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Books > Fiction > True stories
Dr. Rosenfeld spells out the details on how to prevent, treat,
and/or slow down virtually every disorder and complication of
aging, including Alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease, impotence,
cataracts, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, stroke, and loss of
vision.
'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads'
Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions
from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto
and Freddie Harrel. In the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, but
wholly its own, Girl is a provocative, heartbreaking and frequently
hilarious collection of original essays on what it means to be
black, a woman, a mother and a global citizen in today's
ever-changing world. Black women have never been more visible or
more publicly celebrated. But for every new milestone, every
magazine cover, every box office record smashed, the reality of
everyday life remains a complex, nuanced, contradiction-laden
experience. Award-winning journalist and American in London Kenya
Hunt threads razor sharp cultural observation through evocative and
relatable stories, both illuminating our current cultural moment
and transcending it.
In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes
of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies:
bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they
have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new
society makes possible. This book explores the social and legal
consequences of social and geographical mobility in the United
States and Great Britain from the beginning of the 19th century on.
Personal identity became more fluid. Lines between classes blurred.
Impostors abound.
1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on
the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the
West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East
forever. This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue
began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed
without leaving a trace and put it in the hands of Bogdan
Stashinsky. It is a tale of exploding parcels, fake identities,
forbidden love and a man who knew the truth about the USSR's most
classified programme. By the time Stashinsky had his day in court,
the whole world was watching.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky
Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused
with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but
deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes.
Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn,
revealed the true story of the notorious gang in his bestselling
Peaky Blinders: The Real Story and now in this follow-up book, he
explores the legacy they created in Birmingham and beyond. What
happened to them and their gangland rivals? In Peaky Blinders: The
Legacy we revisit the world of Billy Kimber's Peaky Blinders,
exploring their legacy throughout the 1920s and 30s, and how their
burgeoning empires spread across the UK. Delve into the street wars
across the country, the impact of the declaration of War on Gangs
by the Home Secretary after The Racecourse War in 1921, and how the
blackmailing of bookmakers gave way to new and daring opportunities
for the likes of Sabini, Alfie Solomon and some new faces in the
murky gangland underworld. Drawing on Carl's inimitable research,
interviews and original sources, find out just what happened to
this incredible cast of characters, revealing the true legacy of
the Peaky Blinders.
_____________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA
ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION _____________ 'John le Carre
demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified
intelligence gathering itself' - Financial Times 'Uplifting . . .
Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped,
is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat
runs . . . Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian
whodunit' - Telegraph 'We Are Bellingcat is Higgins's gripping
account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age . . . A
manifesto for optimism in a dark age' - Luke Harding, Observer
_____________ How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths
end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time? Bellingcat,
the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think
about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder -
a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how
they created a whole new category of information-gathering,
galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war
crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers.
From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the
sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification
of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some
of Bellingcat's most successful investigations. It explores the
most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality
software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene,
to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was
taken. In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world
needs right now - an intelligence agency by the people, for the
people.
Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, The Hillside Strangler
. . . serial murderers are the most horrific of all criminals. Kate
Kray, whose marriage to gangster Ronnie Kray offered her access to
a gruesome underworld few would dare to enter, peers into the minds
of the worst killers to reveal the awful truth of their abominable
acts. The extreme nature of their violence and their shocking lack
of remorse makes for uncomfortable yet fascinating reading. From
obsessive sexual predators and extreme sadists to cannibals and
head hunters, each type of psychopath is examined, their crimes
told with grim frankness. Kate's connections allow her to ask
uncomfortable questions few would dare to ask such men. Offering
extraordinary insight into the motivations of violent perpetrators
often portrayed as monsters, this book begs the question of whether
such individuals can themselves be viewed as victims of a troubled
past, or merely as exponents of pure evil.
This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly
funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's
most notorious jails. 'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places
and hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and decency
shine through' - Jonathan Aitken ______________ Neil 'Sam' Samworth
spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester,
aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to
deal with it all - gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and
psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be
locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell
fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most
dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by
prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and
the drugs flooding our prisons. As staffing cuts saw Britain's
prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job - the
suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault too many -
left Sam suffering from PTSD. Strangeways by Neil Samworth is a
raw, searingly honest memoir that is a testament to the men and
women of the prison service and the incredibly difficult job we ask
them to do. ______________ 'A frequently shocking read' - Daily
Express
'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has
terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for
control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count- 23,000 dead
in five years - and sheer horror beggar the imagination of
journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and
rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those
who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been
gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are
dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are
rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the
war is creeping northward. El Narco is the story of the
ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of
Mexico into a combat zone. It is a piercing portrait of a drug
trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a
diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such
power. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo traces the gangs
from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal
empires. The narco cartels are a threat to the Mexican government,
and their violence has now reached as far as North Carolina. El
Narco is required reading for anyone concerned about one of the
most important news stories of the decade.
