Caroline was attacking him. Police found Caroline hysterical and the couple covered in blood. Just as it seemed life could not be any worse Caroline was fired by ITV and barred by the courts from contacting Lewis. In this extraordinary and revealing book Emily Herbert talks with friends and celebrities to reveal the heart-breaking events, the intolerable bullying on social media, and a battle with mental health that led to the tragic death of this much-loved woman. EMILY HERBERT is an experienced author and journalist. She has written biographies of numerous celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Katie Price, Gok Wan and Stephen Gately and contributed to a range of national newspapers. Emily is based in London and her hobbies are ballet, yoga and wine.

April 2021

Broadmoor Sinister

Sanctuary or Hell for the Criminally Insane

by Boris Coster & Christopher Berry-Dee

Broadmoor Sinister is a must-read for everyone with an interest in homicidal insanity, serial murder and the true meaning of evil. Boris Coster is perhaps the world’s leading authority on what was previously known as the ‘Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum’. His depth of research into the history, beginning in the middle 1800s, of what we might call ‘The Mother of all British Asylums’, brings to the reader its remarkable 157-year history - the good and bad times, and its terrifying times - to its closure when the Commission for Healthcare Improvement declared it unfit for purpose in 2003. This so-called ‘high-security facility’, Broadmoor, has housed and treated some of the most notoriously evil, mentally deranged killers in the black annals of British criminal history. Yet, while the majority were safely incarcerated behind the grim walls and glistening wire, others were freed to kill again and again, to terrorise communities, most shockingly with no accountability at all. Sunday Times bestselling author, Christopher Berry-Dee brings to Broadmoor Sinister his own unique talents: psychopathological studies of the killers – from Ronnie Kray to Peter Sutcliffe and Charles Bronson - and comparisons with other notorious overseas mass murderers and serial killers, taking the reader inside the heads of these monsters.

September 2020

MANHUNT

Hunting Britain's Most Wanted Murderer

by Peter Bleksley

The gripping true story from the star of Hunted. In June 2004, 16-year-old Liam Kelly was lured to a location in Liverpool in the early hours of one morning and shot dead. The following year, another Liverpudlian, 22-year-old mother of three, Lucy Hargreaves, was shot dead in her own home. Her partner and their 2-year-old daughter escaped after the house was set alight by leaping from a first-floor bedroom window. For more than fifteen years, six-foot six-inch, broadly built, ginger-haired Kevin Parle has been wanted by the police for both murders. How could he have evaded national and international crime investigators for so long? Who is harbouring him? Author and former Scotland Yard detective and undercover cop, Peter Bleksley, is determined to find the answers. He has immersed himself again in the world of serious and organised crime, this time armed only with a pen, a notebook and a mobile phone. He has vowed not to rest until Parle is found. Peter Bleksley: author, investigator, playwright, broadcaster and the former Chief on Channel 4’s hit shows Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, Peter Bleksley has lived an astonishing life since retiring as a Scotland Yard Detective, where he earned a glittering reputation as a fearless undercover cop. This gripping story accompanies the hit BBC Sounds podcast, Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle.

March 2021

MARATHON MUM

How One Woman's Fight for Mental Health Spawned a Running Revolution

by Rachel Brown & Warren FitzGerald

A poignant memoir, which deals with the dark and many faces of domestic abuse with a refreshing lightness of touch unique to this working class woman from The Wirral, this is an uplifting story of the healing to be found in community, and the corners we can turn when we push ourselves across the line.

