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directly through Amazon, the worlds bigger online bookshop. If you can't
find a book here or just wish us to add a book, simply contact us via
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4,000 Days : My Life and Survival in a
Bangkok Prison US List Price: $22.95 On Order; is usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks.
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Al Capone and the Roaring Twenties (Notorious
Americans and Their Times) On Order; is usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks. US edition:fast delivery |
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Always Running Luis J. Rodriguez Our Price: £9.95 Paperback - 262 pages (30 January, 1996) |
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An Evil Love: the Life of Frederick West Geoffrey Wansell This book reveals the full story of Fred West's horrific life and crimes, with the help of his own hand-written autobiography, written while in jail, and more than a 100 hours of tape recorded confessions. List Price: £7.99 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Arabian Nightmare List Price: £8.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Autobiography of a Murderer |
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A Way of Life This is "Reggie's" story, a diary of his life, with reflections on the past and the role he found for himself "on the inside". It is a story of courage and remorse, revelation and friendship. For the first time, he speaks of his marriage to Roberta, as well as his brothers Ron and Charlie. List Price: £15.99 Hardcover - 304 pages |
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Banco Paperback (17 April, 1975) |
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Calling Time on the Krays: the Barmaid's
Tale At 8.30pm on 6th March, 1966, Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell in the
Blind Beggar pub, Mile End Road. The principal witness, a young barmaid,
eventually agreed to give evidence at the trial of the Kray twins, evidence
that was crucial in securing a conviction. Since that time, she was kept
silent about her ordeal after the killing when she was a marked woman
and about the years since, with a new identity, moving from safe house
to safe house. However, her story is not just that of a witness, it is
also the story of young girl growing up in the East End. This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. Paperback - 314 pages ( 6 March, 1997) |
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Cass The author's life story reads like a Hollywood gangster movie script.
In this autobiography, Cass Pennant describes his life spent on the edge
of the law, giving respect where it is owed and dishing out terrible punishment
to those who cross him. This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. Hardcover (15 September, 2000) |
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The Damage Done In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand
and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious
Bang Kwang prison - better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning
of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the
only nutritious food, where prison guards laugh as they deliver pulverising
blows and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement,
Thai style. . Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Fiona's Story Found dead in a car park in Doncaster, Fiona, the author's daughter had
slipped through the social net and ended up in the hands of pimps and
drug-dealers. Her mother now hopes to promote public awareness and question
how society views and takes responsibility for young prostitutes. This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Gun for Hire This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Hard Bastards They live their life by a merciless code and the name of their game is respect. In this book, Kate Kray, ex-wife of Ronnie, and top war photographer, Don Barrett have interviewed and photographed the 30 "hardest" men in the British Isles List Price: £14.99 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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The Hangman's Tale Over a quarter of a century has passed since the last person was hanged
in Britain. Following the abolition of capital punishment in 1965 the
secrets of the execution chamber were consigned to history, but due to
changes in the secrecy laws a hangman is now able to tell the story of
the work of public executioners and of the last moments of those who dropped
to their deaths on the gallows. Syd Dernley's "hidden life" began on 29th
March 1949, when he watched James Farrell hang at Birmingham's Winson
Green Prison, and during the next four years he assisted in over 20 hangings. This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Mad Frank and Friends Since the publication of, "Mad Frank", Francis Fraser has become something
of a media celebrity. He has conducted tours of the East End, performed
one-man shows in Rhyl and Dublin and appeared in films. In this follow-up
to the book, he provides further anecdotes of his life in and out of prison.
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Mad Frank: Memoirs of a Life of Crime List Price: £6.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Mad Frank's Diary Written in the form of a diary, Mad Frank, with help from James Morton, recalls incidents from his colourful and eventful life in a way that is both revealing and compulsive. The book focuses on previously unpublished facets of Frank's unconventional career. List Price: £16.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Monster: the Autobiography of an LA Gang
Member At the age of 11, Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He'd just done battle with the enemy, pumping eight blasts from a sawn-off shotgun into a group of rival gang members. From then on, Kody channeled everything into gang life - earning the gang name of Monster. Written from his prison cell, this autobiography is an account of the violent life of Monster Kody Scott. List Price: £6.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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My Manor In the 1960s Charlie Richardson's "manor" was a profitable empire stretching from South London scrapyards and West End drinking clubs to mining in South Africa. Then, on the brink of the most lucrative deal of his career, Richardson was arrested. After a trial where the press labelled him the "torture gang boss", he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. This autobiography begins with his humble childhood and start in crime - stealing, escape form reform school, discharge from the army, his brushes with the Mafia and the Kray Twins and about the years when he was known as the hardest man in London. List Price: £5.