The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we
are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All
Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage
with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie
wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship
with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small
town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a
sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her
have sex with other men and women? Three Women, which was nearly a
decade in the making, is a staggering work of non-fiction for our
times. *The book Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alexa Chung, Jodie Comer,
Reese Witherspoon, Harry Styles, Fearne Cotton, Caitriona Balfe,
Gwyneth Paltrow, Sharon Horgan, Zoe Ball, Rosie
Huntington-Whiteley, Davina McCall, Gemma Chan, Christine and the
Queens and Gillian Anderson are all reading* 'I will probably
re-read it every year of my life' Caitlin Moran 'Will have millions
nodding in recognition' The Times 'As gripping as the most gripping
thriller' Marian Keyes 'When I picked it up, I felt I'd been
waiting half my life to read it' Observer 'The kind of bold,
timely, once-in-a-generation book that every house should have a
copy of, and probably will before too long' New Statesman The No. 1
Sunday Times Bestseller The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Foyles
Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Stylist Book of the Decade The
Most-Picked Book of the Year of 2019
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen
countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I'll
know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation,
and most important, how to disappear . . . To the young Cheryl
Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling
down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld
fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One
day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern
repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and
erased their pasts. What Diamond didn't yet know was that she was
born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest
international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that
would eventually catch up to all of them. By the time she was in
her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she
grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her
family--the only people she had in the world--began to unravel. She
started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the
people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and
her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even
existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere. Surviving would
require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn
all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often
unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true
story of self-discovery and triumph.
'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNab The full, explosive,
boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at
the heart of the action, published for the 40th anniversary of the
conflict. Tony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS. Both
his grandfather and father had been soldiers, and so Tony signed up
for the Cadets at 13, then the Infantry at 17 and enlisted into the
Royal Green Jackets before passing arduous SAS selection in 1978.
Less than four years later, Tony and his team were sent to a
collection of islands just off the coast of Argentina called the
Falklands, where tensions were rising and war was on the horizon.
No amount of training could prepare Tony for what happened over the
course of the next twelve weeks, as the Falkland Islands became a
battleground between British and Argentinian forces. As helicopters
crashed and ships sank, Tony, at the centre of the action, battled
across treacherous terrain and against a fearsome enemy, doing
whatever it took to retake the islands. From one of the only
soldiers who was on the frontline throughout the entire conflict,
this is a thrilling account of what really happened in the
Falklands, an explosive story of land, sea and air battles from a
trooper who saw it all.
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership
between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone -
the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side
known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. Excelling in
extortion, numbers running, loansharking and drug-peddling, they
became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime.
The then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani called them 'the most savage
organisation in the long history of New York street gangs'. Upping
the ante on brutality and depravity, their speciality when it came
to punishment and killings was dismemberment. Their reign lasted
almost twenty - their end would come as their own violent natures
got the best of them and precipitated a downfall as infamous as
their rise. This revised and updated edition, brings the story of
the Westies up to date with 'where are they now' snapshots of the
men - and women - of the Westies.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE
CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET 'It
was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the
floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some
semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long
time ago.' Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the
years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and
ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even
so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life
together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one
summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and
honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true
story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an
extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past,
with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Tweak is a
raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from
relapse to recovery and complements his father's parallel memoir,
Beautiful Boy. Praise for Nic Sheff:- 'Difficult to read and
impossible to put down.'Chicago Tribune 'Nic Sheff's wrenching tale
is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' Armistead Maupin
Woman. Wife. Smuggler. Spy . . . TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT STARRING
ELIZABETH DEBICKI (TENET, THE CROWN) AS NANCY WAKE A thrilling and
heart-wrenching novel inspired by the astonishing real life story
of Nancy Wake. Perfect for fans of Suzanne Goldring's MY NAME IS
EVA, Kate Quinn's THE ALICE NETWORK and Imogen Kealey's LIBERATION,
soon to be a blockbuster movie. 'Lawhon breathes new life into
Nancy Wake's extraordinary story. Rich and thoroughly researched,
an exciting, well-written account of wartime valour and the
protagonist's qualities shine through' The Times 'This is the next
book I won't be able to stop talking about...so, so good!' 5 stars
(Goodreads reviewer) 'Readers will be transfixed by this story of a
woman who should be a household name' Library Journal 'A gripping
thriller based on the life of Nancy Wake... Will keep readers
turning the pages' Publishers Weekly In 1936, foreign
correspondent, Nancy Wake, witnesses first-hand the terror of
Hitler's rise in Europe. No sooner has Nancy met, fallen in love
with and agreed to marry French industrialist Henri Fiocca, than
the Germans invade France and force her to take on her first code
name of many. The Gestapo call her the White Mouse for her
remarkable ability to evade capture when smuggling Allied soldiers
across borders. She becomes Helene when she leaves France to train
in espionage with an elite special forces group in London. Then,
when she returns to France, she is the deadly Madame Andree. But
the closer France gets to liberation, the more exposed Nancy - and
the people she loves - will become. Inspired by true wartime
events, Code Name Helene is a gripping and moving story of
extraordinary courage, unfaltering resolve, remarkable sacrifice -
and enduring love. Just some of the 5-star reader reviews for Code
Name Helene: 'I finished this a few weeks ago and I'm still
thinking about Helene . . . exceptional' 5 stars (Goodreads
reviewer) 'Will have you turning off phones and TVs and staying up
late to read it' 5 stars (Goodreads reviewer)
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