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By: Michael Corbitt

ISBN: 9780061030482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The author of "Double Cross" - along with the godson of a former Chicago mob boss - tells the gritty, often gruesome, personal account of how he slipped between the deadly, conflicting worlds of cop and mobster with terrifying, almost schizophrenic ease.


(Paperback)

By: Ralph Barker

ISBN: 9780755317523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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One of the Remarkable True Stories of WWII series. Tales of extraordinary courage and survival.


(Hardback)

By: Caitlin Rother

ISBN: 9780806542621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2025
Publisher: Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.
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By: Janet Vokes

ISBN: 9781509886043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The heart-warming, moving story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of training a racehorse and Dream Alliance, the horse who defied the odds to become a champion.


(Paperback)

By: Neil Woods

ISBN: 9781785037467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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TO KNOW THE TRUE STORY BEHIND A WAR, ASK THE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT IT

'An observation van is running surveillance on a high-level Bradford gangster.


(Paperback)

By: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

ISBN: 9780241972267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.


(Hardback)

By: John Cornwell

ISBN: 9781529441963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This new edition of a true crime classic includes a postscript in which the author describes the extraordinary lengths that the great poet Ted Hughes, a neighbour of the Luxtons, went to try and suppress publication of the book.


(Paperback)

By: James Morton

ISBN: 9780751584486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd December 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A history of East End gangsters from the 1870s until today, charting the changes in society and the way the Underworld has evolved to stay ahead of the Law.


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By: Nicholas Clee

ISBN: 9780552774420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2011
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Epsom Downs, 3rd May, 1769: a chestnut with a white blaze scorches across the turf towards the finishing post.

While O'Kelly is destined to remain an outcast to the racing establishment, his horse will go on to become the undisputed, undefeated champion of his sport.


(Hardback)

By: Abbott Kahler

ISBN: 9780008729721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galpagosfrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park


(Hardback)

By: Noah Hurowitz

ISBN: 9781982133757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Atria Books
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A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaqun Archivaldo El Chapo Guzmn Loera.


(Paperback)

By: Blaine Harden

ISBN: 9780330519540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2015
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape . . .


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By: Stephen Harding

ISBN: 9780306922152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Hachette Books
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This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo.


(Paperback)

By: Bernard O'Mahoney

ISBN: 9781845964993
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story of two of Britain's most ruthless gangs.

Eventually torn apart by greed and paranoia, the gang members became victims of their own vile trade and hate-filled actions.


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By: Bernard O'Mahoney

ISBN: 9781840182859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2000
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Essex Boys is the true story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gangs of the '90s. But their reign of terror was finally terminated when the three leaders were brutally murdered in their Range Rover one winter's evening.


(Paperback)

By: Ray Lambert

ISBN: 9780062951335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes of D-Day."--Publisher's description.


(Paperback)

By: Wensley Clarkson

ISBN: 9781789460582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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The shocking true story of Harold Shipman, the doctor who became Britain's most prolific serial killer.


(Paperback)

By: Carol Ann Lee

ISBN: 9781780575391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 12th April 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Despite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial, David Smith was vilified by the public due to the accusations thrown at him by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady about his involvement in their crimes. In this title, the chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial gives his account of the case.


(Paperback)

By: Alexander Stille

ISBN: 9780099594918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1996
UK Publication Date: 6th June 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. The public outcry demanded their work was completed, which led to the toppling of crucial political alliances.


(Paperback)

By: George Christie

ISBN: 9781509824328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 24th August 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A memoir of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club from one of its highest-profile leaders.


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By: Scott McEwen

ISBN: 9781455575671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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New York Times bestselling author, Richard Miniter, joins forces with #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper, Scott McEwen, to write the provocative true history of the most controversial and top-secret unit in the American Armed Forces, the Navy SEALs.


(Paperback)

By: Dominic Utton

ISBN: 9781789296259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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A collection of chilling true crime stories that lift the lid on the worlds most infamous serial killers, unpicking their means, motives and methods and how they were finally brought to justice.


(Paperback, Revised and updated edition)

By: Jonathan Calvert

ISBN: 9780008430559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*

A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'An astonishing book' James O'Brien

'A gripping, devastating read' Sunday Times


(Hardback)

By: H.P. Wood

ISBN: 9781580897433
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2018
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
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"This book arms kids with information, introducing them to the funniest, weirdest, and most influential cons and scams in human history. Profiles of con artists will get readers thinking about motivation and consequence, and practical tips will help protect them from falsehoods"--

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