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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My Story Following on from "Our Story", Ron Kray fills in the gaps and gives his version of the murders of Jack "The Hat" McVitie and George Cornell, describing his bisexuality and his marriage in Broadmoor and clarifying many of the misconceptions about the years when he and Reg ruled the London underworld, shot enemies at will and simultaneously socialized with some of the most glittering politicians, celebrities and hostesses of the time. He also tells of his life in Broadmoor - not a prison, he stresses, but a hospital. The daily routines, the drugs he must take to keep his equilibrium, his marriage there, his telephathic union with Reg in Lewes Jail and his hopes for the future. List Price: £5.99 This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Odd Man Out Just after three o'clock on the morning of Thursday 8 August 1963, on a stretch of railway track in Buckinghamshire, 16 men ambushed the Glasgow-to-London mail train. Their total haul that night was £2,631,784 - worth over £26 million at today's rates. Having made a successful escape from the scene of the crime, Biggs - along with most of the other gang members - was subsequently captured; he received a 30-year jail sentence. But within 15 months he had made an escape from Wandsworth Prison, and he has been eluding the police ever since. In his autobiography, Biggs speaks openly about the robbery and his five years of being chased around the world by Scotland Yard, and also of the birth of his third son, Farley. In 1970, Biggs settled in Brazil, where he still lives thanks to his Brazilian son Michael. List Price: £5.99 This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Out of the Shadows The poignant and horrifying life story of Anne Marie West, Fred West's eldest daughter, brought up by Fred and Rose West until the age of 15, when she ran away from home. Anne's mother and two sisters were murdered, but her story unfolds as one of hope and survival. List Price: £6.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Pretty Boy Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw is reported to be the most vicious man in England. But the heavy electric gates that protect the grounds of his Essex home cannot hide his chequered past - Roy has been in every secure institution in the country. This book presents his life story. List Price: £14.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Raving Lunacy Dave Courtney is notorious in London's criminal underworld but he's also a big name in the club and dance scene. "Raving Lunacy" is the story of this double life, and how one world spilled over into the other. From parties in prisons, sewers, railway arches and aircraft hangers, to legitimacy, this book covers the ground that his previous book "Stop the Ride" left out. And of course Dave details entertaining "the most colourful characters London has to offer" after the doors were shut tight. List Price: £16.99 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Hardcover - 256 pages
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Respect Freddie Foreman provides an account of his activities as a prominent figure in London's underworld from the 1960s, when his associates included the Kray gang and the Great Train Robbers. List Price: £6.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Roll the Dice When his father lost his home and almost everything he owned in the Lloyds Insurance meltdown, Darius Guppy swore revenge. He cold-bloodedly set out to restore the family fortune by swindling Lloyds out of £1.8 million, with a daring scheme. He tricked Lloyds out of the money by pretending he had been robbed at gunpoint of a stash of precious stones. Lloyds paid up and Guppy - at the age of 25 - was a millionaire. Nearly two years later the law caught up with him. He was disgraced and sentenced to six years in jail. Now free, Guppy tells his story in this book. He reveals his wild adventures with Lord Spencer, of gold smuggling in India, of dealings with gunmen in New York, and his passionate love for his wife Patricia. List Price: £15.99 This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Ronnie Knight: Living Dangerously
Married for years to actress Barbara Windsor, Ronnie Knight is nearing the end of his sentence for handling cash stolen during the £7 million Security Express robbery. Timed to coincide with his release, Ronnie's autobiography tells the story of his life of crime. List Price: £5.99 This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Ronnie Knight: Memoirs and Confessions
Britain's most-wanted man tells the story of his life of crime, and of his marriage to TV's Barbara Windsor. List Price: £16.99 This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Running with the Krays: My Life in London's
Gangland This is the story of Billy Webb, a man who lived in the heart of London's gangland during the period when it was dominated by the Kray twins. List Price: £6.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Silent Scream - the Charles Bronson Story
Presents the life story of Charles Bronson, one of Britain's dangerous category "A" prisoners, and how he gained his notoriety during his imprisonment. This book outlines his flair, genius, madness and love of hostage taking. List Price: £15.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Stop the Ride, I Want to Get Off David Courtney has been a legend in criminal circles in South London since the days of the Krays. This autobiography details his shady and immoral past, his time in jail, and why he's decided it's time to get out of the business. List Price: £6.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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The Twins: Free at Last Nobody knew the twins like Kate Kray. Married to Ron before his death, she was given access into the world they inhabited, and was entrusted with some of the darkest secrets they possessed - secrets that couldn't be revealed until they were both dead. List Price: £14.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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The Great Train Robbery Files Daring, ingenuity, prison, escapes, on the run, kidnap, drugs, murder, suicide and revenge - these are all facets contained in this visual documentary of great train robberies portrayed by the media from 1963 to the present. The book tells many stories within this story, providing an insight and study into one of our most enduring contemporary legends and illustrates the mythology that has grown up via the media. Here the robbery is used as a point of reference in time, a device used to illustrate the machinations of the media then and now, and its social and cultural impact. It includes press photos, press articles of the robbery, the discovery of the farm, the money found, Ronnie Biggs' escape, his near kidnap, the trials, the escapes, Buster on the run in Mexico, Bruce Reynolds on the run, Buster's suicide, Charlie Wilson's murder, Biggs' 70th birthday and a scrap yard of clippings not necessarily about the robbery but with those involved such as books and film launches, records, TV shows and commercial items. List Price: £14.99 Availability: On Order; is usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks. |
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Trial by Ordeal Lucy McLauchlan went to Saudi Arabia to work as a nurse, but within months of her arrival found herself accused of murder and facing the possibility of public execution by beheading. Here, in her own words, she tells her fateful story. Lucy and her fellow nurse, Deborah Parry, both signed confessions but only after being threatened with assault and rape by the police. The Saudi legal system then refused to listen when the nurses tried to retract them. For 17 months they were held in prison in Dharhan. Behind bars, Lucy maintained her sanity by keeping a regular diary which recorded her every thought and mood swing. List Price: £9.99 Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Urban Warrior To look at her, nobody would know that Helen Barnett had been blown up by the IRA, shot in the knee by a violent criminal who was holding her daughter hostage, and was authorized to shoot to kill. This is the story of Helen Barnett, the first woman to join the Armed Response Unit. List Price: £15.99 This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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Walking Away This work is the second part of Hugh Collins's autobiography, and takes up the controversial figure's life story from the day of his release from prison. He was, in his own words, "a time bomb waiting to go off". What follows is a candid account of a lifer coming to terms with his violent past. List Price: £10.00 This title is usually dispatched within 2-3 days. |
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