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True stories
Paperback. For decades the walls of Durham Gaol have contained some of the country's most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all over the north east. A total of 76 people took the short walk to the gallows here. This book features each of the 76 cases. Num Pages: 128 pages, 50 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYD; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 174 x 3. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 07th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750947503
- ISBN
- 9780750947503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.56
€ 21.99
€ 19.56
Paperback. Previously published as Becky, this is the heartbreaking story behind the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a crime that shocked the nation and tore a family in two. Num Pages: 304 pages, (1x8pp plates). BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; 3JMG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008179618
- ISBN
- 9780008179618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 pages b&w photograph section. BIC Classification: BTM; HBJD1; HBTM; HBWQ; JWF; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Crecy Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907579731
- ISBN
- 9780907579731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.93
€ 10.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. When Anne Darwin faced the world and said that her husband had disappeared while canoeing in the North Sea, her life changed forever. She had just lied to the police, the press, her friends, insurance companies and her sons. Anne opens up about her husband's hideaway scheme and the runaway train of deceit and guilt that followed. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Mirror Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910335468
- ISBN
- 9781910335468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. The story of how a Belfast schoolgirl was expelled from St Dominics on the Falls Road in Belfast in 1959, and how that event went on to shape the rest of her life. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPG; BT; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Pr
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856408083
- ISBN
- 9780856408083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.76
€ 12.76
Paperback. Trapped was a Sunday Times bestseller and the first memoir from foster carer Rosie Lewis. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BT; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0011015
- ISBN
- 9780007541782
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Trade edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780425196403
- ISBN
- 9780425196403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.08
€ 18.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. Carstairs, the State Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland, is a hospital like no other. Effectively a prison for some of the most violent and insane criminals in our society, it houses men who have committed the most horrific and frightening crimes imaginable. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 266 x 23. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845029982
- ISBN
- 9781845029982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.80
€ 17.99
€ 12.80
Paperback. The murder of popular vaudeville actor Thomas Weldon Atherstone in 1910 remains one of Britain's great unsolved mysteries. Expert Ripperologist Richard Whittington-Egan investigates. Num Pages: 224 pages, 36. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 23. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445645445
- ISBN
- 9781445645445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.05
€ 19.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BT; HBTB; KNS; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509822423
- ISBN
- 9781509822423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Tells the story of those who ended up on the end of the hangman's rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later Victorian Norwich Prison on Knox Road. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752458656
- ISBN
- 9780752458656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.61
€ 24.99
€ 18.61
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493009596
- ISBN
- 9781493009596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.43
€ 20.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Virgin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- SKU
- KTM0006723
- ISBN
- 9780753500941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of the multi-billion-pound hash smuggling business: one fuelled by a brutal underworld network of dealers, drug barons, bent cops and even terrorists. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782061991
- ISBN
- 9781782061991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 10.65
€ 17.99
€ 10.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Amok Books,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781878923141
- ISBN
- 9781878923141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.77
€ 26.99
€ 25.77
Paperback. Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, this work tells the story of one of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisation. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Virgin Books London
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753518205
- ISBN
- 9780753518205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.99
€ 26.99
€ 19.99
Paperback. All the files on the greatest unsolved murder case in history, including Scotland Yard reports, witness statements, lost files and rare photographs. Num Pages: 768 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 49. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 758
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841194523
- ISBN
- 9781841194523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.69
€ 23.99
€ 16.69
Hardback. Offers an account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history, told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion. Num Pages: 188 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 1KBB; 3JJPN; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616082277
- ISBN
- 9781616082277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.75
€ 26.99
€ 23.75
Paperback. A former detective's compelling insight into the darker side of Cumbria's history. Series: Murders. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 172 x 9. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750947480
- ISBN
- 9780750947480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.37
€ 19.99
€ 18.37
Paperback. Journalist Maximilian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanee-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BTC; WBXD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 26. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455516094
- ISBN
- 9781455516094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.60
€ 21.99
€ 18.60