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21%OFFRobert Douglas - At Her Majesty´s Pleasure - 9780340935309 - V9780340935309
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At Her Majesty´s Pleasure

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Description for At Her Majesty´s Pleasure Paperback. The third volume in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD and brings us up to the present day. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236.

In his final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the Yorkshire Dales. He tells us of his prison experiences, with anecdotes about many of the most famous criminals in British history - the Krays, the Richardsons, the Great Train Robbers, Soviet spies and many more.

Told in the same endearing and fascinating voice that readers of LAST SONG OF THE NIGHT TRAM and SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340935309
SKU
V9780340935309
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Robert Douglas
Now retired, Robert Douglas worked as a prison officer and an electricity chargehand. Although he has lived in Northumberland for many years, he says you can take the boy out of Glasgow, but you'll never take Glasgow out of the boy.

Reviews for At Her Majesty´s Pleasure
'You feel as if you are standing alongside him, scanning the prison wings for trouble'
Glasgow Herald
His straightforward prose makes the very ordinariness of a condemned man's final days and the speed at which the actual hanging takes place stick in the mind more effectively than any hand-wringing moralising would manage . . . It's ... Read more

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