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Murder and Mystery on the Great Western Railway
Drawing upon contemporary court records and newspaper accounts of the day, the author recounts compelling stories of murder, death and mystery surrounding those who built, worked and travelled on the Great Western Railway.
The Man They Couldn't Hang
A play in two Acts with an Introduction by the author. The story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee is one of the most bizarre in English criminal history. Lee is the only person to have been reprieved by a Home Secretary after standing on a gallows trap which failed to open. This happened at Exeter Prison in 1885 when the notoriously inept public hangman James Berry gave up after three abortive attempts. Lee spent 22 years in prison before being released. On retirement, Berry from Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, who carried out 134 executions, was the first executioner to write about his experiences in My Experiences As An Executioner. His resulting celebrity led to him taking to the boards, spinning grueso...
Jack the Ripper: The Celebrity Suspects
Rippermania has driven a 120-year-old investigation to identify the depraved perpetrator of the savage murder of five prostitutes in the East End of London. This book features personalities whose reputations have been tarnished by modern authors clamouring to name celebrities as suspects, accomplices or conspirators.
Starting Up & Scaling Up A Human-First Business
What does it mean to build a truly “Human-First” business – an engaging culture where people are empowered to do their best work, and to grow both personally as well as professionally? How do you manage the tension between Starting Up and Scaling Up – the fluidity of a creative start-up versus the structure and organisation that are then needed for growth? And how do you preserve, enhance and evolve your people-centric culture as you grow – the very thing that made you unique and successful in the first place? This is a book about people. It tells the story of the first 25 years of Brand Genetics, a “human-first” insight and innovation marketing consultancy. Using an A-to-Z structure, it highlights 26 different key learnings and challenges. Each chapter is brought to life with a series of real-life human stories and illustrations, summarised into key take-outs. This is an easy-to-read guide for anyone who is starting up or scaling up their own business – or anyone who really cares about company culture, and wants to create a uniquely human work environment.
Neo-Victorian Freakery
Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly.
John Lee: the man they could not hang
Using contemporary newspaper reports, letters and other documents, this book reveals the story of an horrific murder and the infamous attempts to hang John Lee for the crime. The book has a special focus on the letters of Stephen Bryan, who campaigned not only for the benefit of John Lee, but many others. Tragically, most of his activities have been forgotten, although his reputation lasted a long time after his death at the local level.
Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations
Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long and brilliant career. Discover the truth behind many of her books, such as how the exploits of Jack the Ripper inspired the serial killings in The ABC Murders and how the plot twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was suggested by Lord Mountbatten. This book also reveals how many of her illustrious acquaintances found themselves immersed in episodes so bizarre that they could have been written by Christie herself, including how the father...
The Killing Zone
In 2007 the Grenadier Guards were sent to the Helmand River Valley, where they faced the toughest challenge of their lives. Based in isolated forward operating bases, they faced daily combat with a determined and ruthless enemy - more frequent and intense than anyone expected.
The Little Book of Ghosts
Compiled by paranormal historian Paul Adams, this spine-chilling book features intriguing, obscure, and strange trivia about all things that go bump in the night. Here you will find haunted houses and castles, parks and woods, highways and byways, phantom animals, royal ghosts, angry poltergeists and haunted objects. Also included are spooky séances and time slip ghosts, as well as some of the famous ghost-hunters themselves, including Harry Price, Elliott O'Donnell and R. Thurston Hopkins. Anyone curious enough to pick up this book will be terrified and enthralled and never short of some frivolous fact to enhance a conversation or quiz!
