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Revealed in these pages are the heists, the double crossings, the shoot-outs and the betrayals that accompanied Freddie Foreman's life as a career criminal when the streets were controlled by fear.
"Take, for example, Enriqueta Marti who kidnapped children from the streets of Barcelona, then boiled away their flesh and crushed their bones for ingredients for her coveted 'magic potions'. Or take Randy Kraft, known as The Scorecard Killer, a computer genius by day and a a de…
Love him or loathe him, it's very difficult to avoid Dan Brown's work. In this biography, Graham A. Thomas presents a thought-provoking insight into the mind of the writer and the inspiration for his characters and complex plots.
Dan Brown is already one of the bestselling authors that the world has ever seen. Due to the success of his gripping novels Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, he has become a household name. But how did he achieve this? W…
"For Miranda, it all started as an eight-year old girl, struggling to come to terms with the trauma of discovering that her beloved 'mummy and daddy' were in fact her grandparents and her real mother was the woman she had always known as her elder sister. Miranda would go on to …
A humorous look at the history of the world in 140 characters--the perfect way to get a grasp on history without wading through heavy textbooks. World History. Humour. Twitter.
What if Twitter had always been part of our lives...? Who would say what during wartime? What would Jesus Tweet? And how would history's most indecent of scandals have played out on our computer screens? Kelvin MacKenzie and Chas Newkey-Burden take a 140-character romp through h…
What if Twitter had always been part of our lives...? Who would say what during wartime? What would Jesus Tweet? And how would history's most indecent of scandals have played out on our computer screens? Kelvin MacKenzie and Chas Newkey-Burden take a 140-character romp through h…
In his turbulent teenage years, Baz adopted a criminal lifestyle. There were the tense early 1980s, when friction between police forces and ethnic communities often exploded. So it was in Birmingham, where Baz and other members of the black community took a stand that resulted i…