January 2021

ONE CHANCE

Surviving London's Gangs

by Terroll Lewis

“It’d be easy for me to go back to my old life, but I know where that old life leads you. You’re either behind prison bars or six feet underground.” Terroll Lewis has lived a crazy life. Growing up on Brixton’s Myatt’s Field estate, he was surrounded by gang culture, and like so many other young people, he found it hard to resist the lifestyle. By the time he was 15, he had already joined a gang, been stabbed, shot at, and was selling drugs. A chance to play professional football offered a way out, but the lure of an easier life — the promise of girls, money, and cars — led him back to South London and the notorious OC, or Organised Crime, gang. Violence and drug dealing were the norm in OC, but Terroll has long since turned his back on this world, though the association with OC endures through the ink on his skin. These days Terroll’s giving something back; Block Workout, a street-gym he founded in his old neighbourhood, gives young men an opportunity to follow a different road to the one he took during his adolescence — helping them develop their minds as well as their bodies — and the chance to live a better life. TERROLL LEWIS is the founder of the Brixton Street Gym, a charity-based community gym that has gained a huge cult following in the short time it's been around. He also founded the BlockWorkOut Foundation — the charitable base that supports this amazing gym, making it accessible to everyone regardless of income — and The ManTalk, an online platform that promotes male positivity. Terroll had been embroiled in some of the most serious street gang warfare ever seen in London, leading a band of armed and dangerous young men through the streets of the city, a wild time that ended in him being accused of murder. He was eventually acquitted of the crime and proven innocent, but is thankful for his time in prison, as it enabled him to re-evaluate his life and come out a better man, the man he is today.

April 2021

Off-Road with Clarkson, Hammond & May

Behind the Scenes of Their 'Rock and Roll' World Tour

by Phillipa Sage

For over 12 years Phillipa Sage worked alongside Clarkson, Hammond and May as their PA, gofer, and fixer where she saw the boys at their best and, hilariously, at their worst. A closet petrol head, Phillipa started working in the motor industry on live events over 20 years ago and first worked with Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman (formerly Top Gear and now the Grand Tour’s Executive Producer) in 1997. She proved to be a loyal, trusted friend and colleague to all the presenters—from back in the beginning with Tiff Needell and Quentin Wilson—to the now infamous trio of Clarkson, Hammond and May, and became a key member of what became known as ‘The Bubble’, the exclusive, dysfunctional working family that toured the world. With an enormous budget, they travelled like rock stars—with super cars, yachts, private jets, helicopters, and five-star wining and dining—taking their unique brand of motoring madness to 18 countries, 31 cities and to over 2 million fans in arenas and at festivals from New Zealand to Norway. Supported by a large crew and their personal entourage, Clarkson, Hammond and May, when not performing in their extraordinary, high octane, live action, motoring theatre, indulged in extravagant holidays. They and their ‘Bubble’ family relaxed in luxury resorts or private houses entertaining themselves with pool parties, drinking, heli-sightseeing, drinking, private motorboat cruises, drinking, jet skiing, sailing, drinking and eating, and drinking. In Off-Road with Clarkson, Hammond & May, Phillipa shares the tour highs, lows and laughter of three incredibly talented, stupid and naughty boys.

SECRET NARCO

The Great Train Robber whose partnership with Pablo Escobar turned Britain on to cocaine

by Wensley Clarkson

This is the extraordinary story of how Charlie Wilson – renowned as one of the leaders of the Great Train Robbery gang – turned his back on so-called traditional crime to become the underworld’s original narco by masterminding a multi-billion dollar drugs network in partnership with the original cocaine cowboy, Pablo Escobar. Today, Wilson is infamous for helping turn cocaine into the Western World’s number one recreational drug of choice. Secret Narco unravels the bullet riddled story of South Londoner Wilson’s cocaine empire and his forays into the deadliest killing fields of all: South America. Meticulously researched, Secret Narco features interviews with many of Wilson’s friends, family members and enemies on both sides of the law enforcement divide, as well as associates of Pablo Escobar. Secret Narco examines in detail the final, tragic circumstances behind Wilson and Escobar’s bloody deaths and how their twisted ‘partnership’ proved that gangsters never rest in peace. Wensley Clarkson has investigated numerous crimes across the world for the past thirty years. His books – published in more than thirty countries – have sold two million copies. He has also written movie and TV screenplays and made numerous documentaries in the UK, US and Spain. His most recent major project is Florida-based TV series Boca Grande which he created, developed and wrote with BAFTA award-winning Peaky Blinders director David Caffrey.

