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Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne

History

Philip Mansel

Europe

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The Hanging Garden

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

IAN RANKIN

Mystery

Steven Spielberg: The Making of His Movies

Biographies & Memoirs

PERRY, George

Arts & Literature

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Literature & Fiction

Poppy Z. Brite

Genre Fiction

Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel

Head of God, The: The Lost Treasure of the Templars

Ladler, Keith

World

Time for a Change

ERICA JAMES

John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. His book The Profession of Violence was published 28 years ago (by W&amp;N) to huge acclaim and is still in print today in paperback. The Krays film was based on the book and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967, the year before they were arrested, the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and the brothers throughout their trial and prison years. Reg was in prison for 33 years although the judge recommended 30 years and was only released when he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and given weeks to live. Using the trail as the fulcrum for the narrative, Pearson, in this completely new book, will revisit the twins criminal past, including a raft of new material hitherto unpublished. The trial will be re-examined (he still has contact with the living trial lawyers) and he will look at their time in gaol (including Ronnie’s bizarre life in Broadmore) and examine what it is about the Krays which, at the time and over the next thirty years, made them ‘criminal celebrities’. On the one hand they were pursued by a fascinated media who wanted to re-create these two brutal murderers as folk heroes, and on the other they were demonised by an establishment ashamed of the way it had embraced them. Pearson will examine just why successive Home Secretaries found it too unpalatable to release the twins when so many other less well-known, but possibly more unsavoury murderers and criminals, were released after serving a fraction of their time. This is a timely book and, with Reg’s death, Pearson is now at liberty to tell the whole amazing, fascinating story.

The cult of violence: The untold story of the Krays

Pearson, John

Dad's Army is quite simply the most successful British TV sitcom of all time. Eighty episodes were made and are constantly repeated. The first black-and-white series, re-shown for the first time in 1999, attracted 4.6 million viewers, outperforming Have I got News for You and almost outstripping Channel Four's most popular programme, Friends. When the second series was shown on Saturday nights in 1998 it took 7 million viewers and 40% of the audience. Almost every comedy writer from Ben Elton and Richard Curtis to John Sullivan and David Renwick pay homage to this ‘the perfect sitcom’. When BBC centre was blacked out on Tuesday 20 June for the first time in 40 years by a power cut Dad’s Army was drafted in to save us from blank screens. Dad’s Army is simply an icon in TV comedy. For the first time the complete illustrated scripts with introductions to each episode by the authors.

Dad's Army: Walmington Goes to War (The Complete Scripts of Series 1 - 4) [ILLUSTRATED]

Humor & Entertainment

Jimmy Perry

David Croft

Television

The Prometheus Deception

robert-ludlum

Thrillers & Suspense

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