16 Top crime books like The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails by Vanessa Frake

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The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se…

If you liked the crime plot in The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails by Vanessa Frake , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

Similar categories in Ray Fysh's Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Secret Prisoner: Diary Of A Prisoner

By: Daniel hockey

4.17

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

The Secret Prisoner Book is a first hand insight into what prison is like in the UK. This truely is… read more

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3. I Survived: A True Story.

By: Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Cilliers's I Survived: A True Story. book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

By: Neil Samworth

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangewa… read more

Similar categories in Neil Samworth's Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Girl for the Job: My strange, dangerous and totally unexpected life as an undercover cop

By: Danni Brooke

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Girl for the Job is an exciting, intriguing and at times jaw-dropping memoir perfect for fans o… read more

Similar categories in Danni Brooke's The Girl for the Job: My strange, dangerous and totally unexpected life as an undercover cop book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
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8. What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood

By: Kerry Daynes

4.35

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Life in the Max

By: Tom Hill

4.35

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Life in the Max is drawn from over 32 years as a prison officer. Serving at one of only six categor… read more

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10. HMP Manchester Prison Officer: I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer Book 1)

By: John Sutton

3.88

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

“Shocking, darkly hilarious and eye-opening. The treacherous attacks from Freemason prison officers… read more

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11. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

Similar categories in Kate Marshall's Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

By: Amanda Brown

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doct… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Sleeping with a Psychopath

By: Carolyn Woods

3.60

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A Divorced Woman. A Dangerous Man. A Devastating Affair.… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Woods's Sleeping with a Psychopath book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer

By: David Berridge

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It'… read more

Similar categories in David Berridge's Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

By: Linda Calvey

4.49

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the best books about prison I've ever read' Kimberley ChambersA chilling look into the brut… read more

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17. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison

By: Alex South

4.52

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more

Similar categories in Alex South's Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Secret Prison Governor

By: Anonymous

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor (warden) … read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

By: Rebecca Myers

3.97

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he want… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Myers's Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist. book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police by Nicky Perfect

20. Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police

By: Nicky Perfect

4.06

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch dir… read more

Similar categories in Nicky Perfect's Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police book and Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion by Jonathan Levi and Emma French

21. Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion

By: Jonathan Levi and Emma French

3.59

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

HMP Wakefield. 'Monster Mansion'. Hell to be inside. Almost impossible to escape. This prison has s… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

16 must-read audiobook books like The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails by Vanessa Frake

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

I Survived: A True Story.

Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Prison Doctor

Amanda Brown

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

Vanessa Frake

4.33

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17 Best audiobook books like Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer by David Berridge

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

Sohom Das

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

Kerry Daynes

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Prison Doctor

Amanda Brown

4.01

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