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October 2007

1. Someone to Watch Over Me
2. The Ice Man
3. Don't Ever Tell
4. Ronnie's Looking For Trouble
5. The Damage Done
6. Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes
7. Essex Boys
8. Boys From Baghdad
9. Wild Thing
10.The Devil

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Someone to Watch Over Me 1A Sunday Times Bestseller

This is the shocking true story of one woman's battle to overcome a lifetime of physical and mental abuse

Izzy Hammond's deaf and partially blind parents attracted sympathy from the outside world, but no one knew of the horrific abuse their daughter was subjected to inside the family home.




The Ice Man2A dramatic biography . . . uncovers Kuklinski's trail of blood in terrifying graphic detail - News of The World

The harrowing biography of one of America's most high-profile assassins which is a sensational UK and US bestseller.


 

Don't Ever Tell3'A devastating account of a stolen childhood . . . with this book [Kathy] succceeds magnificently' - Irish Independent

 

Don't Ever Tell is Kathy's harrowing account of her ruined childhood and of her subsequent fight for justice.

 




Ronnie's Looking for Trouble4'Brutal, horrifying, thrilling and hilarious - an incredible insight into police methods over the last 30 years' - News of The World

A disturbing but gripping journey through the criminal underworld, giving an insider's view of investigations into paedophilia, murder and drug crime






The Damage Done5Thailand's harsh drugs laws are well known, but no one knows what really goes on behind Thai prison walls. Fellow's account of his years in Bangkok is a groundbreaking as it is harrowing - A MIDNIGHT EXPRESS come true. THE DAMAGE DONE tackles a sensitive and inflammatory subject -everyone has an opinion on drug traffickers and how they should be punished.

The author made the mistake of trying to traffic heroin through Thailand and wound up in prison for 12 years... a gruelling cautionary tale reminiscent of Midnight Express' - Independent on Sunday

 

 


Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes6Comparable to a female Angela's Ashes, MA, HE SOLD ME is a heart-rending memoir of a deprived childhood in 1950s and '60s Dublin that will both horrify and inspire









Essex Boys7The true story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gangs of the 90's whose reign of terror was finally terminated when the three leaders were brutally murdered in their Range Rover one winter's evening.

 

 

 

 


The Boys from Baghdad8'Offers a new take on the Iraq conflict . . . gripping stuff' - The Bookseller

'Explosive and thrilling' - News of the World

This is A fast-moving first-hand account of a hired gun's experiences in Iraq

 



Wild Thing

9The autobiography of Lew 'Wild Thing' Yates, the infamous fighter who toppled Roy 'Pretty Boy' Shaw as Guv'nor of the unlicensed boxing ring

A true-crime book with a difference, in which the main character is a moral man who refuses to become part of the criminal underworld around him

 

 


The Devil10'Sensational' - Sunday Sport
A chilling insight into the world of organised crime from a former member of Curtis Warren's cartel

 

 

 

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