Dick Hobbs pulls back the curtain to show us how career criminals think, behave, and how they do 'The Business'
The powerful memoir of a palliative care nurse's life spent facing down death - and the frontline battle against the coronavirus
The most shocking true story of child abuse ever told...
From the Playground to the Pitch, meet Jamie Vardy - Ultimate Football Hero.
He was one of the world's true superstars, and the silver screen's most beloved James Bond. Sir Sean Connery - a proud Scotsman born in 1930 to a working-class family - died at home in the Bahamas on 31 October 2020. He left behind him a legacy to rival any actor. Connery bestrode Hollywood like a Colossus. He commanded some of the highest fees in the industry and was lauded by critics and the public alike. In July 2000, his unique contribution to the world of film was recognised when he was accorded a knighthood. John Parker traces the astonishing rise to stardom of a tough street kid from Edinburgh. The part of 007 became a monster that threatened to kill Connery as an actor; he escaped to establish himself as one of the world's most magnetic and commanding character actors, winning an Oscar for his role in iconic crime drama The Untouchables. The author has drawn on reminiscences of famous friends and colleagues, including Honor Blackman, Robert Hardy and Eric Sykes, to create an authoritative and entertaining portrait of a talented, complex actor - and, above all else, a magnificent man.
My life as a carer and how I learned to live again.
From the Playground to the Pitch
The Ultimate Collection of Preposterous Posers to Ponder
Ordinary people, extraordinary circumstances, incredible stories.
True stories of police corruption, bent coppers and the secret units who hunt them.
'I was a drug trafficker in the true sense of the word: a pure narco.' Careers in the cocaine-trafficking business are usually short. It's not only a dangerous profession, fraught with the possibility of capture and long jail sentences, but it can be deadly if the cartels get to you first. Not for Luis Antonio Navia. For 25 years the Cuban-American smuggled hundreds of tons of white powder for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel. In a profession populated by thugs, Navia's dress sense and good manners earned him the nickname 'El Senador' (The Senator). But he was never far removed from the most brutal violence imaginable. One friend got his head cut off. Another was hit over the head, put in a 55-gallon drum full of cement and dumped in a canal. Navia himself was kidnapped three times and went close to being fed alive to crocodiles. Somehow through it all he managed to survive and spent two decades fooling the DEA and other law-enforcement agencies. That was until he came under the radar of Robert Harley, a tenacious US Customs special agent in Key West, Florida, who was determined to bring him to justice. What followed was an international game of cat-and-mouse that culminated in Navia's 2000 arrest in Venezuela in one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time, the 12-nation Operation Journey. Spanning decades, continents and featuring a who's who of the drug trade, Pure Narco is a fast-paced adventure ride into the dark underworld of cocaine trafficking, written with the cooperation of a dozen law-enforcement agents from the world's top antinarcotics forces in the United States and Great Britain. This book is a redemption story. Luis Navia, the pure narco, has gone full circle.
An inspiring collection that shines a light on incredible women who were never given the acknowledgement they deserved.
The follow-up to the incredible Sunday Times bestseller, The Peaky Blinders: The Real Story.
Meet the hardest men in Britain: hitmen, terrorists, gangsters and more
Do you ever have that feeling you're being watched? Perhaps you are...Leading criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his unflinching gaze on maybe the most sinister and disturbing of all killers - those who first stalk their unwitting victims, often for months at a time.
Born with 'learning difficulties' and all but abandoned by his schools, Neil went on to become kit man to Stoke City FC. This is the inspiring, moving and at times hysterically funny story of Neil Baldwin's marvellous life.
From bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and escape.
Mia is nineteen, too mentally ill and too often on drugs to keep a 'straight' job so she starts working at a massage parlour. She takes to sex work with recklessness, aplomb, and good humour.As she works her way through Sydney's many rub-and-tug joints, Mia, or Sasha as she is now known, meets women from every walk of life who choose sex work for myriad reasons. While negotiating the demands of her new job, she battles her problematic drug use, and the mental illness that has shaped her life. Rather than needing saving from sex work, it is the work that saves her from her many demons.This is a unique memoir, a story about a distinct period in a woman's life, a path taken on the way tomaking her what she is. It is shameless, painfully honest and with an ending that refuses to wrap up in a tidy bow.
The true story of London's most prolific armed robbery gang.
The most comprehensive book ever published about British Special Forces operations against the IRA during the Troubles.
A satirical guide to life behind bars by Britain's most notorious prisoner.
Meet Fran Kirby: ultimate football hero
From the playground to the pitch...
Marta is the best footballer in the history of the women's game. The Brazilian has jaw-dropping flair and skill. She has scored more World Cup goals than any other player, and has won FIFA World Player of the Year six times. But pure talent alone was never enough - this book tells the story of how Marta chased her dreams with determination and a never-give-up attitude, to earn the right to be called the best player ever.
Northern Ireland's answer to Philomena, but with bombs and bullets. . .
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