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True stories
Paperback. A first-hand account of the most infamous coup attempt in recent history - and of what it takes to be a friend and survivor Num Pages: 496 pages, two 8 page b&w insets on text paper. BIC Classification: 1HFJQ; 3JMC; BTM; JWXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 332. illustrations. A first-hand account of the most infamous coup attempt in recent history - and of what it takes to be a friend and survivor. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFJQ; 3JMC; BTM; JWXN. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight: 348.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847674418
- ISBN
- 9781847674418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
€ 17.99
€ 13.03
Paperback. 256 pages, illustrations. Police spokesperson and former TV journalist McIntosh Polela has been on our screens for many years. But behind his seemingly unfazed demeanour, a troubled past haunts him. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BT; JFFE. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 20. Weight: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Jacana Media
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431401604
- ISBN
- 9781431401604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.59
€ 26.99
€ 23.59
Paperback. 'Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; BTP; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008158064
- ISBN
- 9780008158064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.87
€ 11.99
€ 9.87
Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008158033
- ISBN
- 9780008158033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.69
€ 23.99
€ 20.69
Paperback. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James was informed of her death. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son. This autobiography takes you on a trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099537847
- ISBN
- 9780099537847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844157044
- ISBN
- 9781844157044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. Carlton Leach is a man to be reckoned with: make a friend of Carlton and you have an ally for life; cross him at your peril. Here he presents his life as a key member of the dreaded Essex Boys gang which ran riot in the eighties and nineties, sparking a savage drugs war. Num Pages: 277 pages, 16pp monographs. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204. 277 pages, 16pp monographs. Carlton Leach is a man to be reckoned with: make a friend of Carlton and you have an ally for life; cross him at your peril. Here he presents his life as a key member of the dreaded Essex Boys gang which ran riot in the eighties and nineties, sparking a savage drugs war. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BTC. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight: 204.
- Publisher
- John Blake
- Number of pages
- 277
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904034483
- ISBN
- 9781904034483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. Examines the stories and subsequent trials behind some of the most infamous cases of British female killers between the early part of the nineteenth century and the 1950s. This book analyses each of these prominent British cases. It includes post-trial material as well as the executions of the offenders. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9780750950817
- ISBN
- 9780750950817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.60
€ 19.99
€ 18.60
Paperback. A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice. Num Pages: 507 pages, Illustrations, map, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJPG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- Waterside Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 490
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904380801
- ISBN
- 9781904380801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.30
€ 28.30
hardcover. Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed "Murder, Inc." Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; BTC; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823271559
- ISBN
- 9780823271559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.51
€ 83.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12pp photographs. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578991
- ISBN
- 9781877578991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.65
€ 20.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BTC; JKVM; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 255 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Barricade Books
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934878494
- ISBN
- 9780934878494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.64
€ 18.99
€ 18.64
Paperback. Meet the DeMeo gang - the most deadly killers the Mafia has ever known. They were a small-time Brooklyn corner crew who, headed by the notorious Roy DeMeo, became the hitmen of choice for the Gambino family. Killing for profit and pleasure, they were ultimately feared by everyone - even the Mafia bosses they worked for. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 175 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091941123
- ISBN
- 9780091941123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.53
€ 23.99
€ 16.53
Paperback. Presents an account of how organized crime exploded in Limerick from the 1990s and in the noughties. This book describes the depravity and decadence of the gangs, their deadly rivaliries, and their reigns of terror over the community in which they lived. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BTC; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241970461
- ISBN
- 9780241970461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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€ 11.88
Paperback. The thirty-three cases in this excellent book give a unique and fascinating insight into life in the Victorian period, in Liverpool and beyond. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BTC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212. 128 pages. The thirty-three cases in this excellent book give a unique and fascinating insight into life in the Victorian period, in Liverpool and beyond. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BTC; HBTB. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 11. Weight: 212.
- Publisher
- Carnegie Pub.
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874181804
- ISBN
- 9781874181804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Hardback. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 37. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633882539
- ISBN
- 9781633882539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.77
€ 25.99
€ 23.77
Paperback. A search for the truth about a distant unsolved murder. Num Pages: 205 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846945366
- ISBN
- 9781846945366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.43
€ 16.99
€ 15.43
Paperback. An unlikely journalist, a Mississippi murder plagued by revelations, and a fascinating true-crime story of race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South - all told in the sharply original style of Louis Theroux and Jon Ronson. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JMG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Blackfriars
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349134260
- ISBN
- 9780349134260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. "Murder in Lancashire" provides a fascinating insight into policing in the north of England in the 1970s Num Pages: 128 pages, 36. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Carnegie Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874181910
- ISBN
- 9781874181910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.26
€ 8.99
€ 8.26
Paperback. Series: American Crime Stories. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; BTC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621573210
- ISBN
- 9781621573210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.67
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€ 16.67
Paperback. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed Charles Bowden, a stunning work of reportage on Ciudad Juarez--the blood-soaked town caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's escalating drug wars Num Pages: 352 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BTC; HBJK; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 372. Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. 352 pages, b/w photos. Presents a devastating chronicle of a city in collapse. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BTC; HBJK; JKVG. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 24. Weight: 382.
- Publisher
- Nation Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568586458
- ISBN
- 9781568586458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.12
€ 25.99
€ 18.12
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752450650
- ISBN
- 9780752450650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.68
€ 24.99
€ 21.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; BTC; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681772318
- ISBN
- 9781681772318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 32 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750956833
- ISBN
- 9780750956833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44