November 2020

SERIAL KILLERS AT THE MOVIES

My Intimate Talks with Mass Murderers Who Became Stars of the Big Screen

by Nigel Cawthorne

An uncomfortable and dark journey into a lurid world of murder and deviancy. The depraved crimes of both real and imagined serial killers and mass murderers have long transfixed us in newspapers and books, but perhaps nowhere more so than on the big screen. Films such as Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer have not only reached huge audiences but also allowed us into the minds of society’s most disturbed individuals. Bestselling author, Christopher Berry-Dee, talks to the serial killers whose wicked stories have most thrilled and fascinated us at the movies and, through far-ranging and disturbing interviews, he tells the stories of the mass murderers who provided the inspiration for some of cinema’s most shocking films. Serial Killers at the Movies takes the reader on an uncomfortable and truly dark journey into a lurid world of murder and deviancy. A noted writer and criminologist, Christopher Berry-Dee's recent books include Talking With Psychopaths and Savages, the UK's bestselling true-crime title of 2017, and Talking With Female Serial Killers. He is the country's No. 1 true-crime author.

Son of Escobar: First Born

The murders, the hidden millions and MI6's secret. The real truth about my father

by Roberto Sendoya Escobar

THE MURDERS, THE HIDDEN MILLIONS, AND MI6'S SECRET. THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT MY FATHER. After a secret mission led by an MI6 agent to recover a hoard of stolen cash culminates in a bloody shootout, from which Pablo Escobar escapes, only the distressing cries of a baby can be heard. That baby is Roberto Sendoya Escobar, eldest son of Pablo Escobar, and this is his long-awaited autobiography. In a bizarre twist of fate, the MI6 agent takes pity on Roberto, and eventually adopts him. Pablo Escobar tries, repeatedly, to kidnap his son. Flanked by his trusty bodyguards, the child, unaware of his true identity, is allowed regular meetings with Escobar and it becomes apparent that the British government is working covertly with Escobar in an attempt to control the money laundering and drug trades. Life becomes so dangerous, however, that Roberto is packed off to an English public school. Many years later, as Roberto’s adopted father lies dying in hospital, he hands his son a coded piece of paper which, he says, reveals the secret hiding place of the 'Escobar Missing millions' the world has been searching for! The code is published in this book for the first time. Roberto Sendoya Escobar lives with his wife in a remote finca on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca under his adopted name of Phillip Witcomb. He works as an acclaimed fine artist, and his work sells for many thousands of pounds. He plans to donate a substantial percentage of profits from this book to charities which benefit young people.

TYSON FURY

Gypsy King of the World

by Nigel Cawthorne

Tyson Fury is colossal - six feet nine inches tall and a whisker under 20 stones in weight. He is spectacularly fast. He has a punch that could knock over a rhino and he can dance and weave like no one since the great Muhammad Ali. When he destroyed the fearsome Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas to become two-time world heavyweight champion in February 2020, the world held its breath. Fury was born in 1988 and named after Mike Tyson, who was then the world heavyweight champion. Tyson comes from a long line of gypsy bare knuckle fighters. His father, Gypsy John Fury and grandfather, Tiger Gorman, both fought as professionals. Tyson's success has not come easily, but he has fought the terrible battles of his personal life as bravely as those in the ring. In this extraordinary biography you will read how he overcame addiction to cocaine and alcohol and lost a staggering eight stone in weight to make his comeback. His bravery in talking about his mental health problems is an inspiration to many. Now he is happy and at the top of his game. NIGEL CAWTHORNE is the author of some eighty books - and a major contributor to at least twenty more. He lives in Bloomsbury, London's literary area, and writes in the great British Library, which is supposed to be one of the best pick-up joints in London. However, his reputation is such that people will tell you he is more often seen drinking in Soho's famous bohemian watering hole, the French pub.

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Hunting Britain's Most Wanted Murderer

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How One Woman's Fight for Mental Health Spawned a Running Revolution

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Surviving London's Gangs

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